This abominable thing that I hate!
(J.C. Philpot, 1858)
As no heart can sufficiently conceive, so no tongue can adequately express--the state of wretchedness and ruin into which sin has cast guilty, miserable man. In separating him from God, sin has severed him from the only source and fountain of all happiness and all holiness. Sin has ruined him, body and soul:
it has filled the body with sickness and disease
it has defaced and destroyed the image of God in which man was created.
Sin has:
shattered all of man's mental faculties;
broken his judgment,
polluted his imagination,
and alienated his affections.
Sin has made man love evil and hate God!
"Oh, do not do this abominable thing that I hate!" Jeremiah 44:4