Sermon

Loving Your Enemies

Tim Keller |  February 21, 1993

Topics:
  • Christian Living and Obedience
  • Forgiveness
  • God's Love
Duration:
44:37
Scripture:
Luke 6:20-36
SKU:
RS 39-14

Overview

Most of the great world religions share a tremendous amount of ethical common ground. But suddenly, Jesus breaks through all the conventional principles of morality—he soars into the stratosphere and puts forth the most radical love ethic anyone has ever seriously presented.

On the one hand, when we hear it, we feel we’re in the presence of something sublime. But there’s another side to us that has difficulty with it, because it sure looks like Jesus is saying, “Let people walk all over you.”

But what we actually have here is a set of remarkable balances. Let’s take a look at two balances: 1) There is the balance between the tough and the tender (between justice and kindness), and 2) there is a balance between the inner and the outer.

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