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How Far Does God Loves Us? by Yadid(m): 11:56am On Jul 30, 2021
How far does God loves us? Your answer to this question will largely be determined by what you have been feeding on: the unadulterated gospel of the Grace of God or the adulterated combination of law and Grace.
Just how far does God really loves us? Until our next mistakes or as long as we do good? Does He loves us just until the rules and regulations we are being badgered to follow after? Many of us believers find it quite difficult to believe that God can love us far beyond anything, including rules and regulations. He actually does. We are not loved until our next mistakes. Nope! God loves us just because He loves us. He does not love us for our good deeds and He does not detest us for our misdemeanours.
There is a temptation here though, one that many of us are tripping for no thanks to people who stand behind the pulpits dishing out a lethal mixture of Grace and law. The temptation is to believe that though God is love, He is also out to judge us. The Gospel is preached and taught like the Bible says that God is both love and judgment. God is love full stop. I John 4:8. He is no judgment. Jesus Christ is the perfect, full and only revelation of God and nowhere did He point to Himself as a judge or as judgment. Jesus means God is salvation. Matthew 1:21. The idea of saving people from their sins and judging them for the same sins at the same time is quite self-contradictory. He could not have been a Saviour and a Judge at the same time.
Legalists are quick to remind us of judgment each time we assay to believe in God's love for us. Their slogan is "God loves you, but He is out to get you if you ever sin." They make it look more like the love of God needs to be balanced with His judgment just as they erroneously believe that Grace needs to be balanced with the truth, forgetting that Grace is the truth and the truth is Grace.
This so-called balance is nothing but an adulteration of the gospel. A poisoned food is poisonous and CAN NEVER be safe for human consumption. A #10000 worth of loaf of bread laden with #50 worth of poison is as deadly as eating the poison alone. There is nothing like bread is greater than the poison, therefore the poison cannot be effective. Paul says a little leaven leavens the whole lump. Galatians 5:9. A little law added to Grace corrupts the whole thing. A little reminder of judgment added to a message of God's love for me and you will corrupt the whole message.
There is no middle ground between law and Grace. How far does God loves us then? Far beyond the things in this world and in the world to come; far beyond our sins and messes. Paul says NOTHING SHALL separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:38-39
[38]For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
[39]Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Wait right there, Paul did not use the word "WE" at the beginning of verse 38. No! He used the word "I", meaning that the persuasion about the love of God for us in Christ Jesus is a personal and peculiar affair for each believer.
Paul was personally persuaded that God loves us far beyond anything. There might have been others who were not so persuaded, but Paul was not waiting for an agreement with others before he could be persuaded.
Once more how far does God love us? Just until the death of Jesus Christ? That would be a half-truth, which is no truth. God loves us enough for Jesus to die for us, resurrect for us and ascend to heaven to ever live for us. If we stop at merely His death and resurrection, we miss out on a great deal.
Hebrews 7:25
[25]Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
He did not just die for us, He lives for us now as well. That is what makes Him our life. God does not love us until our next sin. God does not love us until we do not yield to the next prompting of the Holy Spirit. God loves us far beyond anything. God loves us as far as Christ Jesus and Jesus Christ is infinite, limitless and unquantifiable. Amen.
Beloved, be not deceived that God only loves you until your next imperfection. God is love, not judgment.
Re: How Far Does God Loves Us? by Dtruthspeaker: 12:01pm On Jul 30, 2021
Yadid:
How far does God loves us?

God had loved us so very much, that amongst His Other Givings, He Gave Us, His Son to pull us Away from His Anger which we have caused Him to be Angry!

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Re: How Far Does God Loves Us? by orunto27: 12:56pm On Jul 30, 2021
Inestimable.

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