The most God-like thing you can do, the most God-like thing you can do is love your enemies.

Let me tell you something.

If God didn't love his enemies, there wouldn't be any Christians, right?

Even while we were enemies, Paul says, he loved us.

Thank you. He loved us. Welcome to Grace to You with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

In 1941, Louis Zamperini was one of the most talented runners in the world.

He seemed destined to be the first

person ever to run a four-minute mile. And then Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and Louis joined the

army. On a rescue mission over the Pacific, his plane crashed and the Japanese captured him.

And for the next two years, Zamperini was tortured and

beaten so often, he carried physical and emotional scars home with him after his release. Those

scars haunted him until he attended a Billy Graham crusade and came to Christ. Later in life,

he went back to Japan and forgave his captors.

Now, do you think you could do that? Show compassion and love to your enemies? How do you

stop hating a person and start loving him? Well, it starts with understanding God's love for his enemies. John MacArthur is going to

look at that love today as he continues his study titled, Consider This. Here's John with a lesson.

I want you to turn to Matthew chapter 5. Matthew 5 is in the sermon on the Mount. The Lord gave that sermon to the leaders of Israel in particular to dismantle their false

religious system and expose them to how God thought.

And there are a series of things that are said here which our Lord directs at the Jews.

And he does it in quite an interesting way.

Starting in verse 21, he says, you have heard, and then in verse 27, you have heard, and then

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