Synonyms: thirstiness, dryness, parched, craving, strong desire, longing, yearning, avidity, hunger, voracity, keenness, eagerness, lust, appetite, passion, love, crave, want, covet, desire, hunger for/after, lust for/after, hanker for/after, have one's heart set on
Antonyms: aversion, distaste, apathy, dislike, hatred, antipathy, disgust, disregard, abhorrence, acrimony, wet, animosity, animus, antagonism, bad feeling, bitterness, be averse to, detestation
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Understanding Series
Elizabeth Achtemeier
... letting the evil return upon the sinners’ own heads (Cf. 1 Kgs. 8:31–32; Jer. 50:29; Obad. 15; Ezek. 35:11; Hab. 2:8; Matt. 18:23–35; Rev. 18:4–17). And this is exactly what we see in the world around us: Hatred brings hatred in return; war breeds vengeance; suffering causes lust for vengeance; oppression cries out for retaliation. And God displays a certain permissiveness in such a system: God lets it operate, as an instrument of divine judgment. That brings us to the second thing that may be said ...
Children's Sermon
King Duncan
... . Wouldn't it be great, though, if we could sneeze out all of our bad habits? All our bad thoughts? All of our anger? All our hatred and all of our bitterness? Wouldn't it be great if somebody was acting in a way they shouldn't, all we would have to do ... rid of our bad thoughts and bad feelings. The Bible tells us that what we need to do when we're having feelings of anger, hatred, and bitterness, is to pray about them and to let Jesus take them from us. That is the best solution. Pepper and a handkerchief and ...
178. Love One Another
1 John 3:11-24
Understanding Series
Thomas F. Johnson
... Christian community and who are still trying to lead them astray with lies and deception (1:6, 8, 10; 2:4, 21–22, 26; 3:7) is the devil, whose children the secessionist false teachers are (3:10). Jesus taught that beneath the action of murder lies the feeling of hatred (Matt. 5:21–22; cf. Deut. 19:11). Just as love for one’s brothers and sisters leads to life (3:14), so hate leads to death, and not only the death of others through murder, but one’s own death as well, since you know that no murderer ...
Teach the Text
Grant R. Osborne
... ), and the Spirit will be speaking through them. Spirit-inspired prophetic power trumps mere human rhetoric every time, and this occurred often in the early church (Acts 2:4; 4:8, 31; 6:10; 7:55; 11:24; 13:9). 13:12  Brother will betray brother. Persecution and hatred will be experienced not simply with outsiders but within one’s own family as well, an emphasis found often in Jewish apocalyptic (1 En.100:1–2; Jub.23:19; 4 Ezra6:24).2There are no examples of this in the pages of the New Testament, but ...
Teach the Text
J. Scott Duvall
... had given birth to the male child. As a result of Satan’s failure to kill Jesus or prevent his resurrection and exaltation, he turns his anger toward God’s messianic community. Satan is the ultimate source of persecution of God’s people, as his hatred of Christ leads to his hatred of Christ’s followers (e.g., Matt. 25:45; John 15:18–21; Acts 9:4–5; 1 Pet. 4:14; Rev. 1:9). The pursuit of the woman by the dragon echoes Pharaoh’s pursuit of the Israelites following their exodus from Egypt (Exod ...
Teach the Text
Joe M. Sprinkle
... . 5:5; Col. 3:5; 1 Pet. 4:3). Like Israel, we need to be warned repeatedly against falling into these sins. 2. God’s wrath must be appeased. This passage is one of very many in the Bible that teach us about the holiness of God and his holy hatred of sin. First, this passage reminds us that sin deserves punishment. Immorality and idolatry make God angry and lead him to punish the offenders (cf. Num. 25:4–5, 8–9). We may presume on the mercy of God and sin freely that God’s grace may abound (Rom. 6 ...
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... , the people foolishly abandon their heritage. They have become fools, who do not “know” and “do not understand” (1:3). Their folly has led to open rebellion against their suzerain (covenant) Lord. They have forsaken their loyalty to Yahweh and replaced it with hatred and apostasy. They are not children of God but “a brood of evildoers” (1:4). They have rejected “the Holy One of Israel,” the God who not only sovereignly rules over his people but also has promised to dwell in their midst so ...
183. Assyria
Zephaniah 2:13-15
One Volume
Gary M. Burge
... :10; 44:6; 45:5, 18, 21–22; 46:9). The mood of the oracle changes rapidly. Sarcasm changes into lament (2:15b). The end of Assyria will be celebrated by all who pass the ruins of the city. The scoffing and the shaking of the fist are expressions of hatred mixed with joy. The hatred for Nineveh will be turned to joy because she will have received her just rewards.
184. Son of a Daddy
John 18:1-19:42
Sermon
Robert Leslie Holmes
... out his Roman justice. Inside that palace is one unhappy man. Pilate is none too pleased about being awakened in the middle of the night to deal with what he considers essentially a Jewish problem. Yes, the Jews! Pilate's hatred for the Jews is legendary and is matched only by their hatred for him. Gruffly, Pilate steps out and asks the Jews a question, "What accusation do you bring against this man?" (v. 29). In their best ecclesiastical voices, they answer, "If this man were not a criminal, we would not ...
Sermon
James L. Killen
... to drive out the Roman army of occupation. But then God sent the little child who was the center of our story to be the messiah. He grew up to be one who would show us another way. He came teaching us to overcome evil with good and to defeat hatred and inhumanity with love, a love that will evoke humanity. Listen to some of the things Jesus said: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you. If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Dr. Barnard, but we’re even more thankful that we worship a God who is the only surgeon who can put an entirely new heart in an individual. That is the only heart transplant that really matters. It is when God replaces a heart filled with malice, anger, hatred, envy, guilt and a host of other negative, destructive emotions with a heart filled with love, joy, peace and wholeness. I don’t want you to hold up your hand, but I wonder if there is anyone here today who needs that kind of heart transplant? Is ...
Understanding Series
Robert W. Wall
... ’s self-centered love and vain ambitions. Paul reminds his Corinthian readers that idolatry prevents the nurture of believers because it impedes sensitivity to their spiritual condition. Thus, to cause the immature to stumble in their Christian discipleship constitutes an act of hatred toward them and dishonors the rule of God (1 Cor. 8:9–13; 4:14–21; cf. 1 John 3:10–11). 2:7 The concluding exhortation to him who overcomes (the preceding peril) is sandwiched between its condition and its consequence ...
Understanding Series
Craig C. Broyles
... are now in a position to analyze the psalm’s structural development. Its opening petition that God not remain silent is supported by a lament over wicked and deceitful men who “repay me evil for good” and who attack and accuse the speaker with words of hatred (vv. 1–5). These words are spelled out in the lengthy quotation of their curses (vv. 6–15, 19) and false accusations (vv. 16–18). Thus, in contrast to their curses (v. 20), the speaker is to petition Yahweh to deliver and save him (vv. 21 ...
189. The Ten Commandments
Deuteronomy 5:1-33
Understanding Series
Christopher J. H. Wright
... of Yahweh’s righteousness must guard the righteousness of its own legal system, and every citizen was accountable for that. Elsewhere OT law recognized the temptations to false witness that come from fraud and greed (Lev. 19:11–13), slander and hatred (Lev. 19:16–18), crowd pressure or conspiracy (Exod. 23:1f.), misplaced favoritism (Exod. 23:3, Lev. 19:15), and even family loyalties (Deut. 13:6–11). It therefore established a remarkably retributive law on perjury: anyone discovered to have given ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Up to seven times?” Some of us would like an answer to the same question. Forgiveness is a big problem in our lives. There have been persons who have wronged us and it is so, so difficult to let go of our feelings of anger, resentment and even hatred. How many times shall we forgive? Jesus’ answer was, of course, “I tell you, not seven times, but seventy-seven times.” That is a demanding stance. Some of us may feel it is asking too much of mere mortals. And yet Jesus, believe it or not, was looking ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... Burr shot and mortally wounded Hamilton, who died the next day. Burr survived the duel but the harsh criticism and animosity directed toward him following the duel brought an end to his political career. Aaron Burr is an instance of a gifted and able man who permitted hatred and anger to get the best of him. Later he confessed that it would have been wiser for him had he taken the sensible view that the world was big enough for both Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. What a tragic waste of human life. But ...
Sermon
Ron Lavin
... Mark 6:4), the brewing conflict boiled over. It moved from serious confrontation to explosive violence. Resentment and hatred filled the air like a blinding fog. According to the same story in Luke's gospel (Luke 4:16-30), the additional details missing from ... Mark's account show resentment, hatred, and violence. "After preaching on the prophet Isaiah, Jesus said that the text was fulfilled in him, offending many of the people ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... breaking loose and cultural stars are falling hopelessly to the earth? You know the headlines as well as I do. After thousands of Iraqi and American lives were destroyed, Iraq is again doing a death dance inside a tinder box of suspicion and hatred. Generations continue to disappear in the violent and arid deserts of Africa. Here in the metropolitan New York area, despite the breathtaking rise of wealth, there has also been a 6% increase in those needing soup kitchens and food pantries. Millions of people ...
Sermon
Susan R. Andrews
... in a land of their own, with freedom and prosperity and a future for their families. And yet the death toll just continues to grow. The vast majority of them are innocent civilians and a horrifying number of them children. The conflict is so bitter and the hatred is so deep that any chance of resolution seems impossible. And it is impossible as long as each side fixates on the speck in the other side’s eyes instead of taking the enormous logs out of their own. What the Middle East needs and what our ...
Sermon
Robert C. Cochran
... 1776, we remained largely English for some time after. If we had truly become something new in the eighteenth century — Americans — we wouldn’t have viewed native Americans as the enemy. But we continued to think of ourselves as Europeans and held on to our hatred and fear of everything non-European for a long time. Most of us still identify ourselves more readily with European culture than with the culture of the people who occupied these lands before us. We weren’t free of the English in the 1770s ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... of the cross with his shoe. Then he rubbed the cross out and walked away. The enemy guard was a follower of Jesus. That’s why he had risked his life to help John McCain. McCain wrote, “For just that moment I forgot all my hatred for my enemies, and all the hatred most of them felt for me. I forgot about . . . the interrogators who persecuted my friends and me. I forgot about the war, and the terrible things that war does to you. I was just one Christian venerating the cross with a fellow Christian on ...
Sermon
King Duncan
... , he was willing to die for something that was wrong. Now he is trying to help pull people out of this hate-filled movement. Otherwise, he said he didn’t know how he’d be able to live with himself. (4) Christian Picciolini gave up a life of hatred in exchange for a life of peace and reconciliation. And his commitment is tested on a daily basis by the death threats he receives. That tells us that when you commit your life to following Jesus, your commitment will be tested just as Jesus was tested in the ...
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... God can turn it around and make it your greatest instrument for healing and for blessing. Moses was a murderer, he recycled his rage and hatred and became the greatest leader in Israel's history. Jacob was a thief and a rogue. He recycled his cunning and became the father ... his miserliness and became a disciple of Jesus. Saul of Tarsus, a persecutor, a hater of Christians, recycled his hatred and became the greatest of the missionary theologians. Esther, a harem girl, recycled her sex appeal and saved the ...
199. All the Pretty Horses
Luke 12:13-21, Luke 12:1-12, 1 Kings 3:16-28
Sermon
Lori Wagner
... , or their home, or their success, or even their health at that point. Only their relationships. Most of us are not farmers, storing up grain. But in our lives, we store up all kinds of things! We can store up resentments. We can store up anger. We can store up hatred. We can store up hurts, whether real or imagined. We can store up emotional pain. We can store up our ghosts from the past. We can store up guilt. We can store up envy. We can store up jealousy. And we can store up shame. All of these separate ...
Hatred which is completely vanquished by love passes into love: and love is thereupon greater than if hatred had not preceded it.
Baruch Spinoza
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