Jesus showed compassion for all and helped them: Jesus and God are one Matt. Jesus has authority over the law and tradition Matt. Jesus fulfills Old Testament scriptures Matt. A man who has never sinned dies to save all the rest of us who have sinned Matt. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
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But if you will not forgive other people, neither will your Heavenly Father forgive you your failures.
THE SEVEN WORDS OF JESUS ON THE CROSS
For they deliberately disfigure their faces so that people may see that they are fasting. Believe me, they have had all their reward. No, when you fast, brush your hair and wash your face so that nobody knows that you are fasting - let it be a secret between you and your Father. And your Father who knows all secrets will reward you. Put your trust in God alone. But keep your treasure in Heaven where there is neither moth nor rust to spoil it and nobody can break in and steal.
For wherever your treasure is, you may be certain that your heart will be there too! If your eye is sound, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If all the light you have is darkness, it is dark indeed! He is bound to hate one and love the other, or support one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and the power of money at the same time. Surely life is more important than food, and the body more important than the clothes you wear.
Look at the birds in the sky. They never sow nor reap nor store away in barns, and yet your Heavenly Father feeds them.
SEVEN WORDS OF JESUS ON THE CROSS
Aren't you much more valuable to him than they are? Can any of you, however much he worries, make himself an inch taller? And why do you worry about clothes? Consider how the wild flowers grow. They neither work nor weave, but I tell you that even Solomon in all his glory was never arrayed like one of these! Now if God so clothes the flowers of the field, which are alive today and burnt in the stove tomorrow, is he not much more likely to clothe you, you 'little-faiths'? That is what pagans are always looking for; your Heavenly Father knows that you need them all.
Set your heart on the kingdom and his goodness, and all these things will come to you as a matter of course. Tomorrow can take care of itself! One day's trouble is enough for one day. The common sense behind right behaviour. For you will be judged by the way you criticise others, and the measure you give will be the measure you receive. How can you say to your brother, 'Let me get the speck out of your eye', when there is a plank in your own?
Take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you can see clearly enough to remove your brother's speck of dust. Search and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened for you. The one who asks will always receive; the one who is searching will always find, and the door is opened to the man who knocks. If you then, for all your evil, quite naturally give good things to your children, how much more likely is it that your Heavenly Father will give good things to those who ask him?
For the wide gate has a broad road which leads to disaster and there are many people going that way. The narrow gate and the hard road lead out into life and only a few are finding it. Living, not professing, is what matters. You can tell them by their fruit. Do you pick a bunch of grapes from a thorn-bush or figs from a clump of thistles?
Every good tree produces good fruit, but a bad tree produces bad fruit. A good tree is incapable of producing bad fruit, and a bad tree cannot produce good fruit. The tree that fails to produce good fruit is cut down and burnt. So you may know men by their fruit. Go away from me, you have worked on the side of evil!
To follow Christ's teaching means the only real security. Down came the rain and up came the floods, while the winds blew and roared upon that house - and it did not fall because its foundations were on the rock. Down came the rain and up came the floods, while the winds blew and battered that house till it collapsed, and fell with a great crash.
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For his words had the ring of authority, quite unlike those of the scribes. Jesus cures leprosy, and heals many other people. There was a leper who came and knelt in front of him. Just give the order, please, and my servant will recover. I'm a man under authority myself, and I have soldiers under me.
I can say to one man 'Go' and I know he'll go, or I can say 'Come here' to another and I know he'll come - or I can say to my slave 'Do this' and he'll always do it. I tell you that many people will come from east and west and sit at my table with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob in the kingdom of Heaven. But those who should have belonged to the kingdom will be banished to the darkness outside, where there will be tears and bitter regret. He touched her hand and the fever left her. And then she got up and began to see to their needs. Indeed he healed all who were ill.
Thus was fulfilled Isaiah's prophecy - 'He himself took our infirmities and bore our sicknesses'. But before they started, one of the scribes came up to Jesus and said to him, "Master, I will follow you wherever you go. Jesus shows his mastery over the forces of nature. Before long a terrific storm sprang up and the boat was awash with the waves.
Jesus was sleeping soundly and the disciples went forward and woke him up. Then he got to his feet and rebuked the wind and the waters and there was a great calm. The men were filled with astonishment and kept saying, "Whatever sort of man is this - why, even the wind and the waves do what he tells them! They were so violent that nobody dared to use that road.
So the devils implored him, "If you throw us out, send us into the herd of pigs! And the devils came out of the two men and went into the pigs. Then quite suddenly the whole herd rushed madly down a steep cliff into the lake and were drowned. There they poured out the whole story, not forgetting what had happened to the two men who had been devil-possessed.
Whereupon the whole town came out to meet Jesus, and as soon as they saw him implored him to leave their territory.
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Jesus heals in his own town. Immediately some people arrived bringing him a paralytic lying flat on his bed. When Jesus saw the faith of those who brought him he said to the paralytic, "Cheer up, my son! Your sins are forgiven. But Jesus realised what they were thinking, and said to them, "Why must you have such evil thoughts in your minds? Do you think it is easier to say to this man, 'Your sins are forgiven' or 'Get up and walk'? But to make it quite plain that the Son of Man has full authority on earth to forgive sins" - and here he spoke to the paralytic - "Get up, pick up your bed and go home.
When the crowds saw what had happened they were filled with awe and praised God for giving such power to men. Jesus calls a "sinner" to be his disciple. The Pharisees noticed this and said to the disciples, "Why does your master have his meals with tax-collectors and sinners? Suppose you go away and learn what this means: In any case I did not come to invite the 'righteous' but the 'sinners'. He explains the joy and strength of the new order.
Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins - otherwise the skins burst, the wine is spilt and the skins are ruined. But they put new wine into new skins and both are preserved. Jesus heals a young girl, and several others in need. Please come and lay your hand on her and she will come back to life! And on the way a woman who had a haemorrhage for twelve years approached him from behind and touched the edge of his cloak.
But when Jesus had forced the crowd to leave, he came right into the room, took hold of her hand, and the girl got up. And this became the talk of the whole district. As soon as the devil had been ejected the dumb man began to talk. The crowds were simply amazed and said, "Nothing like this has ever been seen in Israel. Jesus is touched by the people's need. As he looked at the vast crowds he was deeply moved with pity for them, for they were as bewildered and miserable as a flock of sheep with no shepherd.
So you must pray to the Lord of the harvest to send men out to reap it.