How to Love Your Enemies and What Does It Mean to Love Your Enemies: Matthew 5 44 Meaning

How to Love Your Enemies and What Does It Mean to Love Your Enemies: Matthew 5 44 Meaning

Welcome to the Church of Fire! Today, we are talking about quite a difficult task that Jesus Christ commanded us to do. Everybody has heard of the loving your enemies scripture. Let's start with that.

Matthew 5:44-45
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is 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."

So, these love your enemies Bible verses are very straightforward. But how can you start approaching this uneasy task? Where do you start?

Well, I think it is important to understand here first who the enemy in this specific Bible verse. You see, in this specific love your enemies verse, the enemy is not the evil or the devil, because we always have to resist and rebuke the evil and the devil. But if it is not the evil or the devil then who is this enemy that Jesus is talking about? I believe that in order to understand the true love your enemies meaning, you need to understand who the enemy is and that is what will try to accomplish in this love your enemies sermon.

The the definition of the "enemy" can be found in Matthew 10 34 - 36:
"Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."

Now it is starting to make sense, doesn't it? The question how to love your enemies now becomes how not to love your enemies when you know that these are your own brothers and sisters.

Thank you for watching!