Sentences with phrase «on love of enemies»

In 3:10 - 14, Luke adds some of John's ethical teaching, but it seems perfunctory and not particularly demanding, especially when compared to Jesus» teaching on wealth and on love of enemies.

Not exact matches

i.e. Love, Forgive those you may be close to or even enemies (of which I'm still working on) forgive yourself.

I admired his refusal to accept defeat on matters that matter, his love of friends and enemies, his passion for the written word, and above all his faith and hope in God.

(Mathew 5:45) you have heard that it was said an eye for an eye, But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, 45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

It inconsistent with the teachings of Christianity to make snide remarks, as Christianity teaches its followers to be patient, kind, long - suffering, love your enemies, pray for those who despitefully use you, turn the other cheek, and so on.

and the Gospel precept, «Love your enemies `, (Matthew v. 44) is the measure of the way we have to travel, following the movement of the biblical history, (We may note one particular milestone on the way.

They call me the King of Darkness, when I offer you no pain Why would they label me heartless, when your love is my cocaine And your soul is my Rogaine, I have a thirst to know your brain When you enter my domain got ta take this number for your name But you don't have to drink cyanide, I'm gonna be right by ya side If we got ta take that riot ride, on the enemy and defy your side Fight for the place we're building, for the reproduction of more children Trying to get that number back around 6 billion, I'm gonna rule until then Founded this colony like a pilgrim, anybody try to penetrate this section or threaten we KILL THEM

It comes in a barrage of equally hard sayings toward the end of the Sermon on the Mount, where Jesus tells his followers to turn the other cheek, give away your coat if someone sues you for your shirt, and «love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven» (Matthew 5:44 - 45).

As Christians, our most «deeply held religious belief» is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for sinful people, and that in imitation of that, we are called to love God, to love our neighbors, and to love even our enemies to the point of death.

Does this mesh with the Redemptive Power of Jesus Christ on the Cross and God's Nature and Teaching of «Love your Enemies, Bless those who curse you» etc etc?

So Christians, let us follow our atheist friends in denying the existence of this false god of power, money, bloodshed, and violence, and instead call people to believe in the enemy - loving, all - forgiving God who is found in Jesus Christ dying on the cross.

A loving father and faithful husband, patron of the arts and friend of the poor, Cromwell not only defends the indefensible, and even legitimates it, by drafting new laws, he also, in his sweet time, takes definitive revenge on his enemies: those who stood in judgment on his patrons, Cardinal Wolsey and the king, and those who underestimated himself, the lowborn blacksmith's son.

I am not ashamed that when God strapped on sandals and walked among us, God fed the hungry, wept with the mourning, touched the untouchable, turned water into wine, cracked jokes about religion, obeyed his mom, defended the defenseless, bantered with children, forgave his enemies, and reminded us that the whole point of it all is to love God and love our neighbors well.

Just remember, like I've told many of my naysayers on this blog,» Jesus calls me to love my enemies and be His disciple.

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; 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.»

Yet the conservative view based on Christianity always was one of love your enemy leave vengeance to God but these conservatives are not who they once were.

Rape gets one time gratification but very angry enemies, love and romance get ongoing gratification on far more levels, with only the challenges of the relationship as negative.

On another note Jesus affirmed the seriousness of rebellion against God, affirmed a coming judgment, and yet taught his followers that they are to love their enemies and leave room for the wrath of God.

he did speak of «turning the other cheek, loving your enemies, he did admonish his disciple peter for using a sword on him, he did allow himself to be killed, he did chose to forigve»... i'm just now seeing anywhere in the NT where followers of christ are called to kill??? please show me... please show me in the the ten commandments where it instructs on killing... oh, it does say not to murder

When Christians go to war against their enemies in the name of Jesus Christ, we are not worshipping the God who told us to love our enemies, but are worshipping the demonic being who loves nothing more than to get us to do his bidding while blaming it on God.

That being said if you only «love» your enemies to heap coals of fire on their heads you are not loving your enemies and are indeed heaping coals upon your own head.

In the rest of the paragraph in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus gives a reason for loving enemies and persecutors (Mt 5:45 - 46): «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.

They're the ones on Facebook who are constantly writing updates on Facebook about the negative tone of politics but ignoring any real issues — even when those issues center around the Christian's call to care for the poor, love their enemies and care for strangers.

Your neighbor is anyone who has a claim on you; he is everyone, and there are no enemies for the disciple (except, perhaps, in the unimportant sense of those who are hostile to you - but even this is no excuse for the disciple to refuse to serve them, for who needs love more than the loveless and hostile?).

I personally do nt think Jesus would have considered anyone an enemy, and I think your new age friends are precisely on the money, they ARE just like you, cept maybe you have been better educated in the ways of «getting along with others», so sure, you wont like or love an adult acting in a juvenile manner and hurting someone you care about, but you should understand that had you grown up with their situation, with their friends or family, that you'd be making the same hurtful decisions as them.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be children of your Father in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and on the unrighteous.

And if you take Jesus words in the sermon of the mount about giving the other cheek and going the extra mile, loving your enemies and so on, he is defining what upholding the words of the law meant for him.

Even when our enemies are so corrupt and evil that there is no discernible sign of good in any of them, we can at least recognize that they are fellow human beings and children of God — however much they have violated His commands — and love and pray for them on that basis alone.

In this second half of Romans 13 we see Paul, a radical Jew, excited about the dawning of the day of liberation, and calling on his readers to live as those who have already tasted of that freedom — and to do so in how they love not only each other, but strangers and enemies.

Rather than try again to search for a way of reading it that would not subvert Jesus» call to love the enemy, or Paul's to pursue the stranger with love, I decided to preach on the second half of the chapter.

What if we recalled over and over again that at our baptism we «put on the Lord Jesus Christ,» and with that his way of pursuing threats and enemies with love and the offer of reconciliation?

The problem is that means loving one's enemy, which is not an easy attitude for any of us to sustain, especially when we are on the receiving end of violence and / or injustice.

Usually it is all the afflictions and difficulties of the finite which like evil spirits separate the lovers, but love has heaven on its side, and therefore this holy alliance overcomes all enemies.

Because if grace is water, then the church should be an ocean It's not a museum for good people, it's a hospital for the broken Which means I don't have to hide my failure, I don't have to hide my sin Because it doesn't depend on me it depends on him See because when I was God's enemy and certainly not a fan He looked down and said I want, that, man Which is why Jesus hated religion, and for it he called them fools Don't you see so much better than just following some rules Now let me clarify, I love the church, I love the Bible, and yes I believe in sin But if Jesus came to your church would they actually let him in See remember he was called a glutton, and a drunkard by religious men But the Son of God never supports self righteousness not now, not then

Love, in terms that are relevant to international politics, means caring for the welfare and the dignity of all — those at a great distance, those on the other side of every boundary, those whose interests may conflict with our national interests, those who are enemies or opponents.

This example reveals how one can love an enemy without ignoring that he is an enemy, how the demands of responsibility can put a limit on how merciful an action can be without limiting the mercy in one's heart.

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.

When Christ utters the precepts: «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,» he gives for a reason: «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.»

Cross Vision, teaches believers how to interpret the Old Testament's violent portraits of God through the lens of the cross and to thereby see how these portraits bear witness to the self - sacrificial, non-violent, enemy - embracing love of God revealed on Calvary.

Love for neighbor and enemy depends not on an emotional and sentimental feeling of pity or admiration, which finds in the most profligate individual the spark of the divine, of noble, inextinguishable humanity; rather it depends on the command of God.

They were the flaming patriots of his day, proclaiming revolt against Rome, in the face of whose incitement to violence Jesus counseled non-resistance, love of enemies, prayer for persecutors — reliance, that is, on moral forces.

It seems to witness to the teaching of Jesus on the level of personal relations — Love your enemy, turn the other cheek.

According to Claiborne and Haw, «to claim that one's citizenship in heaven is to say that you pledge allegiance not to any of the kingdom of the world but to Jesus and the body of those who take on his suffering, enemy - loving posture toward the world.

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Second, Jesus rejects for his followers relationships that are based on the double standard of love for the neighbor and hatred for the enemy.

The rest support unnecessary mass - murder and torture for profit based on lies as in the War of Choice in Iraq in direct contradiction to the spirit and literal teachings of Jesus (turn the other cheek, blessed are the peacemakers, love your enemies, repay evil with good, he who lives by the sword will die by the sword, forgive seventy times seven, thou shalt not kill, etc.).

These Jewish sayings ring like an echo of the words of Jesus in the Sermon on the Mount, «Love your enemies» (Matt.

Liberation theologians who want to appreciate the truly radical ways of Jesus might ponder these words of Hans Küng, who writes in On Being a Christian that Jesus» revolutionary method means «love of enemies instead of their destruction; unconditional forgiveness instead of retaliation; readiness to suffer instead of using force; blessing for peacemakers instead of hymns of hate and revenge» (p. 191)

When loving - kindness practice matures it naturally overflows into compassion, as one empathises with other people's difficulties; on the other hand one needs to be wary of pity, as its near enemy, as it merely mimics the quality of concern without empathy.

Correction: I have The Holy Spirit living inside of me so I do have the supernatural power of God and I am expecting supernatural results; I want to be a good and faithful servant to The Lord that is why I began searching on how to love my enemies and thus came across your excellent article.