Divorce and the Law

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Sermon on the Mount

• Matthew 543-48

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Loving Our Enemies

• The Law says
• Love your neighbor as yourself
  Leviticus 1918
• You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any
  grudge against the children of your people, but
  you shall love your neighbor as yourself I am
  the LORD.

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Loving Our Enemies

• The Law says
• Love your neighbor as yourself
  Leviticus 1918
• Show kindness to enemies Ex 234-5
• If you meet your enemy's ox or his donkey going
  astray, you shall surely bring it back to him
  again. "If you see the donkey of one who hates
  you lying under its burden, and you would refrain
  from helping it, you shall surely help him with
  it.

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Loving Our Enemies

• The Law says
• Love your neighbor as yourself
  Leviticus 1918
• Show kindness to enemies Prov 2417
• Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not
  let your heart be glad when he stumbles

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Loving Our Enemies

• The Law says
• Love your neighbor as yourself
  Leviticus 1918
• Show kindness to enemies Prov 2521-22
• If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat
  And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink
  For so you will heap coals of fire on his head,
  And the LORD will reward you.

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Loving Our Enemies

• The Law says
• Love your neighbor as yourself
  Leviticus 1918
• Show kindness to enemies
  Exodus 234-5 Proverbs 2417 2521-22
• The traditional interpretation
• Love only your neighbor
• Hate your enemies

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How We Treat Enemies

• Love them through actions
• Bless them through your speech
• Do good unto them even when persecuted
• Pray for them to respond to Gods word
• In doing so, you impact their lives
• And you continue to grow in Christ

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Why?

• That you may be sons of your Father in Heaven
• We show our citizenship by our actions
• We show impartial love because God does Luke
  635-36 Romans 58, 10 1 John 22

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Luke 635-36

• But love your enemies, do good, and lend, hoping
  for nothing in return and your reward will be
  great, and you will be sons of the Most High. For
  He is kind to the unthankful and evil. Therefore
  be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.

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Romans 58, 10

• But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in
  that while we were still sinners, Christ died for
  us.
• For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to
  God through the death of His Son, much more,
  having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His
  life.

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1 John 22

• And He Himself is the propitiation for our sins,
  and not for ours only but also for the whole
  world.

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Why?

• That you may be sons of your Father in Heaven
• We show our citizenship by our actions
• We show impartial love because God does Luke
  635-36 Romans 58, 10 1 John 22
• As disciples, we are to emulate Gods love 1
  John 410-11 Ephesians 431-52

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1 John 410-11

• In this is love, not that we loved God, but that
  He loved us and sent His Son to be the
  propitiation for our sins. Beloved, if God so
  loved us, we also ought to love one another.

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Ephesians 431 - 52

• Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and
  evil speaking be put away from you, with all
  malice. And be kind to one another,
  tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God
  in Christ forgave you.
• Therefore be imitators of God as dear children.
  And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and
  given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice
  to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.

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Why?

• We are called to live on a higher level than the
  world Matt 546-47
• Not as the world loving those who love us,
  returning kindness for kindness only
• But as Christians impartial in our love, showing
  kindness to all

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Why?

• To be like our Heavenly Father Matthew 548
• Perfect, complete and mature in our love Luke
  636
• Therefore be merciful, just as your Father also
  is merciful.

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Why?

• To be like our Heavenly Father Matthew 548
• Perfect, complete and mature in our love Luke
  636
• Patterning our lives after Christ not the
  world!