One of the greatest deception today is many does not know what is God’s love is.
What is God’s love?
Rom 5:8-9 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.
God’s love is all about saving us from His wrath.
John 14:21 “He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.”
God’s love is for those who has His commandments and keeps them, not everyone.
Does God love everyone?
John 3:16-18 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
The real question is, does God condemn the people whom he loved?
John 3:36 “He who believes in the Son has everlasting life; and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abides on him.”
The answer is No! It is not love but God’s wrath abides on him who does not believe.
John 14:23 Jesus answered and said to him, “If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him.
But God dwells on those who loves Him.
Does God love those who hate Him?
John 15:23 “He who hates Me hates My Father also.
Exod 20:5-6 .. For I, the LORD your God, [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth [generations] of those who hate Me, but showing mercy to thousands, to those who love Me and keep My commandments.
Again no! It is up to you to decide if visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children is out of love – but I don’t think so.
God hates and abhors
God is love. Indeed He is.
1John 4:15-16 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
However, it is wrong to say He never hates. He does indeed hates sinners.
Lev 20:23 ‘And you shall not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am casting out before you; for they commit all these things, and therefore I abhor them.
Rom 9:13 As it is written, “Jacob I have loved, but Esau I have hated.“
Prov 22:14 The mouth of an immoral woman [is] a deep pit; He who is abhorred by the LORD will fall there.
Prov 3:32 For the perverse person is an abomination to the LORD, But His secret counsel [is] with the upright.
God’s Vengeance
Heb 10:30-31 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.” It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
God also takes vengeance.
Reflecting God’s love
Eph 5:1-7 Therefore be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as is fitting for saints; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks. For this you know, that no fornicator, unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience. Therefore do not be partakers with them.
Hence, we are to reflect God’s love by not being partakers with sons of disobedience.
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