John reiterates this concept in 1 John 3:15.Ī heart that devises wicked schemes:This encompasses thinking or conceiving evil against any individual or group for personal benefit or other misguided objectives, like modern-day terrorists indulge in. We may never have orchestrated killing someone or never have touched a gun or knife, but in Matthew 5:21–24, Jesus says that anyone hating someone else unreasonably without offering room for forgiveness commits a sin equivalent to murder. Hands that shed innocent blood:This refers to cold-blooded murder. Nothing we do causes us to more closely resemble the devil, who is the father of lies (John 8:44). It is a most detestable evil to God, who is a God of truth. Lying can be used to impugn the character of a brother or to flatter a friend.
Lying tongue: A lying tongue is one that speaks falsehood, knowingly and willingly, with an intention to deceive others. This sin of pride is so detested by the LORD that Paul was kept from committing this sin by being provided with “a thorn in the flesh” to humble him (2 Corinthians 12:7). We fail to realize these gifts were given by God through Christ and fanned into flame by the Holy Spirit and are not due to our own goodness. Often, believers feel superior to other believers when they receive godly wisdom and display amazing tenacity against sin. When we begin to think of ourselves more highly and with unparalleled importance, we are forgetting the fact that anything good in us is the result of Christ living in us and that the old self is now dead (Galatians 2:20). The following is Proverbs’ list of seven things God hates:Īrrogant (haughty) eyes: This describes a feeling of pride and looking down upon others (Philippians 2:3, 5–11). Avoiding the seven things God hates will help us expose our hidden intentions and motives. Sin is committed the moment it is conceived in the heart, even before it is actually committed. This is in line with our Lord Jesus Christ’s elaboration of the Ten Commandments during His Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:21–48). The writer of Proverbs points the finger straight at our hearts and our sinful thought processes. The seven things God hates are the sins that deal with the deep heart motives of the individual. While these aren’t the only sins that should be avoided, they do sum up most of the wicked things condemned by God. The seven things God hates are a catalog of sins summed up in Proverbs 6:16–19. Hopefully in the next few days I will post on a way a person can be forgiven of sin and we know that Jesus came into this world to be a sacrifice so all of our sins could be forgiven. Every night and throughout the day I pray to myself that God protect me and forgive me from any unknown sin I may have committed. The good thing is you can be forgiven if you see any below you are or may guilty of. Lets not make no mistake God hates all sin, however there are seven sins that are an abomination to God.