"Love your enemies." It's probably the most quoted — and least practiced — command in the entire Sermon on the Mount. Most of us agree with it in theory. Almost none of us are sure it applies to our particular situation. In this message, Pastor Justin Sturgeon works through Matthew 5:43–48 — the sixth and final antithesis in the Sermon on the Mount — and asks what Jesus actually means when he says love. Spoiler: it's not a feeling. It's an action. And it has a much wider scope than most of us are comfortable with. This message covers: • Why "hate your enemy" appears nowhere in the Old Testament • What the Greek word for love actually describes • The difference between love as emotion and love as commitment • How to love enemies you can name — personal, political, national, and religious • What "be perfect as your Father is perfect" actually means — and why it's not an impossible standard