Pastor John, we have a follow-up question from a listener named Isaac, Pastor John.

In episode number 924, you said Christians are known as sin haters.

I agree, holy.

But sometimes in living this out, I become too self-focused.

So what is the difference between hating sin, what you call for, and hating myself because

I sin, which is so often what I feel?

What's the difference between sin hate and self hate?

Let me first say something that will probably strike Isaac as depressing.

And then I hope because it's true and because it's real and because of the wider biblical

context, be hope-giving and not just depressing.

I think it is impossible to really hate our sin and know that this sin originates in my

corrupt heart and not hate that heart.

That is hate, my heart, my sinning self.

Insofar as I am corrupt, world-loving, God-hating, rebellious, and that is who we all are without

the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit.

Paul describes us in Ephesians 2.

Once we walked following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of

the air and the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience among whom we all

once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body in the mind

and wore by nature.

This is not alien to us, by nature, children of wrath like the rest of mankind.

You can't know yourself to be a child of wrath that is a person whom God is so angry

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