Why Believers Are Commanded to Love Their Enemies (And How..

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Why Believers Are Commanded to Love Their Enemies (And How to Do It)

Jesus tells us to pray for our enemies and do good to them, but also to love our enemies, so how can we do that?
God Loved His Enemies

Jesus tells us to pray for our enemies and do good to them, but also to love our enemies, so how can we do that? Many people say they love God and I hope you can too, but it was actually God Who made the first move. The only reason we love God today is because He loved us first, or as the Apostle John wrote, “We love because he first loved us” (1 John 4:19). God chose to love His enemies first before His enemies loved Him and well before we were even reconciled back to Him through Jesus Christ. These He caused to be born again, not by our will but by His will, because “all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God” (John 1:12-13). God gave first and God gave the most (John 3:16). What more could He give than His One and only Son! God demanded a perfect sacrifice, so God became the perfect sacrifice in Christ Jesus. God supplied what God demanded. That’s amazing grace, isn’t it?

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