Let’s look into hate, habitual hate, and love, agape love
IF you allow hate to run your life
You really do not want to let hate get a grip on you. Hate never works-out right, ever… not for the hater, and most often not for the one hated.
Jesus Himself addressed this issue several times. He actually commands us: love imperative form.
Jesus gives us a command to love. Read this recorded by the doctor, Luke:
“35 …love [that is, unselfishly seek the best or higher good for] your enemies, and do good, and lend, [k]expecting nothing in return; for your reward will be great (rich, abundant), and you will be sons of the Most High; because He Himself is kind and gracious and good to the ungrateful and the wicked. 36 Be merciful (responsive, compassionate, tender) just as your [heavenly] Father is merciful.” – Luke 6:35-36.
To paraphrase Jesus’ words, He said:
Love everyone agape love, even evil people… without demanding something in return for your love – for then you will show yourself to be children of God (“and you will be sons of the Most High“). Like the Father… love — be kind, be gracious, be good, be merciful (“responsive, compassionate, tender”) — even “to the ungrateful and the wicked“.
Link that statement, what Jesus taught directly in-person, together with the message of one of God’s messengers, His disciple John: in 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
verse 9 The one who says he is in the Light [in consistent fellowship with Christ] and yet [a]habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in the darkness until now.
verse 11 But the one who habitually hates (works against) his brother [in Christ] is in [spiritual] darkness and is walking in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
– In one link: 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
Hate ruins your life
Jesus taught you cannot be born again reborn from above if you habitually hate. Wow. THAT is severe. And this is taught throughout the Bible as a whole.
Hating is “eternal-life-changing”. Scary thought.
See: 1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
THAT is actually integral to the message of the Gospel of Christ. And, beware: We can’t change that to serve our modern sensibilities.
Do you feel awkward saying that? If so, it’s probably that self-talk in your head, your modern sensibilities talkin’ in your noggin.
Knock knock.
Who’s there?
What’s your noggin saying?
Just be yourself.
(Not funny, I know!)
We have to deny “our self”, not “just be yourself”. I’d rather have self-talk with words from Jesus.
*Note: Try self talk in your prayers. See: Self-talk prayer and Make Self Talk… God Talk. It goes on and on and on
About “love”, Jesus said, Do this…
“and you will be sons of the Most High”
– Luke 6:35-36
And if you do not, well then, you know….
Actually do it…Actually Try To Do The Deed
We of course do not get saved by loving others. Salvation is not gained by “doing” (James 2:17-20). But Jesus’ underlying message here is: true salvation leads one to love others. It’s part of our “works”. (Again see James 2:17-20.)
If we hate and do not love… we are not “sons of the Most High“. Unselfish agape love is not optional for the follower of Jesus. It’s like leaven: No leaven and your bread is flat. That recepie is a disaster.
Part and parcel of MirWeb: a basic and necessary part of (something) true salvation is: Actively do love (agape love) to those around you. All of them. The opposite of habitual hate – is to be actively doing love… agape love. See these two passages: Luke 6:27, Luke 6:35-36.
Moron the Hateful… the one who habitually hates
I’ll be the stand-in for The Hater
Wonderfully insightful, this BibleGateway Footnote for 1 John 2:9. It addresses the actions of the type who “habitually hates” (not the emotion). Footnote a:
1 John 2:9 “This focuses more on the self-centered, hateful actions (not the emotion) of someone who habitually cultivates an obstructionistic attitude, and ignores the command to act in a way that expresses unselfish Christian love (see note v 10).” – Source: BibleGateway Footnote
Joke: The focus here is on Moron the Self-Centered. and Moron the Hateful Actions Person. Don’t want to be them!
(See more from John in 1 John 2:9 and 1 John 2:11)
What about you? Are your “actions” like those types? Don’t want to be one of them!
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The explanation here in 1 John 2:9: one who habitually hates is the one who “habitually cultivates an obstructionistic attitude, and ignores the command to act in a way that expresses unselfish Christian love“. I observe this in many online Facebook media comment sections, and online news media comment sections. What’s with that?!
So many “Christians” have a real “obstructionistic attitude” towards Christians who actually follow Jesus. They totally argue against Jesus’ type of love. They habitually comment harshly against what is truly “unselfish Christian love“. Basically: they hate. They have conformed to the ways of the world (Matthew 6:24). They hate those who follow Jesus and His type of love. Sad to see.
John, giving us God’s message, says these are not of God (using BibleGateway Footnote):
1. someone who habitually cultivates an obstructionistic attitude
2. someone who ignores the command to act in a way that expresses unselfish Christian love
Governmental laws are made to bring order into all the country. Governments sometimes get wacko and run by communists, fascists, nazis, dictatorial rulers, and scofflaws MirWeb – a contemptuous law violator.
Calm down. God is dealing with it. When it comes to civil unrest and unpopular government policies, the Bible teaches us to “be subject to the governing authorities“.
“Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.”
– Verse 1 of Romans 13:1-7
God establishes them all, whether you like ’em or not.
Romans 13:1-7 Read 1-4 here:
1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God [granted by His permission and sanction], and those which exist have been put in place by God. 2 Therefore whoever [a]resists [governmental] authority resists the ordinance of God. And those who have resisted it will bring judgment (civil penalty) on themselves. 3 For [civil] authorities are not a source of fear for [people of] good behavior, but for [those who do] evil. Do you want to be unafraid of authority? Do what is good and you will receive approval and commendation. 4 For he is God’s servant to you for good.…”
Quoting Charles Spurgeon,
“The conquering weapon of the Christian is love.”
Palehorse74_book-of-life_Heaven | Art by Pete Garcia | rev310.net
Key take-away
Hate in Holy Heaven?
“Holy crap, Batman! In Heaven?”
Do you plan to take your woebegone ways, your views – to Heaven with you? MirWeb See woebegone Synonyms.
Have you thought that through? How would that play-out, exactly?
A Heaven with hate
That would not be Heaven at all! That is not the Heaven of the Bible. Holy means “without blemish”. The unrepentant hater is a blemish that will not be found in Heaven.
Heaven will be more like simplemills.com – full of crackers with “nothing artificial, ever.”
“We believe if you don’t recognize an ingredient, your body won’t either, so we handpick ours with purpose – only including things that nourish you. Nothing artificial, ever.” – Miss Simple Milly of simplemills.com
Jesus “handpicks” His saints
So, you know? Heaven will be a SimpleMills type place (you know what I mean)… full of “handpicked” saints – with no preservatives, additives, nothing artificial – ever.
Handpicked with purpose. No hate. No artificial beliefs. No additive gospels. Ever. Not full of just us “crackers”… but all the one human race peoples!
Are your views, your “worldview”, actually a different gospel – not what Jesus would have us to follow? Where in the Bible do you get your view, those “doctrines” of yours? Maybe ask yourself: Is your light actually darkness? 1
1 Corinthians 14:29, 1 John 4:1
and
(b) “hold fast to that which is good”: Romans 12:9, Galatians 6:10, 1 Thessalonians 5:15
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Excerpt from The Apostle Paul’s Criticisms
Put it to the test of Scripture
Berean thinking. Contrary to the Thessalonian example (Acts 17:11) – Berean type peoples want to carefully examine beliefs and statements and sermons all the time.
They maintain a mind that is open to examination of what they are told. They don’t just accept the authority of the person or of the religion, but – they put it to the test of Scripture.
They ask: What does Scripture teach about this? Is what they are saying – true to Scripture, or not?
– Source: The Apostle Paul’s Criticisms
For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine;
but wanting to have their ears tickled,
they will accumulate for themselves
teachers in accordance to their own desires
– 2 Timothy 4:3
Theology of the Damned. By Pete Garcia at rev310.net
Hate is “a view”
If you have some kind of habitual hate, Jesus says: you cannot be born again. So of course, if you are not born again, you are not on your way to Heaven. Scary thought.
Many in church should rethink their views. “Views” become your theology. (Such as habitual hate: 1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11) And, although dumbheaded thinking does not un-save you, it could be that those unbiblical views you hold — effectively mean you have been holding-back, not ever having surrendered all of you to Jesus… and you were never saved in the first place. Self deception – the most scariest scenario in the Bible, I think.
That scares the Hell out of me! I turned-in (surrendered) all my own views! I work earnestly to always be biblical from my soul — in all my ways. Too scary to think I could deviate from His Gospel by holding to my own persnickety rebelliousness.
Excerpt from Always Biblical from my soul
What have you become over time? What are your thoughts today? Are they based on The Good Book?
It’s easy to evolve into a bent form of what we really wanted to become. That’s what happened to this cow!
Good ways – Bad ways
Just as… good ways of thinking and acting can “get in our head” for good (Romans 12:6-21; Ephesians 4:24-32), there’s bad and ornery already inside our insides working for evil (2 Corinthians 12:20-21; Galatians 5:19-21). I’m workin’ to conform to the good ones (Romans 12:2; 1 Peter 1:14).
– Source: What’s living rent-free inside your head?
Excerpt from Heaven. What’s it going to be like?
Without Christ we are legally damned, but He can legally forgive. Don’t be mislead by religion and philosophies of mere puny humans. What do they know, really? They are all on the broad way to Hell. “There but by the grace of God go I.”
We must not deceive ourselves
by any
stupididiotic reasonings of man
– to accept what God has rejected.
– Source: Heaven. What’s it going to be like?
How’s your bias treating you? Have your views already been rejected by All-knowing God? Why persist? MirWeb: to be insistent in the repetition or pressing of an utterance (such as a question or an opinion).
Surrendering all of you
Surrendering = yeilding your will. This is a matter which is critical to repentance. Salvation absolutely requires surrendering all of who you are to Jesus, giving 100% of your heart to Him in repentance and confession – and actually following Him. Nothing less will do.
We’re not talkin’ 100% sinless. No. That would be ridiculous. Nowhere in Scripture are we required to clean-up our act before He will clean-up our soul with forgiveness! Not at all. But He does demand we open up our heart 100%. Elsewise Google it we may have a cracked heart and He does not accept us holding-back on Him.
Note: Actually God does not merely “clean-up”. We do not just get a new make-over! He makes us a totally brand new creation. We are “born again” as a new creature. Big difference.
Just as I am
Jesus does not say (never has, never will ever say this)
(a bit of satire here:)
Just come as you are, with all your active hate, and I’ll accept you as you are. I realize habitual hating is deeply ingrained. But I’m big. I can handle that.
Oh, and that sin you are “practicing”? That too. I am a God of love. I accept you right there where you’re at, living in sin. My grace is humongous. No limits with my saving grace. I know how hard it is to make the break.
I don’t expect you to surrender all your heart! Just be really really loving. That’s good enough. Come on in here when life ends for you there on earth! I’m easy. Heaven’s waiting for you.
You don’t need to turn from your sins. That’s what grace is all about (NOT!).
There is nothing you lack (NOT! One thing you lack) Go ahead: Live your best life wherever, doing whatever you want! (Yeah, right!)
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Not on your life MirWeb: used as a very forceful way of saying “no” or “never”k)
The message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ demands we repent of our sins. Never, ever, does Jesus say,
Live guiltless and shameless in your sins.
No, never will Jesus extend His grace and mercy beyond His Holiness. We need His forgiveness. He freely offers His one-off salvation gift… just as it says in Scripture. No other way.
Stay in your sin, and you stay in His condemnation. Oh regret when one remains the same.
Confess, repent, and follow Him, and you leap joyfully into being a New Creation!
Excerpt from How a tare thinks
Have you considered the possibility that Jesus knows you as a tare?
Don’t be a tare,
running with the wheaties
thinking you are wheat
then hearing Jesus say
depart from Me…
then forever wanting…
forever without good…
forever with no second chance…
forever lost.
Oh scary thought.
– Source: How a tare thinks
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God is serious about His Holiness. Dead serious. So serious in fact, that He created Hell for those who develop a worldview that conflicts with His. Satan’s going there – for the same reason self-savers are. – Source: As if your mindset is protected by God
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Your views
Do you run your life with your views? I think we all do. If you are expounding on your views, the purported wisdoms you opine, and they cannot be found (supported) in Scripture, then they are just that.
Are your views merely opinions? I don’t want to follow personal opinions. Do you? Wouldn’t you rather prefer to follow what Jesus taught?
What if Jesus differs. His ways are not our ways. His mind is not our mind. Scary thought, that, to be in contradiction to The King. He never has said, “I beg your pardon!” 2 He is not here for us to hear Him, like back in the day when He walked the earth. So we need Scripture to know what He thinks.
But Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; for you are not setting your mind on things of God, but on things of man.” – Matthew 16:23
Is your mind, with all its views, set? Set on “things of man”, limited, temporal, like the grasses of a meadow, set to wither away? I really rather prefer “things of God”? His things are eternal.
When one differs from Jesus
One gets to differing from Jesus when one: 1) does not care enough to follow Him, 2) When you do not know what the Bible says, 3) When you conform to the world and begin to love the world more, 4) and when you love Jesus and His Word less and less.
“…you are not setting your mind on things of God, but on things of man.” – Matthew 16:23
So, will you continue to parrot your ways? Plan to take them to Heaven?
FOR MORE:
Do you plan to take your hate, your ways, your views – to Heaven? Have you thought that through? How would that play-out, exactly?
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Is your life fruit – agape love?
Love and Agape Love in the Greek and in the New Testament
God’s wonderful blend of dynamic power, immense love, divine forces, and human transcendence
Being unselfish, more thoughtful and gracious to others
Hating is life changing – eternal life changing. Scary thought.
…surrendering all of who you are — to Jesus, giving 100% of your heart to Him in repentance and confession – and actually following Him. Nothing less will do.
Hate is “eternal-life-changing”. Scary thought.
See: 1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
Holy cow, Robin! See the AI Overview in “Where does the phrase holy cow come from? | Also see: 50 Of Robin’s “Holy” Sayings From “Batman” | YouTube Next of Ken |Jun 18, 2017 | Excerpt: “Holy interplanetary yardstick”
My wild and crazy stallion heart
Balancing-out my faith with my practice
Keeping sin AND getting God’s Holiness also
About past sins and being forgiven now
Replace simplistic rhetoric with compassion
“The conquering weapon of the Christian is love.”
– quoting Charles Spurgeon
My Heinous Heinous Ways Excerpt: No matter your sin. No matter the gravity of it. No matter how many years. No matter if you are born again or actively atheist…. God loves you, is calling you to Himself, and He wants you to repent and accept Him as your Lord and Savior. He wants you to follow Him.
Balancing out my faith with my practice
About past sins and being forgiven now
I am not the sum of all my sins
God forgives all wrongdoings of all repentant sinners, no exceptions
What is more important than your eternity?… nothing whatsoever!
Prepare Your Eternity with great fear and trepidation
Being receptive Excerpt: Are you receptive to God? Are you open to having God reveal Himself to you? Or: Have you built your high walls to shut Him out, refusing to hear-Him-out (hear out) — stonewalling Him? Are you narrow-minded?
More Than Conquerors – In Christ
Repentance in the Bible Excerpt: God requires repentance
The Lord God of the Old Testament always demanded true repentance, and He never changes. The same is true in the New Testament. Are you following this God?
Or have you fallen for a different god of a different gospel? Are you expecting God to change His ways, or are you willing to change everything you are — to truly repent and follow Him? The Bible shows us His ways.
Psalm 51 type repentance and salvation
God never changes. Never has. Never will.
When you are wrong and just don’t get it
Ever grasped that feeling of being wrong with Jesus?
What knowing the Bible does for you
What happens when you do not know what the Bible says on a matter?
Choose Jesus’ Way
“Love one another”
John 13:34-35
I am giving you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, so you too are to love one another. By this everyone will know that you are My disciples, if you have love and unselfish concern for one another.”
Refuse to hate
Habitual Hate: 1 John 4:20, Luke 6:27, 1 John 2:9, 1 John 2:11
When you are wrong and just don’t get it
What is more important than your eternity?
Called by Jesus to be forever on a higher plain
One Human Race Excerpt: Jesus’ actual words are a very stern warning, very precise. To paraphrase, Jesus said this: This is so very very serious. You must be born again. If not, if you are not reborn by my Holy Spirit, if you allow hate to run your life, then you cannot ever see the Kingdom of God (My Kingdom). Ever. You will never experience My Kingdom (Heaven).
The Christian’s mission of love every day
Are you one of the 18% percenters? Excerpt:
Double-Minded means
loving Jesus and
a different gospel
The Great Water Down of Jesus’ Message to us all
Prepare your eternity with great fear and trepidation
Faith in Jesus
must be followed by
a life for Jesus.
– Source: The Great Water Down of Jesus’ Message to us all
Heaven is going to be like this
Heaven. What’s it going to be like? Excerpt: Without Christ we are legally damned, but He can legally forgive. Don’t be mislead by religion and philosophies of mere puny humans. What do they know, really? They are all on the broad way to Hell. “There but by the grace of God go I.”
We must not deceive ourselves
by any
stupididiotic reasonings of man
– to accept what God has rejected.
BibleGateway search: heaven
OMGjesus.org search: heaven
God’s Fantastic Home – for those who follow Him
What we will be like – in God’s Home Heaven
What we will be like – in God’s Home Heaven
Heaven is where earth is behind us
What God does to prepare us for Heaven
Footnotes
- Jesus said you are spiritually blind, devoid of God’s word, if you do not live by God’s word. It does not take effort to be blind spiritually. Just be totally you, who you are now (without Christ), without a care about God, with no values of eternity in mind, nor caution to be prepared for meeting your Maker. Just keep yourself empty of God’s word.
It is God’s word that fills us with light – not any of the multiple, vain, man-made philosophies cooked-up to make us feel wise (Zephaniah 3:4, Luke 11:52, John 8:47, 2 Corinthians 2:17, Philippians 4:8, 1 John 4:6). Our made-up ways are dark.
Jesus is saying here: “Be careful.” Wake up! That light in you — what is it, really? – Source: Adapted from Is your light actually darkness? - Of course Almighty God never “begs to differ”, will never say “I beg your pardon”. I prefer the terms – adjure, entreat, beseech. He entreats us to follow His Way.
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