Sermon on the Mount: Perfect Love and Loving Your Enemies
Explore the teachings from the Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5:43-48, focusing on the concept of perfect love and loving even your enemies. Discover the depth of agape love, the importance of loving beyond worldly limits, and how to embody love in all interactions.
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Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5-7
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 KEY in verse 48: Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect. Not loving those who love us. Not love for relatives Not common affection between dear friends Not emotionally compelled love
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 PERFECT LOVE agapao ( ) Not governed by TIME, SITUATUIONS, FEELINGS, HEALTH, MOOD, RACE, CREED, COLOR OF SKIN, A BLUE MONDAY, or MIDDLE AGE CRISIS! Not Temporary like Fads or Fashions since the Spirit of revelation has used it to express ideas previously unknown, inquiry into its use, whether in Greek literature or in the Septuagint, throws but little light upon its distinctive meaning in the NT. W. E. Vine
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR BUT HATE YOUR ENEMY Leviticus 19:18 love your neighbor as yourself Deuteronomy 23:5,6 You shall not seek their peace nor their prosperity all your days forever. Why Were Relationships With the Heathen Forbidden? To avoid idolatrous practices Keep pure for Messiah Jude 23; 2 Corinthians 6:14-17 Does NOT mean to hate the sinner!
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 LOVE YOUR ENEMIES Matthew 5:44 But I say to you, love your enemies, Why LOVE them? To Imitate God God is Love Acts 2:22-24 being delivered by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, John 2:16 God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son,...
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 WE MUST DETERMINE, CHOOSE AND WILL TO LOVE How can I love my enemies? Romans 5:8; 13:8-10 Luke 10:30-35- He had compassion in his heart for this unfortunate human being! THIS LOVE [AGAPE] IS TO GUIDE EVERY ENCOUNTER HAVE AMONG MEN TO DO GOOD WARNING: If all you have is EROS [sexual love] your marriage is doomed!
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 DON T LIMIT LOVE TO THAT WHICH IS OF THE WORLD The Love that Jesus speaks of is not a love of chemistry and blood relations PERFECT LOVE: Is from God Is when we WILL to love Is to Help Is Pray for Is to Bear With Is to Forgive
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 WE CAN BE SALT AND LIGHT Matthew 5:13 OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS WILL EXCEED OTHERS Matthew 5:20 WE WILL AVOID ADULTERY IN HEART & BODY Matthew 5:27,28 WE WILL PRACTICE HONESTY IN OUR OATHS Matthew 5:33,37 HAVE NO PLACE FOR RETALIATION Matthew 5:38,39
Sermon on the Mount Matthew 5:43-48 WE CANNOT BE PERFECT IN THE SENSE OF HAVING NEVER COMMITTED ANY SIN SINLESS! We can possess True Love that will last Forever, and be PERFECT {i.e. complete} as our Father in Heaven is PERFECT! Matthew 5:48 1 Peter 1:15,16 Be holy, for I am holy.
