God’s love

When we invested much time and believed into it the present is an expression of our love. The time comes to provide the present, and your eyes are complete with shimmer as you present something you hope will be pleasing to the one you like.

The present is set aside; a quiet awkwardness settles in as one celebration is dissatisfied and the other is gravely harmed since the gift is being turned down. Exactly what must God feel like when we decline his present of grace?

Exactly what does it do to the heart of God when we stomp on his grace, when we take his present, a present of infinite worth, a gift that is valuable because it exposes the heart of a God who enjoys us a lot, and cast it aside?

There are some methods we tread on the grace of God. God’s heart should undoubtedly harm when he extends his flexible grace, and we select to return to sin as soon as forgiven. It is highly presumed that she continued in her faith, however, would it not have been uncomfortable for Jesus had she squashed on his grace and returned to her previous way of life?

We squash the heart of God when we select to sin just because we are under grace and no longer under the law. When we attempt to control the grace of God to please our fleshly desires his grace is inefficient. If we decline the presence of grace, a caring and respectful God will never require grace upon us.

We frequently squash on the grace of God when we anticipate less than he has to use. Jesus asked. The guy desired to be put in the swimming pool however exactly what he got was a total recovery when Jesus stated, “Get up! A group of Pharisees brought to Jesus a female captured in infidelity. Jesus chose up a stick and scratched something in the dust.

Rather, she got grace and forgiveness and a presentation of genuine love. Jesus liked his disciples and all of his fans; he enjoyed his opponents. Jesus appears to have had a unique love for a group of brother or sisters; Lazarus, Mary, and Martha.

Jesus got word that Lazarus was ill.An incredible thing took place when Jesus got here in Bethany. Jesus then wept! Does Jesus weep when you weep? Undoubtedly Mary and Martha were anticipating less than Jesus was about to do. Jesus hoped to the Dad, and then he yelled, “Lazarus, come out!

Mom was pleading us to come down however daddy was prompting us to dominate our worries and climb ever greater and greater. I constantly climbed up until I saw my dad clap his hands and with a huge smile on his face movement that I ‘d climbed up far enough.God offers us a more plentiful grace to that we may experience a more plentiful life. We traipse on his terrific present of grace when we settle for less than he has to provide. The church organisation is in need of an epson printer cartridge replacement.

In “Christian Clichés that Contradict Christ” I questioned the truthfulness of six Christian clichés concerning God’s “unconditional” love. There was one more cliché that I wanted to mention but didn’t have enough space, the very common saying, “God loves the sinner but hates his sin.” This particular cliché is more biblically accurate than the six I previously listed because it attempts to affirm God’s love for sinners while at the same time upholding His holiness. Like the six clichés I recorded last month, this one also falls short of the full truth, and it can thus be misleading to people and damaging to Christ’s cause. Why do I say this? One reason is that Scripture not only teaches that God loves sinners, but also that He hates them. Surprised? Read for yourself:

The boastful shall not stand before Your eyes; You hate all who do iniquity. You destroy those who speak falsehood; the Lord abhors the man of bloodshed and deceit (Ps. 5:5-6, emphasis added). The Lord tests the righteous and the wicked, and the one who loves violence His soul hates (Ps. 11:5, emphasis added). I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have given the beloved of My soul [God’s people Israel] into the hand of her enemies. My heritage has become to Me like a lion in the forest; she has roared against Me; therefore I have come to hate her (Jer. 12:7-8, emphasis added).

All their evil is at Gilgal; indeed, I came to hate them there! Because of the wickedness of their deeds, I will drive them out of My house! I will love them no more; all their princes are rebels (Hos. 9:15, emphasis added). These verses of scripture are all in your Bible as well as mine! Your Bible declares that God hates “all who do iniquity” (Ps. 5:5). Since all unregenerate people “do iniquity,” we can conclude that God hates them all. (Incidentally, this verse among many others leads us to believe that God’s “gift of righteousness” is more than just a legal standing of righteousness that results in no practical righteousness. Otherwise, God would hate His children.)

But how can it be true that God both loves and hates sinners? The only way to reconcile this apparent contradiction is to recognize once again that not all love is the same. As I stated in last month’s e-teaching, some love is conditional, what I referred to as “approving love,” and some love is unconditional, what I referred to as “merciful love.” From the standpoint of His merciful love, God loves sinners (see Eph. 2:4-6; Tit. 3:5; 1 Pet. 1:3, and look for the word mercy). But from the standpoint of his approving love, God utterly hates them–they are in fact abhorrent to Him. Can you imagine how you would feel if you had created a race of people who inwardly knew just how to please you yet who ignored and disobeyed you continually, even using your name as a curse word? Might you not be somewhat upset with them?

Note that all of the above-quoted scriptures do not say that God only hates what people do–they say He hates them.We cannot separate a person from what he does.What a person does reveals his character–who he is. Thus if God disapproves of sin He, of course, must disapprove of sinners. God is so pure that His disapproval is very strong, and the word hate describes it well.To separate the sin from the sinner by saying “God loves the sinner but hates the sin” is potentially misleading.

Most preachers, it seems, emphasize God’s love for sinners, and their audiences consequently are often misled into thinking that God approves of them in spite of their sin, which couldn’t be further from the truth. The truth is that God utterly hates them, but He is mercifully giving them time to repent and gain His approval before they die, and only in that sense does He love them. If unrepentant people who are still alive knew how much God hates them, they would be astounded at His merciful love towards them. God’s mercy is magnified even more by His holy hatred, and vice versa. Preachers who want to emphasize God’s true love for sinners must first emphasize His holy hatred for them.

If the history of revival teaches us anything, it shows us that recovery occurs when people are awakened, not to some false concept of a grandfather God who “loves everyone unconditionally,” but when they realize their present precarious condition before a holy and wrathful God. Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards, whom God used as an instrument of revival during America’s Great Awakening in the 1740s, certainly didn’t mislead his congregation about their slippery state before God. In his classic sermon, Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Edwards simply affirmed biblical truth about God’s attitude toward the unrepentant:.

The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to have you in his sight; you are ten thousand times more abominable in his eyes than the most hateful venomous serpent is in ours. Never once did He tell an unsaved audience that God loved them, and there is only one record of His telling one unregenerate individual one time about God’s love for the world (and that is found in John 3:16). Rather, Jesus regularly warned sinners of God’s wrath and called them to repentance (see, for example, Matt.

There is not a single case in the book of Acts where anyone preaching the gospel told an unsaved audience that God loved them. Had they only told their audiences that God loved them, and all they need to do was “accept Christ as Savior” (as do so many modern ministers), they may have misled them into thinking that God approved of them, that they were in no danger, was not storing up wrath for themselves, and had no need to repent. We may be filling churches with evangelistic messages about God’s love, but are we filling heaven?

God’s love is greatly distorted when modern preachers, under the influence of pop psychology (whether they realize it or not) tell their unsaved audiences how Christ’s death proves their value before God. Paul, however, stood amazed, not at how the cross proved the alleged value of a race of rebels, but how it displayed God’s amazing merciful love because Jesus wasn’t dying for good people, but for ungodly sinners( see Rom. Apart from God’s holy hatred of sinners, His love for them is essentially meaningless.