Does God Love You
From the Family Radio School of the Bible
DOES GOD LOVE YOU?
Q. What kind of a question is that? Anyone who can read sees signs, tracts,
booklets and bumper stickers saying, “God Loves You.” Isn’t that true?
- It’s true that God offers His love to the whole world, as we read in one of the most quoted verses in the Bible:
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him ahouls not perish, but have ever lasting life.” John 3:16
However, God’s love is qualified, as we read in the Bible: “The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord; but He loveth himn that followeth after righteousness.” Proverb 15:9 “For the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly shall perish.” Psalms 1:6
Q. But I am not wicked. I am a decent moral person. Surely the good I have
done in my life far outweights whatever bad I have done. How can these verses apply to me?
- By God’s standards of righteousness even the most moral person is looked upon by God as a desperate sinner on his way to Hell. The Bible teaches that no one good enough in himself to go to Heaven. On the contraryt we are all sinners and are quilty before God.
“As it is written, There is non righteous, no, not one; There is none that understanded, there is none that seeketh after God.” Romans 3:10,11. “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it?” Jeremiah 17:9
Q. If I am such a wicked person in God’s sight what will God do to me?
- The Bible teaches that at the end of the world all the wickewd will come under eternal punishment in a place called Hell.
“For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundation of the mountain. I will heap mischiefs upon them; I will spend mine arrows upon them. They shall be burnt with hunger and debvoured with burning heat and with bitter destructyion.” Deuteronomy 32:22-24
Q. Oh, come on now! Hell isn’t real, is it? Surely things aren’t that bad.
- Indeed, Hell is very real, and “things are that bad” for the individual who does not know the Lord Jesus Christ as Saviour. The Bible makes many references to Hell, indicating it is both eternal, and consists of perpetual suffering.
“And whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.” Revelation 20:15
“So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from among the just and shall cast them into the furnace of fire. Matthew 13:49-50
“… when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with His mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengence on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ, who whall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power.” II Thessalonians 1:7-9
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