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Even Our Enemies


We are to love a person who is actively opposed or hostile toward us or our life. An enemy can be a person that harms or weakens you. This does not mean you have to be bedfellows or best friends for life. It does say that we are to serve them and love them as we love ourselves. We are to love them the way God loves them. You must keep doors open on people to do this very act. If you write off everyone who is against you or hurts you, then you will not be able to provide this needed love in their life.



 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 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.  For if you love those who love you, what reward have you? Do not even the tax collectors do the same?  And if you greet your brethren only, what do you do more than others? Do not even the tax collectors do so? Therefore you shall be perfect, just as your Father in heaven is perfect” Matthew 5:43-48 NKJV

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