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profoundly immoral and malevolent.
"his evil deeds" - 1.
profound immorality, wickedness, and depravity, especially when regarded as a supernatural force.
"the world is stalked by relentless evil"
Rom 12:9 Let
love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which
is good.
Love isn't false.
We see false love all the time though, don't we? Love. Putting another's
welfare, another's life before our own, protecting another, wanting only the
best for someone else. Love isn't giving someone all they desire, but rather
giving them all they need, as God would have us give them.
We read this verse
the other day-
Mat 25:44
Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or
athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister
unto thee?
Mat 25:45
Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did
it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.
This is love.
Feeding the hungry, giving drink to the thirsty, befriending a stranger,
clothing those in need of clothes, tending to the sick, visiting those
imprisoned. Whenever we see a need such
as these and turn a blind eye, truly our love is filled with falsehood.
We are also told to
abhor that which is evil.
Dictionary
definition- abhor- to regard with extreme repugnance or aversion; detest
utterly; loathe; abominate.
Is this our
reaction to evil?
e·vil
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adjective
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synonyms:
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wicked, bad, wrong, immoral, sinful, foul, vile, dishonorable, corrupt, iniquitous, depraved, reprobate, villainous, nefarious, vicious, malicious; More
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noun
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synonyms:
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wickedness, bad, badness, wrongdoing, sin, ill, immorality, vice, iniquity, degeneracy, corruption, depravity, villainy, nefariousness, malevolence; More
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Evil.
The first reference
in the Bible to evil is this--
Gen_2:9 And
out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the
sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden,
and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
There was a tree of
good and evil. Good and evil. We know people have done a horrific job of
calling good - evil, and evil - good, so it's all but impossible to discern
fully between the two. One man's evil is another's good and vice versa. A
whole group of people who have turned evil into good so that seemingly all the
world follows after that calling it good, will never make it good, not ever.
Where is the standard we are to adhere to? It's with God, it's with our Lord
and Savior, Jesus Christ, it's with the Holy Spirit, and we find in the
written word of God- the Bible only truth. Taking everything, the entire Bible
in the context it's meant to be taken in, we will find only truth. Pick it
apart and take things out of full context- historical and otherwise - then you
will only find a book filled with conflict, filled with confusion, filled with
contradiction and people will say that our standard for good is flawed. Those looking
to be blind, will be allowed to be blind. Those looking for truth with pure
sincerity will find truth, those looking for anything else will not comprehend
truth.
We are told this….
Rom 12:9 …
Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
Evil and
good…. We are to ABHOR evil. Not pick and choose evils to like and evils
to hate. Simply- abhor evil- all evil.
If our personal temptations towards evil have us trying to make excuses
for that evil so we can turn it into something acceptable to our conscience
then we have to know that we are only putting on blinders, very dead
blinders. If we do not hate the
evil we are tempted towards but coddle
it, coax it into something we actually believe is good, then we are lost. God
help us not to call any evil in our lives good! Better to fall at the foot of
the cross constantly as we recognize the evil we hate, than to pamper it until
we no longer see its evil.
Help us to ABHOR
evil, not accept it, please LORD. So
many people today want us to accept evil just because we are supposed to
tolerate everything as everyone's right to be anything, do anything that they
desire- evil included. We can LOVE
people without LOVING evil. I don't have to love someone's evil to love them,
and I wouldn't expect anyone to love any evil in me! God help us. We truly
live in the days when this is so true---
Gen_6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen_6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Please, Lord,
please help us not to be among the wicked of the earth! Please, help us to be
Yours in all we do- save us from ourselves, Lord, keep us from evil!
Help us, Lord to
'cleave to that which is good'. Help us
grasp the 'good' You reveal to us and cling to it tightly, never letting it
go.
All in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever!!!!!!!
All in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, now and forever!!!!!!!
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