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<div class="SSN_title">"THE GOLDEN RULE"</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. "THEREFORE."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. It forces us to immediately consider the context.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Our prayer for grace.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Realizing our shortcomings, "Ask."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. I desire people to understand my failures.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. I want them to be patient with my weakness.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "Judge not lest ye be judged."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. I want people to be merciful toward me.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "WHATSOEVER YE WOULD THAT MEN SHOULD DO TO YOU, DO YE EVEN SO TO THEM."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. This idea had been expressed many times in the negative.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Confucius, "What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Stoics basic maxim. "What you do not wish to be done to you, do not to anyone."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Jesus was the first to put it in a positive form.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. It makes such a great difference.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. You may spend your life not doing any mean things to others.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. So many justify their actions of cheating.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. They forgot: "You have to live some way; you're going to die someday."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. How do you want others to treat you?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. When you have made a mistake?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. When you are discouraged?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. When you are in need?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. What kind of things do you want people to say about you?</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Kind.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Good things.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. I want people to be friendly, loving, understanding.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "FOR THIS IS THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. The law deals with our relationship with God and man.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. God first, man second.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. You cannot have a right relationship with God and a wrong relationship with man.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. The law is set out in 10 commandments.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Eight neg. prohibitions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Two positive demands.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Remember the Sabbath.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Honor thy father and mother.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. Jesus summarizes in one positive phrase.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. This statement by Jesus has been widely acclaimed, "The Golden Rule," "The ideal rule of life."</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. It was not meant to be praised, but practiced.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. He means for you to put it into practice.</div>
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