Getting In A Good Headspace With Your Enemies
February 15, 2025
Getting In A Good Headspace With Your Enemies
Sunday | February 16, 2025
Luke 6:27-36
Pastor Ray
Psalm 109:4 / NKJV, “For my love they are my adversaries: but I give myself unto prayer.”
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Luke 6:27-31 / ESV, “But I say to you who listen: Love your enemies, do what is good to those who hate you,28 bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. 29 If anyone hits you on the cheek, offer the other also. And if anyone takes away your coat, don’t hold back your shirt either.30 Give to everyone who asks you, and from someone who takes your things, don’t ask for them back. 31 Just as you want others to do for you, do the same for them.”
agapáō: committed to doing what is right / behavioral verb
Psalm 5:8 / NLT, “Lead me in the right path, O Lord, or my enemies will conquer me. Make your way plain for me to follow.”
James 4:17 / ESV, “So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.”
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a test of your character.
Luke 6:32-34 / ESV, “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them. 33 If you do what is good to those who are good to you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners do that. 34 And if you lend to those from whom you expect to receive, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners to be repaid in full.”
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Luke 6:35-36 / ESV, “But love your enemies, do what is good, and lend, expecting nothing in return. Then your reward will be great, and you will be children of the Most High. For he is gracious to the ungrateful and evil. 36 Be merciful, just as your Father also is merciful.”
Matthew 25:21 / ESV, “‘Well done, good and faithful servant. You have been faithful over a little; I will set you over much. Enter into the joy of your master.’
NEXT STEPS:
+ Read Luke 6
+ Review Psalm 109:4
+ Focus on right responses to your enemies
+ Return Next Sunday Service 2/9: 9am, 11am, and 6pm