Conditions To God's Love

Guest Author
Shaila Touchton

Shaila was born and raised in India and has completed her Bachelor of Electrical & Electronics Engineering Degree from NMAMIT, India and other various Certifications Courses in Computers & Networking. She had worked for I.T and Engineering companies in the past and now she is a stay Home Mother and Christian writer contributing articles.  She has self published three books called "Christian Living", "Seek God's Truth" and "Living a Godly Life". She has contributed many articles and blogs online.

There is no scripture to say that God loves everyone, regardless of what they have said or done. If God’s love were unconditional, there would be no Hell and all the unrepentant sinners, no matter how evil, would go to Heaven. 

Having a right relationship with God begins with acknowledging your sin. God is love (1 John 4:8), but to sin is to go against God's Word and offend His character. God hates sin. Sin is breaking God's laws and leaves the sinner without God's protection.   

The Bible says that when we knowingly break any command of God, we are sinning as transgression of the law of God (1 John 3:4) and rebellion against God (James 4:17), But, He does not punish sin, instead He must allow the sinner to suffer the consequences of sin.

All unrighteousness is sin and it is described in the Bible (Deuteronomy 9:7; Joshua 1:18).  Sin is the nature of a wicked character and a characteristic of the Devil which causes one to be  distanced from God spiritually. 

We should thank God continuously that we have been delivered through Jesus Christ from all evil, guarding ourselves to not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness.  

However, when we do sin, we need to confess it, repent, and be assured that we have received forgiveness once we have asked in order to regain our righteousness before God. 

We should keep ourselves from those who will influence us to go against the Word, however, we can cultivate relationships with those those who are of the world for the purpose of calling sinners to repentance and evangelizing them.  But we must watch ourselves to never enjoy their sin or sinful lifestyle. Paul said this to the Ephesians in Eph. 5:3-8, II Cor. 6:14-17

Looking to Jesus, we see that He was compassionate for sinners because He came into the world to save them. But He didn't come to make sinners feel good about their sin.

Some people attempt to justify their wrongdoing by saying, for example, that Jesus refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery and that He spent much of His time eating and drinking with sinners. Jesus' words to the adulterous woman, "Neither do I condemn you" (Jn. 8:11), are filled with forgiveness, not tolerance. She knew her own sin, and He knew that she did, whereas the would-be stone-throwers weren't reflecting upon theirs. 

So Jesus had to deal with them first. But after He forgave the woman, notice that Jesus did not say, "Go, follow your feelings, celebrate diversity, and try not to hurt anyone." He said, "Go, and sin no more." To the paralytic, He added a further warning: "Sin no more, lest something worse befall you" (Jn. 5:14). That God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 2 Corinthians 5:19

Do not be a lukewarm Christian.  Rebuke the sin, judge righteously. One does not need to have lived all his life without sin in order to rebuke others. Jesus knew His disciples had committed sins, yet he still ordered them to rebuke sin (Matthew 18:15, Ephesians 5:11, John 7:24, James 5:19,20,). If we fail to rebuke others when they sin, then we ourselves have committed the sin of disobeying the above verses. We learn that the Bible forbids certain kinds of judgment, but it also requires us to rebuke sin in order to help people please God and be saved.

The Bible commands men to depart from all sin, to keep God's commandments, to be holy because God is holy, and to be perfect as our Father in heaven is perfect. The Bible teaches that all men ought to live without sin and that they can live without sin by God's grace and the power of his indwelling Holy Spirit. The Bible also teaches that Christians do live without sin and overcome the world, the flesh, and the devil. One can live without sin. 

Here is a scriptures ref.  Awake to righteousness, and sin not. 1 Cor. 15:34

God has given us the Ten Commandments to keep and be obedient to his commandment which is a part of his conditional love for us in order to protect us.  

God also cursed Adam and Eve when they sinned against him. If sin alone was the object of His hatred, why didn't He destroy only the sin of our first parents? 

There are many people who ignore scriptures on God's wrath against sin. Even though God is a loving God who forgives sin, the wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.  When we truly repent, God shows his grace and love, but if we do not repent, it shows that we are continuing in our rebellious ways which separates us from God's blessings.

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