We Are Not to Hate

I. We Are to Even Our Enemies

A . Jesus Said That You Have Heard It Said That Thy Shalt Love Your Neighbour

B. And That It Has Been Said to Hate Your Enemies

C. Jesus Said That We Are to Love Our Enemies

D. Bless Those Who Curse You

E. Do Good to Those Who Hate You

F. Pray for Those Who Despitefully Use You and Persecute You

Matthew 5:43–44 “43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. 44 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;”

G. Jesus Said The Isreal Will Be Hated of All Nations for His Name’s Sake

H. Many Will Be Offended and Betray One Another and Will Hate One Another

Matthew 24:9–11 “9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.”

I. We Can Be Saved from Our Enemies and All That Hate Us

Luke 1:70–72 “70 As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, Which have been since the world began: 71 That we should be saved from our enemies, And from the hand of all that hate us; 72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, And to remember his holy covenant;”

II. If You Loveth Not Knowth Not God, For God is Love

A. We Are to Love One Another

B. If You Do Not Love, You Do Not Know God

C. Because God is Love

1 John 4:7–9 “7 Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.”

D. We Are to Not Love the World Nor Anything in the World

1 John 2:14–16 “14 I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one. 15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”

III. Charity, Love, is Necessary to Win the World and for Our Speaking to the World About Jesus

A. Your Speech Need to Be Done with Charity, Love

B. If You Don’t, You Are Sounding Brass or Tinkling Cymbals to Those That You Are Witnessing To

C. Even If You Speak With Tongues of Men or Angels

D. Charity, Love, Suffereth Long

E. It is Kind

F. It Doesn’t Envieth

G. It Vaunteth Not Itself

H. It is Not Puffed Up

1 Corinthians 13:4 “4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”

IV. We Are to Love Our Brother, Sister, That We See

A. If We Say that We Love God

B. We Can’t Hate Our Brothers or Sisters

C. If We Don’t, How Can We Say That We Love God Whom We Haven’t Seen

1 John 4:20 “20 If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?”