Why do seemingly kind unsaved people show 'I hate God' when confronted with God's demands?
Outward kindness can hide the old Adam nature. Unsaved people are enemies of God, not subject to His law and unable to please Him. When confronted with God’s demands, that enmity is provoked and their true hostility surfaces, as when the benevolent young lady snapped, “I hate God.”
Les explains that people can keep old Adam under control until he is prodded, or they can put on a good veneer, but when they are really confronted with the demands of a loving God, their true colors show. He illustrates this with a young lady at Yale during a revival. She was benevolent, helped anyone, and was everybody’s friend, but she showed no interest in salvation. When some girls invited her and said God loves her and wants to save her, her temper flared, she stamped her foot, and said, “I hate God.” Les says this is the perfect example of what we are often up against. The lost person, whether he realizes it or admits it, is an enemy of God, an enmity, not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. Those in the flesh, under old Adam, cannot please God, while believers are not in the flesh.