s2-131 JESUS HATES INIQUITY

Iniquity is probably the least understood offense in church. It is more challenging to detect, for it is a COLLECTIVE violation involving unauthorized worship—a form of religious practice that God has not approved. Therefore, all aspects of our service to God need continual scrutiny to ensure that we have not fallen into "a form of godliness but deny the power thereof" (2 Timothy 3:5). From such practices, we are warned to turn away! If we ignorantly drift into a mechanical form of worship that offends God, we too could be rejected in the same manner as Judah. God declared, "Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward." (Isaiah 1:2-4)