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When Your Enemy is Hungry Feed Him: Heaping Coals, and Fostering Repentance Through Acts of Love
Romans 12:17-21 and II Kings 6:8-22
Loving your enemy feels like a non-sequitur. The two ideas of love and enemy logically doesn’t go together. Yet it is a command that God’s people are given by the Lord and his Apostles. Is Jesus for real? Does he really expect you to love people who are trying to do you harm? Why? How? That is the focus of this message.
Loving your enemy feels like a non-sequitur. The two ideas of love and enemy logically doesn’t go together. Yet it is a command that God’s people are given by the Lord and his Apostles. Is Jesus for real? Does he really expect you to love people who are trying to do you harm? Why? How? That is the focus of this message.
Responding to one’s enemies with love is not a natural response, but through the gospel it can be learned. What is needed to foster repentance through acts of love is a posture of peace that has a purpose to win and is predicated on the principle of the good. We see an example of this in the story of Elisha and the Arameans. But even more clearly we see it in Christ. He took on a posture of peace with a purpose to win his people through the principle of his goodness and love. He was so good that he loved us while we were still sinners. (Rom. 5:8) And it is this goodness of God that leads us to repentance. The disciple follows the Master in pursuing a life of love, fostering acts of repentance, as we gather worshippers from among the Lord’s enemies, from every tribe, language and nation. An appropriate message for the contentious times in which we live.
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By Grace Church (그레이스 교회)Romans 12:17-21 and II Kings 6:8-22
Loving your enemy feels like a non-sequitur. The two ideas of love and enemy logically doesn’t go together. Yet it is a command that God’s people are given by the Lord and his Apostles. Is Jesus for real? Does he really expect you to love people who are trying to do you harm? Why? How? That is the focus of this message.
Loving your enemy feels like a non-sequitur. The two ideas of love and enemy logically doesn’t go together. Yet it is a command that God’s people are given by the Lord and his Apostles. Is Jesus for real? Does he really expect you to love people who are trying to do you harm? Why? How? That is the focus of this message.
Responding to one’s enemies with love is not a natural response, but through the gospel it can be learned. What is needed to foster repentance through acts of love is a posture of peace that has a purpose to win and is predicated on the principle of the good. We see an example of this in the story of Elisha and the Arameans. But even more clearly we see it in Christ. He took on a posture of peace with a purpose to win his people through the principle of his goodness and love. He was so good that he loved us while we were still sinners. (Rom. 5:8) And it is this goodness of God that leads us to repentance. The disciple follows the Master in pursuing a life of love, fostering acts of repentance, as we gather worshippers from among the Lord’s enemies, from every tribe, language and nation. An appropriate message for the contentious times in which we live.