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<div class="SSN_title">"WHAT DO YE MORE THAN OTHERS?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Most searching and challenging scriptures. Impossible to just put injunction, "Be ye perfect" into practice.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. FIRST INTIMATION, A CHRISTIAN DOES MORE THAN A PERSON WHO IS NOT A CHRISTIAN.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Systems of religious thought outside of Christianity have led man to moral beauties and excellent character.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. A Christian does what others cannot do.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He goes beyond natural man at his best and highest.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Except your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. DECLARATION - "BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT EVEN AS YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN IS PERFECT."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Beware of exposition that would take these high words of Jesus and try to accommodate them to the low living of experience.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Examine Greek word (perfect).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. To set out for a given point, traveling toward a goal (root idea).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. From this word another derived - to arrive, a result, a termination.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. From this word came the word translated perfect. Word means realization, arrival at goal.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Classical Greek word used for adults over against children.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Ambiguity of the word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Babe in mother's arms, is it perfect?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Youth not in teens, is he perfect?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. A few more years, is he perfect?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. Perfection is reaching a given limit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT ARE SOME OF CHRISTIAN GOALS?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Thinking Christian goes beyond natural man in his thinking.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Natural man may obey law but never go beyond it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">The second mile.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Christian concerned with spirit of law.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Morality - Christian hungers and thirsts for righteousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Sin - what about my heart - attitude inside.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. HOW CAN THIS PERFECTION BE ATTAINED?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "That ye may be children of your Father."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God has become Father to the Christian.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. To others He is God, nothing else.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Word "Father" suggests dynamic as ethic.</div>
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