down in the depths of my being, the truest and purest expression of my redeemed soul is that I hate

what opposes my Lord. Is that not true? I hate it.

Welcome to Grace to you with John MacArthur.

I'm your host, Phil Johnson.

On today's broadcast, John will continue the study he calls The Love God Hates.

Now, maybe you find that title a little shocking.

Perhaps you're wondering how God, who the Bible says is love, could possibly hate. What provokes a gracious, merciful God to hatred? And how could he possibly hate any type of love?

Those questions have greater implications than you may have realized. It's important that you love the things God loves, and also that you hate what God hates.

So to find out what Scripture says about the love that God hates, follow along as John begins today's lesson.

First John, chapter 2, verses 15 through 17.

And we've titled this particular study, the love God hates, the love God hates.

Here is the love God hates, the love of the world.

Now the Bible is clear that God is a God of perfect love.

God is a God of perfect love, but because God loves perfectly, he also hates perfectly.

The two are actually inseparable to love perfectly is to hate perfectly.

Now when we talk about the world, what are we talking about? This is the compelling question

here. If you say we don't love the world, what are you saying? How are we to understand that?

Well, we're going to find that out before we get too far into this. But there's a very clear

indication in the Bible of what Scripture means when it talks

about the world.

First of all, we could be talking about the created order.

We could be looking around and saying, well, there is the physical world.

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