Does Jesus really expect you to love your enemy? What?

Welcome to the line of fire, friends. This is Michael Brown. So glad to have you with us on the broadcast.

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So, if you look in the Old Testament, you'll see Psalm 139, Lord, don't, I hate those that hate you with a perfect hatred.

And the Bible not only speaks of God hating evil, but of God hating evil people

in the Old Testament. Is it possible that God wants us to hate our enemies, hate those that are not

saved, hate those who do evil? How do we work this out? Jesus says, Matthew 5, verse 43, you've heard it said,

love your neighbor and hate your enemy. Now, there's nothing in the Torah or the Old Testament

that explicitly says, hate your enemy. There is teaching in Dead Sea Scrolls, so would be the Judaism that was practiced there in Qumran, that does speak of hating one's enemy. And again, you could understand a context for this. For example, if you say, I hate the Nazis, or I hate Hamas, or I hate Boko Haram, you can understand

what someone would mean by it. I hate what they do. I hate who they are. I hate what they've

become. I hate their dehumanizing of the image of God. I hate their brutality. I hate their rape and torture

of people, all the things that they do. I hate those things. And you could say that there's a

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