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NASB | Exodus 23:22 "But if you truly obey his voice and do all that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Exodus 23:22 "But if you will indeed listen to and truly obey His voice and do everything that I say, then I will be an enemy to your enemies and an adversary to your adversaries. |
Subject: Does God love his adversaries? matt.7:12 |
Bible Note: Thanks Steve! So since God loves sinners, John 3:16, Romans 5:5-8, sinners who are who do iniquity, God must mean this: "You hate the sin of hating who u love in all who do the iniquity of hating who u love. " NASB Psalms 5:4 For You are not a God who takes pleasure in the wickedness of the sin of hating anyone; In fact U take no pleasure in the death of the wicked because U lvoe the wicked: ezekiel 18:23-32. only those who hate the wocked take pleasure in the death of the wicked! No evil of the sin of hating any one or anything dwells with You. 5:5 The boastful in hate of the humble shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate the sin of hating anyone in all who do iniquity while at the same time U love the iniquiters/sinners. 5:6 You destroy with Love those who speak falsehood in hate of the truthful; The LORD abhors in Love of horrors the man who sheds the blood of them whom he hates with the deceit of hate. "These 3 negatively phrased descriptions in Love follow 3 directly stated affirmations in Love. This reveals God's perfect and supreme standard of the Justice of Love for both the just and the unjust both in principle and in practice" (p. 746, MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997). Ps 7:11 KJV "God judgeth the righteous with Love, and God is angry in Love with the wicked every day." Gos is always angry in love for the people with whom he is angry, and so He sins not, for to be angry in hate with anyone wd be to sin! matthew 5:21-22 and Ephesians 4:26 God Loves us and so is only angry with us for cause and so that anger in Love is shortlived! God loves us and so is always pleasant with us for no cause! Only those hwo hate others are angry without any cause: I am not angry with u: I just don't like u! Those who hate others have longlived anger with others for cause, and the root of the bitternees of hate takes root again! Rom 5:1 ASV " Being therefore justified by faith in Love, faith which works by love, Galatians 5:6 we have peace in Love with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;" The sinner may think he is not at war with God, but God is most certainly at war in Love with the sinner, Love being the true basis of peace. Peace in hate or with hate is coldwar or uneasy peace! Proverbs 16 4 The LORD hath made ALL THINGS for himself: yea, EVEN THEB WICKED for the day of evil. 5 Every one that is proud in heart IN AHTE OF THE LOWLY is an abomination to the LORD: though hand join in hand, he shall not be unpunished. 6 By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil. 7 When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies in Hate to be at peace with him IN LOVE. And how do we please God? Hebrews 11 6 But without faith... which works by Love, Galatians 5:6, it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is ...Love and in Love, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him in love. And how r we to seek him? Jeremiah 29 13 And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart/Love. See? "*peace in Love with God.* Not only a subjective, internal sense of calm and serenity, but also an external, objective reality. God has declared Himself to be at war IN LOVE with every human being because of man's sinful rebellion IN HATE against Him and His law OF LOVE (Rom 5:10; compare Rom 1:18; 8:7; Ex 22:24; Deut 32:21,22; Ps 7:11, John 3:36; Eph 5:6)" (p. 1700, MacArthur Study Bible, Word Publishing, 1997). Hope that helps when put in Love! Looking fwd to your feedback! l and r, giam |