Grace to You: Radio Podcast Love Your Enemies, Part 1 B
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Feb 3, 2026 
John MacArthur, pastor-teacher known for verse-by-verse Bible exposition, delivers a sermon on loving enemies. He contrasts Pharisee partial love with Christ's fuller standard. He explains how tradition and Scripture were twisted to justify hatred. He examines imprecatory psalms and urges kingdom-level love that witnesses differently while trusting God’s judicial vindication.
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How Neighbor Definitions Corrupt Love
- The Pharisees twisted 'love your neighbor' into 'hate your enemy' by narrowing who qualified as a neighbor.
- Their prejudice produced a self-justifying legalism that excluded outsiders from love.
Pharisees' Narrow Circle
- John recounts how Pharisees refused to count tax collectors and sinners as neighbors.
- They limited their love to their own group and excluded everyone else from compassion.
Selective Scripture Reading
- Pharisees ignored Leviticus 19:34 which commands loving the stranger as the native.
- Their selective reading enabled cruel maxims like 'don't save a Gentile in the sea.'
