Mt. 7:7 “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.”
Mt. 7:8 “For everyone who asks receives, and he that seeks finds, and to him that knocks it will be opened.”
Mt. 7:9 “Or what man is there among you who, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?”
Mt. 7:10 “Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent?”
Mt. 7:11 “If you then, being 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?”
We have centered our relationships around the man Yeshua and sometimes forget the God that He is. At a certain point in history He became flesh so that He might bring His people back to Him. That is the greatest gift of all. God gave Himself. Don’t forget that Yeshua knows what lies in store for the Jewish people if they fail to accept Him as Messiah and He is trying hard to get them to repent and come back to Him. Christianity has become a selfish, self-centered religion that, for the most part, completely ignores our fellow man. The real thrust or emphasis of Yeshua’s teaching has to do with man’s relationship with his fellow man. That still holds true today.
Mt. 7:12 “Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets.”
Yeshua’s teachings were closest to that of the Pharisees, especially the School of Hillel. There are many parallels between the Lord and Hillel, who was some thirty years older than Yeshua. Note Hillel’s popular summary of the Law from the Talmud: “What you would not have done to you do not to another; that is the whole Law. The rest is commentary.” It is almost identical to what Yeshua said later in what is today referred to as the Golden Rule.
Source: BT:Shabbat 31a
