In this vital message from the Sermon on the Mount, Assistant Pastor Zane Garza challenges us to embrace the standard of God's love. Examining Matthew 5:43-48, we learn that God's standard of perfection is complete love, which demands that we love everyone—even our enemies—without condition or partiality. Through powerful expositional preaching, this sermon exposes the danger of traditional teachings that compromise God's Word and calls every Christian to repent of selfish, human love, and instead, to love like God.
Chapters:
0:00:00 - Introduction and Announcements
0:02:26 - Reading of the Text: Matthew 5:43-48
0:03:08 - The Meaning of "Perfect"
0:07:05 - What God Values: People and Relationships
0:09:23 - The Tradition of the Law: Loving Your Neighbor and Hating Your Enemy
0:14:27 - The Reality of the Law: We are to Love Everyone
0:15:00 - Defining Agape Love
0:16:34 - Loving Your Enemies: The Friend of God is the Enemy of the World
0:19:54 - How to Love Your Enemies: Bless, Do Good, and Pray
0:22:58 - Love is a Fruit of the Spirit
0:25:21 - Love Reflects the Character of God
0:28:34 - God Loved Us While We Were His Enemies
0:31:37 - The Standard of the Law is Not Conditional
0:34:56 - The Standard of the Law is Not Partial
0:37:16 - The Standard of Perfection
0:38:20 - The Big Idea: Love Like God
0:39:53 - Salvation Invitation and Call to Action
0:41:25 - Closing
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