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Renew Your Mind Day 11 | New Standard of Love · Growing Closer to God with Guided Meditation

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Pastor Robert Young: Is coming from the book of Matthew, chapter five, verse forty-three through forty-four.
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Pastor Robert Young: You have heard that it was said, You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.
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Pastor Robert Young: But I say unto you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
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Pastor Robert Young: The world's standard of justice is reciprocity.
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Pastor Robert Young: You hit me, I hit you.
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Pastor Robert Young: It is natural to hate those who oppose us and protect our own interests.
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Pastor Robert Young: The kingdom standard is radical, counterintuitive love.
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Pastor Robert Young: This isn't an emotion, it's a strategic weapon.
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Pastor Robert Young: By loving an enemy, we disrupt the cycle of hatred that fuels the world's broken systems.
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Pastor Robert Young: We prove we belong to a father who causes his son to rise on the evil and the good.
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Pastor Robert Young: Our question for reflection whom you have secretly or openly wished ill upon.
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Pastor Robert Young: two How does praying for someone who hurt you change your heart even if it doesn't immediately change theirs?
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Pastor Robert Young: Repeat this affirmation with me.
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Pastor Robert Young: I do not return evil for evil.
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Pastor Robert Young: I have the strength to love the unlovable because God first loved me when I was his enemy.