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Thinking today of Leviticus 19.17, it says,

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you shall not hate your fellow countrymen in your heart.

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You may surely reprove your neighbor,

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but shall not incur sin because of him, Leviticus 19.17.

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This sounds like a no matter what statement.

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You shall not.

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You shall not.

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People do wrong things.

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Bad things happen.

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People make bad decisions.

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A lot of times people are just doing

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what they think they need to do to survive,

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and they hurt somebody in the process.

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No matter what they do,

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no matter how bad it gets,

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even if they do something directly to us,

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we are not to hate them.

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Here it says countrymen,

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which for them meant fellow Israelites.

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I don't think the context changes.

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We are not to hate at all.

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We should not.

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He who hates his brother does not love God.

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This could be in reference to you and your family.

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Could be in reference to you

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and the people who live near you.

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It could be people in the church.

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Sometimes people in the church do things

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that are hurtful.

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You cannot hate the church.

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You cannot hate United States citizens.

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You cannot hate your neighbors,

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even people who live in our country

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who are not citizens.

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It does not matter.

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We do not hate.

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And let's be very clear about hate.

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Hate is the opposite of love.

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And so anything that's love

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and then marred, altered, changed,

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or different is hate.

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If you don't love them,

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if you're not willing to sacrifice for people,

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then that's hate.

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And we do not hate.

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Help us today.

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Lord, to stand firm for you

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and love the people around us

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and sacrifice as necessary

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to make a difference in this world.

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Thank you for sending your son Jesus to die for us.

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We sure needed it.

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We need it today.

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We always will.

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And we wanna represent you as best we know how.

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Thanks for getting us through what we're going through.

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In Jesus' name, amen.