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<div class="SSN_title">"AGAPE YOUR ENEMIES"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. PHARISEE'S TEACHING, "LOVE NEIGHBOR, HATE ENEMIES."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Where in O.T. Law was basis?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Truly law taught to love neighbor - no command to hate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The idea of hate your enemies, from God's command to wipe out inhabitants of land.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Or perhaps David's imprecatory Psalms.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. In both cases this was judicial, not a personal individual affair.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. David's attitude toward Saul.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. David's enemies - are those opposed to God he speaks of them as general not individual.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">3. Christ denunciation of Pharisees in <a onClick="return mV('Mat',23,1);">Matt. 23</a>, again judicial pronouncements of judgment.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. What Pharisees taught.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Love thy neighbor."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Who is my neighbor?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. They taught only the Jewish your neighbor.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Jesus parable Samaritan.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Hate your enemies.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Your duty to hate all who were not Jews.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. O.T. commands to show kindness and love toward stranger ignored.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. WHAT JESUS TAUGHT. "LOVE (AGAPE) THY ENEMIES."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Next few statements so difficult that volumes have been written to explain it away.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Jesus illustrates "love your enemies by."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. If you are cursed - bless.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Do good to those that hate you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Pray for those who despitefully use you and persecute you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. God's love to set example.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He makes sun to rise on the evil and the good.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He sends the rain on just and unjust.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. "But God commendeth His Love toward us."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. "If when we were enemies of God."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. Had God not loved sinful, rebellious, hating world, where would we be?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. God's perfection to be our goal. "Be ye therefore perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect."</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. HOW IS IT POSSIBLE TO OBEY CHRIST'S COMMAND?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We must be detached.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. From the actions of others.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Else we are prone to react.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. From ourselves - for until you are detached from yourself you can never be detached from what others do to you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Death to self again imperative.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. We must be filled with His Spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "Now the fruit of the Spirit is love."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Love is a part of the nature of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. To love an enemy is an impossible command to a natural man.</div>
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