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Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 5:43-48

The Sermon on the Mount (Continued) Matthew 5:43-48 ; Matthew 6:1-15 INTRODUCTORY WORDS I. A FOURFOLD COMMAND 1. "Love your enemies." The whole world loves those who love them. That is only natural. But the Lord asks us to go a step farther. He wants us to be better than the world. He wants us to actually love our enemies. Many people try to evade this command by saying that it is not for today. Of course this Scripture is applicable directly to the Kingdom age, but if it is for today, as... read more

James Nisbet

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:48

MORAL PERFECTION‘Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.’ Matthew 5:48 If we are apt to grow self-complacent, to thank God we are not as other men are, but far better, it arises from the low standards we set before us. Now our Lord lifts up our thoughts far above all the standards of earth. ‘Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.’ Many of us simply pass over and ignore the words as impracticable and impossible.... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-48

THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. THE FULFILMENT OF THE INSTRUCTION OF YHWH AND OF THE PROPHETIC HOPES (5:17-7:12). Having revealed how God has worked in His disciples in a life-transforming way in Matthew 5:3-9, and having shown them that they are to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world in Matthew 5:13-16, Jesus now goes into detail about what that will involve, and how it will lead up to the final consummation, that is to the fulfilment of the Law (the Torah - The Instruction of God)... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:43-48

The Disciples Are To Love Even Their Enemies And Are To Seek To Be Perfect Even As Their Father in Heaven Is Perfect (5:43-48). Jesus has been slowly building up to this final revelation of the love that epitomises the Kingly Rule of God and the One Who is over it. There was to be no hatred or insulting of others, no dividing of married couples made one, total openness and honesty, loving response to unpleasantness, and now all is capped by a picture of total love. Analysis of Matthew 5:43-48... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:48

You therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” The first thing to note here is that ‘you’ is both plural (in contrast with much of what has gone before) and emphatic. It means ‘you band of disciples’ (you new congregation of Israel), in contrast with all others. This idea of the completeness and ‘perfection’ of the whole body particularly comes out in Ephesians 4:12-13. Those separated to God (His ‘saints’ or ‘holy ones’), who are being taught by those appointed by God,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:43-48

Matthew 5:43-Galatians : . Loving One’ s Neighbour ( cf. Luke 6:27 f., Matthew 5:32-Zephaniah :).—“ Thou shalt love thy neighbour” ( i.e. fellow Israelite) is the precept of the Law ( Leviticus 19:18); “ and hate thine enemy” is a Rabbinic inference from, e.g. Deuteronomy 23:3-Joshua :, which found much support in apocalyptic writings ( cf. pp. 623f.). As in the parable of the Good Samaritan, Jesus sweeps away all distinctions. The additions to Matthew 5:44 in AV are due to Luke 6:27 f.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 5:48

Perfect here is not taken in that sense as it is taken in other texts of Scripture, where it signifieth sincerity and uprightness, as Job 2:3, or where it signifieth a comparative perfection, as Paul saith he spake to those that were perfect; but for an absolute perfection, such as is in our Father which is in heaven, and so much is signified by the proposing of our heavenly Father as our example. Nor will it therefore follow, either that this is a mere counsel, not a precept, or that an... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 5:38-48

CRITICAL NOTESGENERAL REMARKS ON THE SERMON ON THE MOUNTThe aim and contents of the “Sermon.”—No mere sermon is this, only distinguished from others of its class by its reach and sweep and power; it stands alone as the grand charter of the commonwealth of heaven; or, to keep the simple title the Evangelist himself suggests (Matthew 4:23), it is “the gospel (or good news) of the kingdom.” To understand it aright we must keep this in mind, avoiding the easy method of treating it as a mere series... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:43-48

Matthew 5:43-48 I. Our Lord does not say here that all men are to be equally dear to us, or equally esteemed by us. He does not substitute a vague principle of universal philanthropy in the room of those special affections which arise either out of kindred or kindness; neither does He teach us to show equal honour to the evil and the good, the just and the unjust. What He means is to assert in all its fulness the law of God, "Thou shalt love thy neighbour," and to deny in all its application... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:48

Matthew 5:48 If we are to obey the injunction of the text it is necessary that we have faith in the fact. I. It is implied in our text, it is taught throughout the New Testament, and it is confirmed by experience, that there is nothing so morally helpful as faith in God. We shall not be surprised at the practical value and the moral effects of faith, if we consider for a moment all that it implies. It implies, first of all, a conviction that the forces of nature are being made to work together... read more

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Matthew 5:43-48

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - Matthew 5:48

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:17-48

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:43-48

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:48

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Matthew 5:43-48

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Matthew 5:48

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Matthew 5:38-48

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:43-48

Sermon Bible Commentary - Matthew 5:48

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