34 Five Warnings

Matthew 7:1-29; Luke 6:37-49; 11:9-13, TBC Book Two, Chapter 34
Large crowds continued to follow Jesus, and they strained to hear his every word. He was nothing like the other rabbis. To hear him teach was like hearing God’s word for the first time. But Jesus wanted more than good listeners.

“Don’t look at what’s wrong with other people,” Jesus said. “If you are harsh in what you think of others, you will be judged just as harshly. Who gives you the right to point out someone’s faults when you have even more of your own? It’s like trying to pull a sliver out of someone’s eye when you have a log in yours.

“So don’t be a hypocrite—look at your own behavior. Correct yourself first. Then you can see clearly whether someone else needs to be corrected. But don’t waste your time trying to correct someone who doesn’t care about what’s right. That’s like throwing pearls to pigs.”

Jesus urged them to trust their heavenly Father. “Ask, and he will give to you. Seek him, and you will find him. Knock, and he will open the door. . . . 

(See THE BIBLE CLICKS, Book Two, Chapter 34, for the rest of the story.)​

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Today’s Takeaways
     A proverb to guide you: The greatest deception in the world is self-deceit—the magic mirror that shows only you what you what you want to see.
     A promise to cling to: “For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth. . . .” 2 Timothy 4:3-4 NIV
     A praise to fill you:  We All Need Jesus   Danny Gokey, Koryn Hawthorne                  [Can skip ad after first 5 seconds]

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