The Stone & the Loaf
(Evening Service)
Text: Matthew 7:7-14
Many people have a deep rooted suspicion of God. Sin has driven us from His presence into the darkness of guilt and shame. Even Jesus disciples needed their thinking realigned in this vital area of life. Here Jesus gives us a wonderful encouragement to think well of God and enjoy the full blessing of His fatherly care.
““Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened. Or which one of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him!
“So whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.
“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. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
(Matthew 7:7–14 ESV)”