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Someone once said, love is blind, but marriage is the eye-opener.
That’s true about many relationships, isn’t it?
When you first meet someone, you may instantly like them, and later on develop a close friendship.
If you’re single, your relationship might blossom into romance.
But eventually you see something in that perfect mate or good friend that isn’t quite perfect.
It may an annoying habit or a character flaw.
If you get close enough to anybody, you find some things that bother you.
In a moment of anger or honesty, you might say to them, “I hate it when you do that.”
Of course some things you just have to overlook.
Petty things that rub you the wrong way you have to get used to.
And you need to always remember you have some irritating elements of your personality also.
You’ve probably heard someone you love say the same thing to you: “I hate it when you do that.”
The Bible tells us that as much as God loves us, there are some things we do God hates.
He doesn’t hate them the way a wife hates her husband’s snoring, or the way a man hates his buddy’s bragging.
God hates some attitudes and actions because they are sinful and destructive.
Sometimes, if you read the Bible carefully, your heart may hear the Lord say, “I hate it when you do that.”
Tonight I want to take a look at 7 things God hates, not just when He sees them in others, but when he sees them in you and me.
Turn with me to *Prov.
6:16-19*.
*PRAYER*
* *Let’s begin with a shocking realization that
*I. **GOD HATES SOME THINGS.
(v.
16) *
We cannot love good if we do not hate evil.
- Saint Jerome
Some* *see hatred as a sinful emotion, but the Bible does not agree.
Twice the Bible declares that God is love (*1 John 4:8, 16*), but the same Bible also tells us this God of love also hates some things.
God’s hatred is often described in the OT by the word /abomination= a word used for meat that had been left out to spoil.
/Our English word /disgust /captures the meaning/.
/Your reaction to seeing and smelling a pound of hamburger meat left out for two days in 100 degree heat would capture something of the meaning.
The Bible says God experiences this disgust.
*Proverbs 15:8* /The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to the Lord,…/
*Proverbs 17:15* /He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, Both of them alike are an abomination to the Lord.
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*Revelation 2:15* /Thus you also have those who hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate./
All of these verses confirm the fact of *v.
16*: /God hates some things.
/So how can we reconcile the hatred of God and the love of God?
By considering two important truths:
a.
He does not hate people.
From the beginning of the Bible to the end, one truth repeated over and over again is /God loves everybody.
/His universal love is the root of His grace: our sin gives God every reason to hate us, but His grace moves Him to love us.
*John 3:16* is proof enough that God so loves/ the world.
/That is everybody- no exceptions, no exclusions.
He proves that love by sending His Son to die for us.
God does not hate people- He loves every human being that’s ever lived on this earth.
At the same time, the Bible is also clear that
b.
He does hate certain attitudes and actions.
God loves people, but God also hates sin.
The same people He loves often engage in sinful attitudes, sinful thoughts, sinful feelings, and sinful actions.
These are the things God hates, because they offend His holiness, and because they produce pain and suffering in His creation.
God is a Person, and in the deep of His mighty nature He thinks, wills, enjoys *feels*, loves, desires and suffers as any other person may.-A.
W. Tozer, /The Pursuit of God.
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God loves what is good, and He loves people, but He hates sin.
Keep that in mind as we read the kinds of sin God hates:
*II.
SEVEN THINGS GOD HATES.
(v.
17-19)*
* *This list is not exhaustive; there are many other sins God hates.
The writer zeroes in on 7 sins that especially offend God.
1. Proud eyes.
Seeing is associated with arrogance here, much like we would say that one
person is /looking down /on another.
This attitude sees you as superior to others.
It is essentially comparative.
You look down on someone else because they are less educated, or not as financially well off as you are.
You might look down on others because they were not as popular or pretty as you are, or even because they are not as spiritual.
When the gleam of pride shines in your eyes, God says /I hate it when you do that.
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A young woman was speaking with her pastor about he besetting sin.
She told him, “Pastor, I have become aware of a sin in my life which I cannot control.
Every time I am at church I look around at the other women, and I realize that I am the prettiest one in the whole congregation.
What can I do about this sin?”
The pastor replied, “Mary, that’s not a sin, that’s just a terrible mistake!”[i]
Pride is not just a mistake-it is a sin, a sin that God hates.
Why does God hate pride?
Perhaps C. S. Lewis sums it up best when he writes in /Mere Christianity/:
*…it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.*
*Psalm 101:5*/…The one who has a haughty look and a proud heart, Him I will not endure./
*Proverbs 16:5* /Everyone proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord;…/
/ /God hates pride, but on the positive side, He loves humility.
*Ps 138:6* /Though the Lord is on high, Yet He regards the lowly; But the proud He knows from afar./
*Jas 4:6* /…God resists the proud, But gives grace to the humble.”/
/ /God hates pride because it is an attitude that drags others down, and even tries to drag Him down to lift you up.
When you recognize pride in yourself, you need to recognize how destructive it really is.
A second thing God hates is a
2. Lying tongue.
Lying is connected to the mouth because that is how deceit is
communicated.
Whenever you say something you know is not true, it offends God’s very nature.
God is a God of truth, and the Bible tells us it is impossible for Him to lie.
(*Titus 1:2*).
Jesus says lies are the language of the devil:
*John 8:44* /He [the devil] does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it./
God loves the truth; the devil loves lies.
When you lie, you are talking like the devil, and insulting the God of truth.
A preacher walking along a road saw a crowd of boys surrounding a dog.
“What are you doing with the dog?” asked the minister.
“Whoever tells the biggest lie, he wins the dog.”
“Oh, my, my, my,” exclaimed the minister, “when I was a little boy like you here I never told a lie.”
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