Episode 236: Pearls before swine

Matthew 6-7

Don't let others see your good works

6 ¹ Don't let others see your good works.

^2-3 When you do them, don’t blow a trumpet or let your left hand know what your right hand is doing.

Don't pray in public (or use repetitions)

^5-6 Don't pray in public where others can see you. Rather go into your room, and after you have shut the door, pray to God in secret.

⁷ When you pray, don't use vain repetitions, as the heathens do.

Repeat after me: The Our Father (or The Lord's prayer)

⁹ Pray like this:

Our Father in heaven, may your name be holy.

¹⁰ May your kingdom come, and your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

¹¹ Give us the food that we need each day.

¹² And forgive us when we do something wrong, as we forgive those who hurt us.

¹³ And don’t lead us into temptation; but protect us from evil.

Because this is your kingdom. And you have all the power and glory forever. Amen.

Don't let others know that you're fasting

¹⁶ When you fast, don't let others know that you are fasting.

Treasures in heaven

¹⁹ Don't have any treasures on earth.

²⁰ Have them in heaven instead.

²¹ Because where your treasure is, your heart will be also.

The evil eye

²² If you eye is good, your whole body will be full of light.

²³ But if your eye is evil, your body will be full of darkness.

God and money

²⁴ You can't serve two masters. You will hate one and love the other. You can't serve God and money.

²⁵ Don't care about your life, your diet, or your clothes.

³³ Seek the kingdom of God, and you'll get all these other things.

³⁴ Don't think about tomorrow. One day's evil is enough for one day.

Don’t judge

7 ¹ Don't judge others.

² If you do, you’ll be judged by the same standard.

³ Don't be a hypocrite. Consider your own faults before criticizing others.

⁴ Remove the beam from your own eye before removing the speck from another’s.

Pearls before swine

⁶ Don't give holy things to dogs or cast your pearls before swine.

Just ask (and God will give it to you)

⁷ Whatever you ask for, you’ll receive. Whatever you look for, you’ll find. Every door that you knock on, will be opened.

The golden rule (that's the whole law)

¹² Whatever you would like others to do to you, do to them. This is the law and the prophets.

Most people will go to hell

^13-14 Most people will be destroyed; very few will survive.

Watch out for false prophets (and bad trees)

¹⁵ Beware of false prophets; they come to you in sheep's clothing, but inside they are wolves.

¹⁶ Judge prophets by their fruits. Good prophets will produce good fruit; bad prophets will produce bad fruit.

¹⁹ Every tree that bears bad fruit will be cut down and cast into the fire.

Didn't I cast out devils in your name, Jesus? (I never knew you)

²¹ Not everyone who calls me "Lord" will go to heaven, but those who do the will of my father.

²² Many will come to me on that day and say, "Lord, didn't we prophesy and cast out devils in your name? Didn't we do wonderful works?"

²³ Then I will say to them, "I never knew you. Go away, you workers of iniquity."

Obey Jesus (build your house on a rock)

²⁴ Whoever does what I say will be like a wise man who builds his house on a rock.

²⁶ Whoever doesn't do what I say will be like a foolish man who builds his house on sand.