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The God Who Hates Unrepentant Sinners Loves YouMankind has created a “god” in their own image and to their own liking. They do not seek to know the true God and to learn of Him from His own words. Rather, they have an image (a mental “idol”) and they only turn to the Bible to find any statements, whether in or out of context, to support their false god.One of the clearest examples is the false, modern evangelical god who doesn’t hate anyone. This fictitious version of God only loves and never hates. The evangelical is quick to point out that 1 John 4:8 says, “God is love.” True. And it is also true that: “The Lord is a man of war: the Lord is His name.” (Exodus 15:3) AND, “For our God is a consuming fire.” (Hebrews 12:29) The old-time evangelists used to preach sermons titled, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” and “There’s A Pay Day Someday,” or “The God of the Bible Kills: Will He Kill YOU?” But you won’t hear those kinds of sermons preached much these days, especially among the self-proclaimed “evangelical” crowd. But consider Psalm 5:11 which says, “The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.” Who does God hate? He hates the “wicked” and “him”… not the sin but the unrepentant, rebellious sinner. You see, the false god created by modern apostate evangelicals is imbalanced. He’s a love-sick sociopath who doesn’t deal with sin, doesn’t hate sin OR rebellious, unrepentant sinners. The god of evangelicalism is “inclusive” and opens His arms to Sodomites and says, “Welcome. Come as you are, stay as you are.” That’s not God, that’s a devil. Scripture says that God HATED Esau (and in context, is speaking of an entire RACE of people called Edomites), “And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.” (Malachi 1:3) Scripture says that God HATES the unrepentant sinner. Proverbs 6:16-19 says that the Lord HATES a false witness. It doesn’t say He hates the sin. NO. It says He hates the SINNER. It also says He HATES “he that soweth discord among brethren.” Again, it’s not the sin but the unrepentant sinner that God hates. He hates the look, the tongue, the hands, the heart, the feet… and the SINNER himself. If that doesn’t describe your God, then you worship a devil. (1 Corinthians 10:19-20) The Psalmist describes it God this way, “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.” God doesn’t just hate the iniquity, but the “workers” of iniquity. So, which is it? God is love but God also hates? Yes. Both. God is balanced and it is not contradictory when the Bible says that He hates sin and unrepentant sinners but also loves. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.” (John 3:16) So, it’s up to you whether God loves you or God hates you. “He that believeth on him (Jesus) is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.” (John 3:18) Will you reject His love and receive His hate and wrath, or repent and be loved eternally?
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