Loving What God Hates

(This is what the world does.)

Psalm 10:3 “For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.”

34:21 “. . . and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.”

37:32 “The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.”

Luke 16:13-15 “. . . for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.”

Isaiah 66:3-4 “. . . their soul delighteth in their abominations . . . they . . . chose that in which I delighted not.”

1st John 2:15-16 “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world.”

James 4:4 “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”

1st Tim. 6:10 “For the love of money is the root of all evil. . . .”

Isaiah 59:12-15 “. . . he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it. . . .”

Hating What God Hates (This is what we do.)

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.”

Proverbs 8:13 “The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.”

Isaiah 56:2-7 “. . . unto the eunuchs that keep my sabbaths, and choose the things that please me. . . .”

2nd Peter 3:14 “Wherefore, beloved . . . be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.”