In Psalm 97v10, we read,/Ye that love the Lord,hate evil/,recently I pointed out that in Baptism,we are declaring that we have died to our old sinful ways.Here, we who love the Lord are exhorted to hate evil, consider, that those who do not love the Lord ,love evil,the drunkard loves alcohol,the child abuser loves their perverted sex,anything goes just as long as they get the thing they love.Those who worked in concentration camps loved what they were doing, it is a sad commentary on life that so many people love evil.The extreme religious people love the evil that they are doing,even though it is obviously evil,they have a perverted mind set that believes that what they are doing is pleasing God. Why should those who love the Lord hate evil,well look on Calvary,evil put our Saviour on that cross,my evil, your evil,Gods righteous anger burns against all evil,and so like Him we should hate evil. W. Cowper wrote,[ Let this be our prayer]
I hate the sins that made Thee mourn,
and drove Thee from my breast,
The dearest idol I have known,
Whate'er that idol be,
help me to tear it from Thy throne,
And worship only Thee,
In Jesus name we ask this, Amen .
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