WEBVTT 00:00:00.919 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:08.699 in a year. Today's reading is from the Gospel 00:00:08.699 --> 00:00:13.820 of Matthew, chapter 6 and 7. Chapter 6 Take heed 00:00:13.820 --> 00:00:16.579 that you do not do your charitable deeds before 00:00:16.579 --> 00:00:19.800 men to be seen by them, otherwise you have no 00:00:19.800 --> 00:00:22.160 reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.239 when you do a charitable deed, do not sound the 00:00:25.239 --> 00:00:27.719 trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the 00:00:27.719 --> 00:00:30.429 synagogues. and in the streets, that they may 00:00:30.429 --> 00:00:33.530 have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, 00:00:33.590 --> 00:00:36.469 they have the reward. But when you do a charitable 00:00:36.469 --> 00:00:39.770 deed, do not let your left hand know what your 00:00:39.770 --> 00:00:42.229 right hand is doing, that your charitable deed 00:00:42.229 --> 00:00:45.030 may be in secret, and your father who sees in 00:00:45.030 --> 00:00:48.869 secret will himself reward you openly. And when 00:00:48.869 --> 00:00:51.590 you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites, 00:00:51.729 --> 00:00:54.109 for they love to pray standing in the synagogues 00:00:54.109 --> 00:00:56.390 and on the corners of the streets, that they 00:00:56.390 --> 00:00:58.960 may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:01.979 they have the reward. But you, when you pray, 00:01:02.140 --> 00:01:04.599 go into your room, and when you have shut your 00:01:04.599 --> 00:01:07.000 door, pray to your Father who is in the secret 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:09.980 place. And your Father who sees in secret will 00:01:09.980 --> 00:01:12.579 reward you openly. And when you pray, do not 00:01:12.579 --> 00:01:15.599 use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they 00:01:15.599 --> 00:01:17.959 think that they will be heard for their many 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:21.700 words. Therefore, do not be like them. For your 00:01:21.700 --> 00:01:24.480 Father knows the things you have need of before 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.060 you ask Him. In this manner, therefore, pray. 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:30.420 Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:34.000 Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:36.659 as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily 00:01:36.659 --> 00:01:39.459 bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive 00:01:39.459 --> 00:01:42.000 our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation, 00:01:42.340 --> 00:01:45.000 but deliver us from the evil one. For yours is 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.140 the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. 00:01:47.500 --> 00:01:50.780 Amen. For if you forgive men their trespasses, 00:01:50.920 --> 00:01:53.680 your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But 00:01:53.680 --> 00:01:56.319 if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither 00:01:56.319 --> 00:01:59.340 will your Father forgive your trespasses. Moreover, 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.379 when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, 00:02:02.459 --> 00:02:05.159 with a sad countenance, for they disfigure their 00:02:05.159 --> 00:02:07.760 faces that they may appear to men to be fasting. 00:02:08.400 --> 00:02:10.599 Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. 00:02:10.979 --> 00:02:14.099 But you, when you fast, anoint your head and 00:02:14.099 --> 00:02:16.659 wash your face, so that you do not appear to 00:02:16.659 --> 00:02:18.979 men to be fasting, but to your Father who is 00:02:18.979 --> 00:02:21.409 in a secret place. and your Father who sees in 00:02:21.409 --> 00:02:24.729 secret will reward you openly. Do not lay up 00:02:24.729 --> 00:02:27.610 for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth 00:02:27.610 --> 00:02:30.069 and rust destroy, and where thieves break in 00:02:30.069 --> 00:02:32.930 and steal. But lay up for yourselves treasures 00:02:32.930 --> 00:02:36.169 in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, 00:02:36.349 --> 00:02:38.710 and where thieves do not break in and steal. 00:02:39.009 --> 00:02:41.849 For where your treasure is, there your heart 00:02:41.849 --> 00:02:45.030 will be also. The lamp of the body is the eye. 00:02:45.479 --> 00:02:48.240 If therefore your eye is good, your whole body 00:02:48.240 --> 00:02:50.819 will be full of light. But if your eye is bad, 00:02:51.060 --> 00:02:53.780 your whole body will be full of darkness. If 00:02:53.780 --> 00:02:56.319 therefore the light that is in you is darkness, 00:02:56.599 --> 00:02:59.759 how great is that darkness! No one can serve 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:02.300 two masters, for either he will hate the one 00:03:02.300 --> 00:03:04.620 and love the other, or else he will be loyal 00:03:04.620 --> 00:03:07.400 to the one and despise the other. You cannot 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.740 serve God and mammon. Therefore I say to you, 00:03:10.780 --> 00:03:13.800 do not worry about your life, what you will eat 00:03:13.800 --> 00:03:16.689 or what you will drink. nor about your body, 00:03:16.810 --> 00:03:20.050 what you will put on. Is not life more than food, 00:03:20.110 --> 00:03:22.849 and the body more than clothing? Look at the 00:03:22.849 --> 00:03:25.569 birds of the air, for they neither sow nor reap, 00:03:25.689 --> 00:03:28.509 nor gather into barns, yet your heavenly Father 00:03:28.509 --> 00:03:31.509 feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 00:03:31.849 --> 00:03:34.810 Which of you, by worrying, can add one cubit 00:03:34.810 --> 00:03:37.669 to your stature? So why do you worry about clothing? 00:03:38.009 --> 00:03:40.789 Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow, 00:03:40.930 --> 00:03:44.030 they neither toil nor spin, and yet I say to 00:03:44.030 --> 00:03:47.069 you, that even Solomon in all his glory was not 00:03:47.069 --> 00:03:50.669 arrayed like one of these. Now if God so clothes 00:03:50.669 --> 00:03:53.750 the grass of the field, which today is and tomorrow 00:03:53.750 --> 00:03:57.069 is thrown into the oven, will he not much more 00:03:57.069 --> 00:04:00.090 clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore 00:04:00.090 --> 00:04:02.889 do not worry, saying, What shall we eat, or what 00:04:02.889 --> 00:04:05.650 shall we drink, or what shall we wear? For after 00:04:05.650 --> 00:04:08.849 all these things the Gentiles seek. For your 00:04:08.849 --> 00:04:10.870 heavenly Father knows that you need all these 00:04:10.870 --> 00:04:13.599 things. But seek first the kingdom of God and 00:04:13.599 --> 00:04:16.060 His righteousness, and all these things shall 00:04:16.060 --> 00:04:18.819 be added to you. Therefore do not worry about 00:04:18.819 --> 00:04:21.220 tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own 00:04:21.220 --> 00:04:24.519 things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. 00:04:27.000 --> 00:04:31.519 Chapter 7 Judge not that you be not judged. For 00:04:31.519 --> 00:04:34.019 with what judgment you judge, you will be judged. 00:04:34.259 --> 00:04:36.860 And with the measure you use, it will be measured 00:04:36.860 --> 00:04:39.949 back to you. And why do you look at the speck 00:04:39.949 --> 00:04:42.290 in your brother's eye, but do not consider the 00:04:42.290 --> 00:04:44.829 plank in your own eye? Or how can you say to 00:04:44.829 --> 00:04:47.290 your brother, Let me remove the speck from your 00:04:47.290 --> 00:04:51.310 eye, and look a plank is in your own eye? Hypocrite! 00:04:51.529 --> 00:04:54.310 First remove the plank from your own eye, and 00:04:54.310 --> 00:04:56.629 then you will see clearly to remove the speck 00:04:56.629 --> 00:04:59.569 from your brother's eye. Do not give what is 00:04:59.569 --> 00:05:02.149 holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before 00:05:02.149 --> 00:05:05.050 swine, lest they trample them under their feet 00:05:05.050 --> 00:05:08.509 and turn and tear you in pieces. Ask, and it 00:05:08.509 --> 00:05:10.829 will be given to you. Seek, and you will find. 00:05:11.129 --> 00:05:13.689 Knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone 00:05:13.689 --> 00:05:17.069 who asks, receives. And he who seeks, finds. 00:05:17.389 --> 00:05:20.230 And to him who knocks, it will be opened. Or 00:05:20.230 --> 00:05:23.410 what man is there among you, who if his son asks 00:05:23.410 --> 00:05:26.490 for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks 00:05:26.490 --> 00:05:29.689 for a fish, will he give him a serpent? If you 00:05:29.689 --> 00:05:32.769 then, being evil, know how to give good gifts 00:05:32.769 --> 00:05:35.689 to your children, how much more will your Father, 00:05:35.810 --> 00:05:38.449 who is in heaven, Give good things to those who 00:05:38.449 --> 00:05:41.870 ask him. Therefore, whatever you want men to 00:05:41.870 --> 00:05:45.110 do to you, do also to them. For this is the law 00:05:45.110 --> 00:05:48.930 and the prophets. Enter by the narrow gate. For 00:05:48.930 --> 00:05:51.550 wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads 00:05:51.550 --> 00:05:54.629 to destruction. And there are many who go in 00:05:54.629 --> 00:05:57.470 by it. Because narrow is the gate and difficult 00:05:57.470 --> 00:06:00.629 is the way which leads to life. And there are 00:06:00.629 --> 00:06:04.180 few who find it. Beware of false prophets. who 00:06:04.180 --> 00:06:06.920 come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:09.720 they are ravenous wolves. You will know them 00:06:09.720 --> 00:06:13.360 by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thorn 00:06:13.360 --> 00:06:17.480 bushes, or figs from thistles? Even so, every 00:06:17.480 --> 00:06:20.779 good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears 00:06:20.779 --> 00:06:24.139 bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, 00:06:24.180 --> 00:06:27.819 nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree 00:06:27.819 --> 00:06:30.800 that does not bear good fruit is cut down and 00:06:30.800 --> 00:06:34.180 thrown into the fire. Therefore, by their fruits 00:06:34.180 --> 00:06:37.480 you will know them. Not everyone who says to 00:06:37.480 --> 00:06:40.639 me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, 00:06:40.779 --> 00:06:43.439 but he who does the will of my Father in heaven. 00:06:43.779 --> 00:06:46.860 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, 00:06:47.000 --> 00:06:49.939 have we not prophesied in your name, cast out 00:06:49.939 --> 00:06:52.500 demons in your name, and done many wonders in 00:06:52.500 --> 00:06:55.740 your name? And then I will declare to them, I 00:06:55.740 --> 00:06:58.660 never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice 00:06:58.660 --> 00:07:02.620 lawlessness. Therefore, whoever hears these sayings 00:07:02.620 --> 00:07:05.360 of mine, and does them, I will liken him to a 00:07:05.360 --> 00:07:08.300 wise man who built his house on a rock, and the 00:07:08.300 --> 00:07:10.920 rain descended, the floods came, and the winds 00:07:10.920 --> 00:07:14.500 blew and beat on that house, and it did not fall, 00:07:14.680 --> 00:07:17.720 for it was founded on a rock. But everyone who 00:07:17.720 --> 00:07:20.319 hears these sayings of mine, and does not do 00:07:20.319 --> 00:07:23.300 them, will be like a foolish man who built his 00:07:23.300 --> 00:07:26.100 house on the sand, and the rain descended, the 00:07:26.100 --> 00:07:29.019 floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that 00:07:29.019 --> 00:07:32.990 house. And it fell, and great was its fall. And 00:07:32.990 --> 00:07:35.769 so it was when Jesus had ended these sayings 00:07:35.769 --> 00:07:38.250 that the people were astonished at his teaching, 00:07:38.410 --> 00:07:41.509 for he taught them as one having authority and 00:07:41.509 --> 00:07:49.350 not as the scribes. I hope you enjoyed today's 00:07:49.350 --> 00:07:51.550 reading as much as I did, and I look forward 00:07:51.550 --> 00:07:53.589 to seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our 00:07:53.589 --> 00:07:55.709 journey. God bless you and have a great day.