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Well Wally, your comments are well taken, and it is good that you want to be a role model in the community. Jesus said "let your light shine, so that men will see your good works, and glorify God."
By allowing the Holy Spirit to live the christian life in you, will cause many in your town to turn to the Lord Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of the sins. Jesus is the completion of the Law, and that is why when we accept Jesus as our personal
Savior, we are born again into the family of God. The righteousness of Christ is imputed to our account by faith, and God looks at us as his son Jesus. When Jesus said to be perfect, as our father in heaven is perfect, this is how we do it. If we confess our sin, God is faithful and just to forgive our sin and cleanses us from all unrighteousness. Jesus is our advocate, and he is at the right hand of the father making intercession for us. So don't be ashamed to witness to your neighbors about the hope that is with in you. May God give you the strength from this day forward to let your light shine for Jesus.

I am going through some difficult times right now. I come from a small northern town in Canada, but modern technology has reached us here too. Almost everybody I know has an Xbox or a PS3, and a computer, and satellite T.V. and they pretty much allow their kids free reign over these things as well, in some cases to great detriment to their kids. It almost seems like we here in my hometown are all doomed because hardly anybody here lives according to Matthew 5, including myself. We here have seemed to lose our connection to religion, as the residential school system, with it's hellfire and brimstone teachings, sexual, physical, and mental abuse, seperation from parents and family which broke the family structure and caused most of my people to lose, or at least damage, their parental instincts, and these things trickled down the generations and are still affecting many of us today. It has really turned a lot of people off. Most of us here love God, but are afraid of religion. The preists and nuns that taught our parents and grandparents really used fear as a way of keeping the kids in line. Isn't God supposed to be about love and kindness. In my community, the organized religion really damaged it's reputation and standing amongst many in the community and instead of creating good christians, they created many drunks and fornicators and abusers. I personally want to be closer to God and Jesus, but I need to find a way that won't alienate me from my community. I know that blessed are the persecuted, but I love everyone here in my community and I would love it if every one of us made it into the kingdom (there are only 300 people here and I know and love everyone), and I don't want to be ostracized from my own community. I am only a man and I am not as strong as Jesus who was an outcast in his own community. It wouldn't do anything but make me into an outcast anyways, as people here don't want anybody preaching religion to them for the reasons I already outlined earlier. My predicament is that I do want to get everyone closer to God, in a way that will work. People around here put a lot of value on credibility. My going around town here yelling like John the Baptist for them to repent because the kingdom is near is only going to make them think of me as a weirdo and destroy all my credibility. The real reason I don't want to lose credibility with anyone here in my home is that I would like to see everybody from here make it to the next life, I would love it if we could all spend eternity in God's kingdom. It would be like my greatest wish. It's actually what I wish for when I see a shooting star, no fooling. Truth be told, I am lost right now. I long to be closer to God, but everytime I sin, I feel dirty and ashamed to pray. I have several addictions and I know God sees all. It's like I feel like I am undeserving at times. I know everybody here in my hometown and most of us here are kind, and generous and help each other out, in spite of our many faults. All good christian qualities. I just wish I knew of a good way to lead my people back to God. I know for a fact that preaching to them will only make them disrespect me. I am at a loss. I pray that God shows me the way and that I am strong enough to follow through.

Peace-makers are the children of God in this sense too. For even as Jesus said nothing do i of myself, but that which i've seen the Father do, so is it with those that allow God to work his peace through them.

Has anyone ever heard of the word fideism? according to Merriam-Webster FIDEISM. : reliance on faith rather than reason in pursuit of religious truth. — fi·de·ist -ˌdā-ist noun. — fi·de·is·tic ˌfē-(ˌ)dā-ˈis-tik ... To hate my mother or my father or anyone else is in my opinion a Jim Jones hypocrisy - where people are lead like blind sheep to mass slaughters and suicides - to contort or interpret this to mean anything other than the acceptance of unsound reasoning. To "know thy self" the great Imhotep proclaimed is where one learns all things as self being the building of that temple towards The Creator. If you "hate" yourself, your mother etc..you tear away the foundation of understanding and forgiveness which is even contrary to Christian theology. No matter how you slice it, if according to your own Bible Matthew 5:37 says," But let your Yes be Yes and your No, ' No. For whatever is more than these is from the evil one".
Hotep

Mt 5:36
"...,because you can not make one hair white or black"

This is my testimony.
Without reason God put me on terrible suffer for about seven days. I was completely devastate. Even I spent all my money on some stupid medications that did no help. Then without a visible reason the pain disappeared and some money I even forgot came. All this is happening in seven or eight days.
For all that time the only thing I could do is to pray from the deepest point of my heart and soul and mind.
The point of all this is that when I see a comment that GOD is good I feel a little resistance.
The GOD OUR LORD is almighty, that is my attitude. GOD can be good, GOD is certainly righteous, but from an angle of a single person GOD can be terrible.
Concerning GOD all we can do is to pray and Jesus Christ our savior and leader told us how.
I SEEK FOR YOUR KINGDOM AND YOUR JUSTICE, AND ELSE SHALL BE ADDED

This chapter is moving on all parts of it and I especially like the part loving loving your enemy.
We live in a cynical world that lives contrary to this teachin(even our so called Christians.
We should really pay attention to this.....because it's really fundumental to what living like a Christian means. I mean ask yourself.
Do I really try to lvoe those who hate me? What kind of impact would this have on the world if collectively we did this? I think even is we did this for one day alone....it would have a marked impact on society.......Any ideas?

TO WHOM THAT THINK THE LAW OF FOOD WAS DONE AWAY WITH, PLEASE READ, MATTHEW 5:17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or to destroy the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. KJV
If you will follow up on this go to Acts 10:9 start reading there and thru Acts10:28
If you will notice Peter never eat of the food,
and it was not talking of food we eat, but to call no man common or unclean.
I once thought the same as you, but I will not eat anything that Leviticus chapter 11 says not to eat.
God bless.

Paul was telling Timothy that women should present themselves modestly. By that I mean, they shouldn't wear clothing that reveals everything that God gave them. They should dress in a fashion that God would appreciate not in a way that will create a distraction from God. Paul was trying to say that a modesty issue can become a morality issue. And Jesus said... 'But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart( Matthew 5:28)"
When women dress un-modestly, they tend to create an opportunity for a man to lust.

this chapter of Matthew is very powerful because it does not only gives us the character of a true christian but gives us the rules in the kingdom of God. I call this chapter as guidline to success life not only on this earth but also in heaven. The bible tells us that in heaven there is no sickness, no crying, no sorrow and so if we from the heart apply what Matthew 5 says then we will have righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and nothing should or will bother us. Matthew 5 is the track for all believers to walk on if they want to experience lif in God that is eternal forever.

What is Matthew 5:5 saying about the meek do they stay here on earth after the father rids the earth of all the evil. Are there 2 classes of people 144,000 that go to heaven the others stay here on earth.

It really Blessed me.

Come on, really? The truth is exactly the opposite. Head of people approaching the Holiness OUGHT to be covered continually: Leviticus 10:6, 21:10 and Ezekiel 24:17. People are seriously warned to pay their best possible attention and to take the best possible care with interpreting the Law and God's will. According to that warning, this so-called apostle Paul is a creature from the deepest Hell: he turned upside down everything he ever could. Matthew 5:19.

What about saying an oath with your hand upon this book?

it is a awesome scripture. its showing me tht I shudnt be hiding tht light. n now my Generation needs to hear it.

Katia's post from 12/24/2010 makes the mark. Blessed are those who know they are as God tells us, poor in our spiritual foundation, yet contrite of heart in understanding our need in the Creator God for all our needs.

mercy should be shown to every human kind and my heart arches whenever i see what war does to humankind its just not in our authority to stop it but only ask the Lord to intervene and show mercy

The GOD of ISRAEL commanded HIS PEOPLE to keep the dietary laws that are written in the bible. These commandments werent given for nothing. so with that said its true you have to keep God's laws, commandments and statutes especially if you want to make it to the kingdom of GOD. Every law of God is still in effect and Matthew 5:17-19 makes that clear. dont be decieved nor decieve yourself, if you DON'T have understanding on the word of God DON'T speak on it. NOW, in 1Tim 4:4 it reads ''For every creature of God is good'' now thats true right? every creature of God is good, for whatever purpose God created it for. God did NOT create every single animal to be eaten and if you feel thats not true then dont bother spending money on meats just go outside and find a random dog, cat, rat or pigeon and take it home and cook it up! see the problem is people are wicked and want to cut corners when it comes to God and thats just going to get you a 1st class ticket to hell. God set a diffence between CLEAN and UNCLEAN beasts, and the DIFFERENCE IS clean is meant to be recived and unclean is NOT meant to be eaten( Leviticus 11:46&47) but is good for another purpose EXAMPLE PIG/SWINE that animal is a farm tool, pigs eat anything so its job is to eat all the trash off the farm including POOP now thats a good purpose imagine having a farm without a pig... now, is the feasting of this animal really tempting to you?? NASTY! and for Those that think its still ok to eat the PIG or any ABOMINATION... judgement is written just for you. Take a look at Isaiah 66:16-17. dont be decieved u WILL go to hell for this. simple as that.

I Love Love Matthew 5:48. WHY? Because the world says no one can be perfect. but what does the WORD of GOD say? Matthew 5:48 is a COMMANDMENT. I WILL REACH PERFECTION!

I just twitted Matthew 5:48

People have come to the conclusion that God will accept anything. But this chapter, along with so many others remindes us that there are conditions to the blessings. Most of todays religeous society embraces grace with recklessness. Christ tells us that grace requires more than the original law. The law is fulfilled in the life of Christ, and if we are decieved into thinking that we are responsible for nothing, we will be held accountable for our slothfulness!

I love it when the Lord reminds us that we need to be about our father's business. That if we are not then what good are we. We need to be able to season someone with the words of the Lord. We need to mind the way we live, let it be HOLY before the Lord and Man.

This bible portion is wake up call to all who profess to be followers of CHRIST. That we may conduct ourselves properly in every area of our lives. In dressing, modest; in speech, edifying; etc. It is by so doing that men would desire to be part of this only way to the Living GOD. FAITH WITHOUT WORK, IT IS WRITTEN, IS DEAD. We must defend our faith by our daily conduct and thus bring glory to God. It is written,He that winneth a soul is wise. soul winning is only possible via our wise disposition.

blessed are the peacemakers were called to protect the loved children of god to be the leaders of todays world and to love all even there enimies. But to believe in them selfs and to respect all life !

The entire Sermon on the Mt could be summed up in Vse 48...You will therefore be perfect even as your Heavenly Father is perfect...That is the whole of it! Jesus is the Father... Isa 9:6, Jn 14:9. Only Jesus Himself could live up to this Sermon, therefore, self needs to get out of the way and apply this...it is no longer I, but, Christ... Gal 2:20...It is He living His life through us making this possible! Christ IN you, the hope of glory... Colossians 1:27

I believe the Lord Jesus highlights here the charateristics of a citizen of the kingdom of heaven or the kingdom of Gom. This is the Kingdom culture, traditions and way of life.
Anyone who is genuinely born again should be preaching and practicing Matt 5 with the guidance of the Holy Spirit who is the Governor of the Kingdom of God.
Salt here means..You are the standards setter, the elite group, the group that will show others how to live. Salt set the standards in the taste of the food. Likewise we as citizen, sons and ambassadors should set the standards to other so that our works may glorify our Father who is in Heaven. Praise God.

I understand this to be an out from bondage when married to someone who has sexual relations with another than the spouse. I also understand it to mean that Jesus says for you just to divorce for any other reason is not acceptable. When you put away your spouse whom you were joined with for any other reason makes you a used/user package so to speak. The Lord does not hold you in bondage to that which uses you like the devil. I cannot think of any other betrayal greater than the cheating of intimacy with someone other than their spouse.

Jeff - Eating the blood is still a sin, just like all the other laws in the Scripture. Our Heavenly Father does not change - Malachi 3:6. If it was a sin then, it's still a sin now.
Many people think that the Old Testament laws were "Mose's Law" or "the Jew's Law," but they're not. They are His Laws. If you worship Him, then obey His Laws, not what the "Churches" teach. Christ said in Matthew 5:17-18 that he didn't come to do away with the laws, and until heaven and earth pass the law is still here. Over and over in the Scriptures it states that if you love Him, keep his commandments.
I know some will say that I'm being legalistic or "Judaising" or whatever, yet that is not true. In 2 Thessalonians 2:8 the Antichrist is called the "lawless one." The Hebrew word for "law" is Torah. The Torah is also the first 5 books of the Old Testament - where the "laws of Moses" are found. So the Antichrist doesn't obey these laws - and yet the "churches" also teach this exact same doctrine.
Aleister Crowley is a Satanist who wrote "The Book of the Law"(on how to usher in the Age of the Antichrist), said that the 1 law in Satanism is "Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole of The Law." Anton Levay, founder of the Church of Satan, also declares this as the 1 universal law, except to "do it under love because more people will buy it."
Doesn't that sound like modern day 'Christianity"?
All the "old laws" are still in effect, as are the Feast Days. The only difference is that Christ is our sacrifice - transfered, not abolished.

Anger of V.22. It seems to me that "anger" in itself is neutral and can be righteous indignation or a destructive tool from an evil source. In the Gr. lexicon, I was surprised to find the "anger" family of words frequently defined as being "passive". Does that mean that anger is being put upon the angry one by an other influence, rather than a purposeful chosen attitude. Jesus had right constructive reasons to be angry, whereas sometimes an undue self righteous outburst might be wrong for us. Just a thought!

Christians interpret this verse differently. Some people believe its not ok to be mad at anyone ever and that if you are then you should feel guilty and repent for feeling this natural human emotion. I don't think that's what the Bible means.

Another camp may believe that anger is ok. Even Jesus was angry: Link

There's probably a difference between being angry at the sin of someone (ok and healthy) and expressing an angry emotion so intense its almost a hatred (or curse) toward a person.

I think Jesus was assertive, frank and direct with people- called the Pharisees sinners and said things to people that caused conflict- enough that they killed him, but they needed to hear.

So, I think this verse doesn't mean you're sinning and going to hell if you find yourself mad at someone for wrecking your car, for instance.

In response to Doug.
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Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.
Romans 6:15 What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.
Romans 3:31 Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.
Romans 7:7 What shall we say then? [Is] the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet.