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What does it mean to have a heart filled with hate?
"We know that we have passed out of death into Life, because we love our brothers and sisters. He who does not love remains in [spiritual] death.
All who hate his brother [in Christ] is [at heart] a murderer [by God's standards]; and you know that no murderer has eternal life enduring in him".
- 1 John 3:14-15
People who hate do not love. Without love, there is no spiritual life, only spiritual death.
Therefore, when a person hates the first murder victim, it is themselves in spiritual death.
Those who hate others—whether due to race, color, gender, creed, sexual identity, sexual orientation, or any other reason—fail to grasp the true nature of humanity for it is not their place to judge or criticize the Lord's creations.
This kind of hatred guarantees eternal death, not eternal life.
What is spiritual death?
Spiritual death is a state of separation from the Lord brought on by sin.
Hate is a destructive force that stands in direct opposition to the Lord's command to love, severing connections with the Lord and blocking the formation of meaningful relationships.
The greatest harm we can do to our children is to teach them hate, separating them from the Lord, blocking their connection to the Holy Spirit and spiritual life.
This prevents them from knowing true happiness, cursing and condemning your children to eternal death.
Therefore, never teach our children to hate or expose them to toxic hate which can lead them astray and forever spiritually dead.
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We must remember love.
Love our children as the Lord with the Holy Spirit, loves, heals, and transforms the lives of loneliness, pain, and suffering within into life in love, hope, peace, and light.
When we remember love, we recall our humanity, our connection with the Holy Spirit, our relationships with others, and our purpose in the Lord.
Only with love can our hearts nurture spiritual life and only with love can we connect with the love and peace of the Holy Spirit to eternal life.
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