TUESDAY- 11^TH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME -A

I Reading: 1 Kings 21:17-29: You led Israel into sin.

Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48: Love your enemies.

The Real Meaning of Human Relationships.

No subject is more important than the subject of human relationships. God is creating a family of believers who are to live together eternally. Therefore we must have a family of love, joy, peace, forgiveness, and kindness. God’s family is to treat no person as an enemy because all are created in the image and likeness of God. So every person is to be loved, accepted and encouraged as a true brothers and sisters and true neighbours.

1.     The law (v.43)

2.     The real meaning (v.44)

a.     Love your enemies

b.     Pray for persecutors

3.     The incentive (v.45-47)

a.     Makes you a child of God

b.     Makes you like God

c.      Makes you distinctive from other men

4.     The charge: Be perfect (v.48)

Thought: Man was created “in His own image, in the image of God” (Gen 1:27). Man’s very purpose for being is to glorify God and to be like God (Mt 5:48).

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