Why We Should Love Our Enemies

Solid Joys Daily Devotional

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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When God becomes our treasure, we treat our adversaries out of our own fullness with the all-satisfying glory of God.

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0:00.0	May 12. Why we should love our enemies.
0:05.2	Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. Luke 627.
0:13.4	There are two main reasons why Christians should love their enemies and do good to them.
0:20.3	One is that it reveals something of the way God is. God is
0:26.6	merciful. He makes his son to rise on the evil and on the good and sends rain on the just and on the
0:35.7	unjust, Matthew 545.
0:38.3	He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor repay us according to our iniquities.
0:46.3	Psalm 103, 10.
0:49.3	Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave
0:57.0	you.
0:59.0	Ephesians 432.
1:02.0	So when Christians live this way by God's power, we show something of what God is like.
1:13.8	The second reason is that the hearts of Christians are satisfied with God and are not driven
1:17.5	by the craving for revenge or self-exaltation
1:22.3	or money or earthly security.
1:26.1	God has become our all-satisfying treasure. And so we don't treat our
1:34.0	adversaries out of our own sense of need and insecurity, but out of our own fullness with the
1:41.6	satisfying glory of God. Hebrews 1034, you joyfully accepted the plundering
1:50.0	of your property. That is, you didn't retaliate against your adversaries, since you knew that
1:59.0	you yourselves had a better possession and an abiding one.
2:04.5	What takes away the compulsion of revenge is our deep confidence that this world is not our
2:12.6	home and that God is our utterly sure and all satisfying reward.
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