Food for thought:
What does it mean to do good for your enemies?
If often is not what we think.
Rebuke is often good, so is chastisement...
However... in Luke 6:27 the context as well as the word translated enemies is defined better as personal enemies. The word translated good in the text refers and means
doing what is functionally the best course of action to take and in the context, to win one's personal enemies to Jesus, which is the
functionally the best course of action to take.
It necessarily does not mean be kind to those who desire to kill, murder, rape you and to a christian to practice avoidance when it comes to protecting the weak and innocent from harm. It has to do with defending the faith against those closest to you who oppose the christian faith - to be kind to them in order to win them to Jesus.
Luke 6:27-38 has been largely misapplied. Let's look at the goodness Jesus to the Pharisees...
Mat 23:2,13,14,15,23,25,26,27,29 - Mark 8:15 - Luke 18:10,11,12,13,14
Now look at Mat 23:24 and then at Matthew chapters 26 and 27. Jesus seeks to win over his opponents. The leaves them a choice and if they refuse: John 3:36 and 2 Th 1:8,9 is clear...
Let me give you a decent analogy on Luke 6:27: you have hostile co-workers who hate Christianity and seek to set you up to fail. Doing good to them will pour, someday, coals of fire upon their heads.
Next, your country is being invaded by stealth by those who seek to establish a Geo-political-theocracy of oppression, extermination, hate, and death. Is it functionally best to let them have your country, enslave your children and brutalize people. How is that pouring coals of fire upon their heads, how is that winning them to Jesus Christ?
Fact is, it does not. Neither is it defending the poor, widows, orphans, the defenseless either.
Psa 82:1-4, "
God stands in the congregation of the mighty; He judges among the gods. 2 How long will you judge unjustly, And show partiality to the wicked? Selah 3 Defend the poor and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and needy. 4 Deliver the poor and needy; Free them from the hand of the wicked." NKJV
Note also: Proverbs 24:11-12 - Exodus 23:6,7,8,9
We live is a fallen world and in that fallen world there are enemies who desire a people/nation - dead.
Recently Iran's state news agency IRNA, 192 members of Iran's parliament declared: "The martyr-nurturing nation of Iran is not at all prepared to abandon the slogan of 'Death to America' under the pretext of a nuclear agreement."
These folks as well as ISIS chant death to Israel, the West, and America too and by it do not mean in the least only political leaders and policies as the France attack points out as does all terrorism attacks.
Those Syrian refuges need to be returned by force to Syria or a Muslim country. I have no problem in retraining the small Christian and other faiths population that were made refuges by the murder of their population groups. But when at least 75 percent of the refuges are men of military age - something is not right. The folks do not want to assimilate into a host nation but rather want host countries to assimilate to sharia ...
We are heading into dark times... pacifism is not an option.
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