NOTES for Mat 5:44-45

Go out in the street and interrogate the first 10-20-30 passers whether this is possible. What result will you have? Everyone would like to be God’s babe, the fellow-heir of the One Who is Omnipotent, Omniscient, and possesses all. But we ought to be lovely and more merciful for this (Mt 5:48). No, it is impossible for man. Is Jesus really giving us fundamentally inexecutable laws? Paradoxical answer: Yes. But then He gives us the possibility to execute them, because He already executed them being the Son of God. Consequently, the impossible became possible in Him, and through Him perfection is achievable.