Teaching | Jesus on His Most Radical Idea: Enemy Love | Gospel of Matthew
Practicing the Way with John Mark Comer
Practicing the Way
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🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Is it practical to love our enemy? John Mark exegetes from Jesus's final teaching in Matthew chapter five on enemy love. He challenges us to take this teaching seriously by showing historical and personal examples of Jesus's way bearing fruit, and encourages us to lean into our questions about this teaching with honestly before God and our communities.
Key Scripture Passage: Matthew 5v43-48
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Mark Comer |
| 0:03.0 | Teachings Podcast by practicing the way. |
| 0:05.0 | This teaching was originally given |
| 0:08.0 | at Bridgetown Church in Portland, Oregon |
| 0:10.0 | as a part of the Gospel of Matthew series. If you missed last weekend, please go back and listen to the podcast. We are at the |
| 0:28.9 | end of Matthew Chapter 5 working through the sermon on the mount and we're in a this is part 2 of a |
| 0:35.4 | multi-week conversation around all that Jesus has to say on nonviolence and enemy |
| 0:41.4 | love some of his most countercultural and disorienting for a lot of people |
| 0:46.0 | and jarring ideas and there's just a lot to think through so if you were not here please go back |
| 0:52.3 | listen that was kind of the basic So if you were not here, please go back, listen. |
| 0:53.4 | That was kind of the basis for everything |
| 0:56.1 | that we do tonight and in the podcast |
| 0:59.1 | in the next couple of weeks. |
| 1:01.1 | That said, Matthew chapter 5, before we read the next teaching of Jesus, |
| 1:06.0 | just take a moment if you want, close your eyes and imagine that you are a first century Hebrew you live in say |
| 1:16.6 | pernium or Bethseda or a village up on the north shore of the sea of |
| 1:20.8 | Galilei in a militarized zone. |
| 1:24.7 | Everywhere you go, there are Roman Legionnaires on the street. |
| 1:28.4 | It's been 70 years since the Romans invaded. |
| 1:31.1 | They are wreaking havoc on your society. Taxes are upwards of 80 or 90 percent. The |
| 1:38.0 | economy is in crisis. Food is scarce. You are living hand to mouth. |
| 1:43.7 | The Romans are stealing real estate right and left |
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