Who is your enemy? Are you your own enemy? Is your ex, spouse, family member, or your boss your enemy? Is your pastor or someone else your enemy? Or how about this, is God your enemy?

Our enemy of our soul will tempt with all kinds of lies to get us to be against those that are there to bring us close to God. Satan will even try and get us to be disappointed with God.

Satan hates the word hate because he fears born again Christians will discover it’s tremendous power & use it against him. Some preachers call it “righteous indignation." God is very familiar with hate. God instructs us to hate evil. In this message I go over how to have the right kind of hate and use it for God's purposes against Satan's kingdom and be set free from evil spirits.

The Glorious Gift of Hate - Presentation

Who is your enemy?

• Are you your own enemy?
• Is your ex, spouse, family member, or your boss your enemy?
• Is your pastor or ex pastor your enemy?
• Or how about this, is God your enemy?

Satan has cleverly convinced us that people are our enemies. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Ephesians 6:12 - For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

It’s time we put our energy against the enemy that has always been the problem, Satan. It was Satan who rebelled against God. It was Satan who turned Adam and Eve against God and created relationship issues with them themselves and they were no longer innocent.

Satan hates the word hate because he fears born again Christians will discover it’s tremendous power & use it against him. Some preachers call it “righteous indignation.” God is very familiar with hate. God instructs us to hate.

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.

Psalms 101:3 - I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Psalms 119:104 - Through thy precepts I get understanding. Therefore I hate every false way.

Psalms 119:113 - I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

Psalms 119:128 - Therefore I esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right; and hate every false way.

Psalms 119:163 - I hate and despise falsehood, But I love Your law.

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.

God instructs us to hate evil, pride, and arrogance.

Jude 1:23 - And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.

REVELATIONS 3:4-5 - Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy. He that overcometh the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my father, and before his angels.

God wants us to hate sinful spotted garments. So while we may make an effort to be reaching out to someone that is lost in sin, we should make every effort to be very aware and conscience of the horrors of sin and not to be contaminated or even lost ourselves by their sin. It connects to the idea of the law and the how the clothes of an unclean person such as a leper could defile a clean person that was healthy.

Here are 7 things God says that He hates.

Proverbs 6:16-19 - These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Hebrews 1:9 - Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

God hates iniquity and deceptive teaching.

Revelation 2:6 - But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

We are to hate that which Jesus hates.

Luke 16:13 - No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Jesus makes a remarkable statement “You cannot serve two masters. You must hate one of them. The Greek word for hate is miseo which means to despise. There are numerous Scriptures in the N.T. that specifically state a Christian is never to hate another human being.

This is what Solomon states.

Ecclesiastes 3:8 - A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

John 2:15 - And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers' money, and overthrew the tables;

We are instructed to hate what God hates and love what He loves since we are His adopted offspring. Jesus demonstrated this hate when he cleared the retailers out the Temple.

Jesus Rebuking Satan Talking Out of Peter's Mouth

Matthew 16:23 - But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.

Mark 8:33 - But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

Jesus demonstrated his hate of Satan & his horrible works when He rebuked him for talking out of Peter’s mouth. Jesus was offended by Satan but, most American Christians are ok with him. Many don’t even believe in satan much at all.

Lesson Practice Activity - This week ask God to give you the Gift of Hate towards sin, demons, and satan. You will need this gift when it comes time to do self-deliverance. The more hate, the more effective against satan you will be.

What is one of the many failures of churches in America? They don’t pray for the Gift of Hate. It is a wonderful gift. Hating Satan, demons and sin will keep you from becoming a carnal, Luke warm Christian. By definition, someone who hates is not Luke warm.

If you don’t hate sin you will eventually return to it. If you don’t hate compromise you will eventually relent. If you don’t hate failure you will eventually fail. If you can live with failure then you have to keep it. If you can live without spiritual gifts you will never have any. If you can live with sickness you will never be well. If you can live with iniquity in your heart & sin in your life you will never be sanctified. If you can live with fear you will always be a coward. If you can live with lust you will always be a pervert. If you can live with yourself you will never die to yourself and fulfill your God given destiny. What is one common spiritual thread woven into all true disciples of Christ? They have the Glorious Gift of Hate. Why not you? Why not now?