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<div class="SSN_title">RULES FOR INTERPRETATION FOR SERMON ON MOUNT</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. DESCRIPTION OF CHARACTER NOT CODE OF ETHICS OR LAW.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Letter and Spirit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. If you find yourself arguing with the message, you are wrong or your interpretation is wrong.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. If our interpretation makes an injunction, looks ridiculous, then interpretation wrong.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. If you regard any injunction as impossible to live by, interpretation wrong.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">5. Beatitudes (the Christian man, his essential features and characteristics).</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">6. Blessed or happy.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">7. World seeking happiness in such a way that can only bring misery.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">8. Anything that by evading the difficulties only makes people happy for the time being, only adds to misery.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">9. Deceitfulness of sin seems to offer happiness, leads to unhappiness.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. DESCRIPTION OF EVERY CHRISTIAN MEANT TO BE.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. Not just some special Christians.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. We are to manifest all of these characteristics.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Not only for all, but all to manifest all.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Not right to say some meek or poor in spirit, etc.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. When perfect in Him, we will all fulfill all.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. In this world we see variations.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Not condoning, just recognizing.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. One follows other, poor in spirit, mourn, etc.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. None of these descriptions refer to ocitural tendencies.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. All dispositions of grace by Holy Spirit emphasize.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Some appear to be naturally poor in spirit, these not described here.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. "I know a person who does not claim to be a Christian."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. These descriptions define difference between Christian and non-Christian.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Different in what we admire.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Poor in spirit.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Self determined master of fate.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Difference in what we seek.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Hunger and thirst after wealth, power, etc.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Different in what we do.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Non-Christian lives for this world.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">E. Christian and Non-Christian belong to two different realms.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Kingdom of heaven."</div>
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