This is the most difficult instruction that believers in Christ have to adhere to. Sure, it’s easy to God, Jesus and Holy Spirit, they’re love already! But an enemy? Every one of them? A rather daunting proposition even for the most holy of us.
The trouble is that almost everyone, without exception, will focus this injunction outward, upon those who we have developed a deep dislike, fear, even hatred towards without considering another commandment which Jesus gave us, “Love your neighbor as yourself.” This leave us to consider the real possibility that our greatest enemy won’t be found outside but rather inside – we are our worst enemy. Grace takes on a whole different light now.
Here is a teaching that I recently gave on the deeper meaning to this commandment from Jesus.
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