Psalm 5:5, The boastful shall not stand before Thine eyes; Thou dost hate all who do iniquity
God HATES who? All who do iniquity.
Psalm 11:5, "The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates."
Gpd hates who? The one who loves violence.
Lev. 20:23, "Moreover, you shall not follow the customs of the nation which I shall drive out before you, for they did all these things, and therefore I have abhorred them."
How did he feel about the nation he was driving out? He abhorred them. Is a nation made up of people?
Prov. 6:16-19, "There are six things which the Lord hates, yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, and one who spreads strife among
brothers."
What does the Lord hate? A false witness? Is a false witness a person? What about one who spreads strife? Does the Lord love them or hate them?
Hosea 9:15, "All their evil is at Gilgal; indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; All their princes are rebels."
What did God do at Gilgal? Did he love them or hate them?
Does God hate sin...yes because sin is a barrier between man and God. That does not mean that God does not love everybody. I hate the sins my family members commit but I still love them.
Ephesians 2:4�But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)�
6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:�
7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.�
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:it is the gift of God:�
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.�
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
1 John 4:7�Beloved, let us love one another:for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.�
8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.�
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.�
10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.�
11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
1 John 4:15�Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.�
16 And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.
Does this verse say "and I hated Esau's sin"? or does it say that he hated Esau himself?
Romans 9:11 For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
Now, why does the Holy Spirit again tell us through the Apostle Paul that even before these two children were born, God purposed to love Jacob and hate Esau?
Further to the point, does this passage in Romans 9 not extend to those who are vessels of mercy represented by Jacob and those who are vessels of wrath represented here by Esau? Is it not telling us that God elects everyone to one category or the other even before they are born?
He hated Esau and by extension, he hates all of the vessels of wrath. This is clear and explicit language. I hate Esau and not I hate Esau's sin.
God hates the reprobate, God loves his Elect, the ones the father had given, the ones he died for, the ones he leads to eternal life.
Ephesians 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved US,
5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
6And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves:it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
*** who is the us in Ephesians 2:4
look back in Ephesians 1:1 Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and faithful in Christ Jesus: 2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. 3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. 7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace
Paul is speaking to the saints, vs 4 the CHOSEN, Vs 5 the predestined, The ones he died for. Not the whole entire human race, just the chosen, the elect.
