All Saints

The grace of the Lord Jesus be with all. Amen.(Revelation 22:21) This is the last verse in the Bible. It seems most likely that the last words are significant. Earlier verses in this chapter gave warnings about taking away from or adding to the words of the prophecy.

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The Golden Rule

All of the world’s faiths have the same basic ethic, presented in a variety of ways, called the Golden Rule: Love your neighbour as yourself. However, only one God of all the faiths actually exemplified and exceeded the Golden Rule: The Lord Jesus Christ became our neighbour—one of us—to love His neighbours more than Himself.

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Healing on Either Side of the Sermon on the Mount

In the Gospel of Matthew, the first miracles Jesus did were among the crowds immediately before and after the Sermon on the Mount. These miracles break some traditional views about God's will to heal the sick.  These are early lessons for the disciples and for us (21st century disciples) to understand that it is always God's will—for Jesus is the perfect revelation of this—to heal.

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