The real reason why unbelievers hate God's Word!

(Charles Simeon)  LISTEN to audio!  Download Audio

John 3:19-20, "This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light, because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed!"

The real reason why unbelievers hate God's Word, is because they will not part with those sins which His Word condemns! Nor will they practice those holy duties which the Word commands!

If they were willing to renounce their sins, they would find the Word of God to be precious and delightful to them, as an inexhaustible ocean of encouragement!

But unbelievers hate to hear of:
  the wickedness of their hearts,
  the insufficiency of their best works to bring them to God,
  the impossibility of being saved without an entire dependence on the sin-atoning merits of Christ,
  the necessity an unreserved surrender to His will as seen in Scripture.

Their pride and self-sufficiency are insurmountable obstacles to the proper reception of Scriptural instruction. They hate to be told that they are spiritually wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked before a holy God!

They abhor to walk in the path of the righteous. They simply will not forsake the path of sin, which infallibly leads to destruction!

It is in vain that the Scripture shows them the only genuine way to Heaven. They will never forsake that broad road of sin which inevitably leads to damnation!

Between God and the unbeliever who perishes in his sins, there is a great gulf fixed—a gulf that never can be passed. Once entered into the eternal world, the unbeliever has his state fixed forever! The man who dies unbelieving and impenitent, will bewail his folly in irremediable and everlasting misery!

"For they are a rebellious people, unwilling to hear the instruction of the Lord. They say to the seers, "Do not see!" And to the prophets, "Do not prophesy to us what is right. Speak to us smooth things. Prophesy illusions. Let us hear no more about the Holy One of Israel!" Isaiah 30:9-11 (condensed)

"They perish because they refused to love the truth and so be saved. For this reason God sends them a powerful delusion so that they will believe the lie, and so that all will be condemned who have not believed the truth but have delighted in wickedness!" 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12