In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus is laying out for his followers the laws and principles that govern the kingdom of God and now we come to some of the heaviest lifting in the sermon: How are we, as followers of Christ, to deal with someone who does evil to us. How does Jesus want us to treat our enemies? How are we to respond to someone who hurts us, or hates us, or publicly humiliates us? What Jesus instructs us to do is so radically counter-intuitive and so against what we feel like doing, that it can only be done by the love of God working in us.