Christ Teaches His Gospel

After speaking to His disciples, Jesus turned to the multitude again, and said, “Do not judge others, for God will judge you in the same way that you judge others. Why notice your brother’s or sister’s little faults while ignoring your own, larger ones? Why do you try to solve their problems before solving your own? Do not be a hypocrite. Correct your own faults first, then you will be better able to help others correct theirs. Do not give holy things to wicked people, for they will mock and reject them and then try to destroy you.

“Ask, and it will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened to you. What man among you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if his son asks for a fish, will he give him a snake? If you, in a natural, evil state, are able to give good things to your children, then how much more will your Heavenly Father give good things to those who ask Him?

“All the good things you want others to do for you are the very things you should do for them. This is the law given to the prophets.

“Many people travel the wide road and go through the wide gate to destruction. But you should go through the narrow gate. Yet because the road and gate to eternal life are narrow, few find it.

“Beware of false prophets, who seem righteous, but seek to destroy good. You can detect them if their works do not lead you to me. A righteous person brings to pass good works, but a wicked person only does evil. All who do evil (lead others away from Christ) will be cut down and burned at my coming.

“Again, by their works you will know them.

“Only those who do the will of their Heavenly Father will enter His kingdom. On judgment day, many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, we have prophesied, cast out devils, and we have done many wonderful works in Thy name.’ Then I will say to them, ‘I never knew you. Leave me, you evil-doers.’

“Those who hear my words and obey them are like the wise man who built his house on solid rock. When it rained and floods came, and when strong winds blew, his house stood because it was built on rock.

“And those who hear my words and do not obey them are like the foolish man who built his house on sand. When it rained and the floods came, and when strong winds blew, his house fell with a great crash.”