Scripture Reading: Luke 6:39-49
The Sermon on the Mount tells us the kind of persons Christians should be. The Beatitudes with which it opens show us pictures of the character that is like god. There is a legend which says that when Adam and Eve were driven out of Eden, an angel broke the gates into pieces, and the fragments flew all over the earth. The gems and precious stones which are picked up now in different parts of the world are these fragments of the paradise gates. It is only a fanciful legend, but it is true that in the Beatitudes, the Commandments, and other divine revealings of heavenly character we have fragments of the image of God which was on the man’s soul at the beginning, but which was shattered when man fell. The Sermon on the Mount is full of these gleaming fragments. We should study them to learn God’s thought for our lives. Some of these shining words we have in our present study.
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