#the sermon on the mount

[chernobog13]

The Life of Brian version of The Sermon On The Mount.

#Monty Python #Life of Brian #The Sermon On The Mount #Mr. Gregory #Terence Bayler #Mrs. Gregory #Carol Cleveland

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Carl Heinrich Bloch (Danish, 1834-1890) The Sermon on the Mount, 1877 The Museum of National History

#Carl Heinrich Bloch #danish #danish art #the sermon on the mount #1800s #art #fine art #european art #classical art #europe #european #fine arts #oil painting #europa #christian art #christian #christianity #catholic #catholicism #roman catholic #orthodox #anglican #christentum #western civilization #Jesus Christ

[tabernacleheart]

You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to [genuinely] love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond [not with churlish indignation but] with the supple moves of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does. He gives his best— the sun to warm and the rain to nourish— to everyone, regardless: the good and bad, the nice and nasty. If all you do is love the lovable, do you expect a bonus? Anybody can do that. If you simply say hello to those who greet you, do you expect a medal? Any run-of-the-mill sinner does that. [God is calling you to a higher standard-- one of spiritual maturity, not immature pride!] In a word, what I’m saying is, Grow up. You’re Kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you.

Matthew 5:43-48 MSG

#sacred scripture #the sermon on the mount #matthew 5 #love your enemies #christian living #unconditional love #a vital reminder #the message #our true selves are found only in God #we have been chosen out of this world #the kingdom of god

[geezerwench]

Not even the Fruits of the Holy Spirit.

The Twelve Fruits of the Holy Spirit

Charity

Joy

Peace

Patience

Kindness

Goodness

Generosity

Gentleness

Faithfulness

Modesty

Self Control

Chastity

#the beatitudes #the ten commandments #the sermon on the mount #“christians” #christianity #christians #religion #Kurt Vonnegut #religious hypocrisy

[stjohncapistrano67]

A modern Traditional Catholic image of Our Lord's Sermon on the Mount. Gospel according to St Matthew Chapters 5-7. I don't remember the name of the artist.

#traditional catholicism #traditional catholic images #traditional catholic modern art #the catholic bible #the new testament #the gospel according to st. matthew #the sermon on the mount

[truthseeker-blogger]

Facebook memory when my new Bible 📖 arrived 🙏✝️❤

#facebook memory #Matthew 5:3–12 #The Beatitudes #The Sermon On The Mount #Jesus Christ ✝️

[bsahely]

THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT – The Spiritual Wisdom of the Beatitudes | Anthony Profeta | heedthespirit.com

Reproduced from https://www.heedthespirit.com/the-sermon-on-the-mount-the-spiritual-wisdom-of-the-beatitudes/ THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT – The Spiritual Wisdom of the Beatitudes In Jesus’ “Sermon on the Mount” (Matthew 51:16), he declared to the crowd which gathered to listen to him, a number of “Blessed are” statements. These statements have been called “The Beatitudes”; and the spiritual wisdom…

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[coptorthodox]

You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor 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. Matthew 5:43-44

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[reverendchrismullis-blog]

(Pastor Chris Mullis) This message explains Jesus' profound truth about blessings in the Kingdom of God--what we call the Beatitudes.  Watch, listen, read, and learn what the Beatitudes really mean. Watch - https://youtu.be/TeOuhMNhY9Q Listen - https://on.soundcloud.com/TciTM Read - https://www.pastorchrismullis.com/2023/08/explaining-beatitudes.html

#SoundCloud #music #Pastor Chris Mullis #Christianity #The Beatitudes #The Sermon on the Mount

[martyschoenleber]

The Nearness of God, The Pain and the Sorrow and the Longing for More

There are times when our spiritual senses are so keen, so lambent and alive that our hearts can hardly be contained and tears drip down our cheeks as if a relief value had been opened to make it possible for us to survive the moment. Those times are rare. They are wonderful. And sometimes, they are painful. They are soul deepening and they help to create in us and even greater longing, a sense of…

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#Hebrews 12:2 #Living Passionately for and Like Jesus #Longing #Matthew 5:6 #Prayer #The Sermon on the Mount #Yearning for More

[limitedbible]

Matthew 5:1 - 5:16

The Sermon on the Mount

1 So having seen the crowd, he went up into the mountain and having sat his students came to him. 2 And having opened his mouth, he taught them saying,

The Beatitudes

3 The poor are blessed in spirit, since the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

4 The mourners are blessed since they will be comforted.

5 The gentle are blessed since they will inherit the Earth.

6 The ones hungry and thirsty for justice are blessed since they will be fed.

7 The merciful are blessed since they will receive mercy.

8 The pure in heart are blessed since they will see God

9 The peacemakers are blessed since they will be called the sons of God

10 The ones persecuted because of righteousness are blessed since the kingdom of the heavens is theirs.

11 You are blessed when they will hate you and persecute you and they will say all evil things against you lying on my account.

12 Rejoice and delight that your reward is great in the heavens. Just as they persecuted the prophets before you.

Salt and Light

13 You are the fertilizer of the Earth. But if the fertilizer weakens, what will it be fertilized with? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and to be trampled on by men. 14 You are the light of the world. A city lying on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and place it under a basket, but on a lampstand and it lights the whole house. 16 So let your light shine in front of humanity, so where they see your good deeds and they will honor your father in the heavens.

#matthew #matthew book five #matthew 5:1 5:16 #the beatitudes #salt and light #the sermon on the mount

[randomnestfamily]

One of the Most Difficult Commandments

***Today's Devotion*** is called, "One of the Most Difficult Commandments" . It's not the one you think. Let today's devotion encourage you! . #todaysdevotion #thelaw #obey #life #reality #Bible #faith #forgiven #randomnestfamily #inspiration #scriptures

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.Romans 12:14 One of the hardest commandments in the most difficult times Why? Because it requires you to forgive even the vilest offenders. Why? Because these are the very same people God has given His one and only Son to die for. According to God’s standard, we were all wicked and worthy of hell fire, but God chose to overlook our past sins…

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[inamindfarfaraway]

The Exorcists’ Masks of Virtue

The vast majority of Exorcists in Hazbin Hotel have a notable design element that other angels don’t: their masks are missing an eye. Specifically, the right eye.

I believe this is a reference to the Bible, Matthew 5:29. Jesus says, “If your right eye causes you to stumble, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to lose one part of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.”

He’s being hyperbolic. Mr Free Healthcare was not pro-mutilation. What he means is that you have to be willing to make sacrifices to prevent sin. The context of the eye metaphor is him condemning adultery and warning that even something as easy, casual and small as a look full of lustful intent can lead to further, worse sin if you don’t notice your sin, hold yourself accountable for it and do the work to not let it influence your decisions. This will probably be hard. It could be very, very painful. Changing your perspective can feel as horrible as plucking out your eye, so many people can’t bring themselves to do it. But although it won’t feel that way in the moment, it’s healthier for our general wellbeing in the long run to abandon traits and behaviours that damage ourselves and/or others.

(You may notice that Jesus’s teaching that you can have sinned, redeem yourself by giving up sin and thus escape damnation is the founding principle of the Hazbin Hotel. You may also notice that it contradicts everything the Exorcists believe.)

The Exorcists seem to follow this idea of painfully excising badness for the sake of the greater good devoutly to the point of placing it above teachings like ‘Thou shalt not kill’, with their job being to remove sin, in the form of sinners, to protect Heaven. Hence the missing right eyes. They’re a declaration of moral righteousness and inability to stumble.

But the truth is that the Exorcists all have their right eyes. Their flawlessness is a facade. Underneath, they are untouched, think themselves morally untouchable and, as shown by their horror and outrage when even one of them is killed, would much rather be physically untouchable too. This perfectly represents their complete unwillingness to acknowledge their own faults, let alone improve. They are never the ones who sacrifice. They force the sinners to sacrifice and don’t compensate it with any salvation. They metaphorically rip out the sinners’ eyes, but still condemn their entire bodies as inherently, permanently sinful. So they’ll just have to do another Extermination to get the other eyes! And another one to cut off their right hands! And so on until there’s nothing left.

The only exception to the rule is Vaggie, both in appearance and character. Her mask has the left eye crossed out instead. Even before her expulsion, she’s set apart to the audience as an Exorcist who has the capacity to, shall we say, see a different side of things. Her mask having its ‘sinful’ right eye reflects her understanding that the Exorcist worldview is wrong.

When she almost kills a demon child, her hateful vision clears. She discards the part of herself that’s an unquestioning, merciless agent of death, terror and grief… and as punishment for what Lute perceives as treacherous weakness, gets her eye plucked out.

Of course Lute leaves her with only the ‘sinful’ eye. It brands Vaggie forever as the inversion, a perversion, of what the Exorcists are meant to be.

You know, all this talk of eye removal in the Bible reminds of another line - ‘an eye for an eye’. Adam directly quotes it in “Hell is Forever”. He uses it to frame the Exterminations as Old Testament-style punitive justice; the sinners did harm and so they receive it. But putting aside the debate about how ethical the concept of revenge is, the entire point of taking an eye for an eye is that it’s proportional. The punishment fits the crime. If someone cuts your eye out, you shouldn’t murder their whole family in front of them and then slowly disembowel them to death. That would be the sin of wrath. You should just make them pay without excessive pain or collateral damage. This is the fairest form of revenge.

The Exorcists don’t do that! The Exterminations aren’t proportional to the wrongs of all they hurt, nor was Vaggie’s brutal punishment equivalent to her extremely mild insubordination. Lute literally takes Vaggie’s eye, and more, after Vaggie does nothing to her! That’s the opposite of the phrase! Adam and his soldiers are wrathful and cruel, deriving satisfaction from others’ suffering. But they just can’t stop going on and on about how disgustingly evil the sinners are, in total hypocrisy… despite some of the sinners being far better people than the genocidal Exorcists are… it’s like they’re obsessed with specks of dust in the sinners’ eyes when they have massive logs stuck in their own. Oh hey, that’s in the Bible too!

#both emotionally and symbolically i am rooting for vaggie or charlie to take out one of lute’s eyes #i was like ‘cool vaggie’s missing the opposite eye to her former mask!’ #and then i went back and saw that her mask was also different #and then i went down a rabbit hole of biblical mentions of bad things happening to eyes #i know god and jesus (and the holy spirit) probably won’t appear in the show #at least not in person #but i do cherish the mental image of adam and his genocidal army hanging out #when jesus christ bursts in with a whip #and gets all ‘you have made my father’s house into a den of thieves’ on them but an order of magnitude more intense #because HE SAID LOVE ONE ANOTHER #WHERE IS THE LOVE #HE SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED IT #i’m not christian! i’m a hardcore atheist! #religion is just as fictious to me as egyptian mythology #however i am also autistic and have major special interests in mythology and folklore #so here i am fervently writing analysis of the sermon on the mount #hazbin hotel #hazbin vaggie #hazbin hotel vaggie #vaggie #hazbin hotel exorcists #hazbin exorcists #hazbin hotel analysis #hazbin analysis

[tabernacleheart]

...In the Sermon on the Mount, [Jesus] enshrines the practice of the three good works of Judaism, prayer, fasting and almsgiving. The warning is against parading good works: they should be known only to our Father in heaven. Most of us will have digested this triple lesson, but more relevant is the insistence that what matters is the relationship between ourselves and our Father in heaven, expressed in these good works.

Dom Henry Wansbrough; Commentary on Matthew 6

#an important clarification #jesus christ #do everything for the glory of god #our religion is a relationship #biblical commentary #dom henry wansbrough #the sermon on the mount #prayer #fasting #almsgiving #a vital reminder #humility #secret sanctity #good works #matthew 6

[artthatgivesmefeelings]

Ivan Kuzmich Makarov (Russian, 1822-1897) Sermon on the Mount (Christ blessing the royal family), ca.1890 State Museum of the History of Religion, St. Petersburg

#Ivan Kuzmich Makarov #Russian art #Russia #Russian #art #fine art #european art #classical art #european #europe #fine arts #oil painting #europa #sermon on the mount #christ blessing the royal family #1800s #christian art #christian #christianity #christentum #catholic #orthodox #anglican #roman catholic #Jesus Christ #Son of God #Son of Man #Christ

[pathofregeneration]

Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God. Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

— Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5:8-10 (KJV)

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