Sermons About Retaliation
How To Love Difficult People
We are supposed to love other people who are not easy to love. As you know, we encounter many kinds in our day to day living. But, there are four kinds of people who make it especially difficult for us to love them--Difficult people, Demanding people, Disappointing people, and Destructive people. God commands us to love other people. How do you respond in love to each of these groups of people? Our Bible text gives us four descriptions of godly love. In so doing, it tells us how to treat each of the four difficult groups.
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Way Beyond Getting Even
Stepping back into the Sermon on the Mount we are finishing up with some of the most radically challenging differences in the way Christ called us to live!
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How to Face Opposition
When we face opposition, we typically retaliate, or slump into a fetal position, only to be pummeled by life's circumstances. Listen as Pastor Tim Kelly dives into Nehemiah 4 to dissect how God blessed Nehemiah's response to those who opposed the rebuilding of the wall in Jerusalem.
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Blessing Like Jesus Did
Human relationships are part of the workshop of sanctification, the process of learning to live like a Christian. People who can model great Christian virtues when alone can find it very difficult to live like Jesus did when they get around others. It is especially hard if those others are making our lives more difficult. The suffering of Jesus is an example of how we are to live as Christians in a hostile world that does not like our Christianity. God calls on all of us, regardless of our station in life, to dwell peacefully with others, blessing them because he has blessed us through Jesus. By learning to live in peace and refusing to retaliate even against unfair treatment, we can demonstrate to others just how different our life because of our hope in Jesus.
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Matthew 5:38-42 (AM)
Adam returns to Matt 5:38-42 and Jesus' presentation of a radical Kingdom view of love. Kingdom love demands the surrender of our culturally expected, deeply ingrained, daily habit of personal promotion and defense.
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Matthew 5:38-42 (AM)
Adam preaches Matt. 5:38-42. Jesus again confronts the religious norms of His day. The Pharisees abused the Mosaic Law to allow personal retaliation, but Jesus outlined both the spirit of the Mosaic Law and the demand of the Kingdom Law for love.
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The Hope of Perfection
This week we looked at the hard words of Jesus concerning how we are to love our enemies and avoid retaliation. The words of Jesus are convicting, but the promise of the Holy Spirit and its ongoing work in our life gives us a great reason to hope!
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Dying to (Not) Get Even
The desire for retaliation and revenge is built in to every person because of sin. It started in the Garden of Eden, where Adam tried to get revenge against Eve by blaming her. And it escalated when Cain retaliated against Abel by murder. But God has a different plan for those who will be a living sacrifice. God says, "You be loving and let me handle the outcome."
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