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Proverbs 8:13 The fear of the Lord is to hate evil.
Hatred of evil should be the response deep within the person who is walking with
God daily and seeking to please Him in all things. Why are we to hate evil? For the same reason God hates evil! Evil is a
destructive force towards all humanity. Evil is so unclearly defined by the body of Christ today, that to many of us, it is
"confusion." It appears to me that much of the world's ways has entered the church and corruption is open and boldly expressed.
However, once you understand what evil is you will also understand why it is to be hated! Evil is explained this way: adversity,affliction,misery,sorrow,and
moral corruption. God does not want this evil in people's lives. These are the things God hates! The dictionary supports this
definition of evil, describing it this way:wicked;causing injury,damage,or any kind of undesirable result; that which causes
suffering,misfortune,or disaster, morally corrupt (bad). God never intended for us to live in misery and affliction. He is
opposed to calamity and adversity that comes into our life! Satan corrupted God's plan for life and peace in the Garden of
Eden thru Adam and Eve thru his deception and lies!
(Do you realize the first act Satan did was to tell a LIE!)
Evil
is the corruption of anything God has established for good!
Corruption of health and wholeness in our bodies brings
undesirable results and suffering. Corruption in your mind causes us to think opposite of what God thinks. Corruption of mind
causes us to think and speak opposite of what God says about us. Corruption of mind causes us to think stress and strife and
desires of the flesh. God thinks peace. God thinks love. God thinks give. Corruption thinks retain and hold with greed in
the heart. Corruption is Satan's work in the world and in YOU! God hates corruption! We should hate corruption too! The world
is full of corruption. But we are not to act like we are still in the world, we are to be free of the corruption of the world!
Having been set free from this corruption of Satan! This the 'GOOD NEWS' of Jesus Christ and all He did for us!
Look
at (II Peter 1: 2 -11)
I like the way the "Living Bible" says it! "Do you want more and more of God's kindness and peace?
Then learn to know Him better! For as you know Him better, He will give you, through His great power, everything you need
to live a good life: He even shares His own glory and his own goodness with us! And by that same mighty power, he has us all
other rich and wonderful blessings he promised; for instance, the promise to save us from the lust and rotteness all around
us, and to give us his own character. But, to obtain these gifts, you need MORE THAN FAITH, you must also work at it, for
even that is not enough! You must learn to know God better and discover what he wants you to do. Next, learn to put aside
your own desires and let God have His way with you. This will make possible the next step: which is to enjoy other people
and learn to like them and eventually love them with an agape kind of love. The more you go on this way, the more you will
grow spiritually and become fruitful and useful to our Lord Jesus Christ! But anyone who fails to go after these additions
to his faith is blind for sure or at best short sighted! They have forgotten that God delivered them from the corruption of
sin SO THAT now they can live a strong, good life for the LORD! So get busy and work hard to prove that you really are among
those God has called and chosen, and then you will never stumble and fall away to the corruption of the old
life!
THE
FEAR OF THE LORD IS TO HATE CORUPTION!
(PART#2) SERIES/FEAR OF GOD IS...) by Ruth M. Lambert
WOMEN UNLIMITED
IN CHRIST
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