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- 0:12Whenever you go to battle, you must know your enemy.
- 0:18Oh, come on now.
- 0:19I want you to get this now.
- 0:20See, in the military, before you go to battle, you gotta know your enemy's weak s- weak areas, their strength, how they behave, what is their purpose.
- 0:36So once you understand that, then you can deal with them correctly.
- 0:43Well, in life, there's no difference.
- 0:47When I was in the military, we had a strategy of how we gonna conduct ourselves in battle.
- 0:54Well, in life, you gotta also identify how you gonna deal with your enemies.
- 1:01You don't choose your enemies.
- 1:05Your enemies choose you.
- 1:09Okay, let me help y'all now.
- 1:10See, see, for years I didn't understand this, and as I started to understand, I had to go back to the Word.
- 1:17How do I operate against my enemies?
- 1:21How do I-- what's my behavior of how I deal with my enemies?
- 1:28Are we in it now?
- 1:29You just may as well just go ahead and take it now.
- 1:31See, you gotta love your enemies.
- 1:33But before you can love your enemies, you gotta know who you're fighting.
- 1:40Hmm.
- 1:42You gotta know who you fighting.
- 1:44So let's just dig into it.
- 1:46That's the title, Love Your Enemies, and we're gonna start off in the Book of Matthews.
- 1:54Matthew 5, we gotta love our enemies.
- 2:00In Matthew chapter 5, we're dealing with verse 43 to 48.
- 2:05That's where we're gonna start from now because we're gonna get an understanding.
- 2:10First, we gotta know our enemies, then we gotta love our enemies So in Matthew 5:43-48, let's just deal with what Jesus is teaching us in his word.
- 2:29"You have heard that it has been said,'Thou shalt love thy neighbor, and hate thy enemy.'" Old Testament.
- 2:40But watch what Jesus says,"But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." For if you love them which love you, what reward have you?
- 3:24Do not even the publicans the same?
- 3:29And if you salute your brethren only, what do you more than others?
- 3:35Do not even the publicans so?
- 3:38And all he's saying is, the tax collectors, people evil, they'll do that.
- 3:45What does that benefit you?
- 3:48We talk about spiritual growth now.
- 3:50Love your enemies.
- 3:53Now, as I said earlier, you don't choose your enemies.
- 3:58Your enemies choose you.
- 4:01How you deal with them, though, is all going, going, going, going, all gonna deal with how God is gonna deal with you.
- 4:10Wow.
- 4:11You remember the saying in the Our Father prayer,"I'll forgive you," God said,"I'll forgive you as you forgive them." Well, he was doing the same thing, but in a different manner.
- 4:25Same concept, though.
- 4:27I know you're saying to yourself,"Man, that, that's kinda hard right there." Well, let's deal with the fact is, who do you really fight against?
- 4:37Remember now, you don't choose your enemies.
- 4:39Your enemies choose you.
- 4:42The minute you try to live Christly or try to live righteously in Christ, your enemy is gonna show their face.
- 4:50Long as you living in sin, long as you don't, you, you not trying to live like Christ, you're not reading your word, there ain't no persecution coming to you.
- 4:58Nobody hates a drunk.
- 5:01They love a drunk'cause they, they'll drink with him.
- 5:06But try to walk right and holy.
- 5:10So let, let's deal with who is your enemy.
- 5:14Now, I know as we're going, and, and we're going, going here, I want, I, I wanna just talk a little bit'cause we're going to Ephesians 6:11 and 12.
- 5:24Ephesians chapter 6:11 and 12.
- 5:26Now, you're gonna think that your brothers and your sisters are your enemies They're really not.
- 5:35They may come in the form of them, but they're not your enemies.
- 5:39Sometime your parents is your enemy.
- 5:42No, they're really not.
- 5:44The devil is using them because the devil is your enemy.
- 5:50The minute you put on Christ, the devil made his mind up that he's gonna be your adversary.
- 5:57Okay, stay with me now.
- 5:58Don't just believe me.
- 6:00Let's get to the word now.
- 6:01In Ephesians chapter 6, I'm gonna give you a, a secret right now'cause it's gonna help and bless you now.
- 6:10For Satan to use somebody to be your enemy, they're not saved.
- 6:15Wow, that's a revelation now.
- 6:18For Satan to use them to be your enemy, that person's not saved.
- 6:25Wow.
- 6:27And he has control, and he's gonna do what he's supposed to do to get to you.
- 6:35And now that you know that, you're gonna use the strategy against the devil.
- 6:42Okay, okay, okay.
- 6:44In Ephesians chapter 6 verse 11 and 12, oh, we, we, we gonna, we gonna dig into it now, now.
- 6:50If this is when he's talking about putting the whole armor of God, right?
- 6:54Put on the whole armor.
- 6:54Well, the only reason you can put on the whole armor of God, you have to have the Spirit of God.
- 6:58I, I'm not dealing too much with 10.
- 7:00I'm gonna read it just so you can get it, but that's not really where I wanted at.
- 7:04I want 11, but 10 I wanna show you where we coming from.
- 7:08"Finally, my brethren, be strong," where?
- 7:12"In the Lord, and in the power of" who?
- 7:16"The Lord's might.
- 7:18Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil." There you go.
- 7:29That's your enemy.
- 7:31Your enemy is the devil because you have now start to walk with Christ.
- 7:40For we wrestle not against flesh and blood.
- 7:42I don't give a care if they got flesh and blood, you ain't wrestling against them.
- 7:47If they're breathing, you're not wrestling against them.
- 7:53Now you wanna know who you're wrestling against?
- 7:55But you're wrestling against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darks of this world.
- 8:05Well, who's the ruler of this world?
- 8:07Satan.
- 8:08Against spiritual wickedness where?
- 8:11In high places.
- 8:12Now, now, I want you to get that there because let me show you something.
- 8:16You know you're going some place when the devil rises his head against you.
- 8:21Don't miss that.
- 8:23See, that's what mess people up.
- 8:25They think they're dealing with that person, and they're really dealing with the spiritual atmosphere.
- 8:33They're dealing with the devil himself, and his warriors to try to get your mind on that person, on those people.
- 8:46Isn't it ironic that people don't never really call you to give you great compliments?
- 8:51They call you with bad news.
- 8:53They gotta talk to you.
- 8:55I gotta find a way to get to you because you done got on my last nerve, and I gotta bring you down.
- 9:05It's because Satan is controlling me Ooh, this is heavy now.
- 9:11So, so now that you know that, let's go a little deeper.
- 9:17That's why you can always look around and see who's not saved.
- 9:23Why?
- 9:24Because they're always in some mess, always causing some confusion, and always proclaiming they're looking out for your interests.
- 9:33Wow.
- 9:35See, I'm not telling nobody nothing I think, I'm telling you what I know.
- 9:39So now that we got that, hold on, I gotta take you deeper.
- 9:44See, I'm just scratching the surface now.
- 9:47I know you're saying to yourself,"Man, this is heavy." It gets even more.
- 9:54Let's go to the Book of Ezekiel.
- 9:56I'm, I'm, gonna teach you something tonight now.
- 9:58Let's go to the Book of Ezekiel.
- 10:01In the Book of Ezekiel chapter 28, Ezekiel 28, we're dealing with verse 13 and 14, and I'm gonna teach you something you did not know.
- 10:14In Ezekiel 28, verse 11...
- 10:17uh, verse 13 through 14, hold on now, we're gonna dance now in the word now.
- 10:25And he starts out,"Thou hast been in Eden." Now hold up now.
- 10:32Who's been in Eden?
- 10:36We talking about Satan.
- 10:38We knew that.
- 10:39You say, now, well, you're not teaching me nothing new.
- 10:42Just hold on, we getting there.
- 10:46The garden of E- he said the garden of God.
- 10:49Every precious stone was thy covering.
- 10:53Now remember now, we're talking about Satan now, but now we're talking about stones, a- and I'm gonna bless you a little bit.
- 11:00This is why when you see a lot of people with a lot of jewelry, you don't even realize, they don't even realize what they're doing.
- 11:07They're covering themselves like Satan.
- 11:11Ain't nothing wrong with having a little bit of gold here, and a little diamond here.
- 11:14There nothing wrong with that.
- 11:15But when you see a lot of people with a lot of it, they're covering themselves like Satan.
- 11:22Stay with me now.
- 11:23Watch this now.
- 11:25Because he goes on,"Every precious stone was thy covering, thy sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, the jasper, the sapphire, and the emerald, and the s- the, and the carbuncle, and gold: and the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy," watch this now,"pipes was prepared in thee in the day..." No, no, no, you I, I, I don't think y'all getting that now.
- 11:57He said,"Was prepared in thee in the day that thou was created." He said when he created Satan, he created Satan great Beautiful.
- 12:11See, when I see all these m- all these, uh, commercials and these movies and Satan is this evil thing, well, it's easy just by saying that that was true.
- 12:21But if that's not true, then it makes sense why Satan, Satan trips up a lot of people.
- 12:27'Cause watch in verse 14, watch what it says.
- 12:30"Thou art the anointed," where?
- 12:33"Cherubim." Uh-oh.
- 12:35Uh-oh.
- 12:36See, we know of four cherubim.
- 12:39It was five.
- 12:41Satan was the head cherubim.
- 12:44Now, now, now come on now.
- 12:46Stay with me now.
- 12:47We know the cherubim and the wings.
- 12:50We got that.
- 12:51We know a cherubim have the four faces: the face of a ox, the face of a lion, the face of a man, and the face of a eagle.
- 13:02Satan's no different It's right out the word.
- 13:07Faith is no different I want you to absorb that.
- 13:13You see, we've been lied to for so long, we keep thinking there's red on him, and he's this big horn out of his head.
- 13:21Nah, come on now.
- 13:22Let's be real now.
- 13:23We all can spot that.
- 13:26That's a deception by itself.
- 13:29But we're going on.
- 13:31We talking about love your enemies.
- 13:33Who is that?
- 13:34That's Satan.
- 13:37But it keeps on, and it goes on.
- 13:40"I have set thee so thou wast upon the holy mountain of God." That's heaven.
- 13:47"Thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire." See, Satan has access.
- 13:59Why?
- 14:00God is not afraid of Satan.
- 14:02Why do you think the Lord spoke to Satan in the Book of Job and said,"Have you, have you seen my servant Job?" Satan,"Yeah, I saw him.
- 14:12He got protection around him." You know, they're having a conversation.
- 14:16God is never afraid of Satan See, truth always override lies.
- 14:27You just gotta learn truth.
- 14:30So I know you're saying to yourself,"You got to be kidding me." No.
- 14:35That's why the cherubim flies.
- 14:40They got wings that cover their feet.
- 14:42They got wings that cover their, they fly.
- 14:44Why?
- 14:45They speak.
- 14:46Why?
- 14:48Because th- they not only say,"Holy, holy, holy," they do so much more because God showed them the whole picture.
- 14:57Satan is no different.
- 14:59He knows the story.
- 15:02Okay, keep on going.
- 15:03Now, hold on now.
- 15:04We're going somewhere now.
- 15:06Love your enemies.
- 15:08See, anybody can return hate for hate.
- 15:12The problem is when you start hating, you can't stop.
- 15:19That person will annoy you to the point where you have no peace.
- 15:26Just to see them will bring up something boiling in your body that you wanna deal with it.
- 15:33That's not love.
- 15:35Love makes you feel sorry for that person because you know they're being controlled by Satan.
- 15:41But let's keep on going now.
- 15:42Let's keep on going.
- 15:43We're going to the Book of Proverbs.
- 15:46We're going to the Book of Proverbs.
- 15:49In the Book of Proverbs, chapter 25, Proverbs 25.
- 15:55Oh, we talking about David now.
- 15:56We talking about David now.
- 15:57Verse 21 to 22.
- 16:00Love your enemy.
- 16:0421 to 22.
- 16:05What does the word of God trying to tell us?
- 16:09If thy enemy, whoa, be hungry, give him bread to eat.
- 16:15Why?
- 16:17That don't make no sense.
- 16:18I know somebody's telling God right now,"I don't understand that, God, now." He says,"They made me their enemy." Yeah, but they're not your enemy.
- 16:26They made you their enemy.
- 16:29The Lord says,"Give them bread if they're hungry." And if he, and the rest of it,"If he's thirsty, give him water to drink.
- 16:40For thou shall heap coals of fire upon his head and the Lord shall reward thee." Whoa, uh-oh.
- 16:49Let me, let me say that again now.
- 16:51He said,"Do what?
- 16:51If they're hungry, feed them.
- 16:54If they're thirsty, give them drink." Why?
- 16:57He said,"'Cause it, it put heaps upon their head," and guess what?
- 17:00The Lord said,"I'm gonna reward you for doing that." You serious?
- 17:07Think,"I ain't gonna bless my enemies if you want to." And see, most people cut their enemies off.
- 17:14Well, you cut your blessings off.
- 17:16No, I'm gonna invite my enemies over.
- 17:19Why?
- 17:20I wanna bless them.
- 17:21Why?
- 17:22Because the Lord told me it ain't no good, but He said,"I'm gonna bless you for doing this." This is hard now because you love to cut people off.
- 17:32No, buddy, I'm gonna let y'all bless me.
- 17:35I'm gonna be honest, I'm gonna let people bless me.
- 17:37I know they're my enemy, and I'm gonna let them do what they do, and I'm gonna bless them.
- 17:42I'm gonna bless their socks off.
- 17:44I'm not gonna tell you no lie.
- 17:45I'm gonna bless their socks off.
- 17:47Why?
- 17:48I didn't make them my enemy.
- 17:50They made me their enemy, so guess what I'm gonna do?
- 17:54I'm gonna do the same thing God kept doing, love them.
- 17:56He said,"Love them.
- 17:57Love them." Why?
- 17:59'Cause He said,"I'm gonna pay you.
- 18:00I'm gonna give you reward." See, if you believe anything in His word, you better believe that.
- 18:04If you don't think the Lord will bless you, you try it.
- 18:08Now, I know you're saying to yourself,"Man, this is heavy." Well, let's keep on going then.
- 18:16Since you really got it now, let's just keep on walking.
- 18:20Matthew 7:12.
- 18:22The Book of Matthew 7:12.
- 18:25Now, you don't get this every day'cause everybody don't teach this.
- 18:28This is something you gotta have to learn through the Spirit of how God operates.
- 18:34In Matthew 7:12, guess what the word of God says?
- 18:39"Therefore, all things," this is some?
- 18:43Nope.
- 18:44"All things, whatsoever you would that men should do to you, do you even so to them." For this is the law and the prophets.
- 18:59Let me, let me explain that to you now.
- 19:02See, sometimes you catch yourself in group of people who like to gossip, and without you even realizing it, you start gossiping.
- 19:14Wow You catch yourself in situations where they're going against a person, and the next thing you know, you're going against that person.
- 19:23Wow.
- 19:25And the Lord just flipped that.
- 19:28He says,"Treat people like you wanna be treated." Wow.
- 19:35That's not hard.
- 19:36He says,"If you want people to forgive you, forgive them.
- 19:40You want people to love you, love on them." All he's saying is treat people like you wanna be treated Now, I'm gonna be honest with you, that's going against the norm.
- 19:53When there's a group of people hitting on a person...
- 19:56I was telling a friend of mine the other day, I says, I, I said,"People can't come around me and tell me about you." Why?
- 20:03I'm not gonna sit here and listen.
- 20:05Somebody can't come and tell me about my wife.
- 20:07I'm not gonna sit here and listen.
- 20:08Why?
- 20:09I know my wife, I know my friends.
- 20:11So I'm not gonna sit there and have conversations over stupidity It doesn't make sense, but people will do it.
- 20:22But they don't never go back and tell the whole story.
- 20:26Oh, wow See, sometimes you gotta be able to talk to a person you say you love and give them honesty.
- 20:39So when something happens, they're not wondering how you coming at them.
- 20:44They know you coming with love Wow.
- 20:50When I leave home, I know I leave home in order.
- 20:53Why?
- 20:54Because my wife already checked me out.
- 20:56Okay, you good This is not complicated.
- 21:01I don't need the world to tell me I look good.
- 21:05I definitely don't need the world to tell me I'm jacked up.
- 21:08That's already been talked about in the house, in private.
- 21:14Okay, let me go on, let me go on, let me go on now.
- 21:16We gonna get to this here today now.
- 21:18We gonna love your enemies now.
- 21:19This is the word.
- 21:21But now that we have that, can we go a little bit deeper?
- 21:281 John.
- 21:29Uh-oh, we, we be going there now.
- 21:311 John 4:7.
- 21:341 John 4:7.
- 21:39What is he trying to teach us?
- 21:42Love your enemies.
- 21:44And who's your enemies?
- 21:46Satan.
- 21:48People are not your enemies.
- 21:51They take on the role of your enemy, but they're not your enemies.
- 21:56Okay, okay, okay.
- 21:58In 1 John 4:7, watch what it says.
- 21:59"Beloved," uh-oh, guess what now?
- 22:04That word beloved is a powerful word.
- 22:07That's, you're in there.
- 22:09That's a love language.
- 22:12"Let us love one another, for love is of God." Whoa.
- 22:18Don't miss that now.
- 22:20I don't care where they're at, love is of God.
- 22:28Why do you think so many relationships are having a hard time?
- 22:32Because they don't have the love of God in them.
- 22:37You want somebody to love you, but they don't love God.
- 22:40That's a hard task But I'm going on.
- 22:45For love is Go- of God, and everyone that loveth is what?
- 22:50Born of God.
- 22:52And what knoweth God.
- 22:53Uh-oh.
- 22:54He not only born of God, but he knoweth God.
- 22:58See, that's how powerful that is.
- 23:02Now, I know you're saying to yourself,"Man, now I understand." They can't love you.
- 23:09They have lo- loved nobody.
- 23:11Every relationship people like that is in is always about mani- manipulation.
- 23:19It's always about being friends with everybody.
- 23:21You ever met somebody that no matter what group of people, they always trying to be a good friend?
- 23:29When nobody's watching, they're great, but when people are watching,"No, I'm your friend now." A- a- and, and I used to have to wonder, that, that don't make sense.
- 23:38Yeah, it makes sense.
- 23:39They want everybody to like'em.
- 23:42See, when you're real, you don't need everybody to like you.
- 23:46Matter of fact, when you're real, you realize that you will have very few true friends in this life.
- 23:54Wow.
- 23:55The, the Bible, the Word of God says, if you find one true friend, I, I, I'm not talking about a lot of people who claim to be friends now.
- 24:04It says if you find one true friend in a lifetime, you're blessed.
- 24:10Why?
- 24:10'Cause a lot of people gonna portray to be your friend, and then five, 10, 20 years later, you look back and you say,"What happened to my friend?" Well, he never was a friend You just didn't realize it.
- 24:27And then when you realize it, it hurts.
- 24:30I'm not asking you if it hurts, I'm telling you it hurts.
- 24:33But guess what?
- 24:35You, you, you, you put your britches on, you fix your face, and you move on.
- 24:40Why?
- 24:40'Cause that's life.
- 24:42You put one foot in front the next, and you keep it moving.
- 24:45Let me go on, let me go on.
- 24:46In the book of Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke, Luke chapter six.
- 24:49We're winding down, we're coming down.
- 24:51Last one, last one.
- 24:52Luke chapter six, love your enemies.
- 24:56In Luke 6:27-32, He, he's try- He's trying to teach us something now.
- 25:03See, in the spiritual realm is different than in the secular world.
- 25:08So in Luke 6:27-32, He's trying to teach us about loving our enemies.
- 25:17But he goes on and he says,"But I say unto you which hear, love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you." Hold up, Lord.
- 25:37You, hold up.
- 25:38You, you, did you just now read this, Lord?
- 25:40You're telling me, they use me, Lord.
- 25:44And you're telling me to pray for them?
- 25:49Yeah, that's what you're telling me.
- 25:50Okay, Lord, that's, that's hard, but I'm gonna do it.
- 25:54But it's hard.
- 25:56"And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other." Lord, they, they, they smack me, and you said let it hit me again?
- 26:04Yes.
- 26:06"And him that taketh away thy cloak forbid him not to take away thy coat also." He said you gotta take one garment and give him the other one.
- 26:14"Give unto every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again." He said, yeah, they took...
- 26:22Don't, don't ask for them back.
- 26:23Don't ask for it right back.
- 26:25Why?
- 26:25I'm gonna bless you.
- 26:27"And as you would that men would, that men should do to you, do also to them likewise." He said treat them right.
- 26:35Lord, but you, you didn't realize they, they did me wrong.
- 26:38Yeah, Lord, so I understand, but do them right.
- 26:42"For if you love them which love you, what thank have ye?
- 26:49For the sinners also love those who love them." Man, that's some good stuff.
- 26:59Is it easy?
- 27:00No.
- 27:02Can you do it?
- 27:02Yes.
- 27:04Is it worth it?
- 27:05Yes.
- 27:06Is it hard?
- 27:07Yes.
- 27:08Can you do it?
- 27:09Yes.
- 27:11But this is in the spiritual realm.
- 27:14It's not easy to the average person'cause they can't do it.
- 27:21This is for God's people I'm gonna be honest with you.
- 27:26In the real, in the world, you could, you ain't gonna do this.
- 27:29Why?
- 27:29It's not natural.
- 27:31I've been in the world.
- 27:32You slap me, I'm gonna be honest with you, I'm gonna try to slap your teeth out.
- 27:36In the real world, in the spiritual world, no.
- 27:39I had to learn it's stronger to withhold that slap back Wow.
- 27:48Now don't get me wrong now.
- 27:51I ain't gonna sit here and let nobody beat me up.
- 27:54But what we're talking about now is spiritual realm.
- 27:59What we're talking about now is how to control your mind and your spirit to operate against the devil.
- 28:06You can't beat the devil up I'm just, I'm just might help you with that.
- 28:13You get to-- people say,"Well, I, I'm marching against the devil." March on, but you can't beat the devil up.
- 28:18Why?
- 28:18You have no power So when I hear people,"I'm fighting the devil," you're not fighting no devil.
- 28:27You might resist the devil with the Word of God or with God and his angels, but you are not fighting no devil.
- 28:35You're not fighting no cherubims.
- 28:37You're not fighting those angels that was able to kill a hundred and sixty-seven thousand, hundred and eighty thousand people by themselves.
- 28:45You're not doing that Wrong teaching brings wrong results.
- 28:54If you belong to God, you're already protected.
- 28:58But that doesn't mean Satan ain't gonna bother you Love your enemy.
- 29:05That was the word.
- 29:07That's spiritual.
- 29:08I hope you enjoy hearing the word of God.
- 29:10Love thy enemy