Does God love the sinner but hate the sin? - part 1

Hello everyone. My apologies for missing the past two Saturdays. Let’s pick up from where we left off in our 3-part series of on Who is coming? What is coming? and Are you prepared?

Two weeks ago, I mentioned that we would define the Biblical definition of being “born again or new birth” however I believe it to be extremely important that we address the background, essentially the why or necessity of the “new birth”.

To get a comprehensive understanding of the “new birth”, we must all view humanity and all creation from God’s perspective.

You may ask, why is that necessary?

Because God is the only being who is holy, righteous, just, and true. The Lord resides outside of time and space, meaning He is not bound by the laws of nature like we are. On the contrary, He created and sustains both. The Lord sits above them and looks through the doorway of eternity when viewing His creation. Picture this in your mind’s eye; time and space is like a computer monitor that the Lord views on a single screen, beholding the beginning, ending, and everything in between at once. Today God sees that He created the first atom, the first man, when the first sin occurred, who did it and why. Today God sees the Adam voluntarily without deception - sin, the promise of a Savior given to Eve, the promise of a Seed (Jesus), nation, and many descendants to Abraham. Today God sees the deliverance of the children of Israel from Egypt, the establishment of the Mosaic Law, the dispersion of Israel from the promise land, the birth-ministry-death-burial-resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ. Today God knows everyone that will ever truly trust Jesus as Lord and Savior, He sees the return of Israel to the promise land, the rapture of the true Church, the apostate church, and the tribulation call to bring Israel to jealousy and repentance. Today God sees those who will worship the anti-christ and receive his mark, He sees the great white throne before which all the unbelievers will be judged, and everyone including the devil who will be casted into the lake of fire where the fire is never quenched, their worm never dies, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Today God sees the new heaven and new earth He has created, the New Jerusalem – the heavenly abode of the saints from all ages and the Lord himself.

The Lord sees, hears, and knows all things, at all times, right now, today. He inhabits eternity, for from everlasting to everlasting the Lord is God. Yes, I am talking about Jesus.

7 Behold, He is coming with clouds, and every eye will see Him, even they who pierced Him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of Him. Even so, Amen.
8 “I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End,” says the Lord, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.” Revelation 1:7-8

I am the First and the Last. 18 I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. Revelation 1:17-18

I don’t know where this saying comes from, well yes, I do, it comes from the devil who is a deceiver and the father of lies.

To what saying are you referring, Kevin?

This one, that God loves the sinner but hates the sins. This statement is unbiblical and demonic. The Bible does not teach such doctrine. As a matter of biblical fact, the Bible teaches the opposite. The Bible categorically, emphatically, and unapologetically states that God hates the sinner and the sinner’s sin.

Some of you are saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa your horses Kevin. You are overstepping sacred religious boundaries with that statement.

 No, I am not overstepping the boundaries, God is. By the way, the only sacred boundaries are that which are declared in the word of God therefore if our doctrines are not from the Bible then they are from the devil, who loves to twist God’s words and deceive men. This is his method of keeping them from the truth.

3 Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition, 4 who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God or that is worshiped, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
5 Do you not remember that when I was still with you I told you these things? 6 And now you know what is restraining, that he may be revealed in his own time. 7 For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work; only He who now restrains will do so until He is taken out of the way. 8 And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord will consume with the breath of His mouth and destroy with the brightness of His coming. 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, 12 that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness. 2 Thessalonians 2:3-12

Before you decide to tune me out, answer a few questions.

1.       How can a holy God separate sins from the person who bears them and continues to commit them?

2.       Where do you find that in the Bible?

3.       Who is casted into the lake of fire after the final judgment? The sins or the sinner?

Let me state this again, it is not what you and I believe the Bible says, is true. What the Bible says is truth and true whether we believe it or not! Our beliefs must align with God’s word, otherwise our beliefs are lies and from the devil.

Now that we have the proper context, let us dive into the deep end of God’s word to discover the hidden treasure in every verse.

Isaiah 53 is the pinnacle of scripture when discussing the substitutionary death of the Lord Jesus Christ and His human role in God’s plan of redemption. Let’s observe verses 4 through 6. Words contained in brackets are mine.

4 Surely He has borne our griefs (notice Jesus bore our sickness -grief means sickness. Sickness from what? Sins. The Lord isn’t talking about illness.)
And carried our sorrows; (notice Jesus carries our pains. The sorrows that sin in our lives has caused, not mental anguish.)
Yet we esteemed Him stricken, (the Greek word is naga – meaning to strike violently. Why? Because of our sins)
Smitten by God, and afflicted. (the Greek word is naka – meaning to slay or put to death physically. Why? Because of our sins.)
5 But He was wounded for our transgressions, (the Greek word is halal – meaning to pierce. His side was pierced because of our sins)
He was bruised for our iniquities; (the Greek word is daka – meaning to crush. God crushed Him because of our sins)
The chastisement for our peace was upon Him, (the Greek word is musar – meaning discipline/punishment. He was punished because of our sins.)
And by His stripes we are healed. (the Greek word is habbura – meaning scourging. Healed from what? The punishment of our sins. Jesus was punished as if He committed our sins therefore we who believe in Jesus will not be punished for our sins.)
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; (we are all traveling in the opposite direction away from God)
We have turned, every one, to his own way; (each individual carries their own sin, the amount is inconsequential as the punishment is still death)
And the LORD has laid on Him the iniquity of us all. (Now this is the most important part of this passage because it answers the question of how God view the sins of the sinner and what happens as a result. The Lord has taken our sins off our heads and shoulders; and placed them on the head and shoulders of Jesus. What happened to Jesus after our sins were placed upon Him? God killed Him! His own Son! Why did God do that? Because God seen sins, our sins – Jesus didn’t have any – upon Jesus.)

This is what the Bible teaches. Whenever God sees sin, He destroys the sins and the person upon who’s head and shoulders the sins reside. Do you understand that? God killed His own Son because He was found to be in possession of my sin and your sin.

32 He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all Romans 8:32

21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Romans 11:21

4 For if God did not spare angels when they sinned, but sent them to hell, putting them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment; 5 if he did not spare the ancient world when he brought the flood on its ungodly people, but protected Noah, a preacher of righteousness, and seven others; 6 if he condemned the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah by burning them to ashes, and made them an example of what is going to happen to the ungodly; 7 and if he rescued Lot, a righteous man, who was distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless 8 (for that righteous man, living among them day after day, was tormented in his righteous soul by the lawless deeds he saw and heard)— 9 if this is so, then the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment. 10 This is especially true of those who follow the corrupt desire of the flesh and despise authority. 2 Peter 2:4-10

Where does your sin reside? Are they still upon your head and shoulders? Then God will eventually kill you by casting you into hell which is the lake of fire.

Meditate on that for a while. What’s written gives you the consequence and conclusion of God’s hatred of sin. Death, not of sins but of the person upon whom sins reside. Do not deceive yourself in believing you don’t have any sins because we are born sinners.

I will back later this week to provide the Biblical references where God actually states that He hates the sinner. Then the Lord provides the progression of that hatred.

Until then, take care.