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Our Lord Jesus Christ teaches us we need to go beyond what was practiced before Him, namely, Love your neighbor and hate your enemies. The Divine Lord requires us to love even those we deem unlovable, like our enemies who have hurt us in some way. He reasons with His listeners that His Heavenly Father makes His sun rise and set for everyone, even those who hate Him or do not follow or believe in Him. We should do more than what the Gentiles do in greeting those they like. This means Our Lord reminding us that He wants that divine life initiated in our souls in Baptism to grow and develop. It is a divine life, that is, the very life of God participated in in our souls. Loving our enemies is what God does. That is how He operates, not how our fallen human nature operates. But we have left that 'old man' behind when we followed Christ. It is His Life we want to live. Thus, we have to love everyone, even our enemies and those who prove to be unlovable.