Oxymoron

Ecclesiastes 3:8 A time to love, and a time to hate; There is a time to demonstrate love but there is a time to hate. Without doubt God is a God of Love and wants His children to express love; but to read that verse it seems to be an oxymoron. What is an oxymoron? A combination of words as cruel kindness or love hate; let’s see how we are to love and hate.

Matthew 5:43 Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.

Matthew 5:44 But I (Jesus)say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you;

Matthew 5:45 That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Matthew 5:46 For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

Matthew 5:47 And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so?

Matthew 5:48 Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect Jesus never said hate anyone but quite the contrast. He said Love your Enemies, do good to them that hate you, pray for them that use you and persecute you.

But we are told that there is a time to hate?

Proverbs 6:16 These six things(not people) doth the LORD hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:


Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

Proverbs 6:18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

Proverbs 6:19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

God’s children are to conformed to the image of God’s dear Son Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:29 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.

Psalms 97:10 Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

We are to love others the way God loved us

1John 4:19 We love him, because he first loved us God showed and expressed His love for you and I even when we were dead in our sin and trespasses

Ephesians 2:1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

Romans 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.

So I can come to the agreement that God loves us but He hates the sin that so desperately keeps us from Him. We are to do the same; it’s not the drunk we should hate, it’s the alcohol we should hate. In the case of adultery which party are we to hate? Neither; it’s those things that we allow to come into our mind that we should hate; the grass is not greener on the other side as our enemy would have us believe.

Principal # 1-If God’s against it so am I. God’s against sowing “Discord” On your Phone, in your Home and all alone…God’s against it and so should you and I be. Be careful what you say for you will give an account….wonder if that stands for what you write also???

Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

Be careful what you say and don’t let the sun set on your anger for you are only giving the devil a place; and you don’t want to do that do you?

Ephesians 4:26 Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Ephesians 4:27 Neither give place to the devil.