Overcome Evil With Good
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- Jesus says to love your enemies and to overcome evil with Good when he tells his disciples to not resist someone who is evil. How can he expect us to do this? And, what can the examples Jesus gives us after telling us not to resist someone who is evil tell us about what he means?
Watch this video with Dr. Brant Pitre and find out.
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Honestly, I found that love our enemy and be generous to evil are the hardest things to do but I do understand too that the road to heaven is narrow. And remembering what Blessed Mary said to Jesus disciples, "Do what He tells you to do"....Amen🙏
It is hard, & it’s my struggle too. The thing that helps me is to realize & remember that if we don’t forgive we become the evil we hate. In some ways, there is goodness to the anger & hate to begin with because it’s usually anger that the individual is not & will never face justice for their sins/crimes on this earth while all the victims suffer for months, years, or even life.
I truly was able to understand the idea that we become the evil in forgiveness through the HBO show “Dexter” & discussions around that character & the real life evils he wound avenge. He was a victim of terrible violence as a young child before being adopted by a cop & his family. Once his violent tendencies became clear, the father taught him to channel them into violent criminals only to use the evil for good if you will. In the first episode, he ends the life of a child serial killer who was a teacher, which is the most evil criminal to walk the earth in almost everyone’s opinion. It’s been a decade or more since I watched it & it’s obviously not good, Christian entertainment, but there was something in the conversation between the 2 serial killers & something in the way the director shot that scene that takes the viewer from cheering on the violence to a place of uncomfortableness & realization that despite our fantasies, Dexter is NOT our great hero & saving grace even if we like him through his family & friends & understand the horrors that made him do those things.
Without meaning to in the beginning, I ended up comparing situations I would find myself in with that realization. Obviously, most of us won’t find ourselves up against that much evil, but it’s the same concept. If we through pride, make it our job instead of God’s to give the person justice, we really become consumed with hate & that person’s level of evil & it changes us into an angry, bitter person who will never pass on even random kindness, joy, & love from Christ to others, & we kill any joy & peace that we would’ve had in our lives. It’s a daily struggle if we have witnessed something so evil it can’t be fixed or made right by humans in this life. I still slip sometimes so please pray for me. I’ve also found that many of us channel that anger into other celebrity or community targets like politicians, etc. I find I tend to funnel it into people who are purposely involved in committing some type evil against others for fun. For me, the main target the last several years is an evil, atheist, Christian-hating channel here on UA-cam who lies & does terrible things to people for UA-cam money & fun despite being sued by so many victims. While UA-cam censors Christians & conservatives, they fully know about this woman & let her continue despite constantly breaking their own terms of service rules. As evil as this woman is I know I’m wrong to follow this & comment against her, but I keep falling into the sin of it. Anyone reading this pray me & others out of this type of behavior & give us all the strength to turn it over to God. More importantly, pray for the victims of terrible injustice & violence to turn to Jesus instead of anger & hatred.
The intro song has grown on me to the point where it's soothing and gets me excited for my daily lesson. Always excited to get a new video. Thanks again for your tireless efforts Dr. Pitre.
On the contrary for me. I find it very annoying
Please keep these GREAT videos coming - GREAT Catholic Scripture explanations, made available for the entire world! A blessing for all - a new evangelization!
Proud to be a Catholic
I pray that I can live up to this wisdom of responding in kind to evil. It’s very hard to do 🙏🏾
Modern Christians must deal with this passage in light of the fact that some handouts can and do enable self-destruction. We are seeing this in America every day.
We should be generous, but never in the sense that evil is exacerbated or enabled. Our understanding of what is "generous" must be seen in the light of prudence and the realities we can observe around us.
Great clarification at the end of the video.
I am still a fraud with this one. I pray for ppl who have done genuine evil to my children and me but I STILL am glad when I hear they aren't doing well. Any advice and prayer welcome. Thank you
Perhaps you can look at it this way, sometimes we have to be stepping stones for others to know Christ and have a better understanding of Christ. Meaning, continue to be a good Christian and a good example for others, continue to pray for them, and offer up your sufferings for them that God may grant them the grace of conversion...then you store up treasure in heaven. One day when you are in heaven, those people who made your lives difficult but that you prayed sincerely for, may come up to you in heaven and say, "thank you for praying for me when no one else did. I'm here because of your intercession on my behalf." How God will delight in both of you and in your imitation of Him through your love and mercy.
@@alldoneup That's helpful! Thank you so much!
I pray for you sister. It is something I deal with too. Tho my happiness is an automatic feeling (response), let us focus on what we can do and control. When you have such feelings, use it as a cue to pray. Benefit from it in that way. The harvest is abundant. God is very generous. Our holy duty is to choose love in every present moment. Pray for me too sister. You’ll be in my prayers. Much love from your family in Christ.
@@ryuuseikanzaki Thank you so much, Sister. I will pray for you too Elaine and am humbled by your kindness and generosity of advice and spirit. ❤
Your prayer is false if you pray for them when their lives are going into misery yet you feel a sense of pride or happiness because of that. You cannot pray for them then so you must do intentionally and show it through your actions that will let them know that you are not their enemy anymore by doing this even if they hit you or deny you they cannot deny their own self's that you helped them when they were so low this is why Christ teaches us that we should give the other cheek because we have done everything we could to turn them around. So be patient and never lose yourself in being self righteous.
This is one of the challenging teachings for me as I feel we're set up to be taken advantage of by those who don't share our beliefs - especially in current entitled world. I'm still practicing generosity with set boundaries 😭
You are the best teacher, you use simple language , bridge the old with the new and give clarity to concepts and ideas. Thank you so much ! God bless you , your family and your ministry! Shalom!
It should have been footnoted, that legitimate self defense is justifiable when faced with evil.
thanks Dr. Pitre, for me one of Jesus' most difficult teachings but you explain it so well, 'cause He's asking us to transcend our natural animal instincts to strike back and stop evil dead on its tracks with a generous response; this way we break the cycle of hatred and domination of the strongest that rules this world
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If you want Jesus to forgive your sins you must forgive others of their sin. Don’t ask for any retribution. Show mercy and you will be shown mercy. Love thy neighbor.
I know that he so close to the truth every time because he takes the context, And that's so important he looks all the bible to make proof of his interpretation and that's my way also, because anyone who doesn't take the Context is deceiving himself.
Suggested reading that supplements this:
• 2 Timothy 1
• James 1
• 1 Peter 2-3
Beautiful reflection, different perspective. God bless Dr. Pitre.
The struggle in these days of unjust materialism (narcissistic) and the "Culture of Death" is to suffer for the good fight in some way, and not leave it to everyone else. But also, when 'good' people stand up to fight, they have to get used to fighting with one hand tied behind their back and leave the rest to God.
Thank God that perfect holy mercy boasteth over judgment.
Thank you
Thank you Dr Pitre, I had no idea about this
Questions I have had all my life....
no one said the Gospel was EASY.....
I’m fairly certain the extra mile would get the soldier into trouble with his superiors. Flogged, even, under Roman law. I think Christ was saying if you can’t shame your enemy into seeing your humanity (cloak and cheek), use his system against him.
So if someone asks you to give them you money and you do. He keeps coming back for more for years for alternative motives ruining your finances and now you have barely have anything to offer. You lose your house, your bankrupt and the begger either leaves or stay because you no longer provide what he wants, how can you. How can you overcome evil if they only repeat themselves with a dead conscious?
Thanks for the explanation
I really learnt a lot from this presentation. I particularly liked the part of responding with generosity. Thanks Dr!!!
Thank you, dr. Pitre!
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God keep us pruned for his glory.... How difficult to understand yet GOD said We can't understand but later He will let US know.. How true situatons were like The Spirit of the Lord lead Us to places where there's a lot Bad people or we could consider as Enemies.. Where I and some people cant understand at first because we dont like that, avoiding that, or weak or it will cause argument to someone, or be soon be like them or be with them and dont want to be part of them.. True what Jesus teachings about yet we must have Great wisdom, faith and compassion to respond of people different for what we like in a person.. As Jesus said be the Light of the world, let them See How GOD works in US.. Let the Good news of the Lord spread generously.. Let those who have ears let them hear, have eyes let them see.. Only GOD with US could overcome the Evil of others.. Sometimes no matter the evil wanted to shame or accuse our sins when GOD keep his work for US and be testimony the Evil one sooner change even at first they were offended because God make us change.. God works in ways we cant see.. 😊🙏
I love your explanation thank you. The Church says that self defence and defending your family or country against the attacks of an enemy is legitimate which is totally logical. Could you tell me where I can find that in the Scriptures? The reason is a friend of mine who says it is not true and I want to convince him .
Thank you Brother, this is why I am Catholic, these verses are interpreted by protestants in about a hundred different ways.
So if some opportunist gets a greedy lawyer to sue me over some small matter, for my house, I should give him my car too? If someone calls my wife an obscene name, I should encourage him to call her another one? If someone steals my car, I should let him keep it? How do I get to work? If someone sues the Catholic Church over false sex abuse, they should pay up no matter what?
Jesus gave up His life to save us. As followers, this is the path He gives us.
It is one of the most difficult teachings. I don't know how to do it without feeling foolish or like a coward, for now.
I entrust God to enlighten me.
Lots of misunderstanding.
Here how it should go.
When you sin to someone, you owe that person something to offer as an apology/recompense equal to that of what the sin is about. Depending the level of how grave the matter is, it will be taken to a judge to settle a dispute.
But Jesus wants us to recompense more than we are required of by the person we owe or by the Judge.
Jesus' example was something like these
If some requires you (of the judge as a recompense/apology for your sin) to run a mile, run twice as much instead.
If someone sues you(for your sins), and the judge requires you to give your coat, give also your cloak.
If someone requires of you to be slap on your right cheek, give also the other cheek.
Jesus is saying that when you have sinned to someone, recompense them more than the Judge requires of you.
It's the duty of the judge to deal with the dispute between the offender and the offended during that time.
And they are to judge righteously according to the law.
Interesting perspective... but what about the ‘resist ye not evil’ prelude into those proceeding passages? If the meaning is as you say and refers to one who was required to pay retribution for a sin against another, is the one requesting justice considered evil?
@@WAKEUPARTIST the one requesting justice is not evil. However, it becomes evil when the one who is requesting justice or those around him commits sin/evil out of anger. That I think is the point Jesus is making. When you commit sin to someone, that someone might commit an evil act towards you out of anger. This i think we should not resist. Do not resist evil with evil.
For example: you accidentally hit someone while driving a car which left him with few scratches(let us put aside who's at fault). While trying to know if he was okay or not, suddenly you were beaten badly by him or you were ganged up by his companions and got beaten badly.
That i think is evil and not the right kind of justice.
When Jesus quoted Exodus 21:24, He is teaching from that law until he quotes another law. And it is like saying to us to study the one he quoted, and you can compare Jesus' teachings and the following verses of exodus 21:24.
@@treadingtheway3730 Hmm, I never thought of it this way, but it makes perfect sense. Thank you for expounding on and clarifying that point.
@@WAKEUPARTIST I'm glad you can see it in a new light.
This comment is in line with Mathew 5:25
Impressive
Dr. Pitre, Can you clear something up for me please. I remember a talk by Scott Hahn who said that the seemliness garment worn by Jesus on the cross was a Keytone (sorry about spelling), worn by the high priest for sacrifice. But you mentioned a similar word for "undergarment". Am I making an erroneous connection?
What I am also seeing in these examples is that by generosity the incident is reframed. The perpetrator frames things through their wrongdoing ( he/she dictates what the scene is all about e.g. humiliation, robbery, forced labour - all setting the scene as them being all powerful versus victim) but generosity subverts this narrative and makes the wrongdoing look ridiculous. How can one humiliate you if you refuse to take on the role of the one being humiliated? How can someone rob you if you refuse to take on the role of the one being robbed etc....
Proff Pitre, what do you think of the saints' many private revelations of the gruesomeness and agonies of a densely populated Hell?
High fences for the sheep
Thank You Avah
You are with me all my LIFE
Trained me
About this
Even i was
Push into a pit
And at Lion's den
To be Ready
You Showed me the way
Revealing the TRUTH
And see who is the real Enemy
In such time As this..
#ChildOfGod
I think its noteworthy to point out,
That Jesus on the cross asked the Father to "FORGIVE THEM, AS THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO"
in the midst of His excruciating innocent suffering, for our sins, He STILL asks the Father to forgive them...they DO NOT KNOW what they are doing...meaning, people who are angry, rage, taken 9ver by hate or bitterness are closed minded..or their eyes are not open, their hearts are closed and deceived by the devil.
We should not return this evil action eith another evil action, bc for SURE, that's what the devil EXPECTS!
And no good comes from it.
The only thing I struggle with is how do people who exhibit bad behavior LEARN FROM THEIR MISTAKES???
IF THEY are not punished for their actions.
As if a dog is punished for biting someone or a bad behavior???
If you just behave kindly, compassionate, yes this may quench the fire that the aggressor has, but this may also give them license to continue this behavior...as if your enabling them.
Confusion...amd why does Jesus, Son of God, not just say it straight?!
Why all the confusion??
Jesus obviously knows that His word will reach billions over thousands of years.
WHY THE CONFUSION bc if His words?
Not resist evil, is it about reverse revenge, reverse psychology?
How do we do that?
I really want to learn!
It’s so timely!!!
Exodus 20:2-4
Thou shalt have no other God's before Me...
Numbers 6:24-26
The Lord bless you and keep you ( Jehovah )
The Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you
( Jesus )
The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace
( Jacob )
( This is a blessing for spirits to receive peace, heaven )
Luke 6:46
Why do you call me, Lord, Lord and do not do what I say?
Isaiah 9:2
The people walking in darkness ( spirit world ) have seen a great light....
John 8:12
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said: I am the light of the world ( spirit world ). Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life ( heaven ).
( Life in heaven, for no one has truly lived until they are in heaven )
Isaiah ( Prophet for the last days ) in the Great Isaiah Scroll:
29:22
Not now shall Jacob be ashamed and his face shall not grow pale.
29:24
And the erring spirits shall know understanding and the backbiters shall learn doctrine.
53:5
the correction of our peace upon him ( Jacob )...
1Peter 3:12-13
For the eyes of the Lord ( Jesus ) are on the righteous and his ears are attentive to their prayers, but the face of the Lord ( Jacob ) is against those who do evil. Who is going to harm you if you are eager to do good?
John 4:24
God ( Jehovah ) is Spirit...
( And he can rest that Spirit on any man he chooses )
Isaiah 43:11
I,I am YHWH and beside Me there is no savior. I have told ( Jehovah ) and have saved ( Jesus ) and I have declared ( Jacob )
Isaiah 48:12
Listen to this, Jacob, and Israel my called. I am He ( Jehovah ) I am the first ( Jesus ) even I am the last ( Jacob )
Isaiah 40:12
for she received from the hand of YHWH two handfuls ( Jesus and Jacob ) for all her sins.
Psalm 136:3
O give thanks unto the Lord of Lord's, for his Mercy endureth forever.
Psalm 135:4
For the Lord has chosen Jacob to be his own. Israel to be his treasured possession.
( Jacob a Hebrew man final servant of Jehovah )
Matthew 23:37
Love the Lord your God ( Jehovah ) with all your heart...
WORSHIP ONE GOD
JEHOVAH
Jehovah - Jesus - Jacob
What a TWISTED interpretation of scripture!!!
overcome evil by calling IT Out!, its what the saying means To give the other cheek' PROVOKE EVIL BY INVITING EVIL TO A SECOND ATTEMPT AT THEIR EVIL, AS YOU ACCUSE THEIR EVIL.it s the best GOOD you can do to make those demons dwelling inside human empty shells!Some live there permanently!
Thats why heaven might have a single digit population.
Min. 6:00 "The Roman soldier is bringing out Jesus to get *Simonyi*... " For the life of me, I can't figure out what he says here! What is 'Simonyi' in this context?
He is saying "Gethsemane". Garden of Gethsemane.
@@millana100 thank you! I guess he meant to say Golgotha...
He's saying "Simon of Cyrene", the one who helped Jesus carry the Cross
Ebeneezer Scrooge with the thumbs down...
How about an exegesis on the Gospel reading at yesterday's Sunday Mass, namely Matthew 5:22:
But I say to you, that whosoever is angry with his brother, shall be in danger of the judgment. And whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council. And whosoever shall say, Thou Fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
Our import parish priest from India didn't understand it. Thus he ignored the 3 increasing levels of anger and stayed with the usual, politically correct, insipid 'we should all love each other' boilerplate. However, even St. Augustine had trouble with this one. Moreover, foolishness (folly) is one of the most common vices in the world. There never will be a shortage of fools. In fact, one of my former parish priests said (in reference to my exasperation at the senselessness of our monsignor) 'The man's a fool.' I believe he was. So if a person really is a fool, is it a mortal sin to state the obvious and tell him he is? Politely or otherwise.
(PS: Actually, almost all our priests are imports. The average parish in our archdiocese only produces 1 vocation every 50 to 100 years. As the Church secretary put to me, "The nations we used to evangelize, now evangelize us.")
Will continue until one of your kids or from your parish goes to seminary...people in USA too concerned with riches and living comfortably and can't see why their kids can't see the Gospel....
@@glennlanham6309 :True, but as Michael Matt from The Remnant says, it's primarily the fruits of our dismal liturgy, vapid priests, and the homolobby that runs our bishops and the Vatican. What most Catholics know about their faith wouldn't cover the back of a postage envelope.
@ Maga Man I just found this video about anger: ua-cam.com/video/n-EbI5pvuZE/v-deo.html
@@magaman6353 thank you for identifying what seemed to be the problem of the church. However,the most important question is what are you doing to help your parish teach people about Christ?... It is not only the failure in leadership of the church, it is also due to failure in our own families and society... we can only make our children participate when they see us involved in the activities of the church and especially seeing the fruits we bear while in the service.
@@austinchinwe7968 Ho! Ho! I foolishly thought that way too, but found out the hard way. They loved me in the parish until I started coming out against so-called gay marriage and said contraception was the arch-cause of abortion. As long as I helped out at the bingos and soup kitchens, they loved me. But I became a pariah as soon as I started mentioning those issues. The leaders of the K of C repeatedly warned me to "keep it to myself; don't bring that stuff up around her!" Then my pastor told me it wasn't his job, it was the laity's. He knew enough not to say anything because he'd be in trouble with the collection plate if he disturbed the comfortable pews. Ironically, he went deaf shortly thereafter and lost his pastorship. Coincidence?
Then I wrote a couple of letters to the editor and a columnist of our official archdiocese newspaper that praised James Martin SJ and blasted Trump. In response, I got 2 columns describing me as a nutcase-lunatic and 2 more columns blasting Trump. (Hillary always went untouched.) By the way, the same columnist previously came out in the Saturday edition of the country's largest secular newspaper describing his conversion to and attendance of gay weddings. He adamantly predicted the Catholic Church would officially approve of them within 10 years!! I forwarded copies of all this to our archbishop and the archdiocesan editor-in-chief. Each time I was blown off. Enough said? Incidentally, a good number of knowledgeable, faithful Catholics also wrote in published letters to the editor, complaining about the columnist. Naturally, they were all ignored. The homolobby rules with an iron fist!
If you want a good laugh (actually, a good cry). Check out the columns for yourself. Better yet, try it yourself and see how far you get.
www.catholicregister.org/opinion/columnists/item/26088-comment-priest-caught-in-vicious-smear-campaign
www.catholicregister.org/opinion/columnists/item/26178-faith-in-civil-discourse-waxes-then-wanes
Where do you find a bible as pretty as his? I cant find a good, Catholic bible on Amazon
You can find them on Augustine Institute website, Ascension Press website, or CatholicStore.com. He uses the Revised Standard Version (RSV) 2nd Catholic edition I believe.
If misinterpreted, this will lead to a consensual bullying
If someone begs from you.... they might well be making more money than you.
Kind of like how Jesus defended himself when they wanted to crucify him....
Win evil by being (a) good (shot) hehe
You need contemporary examples or an explanation of Jesus here is not helpful.
Overcoming evil with good has absolutely NOTHING to do with the devil. The Bible is clear in James ch. 4 v 7 that if we 'resist the devil, and he will flee from you'.
The devil knows that if we try to 'take him on' in the power of the flesh, that we will fall into the temptation, therefore when we resist him in the power of the spirit, he will flee because he knows that it is Christ that he is confronting. Satan cannot stand against the Lord Jesus Christ since He defeated him at Calvary. That is why we 'must be born again' of the Spirit of God to have Christ indwelling us and for us to be 'in Christ'.
Wouldn't the first century written by apostles be Christian and not Jewish? Once you believe in Jesus you are no longer a Jew.
No, you would still be a Jew. You would be a fulfilled Jew, because your Messiah has come. The rest of us are pagans who have converted in. We are all now called Christian's but all of the early Apostles were born and died Jews. They were Christian but they were still Jews.
If you finish the image: your underwear is sued off, you give up your outer garment... you're naked! Maybe that's part of the lesson too?
Yes. That's what's implied.
I agree 💯
Jesus loves hyperbole! He's teaching Meekness. Vengeance belongs to God alone.
Jesus resisted the devil.
This guys is beating around the bush so much and dancing around the question, rather than just answering it...seems prettt occams razor-y
Time to grow up Dr. The devil should be done away with around the time you stop believing in fairies and lepracauns.
You believe "Matter" comes from nothingness.. seems like you're the one with the magical superstitions..
At that rate why not forget about the Bible also as the devil is taught about on numerous occasions?
Hi Paul - you have obviously not been enlightened by the Thomistic a posteriori arguments (by reason alone) for God's existence. I am happy to shed light for you, so that you may be certain that God exists (no faith required for this). Here are some videos to start, though I can explain for you:
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ua-cam.com/video/7ZlofN2195s/v-deo.html
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Paul glandy you seem to watch most of these videos. More than most Catholics 😂
@@josephjackson1956 Paul is attracted to Catholicism, that's why he comments on nearly every video. He's in denial.😂