Matthew 7:7-12
The King teaches His people to depend on the Father's goodness and to do good to others.
7 “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you.
8 For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened.
9 Or who is there among you, who, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone?
10 Or if he asks for a fish, who will give him a serpent?
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!
12 Therefore whatever you desire for men to do to you, you shall also do to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
The King teaches his people to depend on the Father's goodness and to do good to others.
Matthew records Jesus calling disciples to persistent dependence on the generous Father and to neighbor-love that summarizes the Law and the Prophets.
The Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus teaches his disciples in the hearing of the crowds.
Kingdom Discernment, the Narrow Way, and the Wise Builder
Jesus closes the Sermon by demanding humble discernment, dependent prayer, narrow-way obedience, true fruit, and a life built on hearing and doing his authoritative words.