Good Monday morning to you.

Maybe you're listening on your way to class or to work.

Mondays for many of us is a day to re-enter the complexities of life as God's redeemed

children living out our faith in a world that is hostile to our Heavenly Father.

And that raises questions like whether the world should like us or whether the world should

hate us.

Which result shows us to be most faithful to our God.

That's a huge question.

Not one for today.

It's a question for another day.

We'll get to it in two Fridays.

Today's question, Pastor John, is about the sinfully vile in this world.

Should we despise them or should we love them?

Here's the question.

My name is Parker.

I'm 14.

Psalm 154 says, speaking of a blameless man, that in their eyes a vile person is despised.

How can we both despise the vile and yet also love our enemies?

And the same question comes from a listener named Peter.

Hello to you, Pastor John.

David says in Psalm 15 verses 1-4,

O Lord, who shall sojourn in your tent, who shall dwell on your holy hill, he who walks

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