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Note: Jesus words are in red
What Jesus teaches us is nothing new. It only seems new because of the perversion of the religious leaders of his time. Actually almost all of what Jesus teaches comes from Moses and the Old Testament. Even the Lords Prayer, the Our Father, is a collection of Old Testament scriptures. Jesus teaches, with perfection, Old Testament scriptures which bear God's law of love.
The vengeful will suffer the LORD's vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor's injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. Should a man nourish anger against his fellows and expect healing from the LORD? Should a man refuse mercy to his fellows, yet seek pardon for his sins? If he who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins? Remember decay, and cease from sin! Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor; of the Most High's covenant, and overlook faults.Jesus as man studied and taught Old Testament scriptures and Jesus as God inspired Old Testament scriptures.NAB MAT 6:11
"...and forgive us the wrong we have done as we forgive those who wrong us."NAB MAT 6:14
"If you forgive the faults of others, your heavenly Father will forgive you yours. If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive you."
When Jesus says "peace be with you" he is not speaking of peace as in a lack of physical war. He is telling us that where in sin we are at war with God, Jesus now brings peace between us and God.
Now that we have been justified by faith, we are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Through him we have gained access by faith to the grace in which we now stand, and we boast of our hope for the glory of God.
Then it was not enough for them to err in their knowledge of God; but even though they lived in a great war of ignorance, they called such evils peace. for while they celebrate either childslaying sacrifices or clandestine mysteries, or frenzied carousals in unheard of rites, They no longer safeguard either lives or pure wedlock; but each either waylays and kills his neighbor, or aggrieves him by adultery. And all is confusion-- blood and murder, theft and guile, corruption, faithlessness, turmoil, perjury,...
"'Peace is my farewell to you, my Peace is my gift to you; I do not give it to you as the world gives Peace."
"This is how you are to pray: 'Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name,...'"NAB SIR 51:10
I called out: O LORD, you are my father, you are my champion and my savior; Do not abandon me in time of trouble, in the midst of storms and dangers. I will ever praise your name and be constant in my prayers to you.
"'...your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.'"NAB WIS 6:17
For the first step toward discipline is a very earnest desire for her; then, care for discipline is love of her; love means the keeping of her laws; To observe her laws is the basis for incorruptibility; and incorruptibility makes one close to God; thus the desire for Wisdom leads up to a kingdom.
"'Give us today our daily bread,...'"NAB PRO 30:8
(provide me only with the food I need;)
"...and forgive us the wrong we have done as we forgive those who wrong us."
"If you forgive the faults of others, your heavenly Father will forgive you yours. If you do not forgive others, neither will your Father forgive you."NAB SIR 28:1
The vengeful will suffer the LORD's vengeance, for he remembers their sins in detail. Forgive your neighbor's injustice; then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven. Should a man nourish anger against his fellows and expect healing from the LORD? Should a man refuse mercy to his fellows, yet seek pardon for his sins? If he who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins? Remember decay, and cease from sin! Think of the commandments, hate not your neighbor; of the Most High's covenant, and overlook faults.
"'Subject us not to trial but deliver us from the evil one.'"The biblical books of Sirach and Wisdom are saturated with Jesus' finger prints. Jesus in the form of God inspired them and Jesus in the form of man preached from them. Jesus pulled the Lord's Prayer out of the book of Wisdom and Sirach. When you buy a bible, be sure that the books of Sirach and Wisdom are in it.NAB SIR 28:2
You have saved me from death, and kept back my body from the pit, From the clutches of the nether world you have snatched my feet; you have delivered me, in your great mercy, From the scourge of the slanderous tonge, and from lips that went over to falsehood; From the snare of those who watched for my downfall, and from the power of those who sought my life; From many a danger you have saved me, from the flames that hemmed me in on every side; From the midst of unremitting fire, from the deep belly of the nether world; From deceiving lips and painters of lies, from the arrows of dishonest tongues. I was at the point of death, my soul was nearing the depths of the nether world; I turned every way, but there was no one to help me, I looked for one to sustain me, but could find no one. But then I remembered the mercies of the LORD, his kindness through ages past; For he saves those who take refuge in him, and rescues them from every evil. (SIR 23:1-6)
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