AUTHENTIC FAITH
Sermon on the Mount – Week 10
Matthew 7:13-23
ARE YOU EVEN
Matthew 7:13-14 ESV – Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. 14 For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
and those who find it are few.
Mark 8:34-35 ESV – If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 35 For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel’s will save it.
Matthew 7:8 ESV – For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened.
Deuteronomy 4:29 ESV - But from there you will seek the Lord your God and you will find him, if you search after him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Matthew 7:15-16 ESV – Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves. 16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
CONSIDER THE CONTENTS OF YOUR LIFE.
Matthew 7:17-18 ESV – So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit.
Matthew 7: 20 ESV – Thus you will recognize them by their fruits.
Galatians 5:22-23 ESV - But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
2 Corinthians 13:5a ESV – Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves…
YOU MUST
Matthew 7:21 ESV – Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
YOU MUST KNOW GOD AND BE KNOWN BY HIM!
Matthew 7:22 ESV - On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’
YOU MUST KNOW GOD AND BE KNOWN BY HIM!
Matthew 7:23 ESV – And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
The one who does the will of my Father…
vs. 23 - And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
I never knew you.