What Is Special About You?

MATTHEW 5:38-48

Outstanding Behavior• Behavior that stands out!• Outstanding doctrine permeates our culture• People mock, dilute, or allegorize Jesus’ words• Normal worldly behavior: eye for an eye, tooth

for a tooth Exodus 21:22-27 • Judges’ justice, not personal vengeance• Resist not an evil person• Turn the other cheek (a slap not a punch) • Above and beyond if you lose litigation• Go the extra mile (1st mile a legal obligation)

Outstanding Behavior• Help if asked Deut. 15:7-11, Prov. 19:17• “Love your neighbor but hate your enemy”• Love your enemies, bless, do good, pray for• That you may be children of God v.45• Be like God v.48• Normal worldly relationships: hurt enemies,

avoid strangers, tolerate acquaintances, enjoy friends, love family

• We must do more than the world to stand out! v. 46-47

Outstanding Behavior• But people will use us• The example of Jesus 1 Peter 2:21-25• Matt. 20:20-28• They ought to pay for what they did to me• Jesus paid Rom. 3:24-26• They should not get by with it• They won’t Romans 12:17-21• Neither will we Psalm 18:24-27• It hurts • God knows Eph. 4:30; Isaiah 53