A TREATMENT OF Matthew 5:43-48

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ [44] But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, [45] that you may BE [emphasis mine] children of your Father in heaven. [You already are, but need to realize it.] He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous. [God loves everyone equally.] [46] If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? [Not looking for remuneration, but attitude adjustment.] Are not even the tax collectors doing that? [Lol] [47] And if you greet only your own people, what are you doing more than others? Do not even pagans do that? [48] Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.”

REPEAT: ‘BE PERFECT … AS YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER IS PERFECT.’
There’s no room for ambiguity here!

The BOTTOM LINE: If you want to fulfill God’s dictum to be perfect, you’ll need to appeal to the spiritual dimension where nothing exists but divine perfection, Bringing it Home…, to the truth of who we all are! <3

THE GREATEST VALUE TO BE OBTAINED FROM READING THE BIBLE IS FOUND AFTER YOU SET IT DOWN. [caps mine RJS] The book is a collection of writings that act as a pointer. It is not pointing to itself, but to the truth of the life that you are. To realize the truth, the Christ of your being, you have to drop all external aids, abandon even your belief in a personal self, that the Divine may been realized as your true Life. Otherwise, you will remain a captive of the natural mind, which has no capacity to know the things of the Spirit.
~Frank Johnson

WHEN NOW YOU SEE liberty and unconditional love in the very same verses you once saw law and bondage, what changed, you or the Scripture?
~Don Keathley

OVERCOMING T-I-M-E :
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven- [2] A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. [3] A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up. [4] A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance. [5] A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. [6] A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. [7] A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak. [8] A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace. [9] What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? [10] I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.
Ecclesiastes 3:1-10 NASB

But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law.
Galatians 4:4 kjv
But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under the Law.
Galatians 4:4 NASB

NO PAST, NO FUTURE: N-O-W IS ALL THERE IS :
With a view to an administration suitable to the fullness of the times, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things on the earth.
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Sharon DuVall: Robin, as I was reading the scriptures you posted about time I also noticed the pair of opposites…time for this and that…we can see what tree that is coming from…Tree of Life is timeless, ageless, ONEness, ISness, ASness, NOWness…whoohoo!

[… Y]ou are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he does not belong to Him. [10] If Christ is in you, though the body is dead because of sin, yet the spirit is alive because of righteousness. [11] But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Romans 8:9-11 NASB
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You’re not in the fleshly mind but in the Spirit if the Spirit of God dwells in you, i.e., if you’ve taken the time and the effort to become Spiritually conscious.

DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY DOUBT THAT JESUS WAS/IS CONSCIOUSLY AWARE OF DIMENSION(S) BEYOND “THIS WORLD”?

Matthew 12:32 KJV
And whosoever speaketh a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost, it shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the world to come.

Matthew 13:22 KJV
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

Matthew 13:22 KJV
He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.

Matthew 13:40 KJV
As therefore the tares are gathered and burned in the fire; so shall it be in the end of this world.

Mark 4:19 KJV
And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

Luke 16:8 KJV
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Luke 18:30 KJV
Who shall not receive manifold more in this present time, and in the world to come life everlasting.

Luke 20:34 KJV
And Jesus answering said unto them, The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage:

Luke 20:35 KJV
But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

John 8:23 KJV
And he said unto them, Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.

John 9:39 KJV
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

John 11:9 KJV
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

John 12:25 KJV
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

John 12:31 KJV
Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out.

John 13:1 KJV
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

John 14:30 KJV
Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me.

John 16:11 KJV
Of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged.

John 17:14 KJV
I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.

John 17:18 KJV
As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.

John 18:36 KJV
Jesus answered, My kingdom is not of this world: if my kingdom were of this world, then would my servants fight, that I should not be delivered to the Jews: but now is my kingdom not from hence.

Romans 12:2 KJV
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Romans 16:25 KJV
Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

We, of course, have plenty of wisdom to pass on to you once you get your feet on firm spiritual ground, but it’s not popular wisdom, the fashionable wisdom of high-priced experts that will be out-of-date in a year or so. God’s wisdom is something mysterious that goes deep into the interior of his purposes. You don’t find it lying around on the surface. It’s not the latest message, but more like the oldest—what God determined as the way to bring out his best in us, long before we ever arrived on the scene. The experts of our day haven’t a clue about what this eternal plan is. If they had, they wouldn’t have killed the Master of the God-designed life on a cross. That’s why we have this Scripture text: No one’s ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much as imagined anything quite like it— What God has arranged for those who love him. But you’ve seen and heard it because God by his Spirit has brought it all out into the open before you.
1 Corinthians 2:6 MSG

Christ is the fullness of God and we, in Christ, are made full. All things exist and hold together by Him. Christ is the center and circumference of all things. He connects heaven to earth and brings heavens realities to earth by His Spirit for our enjoyment.
~Michael Puskas

Some people spiritualize the Bible
Way, way, way too much.
Should I be asking to have my
Cloak and parchment brought to me
In order to be “up there” like Paul?

Other people materialize the Bible
Way, way, way too much.
Is there nothing sacrosanct
To be found among its pages?
And why will I be thought a
“Hairy tick” if I glean some precious
Inspiration that points me to God?

Is there no great I AM within me
That in full glory of Oneness
Is none other than the Holy Spirit
Telling me so?

We can, should and must destroy
All blameworthy malevolent images
Basking ‘tween our ears
And hear the ONE who is LOVE,
Who is GOD.