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LOVE AND HATE

Text :  Hebrews 1:9. 

You have loved righteousness and hated iniquity. That is why God, your God, anointed you rather than your companions with the oil of gladness.”

It's not enough to love righteousness, you must also hate iniquity.

Loving righteousness doesn't necessarily means you automatically hated iniquity and vice versa. 

Many well meaning Christians desire to be righteous but they do not have enough hatred for sin.

Note that we have inputed righteousness,  the righteousness that God bestowed on you by reason of your faith in the Lord Jesus. And there's the righteousness you work out after you have received Christ. 

1 John 3:7 says *Little children, don’t let anyone deceive you. The person who practices righteousness is righteous, just as the Messiah is righteous.*

So you are not righteous just because you profess to be, but because you practice righteousness. 

Practicing righteousness involves hating iniquity. Hebrews 12:4 says, In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

To hate iniquity is to intentionally resist every invitation to sin and to embrace the way of righteousness. 

Proverbs 8:13 says the fear of the LORD is to hate evil. You must grow in your faith to the point where you love what the Lord loves and hate what He hates, Romans 12:9.

Bible  Reading:

Hebrews 1:8-9

PRAYER FOCUS

1.) Father God, I receive the grace to love what you love and hate what you hate in Jesus name. 
 

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