We act according to our one desire. 

We are not to hate anyone. The bible teaches that God protects us from hate by destroying destruction. A lot of people teach that we can control hate. But I want you to think of what happens to you when you get mad. You experience a physical change and you begin to think "How can I get revenge?" So the truth is you have a hateful heart. Can you control hate so that you can be genuine in the sense that love has no bias toward any person or object? Ive never seen any man control hate like the bible describes short of Christ.

We are taught that we act because we desire what is most pleasurable to us. The bible never teaches that we act by opposing a desire that we know is wrong. There is no such thing as acting under constraint in the sense that we are controlling the wrong desire with more weight than we are pleased to act with the weight of the good desire. No listen this is non sense. Every good desire that we act from has only one weight.. one purpose and one experience. We never act because we are under the tension of equal forces. We must understand that if we are to act with the freedom that the bible describes the bad desire must be destroyed.

This is why salvation is our only hope. Salvation is described in the bible as being delivered from our old life.  We are delivered from our old desires. Some people teach that we are completely delivered when we are saved but under sanctification God takes that back in the sense that He needs to use force to purify what has already been accomplished. But the bible teaches that Christ took the effects of the curse...hate, fear, sorrow, and pain ...took it upon Himself and suffered the consequences as if we were suffering from our own consequences. God destroyed destruction by Christ death. Christ rose again and was given power over all things. So Christ destroyed the effects of the curse that we suffer.

Is our salvation incomplete in the sense that we are under the obligation to thwart the power of the curse by opposing it? Is the law a power that keeps us from being obligated to be ruled by the curse? Or is the law a declaration of our innocence by defending us against the curse? This is a big distinction here. This really is the cornerstone that gives grace teeth. If God only gave us potential by overcoming the curse through law keeping then He really is not that serious about grace. If God only hated sin just enough to give us tension against the curse then we have the potential of possessing hate that rises up in us so that we must subdue it. If the law is not an instrument of destroying destruction then there is no hope of being free from the tension between hate and love.

But God gave us a communication that destroys whatever is destroying us. We have the water of salvation that we throw on the wicked witch. The law pronounces death on those who oppose salvation by grace. We believe that anyone who opposes grace embraces destruction and hate. There are only two groups. Those who are under grace live in the kingdom of love because Gods pronouncement of destruction is our protection from the tension of hate. But those who are not under grace live under the domination of hate and destruction. The law is their school master.