Seventh Day Baptist
Christian Education Council
PO BOX 1678
Janesville, WI 53547
—Matthew 5:43-48
by: Sheri Rood.
Loving someone who is mean to us or ignores us is difficult enough. But to love someone who is torturing us or trying to kill us can only be done supernaturally—through the power of the Holy Spirit. As the world gets more and more hostile to Christians, the only way we can defeat the world in us and around us is through the perfect love of the Father, Jesus the Messiah, and the Holy Spirit. False love has motives—to coerce, control, or manipulate. Love from the heart of God seeks to save and extend forgiveness as we have been forgiven.