Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Thursday, December 14th.

How do you respond when someone is mean to you?

Today's lesson warns believers against the natural tendency to be resentful.

Here's some help in learning to respond in love to those who hurt you.

When someone deliberately and willfully attempts to hurt you, how do you respond?

Hurt is a part of life, it's a part of our society, there'll never come a time when you and I will be free from all hurt or all attempts

that hurt.

So what you and I have to ask is this, are we responding rightly when people attempt to hurt

us either by the things they say or the things they do.

Some of the strongest words Jesus ever gives, the believer.

He gives to us concerning our response to those who attempt to hurt us. And he says it so clearly

beginning in the sixth chapter of Luke, so he begins by saying, but I say to you who

here love your enemies do good to those who hate you

bless those who curse you pray for those who mistreat you whoever hits you on the

cheek offer him the other also and whoever takes away your coat do

not withhold your shirt from him either. Now friend that is one more order

amen but that's not all.

Give to everyone who asks of you and whoever takes away what is yours do not demand it back.

And just as you want people to treat you, treat them in the same way.

That's the verse we call the Golden Rule.

And if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?

For even sinners love those who love them, and if you do good to

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