Romans 1218 says if it is possible as far as it depends on you live at peace with everyone.

This is an obvious outflow of what Jesus is talking about here in Matthew chapter 5

as he's explaining the expectation in the Kingdom, the value in the

kingdom of reconciliation.

Yesterday we spent a bunch of time talking about the first half of this, which envisions

a scene where a person who is a good person, a well-behaved religious person is on their way

to church to go and do church things or to give an offering and then something crosses his mind and

he's like, what? There's somebody who doesn't like me. I should go try to

reconcile that or there's somebody who is my enemy. I am going to try to make things right

with my enemy before I bother with these religious custom things.

Therefore, if you're offering your gifts at the altar

and they remember that your brother has something against you,

leave your gift there in front of the altar.

First to go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and offer your gift.

But now Jesus is going to shift gears a little bit and flesh out why this is actually very logical.

There's a thing about Jesus teaching that I like and I've actually kind of tried to rip off a little bit. I think he's big enough to handle that.

Which is where he kind of implicitly says, hey, you know how this thing is in life that everybody knows and you know how you really really

understand it okay well if that is something you understand so well that it's

intuitive you should have no trouble understanding this other thing you already have the tools to get this principle.

The best teachers I ever encountered did that with me and I guess I'm also trying to

rip off what they do to talk about Bible and make it make sense. But here's how it goes.

Settlementers quickly with your adversary who's taking you to court.

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