You want to know something people, who's your neighbor?

Your neighbor is anybody who needs you.

That's it.

Anybody in my path with a need constitutes my neighbor.

Not because they believe what I believe or think what I think or belong to my group.

God loved us when we were enemies and he died for us and it's that very love that we're to have for others.

Welcome to Grace to You with the Bible teaching of John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

It could be a coworker or someone at church, maybe even your own brother, sister, or spouse.

It could be any number of people with one thing in common, they don't exactly treat you like a friend.

In fact, they may treat you badly when all you're trying to do is show them Christian love. Maybe you think it's best just to

avoid them, but does scripture really allow you to insulate yourself from your enemies?

John MacArthur considers that today, continuing a timely study called Love No Matter What.

And now with the lesson, here's John. God has some very special and

important things to say to us to me through this. Let me read for you verses 43 to 48 of Matthew

5, and you follow as I read. You have heard that it hath been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor

and hate thine enemy. But I say unto

you love your enemies, and pray for them who despitefully use you and persecute you, that ye may

be the sons of your father who is in heaven. For he maketh his son to rise on the evil

and on the good, and sendeth reign on the just and on the unjust.

For if ye love them who love you, what reward have ye?

Do not even the tax collectors the same.

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