What does Matthew 5:43-48 mean to you?

Answer 1

to love all as your Heavenly Father has loved you,,,,,God Bless

LH

Answer 2

We should willingly embrace this obligation for the good of our neighbor/enemy/brethren/all people, for the sake of our character, and to the glory of God: Love your neighbor. Paul said, “Owe no one anything except to love one another,” and Peter said, “honor all people,” (Rom. 13:3, 1 Pet. 2:17).
What does it mean to love your neighbor? It means you seek what is best for them and help them in every legitimate way you are able to respond. It involves an attitude of honor and respect in keeping with the example of Christ. This love should keep us from the kind of partiality James condemned (Jas. 2:1-13). It should work in us a measure of patience, kindness and mercy toward others, “for judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy,” (Jas. 2:13). Let us speak the truth in love to others (Eph. 4:15), and treat people as we desire to be treated (Matt. 7:12). In every respect love is shown by God, we should seek to develop our love for others (Matt. 5:43-48).
While all of the above is relatively simple and commonly recognized, there is a matter we should attend to. Within our purpose to love our neighbor, we must not become so accommodating and pleasing that we become like him! Let’s admit that pressure and face it. It is not some imaginary hypothetical. We do not value our neighbor by accepting all they do! We value them by conveying to them – through the influence of our friendship, words and deeds – the praiseworthiness of the Lamb, the love of the Father and the truth of the Word. We adore others in the highest sense, when we adore Him who first loved us. God Bless!

Answer 3

The seed, the very alpha, nay, the crux of Christianity and the reason that time is counted from there All things before this are no longer in the same timeline as all things after it.

Victory!

Answer 4

nicely, I see various questions right here. it form of feels glaring to me you like our recommendations. interior the scripture there are those questions. "in case you adore people who love you, what advantages will you get? are actually not even the tax creditors doing that? And in case you greet purely your brothers, what are you doing greater beneficial than others? do no longer even pagans try this?" it form of feels that this scripture is looking us to question our reasons interior the flaws we do. this is straightforward to verify those scriptures and agree yet may be very no longer straightforward to coach because of the fact it is going against human nature. Your different question: ."...doesn’t the capacity of unconditional love look slightly greater proactive? " specific, this is. Unconditional love is a vital key to displaying the affection of God and having peace in our very own lives. upload...Bobby makes an remarkable factor. What we sort speaks louder than any words. while we tutor unconditional like to our kin and our brothers and sisters in Christ, this is the best Christian witness we would desire to probable show. God bless you, Primo. (((((Bobby)))))

Answer 5

It means that God requires more of us than human self-interest and selfishness. God's love is expansive, and ours should be also, if we are truly His children.

"You have heard that it was said : 'Love your friends, hate your enemies.' But now I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may become the sons of your Father in heaven. For he makes his sun to shine on bad and good people alike, and gives rain to those who do good and to those who do evil..."

Loving to this extent calls for us to go "outside the box," to move beyond our comfort zones, to recognize the humanity in everyone and to honor and respect that.

Answer 6

This is the call for Christian love and perfection in love. This is the call to the Christ life which will not be possible until Pentecost and thereafter. None can live this under the law; only under grace after the law has been written on our hearts, and His presence fully manifested in our lives.

God's word is dead letter unless it is also his living presence with us. There are dozens of calls to perfection but few as direct as this one.

Paul calls for the church at Corrinth to be perfect in II Cor. 13:11. He points them to the power of God for this task in the 4th verse of the same chapter. So we have Jesus, teaching in the flesh, to be perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect. We have Paul calling for perfection attained by the power of God and our own weakness.

To me the whole is summed up in Ephesians 4:13 where we find perfection is the fullness of Christ in us. "Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ."

Tell me, how do you measure the stature of the fulness of Christ? Stature is not only height but a quality of heroic proportions coming out of the fulness.

Many see love of neighbor as a great ethical teaching and a call for equal treatment or acceptance of just about any life style anyone desires to live. They ignore the perfection part.

It has also been touted by theologians as a call for the brotherhood of man under the Fatherhood of God. This is a teaching and concept which does not exist in Scripture; aside from those who keep his commandments. It takes into account that there are sons but ignores the fact that there are bastards also.

This scripture tells me that it is time to manifest the love of God in power; and not to play social and political games in place of what God will do with committed lives manifesting His life before all men.

Thanks for the sermon. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did; since it was keyed on your question.

Answer 7

It means to love the unlovable.

Christ does three things. First, He expressly refutes the error of the scribes and Pharisees, who restricted the term "neighbour" unto friends and acquaintances, and shows that it is so all-embracive as to include "enemies": verily, God’s command is "exceeding broad" (Ps. 119:96). Second, He bluntly repudiates their evil teaching that an enemy is to be hated, affirming the very opposite to be the Truth, insisting that God commands us to love even those who hate and injure us. Third, He makes crystal clear what is signified by "love," namely a holy, inward, and spiritual affection, which expresses itself in godly and kindly acts. Thus we are assured beyond any shadow of doubt that the moral law is of Divine origin, for who among men had ever conceived such a precept as "love for enemies"?


The Jewish teachers by "neighbour" understood only those who were of their own country, nation, and religion, whom they were pleased to look upon as their friends. The Lord Jesus teaches that we must do all the real kindness we can to all, especially to their souls. We must pray for them. While many will render good for good, we must render good for evil; and this will speak a nobler principle than most men act by. Others salute their brethren, and embrace those of their own party, and way, and opinion, but we must not so confine our respect. It is the duty of Christians to desire, and aim at, and press towards perfection in grace and holiness. And therein we must study to conform ourselves to the example of our heavenly Father, 1 Peter 1:15,16. Surely more is to be expected from the followers of Christ than from others; surely more will be found in them than in others. Let us beg of God to enable us to prove ourselves his children.

Answer 8

it is the same as Christ's second commandment...it's easy to love someone who is nice to you, who has a great personality, who believes the same things that you do-anyone can do it. it's another matter entirely to have love for people who are mean, obnoxious, rotten, and just plain 'not worth killing'...but it is one of those things that shows whether you are really a Christian...

Answer 9

That as Christ followers we are not to huddle together in our "safe" little groups but to actively go out into the world to the people who really need What we can give them which is Crist and His love and Grace, and to pray for them.Because, "but for the grace of God there go I".

Answer 10

Live life beyond natural impulses. Practice love, rather than self gratification. It is easy to be human and Godless, but it is a calling to be human and Godly.

Answer 11

That if you really want to show you believe in God, and why he sent his only son, you will have to love your enemies, or those who may be or you think are against you, because, that is how you show that love is for all.in any ocassion, at any time.