[Northside Baptist Church] Pastor’s Blog
May 8th, 2009 | 
Author: Any incorrect grammar or punctuation is due to the early morning hour.
Good Morning NBC,
Mother’s Day this Sunday is a special time for every person. I want to wish all our mother’s a happy Mother’s Day. We are so blessed for your love and deeds you have shown and are doing. I miss my mother so much, I wish she was here.
To all mothers – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY – We Love You!
This morning’s blog is taken from Proverbs 8:13, “The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the forward mouth, do I hate.”
Solomon was the wisest man in the world. He knew that his wisdom did not come from his power but from God. The sign to fearing God is to hate evil. Some times we think to fear God is to just state “I fear God” or we think that fearing God is not to speed, “maybe I fear God because I go to church, I fear God because we are soul winners or we are a Sunday School teacher” when in reality the sign of fearing God is to hate all evil in our life. Evil: Is what God deems offensive in what we see, hear, and do. It has nothing to do with my standard of evil, my rule of thumb, or my years of doing the same thing so it can’t be sinful towards God. The fear of the Lord is not measured by longevity of serving Him. We like to white wash offensives in our life to over come guilt and sinful habits.
Fearing the Lord is not shunning evil or disliking it on my schedule, the fear of the Lord is to hate it, hating evil is where the fear lies.
The last half of this verse tells us that God hates pride. This is the answer to the hating evil. Pride is why Satan fell and why we will fall. Pride says I can do this without God. Anything done without God’s mind is sin. Pride makes us atheist. Pride makes us godless, Pride makes us powerless, Pride makes us pilotless, Pride makes us foolish, unwise, and unholy.
Let’s this week strive to hate evil to fear the Lord and to do this it means we must combat pride in our life by His strength.
Hating Evil is Hating Pride!
Have A Great Day.
Preacher
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