How perfect does Christ tell His followers to be?

Answer

"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." Verse 48.
 


Who awakens the soul to a sense of its sinful condition?
In what other statement did He teach the same truth?
What rendered it possible for God to treat sinners thus?
Can man of himself, unaided by Christ, keep the law?
What unites all believers under the new covenant?
What does the Papacy set forth as the mark, or sign, of its power and authority?
When Elijah was about to take a forty days journey, how was he strengthened for it?

Questions & Answers are from the book Bible Readings for the Home Circle