Are you teaching God's enemies that God loves them "UNCONDITIONALLY"?
Are you teaching God's enemies that God loves them "UNCONDITIONALLY"?If so, you are doing them a disservice! You should be teaching them that they are in rebellion against God and that they need to repent and be saved.
Once they repent and are born again, God adopts them as His sons and daughters, and will bring them into His Kingdom. Until then, they are following the serpent. Unless they repent and turn back to God, they will follow him all the way to his eternal destiny.
Answer:
God's love is conditional--we find no example in the Bible of unconditional love, which many Christians claim for themselves. If we go back into sin and the world after having escape it through Jesus, we are worse off than if we had never come to Christ (2 Peter 2:20) and there remains no sacrifice for sin (Heb. 10:26).
We are told in Ecclesiastics (and if you know the Byrd's song Turn Turn Turn), there is a time for every purpose under heaven. (Ecc. 3:1)
"Judgement begins at the house of the Lord."--1 Peter 4:17
It is the Christian who is under judgment during this gospel age, not the world. How do I know that?
Because it is the faithful Christian who will be kings and priests with Jesus in the next age--the Kingdom Age, the Millennium. (Matt 19:28, 2 Tim 2:12; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6)
Psa 149:7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
1Co_6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
So if you and others go around already judging the world of mankind in this age--what is it that we will be doing in the next?
There is a time and place for every purpose under heaven. The judgment of the world is after the judgment on the house of God--both the true and the false or professed house of God. The judgment is done by the faithful Christian in glory, that is in heaven with her Lord and not before. Let us not be as the Corinthians that Paul had to castigate for taking upon themselves something that did not yet belong to them.
1Co_4:8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
Once they repent and are born again, God adopts them as His sons and daughters, and will bring them into His Kingdom. Until then, they are following the serpent. Unless they repent and turn back to God, they will follow him all the way to his eternal destiny.
Answer:
God's love is conditional--we find no example in the Bible of unconditional love, which many Christians claim for themselves. If we go back into sin and the world after having escape it through Jesus, we are worse off than if we had never come to Christ (2 Peter 2:20) and there remains no sacrifice for sin (Heb. 10:26).
We are told in Ecclesiastics (and if you know the Byrd's song Turn Turn Turn), there is a time for every purpose under heaven. (Ecc. 3:1)
"Judgement begins at the house of the Lord."--1 Peter 4:17
It is the Christian who is under judgment during this gospel age, not the world. How do I know that?
Because it is the faithful Christian who will be kings and priests with Jesus in the next age--the Kingdom Age, the Millennium. (Matt 19:28, 2 Tim 2:12; Rev. 1:6; 5:10; 20:6)
Psa 149:7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
1Co_6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?
So if you and others go around already judging the world of mankind in this age--what is it that we will be doing in the next?
There is a time and place for every purpose under heaven. The judgment of the world is after the judgment on the house of God--both the true and the false or professed house of God. The judgment is done by the faithful Christian in glory, that is in heaven with her Lord and not before. Let us not be as the Corinthians that Paul had to castigate for taking upon themselves something that did not yet belong to them.
1Co_4:8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
