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  LOVING GOD AND EVERY MAN
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Loving God and others brings peace and blessedness in your
heart and a sense of paradise on earth.

Topics: "Loving God", "Christian Living"
Scripture References: Matthew 7:12, Mark 12:30, Luke 6:31, Colossians 3:12

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DESCRIPTION
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Mary Wilder Tileston, preaching on the teachings of Father John,
emphasizes the importance of treating others with love and kindness as
we would want for ourselves. By following God's commandments and loving
Him wholeheartedly while also showing love and forgiveness to others, we
can experience true peace and blessedness. Tileston encourages living a
life that reflects God's will, focusing on gratitude for His endless
mercies and the practice of treating others with the same respect and
care we desire for ourselves, leading to a sense of paradise on earth
even before reaching heaven.

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CONTENT
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Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do
ye even so to them; for this is the Law and the Prophets.

MATTHEW 7:12

TAKE the trouble to spend only one single day according to God's
commandments, and you will see yourself, you will feel by your own
heart, how good it is to fulfil God's will (and God's will in relation
to us is our life, our eternal blessedness). Love God with all your
heart; value with all your strength His love and His benefits to you,
enumerate His mercies, which are endlessly great and manifold.
Furthermore, love every man as yourself,--that is, do not wish him
anything that you would not wish for yourself; do not let your memory
keep in it any evil caused to you by others, even as you would wish that
the evil done by yourself should be forgotten by others; do unto them as
you would do unto yourself, or even do not do unto them as you would not
do unto yourself; and then you will see what you will obtain in your
heart,--what peace, what blessedness! You will be in paradise before
reaching it,--that is, before the paradise in heaven, you will be in the
paradise on earth.

FATHER JOHN

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/loving-god-and-every-man/
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