Loving Your Enemies

The Bible Church of Cabot

In Luke 6:27–36, Jesus presents 7 directives outlining thenecessity of His followers to love their enemies as Godloves.I. Jesus presents a poetic, four-fold, counterculturalcommand to love our enemies (vs. 27–28).II. Jesus presents four concrete, counterculturalexamples of loving our enemies (vs. 29–30).III. Jesus presents a practical guiding principle fordeciding how to love our enemies (v. 31).IV. Jesus presents three examples of non-countercultural love (vs. 32–34).V. Jesus presents a summary of the commands tolove our enemies (v. 35a).VI. Jesus presents the rewards given to those whoobey the commands to love our enemies (v. 35b).VII. Jesus presents the reason we are to love ourenemies (v. 35c–36).