Love Our Enemies

Follow Along with the Message

Love is a choice, which is why we don’t have to feel love in order to give it.

Martin Luther King Jr. said that “love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.”

1.  Love is Resisting .  

The NIV commentary says, “The love Jesus commands is not an abstract love tucked away in the person’s inner recesses, but a love that demonstrates itself in concrete action.”

Steven J. Cole wrote in his book Radical Love, “The attitude of love thinks about the other person as a fellow sinner who needs to know the forgiveness of sins that is in Jesus. We were once just as this sinner is now—selfish, blinded by sin, and alienated from God.”

2. Radical Love is the  and the .  

We can respect others as God’s creation and treat them how we would like to be treated even when they have treated us poorly.

Psalm 112:4-5, “Light shines in the darkness for the upright. He is gracious, compassionate, and righteous. Good will come to the one who lends generously.”