00:00Hello everyone, my name is William Chambers. It is good to be here with you all today.
00:05Today we're going to talk about loving our enemies, what to do when love isn't returned.
00:12We know that enemies don't return love. Most of us love like it's a business deal,
00:19meaning I'll give you if you give me. But what happens when the other person stops paying?
00:30Jesus is telling us to love our enemies. Jesus introduces a love that doesn't operate on
00:36transactions. I want you to love even when it doesn't come back unto you. Today we answer the
00:45question of why we should keep on loving even when it hurts. So today I'm going to come from a
00:53passage
00:53of scripture. Jesus is speaking. He says, but love ye your enemies and do good and lend, hoping for
01:02nothing again. And your reward shall be great and ye shall be the children of the highest for he is
01:10kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. So today we're looking at Jesus telling us to love our
01:18enemies. And Lord, I thank God for this passage of scripture because he gives us motivation. Jesus
01:25knows that it's hard for us to love enemies, but he gives us motivation on why we should love enemies.
01:32The first thing that he gives us is it is a command. He says, but love ye your enemies. This
01:39is not a
01:40suggestion. I'm telling you what you ought to do. This is a command of God himself. So that's the
01:48first reason. The first motivation is I want to obey. I want to please God. Then he shows us what
01:53it looks like. After giving us the first motivation, he shows us what love looks like. He says, do good
01:59and lend, hoping for nothing again. He's telling us to do good to people. Give acts of kindness. If your
02:07brother is hungry, then feed him. If he thirsts, give him something to drink, do good and lend. Meaning
02:14love should go beyond your feelings. It ain't just having good feelings about somebody. Uh, help us
02:21today. He's also going on to say, hoping for nothing in return when they don't reciprocate, when they don't
02:30give it back. This is, you're still to continue loving them. Why? First is the command. Secondly,
02:38he says, and your reward shall be great. That's the second motivation. Jesus is guaranteeing. He's
02:47promising us a great reward. He's promising us a substantial reward for loving like this, for loving
02:57our enemies, for loving and receiving nothing in return. God says, I notice it. This motivation
03:04should also help us because if we look to our enemies for motivation to love them, they're not
03:09reciprocating. They're not going to give us nothing back. Jesus said, don't look unto them for the reward.
03:15Look unto me. Your reward shall be great. I will repay. Jesus said, I am the one that pay you.
03:24Uh,
03:24I'm going to give you a substantial reward. I, if your enemies don't know this, don't look at them
03:30as a source. Look unto me. I will supply. I reward you for being obedient. So first of all, I
03:37am to,
03:38to love my enemies because they're, because it's a commandment for me to do so. And then the next
03:44motivation I have is because there is a reward in doing so. Jesus will reward me. It shall come to
03:52me.
03:53Whatever I give shall come back unto me, uh, by God himself. That'll keep me sustained in my effort.
04:02And the third reason why we should love our enemies, the text says, and ye shall be children
04:09of the highest for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Jesus said, this is also the
04:16third
04:17reason is you will look like me. We're talking about likeness. I want you to resemble me. I am kind
04:25unto the unthankful and to the evil. And I want you to look like me by being unkind to the
04:32unthankful
04:33and the evil. Oh, I want my children to resemble me. That is the third motivation. So we shall
04:43resemble our God. Uh, first motivation is commanded by God. Second motivation is God shall reward you
04:55substantially. Great will be your reward. Third motivation. We will resemble God. These are the
05:02reasons why we should love our enemies in actions, not words only, but actions as well. Lord, help us
05:11to do so in Jesus mighty name. We pray and say, amen.
05:41Amen.
