What Is Holy Hatred?
Blog - 10/23/20

“abhor”
from apostugeo [apo = “from, away from” + stugeo = “detest, abhor”] - means “to shrink from with abhorrence; to detest”

“hold fast”
from kollao - means “to glue or weld together; to cleave; to adhere to (of friendly intercourse)”

Charles Spurgeon
“I had rather pass through seven years of the most wearisome pain, and the most languishing sickness, than I would ever again pass through the terrible discovery of the evil of sin.”

Gen 3:17 [Amplified]
Then to Adam the Lord God said, “Because you have listened [attentively] to the voice of your wife, and have eaten [fruit] from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat of it’; The ground is [now] under a curse because of you; In sorrow and toil you shall eat [the fruit] of it All the days of your life.

Ro 8:19-20, 22
For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it…For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now.

Contemporary “Christianity’s” Myth
There’s a myth on the streets of Christendom that supposes that because “God is love” (ala 1Jn 4:8), somehow He cannot hate - that there’s “no room” for wrath in Him. This is a lie meant to destroy the Gospel.

God’s Holiness
When you fully understand God’s HOLINESS, then you EXPECT Him to hate the way He does!

The Gospel
God, in His infinite grace, reaches out across the chasm to those whom He hates and says, “I will save you, deliver you from the throes of spiritual death, if you accept my offer, My Son.”

The Gospel
God hates evildoers; but, Jesus reveals God’s heart towards those He hates. He is merciful and gracious.

God’s love doesn’t exist because we are worthy of it.

Unlocking Grace and the Gospel
God is gracious because He is love. This graciousness has nothing to do with anyone else, nor anyone who receives the benefits of it. This grace “[proves] His own love to us” (Ro 5:8) - ala Jn 3:16. He loves because of who He is (it emanates), not because of who we are (it’s not attracted to us as sinners).

There’s always a positive result of confessing to God.

Self-Induced Misery
To live in sin is a choice. To refuse to confess that sin is to remain in it, under the judgment (and punishment) that it incurs. Punishment for believers may be quantified, minimally, as a loss of peace.

Lam 3:17
my soul is bereft of peace;
I have forgotten what happiness is;

The Value of Confession
A stubborn person who refuses good counsel is only harming themselves.

Arrogance is unteachable.