When you are treated like LESS THAN

Matthew 5:38-48

“Eye for eye, and tooth for tooth” put a limit to extreme PUNISHMENTS and VIGILANTE mindsets.

Three commands:

Turn the other CHEEK

Give the shirt off your BACK

Go the extra MILE

“If anyone slaps you on the RIGHT cheek….”

When you refuse to retaliate, you change how you see YOURSELF and you change how you see THEM.

You are worth MORE.

We RESIST evil, we don’t retaliate evil.

Being loved is DISARMING.

Isaiah 2:4

Isaiah 50:6

Jesus’ love DISARMS us.

Two practices:

Pray for the person that HURT you

Go above and BEYOND in one of your relationships.

Am I BECOMING the kind of person who would respond how Jesus teaches us to respond?