God Loves and Hates

You know, we hear so much about God’s love, but people don’t want to talk about what He hates. In Psalm 45:6 and 7 we learn one thing God loves and one thing He hates.

Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
The scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.

 Before we can talk about what God loves and hates, we must remember that He is sovereign. He rules forever and that will never change. Setting us up for this, the Psalm tells us that His Kingdom is all about what is right. Since He rules, then we should align our love and hate along with His.

What does God love? He loves righteousness. This means He loves those who exhibit virtue, morality, justice, decency, uprightness, rectitude, honesty and blamelessness.

What does God hate? He hates wickedness. Making it personal, this means He hates those who exhibit evil, badness, iniquity, sin impiety, malice.

Oh, did I just say that God hates some people and loves others? Yeah, I did. Psalm 5:5 says that God hates all who do evil. But we should ask, “Doesn’t God say He loves us while we were sinners and His enemies in Romans 5?”

How do we reconcile these two truths of the Bible? That’s easy. We look to Jesus. Those who are in Jesus are loved and reconciled to God. Those who are not and will never turn to Jesus for salvation will still be His enemies and therefor remain under His wrath.

If you want to know more about transferring from being hated by God to being loved by God, watch my video on the Gospel on YouTube or read on this Gospel link.

Do you believe history?

Do you believe everything your parents or grandparents told you about their life before the internet or cell phones? Why is it important to listen to their history? Psalm 44 verse 1 tells us that history is really important. It says:

We have heard with our ears, O God;
our fathers have told us
what you did in their days,
in days long ago.

Recent history is one thing to consider as some people are trying to revise or correct history. Some of it is good and should be corrected but revisionism is from a nefarious agenda.

But what we have learned about God and what He has done overshadows all these changes because the Bible hasn’t changed and will not change. It truthfully tells us what God and people did and it tells us why because God is the author.

What has God done?

He is the Creator – not chance.

He directs the course of history through people – not people doing it on their own.

He correctly identifies our problem as sin – not mistakes or accidents.

He ordained and provided Jesus to appease His wrath against our sins.

He calls us to repentance and gives His Holy Spirit to make us spiritually alive and able to live holy lives.

That’s what our ancestors told us through the Bible.

If you hear this and haven’t trusted Jesus for salvation then you are still under God’s wrath according to this same Bible, the Word of God. If you want to know more, watch my video on the Gospel on YouTube or read on this Gospel link