Peter Roselle: Overpowering Evil with God’s Goodness & Mercy (Romans 12:21)
Channel: King of Kings Worship Center
Date: 2021-04-13

Peter Roselle: Overpowering Evil with God’s Goodness & Mercy (Romans 12:21)
In the Message translation, Romans 12:21 says, “Get the best of evil by doing good.” In Psalm 23, David says, “Surely goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my life.” If we link the two verses we can say, “We are overpowering evil with God’s goodness and mercy.” Jesus said in John 13:34, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” Wow… If he had just said, love one another that would have been much easier! But He said, “A new commandment (not suggestion).” There are only 10 commandments, but now he is giving us number 11 – to love one another as He loved us… that will be a lifelong challenge and aspiration for every Christian to seek.

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You can divorce yourself of culture if you want to; we are not going to divorce ourselves of culture. 
We think part of the reason the church is here is to speak life into a dark culture. We supposed to encourage you that you should read your Bible and compare the platforms or decide who you're going to vote for at a high level. Remember - mercy triumphs over judgment if you're a Christian. 

If vengeance had to been taken out on you, you wouldn't be here right now. If we got what we deserved, we wouldn't be here. How do you speak truth into the cultural void without acknowledging the fact that you have been forgiven? You can acknowledge that what they're doing is wrong, but you are also commanded to love your enemy.

You have to be willing to pray for people that you don't agree with - pray that there'll be a revival in their lives, and that God will put Christians in their path. The lead character in the movie Hacksaw Ridge who was persecuted badly and yet still stuck it out. He had courage to stay with his convictions. They ended up realizing, “Not only are you not a coward, not only you're not weak, you're the bravest guy in the whole division!”

We're expected to live this life of a different set of rules than the world. We're walking that “narrow road that leads to life.” (Matthew 7:14) Proverbs 24:17 says, “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, and do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.” Maybe you saw what happened to Governor Cuomo this week. Look, it wasn't a good week. I'm proposing that you could get to a place where you're not exactly happy that he didn't have a great week. 

The other man in the picture also didn't have a good week, but he's a Christian. And he was blocked on Twitter because of an article that they put in their magazine that Twitter said was hate language. And all they did was state a fact about somebody in the government. So look, if that's not setting alarm bells to you that Focus on the Family is getting blocked on one of the major platforms for hate speech, well, wake up! Wake up!

You're in a church that's been teaching on spiritual warfare since we started. It's not a big surprise that pagan people sacrifice their children. We call that abortion today but that's been going on for thousands of years. What are you going to do? Scream at them or offer them an alternative?

This is not an easy verse. “Don't rejoice when your enemy falls and don't let your heart be glad when he stumbles.” You need to fight that urge to make the snarky comments on Facebook. When you do that, you're becoming the very thing you don't want to be, because you're not having mercy. 
It is not easy to pray for your enemies, but Jesus didn't is giving us the way to live on that narrow road that leads to life. It's not a theory. It's a better way to live than perpetually carrying the poison of unforgiveness in your heart. 

Romans 12 says "Beloved, don't avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath. Vengeance is mine and I will repay says the Lord. Do not be overcome by evil but overcome evil with good.”

Jesus said in John 13:34, “A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” Wow… If he had just said, love one another that would have been much easier, wouldn't it? He said a new commandment (not suggestion). There are only 10 commandments, but now he is giving us number 11. 

Watch the way you express what is in your heart so that it lines up with what Jesus is asking us to do. Let's pray for our enemies, because if God appears to them, they're going to change! If we're not praying for God to appear to them, then it's going to be that much harder.