1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,348 Proverbs 6. 2 00:00:02,348 --> 00:00:04,575 "There are six things that the Lord hates, 3 00:00:04,575 --> 00:00:06,743 seven that are an abomination to Him." 4 00:00:06,743 --> 00:00:08,468 And you know what two of them are. 5 00:00:08,468 --> 00:00:10,858 It's not just the acts of wickedness. 6 00:00:10,858 --> 00:00:13,214 It's "a false witness." 7 00:00:13,214 --> 00:00:15,402 God says, I hate, I abominate 8 00:00:15,402 --> 00:00:17,566 "a false witness who breathes out lies 9 00:00:17,566 --> 00:00:21,500 and one who sows discord among brothers." 10 00:00:21,500 --> 00:00:24,560 Somebody who's divisive, God hates them. 11 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:26,439 Not just what they do. 12 00:00:26,439 --> 00:00:29,019 Scripture says, "them." 13 00:00:29,019 --> 00:00:35,334 You can't go but six chapters into your Bible, 14 00:00:35,334 --> 00:00:38,104 and what happens? 15 00:00:38,104 --> 00:00:42,874 God kills every man, woman, and child 16 00:00:42,874 --> 00:00:45,070 on the face of the earth 17 00:00:45,070 --> 00:00:49,826 except eight souls. 18 00:00:49,826 --> 00:00:56,961 God hates not just the sin. 19 00:00:56,961 --> 00:00:59,641 You know, years ago, 20 00:00:59,641 --> 00:01:07,462 we had a tract that showed the ark. 21 00:01:07,462 --> 00:01:12,636 Lightning, dark clouds, the rain is falling. 22 00:01:12,636 --> 00:01:15,732 And there are men and women desperate 23 00:01:15,732 --> 00:01:17,767 as the waters are rising 24 00:01:17,767 --> 00:01:21,350 trying to get into the ark. 25 00:01:21,350 --> 00:01:23,977 And on the side of it is a smiley face 26 00:01:23,977 --> 00:01:28,722 that says, "Smile. God loves you." 27 00:01:28,722 --> 00:01:32,852 That tract was not made to be funny. 28 00:01:32,852 --> 00:01:39,069 It was made to show how foolish 29 00:01:39,069 --> 00:01:42,981 so much of modern-day evangelism is. 30 00:01:42,981 --> 00:01:44,660 When you go out into this world 31 00:01:44,660 --> 00:01:46,406 and you tell people to smile 32 00:01:46,406 --> 00:01:49,326 because God loves them... 33 00:01:49,326 --> 00:01:52,823 Look, what Scripture tells us 34 00:01:52,823 --> 00:01:58,686 is that all of mankind are children of wrath. 35 00:01:58,686 --> 00:02:03,062 We are objects of the hatred of God 36 00:02:03,062 --> 00:02:06,112 by nature. 37 00:02:06,112 --> 00:02:09,241 We don't deserve His love. 38 00:02:09,241 --> 00:02:11,240 God could say this: 39 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,878 Noah have I loved, 40 00:02:14,878 --> 00:02:19,357 and the rest of the world I hated. 41 00:02:19,357 --> 00:02:21,314 You see, we get stirred up - 42 00:02:21,314 --> 00:02:23,334 Paul expects people to get stirred up 43 00:02:23,334 --> 00:02:26,315 just when it's "Jacob have I loved 44 00:02:26,315 --> 00:02:29,284 and Esau have I hated." 45 00:02:29,284 --> 00:02:33,012 Just one and one. 46 00:02:33,012 --> 00:02:35,944 God's love. God's hatred. 47 00:02:35,944 --> 00:02:39,823 But what about when God takes the whole world 48 00:02:39,823 --> 00:02:41,716 and His hatred is expressed 49 00:02:41,716 --> 00:02:43,645 and He wipes them all out? 50 00:02:43,645 --> 00:02:45,973 And He saves but eight souls? 51 00:02:45,973 --> 00:02:47,583 This is the kind of God we have. 52 00:02:47,583 --> 00:02:49,064 And let me tell you something, 53 00:02:49,064 --> 00:02:51,566 when He wiped out Sodom and Gomorrah, 54 00:02:51,566 --> 00:02:53,384 He has Peter tell us 55 00:02:53,384 --> 00:02:56,186 He brought them to extinction. 56 00:02:56,186 --> 00:02:58,311 He turned them to ashes 57 00:02:58,311 --> 00:03:00,992 as an example of what is going to happen 58 00:03:00,992 --> 00:03:05,745 to the ungodly now. 59 00:03:05,745 --> 00:03:07,887 He spared Lot. 60 00:03:07,887 --> 00:03:09,953 This is all through Scripture. 61 00:03:09,953 --> 00:03:12,046 Lot have I loved, 62 00:03:12,046 --> 00:03:15,766 Sodom and Gomorrah have I hated. 63 00:03:15,766 --> 00:03:21,304 This is all over. 64 00:03:21,304 --> 00:03:24,639 When the Lord hates somebody, 65 00:03:24,639 --> 00:03:28,007 in Paul's estimation, it's not injustice. 66 00:03:28,007 --> 00:03:30,610 Is there is injustice with God? Why? 67 00:03:30,610 --> 00:03:33,015 Because Esau was hated. 68 00:03:33,015 --> 00:03:35,248 He said, "by no means." 69 00:03:35,248 --> 00:03:40,413 God said, "I will have mercy 70 00:03:40,413 --> 00:03:42,624 upon whom I will have mercy, 71 00:03:42,624 --> 00:03:44,348 and I will have compassion..." 72 00:03:44,348 --> 00:03:46,024 Remember this, 73 00:03:46,024 --> 00:03:47,765 mercy. 74 00:03:47,765 --> 00:03:49,671 If you get justice 75 00:03:49,671 --> 00:03:51,661 and you get what your sins deserve, 76 00:03:51,661 --> 00:03:54,401 it is the full, all-out, deep wrath 77 00:03:54,401 --> 00:03:57,065 and hatred and indignation and fury, 78 00:03:57,065 --> 00:03:59,749 fierce anger of God, 79 00:03:59,749 --> 00:04:01,554 and that is what mankind deserves 80 00:04:01,554 --> 00:04:02,824 and we don't think so, 81 00:04:02,824 --> 00:04:04,074 and we have to be reminded 82 00:04:04,074 --> 00:04:05,306 over and over of this, 83 00:04:05,306 --> 00:04:07,865 and this is the reason why I wanted to go back to it. 84 00:04:07,865 --> 00:04:10,600 Brethren, what stock do we come from? 85 00:04:10,600 --> 00:04:13,721 We were children of wrath 86 00:04:13,721 --> 00:04:17,728 like the rest of mankind. 87 00:04:17,728 --> 00:04:22,488 Paul says it is no injustice on God's part 88 00:04:22,488 --> 00:04:24,624 for Him to hate Esau. 89 00:04:24,624 --> 00:04:28,956 Why? Because it's not unjust. 90 00:04:28,956 --> 00:04:30,320 It's just. 91 00:04:30,320 --> 00:04:31,969 That means it's right. 92 00:04:31,969 --> 00:04:35,345 It is right for God to hate sinners. 93 00:04:35,345 --> 00:04:36,911 And you can be sure of this, 94 00:04:36,911 --> 00:04:38,237 if God hates somebody, 95 00:04:38,237 --> 00:04:41,010 it's precisely because they're hate-worthy. 96 00:04:41,010 --> 00:04:43,019 If God abominates somebody, 97 00:04:43,019 --> 00:04:45,614 it's because they're abominable. 98 00:04:45,614 --> 00:04:47,667 If God is offended by somebody 99 00:04:47,667 --> 00:04:50,206 it's because they're offensive. 100 00:04:50,206 --> 00:04:52,355 That is the reality, brethren. 101 00:04:52,355 --> 00:04:56,583 God is not unjust to hate mankind. 102 00:04:56,583 --> 00:04:59,817 Because mankind is a hateful thing 103 00:04:59,817 --> 00:05:01,143 by nature. 104 00:05:01,143 --> 00:05:02,630 It ought to be hated. 105 00:05:02,630 --> 00:05:04,774 Evil people ought to be hated 106 00:05:04,774 --> 00:05:08,292 by a good and a holy God. 107 00:05:08,292 --> 00:05:10,929 That is only right. 108 00:05:10,929 --> 00:05:12,454 God hated mankind. 109 00:05:12,454 --> 00:05:14,937 He wiped out mankind in the flood. 110 00:05:14,937 --> 00:05:18,069 Why? Because those people 111 00:05:18,069 --> 00:05:21,852 were such character that it demanded 112 00:05:21,852 --> 00:05:23,519 that they be wiped out. 113 00:05:23,519 --> 00:05:26,221 Justice demanded it. 114 00:05:26,221 --> 00:05:29,048 God only damns those who are damnable. 115 00:05:29,048 --> 00:05:31,460 But that's all of mankind. There are no exceptions. 116 00:05:31,460 --> 00:05:33,306 You can read there in Romans 3. 117 00:05:33,306 --> 00:05:34,626 There's none righteous. 118 00:05:34,626 --> 00:05:37,401 And in case we thought, well, there might be an exception: 119 00:05:37,401 --> 00:05:40,410 No, not one. 120 00:05:40,410 --> 00:05:42,788 Boy, we have to be reminded, 121 00:05:42,788 --> 00:05:48,022 reminded over and over. 122 00:05:48,022 --> 00:05:51,250 You know, we just have this sense 123 00:05:51,250 --> 00:05:53,603 that the world - we don't feel it. 124 00:05:53,603 --> 00:05:54,889 We don't feel it. 125 00:05:54,889 --> 00:05:56,746 We don't hear the thunder all the time 126 00:05:56,746 --> 00:05:59,599 and see the dark clouds. 127 00:05:59,599 --> 00:06:01,510 But like Pilgrim in Pilgrim's Progress, 128 00:06:01,510 --> 00:06:04,865 he recognized there is a storm. 129 00:06:04,865 --> 00:06:06,733 There is destruction. 130 00:06:06,733 --> 00:06:09,941 It's coming. It's on the horizons out there. 131 00:06:09,941 --> 00:06:13,296 But we have to be brought back. 132 00:06:13,296 --> 00:06:15,949 We have to be reminded. 133 00:06:15,949 --> 00:06:18,588 Brethren, by nature, 134 00:06:18,588 --> 00:06:21,362 we were children of wrath. 135 00:06:21,362 --> 00:06:24,685 Children of God's hatred.