There
is no greater truth in all the world — God Loves People! We read from the Word
of God in John 3:16 the following precious words:
“For God so loved the world, that
He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life.”
What a wonderful truth!!! The verse
doesn't say that the great heart of God only loves Christians or religious
people. The verse doesn't say that God only loves righteous people or
churchgoers. The verse doesn't say that God only loves Bible-thumpers. The Word
of God is clear that God loves “the world” (and that includes everyone). No
matter who you are, God truly loves you.
“And he is the propitiation for our
sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.” —1st
John 2:2
Jesus died on the cross for all
humanity, because God loves the whole world. This means that God loves the
murderer. This means that God loves the adulterer. This means that God loves
the homosexual. This means that God loves the crooked politician and the
corrupt banker. This means that God loves the vilest sinner and the worst
criminal. This means God even loves you. This means that God loves the Pope.
Yes, God loves people! God loves all people, of all faiths, and all
backgrounds.
“God loves you. It doesn't make any
difference who you are. You can't keep Him from loving you. Now you can get
into a place where you won't experience the love of God. When you put up an
umbrella of sin, the sunshine of God's love sure won't fall on you. But it's
still there for you.”
I've learned over the years to view
people as objects of God's love. If I start to think critical about someone,
I'll catch myself and say to myself, “That's a man that God loves” or “That's a
woman that Jesus died for.” Oh, listen my friend, we're all created by the same
divine Creator, and God knows what He is doing, even though we oftentimes
cannot understand why things are the way they are, and at times one's life may
seem so messed up.
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for
his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath
quickened us together with Christ [i.e., made us alive in Christ], (by grace ye
are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in
heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the
exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the
gift of God.” —Ephesians 2:4-8
What a precious passage of
Scripture. I cannot stress the truth enough that God loves people—all shapes
and sizes, all different temperaments and personalities, all varying levels of
intelligence and character, every race, every tongue, every nation, every
family, et cetera. God loves people!
God's Love, Holiness and Demand for
Justice
Christ
Paid Our Debt of Sin (beware of any false prophet who requires reform to be
saved).
God loves the vilest sinner!
Howbeit, God does not approve of anyone's sins nor a wicked lifestyle. We find
over one hundred references in the Bible to God's love; however, we find a
startling seven-hundred references in the Bible to God's holiness. God's
holiness demands justice. The Bible has much more to say about Hell than
Heaven. God is the divine Lawgiver (James 4:12). Mankind has broken God's Laws.
The Word of God indicts mankind (Romans 3:19; Galatians 3:24-25). We are all
guilty sinners! Sin must be paid for. God the Father is the Prosecutor (Hebrews
4:13; James 4:12). Jesus is our defense Attorney (1st John 2:1). The scales of
justice MUST be balanced. God offers 100% justification through the redemptive
work of Jesus Christ on the cross. Literally, if you'll receive Christ's death,
burial and resurrection (the Gospel) as PAYMENT for YOUR SINS, then you'll be
saved immediately and eternally.
Our righteousness is solely based
upon what Christ has done for us to pay for our sins. Jesus shed His precious
blood upon the cross and took that blood to Heaven, applying His blood to the
mercy seat in Heaven as Hebrews 9:12, 22-24 teaches. Beware of any preacher who
makes light of the blood applied in Heaven. The Bible teaches that everyone's
sins are already paid for. Thus, eternal life is a free gift to anyone who
wants it. Don't pay for your ride twice like I did.
Please understand that salvation is
NOT a plea-agreement. A “plea-agreement” is still a conviction. Most people who
end up in criminal court accept a plea-agreements to avoid the risk of being
found guilty by a jury trial. It's like the “Price Is Right” Game Show with Bob
Barker. Game contestants who make it to the end of the show are shown what's
behind door #1. They can either accept what they see, or risk losing it all for
a shot at what's behind door #2. That's how America's corrupt legal system works.
Some innocent people accept plea-agreements (and a lesser prison sentence) for
fear of being convicted by circumstantial evidence, bias, et cetera and
spending a much longer time in prison. The Lord Himself was wrongfully accused
and tried as a political rebel.
Thankfully, salvation doesn't rest
in man's corrupt legal system. Salvation is NOT a plea-agreement. When you rest
in Christ's righteousness instead of your own self-righteousness, then you are
declared “JUSTIFIED” . . . JUST-IF-I'D never sinned. Acts 13:38-39, “Be it
known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached
unto you the forgiveness of sins: And by him all that believe are justified
from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.” The
Lord is every believer's Attorney and He's never lost a case yet.
If a man will receive the Gospel as
full-payment for his sins, then God will abundantly pardon that sinner. Christ
DIED, He was BURIED and He was RESURRECTED from the dead three days later (1st
Corinthians 15:1-4). Eternal life is a gift, freely offered and freely received
from God. A gift is already paid for and cannot be earned or merited.
People in the Old Testament were
saved the SAME WAY that we are today in the New Testament...
Acts 10:43, “To him give all the
prophets witness, that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall
receive remission of sins.”
Now, those who reject Jesus as the
Christ and die in their sins will be cast into the Lake of Fire forever.
Although we may not understand the seeming cruelty of God sentencing a person
to burn in Hell for all eternity as punishment for sins, we must realize that
God is far more holy and fair than we could ever imagine. I personally don't
understand how God could send even the worst sinner to hellfire FOREVER. I
mean, even after ten trillion years in Hell, there will be no end in sight.
That seems too much! It just seems unfair to me.
Albeit, I am not as righteous as
God, so I cannot understand God's justice. I do not lean unto my own
understanding as Proverbs 3:5-6 says not to. Proverbs 3:5-7, “Trust in the LORD
with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy
ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own
eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.” The Bible instructs us to TRUST
UPON THE LORD WITH ALL OUR HEART! I am trusting the Lord. I don't understand a
lot of things, but I trust God's Word completely!!! God doesn't command us to
understand everything; but rather, He simply commands us to trust Him at all
times. Amen!
We've all seen the hypocritical
injustice of mankind. While the crooks at Enron and Arthur Anderson stole
hundreds-of-millions of dollars from their victims and went virtually
unpunished; a mother in Kansas was sentenced to life in prison for getting busted
with $40 worth of cocaine. There is so much injustice in this world. While
murders get slapped on the hand, others are being locked away for decades for
downloading dirty-pictures, stealing golf clubs or video-taping cops. Injustice
is everywhere! The insider criminals behind the 911 attacks have not been
brought to justice. While the IRS goes after a carwash owner in California for
owing 4 cents, the Federal Reserve Banksters have stolen trillions-of-dollars
from taxpayers and absolutely nothing has been done about it. Since 1913 when
the Federal Reserve fraud began, they've not been audited even once. Hebrews
4:13, “Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all
things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.”
I cannot speak for God, I simply do
not know (nor even claim to comprehend) how He will sort out all the injustices
throughout history. But I do know that we shall all give account to God for our
own personal words and actions throughout our earthly life. God is a fair God.
Romans 14:12, “So then every one of
us shall give account of himself to God.”
Romans 12:19, “Dearly beloved,
avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written,
Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.”
Every person must give account to
God on Judgment Day (Ecclesiastes 12:14), even for the Words we spoke...
Matthew 12:36, “But I say unto you,
that every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in
the day of judgment.”
So please understand that even
though God loves people, His holiness demands justice, which requires
accountability for our words and actions in this life. Even Christians will
stand trial before God for their sins in this life, but it will be likened to
Civil Court for the believer verses Criminal Court for the unsaved. Our only
hope for Heaven is in obtaining God's righteousness in Christ Jesus. There's no
way possible for mankind to redeem himself. God rejected Adam's fig-leaf
religion. The Lord killed an innocent animal, shedding its blood, to provide
skins of clothing for Adam and Eve, That pictures the Lamb of God, slain from
the foundation of the world, whose blood washes our sins away!!!
I have no doubt but that God's eyes
will be filled with tears, as divine Judge, when He sentences people to the
fires of Hell forever. God in His great love will not allow anyone to enter
into Heaven apart from faith alone in Jesus Christ. Jesus said in John 10:35
that “the Scripture cannot be broken.” God is bound by His Word to do as He has
said. We have such a hard time understanding this because we are not holy like
God is holy. There is no way that finite men, made from the dirt of the earth,
can comprehend the workings and divine wisdom of an omnipotent (all powerful),
omniscient (all knowing) and omnipresent (all present) God.
God Looked Beyond Our Faults and
Saw Our Need for Redemption
God loves people! The very God Who
created you from the dust of the earth, loves you so much, that He sent His
only begotten Son, Jesus, to die for your sins. Jesus shed His precious blood
for you and me. We are not worthy of such unconditional love. Even though God
knew in His foreknowledge all the horrible sins that mankind would commit, He
looked beyond our faults and saw our need because He loved us . . .
Romans 5:8 “But God commendeth his
love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
God knew who you would become, and
exactly what sins you would commit, before He created you in your mother's
womb. God knew that David would commit adultery and murder before He ever chose
David as king over Israel. Thankfully, Jesus looked beyond our sinfulness and
saw our need for redemption, because He loved us so much. What a wonderful God
and Savior, our Lord Jesus. Jesus paid a debt that He did not owe, because we
owed a debt that we could not pay.
God does not love us because of who
we are, but because of Who He is. Likewise, we ought not love people because of
who they are, but because of who we are. This is unconditional love.
We learn from the Bible that there
are two different types of love mentioned in the New Testament. There is God's
love (Greek: agape, meaning, “to love in a social or moral sense”), which is
unconditional love; and then there is, (Greek: phileo, meaning, “to be a friend
to, have affection”) which is a fondness type of love. We see both types of
love at work in John 21:16 in a conversation between the Apostle Peter and the
Lord Jesus Christ...
John 21:16, “He [Jesus] saith to
him [Peter] again the second time, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest [agapao] thou
me? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love [phileo] thee. He
saith unto him, Feed my sheep.”
God loves [agapao] all mankind,
which is why He sent His only begotten Son to pay everyone's sin debt. However,
God has a special love [phileo] for His own, affectionate toward those who love
and obey Him. It's the same way that we love as Christians. I love [agapao] all
people, whoever you may be; but I have an affectionate love [phileo] for those
dear to me, such as my web visitors.
So, we now understand the answer to
Marilyn Manson's question. Mr. Warner only comprehends one type of love in the
world, an affectionate type of love; but he is oblivious to God's unconditional
love which can love a complete stranger, even someone who is being unkind to
us, mistreating us, or who has hurt us. The unsaved world mocks, scoffs and
despises true love, because they have rejected the gift of eternal life in
Christ Jesus the Lord. Thus, they cannot express love for a stranger when they
are strangers themselves to the kingdom of God. Please read, God's
Unconditional Love and God's Love In You.
You don't go to Heaven because God
loves you, nor because you love Him. You don't go to Heaven because you amend
your sinful ways or clean up your act. Turning over a new leaf is
rehabilitation, which is not salvation. Education is not the answer. Reformation
is not the answer. Legislation is not the answer. My friend, the answer is
REGENERATION. Ye must be born again! We are saved by receiving Christ's payment
for our sins. Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again 3-days later for
our justification. Jesus applied His literal blood to the mercy seat in Heaven
in the presence of the Father (Hebrews 9:12,24). Thank you, Lord!
God's love [agapao] sent Christ to
the cross to pay the sin debt of ALL MANKIND; but God is only a friend [phileo]
to those who are His friends in Christ...
James 4:4, “Ye adulterers and
adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God?
whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
Beware of the Self-righteous Crowd
God loves people, sinners included,
and a good thing, for if God didn't love sinners, then none of us could be
loved, because we are all dirty, rotten sinners in God's eyes. God loves us and
has made a way of escape through the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ. God wants
to abundantly pardon our iniquities and set us free from the curse of the Law .
. .
Isaiah 55:7, “Let the wicked
forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto
the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will
abundantly pardon.”
Notice that the Bible says “way,”
not sin. The Bible doesn't tell us to give up our sins to be saved. It is one's
way of unbelief that must be forsaken. There's a group of
self-righteous people in our churches today, going around lying, telling lost
sinners that they cannot be saved unless they give up their sinful lifestyle
and stop sinning. Nothing could be further from the truth of God's Word. Who
can stop sinning? Who can cease from committing sin? All that God requires is
that a man acknowledge his guilt of sin and deserved penalty in hellfire, and
believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be forgiven. The change that genuine
repentance brings is God's department. Our part is simply to BELIEVE.
Love is Often Mistaken for Hate
It's easy for people to mistake
love for hatred when a preacher preaches against sin. I don't enjoy exposing
the wicked Catholic religion, but I am trying to warn people out of genuine
love and concern for their souls. The Apostle Paul was hated for telling the
truth . . .
Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore
become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
If you believe that something bad
is going to happen to another person, like going to Hell, and you don't even
try to warn them, then you obviously don't care about them. I care.
“Not by works of righteousness
which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of
regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost.” —Titus 3:5
The only Door into Heaven is Jesus
Christ (John 10:9); NOT the Catholic church or any other church. Do not be
deceived, only through Christ ALONE can you be saved. I say this in love, not
hate or unkindness. So many people today are confused about which way to get to
Heaven. The Bible says Jesus is the way, and you can rest assure that the Bible
is correct, which history has evidenced again and again.
Please understand friend that I do
not hate anyone. On the contrary, I love people VERY MUCH; hence, this website.
We may agree to disagree, but we are both loved of God more than we can
possibly imagine.
God Loves People
It is easy to look at the condition
this horrible world is in and wonder if God really loves anyone. He does! God
told us that the world is a wicked place. 1st John 5:19, "And we know that
we are of God, and the whole world lieth in wickedness." Herod killed
thousands of children in an attempt to destroy the baby Jesus. Why did God
allow John the Baptist (the greatest man born amongst women) to get his head
cut off? So even in the Bible, horrible things happened and people suffered. It
is not our place to put God on trial; but rather, to trust in His Word as He
has told us.
I preach against those who only
teach about God's love and fail to mention sin, judgment and hellfire. To
preach only the love of God is a false gospel. There can be no salvation
without God's Law and the knowledge of sin, which makes the world guilty before
God and shows mankind his need for a Savior. However, I also preach against
those who only preach the judgment of God and claim that God hates sinners. The
truth is that God loves every human being ever conceived.
Whether a man trusts Jesus as his
Savior or not has no bearing on God's unconditional love. Yes, God is angry
with the wicked every day and God's wrath rests upon those who reject Christ;
but that does not change the fact that God still loves them and desires for
people to come to repentance and get saved. You are loved, whoever you may be.
Jesus has paid your sin debt, but you must appropriate that gift by receiving
Jesus as your personal Savior, trusting upon His work of redemption to wash
away your sins.
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