“…[God] hatest all workers of iniquity.”  (Psalm 5)

“…[D]epart from [M]e, all ye workers of iniquity.”  (Luke 13)

 

A while ago I asked my readers to let me know if they were “sometimes readers” or “all the time readers.”  We found that the majority if not all are “sometimes readers.” This did not discourage us because we know God reads us and I’m able to recommend these articles when I can match them to person’s real time issues or ponderings.  I am fully aware that you are very busy as this world does not allow Christ-ians the time to read every thing that comes their way. Due to this I realize I need to put together an index…ugh. Also, I realize that I can speak on subjects and topics more than once because someone might read that article that missed a previous.

This is one of those articles that remind me to be thankful for the small ministry God has given me.  This article, if preached as a message in a church, would be received with less than rave reviews…more like raving mad reviewers.  This article is on the hatred of God…not man’s hatred of God but God’s hatred of some men. Whenever I bring this topic up, no matter who it is with, they disagree immediately. Christ-ians today have been inculcated (DRilled) with the false teaching of God’s love for everyman and “God is love.”  C.S. Lewis was careful to state “God is Love but love is not God.”  The love of God is not the end all and be all of the Godhead. God the Father hates some men….God the Son hates some men…and God the Holy Ghost hates some men and He is the quickest to demonstrate that hate and to make it manifest.

Reader, this is not a new teaching but an old teaching that has been taught by preachers of the past. Reformers taught it, Puritans taught it, and the preacher John Gill wrote of it in his fine book, “A Complete Body of Practical And Doctrinal Divinty…Deduced From The Sacred Scriptures.” I heartily recommend this book, especially to preachers and teachers. Gill’s successor preached it as well. Gill’s successor’s name? Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

If I were ever to minister in a church as pastor, We would introduce this doctrine slowly and then preach on it often…why? When a false doctrine is believed for years and in some cases for all of one’s life as a believer, the sound doctrine must be preached often in order to bring a doctrinal balance. Imagine a person believing one thing for (10) ten years and then learning it to be false doctrine.  It is hard to put those teachings down even when it is understood to be erroneous. Therefore the sound doctrine must be pressed and pushed and the people must be inculcated with soundness.  An analogy: A person spends years getting out of shape, he decides to get back into shape, this takes time as getting back into shape does not happen over night.

There is much that was preached by faithful ministers that is not preached today by faithful ministers. The doctrines of election, adoption, God’s absolute Sovereignty and God’s hatred are among them. I’m not saying these doctrines are not preached in some churches, they are but they are few. How do I know this? The church has lost much of her authority in this world. The teaching of the (4) four doctrines mentioned above could change that.  It is a historical fact that past revivals…I mean country wide revivals came as Calvinist men taught upon the High Sovereignty of God.

Humanly speaking, imagine the reaction of unchurched persons if they were to hear, God hates you instead of God loves you. This, my reader, would get attention. Let me explain who it is that God hates and it is who and not what.  Persons like to say, “God hates the sin but loves the sinner…”  That statement is wrong…wrong…wrong…and right.

The doctrine of election (John 6; Romans 8-11; Ephesians 1; 2 Thessalonians 2; Psalm 65) teaches us the truth that God has chosen some persons to salvation in order to demonstrate His Grace, Love, and Mercy. Logically, this means that He has chosen to leave all others to die in their sin (John 5 & 8). Those left in their sin will be used to demonstrate God’s Justice, Holiness, Anger, Fury, and Wrath.

Galatians 4:6 and John 17 both teach that we were always the children of God, we were never in danger of Hell and we were never children of the devil. On the other hand, the persons who will be made to endure the unendurable are always in danger of Hell. These persons are called: Abominable Branches, Children of (b)elial, Children of Hell, Children of disobedience, Dogs, Enemies of God, Enemies of the Cross, Enemies of Righteousness, evildoers, evil men, fools, goats, rebellious, reprobate, tares or weeds, ungodly, vessels of wrath, whited sepulchres, and wolves. These are life long sinners who care nothing for God  or God’s pleasures or His will.

Ask yourself this question, “Does God send those He loves to Hell?” The answer is in the negative, of course. Therefore God hates some men…life long workers of iniquity.

The Christ-ian is one who has been known and loved by God from b4 the founding of this world. Only the Christ-ian can say, “God is love.” God is no secret admirer, God loves us and He will have it known.

To my elect brothers and sisters, God Loves you.