by John McGlone, Sept 22, 2024
The picture above is a very limited view of what will be at the Great White Throne Judgment of Jesus. He will say, “Depart from me, ye cursed into everlasting judgment…”. Matt 25:41
Notice which way He is pointing to His left? If you don’t fear God you won’t even begin to start the process to understanding and knowing the Holy God of the Bible.
In today’s modern church there are many that teach and believe wrongly about God’s emotions towards mankind in general, to the individual, and to the elect of God called saints. I hope to show the importance of understanding biblically the spectrum of some of the emotions of God and mankind. How do these emotions define our relationship both with Him and toward each other? The four main areas which also have subareas within each.
1. GOD’S LOVE
2. GOD’S HATRED
3. MANKIND’S HATRED
4. MANKIND’S LOVE
#ONE – GOD’S LOVE
GOD IS LOVE
1 John 4:8 “He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.”
GOD SHOWED HIS LOVE
ROM 5:8-10
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. 0 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
GOD LOVES ALL
Ezekiel 18:23 NKJV 23 Do I have any pleasure at all that the wicked should die?” says the Lord God, “and not that he should turn from his ways and live?
2 PET 3:9, TITUS 2:11, EZ 18:23
GOD’S LOVE IS IMPARTIAL
Can you think of any examples of this?
GOD LOVES OBEDIENCE.
DISCUSSION POINT: How do we know this? Can anyone name some verses?
1. GOD’S LOVE IS HOLY
JOHN 3:16-19, 14:15, 15:14, JAM 1:12, REV 3:19, HEB 12:6-8
#2 – GOD’S HATRED MUCH HARDER TO SHOW PEOPLE:
1. THEY HAVE BEEN TAUGHT FALSELY
2. THEY HAVE NOT STUDIED TO BE APPROVED BY GOD AND MAN.
3. IT DOESN’T ‘FEEL’ GOOD, THEREFORE IT MUST NOT BE TRUE.
4. THEY RESPECT HOW OTHERS SEE THEM MORE THAN HOW GOD SEES THEM. DOESN’T GOD SEE EVERYTHING? AREN’T THESE TEMPATIONS OF UNBELIEF AND HYPOCRISY?
5. THEY HAVE NO FEAR OF GOD.
6. THEY FEAR MAN WHICH IS A SNARE OF THE DEVIL.
I TESTIFY AFTER I WAS CONVERTED AUG 3RD, 1996, THAT GOD SHOWED ME WHY HE WOULD THROW PEOPLE INTO ETERNAL DAMNATION IN FIRE.
After my dramatic conversion, I understood that I deserved damnation because He was perfectly Holy, and I was a wretch of a sinner. He was perfect love, mercy, and justice, yet I didn’t understand infinite torment and judgment in hell fire. So I asked Him and He answered. Because I am Holy, Just, Eternal, and a Consuming Fire that the carnal unconverted human flesh in my presence will not abide with Me. I will cast them away into that place of separation for ever and ever…
WHERE DO CHRISTIANS GET THE IDEA THAT GOD HATES THE SIN BUT LOVES THE SINNER?
THIS WORLDLY IDEA IS SIMPLY PLEASES THE CARNAL MAN’S IDEA OF HIMSELF. THIS IS THE UNBIBLICAL WAY OF SOUL WINNING FAMILY&FRIENDS TO COME TO BUILDINGS AND BECOME MEMBERS GIVING A FALSE ASSURANCE OF HEAVEN.
DISCUSSION POINT: IS THROWING PEOPLE INTO HELL AN EXAMPLE OF HATRED& JUSTICE, OR LOVE&MERCY, OR BOTH?
WHY IS HELL FIRE ETERNAL?
SHORT ANSWER IS BECAUSE OUR GOD IS ETERNAL AND A CONSUMING FIRE. ALSO, IT IS WHAT HE HAS THREATENED THOSE OF US WHO WILL NOT REPENT.
Mark 9:42-50
And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea. 43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 45 And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched: 46 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 47 And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire: 48 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched. 49 For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt. 50 Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
DISCUSSION POINT: ISN’T THE UNBELIEF ABOUT THESE THREATS FROM GOD THE ULTIMATE CONFIRMATION A PERSON REALLY DOESN’T TRUST AND OBEY JESUS AND THE GOSPEL?
ISN’T IT A TYPE OF HATRED TOWARDS OUR FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS, IF WE BELIEVE THESE THREATS FROM JESUS AND DON’T WARN EVERYONE AROUND US?
2. GOD’S HATRED IS HOLY BECAUSE HE IS HOLY
Psalms 45:7 “Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.”
Psalms 5:5 The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
PROVERBS 6:16-19, 8:13, 15:8-9, 17:15,
PSALMS 5:4-5, 7:11-12, 11:5,
REV 2:6,
DISCUSSION POINTS:
1. IS IT IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT GOD DOESN’T JUST HATE OR DETEST THE SIN BUT THE SINNER WHO IS RESPONSIBLE?
2. IF GOD JUST HATED THE SIN, WHY WOULDN’T HE STRIP THE SIN OFF OF ALL SINNERS ON JUDGMENT DAY AND THEN EVERYONE WOULD BE FORCED TO COME TO HEAVEN?
3. WHO TYPICALLY PROMOTES FALSE IDEAS ABOUT GOD FIRST IN THE STREETS?
4. WHAT ARE SOME GOOD RESPONSES TO THOSE FALSE STATEMENTS?
5. WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT BAD IDEAS ABOUT GOD?
YOUTH PLEASE FILL IN THE BLANKS: Matthew 12:37
“For by thy words thou shalt be _________, and by thy words thou shalt be __________.”
ABOMINATIONS ARE THE WICKED BEHAVIORS THAT GOD IS DISGUSTED WITH AS WELL AS THE SINNERS.
tôwʻêbah, to-ay-baw’; or תֹּעֵבַה tôʻêbah; feminine active participle of H8581; properly, something disgusting (morally), i.e. (as noun) an abhorrence; especially idolatry or (concretely) an idol:—abominable (custom, thing), abomination.
SACRIFICING CHILDREN
Jeremiah 32:35 “And they built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into my mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.”
In Jeremiah, 1 & 2 Kings it is recorded that the priests were bringing this idolatry as a sacrifice to God.
IF this is an abomination does God hate this as we should?
In modern America for the last 50 years we have murdered 70 million babies in the womb. There are probably 10’s of millions more if we count the contraceptive devices, hormone blocking pills, IUD, morning after pill, sterilization pills of the devil that kills the youngest of human creatures in the womb. This is simply biochemical warfare against the most innocent and vulnerable in our nation. Their blood cries out to God from the ground against our people and the whole world that Jesus created. Who will rise up? Undoubtedly, He hates the multitudes of people that are knowingly part of that murderous Molech worship and witchcraft.
DOES GOD’S ANGER = HOLY HATRED?
Ps 7:11-13
3. MANKIND’S HATRED IS CARNAL
This applies to both God’s elect and the rest of mankind.
John 15:19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.
AS A CHRISTIAN, DO YOU HATE YOUR BROTHER FOR WHOM GOD DIED? IF SO, THEN THERE IS NO LOVE IN YOU. EVERY HUMAN CREATURE IS OUR BROTHER IN THE ADAMIC SENSE. WE ALL COME FROM ONE BLOOD. GOD MADE EACH OF US, NO MATTER HOW VILE AND WICKED WE’VE MADE OURSELVES IN THE PAST.
SHARE TESTIMONY OF PREACHERS WHO ACTUALLY BELIEVE AND PREACH THEIR HATRED OF SINNERS BECAUSE GOD DOES.
DISCUSSION POINT: SHOULD WE HATE THE SIN? HOW ABOUT THE SINNER? SO DOES THE TITLE OF THIS TEACHING APPLY TO CONVERTED CHRISTIANS? DOES IT APPLY TO GOD?
THE WORLDLY PEOPLE INEXPLICABLY HATE CHRISTIANS. THIS IS BECAUSE JESUS IS HATED FIRSTLY AS HE TESTIFIED/S IN HIS WORD AND BY THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT THEIR WORKS ARE WICKED AND THAT THEY ARE CONDEMNED.
PROV 27:20, JOHN 7:7, 17:14, MARK 13:13
4. MANKIND’S NATURAL LOVE ARE REAL EMOTIONS YET THEY ARE WICKED.
Luke 6:32 “For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them.”
JAM 4:1-5, MATT 5:46-47, 1 PET 2:19-20, 1 JOHN 3:17,
MANKIND’S LOVE BY THE HOLY SPIRIT IS TRUE YET FALLS SHORT IN THIS LIFE/BODY/EXPERIENCES.
1 PET 1:13-25 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ; 14 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance: 15 But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;16 Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.17 And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;19 But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: 20 Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,21 Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever. 24 For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away: 25 But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. And this is the word which by the gospel is preached unto you.
NOTE: THE KJV USES CONVERSATION IN THESE PASSAGES. YET IT ALSO CAN BE TRANSLATED AS CONDUCT AS WE SEE IN THE NKJV IN VS’ 15 & 18.
15 but as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your CONDUCT, 16 because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”…. 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless CONDUCT received by tradition from your fathers,
MATT 5:43-46, LUKE 6:26-30, JOHN 15:19,
1 JOHN 2:3-6 & 15, 4:18, 1PET 1:13-25
CONCLUSIONS: GOD IS HOLY, HATES UNHOLINESS AND THOSE THAT WILLFULLY LIVE/PROMOTE EVIL IN THEIR LIFE AND OTHERS. THEREFORE, HE BOTH HATES THE SIN AND THE SINNER. JESUS DEMONSTRATES THAT ETERNALLY ON JUDGMENT DAY.
HUMANS ARE UNHOLY BECAUSE OF THEIR RECORD OF PAST SIN, CURRENT SIN, POSSIBLE FUTURE SIN.
THEY CAN BE MADE HOLY BY FAITH IN JESUS. THE BLOOD HE SHED ON THE CROSS CLEANSES US. WE THEREFORE SHOULD REPENT OF SIN AND ACT ACCORDING TO JESUS’ EXAMPLE IN THE NT.
WE CAN HATE THE SIN AND LOVE THE SINNER IN THE SENSE OF SHARING THE TRUTHS OF GOD’S WORD WITH THEM AND TESTIFY JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY, TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.