BASIC RULES FOR CHRISTIANS TO FOLLOW: You can only quote any Bible Scripture with authority if YOU BELIEVE IN IT! People who follow satanically inspired PATHS have NO RIGHT to USE SCRIPTURE on Christians, the same way satan tried to tempt Jesus in the desert. Many people not of the Christian faith like satan try to use the scriptures of God, on Christians the same as in Matthew Chapter 4 verses 4-11, Jesus instead rebuked satan and made him flee away. Matthew 5:11 11 “Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of me. Matthew 5 needs to be interpreted by Christians as NOT TO TAKE INSULTS PERSONALLY if you receive it (because of me ) for Jesus’s Sake. This does not mean that We compromise our FAITH and SHUT UP because someone else following a false path takes OFFENCE at what we say. IT IS VERY EASY TO KEEP QUIET AND NOT PREACH GOD”S SALVATION to other people for the sake of PEACE! Matthew 5: 38-44 44 But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, Means to love your enemies So Much that YOU continuously warn Non Believers of their fate if they do not believe your preaching of God Word of Salvation to them Matthew 5 says Love Your Enemies (TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK means to forgive your ENEMIES EASILY, NOT TO COMPROMISE WITH WRONG! ) 38 “You have heard that it was said, ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’ 39 But I tell you not to oppose an evil person. If someone slaps you on your right cheek, turn your other cheek to him as well. 40 If someone wants to sue you in order to take your shirt, let him have your coat too. 41 If someone forces you to go one mile, go two miles with him. This can’t be what Jesus meant. After all, Jesus denounced the Pharisees who attacked Him ( Matthew 23 ), and objected when He was struck by one of the officers of the high priest ( John 18:22-23). Further, He advised His disciples to take measures to defend themselves ( Matthew 10:16; Luke 22:36-38 ). He also declared that they shouldn’t worry beforehand about how they should respond to their enemies’ charges, because He would give them the right words to say so that their adversaries wouldn’t be able “to contradict or resist” them ( Luke 21:14-15 ). Similarly, the apostle Paul aggressively defended himself against his enemies, asserting his rights as a Roman citizen, and making it clear to his attackers that there could be consequences if he were unlawfully harmed ( Acts 23:1-3; 25:14-27 ). What Jesus asks of His followers is not passivity, but surrender of the right to personal revenge. His three radical examples make His point about the attitude we should have toward those who wrong us. Rather than getting even, we should be willing to go to the opposite extreme. We need to be ready to HUMBLE ourselves FOR the KINGDOM OF God. We need to understand that vengeance isn’t ours, but the Lord’s ( Romans 12:19 ). If Matthew 5:38-48 were taken literally at all times, we would have to let everyone take advantage of us. Turning the other cheek would become an encouragement for evil. This isn’t what Jesus had in mind. His vivid examples illustrate His disciples’ need to give up any sense of entitlement to personal revenge, to be purged of the motivation of personal vengeance. By asking them to turn the other cheek, Jesus meant that His disciples should be motivated by love and a desire for the redemption and forgiveness of offenders—even when opposing their actions. We are warned about this in 2 Timothy 4 4 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage—with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. 1 John 2 My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. Love and Hatred for Fellow Believers (Notice the Word Fellow Believers mentioned) 3 We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands. 4 Whoever says, “I know him,” but does not do what he commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person. 5 But if anyone obeys his word, love for God is truly made complete in them. This is how we know we are in him: 6 Whoever claims to live in him must live as Jesus did. Warnings Against Denying the Son (This fact about Father and Son has been there from the beginning see VERSE 24!) 1 John 2: 18 Dear children, this is the last hour; and as you have heard that the antichrist is coming, even now many antichrists have come. This is how we know it is the last hour. 19 They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us. 22 Who is the liar? It is whoever denies that Jesus is the Christ. Such a person is the antichrist—denying the Father and the Son. 23 No one who denies the Son has the Father; whoever acknowledges the Son has the Father also. 24 As for you, see that what you have heard from the beginning remains in you. If it does, you also will remain in the Son and in the Father. 25 And this is what he promised us—eternal life.
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