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Verse Matthew 7:9. _OR WHAT MAN IS THERE - WHOM IF HIS SON_] Men are
exhorted to come unto God, with the persuasion that he is a most
gracious and compassionate Parent, who _possesses_ all heavenly an...
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ASK, AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN YOU ... - There are here three different
forms presented of seeking the things which we need from God - asking,
‘seeking, and knocking. The latter is taken from the act of k...
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CHAPTER 7
_ 1. The Judgment of Righteousness.(Matthew 7:1 .) 2. Warning against
False Prophets.(Matthew 7:15 .) 3. Warning against False Professors.
(Matthew 7:21 .)_
The chapter which follows contai...
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THE VALUE OF PRAYER. An interpolation with no relation to the context.
It is more suitably placed in Luke 11:9. The emphasis is on asking,
seeking, knocking; no conditions or limitations are mentioned...
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IF HIS SON ASK BREAD, WILL HE GIVE HIM. STONE?
The assurance of an answer to prayer is based on the fact that God is
our Father. He treats his children on the same principles that. good
and wise earth...
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Keep on asking, and it will be given you; Keep on seeking, and you
will find; Keep on knocking, and it will be opened to you. For
everyone that asks receives; And he who seeks finds; And to him who
kn...
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THE ERROR OF JUDGMENT (Matthew 7:1-5)...
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IF. See App-118....
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_bread … a stone … fish … a serpent_ The things contrasted have
a certain superficial resemblance, but in each case one thing is good,
the other unclean or even dangerous....
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ὋΝ ἘᾺΝ ΑἸΤΉΣΗΙ for ὃν αἰτήσει and ἐὰν
αἰτήσῃ for ἢ καὶ αἰτήσει (Matthew 7:10) are also
grammatical corrections tending to explain the structure.
9. Translate: ‘Or what man is there from among you of w...
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C. CHARACTERISTICS OF THE KINGDOM, 1–27
After contrasting the New Law with the Mosaic Law and with Pharisaic
rules and conduct, Jesus proceeds to lay down rules for the guidance
of His disciples in th...
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VER 9. "OR WHAT MAN IS THERE OF YOU, WHOM IF HIS SON ASK BREAD, WILL
HE GIVE HIM A STONE? 10. OR IF HE ASK A FISH, WILL HE GIVE HIM A
SERPENT? 11. IF YE THEN, BEING EVIL, KNOW HOW TO GIVE GOOD GIFTS U...
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_JESUS SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY ABOUT PRAYING MATTHEW 7:7-12_ : Prayer is
pictured in different ways in the Bible. In Matthew six prayer is
pictured as our duty toward God. In Matthew seven prayer is pict...
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ΤΊΣ (G5100) кто; с ΆΝΘΡΩΠΟΣ (G444) (человек)
означает "любой человек". Семитское
использование неопред, местоименного
_adj._ (DA, 81; BD, 246).
ΜΉ (G3361) используется, когда ожидается
отр. ответ на...
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DISCOURSE: 1329
GOD’S READINESS TO GIVE HIS HOLY SPIRIT
Matthew 7:9. _Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread,
will he give him a stone? Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a
serpent...
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OR WHAT MAN, &C.— _Is there any man among_ you? Blackwall. _And
indeed what one man is there among you?_ Doddridge; who observes upon
this verse, "Young preachers I hope will remark, how much life and...
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F. THE DANGERS FACING THE WISE AND GODLY MAN
(Matthew 7:1-27; Luke 6:37-49)
3. THE DANGER OF FAILING TO RECOGNIZE GOD'S PROVISION.
TEXT: 7:7-11
7. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall...
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14-15 Compare Mar_11:25-26.
14 Forgiveness now is according to the riches of His grace (Eph_1:7),
not according to our forgiveness of others. The believers in Israel
failed at this point. Their forgi...
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ON URGENCY IN PRAYER, AND HOW GOD REWARDS IT (Luke 11:9). God always
answers urgent prayer. Every asker receives, every seeker finds. Yet
not every asker receives what he asks, nor every seeker finds...
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONCLUDED)
The connexion of thought in this chapter is less close than in the
earlier part of the sermon, and the whole chapter bears the appearance
of an appendix of miscell...
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MATTHEW’S GOOD NEWS
MATTHEW’S *GOSPEL
_HILDA BRIGHT_
CHAPTER 7
DO NOT BE JUDGES OF OTHER PEOPLE 7:1-6
V1 ‘Do not be judges of other people. If you do, God will be your
judge. V2 In the same way...
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OR WHAT MAN IS THERE OF YOU. — The meaning of the illustrations is
obvious enough, yet their homeliness is noticeable as addressed to the
peasants of Galilee, who found in fish and bread, as in the mi...
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CHAPTER 7
The Gospel of the Kingdom
("Sermon on the Mount") - Matthew 5:1; Matthew 6:1; Matthew 7:1
IT may seem almost heresy to object to the time-honoured title "Sermon
on the Mount"; yet, so smal...
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_Admonition to prayer_ : presupposes deferred answer to prayer,
tempting to doubt as to its utility, and consequent discontinuance of
the practice. A lesson more natural at a later stage, when the
dis...
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ἢ answers to a state of mind which doubts whether God gives in
answer to prayer at all, or at least gives what we desire. τίς
ἐξ ὑμῶν ἀν.: argument from analogy, from the human to the
divine. The cons...
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JUDGING SELF; ASKING GOD; SERVING OTHERS
Matthew 7:1-12
There is abundant need for a right and sound judgment, illumined by
the Spirit of truth; but there is a world of difference between it and
the...
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After thus enunciating the laws of the Kingdom, and bringing men into
the realm of direct dealing with God, the King authoritatively set up
the standard of judgment. No man is to be his brother's judg...
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Lest any one considering the great inequality between God and man,
should despair of obtaining favours of God, and therefore should not
dare to offer up his petitions, he immediately introduces this
s...
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CHAPTER 16
SERMON ON THE MOUNT
Matthew 5-7, and Luke 6:20-49. A few days ago it was my privilege to
spend two beautiful bright days at the sea of Galilee, sailing over
it, and visiting the places of...
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I pass over the several most blessed things which the Lord Jesus here
treats of, as being in themselves so plain, and by Him so beautifully
expressed, as to render all explanation unnecessary. But I d...
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God has been pleased, in the separate accounts He has given us of our
Lord Jesus, to display not only His own grace and wisdom, but the
infinite excellency of His Son. It is our wisdom to seek to prof...
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9._Is there any man among you? _It is a comparison from the less to
the greater. First, our Lord contrasts the malice of men with the
boundless goodness of God. Self-love ( φιλαυτία) renders us
malici...
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There are two things connected with the presence of the multitude,
Matthew 5:1. First, the time required that the Lord should give a true
idea of the character of His kingdom, since already He drew th...
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OR WHAT MAN IS THERE OF YOU,.... "That is a father", as in
Luke 11:11 that is, is in the relation, and has the affections of a
father; and indeed is a man, and has the nature and passions of a man;
u...
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Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give
him a stone?
Ver. 9,10. _Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread,
&c._] By an argument from the less to the greater...
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_Ask_, &c. The exhortation contained in these verses may be considered
as connected with the caution given in those immediately preceding,
and then the sense of it will be, If you be at a loss to know...
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A parable to bring home this truth:...
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OR WHAT MAN IS THERE OF YOU, WHOM IF HIS SON ASK BREAD, WILL HE GIVE
HIM A STONE?...
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Simple honesty will understand these first five verses without
difficulty. The word "judge" is used in various different ways in
Scripture. Believers are told to "judge" what Paul says (1 Corinthians...
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7-11 Prayer is the appointed means for obtaining what we need. Pray;
pray often; make a business of prayer, and be serious and earnest in
it. Ask, as a beggar asks alms. Ask, as a traveller asks the...
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SEE POOLE ON "MATTHEW 7:11"....
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Tertullian On Prayer
? "[45]
Cyprian Epistle LI
The Lord also in His Gospel, setting forth the love of God the Father,
says, "What man is there of you, whom, if his son ask bread, will he
give him...
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Matthew 7:9 Or G2228 what G5101 man G444 is G2076 (G5748) among G1537
you G5216 who G3739 if...
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Or what man is there of you,
Who, if his son shall ask him for a loaf,
Will give him a stone;
Or if he will ask for a fish,
Will give him a serpent?
He then gives them examples in order to strengt...
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THE MEANS BY WHICH THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS WILL BE FULFILLED IN THE
COMING OF THE MESSIANIC AGE THROUGH THE PRAYERS OF HIS PEOPLE
(7:7-12).
Having outlined in some depths the Messianic interpretation...
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GENERAL CHARACTER. The magna charta of Christ's Kingdom: the unfolding
of His righteousness; the sublimest code of morals ever proclaimed on
earth; the counterpart of the legislation on Mount Sinai; C...
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Matthew 7:9. Or, to view the matter in another light, comparing God's
willingness with that of a human father.
WHAT MAN IS THERE OF YOU, MORE EXACTLY, ‘who is there among you, a
man,' a mere man.
O...
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CONNECTION and CONTENTS. The connection is not obvious; no theory can
be insisted upon. Various views: (1) No connection intended. (2)
Matthew 7:7 is connected with the last chapter, while Matthew 7:1...
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LOAF--STONE
(αρτον--λιθον). Some stones look like loaves of bread. So
the devil suggested that Jesus make loaves out of stones (Matthew
4:3)....
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Matthew 7:9
Sham Immortality.
I. So much is there in the Christian doctrine of immortality that
captivates the imagination and touches the heart, that the apostles of
unbelief are constrained to find...
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Matthew 7:7
I. Our Lord enjoins us here to pray; and He assures us that we shall
not pray in vain. It does not indeed follow that God will grant any
and every thing we may choose to ask; for there are...
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Matthew 7:7. _Ask, and it shall be given you;_
He that will not ask for it deserves to go without it. Have you ever
asked for it? If not, whose fault is it that you have it not?
Matthew 7:7. _Seek,...
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Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment
ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete it shall
be measured to you again._
Some people are of a censorious...
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Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._
You are not called to judge; you are not qualified to judge: «God is
the Judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.» There is
much better wor...
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While we are reading, let us also be adoring at the same time, for
the. words of Christ have a gracious divinity about them; they are
infinite; they are omnipotent. There is a kind of life in them; a...
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CONTENTS: Sermon on the Mount, continued. Encouragement to prayer. The
two ways. Warnings against false teachers. Danger of profession
without faith. The two foundations.
CHARACTERS: God, Jesus.
CONC...
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Matthew 7:1. _Judge not, that ye be not judged._ This refers to
private and censorious reproaches of others. We must judge nothing
before the time. It is better that ten bad men pass for innocent, tha...
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WOULD ANY OF YOU. God is our Father, and therefore he will answer our
prayers. No father would mock his child by giving him a stone for
bread, or a snake for a fish. Bread and fish were the most commo...
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_How much more shall your Father._
THE HEAVENLY AND THE EARTHLY PARENT
I. The facts which our text recognizes.
1. The moral condition of earthly parents-“evil.”
2. The natural affection of earthly...
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_A stone._
THE BREAD OF GOD’S WORD NOT TO BE PETRIFIED BY PREACHERS
Petrarch’s works are said to have laid so long in the roof of St.
Mark’s, at Venice, that they became turned into stone; by what
pr...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 7:7 ASK... SEEK... KNOCK. Disciples should
come to God in humility and awareness of their need. They should
actively pursue God’s will and persist in prayer. They can be
confid...
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CHAPTER 7
_Judge not_, rashly and malignantly, _that ye_, &c. Christ does not
here prohibit the public judgments of magistrates, by which they
condemn the guilty and absolve the innocent, for this is...
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_CRITICAL NOTES_
Matthew 7:3. MOTE.—The Greek noun so translated means a stalk, or
twig. The illustration seems to have been a familiar one among the
Jews, and a proverb all but verbally identical is...
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EXPOSITION
MATTHEW 7:1
(2) As anxiety about the things of this life hinders us Godwards
(Matthew 6:19), so does censoriousness manwards (Matthew 7:1), our
Lord thus tacitly op
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MATTHEW 7:1-29
I believe that it goes without saying that Jesus Christ was certainly
the greatest teacher who ever lived and it is interesting to study his
teaching habits. And He used the method of d...
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Luke 11:11...
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Bread, a stone [α ρ τ ο ν, λ ι θ ο ν]. Rev. for bread reads
loaf, which is better. On the resemblance of certain stones to cakes
of bread, see on Matthew 4:3....
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THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT (CONTINUED)
Matthew 7:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. A command. God not only requests but definitely commands us, that
we should not judge one another. There is probably no sin qui...