Just to mention two examples: In grappling with the way Jesus and Matthew and Luke and Paul and Peter motivated the command to love our enemies, I ran into the simple question: Why do new creatures in Christ need commandments at all? But I say to you, love your enemies, bless those who curse you, do good to those who hate you, and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. Matthew 5:44. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES Bible Background - LUKE 6:27-36 Printed Text - LUKE 6:27-36 27 "But to you who are willing to listen, I say, love your enemies! Do good to those who hate you.
28 Bless those who curse you. Pray for those who hurt you. LOVE YOUR ENEMIES Luke 6:27-36 Love Your Enemies Main Idea: You are free to love your enemy because when you were His enemy, Jesus loved you.
Whatdoes it mean to love your enemy? Howdo you love your enemy? Whydo you love your enemy? Probably no admonition of Jesus has been more difficult to follow than the command to "love your enemies." Some men have sincerely felt that its actual practice is not possible. It is easy, they say, to love those who love you, but how can one love those who openly and insidiously seek to defeat you? Others, like the philosopher Nietzsche, contend that Jesus' exhortation to love one's. 44 But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; 45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Jesus' command to "love your enemies" is recognized as an authentic saying of Jesus, one that calls disciples in every age to imitate both God's merciful love for enemies (Luke 6:36) and God's own perfection (Matt 5:48). larity3 to establish the saying's authenticity, though, while followed by some,4 has been rightly questioned. SERMON - Love Your Enemies - Luke 6:31-36, Sunday, September 30, 2018 One of the most radical things that Jesus said that caused the Jews to hate Him was when He said that we should love our enemies.
There was no room for love in their concept of who and what the Messiah should be. They expected a warrior King who would deliver them and free Israel from Roman captivity. Love our enemies? They.
This document contains a sermon from 1957 by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. about loving your enemies.
In the sermon, Dr. King discusses three ways to love your enemies: 1) Develop the capacity to forgive those who wrong you, 2) Recognize that every person, even enemies, have both good and evil within them, and 3) Seek to win an enemy's friendship rather than defeat them. Dr.
King explains that. Love for Enemies - "You have heard that it was said, 'Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.' But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven. He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
If you love those who love you, what reward will you get? Are not.