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After speaking of the rich grace of God that prepared the "great supper," the Lord Jesus turned and said to the multitudes, "if any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:26). This is not the old nature hating, but the divine nature in the believer hating in ourselves, or in those nearest and dearest to us, anything that would hinder us from following the Lord or carrying out His will. The divine nature that loves is the nature that hates, even as it is written concerning our Master, "Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity" (Heb. 1:9).