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In this episode, we explore how Jesus’ counter-cultural teachings urge us to respond to those who offend, wrong, or pers… (visit YouTube for more)
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Jesus was so counter cultural. We aren’t to seek revenge against those who offend us, those who’ve wronged us. Instead, We are to love them. We’re to pray for them.
We’re to pray for those people who are persecuting us, who are saying, you’re foolish, you Christians, you’ve got it all wrong. We’re to pray for those who would physically harm us.
This is astonishing. Who can do this? Who is equal to this?
But this is the way of the Cross, and this is the way of love. Jesus showed us the way. He said, when he’s going to the cross, “Father forgive them because they don’t know what they’re doing.”
That is the example that he sets us, and it is difficult to follow this example, and he knew that. He knew it would be hard for us. But he still asks that of us because it is important. Because it changes our hearts. Because it conforms us more to his likeness.
Of our enemies, we should be saying, in our own hearts and minds, I want that person to come to know Jesus, to be saved. I want that person with me in the Kingdom of God.
