1Jesus said to the people, “Don’t say to anybody, ‘You are bad,’ and then God will not say to you, ‘You are bad.’
2God will judge you the same way as you judge other people. If you are easy on other people, God will be easy on you. But if you are hard on other people God will be hard on you.
3You shouldn’t always try to tell other people they are doing bad things. First, you have to think about all the bad things that you do, and you have to stop doing those bad things. Then maybe you can help other people to stop doing bad things too. Maybe you’re doing lots of bad things, and your friend is just doing one little bad thing. If you are still doing lots of bad things, you can’t help them stop doing that little bad thing. It’s like this. All those bad things you do are making you blind, like you have a big piece of wood in your eye. And maybe your friend is just doing one little thing wrong, like they have a little splinter of wood in their eye. You have to take that big piece of wood out of your eye so that you can see properly, then maybe you can help your friend get that little splinter out of their eye.”
6Jesus kept talking to them. He said, “There are some things that belong to God. Don’t give those things to people that don’t like God. Those people are like dogs. If you give them God’s things they will rubbish them and turn around and bite you, just like dogs. And some of God’s things are really special. Don’t give them to people that don’t know those things are special. They will rubbish those things. They will be just like pigs that don’t know good things. They will tread on them and push them into the mud.”
7Jesus kept teaching the people. He said, “Whenever you need something, you have to keep asking God for it, and he will give it to you. Keep looking for whatever you need, and God will let you find it. If something blocks you, so you can’t get what you need, like there is a door that is shut and you can’t get through it, well, keep knocking at that door and God will open it for you.
8Everyone that asks God for something will get it. Everyone that looks for something will find it. God will open the door for everyone that knocks on it.
9It’s like this. If your son asks you for some bread, will you give him a stone? No way.
10Or if your son asks you for a fish, will you give him a cheeky snake? No way.
11You see, you might be bad, but you give good things to your kids. Well, your Father in heaven is a lot better than you. He is always good, so he will always give good things to people that ask him.”
12Jesus said, “You know the way you want other people to treat you. Well, you have to treat others that same way. That is the way you have to live all the time. That is a short way of saying the message that is in God’s book. It is what God’s law is all about, and it is what God got his men to write about in his book. You have to always treat other people the same way that you want people to treat you.”
13Then Jesus told them this picture story about how to live. He said, “It is like there are 2 tracks in life and each one has its own gate. One gate is big and wide, but the other is a little gate. It is hard to get through that little gate, and only a few people get through it. Listen, you have to go through that little gate. If you want to live for ever, you have to pick that little gate and go through it, and you have to follow its track. It is hard to walk on that narrow little track, but if you go that way you will live for ever. The other gate is wide and easy to go through, and its track is wide and easy to walk on. A lot of people go that way. They go through that wide gate and walk along that easy track. But that track goes to the wrong place, and those people will die.”
15Then Jesus told them, “Always be careful. Don’t believe everybody. There are some people that reckon they are telling you a message from God but they are liars. They try to get you to think they are like sheep, like they are soft and will not give you any trouble. But really, they are like wild dingoes. They will give you trouble, like dingoes hurt sheep. If you believe their words you will get lots of trouble.
16If you look at the things these people do, you can find out if they are talking true words, or if they are liars.” Then Jesus told a picture story, he said, “Think about the trees that give us fruit to eat. We can’t get good fruit from rubbish trees. We can’t get grapes from weeds.
17Good fruit grows on a good tree. Rubbish fruit grows on a rubbish tree.
18A good tree can’t make bad fruit. A bad tree can’t make good fruit.
19If a farmer has a tree that only makes rubbish fruit he will cut down that tree and burn it in a fire.
20So, to find out if a person is good or bad, look at what they do. A good person does good things. And a bad person does bad things.”
21And Jesus said, “Lots of people call me, ‘My leader and my boss,’ but some of them will never go into God’s family. God, my Father in heaven, will only have people that do what he wants them to do. They will go into his family, but not the others.
22One day God will get me to judge everybody, and some people will say to me, ‘You are my leader and my boss. We told people your messages while we said your name. And we chased devils out of people while we said your name. And we did a lot of great things while we said your name.’
23Then I will tell them, ‘I don’t know you mob. You are bad. You don’t do what God wants. So get away from me.”
24Then Jesus told them 2 more picture stories. He said, “If you listen to my message and do what I say, you are like a wise man that built his house on hard rock.
25Then a lot of rain came and made big flood waters that flowed along really fast and hit that house, and strong winds blew hard against that house. But that house didn’t fall down. He built it on hard rock, so it stayed strong. That is a picture of what will happen to you, if you do what I say.
26But if you hear my message and don’t take any notice of what I say, you are like a stupid man that built his house on soft sand.
27Then a lot of rain came and made big flood waters that flowed along really fast and hit that house, and strong winds blew hard against that house. Then that house fell down and broke up into little bits. That is a picture of what will happen to you, if you don’t do what I say.”
28Then Jesus finished talking to that big mob of people. They were really surprised as they listened to what he taught them.
29You see, they knew he told them God’s word properly. He knew what he was talking about. Their law teachers never talked that way.
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