Someone hurt you. Maybe recently, maybe years ago, and some part of you still wants them to pay for it. So what does Jesus actually ask you to do with that feeling.

This episode walks through Romans 12:9-21, where Paul gives the church in Rome, and us, a picture of love with no fine print attached. Pastor Josh Slater starts with the foundation: our love for other people is never based on how they treat us, it is based on how God already treated us while we were still His enemies. From there the text gets specific. Love without pretending. Detest what is actually evil, not just what bothers you personally. Take the lead in honoring people before they have earned it. Bless the people who are working against you instead of cursing them back. And when someone genuinely wrongs you, release the right to get even, because vengeance was never yours to collect in the first place.

The sermon does not stop at good advice. It lands on a promise: evil does not get the final word unless you let it turn you into something evil too, but good, real and costly good, has the power to overcome it. That is the same confidence that put Christ on a cross to absorb evil instead of returning it.

Key scripture: Romans 12:9-21, closing with Paul's summary of the whole passage: do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good.

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