Christians Should Hate More.

How do you like that title? True or false? I read an article with that title today, and I believe it is true. We need to hate EVIL a lot more than we do.

Sure, God wants us to love people. But He commands us to hate sin. Do you hate sin? Murder, perhaps? Rape? Pedophilia? Human trafficking? Genocide? Sure, you hate the big sins. But do you hate every form of evil? It all has consequences. And the supposedly “small” sins always lead to bigger and bigger sins. Do you think pedophiles and rapists just woke up that way at age 13? They did not. They arrived there gradually, after years of worse and worse pornography, often coupled with abuse, until “normal” lust no longer satisfied their now unspeakably evil appetites.

That can happen to you, too. Surely you have seen that in your own life: a “mild” sin no longer satisfies, and you find yourself going places in your mind (or online) that you swore you would never go. You thought you hated that level of evil. Now you’re participating in it.

Does the Bible back me up on this? Does God’s Word really encourage hate? You bet it does. God is HOLY. He hates evil. He judged evil at the cross. And we are called to be like Him, to judge evil, to “call it out” and to hate it, loathe it, detest it.

Psalm 97:10 says, “Hate evil, you who love the Lord.” HATE IT!

Romans 12:9 says, “Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.”

Proverbs 8:13 says, “To fear the Lord is to HATE EVIL.”

Hebrews 1:9 explains that God blessed Jesus with more joy than any other man who ever lived. Why? “Because He loved righteousness and hated lawlessness.” Jesus hated evil and God blessed Him for it.

Finally, consider Ezekiel 35:6. Because an enemy nation had not hated bloodshed, God says He will send THEM bloodshed. “Because you have not hated bloodshed, bloodshed will pursue you.” In other words, the sin you tolerate will be the sin that destroys you.

Think about that: THE SIN THAT YOU TOLERATE WILL BE THE SIN THAT DESTROYS YOU.

You must hate evil. Hate it.

Pray. Ask God to fill you with His holy hatred for sin. Sin steals, sin kills, sin destroys. God hates it. Ask Him to help you hate it.

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