Matthew 5:38-48

Jesus' teachings about retaliation and love Matthew 5:38-48: Having the right attitude will cause us to go the second mile. (Matthew 5:38-42) Do anything and everything within your power to show the world what Christ is like. Go the second mile.

Right attitudes will cause love for enemies. (Matthew 5:43-48) Those that learn to love learn to forgive. The only acceptable disposition for the Christian in any circumstance of life is love. By inspiration Paul expressed it this way, "If thine enemy hunger, feed him: if he thirst, give him drink." (Romans 12:20) As a Christian you must love your enemies and pray for anyone that mistreats you. When you love your enemies and pray for those that mistreat you, "then you will be acting like your Father in heaven. He makes the sun rise on both good and bad people. And He sends rain for the ones who do right and for the ones who do wrong."

We must love our enemies. "For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? Do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?" God expects the Christian to do more than others and to be more than others. He expects us to be perfect. We must be sincere and upright in our love to all men, as our heavenly Father is in His affections to them.