#782: Proverbs 10-12 || Hatred || Psalm 1

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Lead: God is a god of love, right? So what do we do with the idea of hatred?

Intro: Here’s an argument for you in the form of a syllogism:

  • God hates some things like sin and divorce.

  • Jesus is God.

  • Therefore Jesus hates some things like sin and divorce.

Now what?

Sponsor: (none)

Bible segment (read along with The Bible Project):
Passage: Proverbs 10-12
Translation: ESV (English Standard Version)
Words: ~1493

Apologetics/reflections segment:

The three categories of hatred discussed today are:

  1. Cosmic — friendship with the world is hatred toward God

  2. Human — hatred of another mars the image of God in them

  3. Divine — God clearly hates those who have broken His covenant; we are clearly called to hate what is evil even while loving those same covenant-breakers.(1)

Wisdom segment:
Passage: Psalm 1
Translation: ESV (English Standard Version)
Words: ~98

Take action:

  1. Watch The Bible Project’s videos (plural!) on Proverbs (below) if you haven’t already.

Love you!

-R


Roger Courville, CSP is a globally-recognized expert in digitally-extended communication and connection, an award-winning speaker, award-winning author, and a passionately bad guitarist. Follow him on Twitter -- @RogerCourville and @JoinForTheHope – or his blog: www.forthehope.org

Sources and resources

(1) K. S. Ellis, “Hatred,” in New Dictionary of Biblical Theology, ed. T. Desmond Alexander and Brian S. Rosner, electronic ed. (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000), 536.

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