{"id":826,"date":"2020-09-21T15:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=826"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T15:16:30","slug":"love-your-enemies-the-sermon-on-the-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=826","title":{"rendered":"Love Your Enemies :: THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 9\/20\/20 by Pastor Steve Shields.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Love your enemies.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What? <\/strong> It is hard to love your enemies, but there is merit in doing what is hard. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sermononthemount8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-827\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sermononthemount8.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sermononthemount8-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Sermononthemount8-768x480.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In this podcast, Pastor Steve continues through the Sermon on the Mount <strong>with the words from Jesus to love your enemies.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you love your enemies?  <strong>With agape love which is love regardless of the condition of the loved one.  This type of love is a matter of choice.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is hard!  In some cases, the only way to love your enemy is to go to the cross.  <strong>Bowing at the foot of the cross means surrender.  And in that surrender you will be able to love.  <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_802\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-826-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20200920SERMONONTHEMOUNT08LoveYourEnemies.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20200920SERMONONTHEMOUNT08LoveYourEnemies.mp3\">http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20200920SERMONONTHEMOUNT08LoveYourEnemies.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20200920SERMONONTHEMOUNT08LoveYourEnemies.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?powerpress_pinw=826-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/curwensvillealliance.org\/mp3s\/2020\/20200920SERMONONTHEMOUNT08LoveYourEnemies.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"20200920SERMONONTHEMOUNT08LoveYourEnemies.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Presented at Curwensville Alliance on 9\/20\/20 by Pastor Steve Shields. Love your enemies. What? It is hard to love your enemies, but there is merit in doing what is hard. In this podcast, Pastor Steve continues through the Sermon on the Mount with the words from Jesus to love your enemies. How do you love &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/?p=826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Love Your Enemies :: THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[191,183],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcasts","tag-loveyourenemies","tag-thesermononthemount"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XvIY-dk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curwensvillealliance.org\/podcasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}