Complicated

OVERCOME EVIL WITH GOOD

Pastor Hope Flask

November 30, 2025

Main Scriptures: Romans 12:1-2, 9-21

Additional Scriptures: 1 Samuel 24:10-12, Revelation 12:11

POINTS:

• To overcome evil: a military word; don’t pay back evil with evil.

• The reason you don’t respond to evil with evil is so that evil doesn’t control you.

• To heap burning coals on someone is to create an alarm; it means to wake people up.

• To overcome evil, you must identify the evil done as more the enemy than the evildoer.

• To overcome evil:

  • We must hate the evil that is hurting the evildoer.

  • We must have a humble heart that blesses the evildoer.

  • Be aggressively forgiving.

  • Look to the cross and see Jesus overcome evil with good.

• It is the love of God that causes you to hate sin.

• When someone slaps you on the cheek, they are insulting you.

• To turn the other cheek means not to let the person continue to do what they’ve been doing.

• To overcome evil means to have peace on the inside because saving face is no longer a priority for you.

• To bless the evildoer means to tell someone the truth, but in an affirming way.

• A blessing is honest and loving.

• Every time you bring the matter up, whether it is to them, other people, or yourself, evil is overcoming you.

• To forgive means you stop replaying the narrative.

• On the cross, we see that love and truth are costly. Love without truth or truth without love costs you nothing.