Colossians 1:4
Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,
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It seems by reading the posts that some find it easier to love the world than love all the saints 
To love our enemies and our neighbour as ourselves-is such because we do not know who are God's elect. Our neighbour might give the appearance of being our enemy and an enemy of Christ but may turn out to be the Saul who became the Apostle Paul or the sinner who becomes a saint on his death bed.
As Saints to love our enemies is to have a glimpse of the unfathomable **impossible to measure** love Christ has for His justified ones. Romans 5:8-10 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.
For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
John
What did Spurgeon say about Jacob and Esau in the context of the whole of Romans 9
http://www.apibs.org/chs/0239.htm
12/16/08 5:21 PM
