Hate isn't always bad, but it's always wrong to hate people or God. Duh!

     We've never lived in a world that's more anti-family and anti-church than it is right now. The prince of the power of the air ..Mr. Lu-Cifer.. wants to take our marriages, kids and churches down, but we're going to firmly say no you won't. Never before have our children been able to download the quantity of integrating filth from the internet before, and every year it's more that they could possibly go after. Are you listening parents? Have you entered into your child's life or into the sphere of his or her influence? If your child says that his close friends are none of your business, then you make it your business cuz God wants you to make it your business. Combine a meaningful relationship with each child and sound rules. Fathers, don't provoke your children to anger with stupid rules or without your heart and relationship. Do you know what movies your children are watching, what lyrics in music, or what sites they are visiting? It's time to teach our kids to hate evil and to all-out love the Lord and his righteousness. His people too. Rules alone don't have any power to keep them on the right track but only a relationship can. Properly spanking children at the right time is good. Avoid all abuse and anger at them. Do it at right time with care. Balance love and discipline, courtesy and control, parents. We see these shootings in high and other schools and then hear the parents say oh I had no idea what my kids were watching, hearing or reading.

      There are some things to hate. Let's learn to hate sin, troublemaking, rebelling against Direct Authority (God) and delegated authorities.. like God hates these wrong-doin's and bad attitudes. What's important is growing in the Lord while maintaining a right heart, motives, and human spirit inside...as we by the Holy Spirit follow the Word.  We all can learn what God loves (people and righteousness) and hates. 

      So here are six things that God really hates even today. Yeah, that He loathes with a passion:

      Pride, arrogance, lies, murdering of people.. especially of the innocent (like with the unborn and the elderly. He hates murder, which is dif than doing your duty as a soldier in a decent war and you know many wars haven’t been. You and I wish there was never any wars, and one day all of them will end. Read the Revelation in the Bible). 

     The hatching of evil plots, the doing evil and wickedness (though God loves all of us sinners). Lying, being a troublemaker in the family, in a school, in a church. 

      Do you have feet that race down a wicked track, or a mouth that lies.. even under oath? Simple repent and believe in Jesus. God loves the righteous people and the unsaved sinners too--has a plan for each of us. 

     “Some people are just troublemakers. They are always thinking up some crooked plan and telling lies. They use secret signals to cheat people; they wink their eyes, shuffle their feet, and point a finger. They are always planning to do something bad. But they will be punished. Disaster will strike, and they will be destroyed. There will be no one to help them. The LORD hates these seven things: eyes that show pride, tongues that tell lies, hands that kill innocent people, hearts that plan evil things to do, feet that run to do evil, witnesses in court who tell lies, and anyone who causes family members to fight.” Proverbs 6:12-19 erv

     “Swindlers and scoundrels
   talk out of both sides of their mouths.
They wink at each other, they shuffle their feet,
   they cross their fingers behind their backs.
Their perverse minds are always cooking up something nasty,
   always stirring up trouble.
Catastrophe is just around the corner for them,
   a total wreck, their lives ruined beyond repair.” msg

"A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teacheth with his fingers; Frowardness is in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly; suddenly shall he be broken without remedy." Proverbs 6:12-15

It's super lame to sow discord among the brethren, or in a family. See Proverbs 6:14

Why is Christian doctrine so divisive?

Is the Catholic Church a separate religion or a division of Christianity?

What is the cause of church splits? How can healing occur after a church split?

Why do some fellowships split? People were born in sin, therefore we each need to repent and be born again. And then we need to grow as disciples following Jesus and His teachings otherwise believers even can become carnally minded, worldly and selfish. It’s not beyond any of us. We need Jesus to be Lord of our lives all the way through. 

What is sectarianism?

Why was Israel divided into the Southern Kingdom and Northern Kingdom?

     Riots would break out when the Apostle Paul was livin’ it and preachin’ it -- the Gospel for decisions for Christ. He wasn’t a rebel against Authority or divisive or a troublemaker, but troublemakers would get all convicted of their sin, and then cause trouble when Paul showed up. It happened when the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ, spoke the truth as well. Jesus a peace maker said he came to bring a sword. So what did Jesus mean by coming to bring a sword in Matthew 10:34-36?

     “Jesus’ sword was never a literal one. In fact, when Peter took up a sword to defend Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Jesus rebuked him and told him to put away his sword, "for all who draw the sword will die by the sword” (Matthew 26:52). Why then, did Jesus say, “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword.” What kind of sword did Jesus come to bring?”

Romans 16:17 - Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

Romans 12:18 - If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

Proverbs 20:3 - It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.

Matthew 5:44 - But I 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;

Proverbs 24:1-34 - Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.   (Read More...)

Matthew 5:9 - Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.

Proverbs 16:28-30 - A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.   (Read More...)

1 Peter 2:1-25 - Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,   (Read More...)

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.

Simple, non-divisive, uplifting, and straightforward...

Show me a spiritually reborn Christian who just loves to worship, to pray in Jesus' Name, to promote unity in fellowship with red-hot balanced believers (in connection with a healthy Bible teaching church), to study what’s really so, to then practically apply it as it was meant to be applied, and to subsequently.. as an outgrowth of all the former.. go share Christ’s Gospel in a simple non-religious sorta way......... and I will show you a vibrant, joyous, happy person!

The greatest threat to Christianity is not Communism or atheism; it is Christians trying to get to heaven incognito without being involved in edifying n unifying believers or in sharing their faith with others or serving the Lord with their whole hearts.  

No time for disunity, for dividing believers, for beating or wounding God's sheep so to speak.. pastors, leaders or Christians. No time for it at all. There's just too much other good stuff in the will of God for us to do.

Ya can’t be busy growing up and healthy.. going forward ..if you’re too busy shrinking backwards. Choose to overcome evil with good; to sow to the Spirit instead of to your old fleshly nature or to this perverse world system.

"Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. Now the just shall live by faith: but if [any man] draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul." Heb. 10:38-39

"Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of My pasture!" says the Lord." Jer. 23:1

True shepherds and leaders feed and care for the flock instead of exploit or fleece God's flock. They gather em to safety and nurturing, instead of scattering em away from the tender care of the Chief Shepherd to be hurt or destroyed. 

What kind of care am I talking about? Look at what the Bible says in the Old Testament, "For thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out. As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered; so will I seek out my sheep, and will deliver them out of all places where they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day. And I will bring them out from the people, and gather them from the countries, and will bring them to their own land, and feed them upon the mountains of Israel by the rivers, and in all the inhabited places of the country. I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel. I will feed my flock, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord God" (Eze. 34:11-15).

Let's let the Lord express His humble kindness and care through us. People that sow discord in a flock often don't initially set out to create divisions. Sometimes they are initially preoccupied instead with their own personal needs or the interests of a group they belong to (James 4:1-10).

I've felt upset before when I've seen a group or leaders of a good church group being mistreated, but there is a good way to deal with it. How you and I address it is so important.

“It is to one’s honor to avoid strife, but every fool is quick to quarrel” (Prov. 20:3).

Pray, Get some counseling perhaps. You might not have all the facts. Is it really your deal to get involved with? Sometimes it's very clear when wrong has been done. Did you try to go directly to the wrong-doer in private with a humble appeal--with an attitude and aim to restore? Go study how Lot’s herdsmen argued with those of Abraham (Gen. 13:1-18); and look at how Christ’s disciples argued about personal preeminence (Luke 9:46); and how divisive groups in the church in Corinth elevated party-factions above the unity of the Spirit for the whole body (1 Cor. 3:1-7).

How can we promote unity in connections with God's church? It begins with prayer and the transformation--I mean the regeneration and sanctification of the heart. When we adopt the mind of Jesus, we develop an attitude of humility towards the Lord first, and then we focus on service toward others (Phil. 2:5-11). Only in Christ can we access the Holy Spirit's power to “look out not only for our own interests, but also for the interests of others” (v.4).

As we cooperate with God's Spirit and simply depend on the Lord, He helps us. He produces the fruit of the Spirit in us.

Make me a gentle but strong person, a catalyst for unity, Lord. One who doesn’t divide your kids in the church, or quickly react in frustration to every l'il annoyance that might come my way. Give me a spirit of discipline, of self-control, of evangelistic love and patience instead of an attitude that scatters people away from You.