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When you can pray for your enemies, you have achieved a certain level of peace, a certain level of security. At this point, you are so secure in having been claimed by God, so secure in your eternal future, that your enemies have ceased to become threats -- nothing can threaten you when the Almighty God of the universe has claimed you as God's own -- and your enemies are people of deep concern. Christ was more concerned about the fate of his enemies than he was his own fate, because he knew where his ultimate fate was, even if his temporary fate was something terrible. That takes faith, to look through something terrible and see something glorious, something worthy, on the other side. That's how all Christians have the ability to look at death. There is life yet beyond it, and in faith we grasp it, and Christ enables our hands and hearts to reach forward and take hold of what has been promised to us.
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