When someone wrongs you, every instinct says hit back. Get even. Win.

But in Matthew 5:38–42, Jesus calls his followers to something radically different — not passive victimhood, but what author James Bryan Smith calls Kingdom Jujitsu. Instead of matching force with force, Jesus teaches us to take the energy of an attack and flip it into something the other person never expected.

In this sermon from CrossWay Church, Pastor Brad works through four situations Jesus identifies where we will face injustice — insults, lawsuits, forced demands, and requests for help — and shows how the gospel transforms the way we respond to each one.
But here is the twist: we don’t do this on willpower alone. We do it because Jesus pulled the ultimate Kingdom Jujitsu on the cross — taking betrayal, injustice, and death and flipping them into resurrection, forgiveness, and new life. And his Spirit now lives in us, slowly and faithfully making us into people who look more like him.