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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> today’s Gospel passage is an excerpt from the Sermon on the Mount. If
we are to begin to understand Jesus’ staggering teachings in the Sermon
on the Mount, we have to keep ever in our
minds the little tagline, "Be perfect as your heavenly Father is
perfect.</b></span>"</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Jesus
is the Son of God, and his purpose is</b></span> not primarily to construct a
smooth-functioning human society; it is <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>to establish the kingdom of God,
that is to say, a body formed by those who participate in him, who
share his relationship with the Father. </b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">What is the Father of Jesus Christ like? <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>The Father of Jesus Christ </b></span></span><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:italic">is</span></b></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>
love, right through. That’s all God is;</b></span> that’s all he knows how to do.
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>He is not <span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)">like</span></b></span><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b> us: unstable, changing, moving from one attitude to
another.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>No, God simply is love.</b></span></span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Why
should you go beyond simply loving those who love you? Because that’s
<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the way God operates: he loves the saints and he also loves <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)">the worst
sinner in hell</span>. </b></span>Now, is that easy to do? Of course not. But <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>that’s what
Jesus call us to: be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.</b></span></span></b></span></b></div></b></b></b></b></b></div></div></td><td valign="top"><br></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table>
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