When Charles Spurgeon was preaching on Israel’s sin in the wilderness after their deliverance from the slavery of Egypt, he stated this:

“O beloved, do not bear hard upon these Israelites, bear hard upon yourselves, and hate the sin which dares intrude within the sacred encloses of your joy in the cross, and dares to tempt you…”

The Apostle Paul tells us that we are to consider Israel as our example of how God sees and interacts with us. 

That being the case we are, then challenged as believers to hate all sin, but the beginning place for us must be with our own sin, and our own propensity to sin.  There is no other way to be a lover of God’s righteousness; then to hate all sin, beginning with our own.  

I often hear believers say: “I can’t judge the sin of others because their sin is no worse than my own”.  This is in fact a cop out.  You cannot love God’s righteousness and continue to tolerate sin itself, no matter who commits the sin.  You can give out the gospel, which is God’s promise to forgive all sin.  But that promise carries with it the condition that we confess our trust in Him to keep His word to make us a new creature as regards our future righteousness.  In that we are giving over to Him ourselves, and allowing Him to place us within His new Covenant promises. 

His promise to all is to give each within that transaction a new heart.  We refer to that process as being born again.  This, although we may not fully understand it at the time, is a covenant of relationship made between us with God.  He had told Nicodemus that unless a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God. (John’s gospel ch 3: verse 5. 

Man actually has three choices concerning his sin in this life.  We can knowingly or unknowingly follow Satan in our worship, as many have chosen to do in this world.  Satan is the author of all religion, which is not founded on God’s Son (His Word) to us.  Secondly, we can or could trust only in ourselves, as the Atheists have done.  The outcome of this choice is no different than the first choice. 

Or thirdly, we can Trust our lives to the God of Creation and His good news remedy for our fallen state.  We can directly partition God. Accepting His offer of His New Covenant made between us and His Son.  Jesus had stated at the last Supper this:

Matthew 26:28  for this is My blood of the [new and better] covenant, which [ratifies the agreement and] is being poured out for many [as a substitutionary atonement] for the forgiveness of sins. (AMP)

Believers, are those, who have accepted this blood as their covering for their sin.  We remember His sacrifice for us each time we take communion.  It is not the taking of the communion that saves us, but the acceptance of the sacrifice itself, which was the act of Jesus actual payment for all of our sins.  Our acceptance is only confirmed by our obedience to Our Savior, and by our contrition when we fail Him.  God hates all sin.   Should you question that, just think of what Jesus went through to make payment for the sins that He has forgiven for us.  But even as revealing as that may be; just think about the grief that all unforgiven sin will cause Him.  For any sin that is committed, but, which is not placed under Christ’s blood, must still require payment.  All who refuse Jesus payment will suffer equally as much for their own sin.  Among these will be people that we ourselves love.  There will be people with whom we have shared the gospel, because we love them.  We will see their suffering even as Jesus suffering was known and felt by Father 2000 years ago.  And so, we will weep for them even as our Father must have wept then. 

If you think that your love for your enemy is proven by allowing him to sin without knowledge of all this; then you have not ears to hear or eyes to see.  

If you think that you are loving your enemy by allowing him to come inside your borders with his false religion to force his religion upon your neighbors, rather than requiring his assimilation into our society in order to stay; then you fail in your understanding of what love is.