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Turning The Other Cheek - By Michael Prabaharan Series

Contributed by Chris Appleby on Mar 14, 2005

based on 14 ratings

| 5,580 views

The Sermon on the Mount is an invitation – to taste and see this God, to join his club and deepen his kind of life skills.

Turning the Other Cheek I’ve been trying to figure out a realistic application for turning the other cheek ever since as a young person a mentor of mine once pointed out to that to teach his son this attitude was a license to getting him bullied at school. No way am I going to encourage my son ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:33-48

Denomination: Anglican

"Am I Really A Christ-Follower?" Series

Contributed by Warren Lamb on Apr 10, 2005

based on 4 ratings

| 3,378 views

Our Lord, our Leader, our Savior, our Forgiver...do we really follow in His steps?

“Am I Really a Christ-Follower?” Matthew 5:43-48 Has anyone done something to you recently that was just wrong? Something that hurt you, harmed you? Made you angry? How about something a long time ago? A deep and lasting hurt that penetrated deep into your heart and soul? Anything come to mind? It ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Love Your Enemies Series

Contributed by Michael Luke on Apr 10, 2005

based on 124 ratings

| 65,657 views

Christ-followers seek to model His character when others choose to harm or humiliate us.

(adapted from Southeast Christian Church’s series: Living a Life of Integrity"0 SERIES: “WORDS OF WISDOM FOR KINGDOM LIVING” TEXT: MATTHEW 5:38-48 TITLE: “LOVE YOUR ENEMIES” INTRODUCTION: A. A truck driver is sitting in a crowded roadside diner ready to eat his lunch. It’s not ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-48

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Old V. New / Law V. Grace

Contributed by David Hammond on Jun 10, 2006

| 2,145 views

This sermon is to help us realize we can and are expected to allow jesus to fulfill his teachings in our lives.

OLD v. NEW / LAW v. GRACE In the past couple of weeks we have been speaking about the Be-attitudes and being Salt and Light. How that happiness came to us, through receiving the words written in red, about the attitude and actions of Jesus Christ and how happiness comes to others by our ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:17-48

Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

Going The Second Mile

Contributed by Dr. Jeremy Simpson on Dec 6, 2006

based on 14 ratings

| 24,635 views

A Sermon about going above and beyond what is expected. Doing more than the status Quo!

GOING THE SECOND MILE - MATT. 5:41 INTRO: 1. Every Normal Person wants to Succeed - If you Don’t, you Better go see a Psychiatrist. 2. I’m a Musician - I want to be a successful Pianist, Singer, Songwriter. 3. If a man is a Logger - He wants to be a Good Logger 4. If a man is a Preacher – He ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:41, Matthew 5:41-50

Denomination: Baptist

New Year's Resolutions

Contributed by Johnny Small on Dec 27, 2002

based on 89 ratings

| 9,867 views

Have you made your New Year’s resolutions yet? Do you keep them? Let’s look at resolutions that we should make and keep.

New Year’s Resolutions We are again approaching another New Year. Many of us will make New Year resolutions and most of us will never keep them. How many of you have already made your New Year’s resolution? Typical New Year’s Resolutions: Lose weight Eat less Exercise more Spend less Save ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48, Matthew 28:18-20

Denomination: Baptist

Fair Is Fair Series

Contributed by Jeff Strite on Oct 13, 2002

based on 70 ratings

| 16,545 views

There are times it’s worthwhile to figure out what Jesus "didn’t mean."

OPENING: A woman read ahead as we were going through this text and was troubled by the phrase: "do not turn away from the one desiring to borrow from you." It wasn’t that she didn’t give to those in need... her problem was that she was giving so much away, that she barely had enough left for ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-48

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Survivor 7: How To Survive Conflict Series

Contributed by Geoff Baggett on Oct 28, 2002

based on 94 ratings

| 7,735 views

This is the seventh sermon in my SURVIVOR series, focusing upon Jesus’ formula for bringing peace to interpersonal conflict (10-27-02).

Opening Illustration There were once two men who lived in a small village. They got into a terrible dispute that they could not resolve. So they decided to talk to the town sage … the wise man. The first man went to the home of the old, wise one and told his version of what happened. When he ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Denomination: Baptist

Loving Those We Hate Series

Contributed by Denn Guptill on Oct 23, 2001

based on 82 ratings

| 13,484 views

Part 9 of Sermon on Mount Series, the tough job of loving those who hurt us

Salt, Light and those We Love to Hate November 17 1996 Matt. 5:38-48 Matthew 5:43-44 (NIV) "You have heard that it was said, ’Love your neighbour and hate your enemy.’ 44 But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, This particular command comes from Leviticus 19:18 ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-48

Denomination: Wesleyan

Radical Love Can Bruise Your Ego

Contributed by Michael Treston on Oct 24, 2001

based on 64 ratings

| 4,706 views

loving your enemies is great in theory...

Radical Love can bruise your ego. WWJD is easy at times but some times it goes totally contrary to human nature. Example - Matthew 5:38-48. The problem is with wwjd is it makes sense until it comes time for getting even Loving your enemies is great in theory but the practice is so much ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:38-48

Denomination: Episcopal/Anglican

Love In The Midst Of War

Contributed by Cameron Horsburgh on Nov 5, 2001

based on 41 ratings

| 4,713 views

Jesus calls us to love our enemies. We need to do this this now more than at any other time in our history. (Written as a response to 11/9, but quite relevant today)

Text: Mt 5:43-48 The last few weeks have been some of the most memorable of our lives. Memorable for all the wrong reasons, but memorable nonetheless. Who will ever forget those terrible pictures of airliners crashing into the towers of the World Trade Center? How many will forget the weight that ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48, Psalm 46:1-7

Denomination: Holiness

Just Like Your Father

Contributed by Melvin Newland on Nov 9, 2001

based on 130 ratings

| 15,552 views

Let’s take one more look at the subject of love. And in doing that, there are 3 things I want you to see: 1. The Magnificence of God’s Love. 2. The Mediocrity of Man’s Love. 3. The Maturity of Christian Love.

MELVIN M. NEWLAND, MINISTER RIDGE CHAPEL, KANSAS, OK A. I’m convinced that if there is one thing the world really needs to know more about, & to put into practice, it is love. In fact, so important is love that Jesus devoted a whole section of the Sermon on the Mount to it. ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

Jesus, You Gotta Be Kidding Series

Contributed by Frank Walker on Nov 24, 2001

based on 58 ratings

| 7,991 views

This has to be the hardest of Jesus’ teachings in Matthew 5.

A story in the Sunshine Magazine about a professor of psychology illustrates how difficult it is to love others. Although he had no children of his own, whenever he saw a neighbor scolding a child for some wrongdoing, he would say, "You should love your boy, not punish him." One hot summer ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:43-48

Denomination: Baptist

The Example Of Our Heavenly Father

Contributed by John Williams Iii on Aug 29, 2002

based on 44 ratings

| 8,438 views

This sermon addresses how we as earthly fathers should strive to be like God, our heavenly Father.

THE EXAMPLE OF OUR HEAVENLY FATHER Text: Matthew 5:48 Dispelling the dangerous myth that all are children of God, Louis Everly wrote: “It is only when we are subject to a common father that we are brothers. To become brothers we have only to become sons again”. (Wayne A. Detzler. New ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:48

Denomination: United Methodist

Perfect Or Finished?

Contributed by W Pat Cunningham on Jan 26, 2023

| 1,163 views

"Perfect" is a single word with a huge load of meaning. Do we have the right idea about the word?

Perfect or Finished? I have to admit my thoughts and feelings when I first heard the Biblical injunction from Jesus, “Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Mt 5:48) I felt horrible; I thought I was doomed. Hell was to be my ultimate destination. Perfect is a single word with a huge ...read more

Scripture: Matthew 5:48, 1 Corinthians 10:13, Matthew 5:1-12, 1 Corinthians 1:26-31, Psalm 146:6-10, Zephaniah 3:12-13, Zephaniah 2:3, 1 Timothy 2:4, John 19:30 (view more) (view less)

Denomination: Catholic

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