Listen as Pastor Rob teaches on how believers should view justice.

TEXT: Matt 5:38-42

TITLE: Getting Even

THE PATTERN & THE PROBLEM

• Matthew 5:38
• Exodus 23:9

THE POWER & THE PARDON

• Matthew 5:38-42
• “Stay right there and do something surprising.” – F. Bruner
• Leviticus 19:18
• Micah 6:8
• Romans 12:17-21
• “The cross is the only power in the world which proves that suffering love can avenge and vanquish evil. But it was just this participation in the cross which the disciples were granted when Jesus called them to him. They are called blessed because of their visible participation in his cross.” – Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship

RESOURCES: Commentaries used: Bruner, Lloyd-Jones, Stott; Books: The Cost of Discipleship, by Bonhoeffer; The Sermon on the Mount and Human Flourishing, by Pennington; The Divine Conspiracy, by Willard; How to Reach the West Again, by Keller