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<div class="SSN_title">21 Brs. of 0.T. 15 references to Sermon on the Mount.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. ONE OF THE PURPOSES OF THE BIBLE IS TO ACT AS A GLASS.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Natural face." The face you were born with.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. You can't help your face - or can you?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. The mirrors were not made of glass.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Highly polished metal - usually brass.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Teachers recommended mirrors as aid to moral culture.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Socrates - carry mirror - if you are handsome, your deeds should become your looks; if plain actions.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. Two ways to discover what we look like.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Photograph (not always true).</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Photograph is like judging by what people say of us.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Mirror.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Mirror is what the Word of God shows us.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. <a onClick="return mV('Jer',17,9);">Jer. 17:9</a> "The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. <a onClick="return mV('1Cr',13,1);">1 Cor. 13</a> "Love suffereth long and is kind."</div>
<div class="SSN_notes">Bible intended not to just show us up but to clean us up. Brazen laver&#151;cleanse priest before further duties. Of what it made? <a onClick="return mV('Exd',38,8);">Ex. 38:8</a>, looking glass of the women. The mirror that revealed the need of cleansing leading to the laver that provided the cleansing.</div>
<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Psa',119,9);">Psalm 119:9</a> Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways, by taking heed thereto according to thy word.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. "HE BEHOLDETH HIMSELF" (A casual glance).</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. He looks and it makes no impression.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Ever looked at your watch? Someone ask what time it is.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. The word should speak to us.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "BUT WHOSO LOOKETH INTO THE PERFECT LAW OF LIBERTY."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. "This man blessed in his deed."</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. What we are is more important than what we do. What we do declares what we are.</div>
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