• Recap of previous lessons
  • More on the better righteousness
    • Review of Point 5: Getting even (Matthew 5:38-42; Exodus 21:23-25; Deuteronomy 19:18-21)
      • Don’t
      • Difference levels of perceived offense.
        • People who do you actual harm
        • Evil person who insults you
        • One opposing you at law
        • Government mandate
        • People in need
      • Justice is not a rendering of evil (v17)
      • Resisting evil
        • Would be a never-ending task for us
        • Not ours to do. I Thessalonians 5:15; Proverbs 20:22; Romans 12:17-19
        • Overcome rather than resist. Romans 12:21
        • Results? Romans 2:4
      • Don’t avenge insults (John 18:20-23)
      • Be compliant to a fault when “they” come after you
        • By litigation
        • By government coercion (Matthew 27:32; Mark 15:21; Luke 23:26)
    • Point 6: Love (Matthew 5:43-48)
      • Not just your neighbor – Remember Leviticus 19:18?
      • Also your enemies
        • No pat on the back for loving your own – who doesn’t?
        • Why your enemies?
        • To what end? I Peter 3:8-9; Ephesians 5:1; Romans 2:3-4
        • How does this make us perfect? Romans 5:8
      • Compare v45 to v9.
      • Jesus the example.
    • Don’t put on a show (I Corinthians 12:14,21,26-27)