Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Friday, December 15th.

Do you respond like Jesus even in extreme situations?

Stay with us to discover the best way to handle those who hurt you.

When someone either deliberately chooses to hurt you or will say things that end up hurting you.

How do you respond?

On the other hand, let me say that a person

has the capacity to respond to all of that

without ever feeling hurt. But what is the key to being mistreated without feeling

the hurt? I'm not going to say you'll have a reach a stage in your life where you will

never feel some of the barbs that are pointed at you but we don't always

have to feel the things that are said or done about us but the question is how

we to respond so I want us to look first of all at the responses of a child of God.

I want us to look at the resources out of which we're to respond and then I want us to look

at what he says here as to the rewards when you and I respond to the proper fashion. Now what is the

believer's proper response when those who will hurt us or attempt to do so?

All right, number one. He says, beginning beginning in verse 27 but I say to you who

here love your enemies now friend let's face it that's a big order we're not

talking about just loving someone who thinks you're not the greatest

person in the world. The Bible says love your enemies. That is they have positioned

themselves by disposition by attitude to be against you.

Sometimes that takes some real effort on our part.

Now when Jesus says he loved everybody,

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