"But behold I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you;
Therefore I would that ye should be perfect even as I, or your Father who is in heaven is perfect."
One of the first sermons that Jesus gives to the people in the Americas is a discourse similar to the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes found in the Bible. He is the embodiment of them all. I love what Harold B. Lee said of it.
"Christ came not only into the world to make an atonement for the sins of mankind but to set an example before the world of the standard of perfection of God's law and of obedience to the Father. In his Sermon on the Mount the Master has given us somewhat of a revelation of his own character, which was perfect, or what might be said to be 'an autobiography, every syllable of which he had written down in deeds,' and in so doing has given us a blueprint for our own lives."
(President Harold B. Lee, "Decisions for Successful Living" [1973], 55-67)
Day 1949
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