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God hates sin
God hates sin! Right?
OK, let me ask you this and I want you to think about your answer.
Is there a sin or are there sins that God hates worse than others?
The Bible does single out some sins and describes them as sins that God hates.
Prov.
6:16-19.
There are six things which the LORD hates,
Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him.
Haughty eyes, a lying tongue,
And hands that shed innocent blood,
\\ A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that run swiftly to evil,
A false witness who utters lies,
And one who spreads strife among brothers.
Let’s look at these.
Haughty eyes.
This is an idiom for pride.
This sin underlies everything that we do in our flesh.
We want other people to think well of us.
If someone says something unkind to us or calls us a name, we get our feelings hurt, despite knowing that it is the name caller that is in the wrong.
We have to dress a certain way.
We have to act a certain way.
We have to drive the right kind of car and live in the right neighborhoods.
Why do we have to do these things?
So that we will look good in the eyes of other people.
When we sin, we are telling God, “I want to do it my way, not Your way.”
It is the sin that underlies all the sins that we commit.
Pride is the original sin of Satan led to the his fall.
Satan said, “I will be like the Most High God.”
Paul warned the Romans in Rom.
12:3, “For through the grace given to me I say to every man among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think; but to think so as to have sound judgment, as God has allotted to each a measure of faith.”
We are “not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think.”
Do you think that just because you have not committed the same sins as some other Christian, that you are better than that other Christian?
Think about that a moment.
Let me repeat it: Do you think that just because you have not committed the same sins as some other Christian, that you are better than that other Christian?
Let me illustrate that in a ludicrous manner:
“I am not a murderer and a bank robber.
I live a better life than Bonnie and Clyde.”
Now that is not going to step on anyone’s toes here.
But we often see other people commit sins.
When the sins are the same as those we commit all the time, they don’t bother us.
But let someone commit a sin that I would never do.
Well, that’s a different story.
Now how do I react?
Do we tell someone else that Clarabell has the foulest mouth I have ever heard?
Maybe I should thank God that I don’t have a trench mouth like Clarabell?
Or maybe, I have always admired Clarabell.
Since she uses that kind of language it is OK for me to use it.
Or do we go to Clarabell and in a spirit of gentleness ask her if there is a better way to handle her frustrations?
Back to Bonnie and Clyde again.
Have you forgotten what Jesus said in Matt.
5:21-22?
“You have heard that the ancients were told, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT MURDER’ and ‘Whoever commits murder shall be liable before the court.’
But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court ...”
Is there anyone here who has not at some time been angry at someone else?
You know what comes next: Matt.
5:27-28.
“You have heard that it was said, ‘YOU SHALL NOT COMMIT ADULTERY’; but I say to you, that every one who looks on a woman to lust for her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.”
Which is worse, the anger or the pulling of the trigger?
The lustful thought or the physical act?
Jesus said that each one was a sin and violated one of the ten commandments.
How do we react when we hear about other people’s sins?
How do we react when the sins of other people hurt us?
Some one calls us a name.
Remember when someone calls you a name, that it is the other person who is in the wrong.
Don’t take it personally.
Have you ever told someone something in confidence and then that person went and told someone else who repeated it again.
Do we get angry?
Let me ask a question of the men here.
What goes through your mind when a woman walks by dressed in a provocative manner?
Let me turn that around.
You ladies, why do some women dress in a provocative manner?
I don’t really understand this next rhetorical question, but this is for the ladies.
Some of you go to work every day.
Perhaps you and your husband have been having a difficult time or you may feel that he has not been paying enough attention to you.
You go to the office and another man there says just the right things to you and you think, Now why didn’t Clyde say that to me this morning?
And then your imagination begins to continue along that line of thought.
Just because we aren’t guilty of the overt sins of murder and adultery, do we think that we are any better than a person who is, when we are guilty of the mental sins of murder or adultery.
Paul commands us “not to think more highly of ourselves than we ought to think.”
And Proverbs puts pride at the head of the list of sins that God hates.
Number 2 on the list is a lying tongue.
This sin is clear enough.
But certainly our little white lies aren’t what God has in mind.
Are you sure about that?
Is that what the text says?
When we lie, most of us will excuse those lies by saying they were white lies.
None of us tell real lies do we?
Well, let’s go on to number 3. “Hands that shed innocent blood.”
This is another description of sin that is not hard to understand.
But notice, this is the only overt sin in the list here in Proverbs.
The others are mental sins, such as pride, or they are sins of the tongue like lying.
But as Jesus showed us in Matt.
5, murder also includes the mental attitude sin of anger.
The passage begins to get real interesting in verse 18.
In verse 18 Solomon gives us two approaches by which all of us at times will find ourselves sinning.
The fourth sin in Solomon’s list is premeditated sin: “A heart that devises wicked plans.”
The fifth sin is opportunistic sin, “Feet that run rapidly to evil.”
The contrast is between sinners who plan ahead for how to commit their sinful acts and those who just stumble into doing what comes naturally.
I once heard a preacher describe this verse this way: “The dummies run to evil, but the
smart people plot it first.
So you can tell whether you are smart or dumb.
Here is your IQ test.
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