21 Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
22 I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
King David was a man after God's own heart and still he hated. He hated those that hated God, but notice he said with a "perfect hatred". To hate something with a perfect hatred we must be able to understand that the soul within that person still belongs to God. We must understand that even though the flesh is foolish that God loves the soul and we too must love the soul. This is a big misunderstanding among people, they assume if you hate the sin that you hate the person committing the sin and that is not true. I will be the first to admit that it is hard to pray for someone that so blatantly sins against our God. I find it extremely hard to pray for rapists, child molesters, murderers and others like that, but in my heart I know that God is able to save their soul and change them if they truly believe, but the problem is that they don't believe. Jesus said that it is better that a millstone be put about their neck and they be cast into the sea than for them to hurt one of his little ones. There will be a day that he will re-pay them for what they are doing. There will be a day that every knee will bow down and wicked mankind will know that Jesus Christ is Lord of Lord and King of Kings. He warned us that these days would come upon us and he also told us to stand strong and know that the world would hate us just as it hated him.
Mark 13:13 And ye shall be hated of all men for my name's sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
John 15:18-19
18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
