Episode 97
Summer on the Mount: Loving Your Enemies (Matthew 5:43-48) | Pastor Hayden Thomas
Weekend Sermons Podcast · Compass Bible Church Hill Country
July 16, 202358m 2s
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Show Notes
Preaching Point: As a Christian, you have a responsibility to display your relationship with God by reflecting His benevolence and concern for all people, including your enemies.
Main Text: Matthew 5:43–48
Teaching Points:
- Love Others Indiscriminately vv43-45
- Reject the World’s Superficial Definition of Love vv46-47
- Intentionally Pursue Progressive Holiness v48
Application Questions:
- Write down one observation or application you found helpful from this week’s sermon.
- Read Romans 5:8–11. Why is defining love according to this passage significant both in your relationship with God and your relationship with others?
- What does loving indiscriminately look like practically?
- Read Matthew 5:46–47. Does your love tend to look more like how the world defines love than how God defines love? How so?
- Who do you need to specifically improve on loving in a self-giving, self-sacrificial way that seeks their good?
- What are three practical ways you can accomplish that this week?
- Read 1 John 3:10 and 1 Timothy 6:11. Why should you intentionally pursue holiness?
- Why would believing that you have no part to play in progressing in holiness be biblically misinformed? Look up and write down a Bible reference that addresses your part in pursuing holiness.
- How can correctly understanding the role of the Holy Spirit give you confidence that your cooperation with the Holy Spirit to make you progressively holy is God’s plan for every Christian?