How to Hate Sin
Some teach that we need to hate sin. I would agree, but the bigger question is how does a believer come to hate sin?
Expecting people to hate sin without teaching them what righteousness is gives them nothing to compare sin with. You can’t hate darkness if you have never seen the light. As believers, our job isn’t to teach people to hate sin/darkness; it is to shine the light into their darkness so they can escape it. Their hate for darkness will come from their love for the light. You can’t remove darkness with more darkness because darkness is simply the absence of light.
Falling in love with Jesus is falling out of love with sin.
“The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined” (Isaiah 9:2).
“To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me” (Acts 26:18).
“When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, "I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life” (John 8:12).
