Bible Study

Turn The Other Cheek

Posted on October 5, 2019

Has someone hurt your feelings? Have you been the bigger person and turned the other cheek? Where did that saying come from?

Turning the other cheek is a phrase in Christian doctrine from the Sermon on the Mount that refers to responding to injury without revenge and allowing more injury.

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Scripture

Psalm 35

Thoughts

This is another Psalm that shares prophecy on Jesus. In verse eleven, we read

False witnesses did rise up; they laid to my charge things that I knew not. Psalm 35:11.

This is fulfilled in Mark 14:57-59

And there arose certain, and bare false witness against him, saying, We heard him say, I will destroy this temple that is made with hands, and within three days I will build another made without hands.But neither so did their witness agree together.

Jesus was hated without a cause. Read Psalm 35:19 and John 15:25.

I am sure that the teaching of turning the other cheek is not a popular teaching today.

Another way of saying, take the high road. The Psalmist is pleading his cause.

Do you have a cause to fight for or to ask God to fight for you? Sometimes turning the other cheek is all we can do.

Jesus finally answers the priest in Mark 14, I am He. A simple answer to a profound question.

Father God, let there be peace in the world and let it begin with me.

Who is God asking you to forgive?

 

 

I am loved by God, the alpha, the omega, the beginning, the end. According to the Bible, I am fearfully and wonderfully made. I am a saint who sometimes sins. I believe that Jesus is God's son and that He died on the cross to give me eternal life. I am married to my high school sweet heart Doug. I have been blessed by two adult sons Randy and Dale, who are married and I have six grandchildren Christian, Seth, Ethan, Hunter, Sabrina and Emerson. I became a nurse as an adult. I have had an amazing career and give all the glory to God.

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4 Comments

  • Reply
    Nancy Silvers
    October 6, 2019 at 9:18 am

    Thank you for sharing this, Diana! Turning the other cheek is such a challenge but so much better in the long run and really what Jesus would have us do.

    • Reply
      Diana
      October 11, 2019 at 6:52 pm

      Dear Nancy, turning the other cheek is hard especially if someone hates you. I know this and walking in forgiveness can be equally difficult. Blessings sweet friend. Diana

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    Tara
    October 6, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    Turning the other cheek is indeed a challenge.

    • Reply
      Diana
      October 11, 2019 at 6:53 pm

      Dear Tara, thank you for reading my blog, it means the world to me. Blessings Diana

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