2) PERFECTION: HATE ALL REBELS OF GOD,
DISLIKE WHAT THEY DO WITH DISTINCTION
Often times, the world teaches us to “try to be nice” unconditionally to people in our homes, communities and society at large. Yes be nice with them in all your good deeds but let not your words agree with the evil that we find around us. Unknown also to many people, in the message “Try to be nice always” also carries another significant message “Do not work righteousness always”. People love you when you complement and say they are angels even when evidently they are shameless liars, cheats, fornicators, traitors and all sorts of things in our face. Some of them in the event even cause Christians to like songs that depict our God of love as wicked. How can you be happy with this?
Psalm 139:21-24 Do not I hate them, O LORD that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
It is neither easy to be nice all the time nor to be “disagreeable”. This is because on one or the other assignment, we served God or just let him down in order to enjoy our relationships and maintain the comfort zones. Righteousness has two faces. In God’s planning of habitual interactions of niceness only some 50% of such niceness is righteous. The other 50% is a failure to work righteousness.
Some people make it seem as if there is always enough positive affectionate love to spare. Such are they that teach others to prostitute where and whenever necessary. To desire to please just any man or woman with a love that is actually hate. Only truth is love.
A Christian must love both in acceptance and in rejections. There is not enough acceptance to go round for just everyone you see. If you accept an evil and wicked man as part of you, there is a chance you will not have enough love to give the brethren (and you will break the new covenant commandment). Rejection from fellowship with the wicked is termed righteousness. This was the mindset in Jesus our lord; he had continuous fellowship ONLY with people who were willing and ready to repent. Like in his day, there are many who hear us speak in his name but have no intention whatsoever to change their ways; these are evil people.
Perfection: WORKING RIGHTEOUSNESS
BOTH TOOLS OF RIGHTEOUSNESS SERVE THE LORD EQUALLY
Perfection by loving our enemies (Matt 5:44) is not a reason to smile ALWAYS with people who rebel from God from dusk till dawn. People who persecute us as enemies (like Paul of Tarsus) are yet ignorant about deep truths of God and will change with time. The rebels of God are not. They know and consciously plan evil against people they know to be good and God-fearing people.
Psalms 119:53 Horror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy law.
Even sitting with them and telling unnecessary stories is considered inappropriate (Psalms 1:1-3). Many people do not realize that when they are laughing out their lungs after something funny and evil takes place, they are actually becoming programmed in their spirits for more evil. All workers of evil are disgusting to God and therefore should offend all God’s children.
Such people that keep multiplying evil are spiritually dead (Luke9:58-60) and the only love you can show them is a stern wake-up call not rather helping them to sleep the more (Psalm139:21-24).
Do not think that God is pleased when you see evil people prospering in their evil trade and do nothing. If you cannot stop them presently, avoid them downright. Even when you deal with them, see that your judgement is righteous and targets the real nature of these ones. Wicked people by definition always tell lies.
Psalm 58:3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies.
When you ask them about the evil thing they committed, they will tell you tons and tons of other lies until you get tired and allow them free. This should not be, do not let them be a part of your life if they will not accept to repent and embrace the truth.
If they stop their evil life, forgive and receive them back. There are many evil people in churches today who need this type of treatment to be healed from eternal bondage. By benefiting from or sparing their evil conniving, you are an accomplice to their death and the wrath of God is upon you.
Psalm 26:5 I have hated the congregation of evildoers; and will not sit with the wicked.
It should be a point of duty for you to forgive them only when they recognize and turn away from what they did wrong. If you hurry and accept them back, then you are contributing to send them to perdition (Isaiah 26:10). Rebuke them heavily, if they accept to repent, forgive them 70×7 a day. No repentance, no forgiveness. Luke 13:3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Perfection: Jesus hated rebels
i) JESUS CALLS HEROD A FOX
Luke 13:31-32 The same day there came certain of the Pharisees, saying unto him, Get thee out, and depart hence: for Herod will kill thee. And he said unto them, Go ye, and tell that fox, Behold, I cast out devils, and I do cures today and tomorrow, and the third day I shall be perfected.
ii) JESUS DESCRIBES THE SCRIBES AND PHARISEES
Matt 23:29-33 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Be courageous enough to tell even your pastor to stop evil. The rebels never stop telling lies or suggesting that they are better than other people (Matt 23:30-31). Notice that these are the spiritual leaders of the time. They are the same people that scripture prophesied to be wicked and who crucified Jesus (Psalm 22:16) although they pretend as leaders in the things of God; leading others towards doing evil instead of good. Many such people are present in our churches of today and deserve not an embrace of fellowship from us. Do not be afraid of them. They need a righteousness of rebuke or simply avoid them.
NB: Jesus forgave those who tortured him saying “they did not know what they were doing”. He also told Pilate that the people who delivered him to be judged (the dogs) had a greater sin. Understand and manage the way God classifies people depending on how they contribute to truth or to lies. Do not collaborate with the dogs. They never change.
