PSALM 97:10 “YOU NEED MORE HATE IN YOUR LIFE – PART 2”
A) When I say that we need more hate in our lives, I’m talking about hating the same things
that God hates! * “But Preacher, I thought God is love, is He really capable of hating?”
* According to the Bible, Yes He is! * I gave you four things this morning that God hates .......
* God hates quitting – Psalm 101:3 ... God hates every false way – Psalm 119:104
* He hates dead religion – Amos 5:21 ... He hates those who hates others – Zech. 8:17
B) Tonight, I want to look at three more things the Bible says that God hates!
* And may I remind you that if God hates it, we should hate it too!
* Our capacity to love God and to love what God loves is based on our capacity to hate the things
that God hates and that He doesn’t like! * Ecc. 3:8 “A time to love, and a time to hate;”
(5) FOUND IN PSALM 119:163! * “I hate and abhor lying:”
A) The more you love truth, the more you hate lying! * We should hate lying!
* Why not just tell the truth? * When children do something wrong, they’ll lie.
* Prov. 12:22 “Lying lips are abomination to the LORD:”
* Prov. 19:5; 9 (Repeated twice) “A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh
lies shall not escape.” * God hates lying lips!
(6) FOUND IN PSALM 119:113! * “I hate vain thoughts:” * We are so stuck on ourselves!
A) We have so many vain thoughts! * God says that He hates vain thoughts!
* Gal. 6:3 “For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”
* Rom. 12:3 “For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to
think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath
dealt to every man the measure of faith.”
* We shouldn’t be thinking of ourselves anyway, we should be thinking of Christ and others!
(7) LAST: TURN TO PROV. 6:16-19! * The word “abomination” means a hatred to the extreme.
A) God has degrees of hatred! * He says, “I hate this, but I have extreme hatred for this.”
* Look at the list ... “Proud look”– What is a proud look? * Self-sufficiency.
* It’s the look that says, “I don’t need God ... I don’t need anybody.”
* Everybody needs God ... He hates a proud look!
B) “A lying tongue!” * We’ve already covered this one! * Rev. 21:8 “... all liars shall have ...”
* “Hands that shed ...” * Did you hear what He said?
* That’s about as close as God can come to saying that He hates somebody!
* He hates the hands of Doctors who kills innocent babies!
C) “An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations,” * God can hate hands and He can hate hearts.
* I believe God hates the hearts of the filthy Hollywood crowd with all their love affairs and
loose lifestyles, immorality and sin! * He hates the hearts of Homosexuals and lesbians!
D) Nowadays, it is OK to mock Jesus!
* The “Insurgent” is the student newspaper on the University of Oregon campus, and in a recent
edition this paper ran two cartoons of Jesus.
* In one, He was hanging on the cross naked with an erection.
* In the other, Jesus is shown kissing another man and they both have erections.
E) One of pop music’s biggest stars is Madonna!
* She is currently on her worldwide “Confessions” tour, and at one point sings while hanging on a
huge mirrored cross in a mock crucifixion complete with a crown of thorns.
* The number one movie in the world right now is “The Da Vinci Code,” a movie that denies the
deity of Christ, reduces our Lord to a con man, while calling the Christian faith a lie.
* My friend, in May of 2006 it is perfectly acceptable and even applauded to mock, demean, and
debase the Lord Jesus Christ!
F) I wonder what would happen if that same newspaper ran similar cartoons of civil rights
leader Dr. Martin Luther King? * Can you imagine the uproar there would be?
* Or what if they ran cartoons depicting Mohammed as a homosexual?
* Those responsible would be in fear for their very lives.
* Or what about if they ran cartoons that mocked and demeaned people who choose to commit the
sin of homosexuality.
* There would be marches and protests by every pro-homosexual group that exists.
G) The fact is, nobody would dare to publish these types of disgusting representations of
ANYONE other than Jesus or Christians, since the public outcry would be deafening!
* People would be fired, students expelled, and millions would be spent to appease those who
were offended.
H) Let there be no mistake, mocking Jesus is not a new phenomenon!
* There were people who lived at the same time as our Lord who rejected Him, just like there are
people who reject Him today.
* We know from the Bible that in the fulfillment of Scripture He was mocked and scorned in the
last hours of his life.
* So many of the supposed “lost books of the Bible” and these new “gospels” are nothing more
than the anti-Christian writings of men who rejected the message of Christ and who He is.
* Those anti-Christian writings have always existed throughout the last 2000 years, right up to
today with the modern day heretics like Dan Brown, the author of “The Da Vinci Code.”
I) People have mocked our Lord since the days He walked this earth!
* What is new is the bold and fearless public attacks on our Lord throughout the world today.
* Let me tell you today ... The United States is no longer a Christian nation.
* A classic example of that fact is the way those who hate Jesus publicly mock Him.
J) Just 10 years ago, no legitimate newspaper, even those on major college campuses which
tend to be more liberal and radical .......
* Would have EVER had the audacity to publish cartoons depicting Jesus in the way the University
of Oregon paper recently did. (Read what Jessica Brown, the student editor said)
K) Ten years ago, a blasphemous book like “The Da Vinci Code” would have never sold tens
of millions of copies like it has today!
* While Madonna has made a career of mocking Christ and His church, even she has taken her
blasphemy to a new level by mocking the crucifixion.
L) Can I tell you today that satan is a lot bolder than Christians?
* The natural question of course is what do we do about it?
* First, you can’t blame those who put out these disgusting and blasphemous representations of
Jesus. * Oh, don’t get me wrong, God WILL hold them accountable!
* But these are people who’ve clearly rejected God, His Truth, and Jesus, so what do you expect?
* They have given themselves over as instruments of unrighteousness so they are actually only
doing what comes naturally to them.
* How can you really blame those who hate and reject the Lord from expressing that rejection and
hatred? * Hear me carefully ... They are not the problem, WE ARE THE PROBLEM!
M) Maybe now you can understand why I hammer relentlessly on how Christians have
abandoned their responsibility of witnessing! * In reality, we are in rebellion to God!
* What we are seeing with the open and public mocking of Jesus is one of the results of our
abandoning the culture of our day and leaving it to the devil.
* He operates virtually without any opposition so why are we surprised that he has taken his hatred
and scorn for Jesus to the extremes we witness today?
* Let me warn you my friend, it is only going to get worse!
N) The answer to this blaspheming of our Lord is to get back into the marketplace and start
taking a stand for Christ!
* Each follower of the Lord can do their part each day where you live, where you go to school or
work, where you shop, in the recreational activities you are involved in .......
* And with the people God brings across your path.
O) You take your stand by living a Godly and holy life!
* You take your stand by not being afraid to speak up for our Lord when you are around people
who are speaking against Him.
* You can’t stop the mockers, but you can make sure their message of hatred for our Lord does not
go unchallenged!!!
P) I love you and care about you so much!
* For anyone who loves Jesus, it has to break your heart to see how our Lord and Savior is
portrayed by those who hate Him.
* I have no doubt Jesus is looking down and saying, “Father forgive them, for they know not ...”
R) The reality is, those who were responsible for creating and publishing those horrible cartoons
in the University of Oregon student newspaper .......
* Madonna, Dan Brown, as well as Tom Hanks, Ron Howard and all those involved in the “Da
Vinci Code” movie will die one day.
* At that moment they will be standing before God their Creator to be judged.
* If they die rejecting the Lord, the Bible says they will be cast into everlasting darkness!
S) I believe the last thing they will see, the picture that will be with them as they suffer for all
eternity, will be that of King Jesus, the One they openly mocked and scorned!
* Pray for these lost souls ... Without the Lord in their heart, they have allowed their lives to be
used as agents of satan.
* Don’t forget that there was a man named Saul of Tarsus who persecuted the early church, killed
Christians, yet that same Saul was visited by Jesus one day and his life gloriously transformed.
* He became Paul and went on to live one of the greatest Christian lives ever documented.
T) I pray that this will be a wake-up call for all Believers today!
* A wake-up call that we have got to get back into the marketplace where we live each day and
boldly, without shame or compromise proclaim our faith in Christ.
* If this doesn’t motivate you, nothing will!
* For too long, we have been intimidated into keeping our mouths shut .......
* While those who live in rebellion to God speak loud and bold without fear or conscience to
promote their ungodly lives and choices.
U) Maybe this will give you some insight into my drive and passion for RLCC!
* Our number one goal is to bring the lost to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ.
* Getting people saved is the ultimate answer.
* In addition to proclaiming the Gospel to the lost and bringing the hope of Christ to the hurting, I
am here to bring Biblical truth back into the marketplace.
V) I can’t stop newspapers from publishing disgusting representations of Jesus .......
* I can’t stop pop stars like Madonna from mocking the crucifixion .......
* I can’t stop people like Dan Brown from writing anti-Christian books .......
* But I can go out into that VERY SAME marketplace and reach those VERY SAME people with
the fact that their only hope and their only answer is faith in Jesus Christ!
* Those who hate our Lord are bold and courageous in taking their message of hate to the masses! * I challenge you today that if you love Jesus, you should be even bolder and more courageous in
taking the message of His love to those same masses!
* While the world mocks our Lord, we have got to praise Him!
W) “Feet that be swift in running to mischief.”
* Wherever trouble or sin is present, there you’ll find some people who love to get involved!
* 2 Thess. 3:11 “For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not
at all, but are busybodies.”
X) “A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord .......”
* He hates lying and sowing discord ... That means he hates gossiping tongues!
* Are you talking about somebody? * Are you running somebody down?
* Are you sowing discord among the brethren? * I’m telling you, God hates it!
Y) I challenge you to show me where God hates an adulterer or a drunkard!
* We should hate the sin of adultery and drunkenness!
* We should hate drugs and things that destroy people’s lives!
* Church, we need more hate in our lives!
CLOSE
A) Turn to Psalm 139:19-22 ... * Then David said in the next verses (v.23-24) .......
* David said, “God, if I am wrong, You just tell me, just work in my heart.”
* “But God, until You change me, until You do something in my heart, everybody that is
against You, I am against them.”
B) That is the kind of hatred that God wants us to have! * God says that we need a hate life!
* Make up your mind adults ... Young people ... Make up your mind to hate rock music and that
you’re not gonna listen to it!
* Hate liquor, wine and beer ... Hate dance halls and beer joints ... Hate bad language .......
C) Tonight, get you a hate life ... The kind of hate that God has!
* I hope this message will help us to realize that this stuff you hear today about love, love, love is
a bunch of junk!
* You cannot love unless you hate, and you cannot hate without loving!
