The end of the Sermon on the Mount is not really the end of the Sermon. Yeshua’s words have power. They had power when He spoke them … Matthew 7:28 Now when Yeshua had finished these words, the crowds were astounded at His teaching. Lives were changed, but He had not yet gone to the…
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Matthew 7:28-29 Now when Yeshua had finished these words, the crowds were astounded at His teaching, for He was teaching them as one having authority and not as+their Torah scholars. There I was (a few minutes ago), asking the Lord how to end this series on the Sermon on the Mount, when the Scriptures themselves…
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Matthew 7:24-27 Therefore everyone who hears these words of Mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house; and yet it did not fall, for its foundation had been built…
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Matthew 7:21-23 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. Many will say to Me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, didn’t we prophesy in Your name, and drive out demons in Your name, and perform many miracles in…
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Matthew 7:15-20 Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will recognize them by their fruit. Grapes aren’t gathered from thorn bushes or figs from thistles, are they? Even so, every good tree produces good fruit, but the rotten tree produces bad fruit. A good…
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Today I want to start a series of posts to answer the question, “Is Yeshua the promised Messiah of Israel?” So I’m going to suspend the series on the Sermon on the Mount, because this series on the deity of Yeshua won’t keep. We will complete the last half of Matthew 7 later. The subject…
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Matthew 7:13-14 Enter through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the way is broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow is the gate and difficult the way that leads to life, and those who find it are few. For some reason, I’m thinking about…
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Matthew 7:12 So in all things, do to others what you would want them to do to you – for this is the Torah and the Prophets. Was this part of Yeshua’s big sermon “something new?” It seems like it might be … John 13:34 I give you a new commandment, that you love one…
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Matthew 7:9-11 “For what man among you, when his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or when he asks for a fish, will give him a snake? If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good…
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Matthew 7:7-8 Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and you shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it shall be opened. Every week at Shomair Yisrael, we read this in our Congregational…
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