Jackson advocate., 1963-01-12
the Sermon on THE Mount comes TO p0x
more nreamimgtM and Important
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For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heav
emily Father also will forgive you but if you do not
forgive men their respasses neither will your Father
forgive your tespasses.
And when you fast, do not look dismal, like
the hypocrtes for they dsGgure their faces that their
fasting may be seen by men. Truly, say to you
they have their reward. But when you fast, anoint
your head and wash your face, that your fasting may
not be seen by men but by your Father who is in
secret; and your Father who sees in secret will
reward you.
DO not lay UP for yourselves treasures on
EARTH where moth and rust consume and where
thieves break in and stea but lay up for yourselves
treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust
consumes and where thieves do not break in and
steal for where your treasure is, there will your
heart be also.
The eye is the lamp of the BODY So, if YOUR
eye sound your whole body will be full of light;
but if your eye is not sound your whole body will
be full of darkness If then the light in you is dark
ness, how great is the darkness!
No one can serve two masters; for either he
will hate the one and love the other, or he will be
devoted to the and despise the other You cannot
serve God and mammon.
Therefore tell you, do not be anxious about
your life, what you shall eat or what you shall drink,
nor about your body what you shall put on. Is not
life more than food and the body more than cloth
ng Look at the birds of the air. they neither
reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly
Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than
they? And which of you by being anxious add
cubit to his span of life? And why be anxious about
clothing? Consider the lilies of the field how they
grow; they neither toll spin yet tell you,
Solomon in all his glory not arrayed like of
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which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the
oven, will he not much more clothe you, 0 men of
little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saving,
What shall we eat? or What shall we drnk?' or
What shall we wear? For the Centiles seek all these
things; and your heavenly Father knows that you
need them ALL But seek first his kingdom and his
righteousness and all these things shall be yours
well.
Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will be anxious for ITSELF Let the days
own trouble be sufficient for the day.
uDcE not that you be not judged. For with the
y Judgment you pronounce you will be judged,
and the measure you give will be the measure you
get Why do you see the speck that in your brothers
eye but do not notice the log that is in your eye?
Or how can you say to your brother Let me take the
speck out of your eye when there is the log in your
own eye? You hypocrte first take the log out of your
own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the
speck out Of your brothers eye.
DO not give dogs what is holy; and do not
throw your pearls before swine, lest they trample
them underfoot and turn to attack you.
Ask, and it will be given you; seek, andyouwil
find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For every
one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and
to him who knocks it will be opened. Or what man Of
you if his son asks him for loaf, will give him
stonep Or if he asu for FISH, viii give him serpent2