Thin Line Between Love and Hate

Thin Line Between Love and Hate

…a self-examination class for every last one of us.

We’ll need to look deep within ourselves to see the message.

Ecclesiasticus 25:1 - the Lord is beautified in the love of neighbors

God says he’s beautified in the love of neighbors, but what does that mean?

We don’t even know what love is!

It’s hard to understand love when all we know is self-hatred

Leviticus 26:16-17 - hatred is all we’ve ever known

…and as a result, we hate our people

We Hate Our People

Deuteronomy 28:15, 54 - his eye shall be evil towards his brother

Doll Test

Matthew 24:8-10 - Because sin abound the love of many wax cold

Video 1: Jealousy & Self-Hatred

Start at 0:35

Psalm 25:19 - Consider mine enemies; for they are many, and they hate me with cruel hatred.

(lotta this in israel. Brothers wishing death on brothers, praying for their downfall, etc

Psalm 41:5, 7- Mine enemies speak evil of me, When shall he die, and his name perish?

Plot against you

James 3:8-12 fountain bring forth sweet water & bitter

John 13:34-35 - A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another

It’s new because we’ve never done it.

Romans 12:9-10 (ESV)

We Hate The Truth

Romans 8:35, 38-39 - do you really love the Lord if you can be separated from the Lord?

We have never known love - we haven’t tapped into it

Matthew 6:24 - no man can serve two masters. Love one or hate the other

We’ve been in love with the world - we can’t let the world go.

This chokes the word so that it becomes unfruitful.

Practice Self-Love

Ecclesiasticus 30:22-24 - Love yourself, or you’ll hate and envy others

There’s no way you can love others if you don’t love yourself

It’s for Israel to look deep within their self to actually see if they know how to love themselves and in turn reciprocate that love to their brothers and sisters in the truth hence where all the lack of charity, envy, hatred and strife comes from in the nation

2 Samuel 13:1-20 - Obsessive love turned into a story of hatred

Psalm 51:10-11 - create in me a clean heart

We know 1,000 precepts, but our hearts have not been reformed

Pray for a new heart and make your life about showing the love of Christ.

What is Love?

1 John 5:3 - this is love that we keep his commandments and his commandments are not grievous

#1 - Love takes action

#2 - Love requires obedience (we show our love through obedience)

In creating a clean heart, God will test your heart.

Mark 12:28 - 34 - Love is the 2 great commandments

(do you put your whole heart into serving TMH?

Do you do it every day, or only on the Sabbath? (give the lord my heart today, every other day my heart is in the world)

1 John 4:8, 11, 20 - do you love others?

So ask yourself, Who has God put in my life for me to love?

There may be people you have been unloving towards that need to see God’s love through you.

Or maybe, you have had an overall selfish attitude at work, school, or home.

Ask God to fill you with his love that you can, in turn, love others more than yourself.

If we love God, we will obey his commandments. And what does God command of you today?

That you love others.

So start today.

John 3:16 - Love means sacrifice.

Love is a giving spirit, a sacrificial spirit

(you’ll sacrifice for those you love)

John 15:13-14 - Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Luke 7:36-47 - love is about forgiveness

1 Corinthians 13:4-7, 13 - love is this

1 Corinthians 13:13 Explained

Love is the greatest because it is the root of the other two; "we believe only in that which we love; we hope only for that which we love.

And love is the greatest because love is for our neighbors; faith and hope are mainly for ourselves.

And love is the greatest because faith and hope are human, but God is love. . .

Verses Not Used

Proverbs 10:12 - Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

Ephesians 5:25 - are you giving yourself for your wife? Are you sacrificing for your wife? Are you longsuffering for your wife? Are you teaching your wife?

When a man’s ways please the lord he makes his enemies to be at peace with him

2 Chronicles 19:2 - Love them that hate the Lord - one way that hatred spirit comes on you

Ephesians 4:1-3 - endeavoring to keep the unity

Psalm 105:23-25 - He turned their heart to hate his people, to deal subtilly with his servants.

Ezekiel 35:2, 5 - perpetual hatred from Edom to Israel

Proverbs 8:17 - I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently find me.

Psalm 119:60 - I made haste and delayed not to keep the commandments

Romans 5:3-5 - love is in tribulation also (tough love)

Jeremiah 17:9 - heart is deceitful above all things

Philippians 2:2-3 - having the same love

Proverbs 15:17 - Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Ezekiel 18:31-32 - i will give you a new heart

Luke 1:68-71 - delivered from the hand of all that hate us

1 John 3:18-19 - Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.

Galatians 5:12-26 - the fruit of the spirit

Matthew 5:43-48

Genesis 26:27-31 - even though they hated him, they saw that the Lord was with him

James 3:13-18 - bitter envying and strife (wisdom from above is first pure)

Proverbs 9:7-9 - Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

Amos 5:10 - They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.

Zechariah 8:16-17 - These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates: And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the LORD.

1 Maccabees 7:26-29 - destructive hatred through friendly words

Luke 10:25-37 - your neighbor will show you mercy (love)

Luke 23:33-37 - love in the midst of being shown hatred (father forgive them for they know not what they do)

1 John 3:15-16 - By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.

1 Peter 1:22 - Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,

1 Peter 2:1-2 - Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby