This pastor up in Furcrest says that we're hateful, that we're haters, we're following hate.
Pastors are saying don't come to this church because we're hateful and we teach hate.
So mainly what they mean by that is that we believe that there are people that hate God and that they are
reprobates without hope in this life or in the life to come. That's true. We believe that. You know what?
So the practice of belief in almost every modern church is that we are never to hate. Hate's a bad word.
Hate's the worst thing you could be. This is what he said actually. He said
Hate is worse than blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, says Mike Richter.
Says Mike Richter. Hate is worse than blasphemy. Are you serious? Hate is worse than blasphemy against the Holy Ghost?
Good grief.
God is only love and Christians should never hate anybody. You know what? That's not true though.
You know, it's great to say and it sounds really good to say that to people and all Christians should never hate anything or anybody.
But you know, turn to Ecclesiastes 3.1.
Turn to Ecclesiastes 3.1. I'm going to read for you from Psalm 139. Psalm 139 verse 19
says, Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God.
Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men, for they speak against thee wickedly and thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee?
And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with a perfect hatred.
I count them my enemies. That's the Holy Ghost saying that.
Through David in the Psalms.
He says, Do I not hate them that hate thee, O Lord? Okay, so listen idiots.
Not you guys. I'm talking about the idiots, the pastors. They say, Oh, you're never supposed to hate anybody.
That's not what the Bible says, is it?
Ecclesiastes 3.
Verse 1 is where I had you turn. Look.
Verse 1, To everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven, a time to be born, a time to die,
a time to plant, a time to pluck up that which is planted, a time to kill, and a time to heal, a time to
break down, and a time to build up, a time to weep, and a time to laugh, a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
So there's time for everything, right?
A time to cast away stones, a time to gather stones together, a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing.
A time to get, and a time to lose, a time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to sow, a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.
Now look at this. A time to love, and a time to hate.
So that's God, okay? That's what God says. A time of war, and a time of peace. There's a time to hate.
There's a time, there's time to love. You know, we love people.
I love people. I go out and knock doors every week because I love people.
I don't even know them. But we're going and trying to get people that are not saved, saved. That's love.
That's what Christ did. He said, I came to seek and save that which was lost. You know, are we doing that here?
Yeah, we're loving people.