This document provides commentary on various verses from Matthew 18. It discusses Jesus teaching his disciples about humility and becoming like children to enter the kingdom of heaven. It warns about causing others to stumble in their faith and the serious consequences. The lost sheep parable is examined, emphasizing God's desire that none would be lost. Guidance around church discipline and forgiveness is also covered from these Bible passages.

1. Matthew 18
Four more parables from our Lord

2. Last Time
The Transfiguration

3. Matthew
18:1-9
• Who’s The
Greatest?
• Matthew
18:4…humbles
himself …is the
greatest in the
kingdom…

4. Matthew 18:3, Not Saved Yet
• Matthew 18:3 and said, "Truly I say to you, unless
you are converted and become like children, you
will not enter the kingdom of heaven.
• John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Truly,
truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he
cannot see the kingdom of God.“
• No one is baptized by the Spirit yet. (Acts 2, Judas)
• No one is sealed, or indwelt by the Spirit yet.
• John 14:17… the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it does not see Him or know Him, but
you know Him because He abides with you and will be
in you.

5. Matthew 18:6, Whoever Causes Little
Ones To Stumble
• Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of
these little ones who believe in Me to
stumble, it would be better for him to have a
heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to
be drowned in the depth of the sea.
• Warn those evolutionary/atheistic teachers
and professors

6. Matthew 18:6, Whoever Causes Little
Ones To Stumble
• Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of
these little ones who believe in Me to
stumble, it would be better for him to have a
heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to
be drowned in the depth of the sea.
• Warn those evolutionary/atheistic teachers
and professors

7. Matthew 18:6, Whoever Causes Little
Ones To Stumble
• Matthew 18:6 but whoever causes one of
these little ones who believe in Me to
stumble, it would be better for him to have a
heavy millstone hung around his neck, and to
be drowned in the depth of the sea.
• Warn those evolutionary/atheistic teachers
and professors

8. Matthew 18:7, Woe To That Man
• Matthew 18:7 "Woe to the world because of
its stumbling blocks! For it is inevitable that
stumbling blocks come; but woe to that man
through whom the stumbling block comes!
• Woe to the pornographers, movie industry,
the perversion promoters, and to those who
lure others into sin!
• Turn to 1 Corinthians 6:9-11

9. Matthew 18:10-14, Lost Sheep

10. Matthew 18:10-14, Lost Sheep
• Matthew 18:14
• If God doesn’t want to lose any of His
sheep, how secure are you in Him?
• He may have to break you
• There is a “sin unto death”, for believers.
• KJV 1 John 5:16 …There is a sin unto death…

11. Matthew 18:10, Their Angels
• Matthew 18:10 "See that you do not despise
one of these little ones, for I say to you that
their angels in heaven continually see the face
of My Father who is in heaven. [Heb 1:14, Acts 12:15]
• The idea of “Guardian Angels” comes from
this verse
• But what are they “continually” looking at?

12. Matthew 18:15-20, Church Discipline
• Mat 18:15…brother sins, go…in private…
• Mat 18:16…take one or two more with you…
• Matthew 18:17…tell it to the church; and if he
refuses to listen even to the church,
• let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax
collector. [A last resort, concerning unrepentant, hard heartedness]
• Galatians 6:1 Brethren, even if anyone is caught in any trespass,
you who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness;
each one looking to yourself, so that you too will not be tempted.

13. Matthew 18:16, Take 1-2 Witnesses
• Christians think they are prosecuting attorneys or
judges, when, in realty, God has called all of us to be
witnesses. Warren Wiersbe
• Luke 6:37 "And do not judge and you will not be
judged; and do not condemn, and you will not be
condemned; pardon, and you will be pardoned.
• 1Co 4:5 Therefore do not go on passing judgment
before the time…
• 1Co 5:12 For what have I to do with judging outsiders?
Do you not judge those who are within the church?
• Romans 14:4 Who are you to judge the servant of
another? To his own master he stands or falls; and he
will stand, for the Lord is able to make him stand.

15. Matthew 18:18, Binding And Loosing
• Matthew 18:18 "Truly I say to you, whatever you bind on
earth shall have been bound [already, past tense] in heaven;
and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in
heaven.
• The context is in a judicial, disciplinary action in church.
• It has nothing to do with Satan or demons
• Jude speaks about false teachers who in; KJV Jude 1:8
Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise
dominion, and speak evil of dignities. 9 Yet Michael the
archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed
about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a
railing accusation, but said, The Lord rebuke thee.

16. Matthew 18:19, If Two Of You Agree
• Matthew 18:19 "Again I say to you, that if two of you agree
on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done
for them by My Father who is in heaven.
• Sadly, there are many Christians who think this opens the
door for “name it and claim it.” They think they can "claim"
a big house or a fancy car or even a situation in their lives.
This is the basis of the "prosperity gospel.“ This is simple
Scripture twisting. STR says “never read a verse of the
Bible”. And by that, Greg means “never take a verse by
itself without considering the context.”
• The context of Matthew 18:19 is a judicial setting, of
church discipline.

17. Matthew 18:21-35

19. Matthew 18:22, 3, 7, or 490?
• Matthew 18:22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to
seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
• Jewish tradition based on Amos, was 3 times;
• Amos 1:3 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of
Damascus and for four I will not revoke its punishment…
• Amos 2:4 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of
Judah and for four I will not revoke its punishment…
• Amos 2:6 Thus says the LORD, "For three transgressions of
Israel and for four I will not revoke its punishment…
• 2 Chronicles 36:21 to fulfill the word of the LORD by the
mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed its sabbaths.
All the days of its desolation it kept sabbath until seventy
years were complete.

20. Matthew 18:22, Seventy Times Seven
• Matthew 18:22 Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you, up to
seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
• Chuck Missler in his commentary on Matthew, page 490,
titled Four 490 Year Intervals In History, These are;
• “From Abraham Unto The Exodus In Egypt,
• From The Exodus To The Temple,
• From The Temple Dedication To The Edict Of Artaxerxes,
• From Artaxerxes To The Second Coming Of Jesus Christ is
490 years, but counting only those years that Israel is under
God’s directive (and not disbursed or in captivity).”
• DLK adds; All four of these examples require adjustments
for various additions or subtractions from the time.

21. Matthew 18:22, Seventy Times Seven
• Matthew 18:22 …seventy times seven.
• Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks have been
decreed for your people and your holy city, to
finish the transgression, to make an end of sin,
to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in
everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision
and prophecy and to anoint the most holy
place.

22. Matthew 18:35, Forgiveness
• Matthew 18:35 "My heavenly Father will also do the same
to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your
heart.“
• Horizontal Forgiveness is your duty;
• Leviticus 19:17 'You shall not hate your fellow countryman
in your heart…
• Galatians 6:1 …restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness…
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner
was you. Unknown
• Vertical Forgiveness requires the debt to be paid.
• Hebrews 9:22 And according to the Law, one may almost
say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without
shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

23. Matthew 18:35, Forgiveness
• Matthew 18:35 "My heavenly Father will also do the same
to you, if each of you does not forgive his brother from your
heart.“
• Horizontal Forgiveness is your duty;
• Leviticus 19:17 'You shall not hate your fellow countryman
in your heart…
• Galatians 6:1 …restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness…
• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner
was you. Unknown
• Vertical Forgiveness requires the debt to be paid.
• Hebrews 9:22 And according to the Law, one may almost
say, all things are cleansed with blood, and without
shedding of blood there is no forgiveness.

24. Matthew 18:35, Degrees Of
Punishment
• Matthew 18:35 "My heavenly Father will also do
the same to you…
• Luke 12:47 "And that slave who knew his
master's will and did not get ready or act in
accord with his will, will receive many lashes, 48
but the one who did not know it, and committed
deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few.
From everyone who has been given much, much
will be required; and to whom they entrusted
much, of him they will ask all the more.

25. Tree
House
THE
END

26. Matthew 18
Four more parables from our Lord