God’s unavoidable punishment awaits everyone who hates Him and defiantly transgresses His commandments. This punishment is God’s wrath and displeasure, temporal death and eternal damnation.
Deut. 27:26: Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them: and all the people shall say: Amen.
Rom. 6:23: The wages of sin is death.
Assignments: Read Gen.6-7: the flood, Gen. 19:1-19: the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and Luke 19:43-44: the destruction of Jerusalem. Read what the Bible says of eternal damnation or hell: Matt. 8:12, 11:16-24, 13:49-50, 25:41, Mark 9:43-44, Luke 16:23-24, Rom. 2:9.
Luther: “These are the ones God has in mind, when He says “them that hate me”, namely, those who remain defiant and proud.”
