Hate What Is Evil

The apostle Paul admonishes us to hate what is evil. (Romans 12:9)

What is evil?

Everything that does not conform to the commands and teaching of Christ.

Which is most of what goes on around us everyday

In the fallen world we live in.

What is highly valued among men is detestable to God.

On this basis what is highly valued among men is evil in God's sight.

How does a follower of Christ hate what is evil?

Do not handle! Do not taste! Do not touch! (Colossians 2:21)

If we belong to Christ we have died

To the basic principles of this world;

We do not submit to its rules

We do not handle! We do not taste! We do not touch, what the world values;

What the world puts forth as acceptable and sought after.

These things the world values are destined to perish

Because they are based on human commands and teaching.

Such regulations have the appearance of wisdom,

With their self imposed worship, their false humility

And their harsh treatment of the body,

But they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

(Colossians 2:20-23)

That is how we who belong to Christ demonstrate that we hate what is evil:

We do not handle! We do not taste! We do not touch! What the world does.

We know that we are the children of God,

And that the whole world is under the control of the evil one.

(1 John 5:19)

This is a foundational reality for a follower of Christ.

How does a follower of Christ hate what is evil?

By loving God and carrying out His commands. (1 John 5:2)

This is love for God: to obey His commands.

And His commands are not burdensome,

For everyone born of God overcomes the world.

This is the victory that overcomes the world, even our faith.

Who is it that overcomes the world?

Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. (1 John 5:3-4)

By definition he who believes and has faith obeys the commands of God.

Only these hate evil as demonstrated by obedience to God's commands.

Only these gain the Victory that OVERCOMES the world,which is Eternal LIFE.

Do not love the world or anything in the world.

If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man,

The lust of his eyes and the boasting of what the has and does--

Comes not from the Father but from the world.

The world and its desires pass away,

But the man who does the will of God lives forever. (1 John 1:15-17)

How do we hate evil, we do not love the world.

We know that we have come to know Him if we obey His commands.

The man who says, 'I know him,'

But does not do what He commands is a LIAR, and the TRUTH is not in him.

But if anyone obeys His Word, God's love is truly made complete in him.

Whoever claims to live IN Him must walk as Jesus did. (1 John 1:3-6)

How do we hate evil, we walk as Jesus did.

How does the Father compensate us for hating evil?

We are no longer slaves to SIN but Christ sets us free

From the passions and lusts of the world that lead to Eternal Death.

(John 8:36)

We have the peace of God that transcends all understanding

That guards our hearts and our minds in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:7)

We are rooted and established in love

And have power together will all the saints,

To grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ

And we know and experience His love that surpasses knowledge

And are filled with the measure of all the fullness of God.

(Ephesians 3:17-19)

We have been marked in Christ with a Seal, the Holy Spirit,

Who is a deposit guaranteeing our inheritance [Ephesians 1:13-14]

Until we meet Him in the air and we are made like Him

Because we see Him as He is [1 John 3:2-3]

And we will be forever with the Lord.

Today, the world is raging against God, rushing toward oblivion. (Psalm 2)

America is being ground to powder because of her SIN against God.

Save yourself from this Corrupt Generation! (Acts 2:40)

As God has written, so shall it be! Hallelujah! Maranatha!

Father, Your Kingdom come, Your will be done, on earth as in Heaven!