Michiana Covenant Presbyterian Church

"I hate the double-minded" Is hatred ever appropriate for the Christian? The last line of our text today, verse 128, "I hate every false way," is much easier to handle. Of course we hate every false way. Of course we hate evil generically considered. But to hate the "double-minded" means that we are hating people. Is this just an Old Testament mindset? Or is it ever appropriate for a Christian to say, "I hate the double-minded"? Let me start by reminding you that Jesus said that we are to love God with all our hearts, and that we are to love our neighbors (even the least loveable) as ourselves. So there is no way that Psalm 119:113 will contradict the command to love God and neighbor. As we will see, it is your love for God – and for the double-minded themselves – that requires you to hate the double-minded...