Sermon On The Mount

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Sermon On The Mount

• Two basic principles for faithfulness,
• Mt. 2237-39
• Love God
• Love neighbor

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Sermon On The Mount

• Difficulty in applying love
• Love God
• Believe
• Do
• Love neighbor
• Friends
• Others in need
• Enemies

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Sermon On The Mount
Love Your Enemies
Superior Love
Be Like Our Father
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Sermon On The Mount
Love Your Enemies

• Jew Gentile In OT
• Love neighbor, Lev. 1918
• No peace with enemy, Deut. 233-6
• Destroy enemy, Deut. 71-16
• Hate them, Psa. 13921, 22

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Sermon On The Mount
Love Your Enemies

• Gospel love all men
• Ones that curse us
• Ones that slander us
• Ones that cheat us

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Sermon On The Mount
Love Your Enemies

• Gospel love all men
• Good Samaritan, Lk. 1025-37
• Stephen, Acts 759, 60
• Jesus, Mt. 2666-68 2729-31 Lk 2334

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Sermon On The Mount
Love Your Enemies

• God loves blesses all
• Food, clothing, Acts 1417
• Savior, Jn. 316 Rom. 56-8

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Sermon On The Mount
Superior Love

• Tax collectors despised by Jews
• Jews working for Romans
• Considered traitors
• Extortion common, Lk. 189-14
• Stuck together

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Sermon On The Mount
Superior Love

• Love here not based on mutual feeling
• Eros sexual
• Phileo mutual feeling
• Agape active good will

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Sermon On The Mount
Superior Love
Paul shows us love of enemy, Acts 1623-34
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Sermon On The Mount
Be Like Our Father

• Be like God in heaven
• Holy, 1 Pt. 113-16
• Like Christ, Jn. 147 829
• Zeal, Jn. 213-17
• Submission, Lk. 2242

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Sermon On The Mount
Be Like Our Father

• Strive for perfection
• Heed warnings teachings, Col. 121-29
• Trust in God in trials, Jas. 12-8

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Sermon On The Mount
Be Like Our Father

• Avoid distractions
• World as standard
• Christians as standard,
• 1 Cor. 111 2 Cor. 1012
• Christ is THE standard, Heb. 121, 2

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Sermon On The Mount
Love Your Enemies
Superior Love
Be Like Our Father
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Sermon On The Mount

• Two basic principles for faithfulness,
• Mt. 2237-39
• Love God
• Love neighbor

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Sermon On The Mount

• Difficulty in applying love
• Love God
• Believe
• Do
• Love neighbor
• Friends
• Others in need
• Enemies