Good Wednesday. Everyone thinks for listening and listening. In this season, we are in a season

on the podcast looking at darker issues. Not by design. It just ended up that way,

providentially based on the questions that have come to us and the topics that have been

on the table of late. We've looked at whether we can be angry at God when life doesn't

turn out the way we hoped it would. That was two more days ago in ABJ 1828. Then we looked

at how to overcome anger in the home. That was in ABJ 1829. Then a wife asked about how to

address her husband's ongoing sin patterns in ABJ 1830. Then last time we addressed a wife who

was betrayed. Her husband left her for another woman. How does she process the ongoing pain

of that desertion? That was ABJ 1831. Today, I want to build off Monday's episode because in

speaking to that mom of three young girls, now abandoned by her husband, Pastor John applied

the category of enemy and spoke of enemy love. Those are Jesus' words, love your enemies.

He commanded that to us in Matthew 544. A text Pastor John spent years studying. He published

an entire book by the title Love Your Enemies. This is doctoral dissertation. If that enemy

category fits a former spouse, it raised a question in my mind as I listened Monday and maybe in

your mind too. Who else qualifies as our enemy? How broadly does this category stretch? That exact

question is answered by Pastor John in his 1995 sermon on Matthew 5. Here he is.

Around this globe today, there are tens of thousands of Christians suffering and some of them

laying down their lives just to believe, just to believe, and to be obedient to Jesus Christ.

So the first meaning of enemy is those who persecute you like that. Love them, love them.

The next meaning of enemy is Lestraumatic in verses 45 by halfway through. It says,

God causes His Son to rise on the evil and the good and He sends rain on the righteous and the

unrighteous. So here you have evil people and unrighteous people and this morning it was already

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