Hate The Sin…Love The Sinner…

Hate The Sin…Love The Sinner…

Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me, and know my anxieties; ~Psalms 139:23

Where is the phrase Hate The Sin…Love The Sinner written in the Holy Bible? Where did Moses, David, any of the Prophets or Jesus Christ himself ever say anything remotely like “hate the sin, love the sinner”? Which is to say, “I don’t like that person (those people), I don’t like their actions, but I love them as Gods children.” If someone could point to the specific chapter and verse it would be greatly appreciated.

Jesus Christ, as it has been said by others, can do things that we can not. Jesus can do, at least, two things we can never do. We will never be able to destroy, or crush, the work of the devil – the enemy. We can not heal our own brokenness, Jesus must do that. Can one broken soul heal another broken soul, is that possible?

So, we go around saying we hate this about another person and then step in to help them heal! How does that work? How can we do that? If someone has a broken leg and that person sees another person with a broken arm, can the person with a broken leg heal the person with a broken arm or vice versa? How will they walk over to them? How will they stand long enough to assess, bandage and care for the broken arm when they can’t stand, especially in a stationary position, at all?

When we see Jesus, He is able to heal us. Working through Jesus Christ, the Master Healer, anyone can be healed, everyone can be saved. We can not do it, but Jesus can.

Jesus crushes the enemy and then turns to us and heals our brokenness. If we look at Job, one of the most tragic stories in the entire Holy Bible. Job gets sick in ways that we can’t imagine, loses everything, not once, but twice and has sores appear all over his body. He never turns away from Jesus. After everything Job suffered he realized the nature of his folly…

Then Job answered the Lord and said:
“I know that You can do everything,
And that no purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Listen, please, and let me speak;
You said, ‘I will question you, and you shall answer Me.’
“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear,
But now my eye sees You.
Therefore I abhor myself,
And repent in dust and ashes.” ~Job 42:1-6 NKJB

Once we know death of the self, death of our ways that we know nothing about and give it all to God we are restored, we are healed through the blood of Jesus Christ. We are made whole because we see, we are made whole because we can hear. We can love because He first loved us and we know there is nothing good in us.

Either the Gospel is the divine Word of God teaching us how to live and how to be a reflection of Him, or it’s nothing more than a historical account of events.