In this third of a six-part series, Christian speaker and author Lisa Bevere continues her study based on her book "Adamant: Finding Truth in a Universe of Opinions."
Lisa reminds us that, God is love, and we are the objects of His greatest and deepest affections. His love for us is invincible. And when we receive God’s love, we are positioned to love others the way He loves them. But we cannot champion this love without also knowing hate—more specifically, a hate for anything that unmakes love.
© Lisa Bevere
Scripture: Exodus 15:13; 2 Corinthians 1:21-22; 1 John 4:8; Proverbs 6:16-19
God doesn’t have love; He is love. Love is His very nature. And because God is love, you cannot stop Him from loving you. His love is invincible and immovable, unshaken by your ebbs and flows.
But because God loves everyone, He cannot love everything. Since God is adamant in love, He must also be adamant in hate.
This may seem like a contradiction at first glance, but that is only because our culture has idolized love. We know that God is love, but have we made our idea of love god?
The truth is, God hates what unmakes love. He hates what tears apart those He loves. This is why God must hate what distorts our identity.
We cannot have genuine love if we “love everything.” God is adamant in both love and hate, so we must learn to love what God loves and hate what He hates.
I hope you take a little time out of your busy day to watch this video. She shares a lot of information here so you may want to watch this more than once. Lisa Bevere is one, truly blessed Bible teacher!
Enjoy!
~Eve
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