Loving Your Enemies

Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

Tim Keller

Religion & Spirituality, Religion, Religion & Spirituality:christianity, Christianity, Spirituality

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🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Most of the great world religions share a tremendous amount of ethical common ground. But suddenly, Jesus breaks through all the conventional principles of morality—he soars into the stratosphere and puts forth the most radical love ethic anyone has ever seriously presented. On the one hand, when we hear it, we feel we’re in the presence of something sublime. But there’s another side to us that has difficulty with it, because it sure looks like Jesus is saying, “Let people walk all over you.” But what we actually have here is a set of remarkable balances. Let’s take a look at two balances: 1) There is the balance between the tough and the tender (between justice and kindness), and 2) there is a balance between the inner and the outer. This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on February 21, 1993. Series: Hard Sayings of Jesus (1993). Scripture: Luke 6:20-36. Today's podcast episode is brought to you by Gospel in Life, the site for all sermons, books, study guides and resources from Timothy Keller and Redeemer Presbyterian Church. If you've enjoyed listening to this podcast and would like to support the ongoing efforts of this ministry, you can do so by visiting https://gospelinlife.com/give and making a one-time or recurring donation.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Gospel In Life.
0:04.0	Jesus was a great teacher, but he had a lot of things to say that were challenging or difficult to understand.
0:10.0	In the Bible, we see a number of places where his disciples say, Jesus, this is a hard saying.
0:16.0	Today Tim Keller is preaching through one of the hard sayings of Jesus
0:20.0	and how we can rest in the fact that while Jesus' teachings aren't always comfortable, he is always good.
0:28.0	We're going to read from Luke chapter 6, reading verses 20 through 36,
0:32.0	our series is continued to be looking at the ministry of Jesus at his teaching.
0:40.0	And what we've done is we've picked out over the last few weeks the hardest saying,
0:46.0	the most difficult, the most difficult to understand,
0:50.0	so that we can really look at them and open them up. They take reflection, they take pondering.
0:55.0	But as we open them up, we find their wisdom.
0:59.0	Today, in many ways, we have maybe the most famous of Jesus' hard sayings.
1:05.0	It's a hard saying because it's very hard to understand and people have gone around for years trying to figure out what it means.
1:12.0	But it's also a very famous hard saying. Love your enemies.
1:16.0	When someone strikes you on one cheek, turn to him the other also.
1:22.0	Turn the other cheek.
1:26.0	Let me read from verse 20.
1:28.0	Looking at his disciples, he said,
1:31.0	Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.
1:35.0	Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied.
1:39.0	Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
1:42.0	Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil,
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