The Ethics of Jesus: Reflections about the universal principles taught by Jesus for the contemporary world

By Group of Ethics Studies

Reflections on the universal principles taught by Jesus for the contemporary world.

The focus of the ethics of Jesus is the transformation of human beings to conquer the transcendental values of the spirit, through the unforgettable lessons of the carpenter of Nazareth. A cutting-edge view of the teachings of Jesus is proposed. The unique character of the Master shows us the best way, revealing how current is the ethical presented almost 2000 years ago.

The 90 subjects arranged in 10 chapters are the fruit of the reflections proposed by GEET (Group of ethical studies). Punctuated with elucidations of anonymous benefactors and very practical way bring the Gospel in the light of spiritism for a modern world. Every page, an unforgettable lesson, a new point of view, always in order to make us reflect, understand and grasp the essence of the teachings that Jesus came to bring to the universe.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ethos Editora
• Release date: Jul 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9788568476017

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The Ethics of Jesus Christ / Group of Ethics Studies 1. ed. Divinópolis : Ethos Editora. 2014.

ISBNe: 978-85-68476-01-7

1. Parapsychology. 2 Spiritism. 3. Jesus Christ. 4. Ethics.

CDD 133.9

Divinópolis - 2014

Table of Contents

Presentation

Introduction - Historical facts

Part I - Emanuel , God with us

1 - The Genealogy of Jesus

2 - The Pilgrimage of the Magi

3 - The Flight to Egypt and The Return to Nazareth

4 - John the Baptist

5 - It is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness.

6 - Man shall not live on bread alone

7 - Fishers of men

Part II - Blessed

8 - Humility

9 - Those who mourn, shall be comforted

10 - The gentle shall inherit the earth

11 - Hunger and thirst for righteousness

12 - Merciful

13 - Pure in heart

14 - The Peacemakers

15 - Persecuted for the sake of righteousness

16 - Persecuted because of Me

17 - The salt of the earth

18 - The light of the world

Part III - Evolution

19 - Jesus did not come to abolish the law, but to fulfill

20 - Do not get angry with your brother

21 - First be reconciled to your brother

22 - Adultery

23 - Tear it out and throw it from you

24 - Divorce

25 - Swearing

26 - Turn the other cheek

27 - Love your enemies

28 - The sun rises to everyone

29 - Divine Perfection

Part IV - Faith , Humility and Forgiveness

30 - Act without ostentation

31 - When you pray, you are not to be like the hypocrites

32 - Our Father who art in Heaven

33 - Thy kingdom come

34 - Our daily bread

35 - Forgive us our debts

36 - For Yours is the kingdom and the power and the glory

37 - Whenever you fast, do not put on a gloomy face as the hypocrites do

Part V - The Treasure of the Spirit

38 - For where your treasure is

39 - Have light, be the light

40 - No one can serve two masters

41 - The lilies of the field

42 - Do not worry about tomorrow

Part VI - The Justice

43 - Do not judge so that you will not be judged

44 - Pearls before swine

45 - Ask and you shall receive

46 - It is in giving that we receive

47 - Enter through the narrow gate

48 - False prophets

Part VII - Action and Reaction

49 - You will know them by their fruits

50 - He who does the will of My Father

51 - The wise man

52 - You can make me clean

53 - I am not worthy for You to come under my roof

54 - Jesus touched her hand, and the fever left her

Part VIII - The Cure

55 - Allow the dead to bury their own dead

56 - Why are you afraid, you men of little faith?

57 - Have you come here to torment us before the time?

58 - Get up, and walk

59 - Follow me. And he got up, and followed Him

60 - But no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment

61 - Daughter, take courage; your faith has made you well

62 - And their eyes were opened

63 - After the demon was cast out, the mute man spoke

64 - Healing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness

Part IX - Go Around the World

65 - And as you go, preach, freely you received, freely give

66 - If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace

67 - Shrewd, but innocent

68 - But it is the one who has endured to the end who will be saved

69 - It is enough for the disciple that he become like his teacher

70 - Therefore, do not fear them

71 - But the very hairs of your head are all numbered

72 - I will also confess him before My Father

73 - I did not come to bring peace, but a sword

74 - He who has lost his life for My sake will find it

75 - A righteous man's reward

Part X - The Tree and the Fruit

76 - He who does not take offense at Me

77 - Is Elijah who was to come

78 - Yet wisdom is vindicated by her deeds

79 - It will be more tolerable, in the day of judgment, than for you

80 - Have revealed them to infants

81 - For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light

82 - What is not lawful to do on a Sabbath

83 - Stretch out your hand! He stretched it out

84 - And warned them not to tell who He was

85 - He who is not with Me is against Me

86 - But whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit

87 - For the tree is known by its fruit

88 - We want to see a sign from You

89 - The last state of that man

90 - Who are My brothers?

Presentation

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After two millennia of the beginning of the Christian Era, we are still studying and seeking the understanding of Jesus' postulates, because we continue to try to experience them according to their proposals.

In this understanding, a unique and individualized way, everyone is on their level and own pace on the path of its evolution.

This book respect, within the law of diversity, the time of each one. Your objective is to present reflections, for each person, according its knowledge and understanding, make its own spiritual evolution path.

The earthly experience along with the experience in the spiritual reality is to immortal life. One correlates directly with the other, and because of this interrelationship, the evolution is complete.

The teachings of Jesus, enlightened by the Doctrine of the Spirits, shows the balance between the two realities of immortal life.

But the various interpretations of the teachings of Jesus arose several religions. Since its beginning, they promoted the separation between people, just the opposite of what Jesus taught and exemplified with his life full of love and charity.

Through time, arose and arise various controversies regarding the Master Jesus.

There is debate whether he really existed, if he did the miracles attributed to him, if he really died on the cross, or only pretended to die; if he have had intimate relations with Mary Magdalene or if he created the dogmas of the Church, or ...,and so on.

 None of this is relevant to us, for our study with this book.

We are interested in diving in the texts of the canonical gospels that have influenced millions of people, turning them and also the world, targeting both for the purpose for which they were created.

This book provides the reader with the study and an ethical reflection of the wisdom of Jesus, preserved in the text of the Gospel attributed to Matthew.

The verses were studied by members of the GEET - Grupo de Estudo de Ética (Group of Ethics Study), watching a thematic and chronological sequence of the original text, commenting on each study the ethical announced.

This work, very diversified, is the fruit of collective work and represents the sum of consciential experiences of the components of GEET and guiding spirits.

Each chapter of this book consists of three parts, and is the result of a meeting held by the studies of the Group, weekly.

The first part is the study of the Gospel narrative of Matthew's text, the way it came to us.

The second, refers to the summary of comments and reflections made at the meeting, seeking ethical essence of that passage studied.

The third is the message of one or more spirits, which in psychophony is identified only as a spiritual friend.

For us, GEET components, this message received after the study is the special seasoning that makes this unique and peculiar work, by acting sweet, simple and at the same time wise and transcendental, fermenting the reflections, showing the interaction between the two realities of immortal life.

There is a question in ourselves, about what led our group to interrupt an ongoing project (Ethics of the Spirit) and start another even larger - to study the ethics of Jesus.

The only answer we found is that we were inspired by our spiritual directors, without immediately realizing the size of the business that we started.

Jesus is one of the most talked about characters in human history. Your thoughts, parables and examples captivated and inspire millions of people. The light, the essence of his teachings crossed the darkness of centuries, coming alive and stunning to this days and will continue illuminating the centuries to come.

We started studying the first Gospel attributed to Matthew. Wonderful reflections, simple discoveries and at the same time, extraordinary. Jesus reborn before our perception and seems to teach us as he did when he walked the land of Galilee. Odd beauty, special fragrance seemed to spring the studied text and after each study, affectionate spiritual friend complete the reflections with a privileged view of someone who is not chained to the limits imposed by the dense matter.

After two and a half years of studies we had covered only 12 chapters, and we were willing to share with all, diamonds discovered, hidden in its own language of the time, but always valuable, because they are timeless and universal, essential for humans in the process of evolution and consequently to the extent of their essence.

We share these experiences, launching this first volume, that the reader has at hand, so you can already enjoy the bread of life that Jesus, appointed the Master of Mastres, offers us, today and forever.

We hope that this book will show the Master's teachings, in essence, the core of contextualized lessons, that he wants to convey to men: the renovators and current values of the kingdom of heaven, which is within us. In short, to touch the dear reader, the same way that touched us to reflect on the process of our spiritual evolution. Our desire is that this work achieves its goals and that Jesus bless our intention.

GEET

Spiritual Presentation 

In this month, the terrestrial convencionalism celebrates the birth of the one which was the most sparked light in the most dense land, we remember His message, His examples and His warnings to our souls.

In this Christmas month in which his memory shines intensely in our hearts, filling with light and hope of a better land, men socializing as brothers, loving each other as He asked and as exemplified, that iswhen we feel grateful to participate in his army. The army of spirits engaged on it's own transformation, the battles that occur in intimate itself on the arduous task of building a good man.

The importance of this book is to remember and compromise the Master's lessons that are like a balm for the wounds of our souls, are like food for our hungry spirit, are as light to illuminate our path, in the confusion of our ideologies.

The Doctrine of Jesus is the binocular that makes us see farther the destination to which one day we will arrive.

It is the handrail we hold to cross the narrow bridge of earthly life, in which the carelessness of the detour to the right or to the left will cause a drop in the cliff of the errors and mistakes.

The master's doctrine is also the standard that deeply marks our hearts, showing the intention of our spirits, differentiating ourselves from those who have not yet learned or do not want love to be the sense of all things.

If I could decide what would be my speech at the beginning of this work that begins to materialize, I would ask the organizers gentlemen, draw up a prayer to God, the Creator of all things, seeking in the first paragraph of all messages that we developed , during these two and a half years, those that adequated the most, to create in the dear reader, that, you have in your hands this work, the feelings that Jesus sought to inspire in all of us, hope, faith and love.

Thank you very much, Grupo de Estudo de Ética (Group of Ethics Study), extensive to those who participated directly or indirectly, that are present or absent, but somehow allowed the production of this and other works.

Thank you!

Prayer

May the peace that the Master brought to the world don't be just a pretty word, but can fundamentally be the guiding principle of our thoughts, feelings, words and actions.

May Jesus truly be the spice of our lives. With him, it will be much more tasty and our joy of life more intense, because we will get closer to the meaning of why we are all here.

That the assertiveness of the Master Jesus, can inspire us at all times, especially in those more serious, so we can be fair and firm, saying yes or no according to the occasion.

May the peace of the Master Jesus can leverage all the virtues and talents that are buried within our intimate and, when leveraged, can grow, flourish and bear fruit with healthy and comforting effects in the action of good.

Peace of the Master can always be with us, not only softening our very existence, but also softening the existence of those who share the time with us, because peace between us is also the peace of living of all those with whom we share reincarnation.

May the peace of the Master, the souls guiding in the world, can be the light that illuminates and clarifies to better see our own needs and the myriad needs of the world.

May the peace of the Master can be refreshing and sanitizing as rain, clearing our hearts from the resentment and hurt that are damaging and dirtying the fibers of our souls.

May the peace exemplified by the Master Jesus can calm the ferocity of our inner demons, allowing us the true liberation.

May the peace of the Master Jesus can make us isolate ourselves from all the noise and external shows and we turn to the essence of our being, so we can understand what we are, where we came from and where we go.

That the gospel proposal of the Master of the Masters can sensitize us enough to move us toward the greater good and the necessary and essential transformation that each of us must perform in the privacy of one's being.

May the peace of the Master Jesus can calm us down, filling us with knowledge and with the resulting responsibility so we can know how to act and react.

May the Master's energies can heal us of the various losses, which for several years has dispelled our spirits, our efforts to evolution itself.

Let us, each of us, on this time, to serve. And to serve represent working for the own growth. Serving means love in action. Serving means to feel, live and spread the peace that Jesus left for us.

And so it is.

Introduction

Historical facts

Book Retrieved Gospel according to spiritism Allan Kardec

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In order to better understand the Gospel, it is necessary to know the true meaning of many of the words used which bear relation to the customs and the Jewish society of the time. Some of these words no longer have the same meaning and have frequently been misinterpreted, which in tom has led to uncertainty. When the full meanings are explained, it shows the real sense behind certain maxims which, at first sight, appear rather strange.

SAMARITANS - After the division of the ten tribes, Samaria became the capital of the dissident kingdom of Israel. Destroyed and rebuilt various times, under Roman rule it became the administrative head of Samaria, one of the four divisions of Palestine. Herod the Great beautified Samaria with sumptuous monuments and to gratify Augusto, gave it the name of Augusta, in Greek Sébaste. The Samaritans were almost constantly at war with the kings of Judah. Profound aversion, dating from the time of the separation, perpetuated between the two tribes causing them to avoid any kind of reciprocal relations. In order to widen the schism, and to avoid going to Jerusalem for religious festivities, they built themselves a private temple and adopted some reforms. They only admitted the Pentateuch, which contained the laws of Moses, rejecting all other books to which these were annexed, and their sacred books were all written in ancient Hebrew characters. According to orthodox Jews,