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374 CHRIST'S TEACHINGS, MIRA ES AND CHURCH
THE fOUNT FROM WHICH JESUS PREACHED THE BEATITUDES
eld, or a sherman pulling his net out of the sea, or a shepherd watching his sheep, or a father and mother taking care of their children, He would make use of the fact to point out some lesson concerning the King­ dom of Heaven. Often, too, the parable was a story which He made up to help them to understand some di cult doctrine.
The In the sermon that He preached from the mountain :nedom side our Savior said, '' Lay not up to yourselves treas­ Heaven ures on earth, where the rust and the moth consume,
and where thieves break through and steal. But lay up to yourselves treasures in Heaven, where neither the rust nor the moth doth consume, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. For where thy treas­ ure is, there is thy heart also. Be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat, and the body more than the raiment 7 Behold the birds