Sigh, still on the Mount.
Don’t judge so you won’t be judged in return. And don’t comment on a speck in your brother’s eye, while you might have a beam in your eye. Don’t give holy things to dogs, (and woo hoo, famous saying coming up) don’t give your pearls to swine, they might trample them and turn to hurt you. Maybe swine might hurt you because you didn’t give them food, as pretty as pearl are, they aren’t food! Pigs like food!
Ask and you shall receive, seek and you’ll find and knock and it shall be opened. If your son asked you for a loaf of bread who would give him a stone? Or he asked for a fish, would you give him a serpent? If you are evil and you know how to give good gifts to your kids, how much more will god give them when they ask.
I have no idea what that means. So you are evil but giving your kids good gifts, we don’t know if your kids are evil, although by all of the fruit metaphors, if you are evil you have evil kids…. Let’s assume your kids are evil too but you give them good gifts, than what will god give them? I am thinking nothing, but do evil people really care about god or what god will give them? I don’t know.
So do unto others as you’d have done to you, because that’s the law of the prophets.
The broad path leads to destruction but few will find the narrow path to life.
Beware of false prophets, they are wolves in sheep’s clothing.
And then we get into a whole lot of fruit metaphors. You will know false prophets by their grapes of thorns and figs of thistles. Good trees bear good fruit, while bad trees bear bad fruit. A good tree can’t bring evil fruit, and a bad tree can’t bring good fruit. Every tree without good fruit needs to be cut down and burned. Let’s hope that’s not a metaphor for people who can’t have kids!
Not everyone who calls me Lord will get into the kingdom of heaven, but those who do my father’s will shall enter. Many will say they have prophesied in my name, have cast out devils, and done wonderful work. But I will tell them, I don’t know you, and you departed from me and were wicked.
But whoever listens to me, is a wise man who builds his house upon a rock, so when things get tough and the winds blow and the rains flood, that house wouldn’t fall, because it was built on a rock.
And the people were astonished, because Jesus spoke with such authority. And they thought he was pretty awesome. So ends The Sermon on the Mount. Yay!
That's a whole lot of advice. So, is the whole bad tree bears bad fruit, good tree bears good fruit thing about parents and kids? Can good people never have bad kids? Because, I think our parents were good and look at the crappy kids they produced!
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