A Study Of Hate, Part
#2
The Reality of Hate
and Love
Psalms 139:21-22 Do
not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that
rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine
enemies. 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.
Standing in the shadows of
the church, I was engaged in a very animated conversation with a church
member. Being the victim of an ongoing slander campaign, I spoke
with the righteous indignation of a God fearing person concerning my hatred for
busy bodies, people who lie and spread false rumors. My conversation
was overheard by a minister who joining in the conversation, I was informed that,
contrary to what I had read in the scripture, Christians don’t
hate. As he explained it, “we can hate the sin, but we must
love the person”. The conversation began as nothing more than me venting
my frustration in search of a word of support from the household of faith. Now the conversation was taking me down that road of deliberate confusion. He
further stated that whether a person is a sinner or not it is not for us to
judge. Joining in the conversation, another church member gave the new
age testimony of the 'justification of sin'.
“But here's the thing all of it is sin no matter what. I'm not GOD and
I'm not judging anyone. As a Christian my job is to love everyone. No sin is
greater than the other.” The smugness of this speaker from out of
town seem to indicate that something profound had been stated. I,
like many others who are searching for the true knowledge of God, was not
impressed. For me the conversation digressed into confusing and irrelevant
statements. To me the statements were like saying, “I love Dr
Pepper, but I hate the taste”. This was my first contact with the
religious community toning down its rhetoric in preparation of the governments
attack on hate. In the years that followed I became more aware of
the shifting and inconsistent nature of the church. Cute phrases
such as, “don’t hate on me” and “only God can judge” was becoming in
vogue. Both of these phrases seem to have been based upon a
shaped interpretation of the scripture.
Shaped interpretations of
the scripture consist of surgically removing certain words or phrases from a verse,
separating it from the supporting scripture, then presenting them as a complete
thought. The scripture, then can reinterpreted to fit the narrative
of the speaker. Thus, sin becomes
justifiable, because God loves us and love covers a multitude of faults. Shaped doctrines have appeared, such as once
in Christ, you are never out or even Christ died for my sins, therefore I am
free to sin. Shaped interpretations of the scripture have left many standing by the roadside of despair, waiting for God to deliver a car.
One of the strangest
realities of this modern society is that very little can be said without it
being analyzed and declared either “judging” or “hate speech”. There are those souls standing ready to analyze the
words of others based upon their perspective. They are insulted and resort to name calling
if the speaker's rhetoric does not fit within their agenda. The question of how is it possible to arrive at
the conclusion that a person is judging
without first judging, or that a message is hate without hating the message, this
does not appear to be a consideration.
The
cauldron of hate is constantly being added to and stirred by the so-called
activist of political correctness and leaders of ethnic communities. Each one is seeking to advance their own agenda. The freedom of speech for the majority is
being infringed upon, and in many venues no longer exist. This in itself is the greatest producer of
hate. It’s no longer acceptable to voice
your opinion, nor is it acceptable to quote scriptures unless they has been
shaped to fit the accepted narrative or the minority's agenda. A minister preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom,
calling out the sins of humanity is subjected to name calling, which in itself
is a reversed form of hate speech.
There are new age messages
in and out of the church that proclaim the Bible teaches us that it is wrong to
judge, or that only God can judge. The same holds true with hate. A
careful reading of the scripture fails miserably to validate these arguments, at
the risk of being redundant, certain words or phrases are surgically removed
from verses and supporting scripture and then presented as a complete
thought. Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged: requires the
reading and study of the fifth, six and seventh chapters of Matthew to
understand the context of the message, and who was he talking to and what was he talking
about. The same holds true with Matthew 7:7. There are many who
have the false belief that they can ask God for any of their fleshly desires or
wants and he will give it to them. If we allow the evidence to speak,
based upon the knowledge of God and the Gospel of the Kingdom, the question
should be, “why did we get it wrong”. Do we not know that there is the
fruit of the spirit and there are the works of the flesh. As far as judging maybe we should contend to
understand Corinthians 6:2; Do ye not know that the saints shall judge
the world? And if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge
the smallest matters?
Proverbs 6:16-19 These six things doth the LORD hate: yea,
seven are an abomination unto him: A
proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,
feet that be swift in running to mischief, A false witness that speaketh lies,
and he that soweth discord among brethren.
These verses tend to zero in on God’s hatred. Hate is a taboo subject when referencing the
attributes of God. God is a Good of love
therefore he does not hate us is the accepted interpretation of the scripture. Even a preacher who preached, "God hate you", would find himself in trouble with the organized church.
In a contemporary society
that embraces the knowledge of good and evil, it also seeks to create a society
free of hate. This is an impossible
task, since hate and love must exist as opposites until the emergence of the
new heaven and new earth. Man can only redefined
love and hate to allow for the justification of that which was once considered
a sin. The message of salvation becomes a message of hate. John
the Baptist preaching, “ye generation of viper…”, in today’s society is reaffirmed
as a hate message. If in the contempt of God, a type of hate was
exercised by Lucifer, it is also fitting that in contempt of the devil a
certain type of Godly hatred must also exist. For the sakes of
offending many, hate is a part of our DNA. Solomon referred to its
existence when he stated that there was a time to hate. In the Old Testament
there are many instances where God expressed his hatred of those who did not
fear him. In Psalms 139:22, David expressed his contempt, “I hate
them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.” Psalms
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. Based
upon the scripture references there is a perfect or godly hate that is of the
spirit and there is a hatred that is of the flesh. In a politically
correct society hate is redefined and irrelevant laws are instituted to control
it, and the church must perform the daunting task of separate the person from
his evil ways. Imagine a judge in a court of law struggling to
punish the crime without punishing the person.
Churches have become big
business, basting in grants and
subsidies from the government. The churches that accepted this handout
from the government found themselves amending the gospel, to adhere to the
guidelines set forth by the government.
Little by little the Gospel of the Kingdom is is being replaced by the gospel of the world. Christianity is now being redefined as a
religion of hate. Christianity, the church and America have been
made ashamed of their bloody past. These
entities have allowed themselves to become hijacked and become embroiled in useless
struggles seeking to prove that the base
of their existence is free from hatred
and violence.
There is a type of spiritual
blindness that prevents man from accepting the existence of the God of Abraham
or embracing the knowledge of God. The knowledge of good and evil provides a
platform for the devil to do his works, it also allows man to deny the
existence of God. The knowledge of God
provided for the singular mission of God, thus God’s first command to man was
to subdue the earth and have dominion
over it. The test of a man’s commitment was
to love God and hate the devil. Kill and
destroy was the command given to the Kings and Judges whose mission was to
establish a new nation for his chosen people.
There is a vast difference
between the God given knowledge and the knowledge of good and evil. The knowledge of good and evil is often
translated to include the ability to know the difference between good and evil,
but this is not true. Sometime the
English translation can be misleading. The knowledge of good and evil does not
differentiate between what is good and what is evil; these guidelines can only
be established through the knowledge of God.
The knowledge of good and evil combine that which is evil with that
which good. As this knowledge, increase
that which was evil become good and that which was good become evil.
