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Verse Matthew 7:27. _AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME,
C._] A fine illustration of this may be seen in the case of the
fishermen in _Bengal_, who, in the dry season, build their huts on th...
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Jesus closes the sermon on the mount by a beautiful comparison,
illustrating the benefit of attending to his words. It was not
sufficient to “hear” them; they must be “obeyed.” He compares
the man who...
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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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EPILOGUE. Warnings and exhortations close the new Law, like the old
(Exodus 23:20 ff.).
MATTHEW 7:13 F. THE TWO GATES AND THE TWO WAYS (Luke 13:24). The
picture is based on...
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GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT.
The Lord describes the thoughtlessness of the builder on the sand, the
storm and the utter destruction. Foolish like him is the _hearer who
does not._ Let it be observed that...
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So, then, everyone who hears these words of mine and does them will be
likened to a wise man who built his house upon the rock. And the rain
came down, and the rivers swelled, and the wind blew, and f...
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THE ERROR OF JUDGMENT (Matthew 7:1-5)...
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BEAT UPON. on the roof; stumbled against, merely impinged, or lightly
struck, in contrast with Matthew 7:25.
FELL. _did_ fall....
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(_e_) A description of the true subjects of the Kingdom as opposed to
the false. The wise and foolish builders, 24 27
Luke 6:47-49, where the phraseology differs a good deal from St
Matthew. St Matth...
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_the rain descended_, &c. In the original both the tense and the
position of the verbs give great vivacity to the description....
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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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ΚΑΤΈΒΗ … ἮΛΘΟΝ … ἜΠΝΕΥΣΑΝ. Both the tense and
the emphatic position of the verbs give great vivacity to the
description.
ΟἹ ΠΟΤΑΜΟΊ. ‘Streams,’ rather than ‘floods,’ A.V.
ἦλθαν, ‘came,’ because befor...
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Ver 24. "Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth
them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a
rock: 25. And the rain descended, and the floods came, and th...
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_JESUS SPOKE WITH AUTHORITY ABOUT OBEDIENCE MATTHEW 7:21-29_ : As
Jesus concluded the Sermon on the Mount He showed the absolute
necessity of obedience. An outward profession without "heart"
obedience...
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ΠΡΟΣΈΚΟΨΑΝ _aor. ind. act. от_ ΠΡΟΣΚΌΠΤΩ (G4350)
биться обо что-л., ударяться.
ΠΤΏΣΙΣ (G4431) падать....
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DISCOURSE: 1334
THE WISE BUILDER
Matthew 7:24. Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and
doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house
upon a rock: and the rain desc...
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THEREFORE &C.— The meaning of these verses is, that whoever expects
to enter into the kingdom of glory, when his religion amounts to only
a mere outward profession of the Gospel, will see all his ill-...
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G. THE WISDOM OF THE WISE AND GODLY MAN IN OBEYING JESUS
(Parallel: Luke 647-49)
TEXT: 7:24-27
24. Every one therefore that heareth these words of mine, and doeth
them shall be likened unto a wise man...
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And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW...
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12 Compare Luk_6:31.
12 To do as we would be done by is an ethical standard far above the
world's attainment, yet far beneath the monitions of grace. The law
and the prophets demand compliance with t...
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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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THE TRUE FOUNDATION FOR ALL PERMANENT SPIRITUAL BUILDING (Luke 6:46).
The great sermon concludes with a parable. Two men built houses near a
watercourse. One dug deep and reached the rock, the other b...
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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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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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μωρῷ, Jesus seems here to offend against His own teaching,
Matthew 5:22, but He speaks not in passion or contempt, but in deep
sadness, and with humane intent to prevent such folly. Wherein lay the
se...
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_Epilogue_ (Luke 6:47-49, which see for comparative exegesis).
οὖν, Matthew 7:24, may be taken as referring to the whole
discourse, not merely to Matthew 7:21-23 (Tholuck and Achelis). Such a
sublime...
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καὶ … ἄνεμοι : exactly the same phrases as in Matthew
7:25, to describe the oncome of the storm. προσέκοψαν : a
different word for the assault on the house struck upon it with
immediate fatal effect....
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BUILDING ON SECURE FOUNDATIONS
Matthew 7:24-29
In the Syrian summer, when the soil is baked hard by the intense heat,
any spot will serve equally well as the site of a house. No one can
say whether h...
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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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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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Here the LORD closeth his discourse, and plainly sheweth whose are his
from the men of the world. CHRIST is the Rock of Ages, the Precious
Corner Stone JEHOVAH hath laid in Zion. And all that believe...
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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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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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AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME,.... Such builders, and
such a building, cannot stand against the violent rain of Satan's
temptations, the floods of the world's persecutions, the stream an...
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And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and
beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.
Ver. 27. _And the rain descended, &c._] The old heart cannot poss...
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_Therefore, whosoever heareth these sayings of mine_, &c. In these
words our Lord attests, in the most solemn manner, the certain truth
and infinite importance of all he had delivered in the foregoing...
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Those hopes which are not founded on Jesus Christ, but upon human
merit, or on the mercy of God without faith in Christ and obedience to
him, will perish at the giving up of the ghost. Proverbs 11:7....
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A concluding parable:...
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AND THE RAIN DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW, AND
BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE; AND IT FELL, AND GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT.
A majestic utterance referring to the entire discourse with all it...
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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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21-29 Christ here shows that it will not be enough to own him for our
Master, only in word and tongue. It is necessary to our happiness that
we believe in Christ, that we repent of sin, that we live...
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Ver. 26,27. There are and will be others, that, as foolish builders,
run up a house in haste, without looking to the goodness of the
foundation, and happen to build it upon loose ground. So they flatt...
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Matthew 7:27 and G2532 rain G1028 descended G2597 (G5627) G2532 floods
G4215 came G2064 (G5627) and...
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“And the rain descended, and the floods came,
And the winds blew, and smote on that house,”
But then he had to face the same problems as the wise man's house, the
rain and the floods and the storm. B...
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THE TWO DESTINIES (7:24-27).
Having given His firm warning Jesus now returns to the idea of the two
choices which are open before them, but this time in terms of two
houses built on two ‘foundations'....
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EXHORTATION TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT WAY AND PRODUCE GOOD FRUIT BY FULL
OBEDIENCE TO HIS WORDS SO AS TO ENTER INTO LIFE AND AVOID DESTRUCTION
(7:13-27).
We now move on to the application part of the Sermon...
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Matthew 7:27. The description of a storm is repeated, but the result
is different; the winds SMOTE UPON THAT HOUSE; AND IT FELL. Instead of
adding, ‘for it had been founded on the sand,' our Lord clos...
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CONNECTION AND CONTENTS. The exposition of the requirements of ‘the
law and the prophets' just given, was far beyond the low morality of
the scribes and Pharisees, and men might easily be tempted by t...
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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 7:21
The Wise and Foolish Builders.
I. The Lord describes the false disciples as men who cry, "Lord,
Lord," to Him, but who bear no fruit. The language clearly implies
that there are some who...
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Matthew 7:15
I. The object of our Lord in this Sermon on the Mount was to convey an
accurate idea of the righteousness required in His kingdom. He did so
mainly by contrasting it with the spurious for...
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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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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 7:7. _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 7:13. _Enter ye in at the strait gate._
It is very unpopular. The great ones will recommend to you great
liberality and breadth; but enter yet in at the strait gate.
Matthew 7:13. For wide i...
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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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26-27.
WILL BE LIKE A FOOLISH MAN. This is the one who hears and does
nothing. In the past whole towns on the Missouri and lower Mississippi
Rivers have been undermined and swept into the whirlpool b...
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MATTHEW—NOTE ON MATTHEW 7:24 HEARS THESE WORDS OF MINE AND DOES
THEM. Jesus ends the Sermon on the Mount with a parable. He draws a
dividing line between himself and any other foundation for life. The...
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JESUS TEACHES ABOUT THOSE WHO BUILD HOUSES ON ROCK AND SAND MATTHEW
7:21-29; LUKE 6:46-49; MATTHEW 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he tha...
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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 7:27. GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT.—How lively must this imagery
have been to an audience accustomed to the fierceness of an Eastern
tempest, and the suddenness and completeness...
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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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1 Corinthians 3:13; 2 Peter 2:20; Ezekiel 13:10; Hebrews 10:26;...
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Great was the fall of it. The conclusion of the Sermon on the Mount.
"Thus," remarks Bengel, "it is not necessary for every sermon to end
with consolation....
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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...