“O ye that love Jehovah, hate evil.” Psalm 97:10
Before ever we discuss the subject of deliverance from
sin, we must first mention a condition or qualification of those who are to be
delivered. Even though God’s deliverance is prepared for all, not all are
delivered.
The Apostle Paul indicates this almost unconsciously in
Romans 7. In the experience described there, he finally becomes emancipated
because he has fulfilled the condition of knowing what to hate as well as what
to desire.
We read not only how he gets released, but also how he
feels in his heart before he is released: “For not what I would, that do I practice;
but what I hate, that I do” (Romans 7:15).
Hence the first and foremost question today is: Do you
love what you are doing now, or do you hate it? The apostle was so unwilling to
live a life in sin that he was determined to get out of it. It was due to his
hatred of it and his determination to find an escape that he found deliverance.
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