Isn't God a Good and Loving God?
Exodus 34:6 And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth, God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering and abounding in goodness and truth. 7 keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children and the children’s children to the third and the fourth generation.”
1 John 4:8 …for God is love.
God is love and He is good all the time. But there is much more to God than only these two characteristics and there's a lot more to Him in the fullness of all He is. This is where people make a grave mistake by not telling of all that God is but only one side of Him, the side that make everyone feel good.
God is holy and jealous, Joshua 24:19
God is a righteous judge, 2 Samuel 14:8
God’s ways are just and true, Revelation 15:3
God is a consuming fire, Hebrews 12:29
God is a God of wrath, Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Now you have a fuller view and knowledge about what God is really like in all. He’s all of these all the time and more. His love, goodness and mercy do not preclude His anger, wrath and judgment. He’s all the good stuff we like and all the scary stuff we don’t want to hear about and especially experience. He’s the Lion and the Lamb both at the same time. It all depends on what we do with Him as to which of these characteristics and ways of God we experience first hand.
God is love and has wrath against all sin.
He’s merciful, gracious, longsuffering and good while at the same time a holy, righteous and jealous God who rewards us for all we do on earth in life and with Him.
Psalm 145:8 The LORD is gracious and full of compassion, Slow to anger and great in mercy.
Exodus 34:14 (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
Deuteronomy 4:24 For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Joshua 24:19 But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”
Isaiah 26:21 CEV The LORD will come out to punish everyone on earth for their sins.
Isaiah 59:18 According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies;
Isaiah 63:3 “ I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes
Revelation 19:15 Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation 20:11 Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8 But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
2 Thessalonians 2:9 CEV When the wicked one appears, Satan will pretend to work all kinds of miracles, wonders, and signs. 10 Lost people will be fooled by his evil deeds. They could be saved, but they will refuse to love the truth and accept it. 11 So God will make sure that they are fooled into believing a lie. 12 All of them will be punished, because they would rather do evil than believe the truth.
Romans 1:18 NIV The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
You have only seen or heard of just a few Scriptures from the Bible of what God will do to those who have sinned against Him and would not receive the truth but lived their own way. God isn’t schizophrenic or on an emotional roller coaster. He is God and He is Love. He is Good and He is perfect. All He does whether we like it or not is done out of pure, holly, righteous and jealous love. We make the choices, He doesn’t. He only gives use what we ask for even if it’s not spoken by us verbally then it’s through or actions that speak louder than words He hears and sees.
Jeremiah 21:14 But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, said the LORD
He is who He is and will not change nor conform into our image which so many are doing in the world of the lost and the church of today. We don’t make Him to fit in our world and our form but we submit to His Word and will, are to be conformed into His image and fit into His world and His kingdom which lives forever and ever. He doesn’t do this because He’s a mean, angry, party pooping, buzz killing tyrant. He does it because of His love for us and it’s the only way to keep us from destroying ourselves, others and the world we live in and on. If you don’t believe this then look at the Godless world today and ask this question, “How is it all working out for humanity on this planet with out GOD right now? Any famine? Any murder? Any rape? Any natural disasters? Any wars? ANY TERRORISM KEEPING ANYONE IN FEAR? Watch the news; read the paper; surf the web. What do you see? What’s your answer? Is God running this world or are we with help of some obvious dark demonic forces.
1 John 5:19 and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
2 Corinthians 4:3 But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Ephesians 2:2 in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Buy the way if you don’t know the Bible very well yet or at all because your not at the place in life where that has been possible because of your up bringing or you’ve never been to church; I’m speaking about the Devil, Satan who is the spiritual creature behind all of this mess on earth. He works through submitted ungodly mankind to do all his dirty work in an attempt to destroy God’s creation, themselves, man!
Have you broken any of God’s Commandments?
Is there any hope for you, a SINNER?
What will you do? HIDE?
Job 34:21 “For His eyes are on the ways of man,
And He sees all his steps. 22 There is no darkness nor shadow of death
Where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves.
23 For He need not further consider a man,
That he should go before God in judgment.
Psalm 139:8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
Hebrews 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Hebrews 2:3 how shall we escape if we neglect so great a salvation,
which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed
to us by those who heard Him,
Are you trembling at His word or at least concerned?
If not, then there's no reason to read on. Your not yet at the place to where your ready to give up all your life, to escape God's wrath and come into a wonderful relationship with Him through Jesus Christ. You are dangerously gambling with your eternal life. Let me tell you what the Bible says about you who are rejecting God.
John 3: 18 AMP He who believes in Him [who clings to, trusts in, relies on Him] is not judged [he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation--he incurs no damnation]; but he who does not believe (cleave to, rely on, trust in Him) is judged already [he has already been convicted and has already received his sentence] because he has not believed in and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God. [He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.] 19 The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: the Light has come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deeds) were evil. 20 For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the Light, and will not come out into the Light but shrinks from it, lest his works (his deeds, his activities, his conduct) be exposed and reproved.
Hebrews 10:26 For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, 27 but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries. 28 Anyone who has rejected Moses’ law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses. 29 Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose, will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace? 30 For we know Him who said, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. And again, “The LORD will judge His people.” 31 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
Simply put, the Bible says that you are evil and don't want to come to Jesus because you want to keep doing the evil that you love and you hate God and will be judged for it. Not a good place to be.
Please read on if you want to find out how to escape all this.
Part 3 http://ewpministry.blogspot.com/2010/12/anatomy-of-salvation-message-part-3-by.html
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