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Love Your Enemies: Blessings Turned Upside Down and a Widow's Son Raised | Luke 6–8
Episode Overview
Today we read Luke chapters 6 through 8. Jesus spends a night in prayer before choosing the twelve, then comes down to a level place and teaches. Luke's version pairs blessings with woes in a way Matthew's does not: blessed are you who are poor, hungry, weeping, hated—but woe to you who are rich, well fed, laughing, spoken well of. The reversal is stated in both directions.
Then the hardest teaching: love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you. Turn the other cheek. Lend without expecting return. And the reasoning is not that it works, but that…
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