Little realities in the Sermon that bring it to life (week of Jan. 13, third to listen to)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In this shortcast Kerry talks about the meaning of "being perfect" in Aramaic, and also about Jesus speaking with authority. He also shares part of his son's podcast where they talk about the reality of the city set on a hill, salt losing its savor, and plucking your eye from you.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the scriptures are real. |
| 0:11.6 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that have become real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power out of the scriptures. |
| 0:18.5 | And we need that power in our lives today. |
| 0:40.5 | I'm your host, Kerry Mielstein, and this is what I call a shortcast, a short version, and this will be a different kind of a short cast, a little bit different than what we usually do. I have had a couple things from the Sermon on the Mount that I just thought I just want to point out. You've already listened to some episodes that have quite a bit to say about the Sleman on the Mount, especially in Matthew chapter 5. That's the reading for this week. |
| 0:44.1 | And then a couple of little things I wanted to point out that I thought would just add a little realism to it. And then I realized as I listened to my son's podcast, you've heard me talk about |
| 0:49.3 | that before Youth Follow Him, where they do just five to eight minute episodes that he actually talked about |
| 0:56.9 | with his guest, a wonderful young woman in our ward. He talked about the things, or several of the |
| 1:03.6 | things that I wanted to talk about, and he did a fantastic job. So I'm actually, rather than redoing |
| 1:07.6 | that, just going to stick that on the end of the couple of things that I'm |
| 1:10.8 | going to have to say now. I'm going to start with the end of Matthew chapter 5, where Christ says, |
| 1:16.0 | be therefore perfect. And you hear people discuss this and they'll talk about the Greek of that. |
| 1:21.4 | The word for perfect is telios, which means kind of like in the future and, you know, |
| 1:26.0 | like telescope and things like that come from it. It's a way it like in the future and, you know, like telescope and things like that come from it. |
| 1:29.6 | It's a way it's in the future. And they'll talk about this sense of this is something that you |
| 1:34.4 | achieve eventually. And I love, you know, Elder Holland's talk, be therefore perfect eventually, |
| 1:40.4 | or President Nelson's phrase, perfection pending. I absolutely agree with that. |
| 1:44.8 | But I think it's worth keeping in mind, well, I think Helios kind of captures what's going on. |
| 1:49.3 | The Savior was not speaking in Greek to his audience. |
| 1:51.6 | He was almost certainly speaking in Aramaic. |
| 1:54.3 | And he would have used a word that's very similar to the Hebrew word Tom or Tam, |
| 1:58.3 | this idea. |
| 2:00.6 | And if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, |
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