‘Responding to the wonder of grace: like Jesus (2)’ (Romans 12:17-21)

In Romans 12;17-21, Paul sets out the way in which the believer should respond to those who hate and mistreat them. Jesus promised that His followers would face persecution for His sake and this is certainly borne out in practise. Believers all around the world are mistreated in major ways, but also, many of us face offences, insults and bullying even if these are not due to anything related to our faith. It’s a hard, evil world that we live in. How do we respond?

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• The seventh in this series
• Facing a danger…
• First being ‘in Christ’…. then living this life…
• See how Paul teaches us to be like Jesus and …

Reject the way of revenge (v.17, 19-20)

Pursue the way of peace (v.17b-18)

Overcome evil with the opposite (v.21)

‘Be’ something’ before ‘do’ something
This world!
Different weapons for the war…