Shortly after becoming the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was taken to task for his kindness toward his enemies. A close associate asked him, Why do you try to make friends of them, when you are now in a position to destroy them? Lincoln gently replied, Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?<\/p>\n
Many a person in todays society, lives for the day when hell be in a position to get even with those who have wronged him. But vengeance doesnt belong to man, but only to God (Romans 12:19).<\/p>\n
The sword of vengeance is simply too heavy a sword to wield. In fact, an individual who wields that sword, oftentimes falls on it and destroys himself<\/strong> (note Haman – Esther 3-7).<\/p>\n Theres an Oriental proverb which states: Water does not remain on the mountain, or vengeance in a great mind.<\/p>\n Benjamin Franklin once stated: Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; Revenging one makes you but even with him; Forgiving it sets you above him.<\/p>\n Regarding our enemies, Gods word says:<\/p>\n Therefore if your enemy hungers, feed him; If he thirsts, give him a drink; For in so doing you will heap coals of fire on his head. Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good<\/strong> (Romans 12:20-21; Proverbs 25:21-22; see example – 1 Samuel 24:16-19). Also see Luke 6:27-36.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Brethren and friends, showing kindness, forgiveness, love, and concern toward our enemies will help them to eventually become our friends.<\/p>\n At one time, were we not the enemies<\/strong> of Christ? (Romans 5:10). But because of His kindness, forgiveness, love, and concern for us (Romans 5:6-11; cf. John 10:1-15), and because we responded to Him in obedience to His will (Romans 6:16-18), He now calls us friends<\/strong> (John 15:12-15).<\/p>\n This is the only God-authorized way for us to destroy our enemies make them our friends<\/strong> for vengeance belongs only to God (Romans 12:19; Hebrews 10:30; cf. Leviticus 19:18; Deuteronomy 32:35).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shortly after becoming the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln was taken to task for his kindness toward his enemies. A close associate asked him, Why do you try to make friends of them, when you are now in a position to destroy them? Lincoln gently replied, Am I not destroying my enemies when … Continue reading “How To Destroy Our Enemies – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n