That was him demanding his rights to a certain area of the freeway upon which no one was allowed to infringe.ĭeep down in the human heart is a retaliatory, vengeful, spiteful spirit. And so for the next five miles, he was behind me, flashing on and off his bright lights, then honk, on and off with the lights. I didn’t think I hit him, but apparently, I dented his psyche. The other night, I was driving home with my family and we pulled onto the freeway, and apparently pulled in front of somebody a little more closely than he thought. In fact, it’s not uncommon in our society to hear somebody say, “You’ll never get away with that. We have unions to demand rights for the employees. We have had movements along the line of civil rights and women’s rights and children’s rights and prisoners’ rights.
In fact, maybe in our society we’ve never been bigger on rights than we are nowadays. One element of the great American philosophy of life is that we all have certain inalienable rights. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.” And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him two. And if any man will sue thee at the law and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. “Ye have heard that it hath been said, ‘An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth,’ but I say unto you that ye resist not evil, but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. We come this morning to a very, very potent, insightful, and misunderstood passage of Scripture, Matthew 5, verse 38.
We’ve been doing it on Sunday night and just the last two weeks have moved to Sunday morning for our study of Matthew. This is message number 44 in our Matthew series.
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