Today on Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram.

The true test of our genuine maturity in Jesus Christ. Are you ready? It's how we treat our enemies. Let me ask you,

how are you doing with that person who betrayed you? How do you deal with that person in a way that

honors God and brings about change? That's today. Don't miss it.

In the book of Romans, Paul lays out one of the most demanding and most liberating

instructions in all of Scripture.

What to do when someone has genuinely hurt you?

I'm Dave Drewie, and today on Living on the Edge, Chip Ingram brings that teaching

to life through a story from his own freshman year in college that put every one

of Paul's principles to the test in real time. It's raw, it's honest, and it just might be the

most practical thing you'll hear all week. We're starting in Romans 12, verse 14, for today's

message, how to overcome the evil aimed at you.

I want to break down very specifically and practically what it looks like to bless those who persecute you.

And the command is this, bless them that persecute you.

That's what you're called to do.

And there's three components here. The first component

of blessing others is forgiving them. And so the process of forgiveness is a choice. Second, forgive,

forgiving is a process. And then forgiven is it's done. And here's how you know when it's done.

You can spontaneously rejoice at blessing in their life.

And so that's the positive side.

Bless those.

And notice who persecute you.

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