But when we begin to redefine by Supreme Court what marriage is, and redefine man married to woman now, whatever, you go too far. New Revised Standard Version. In this one, I had 17. We're not supposed to disdain the created world. You get this picture in your mind of someone lying awake at night, planning wicked deeds against their enemy. He asked which department was the problem and whom it was that was doing this. There are six things which the Lord hates, even seven which are an abomination to Him. Never are we given a license to say hateful words to people, to hurt people, to slander people, to humiliate people, but we are called by God to love what God loves and to hate what God hates. God tells us in no uncertain terms that he hates idolatry.
And if you have ever had an abortion or you know someone who has had an abortion, rejoice that the grace of Jesus Christ is extended to the one who repents of this this tragic decision. The compromised professing Christians do not know the Bible. As a society, we have impersonalized these issues. So, God, help us to hate these things, because you hate them. We love our Lord Jesus Christ, though imperfectly, yet passionately and continually, and we hate what you hate, and we hate what dishonors Christ. We are to, in the face of it, love. It is not biblical at all. We hope to get a promotion at work so we say to the supervisor, "That was a great presentation! " And then verse 18 says God hates a heart that devises wicked plans. The phrase, "That person looks down on me! " You pass the doctrinal test, you affirm the deity of Christ. But there's a very clear indication in the Bible of what Scripture means when it talks about the world. רְ֝שָׁעִ֗ים (rə·šā·'îm).
Watchmen on the wall had the tremendous responsibility to get on the wall and watch for approaching danger, and I want you to listen. About this majesty in creation. "He lays the beams of His upper chambers in the waters. "For if you forgive other people when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Are have we completely lost our moral compass to the point that we can't even, and is the church so weak, so jellyfish backboned that we can't even stand up and say life is right and murder is wrong? You know, these people who say you can go to heaven without the gospel, you can go to heaven if you're just a good person in whatever religion you're in, they don't understand it. While it is true that we have literally died to the world, it is also true that we can find it still alluring and find ourselves being tempted to draw back into it. It's not in you at all. The whole system is just damning people, the whole kosmos, the whole ideological system is damning people. When we were really so bored we started counting bulbs in the chandelier. Then it stands to reason he loves just the opposite. The sun, he says, is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, rejoices as a strong man to run his course, its rising is from one end of the heavens, its circuit to the other end, nothing hidden from its heat. A False Witness who Breathes out Lies.
English Revised Version. Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel. And he conceived of that as the ultimate machine but said it could never be built because you couldn't build a self-propelling, self-generating machine that could repair itself and multiply and reproduce itself, and yet every single cell in the universe, every living cell in the universe is exactly that kind of machine. God did not love Esau less than Jacob; He did not love Esau in any saving way at all. "You are, however, " verse 4, "from God, little children, and have overcome them because greater is He who is in you, " that is, the Holy Spirit, "than he who is in the world, " that is, the evil one. I have learned that it is a total waste of time to even engage them in debate. Psalm 31:23 O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer. Then, you will find in verse 17, God hates hands that shed innocent blood. They had encountered the gospel of Jesus Christ, they had put their faith in him, they had received his forgiveness, they had been indwelled by his Spirit. You'll never find a sinless pastor, but stay away from Bible teachers and pastors who don't have accountability in their lives and who misrepresent the Gospel in and out of the pulpit. I'm not being mean, I couldn't. You have decisions and choices.
As I noted, He said, "I came to the world and the world rejected me. " Philosophy, holding a dialogue with Lucian, is made to say, "To love and to hate, they say, spring from the same source. " Love the LORD, all His saints. No, neither of those are in view here. And if you don't feel that way, then you love the world, and the love of the Father is not in you.
So when we talk about not loving the world, we're not talking about that. Remember forgiveness is freedom. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God. " "According to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that's now working in the sons of disobedience, among them we, too, all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as everybody else. " However, unlike those who passed this task on to me, I was probably just as arrogant as him and had a very short fuse.
Many of the emergent folks attempt to say that God is okay with our sin since it has been paid for at the cross. They wanted to do me in. God forgives our sin when we turn to Him in repentance and ask for His forgiveness. Proverbs 6:16–19 Challenges Us to Run from Sin. "For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones.
That pride can so get ahold of our heart that He said that He gives grace to the humble, but the proud, He holds at arm's length. I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. " One who Sows Discord Among Brothers. You cannot love flowers without hating weeds.
I thought I would enjoy it, but I really did not. God hates these six things and so should we. I can't jump to that conclusion. If you look over to 1 John chapter 4, a number of times in this chapter the love of God is noted. It's so much easier to consider God as the benevolent granter of prayers and the maker of flowers, butterflies, and puppies. It's Christ against anti-Christ.
As I have loved you, you also should love one another. God is going to bring about a judgment day to all who are proud. My Chief cleared his throat and I stopped complaining because we both detected our commanding officer entering the office. As we pray we call upon God to send us His grace to stop evil and to create justice and peace in our world. And that would become a prophecy, I believe, for America, that we are now entering into a time when we have love for God in many cases. Can we pray a few moments? The intentional, violent spilling of innocent blood is an abomination to God. This idol may be something immaterial but pleasurable like sex or money. That's why He became the propitiation for our sins, as we saw back in verse 2. Paul says, "May it never be that I should boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ through which the world has been crucified to me and I to the world. " … An idol is whatever you look at and say, in your heart of hearts, "If I have that, then I'll feel my life has meaning, then I'll know I have value, then I'll feel significant and secure. " The world recognizes its own language, it recognizes its own conversation. God hates a heart that devises wicked plans.