The second reason is, when I exhibit this kind of attitude, it makes an indelible impression on other people’s lives for the cause of Christ. Let me stop here and have a pastoral word with those here who know Christ personally. If you are a seeker, listen, but I am talking to Christians right now. Ed Young Church if you know Christ, you love Him. And there are those moments maybe during worship, maybe during a bible study, maybe during a prayer session when you feel the power of God in a supernatural way and you think to yourself that you would love for your neighbor to experience God like that. You would love for your relatives, this person or that person to experience that. You want to share with them. And some of you lie awake at night thinking how you can communicate Christ with others. Jesus says, exhibit a supernatural, satisfying, second mile, non-revengeful type attitude. That is what Jesus says.
You know when Jesus was being whipped before He was hung on the cross, He didn’t curse the people doing it. When He was being tortured, when they were hammering and pounding the nails through His hands and His feet, He didn’t fight back. He could have just winked at the heavenly hosts and they could have gotten Him out of it and made repayment for all of the trash those individuals were doing to our Savior. But He didn’t do it. You know what He said while He was hanging there suspended between heaven and earth? Jesus said these words. “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And then right before He died He said, “It is finished.” The Bible says a hardened Roman, Clint Eastwood type, soldier, heard those words, saw this non-revengeful attitude and he hit the dirt and said, “Surely, this must be the Son of God.” He didn’t read a theology book. He didn’t go to a Bible conference. Ed Young Sermons he saw this attitude portrayed. I ask you, who is your Roman soldier? Who is checking you out? Who is watching your attitude? Who is watching your response? “Is this person really going to do what he says, or is he going to be a hypocrite? Will he show some other-worldly love? Will he model what Christ said?” Who is your Roman soldier? You can mark someone for life when you exhibit this attitude.
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