LET CHRIST BE RIGHT AND EVERY MAN BE A LIAR.

THE CALLED & FORGIVEN:
IN THIS LENTEN SEASON, BEFORE PRAYING TO GOD TO QUICKLY AND MARAMTHONLY DESTROY OUR ENEMIES LET US TAKE A PRECAUTIONARY MEASURE.
WE MUST UNDERSTAND WHAT THE HOLY BIBLE SAYS CONCERNING HOW WE SHOULD HANDLE THOSE WHO HATE US.
MATTHEW, 5:-44 “BUT I SAY UNTO YOU, LOVE YOUR ENEMIES, BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THEM THAT HATE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THEM WHO DESPITEFULLY USE YOU, AND PERSECUTE YOU.”
SOME MAY USE PSALM 35 TO ARGUE THIS POINT.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT WE MUST UNDERSTAND
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, ALL THE SACRIFICES CAN BE LIKENED TO PAYING AN INTERESTS ONLY ON OUR DEBTS.
HEBREWS, 10:- 4 “FOR IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS TO TAKE AWAY SINS. THAT IS WHY WHEN CHRIST CAME INTO THE WORLD, HE SAID TO GOD, “YOU DID NOT WANT ANIMAL SACRIFICES OR SIN OFFERINGS. BUT YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A BODY TO OFFER.”
DURING THE ERAS OF MOSES TO KING DAVID, IT WAS “AN EYE FOR AN EYE”
SECONDLY, THINGS CHANGED WHEN CHRIST CAME TO SACRIFICE HIMSELF FOR OUR SINS.
EVER SINCE SOME HAVE BEEN PRAYING FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THEIR ENEMIES, ARE THEY ENEMY FREE?
LET CHRIST BE RIGHT AND EVERY MAN BE A LIAR.
IF WE PRAY FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF OUR ENEMIES, WE ARE SERIOUSLY CONTRADICTING OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST.
MATTHEW, 6:-14-15 “IF YOU FORGIVE OTHER THEIR TRESPASSES, YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER WILL ALSO FORGIVE YOU, BUT IF YOU DO NOT FORGIVE OTHERS THEIR TRESPASSES, NEITHER WILL YOUR FATHER FORGIVE YOUR TRESPASSES.”
PROVERBS, 16:-7 “WHEN A MAN’S WAYS PLEASE THE LORD, HE MAKES EVEN HIS ENEMIES TO BE AT PEACE WITH HIM.”
IF YOU ARE ENVIOUS, AND HARBOR HATRED, YOU ARE AN ENEMY TO OTHERS. “WHAT GOES AROUND, COMES AROUND.”
“HE WHO PELTS OTHERS WITH PEBBLES ASKED FOR ROCK IN RETURN.”
IN CONCLUSION: BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER, TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE ANOTHER, AS GOD IN CHRIST FORGAVE YOU.” (EPHESIANS, 4:-32)