Gaffin at Westminster Seminary taught us an awful lot about the kingdom of God.
The Importance of Context to Understand the Sermon on Mountĭr. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? You therefore must be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. You’ve heard that it was said, “You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.” But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. We could read a larger section, but this seems to me to be the most apt as a unit. So reading from the Gospel of Matthew, beginning at verse 43–48. Thank you that you speak, and we ask you to enable us to hear. Our Father, we pray now that you’d open our hearts and our minds, that you would illumine our hearts and we might behold Christ in his Word. Gracious Father, we thank you for these words that you have caused to be in enscripturated so that we might have life in Jesus Christ. Howard Griffith preached this chapel message from Matthew 5 on loving your enemies.
