ద్వేషము (అసూయ)  || Hatred || Zac Poonen Telugu Christian Messages
Channel: Raja Devathala
Date: 2017-07-01

We want to continue on this subject, that is the most dangerous thing in our lives and that which is destroying us - sin, much worse than sickness. We have been looking at that in the last few studies and we want to go bit further on the issue.

In this study we want to look at another sin that Jesus spoke about, which is not considered a sin by a lot of people in the world, and even by a lot of believers. In our last three studies, if you remember, we looked at the sins that Jesus hated the most. We saw three of them so far: hypocrisy, pride, and selfishness. Now, in the world hypocrisy is not hated, pride is not hated, and selfishness is not hated. Everybody assumes that it is not serious. A man pretends, so what. Or a man is proud or selfish; everybody is like that, we say. So long as you keep the Ten Commandments, the external good life, you are okay. Unfortunately a lot of believers think like that too.

As a result the lives of many believers are only external. There is nothing inward. They are saved only from the sins which are external, the things that people could be saved from, even under the law, before Jesus came. Under the law, people were saved from murder and adultery by the Ten Commandments. But by the law they couldn't be saved from inward sin, the really serious sins that are destroying us. In the first page of the New Testament, as we have seen already, we read in Matthew 1:21, that Jesus means saviour, a person who will save you from your sins. And so, as I said before, if you don't understand what sin is, we will never understand what has Jesus come to save us from. He has come to save us from sin. But what is sin? Now we see it a little more clearly. Sin is pretending -being a hypocrite; He has come to save us from that. Sin is pride; Jesus has come to save us from every type of pride, physical pride, spiritual pride, intellectual pride. He has come to save us from selfishness - from thinking just about ourselves.

In this study I want to speak to you about hatred. A lot of people do not think of hatred as sin. The New Testament says that "He who hates his brother is a murderer" (1 Jn. 3:15). It is as serious as that. If you hate a person, it is equivalent to murdering him. Maybe you don't have the opportunity to murder him. Maybe you are afraid that if you murder him you will get caught. You wouldn't mind somebody else killing him or his having some misfortune. That is how you know whether you hate a person or not. Sometimes we may say, 'Well I don't hate anybody really.' But just ask yourself this: Somebody who has done some harm to you, or to your family, maybe some relative has cheated you, maybe somebody has done some real harm to you, maybe somebody spoilt your reputation, or pushed you down in your job, maybe your boss, or landlord, or someone who has done some harm to you, and you say, 'Yeah I have forgiven him.' But when you hear that some calamity happened to him, do you feel a little happy? If you feel happy, you know what that shows? That shows that you really hate him. You will never be happy when a calamity comes on your son or daughter, or someone you love. You can never be happy when a calamity or accident, or misfortune comes to somebody you love.
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