WHEN HATE IS RIGHT AND LOVE IS WRONG

1 Jn. 2:15 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him

Psalm 97:10 - Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

It’s okay to love the right things and hate the wrong things. God is a God of love but God also hates. What God hates we should likewise hate. Here are a few things God hates. This is not an exhaustive list.

 

I. GOD HATES IDOLS [Dt. 16:22, 1 Cor. 8:1-7, 10:18-21]

Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the LORD thy God hateth.

II. GOD HATES WICKEDNESS/INIQUITY [Ps. 45:6-7, Heb. 1:8-9]

-Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre. Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

-But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

III. GOD HATES EVIL DEEDS/DOCTRINES [Rev. 2:6-7, 15-16, Amos 5:15-27]

 

IV. GOD HATES EVIL HEARTS/FALSE OATHS [Zech. 8:16-17, Gen. 6:6-8]

-These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

-And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.