Teaching | Jesus on Breaking the Chain of Violence | Gospel of Matthew
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 12 May 2023
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Is following Jesus really incompatible with violence? John Mark looks into Jesus's teaching about returning evil not with more evil but with good. He wraps up by acknowledging how many of us are resistant to Jesus's ideas on nonviolence, but encourages us to continue to follow and learn from Jesus and not let our conclusions become a source of disunity in the Body of Christ.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 5v38-42
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer Teachings Podcast by practicing the way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was originally given at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Gospel of Matthew Series. |
| 0:13.0 | All right, to start off, let's see what all the fuss is about. |
| 0:24.8 | Matthew chapter 5, take a look at verse 38. |
| 0:30.8 | You have heard that it was said, eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I tell you, do not use violence to resist evil. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the |
| 0:47.0 | other cheek also. And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand |
| 0:52.1 | over your coat as well. If anyone forces you to go one mile, |
| 0:56.7 | go with them two miles. Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. |
| 1:07.0 | Yesterday morning a car barreling into a crowd at a white supremacist rally in Virginia. |
| 1:13.7 | One dead, 19 wounded, the soul of our nation in crisis. |
| 1:20.4 | Friday, the day before that, Ezekiel Elliot |
| 1:22.4 | suspended from six NFL games for domestic abuse. |
| 1:27.0 | Thursday the day before that Pyongyang and our president going at it from a golf course in New Jersey. |
| 1:33.8 | Quote, North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. |
| 1:37.9 | They will be met with fire fury and frankly power the likes of which |
| 1:42.1 | the world has never seen. |
| 1:45.0 | Wednesday, the day before that, a man in a BMW running down six front soldiers |
| 1:50.0 | he's later shot in a car chase. |
| 1:53.0 | Story after story. |
| 1:55.0 | For all of our talk, in particular in a city like Portland, |
| 1:58.0 | about how evolved and how enlightened we are in the modern Western world, |
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