S U N D A Y   S N I P P E T S (tm) # 4 7                  5 Nov 95      

                    A Different Standard of Kindness
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        YOU HAVE heard that it was said, `_You shall love your neigh-
        bor_ and hate your enemy.'

        But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you,
        do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully
        use you and persecute you,

        that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes
        His sun rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the just
        and the unjust.

        For if you love those who love you, what reward have you?  Do
        not even the tax collectors do the same?

        And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than
        others?  Do not even the tax collectors do so?

        Therefore you shall be perfect, even as your Father in Heaven is 
        perfect.

                                by Rabbi Jesus, a selection from His
                                Sermon on the Mount (Matt. 5:43-48)

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Do you find it difficult to apply the teachings of the Bible?  All
Christians do.  Virtues have to be cultivated one at a time, step by step.
This week, pray about how you can find a way to do good to someone who is 
does not do good to you, or who is somehow quite different from you.




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