5. Which man among you here gives a stone when his child asks for bread, or a serpent when he asks for a fish? If you, who are evil, can nevertheless give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him.

6. Whatever you want that people should do to you, do it likewise to them, and whatever you do not want them to do to you, do not do it to them either; for this is the law and the prophets. (Chap. 27:5-6)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:

Recognize that you should not demand from your fellow man what you are not willing to give yourself.

If you expect your neighbor to do something for you, ask yourself the question: Why don’t you do it yourself? The person, for example, who expects money and property from his neighbor so that, in his laziness, he does not have to work himself, or the person who expects faithfulness from his neighbor while he is not faithful himself, or the person who wants to be accepted and received by his neighbor, yet neither accepts nor receives his fellow man – such a person is selfish and poor in spirit.

Whatsoever you demand of your neighbor is what you do not have in your heart yourself.

It is unlawful to force, from an attitude of expectation, your fellow man into actions, statements or certain behaviors, which, of yourself, you would not be willing to do.

If, in wanting something from your neighbor, you have recognized your expectant attitude, turn back quickly and do first what you would demand of your neighbor.
All coercion is the application of pressure, which produces, in turn, coercion and counter-pressure. Through such extortionary behavior toward your fellow man, you bind yourself to him and turn yourself – as well as the one who lets himself be blackmailed – into a slave of a base nature. Coercive methods such as “I expect of you and you expect of me” or “Each gives to the other what the other demands of the former” lead to binding.

What is bound has no place in heaven. Both who are bound to one another will meet again one day, either in a fine-material life or in further incarnations.
This form of binding does not apply to the workplace. When, in your professional life, you have freely taken a position in a certain field of work and the responsible person gives you duties that you should carry out within the framework of your job, you have given your consent to that upon joining the company. You have freely taken your place in the field of work and on the work team, in order to do what is assigned to you. So, when you choose a job, you should also carry out what is assigned to you, according to the field of work you have chosen yourself. The statement “Whatever you want people to do to you, do it likewise to them ...” therefore, does not apply to a self-chosen profession or field of work.

“Whatever you do not want them [the people] to do to you, do not do it to them either” means: If you do not want to be laughed at and ridiculed, or you do not want to be robbed or lied to, or you do not want to be deprived of your belongings, or you do not want to be led by the nose, or you do not want to be robbed of your free will, or you do not want to be beaten or insulted, then do not do it to your fellow man. For what you do to the least of your brothers, this you do to Me – and to yourself. What you do not want to be done to you, you should not do to any of your neighbors either – for everything that goes out from you returns to you. For this reason, examine your thoughts and guard your tongue!

You Will Recognize Them by Their Fruit

8. Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Can one gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles? 9. Likewise, every good tree brings forth good fruit, but a bad tree brings forth bad fruit. Every tree that does not bring forth good fruit is only fit to be cut down and thrown into the fire. This is why you should distinguish the good from the bad by their fruits. (Chap. 27:8-9)

Christ explains, corrects and deepens the word:

At the end of the days of materialism, of the “time of avarice and greed,” many false prophets will appear. They will talk a lot about the love of God – and yet their works will be the works of men. Not the one who speaks of the love of God is a true prophet and a spiritually wise man, but solely the one whose works are good.
The gift of discernment, however, is given only to the one who first examines his own cast of mind: whether he truly believes in the gospel of selfless love himself and fulfills what is meant by it, and what he has already actualized himself, out of selfless love toward his neighbor.

You can recognize your fellow man and sense the difference between the good, the less good and the bad, only when you have attained a certain degree of spiritual maturity.

The one who still condemns his neighbor and thinks and speaks negatively about him cannot yet assess his fellow man. He lacks the gift of discernment. He merely passes judgment and does not examine.
If you are still a bad fruit yourself, how can you recognize the good fruit? The one who does not actualize the laws of God thus lacks the gift to discern between what is good, less good and bad.

And so, whoever wants to assess his neighbor should first examine himself to see whether he has the gift of discernment between the just and the unjust.
A good fruit can be discarded very quickly and the bad one approved, when the rotten fruit makes a show of itself with a lot of words, using many seemingly convincing words and gestures.

Recognize: Like attracts like. Rotten fruits are closer than good fruits to the one who is himself still a rotten fruit. But whoever is selfless is a good fruit, and the good, the selfless, is also near him.
Whoever is selfless also has the gift to discern between the good, the less good and the bad fruits. And so, whoever wants to discern between the good and bad fruits must first be a good fruit himself. Only the good fruit can recognize the bad. The bad fruit always seeks like-minded bad fruits, in order to go against the good ones. The bad fruits condemn, reject, judge and bind.

The good, ripe fruits are understanding, of good will and tolerant, and are kind toward their neighbor. They may very well address serious shortcomings, but they keep their neighbor in their heart. This means that they no longer judge, condemn or sentence.

I repeat: You shall recognize them by their fruits.
The good fruit knows the bad fruit, yet the bad fruit does not recognize the good fruit. The good fruit looks only to the good, the bad fruit only to the bad. The person thinks, speaks and acts accordingly.