Luke Chapter 6

Luk 6:27,28 "But I say to you who hear: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, and pray for those who spitefully use you.

Since I have been baptized, I always thought about this question before. Why should a Christian love his enemies? Why should a Christian allow the attacks from his enemies? In normal no one will treat his enemy like this. But after accepting more teachings of God, I began to understand more closely the argument of it.

To sanctify ourselves and to love people with Christ’s heart.

While Jesus died for us, we were still under the bandage of sins, we even teased him and scourged him. Jesus Lord has loved us before we love him, and he forgives our sins while we are incomplete. When Jesus was nailed on the cross, he said “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do”. So as Stephen was stoned before his death, he said "Lord, do not charge them with this sin”. If we have this spiritual love of Christ, then the people will know that we are different from others and belong to God. We are Christians.

Besides speaking of Forgiveness we are familiar with, which is from Matthew chapter 18, up to seventy times seven. If we see someone as our enemy, it is because he did something to us that we are uncomfortable. It is the question that does he know that? Is he willing to result the troubles, if he knows? It is often that we set ourselves into the tricks of hatred and sin. No one is suffering, but rather ourselves who remind the trouble. Actually only we can release ourselves from the hatred, let us not in sin if we can pray for our enemies with God’s love, and this attitude is also the highest level of forgiveness.

On my opinion that unless the real one enemy, the Satan, there is no enemy on the world. As Jesus said “they do not know what they do”. If we follow in the Spirit, then we will grow the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. We will no more be bounded by sin.

1Pe 3:17,18 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil. For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit.