676. How Do I Love My Neighbor When They're Hostile? | Ask Paul Tripp

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🗓️ 22 August 2024

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Ask Paul Tripp is a semi-weekly podcast resource from Paul Tripp Ministries. Each week, pastor and best-selling author Dr. Paul David Tripp answers your questions about anything and everything, connecting the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life in the process.

In this episode, Paul answers a question about engaging with a difficult neighbor: “How is one supposed to handle neighbors who have no interest in reciprocating the hospitality, love, and outreach that you try to show? What do you do if things start to get hostile and they clearly want nothing to do with you?"

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0:00.0	Paul, today we have a question about what it means to love your neighbor.
0:07.0	The second great command, straight from the mouth of Christ, is you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
0:12.0	The Apostle Paul says in Galatians and also in Romans, the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command.
0:18.0	James calls it the royal law. It's inescapable all over the New Testament
0:22.6	this call to love your neighbor. So here's the question for you today. How is one supposed to
0:28.4	handle neighbors who have no interest in reciprocating the hospitality, love, and outreach that you
0:33.6	try to show? What do you do if things start to get hostile and they clearly want nothing to do
0:39.1	with you? Is it okay to stop interacting with them and trying to evangelize? Our friends told us that we need
0:45.2	to keep loving our neighbor, but it's starting to get uncomfortable and we have little kids that we don't
0:49.9	want to be around our neighbors. Is it sinful or are we being unbiblical if we cut off
0:55.8	relationship with next door and don't interact with them anymore? When I hear situations like this
1:02.2	that are very hard and very uncomfortable, nobody would want them in their lives, I'm again
1:09.5	remembering how completely practical the Bible is, how the Bible
1:18.5	speaks into the real life experiences that we face in this fallen world.
1:30.3	When I think about this question, I immediately think of Romans 1218.
1:34.3	It immediately came to mind.
1:36.3	It says this, if possible, as far as it depends on you,
1:42.3	live peaceably with all.
1:46.8	If possible, as far as it depends on you.
1:51.6	Now, on the surface, this passage is a call to live at peace with my neighbors.
1:59.0	I should want that.
2:01.0	And I should do things that create that.
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