If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat, and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink.

Beloved, can I say this to you? Your enemy is your neighbor.

That's what the Old Testament teaches. Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur. I'm your host Phil Johnson.

The average American would probably say that freedom basically means being able to do whatever you want and

most likely that same average American would not list loving his enemies as

something he'd ever want to do. You can see then how that kind of

love loving those you don't want to would set a person apart. John

MacArthur shows you why you need to stand out in how and whom you love and

he looks at what it takes to experience God's blessing in all your

relationships. The title of our series, Love No Matter What.

And now with a lesson, here's John.

Matthew Chapter 5 and we are examining verses 43 to 48.

Matthew presents Jesus Christ as king.

Matthew's purpose then in all of the pages and chapters and verses of his gospel is to present the kingliness of Christ.

If he is a king, then what are the rules of his kingdom?

What is the manifesto of the monarch?

What are the standards by which those in his kingdom live? And we have the

incomparable sermon on the mount presenting those very standards. And the key note that

I wanted you to remember all through this is that the standards of the kingdom of Christ are not the standards of the world.

In fact, Jesus sets them in contrast with the system of his day. He shows how inferior Judaism is to the true

standards of his kingdom. And we've already talked about the fact that the Jewish people

had taken the divine standards of

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