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“How do we square Jesus’s command to ‘love our enemies’ with David saying ‘I hate … my enemies’? Four realities from Psalm 139 help us see that Jesus and David aren’t in conflict” - TGC
When You’re Tempted to Hate People, Part 3: Compassion
Read the series.
In his primary description of himself, God includes a list of related attributes (Ex 34.6-7):
- Compassionate
- Gracious
- Slow to anger
- Abounding in lovingkindness
- Abounding in truth
- Keeping lovingkindness for thousands
- Forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin
- Not leaving the guilty unpunished
- Visiting the iniquity of fathers upon children
And in the parallel prophetic passages,
When You’re Tempted to Hate People, Part 2: How God Describes Himself
As we’ve noted, even Jonah the bigot knew that God had revealed himself as a God of compassion, who extends mercy even to the most wicked, upon their repentance—and who seeks that repentance from them.
When and where did God reveal this?
It begins with Moses.
When You’re Tempted to Hate People, Part 1: Introduction
We’re polarized.
Yep.
And each side sees the other as the Ultimate Personification of Evil.
They’re bad people, you see. They want to destroy us and all that we hold dear.
No tactic is out of bounds in our desire to destroy them.
It’s war.
Bring it.
There were situations like this in biblical times: existential crises, where God’s people, and all they held dear—or should have held dear—was under assault by those who hated what they stood for, because they hated the God who had chosen them for himself.
Why We Shouldn’t Gloat When Leaders Fall
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“there’s a difference between gloating, that is, rejoicing at the misfortune of others, and rejoicing at God overcoming evil.” - TGC
On Living by the Loopholes
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“We’re all for ethics, all for kindness, all for grace, when we’re the potential victim. But when grace is called for from us, we want to live by the loopholes. In this instance, you see, it’s different. No. It’s not.” - Olinger
