Through Your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. (Psalm 119:104)

The Bible Teaches Me To Hate

Everything God wants man to know is found in the Bible. Established over 1500 years, the Bible has become the complete revelation of God’s will, instructing men what to do to be saved. There is no other book that has changed the world more than the Bible. From Genesis to the Revelation, all of God’s words are true. Everything about the sixty-six books of the Bible is the power of God unto salvation, revealing the righteousness and wrath of God. Through the precepts and teachings of the word of God, everyone can understand the way of truth.

Something else happens when one devotes one’s life to the word of God. They develop a hatred for every false way and wrong path. This kind of hatred is not sinful arrogance but the righteous character of discerning right and wrong. The more the heart fills with the word of God, the keener the heart becomes to detest, abhor, and despise the path of unrighteousness. There is an opening of the eyes to the consequences of sin. The Bible exposes sin as an abhorrence to the character of a righteous God. The psalmist proclaimed his love for the truth of God and that in that truth, he hated every false way.

Hating sin does not produce prejudice against a person. Having a hatred formed of the word of God is developing a heart that demands the word of God be taught in its pure form. Joseph refused to engage in sexual immorality with Potiphar’s wife because he hated sin. He did not reject her advances because of Potiphar finding out or the compromising consequences of their actions. He abhorred evil and refused to be held a slave to sin. Job is recorded as a man who was blameless and upright and one who feared God and shunned evil. Hating sin is how a man becomes blameless and upright. Fearing God will help to shun evil.

The Bible is the divine manual to hate all things that God hates. God’s law will teach a hatred for false teaching, lying, stealing, sexual immorality, hypocrisy, and ungodliness. The world does not recognize right and wrong as the Lord defines right and wrong. Devoting the heart to a study of the law of God clearly defines what is right because God is right. Sin is not excused or ignored. The Bible shows the faults of men like David, who sinned with Bathsheba. He repented because he hated sin, and he hated how he had allowed sin to entrap him.

There is no greater message than found within the pages of the Bible to learn the love of God. The irony of knowing the love of God is to learn to hate every false way. Loving God is accepting His righteousness as the path of life. Walking in the light will put a man in contrast to the darkness. Men love the darkness. The Christian loves the light and hates the darkness. Learning about the sacrifice of Jesus and the cost of your redemption should cause you to hate every false way with a divine hatred. Read the Bible. It will change your life.