If there is one statement made by Jesus that in the eyes of the world sums up what Christianity

ought to be like, it's probably love your enemies.

If love is the greatest thing, then loving your enemies is the greatest thing that love can do.

And so the sunum bonum in a sense of all of our kingdom living should be found in this concept

of loving our enemies.

Welcome to Grace to you, the Bible teaching ministry of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

Today we embark on a study that's sure to challenge you in your relationships with others,

especially those you have a hard time loving.

You may never think about your friends or your enemies in quite the same way again

as you follow along with John MacArthur in his study called Love No Matter What.

Well, in case you're wondering,

it's no accident that we're airing this series on biblical love now with Valentine's Day on the horizon. But perhaps you think that what John is going to say these next two weeks will

sort of take the wind out of everyone's romantic sales. Well, to reassure you, here's what John once said about this study.

Well, let's just hope the opposite happens that this will put some real wind in everybody's

romantic sails.

I think you can only get away with a kind of superficial, worldly love for a little while.

And then it's got to be much deeper and broader and more genuine, and I think more spiritual

than that kind of thing that we call romance.

So we're going to hope that this kind of love is going to enrich every single

aspect of the life of all of those who listen and are a part of our series. Let me introduce

the study that we're going to begin today that I think will lead in that direction. Its title is

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