Welcome to Episode #203 of the Way of the Bible podcast. This is our third of eight episodes in our Twenty-Sixth mini-series entitled Return to the Sermon on the Mount. On our last episode, we addressed Jesus telling us, even today, to ask, seek, and knock. I’ve been doing that earnestly in the area of what is holy, which we encountered in our first episode of this mini-series regarding judging others. Matthew 7:6 – Do not give dogs what is holy, and do not throw your pearls before pigs, lest they trample them underfoot and turn to attack you.
This is something I learned from experience and not from my own will power, a morning quiet time, and journaling. I read the Bible cover to cover for 34 plus years and never considered journaling; it wasn’t who I was. Doing the St. Ignatius Spiritual exercises a couple of years ago taught me the practice. Now one hundred and twenty-eight weeks later, I’ve yet to give up an hour, more or less, every morning, mining the scriptures and speaking with God about what he shows me. Over the past two weeks, I’ve been going through the master class notes on the topic of holy found in the scriptures. Yesterday, in my quiet time, I was offered to take a deep dive with Jesus himself into this deep well of precious treasures and stones of vibrant colors. Which I will do and hopefully share on a future mini-series. But first, today’s passage.
Matthew 7:12 – So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
This verse is commonly referred to as the Golden Rule. If taken out of context, you can make it mean a lot of things it was not intended to mean. The last part of the verse gives us the standard to which we should compare our effort in this regard; that standard being the entirety of the Law and the Prophets found in the Old Testament.
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