PSALMS 5:5
"GOD HATES ALL WORKERS OF INIQUITY"

If we tell an unsaved, unrepentant person that God personally loves him WHEN HE REALLY DOES NOT,
it becomes a serious crime against the very character of God Himself.
I believe this offense is committed by many Christian people on a regular basis to the non-Christian world.
It is our hope we can put an end to this, misrepresentation of the character of God.

ROMANS 5:8
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Note: A DEMONSTRATION of love towards a person and
AFFECTIONATELY LOVING a person are two different things.

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John 3:16
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The word for "love" in John 3:16 is agape.

We automatically assume when we say,
"God loves you"
it means He feels emotionally and affectionately warm toward you.

Agape love is an issue of the will,
not the emotions.

Our language has one word for "love", whereas the Greek language has many words for "love".
There are different types of love in the Greek language,
but in our language we adapted the meaning for only one of these words,
meaning personal affection (PHILEO),
and have applied it across the board.

The love in John 3:16 is AGAPE,
it is not affectionate at all.
Therefore, we better qualify exactly what we mean before we give people the impression that God loves them,
when they're thinking affectionately, and God is not.

If a man responds to John 3:16
(love which is void of any experiential relationship),
he will experience God's PHILE0 love.
But if he does not respond to it (the Cross)
he will continue to be under condemnation and wrath.

John 3:18
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Another way of looking at John 3:16
could be through the eyes of a righteous judge.

A judge could say, "I love the courts."
But we might ask, "How can you have courts without actual people?"
Well, you can't!
However, his statement, "I love the courts"
does not bind him to loving every criminal that comes before him in the courts!

Titus 3:4
But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for MANKIND appeared, He saved us...

John 3:16
is a collective statement that could be interpreted as referring to creation (man) as it (he) was in the garden before the fall. This could be why the word "love" in this verse is in the aorist tense. It could be reference to the past, a given point in time when this was true.

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EPHESIANS 2:4-5 1 JOHN 4:9-10 1 JOHN 4:19

These verses pertain to people who will ultimately go to heaven.
There is no indication that they are talking about anybody that will go to Hell.
By these scriptures it cannot be conceived that God has loved someone, or ever will, love someone who will wind up in hell.

Technically speaking a person could force John 3:16 to make it look like God personally loves the sinner.
But even in this attempt the quality of this love is of absolutely no practical or personal value to the unredeemed sinner.
Other than providing air for him to breath and the option for him to repent of his sins and trust in Jesus,

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WHO TOLD YOU........GOD LOVES YOU!

Are they telling you the truth or are they deceiving,
by taking the urgency out of the lost persons deprived state before God.
Making a person think God looks favorably towards him when he does not.

DONALD GREY BARNHOUSE, Bible expositor:
Unsaved men are never called the beloved of God.
Romans, Vol.l,pg.86

2 TIMOTHY 4:3-4
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires;
4} and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.

WHAT SHOULD BE THE CHRISTIAN ATTITUDE
REGARDING WORKERS OF INIQUITY?

(A desire to properly communicate God's attitude towards them.)

2 CORINTHIANS 5:11
Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men...

HEBREWS 10:31
It is a terrifying thing to fall into the hands of the living GOD.

PROVERBS 29:27
An unjust man is abominable to the righteous, and he who is upright in the way is abominable to the wicked.

PSALMS 139:21-22
Do I not hate those who hate thee. O Lord? And do I not loathe those who rise up against Thee?
22) I hate them with the utmost hatred; they have become my enemies.

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MARTIN LUTHER, German theologian,leader of the German Reformation:
... AS THE Psalm says (Ps. 139:22): "I hate them with perfect hatred." And the first Psalm also calls the Christians blessed who avoid and separate themselves from the wicked... Whoever handles pitch will soil himself with it.
Luther's Works, Vol. 12, pg. 193

DEAN STANLEY, Bible expositor:
"I hate them with utmost hatred; I count them mine enemies" (Psalms 139:22). The duty of keeping alive in the human heart the sense of burning indignation against moral evil--- against selfishness, against injustice, against untruth, in ourselves as well as in others is as much a part of the Christian as of the Jewish dispensation.
Quoted by Dr. A. Cohen, The Psalms, pg.455

DR. A.E. WILDER--SMITH, Professor of medicine holding three doctorate degrees, and author or co--author of over fifty publications: ...
we ought never dare to state that there is a different God in the 0Ld Testament to the One revealed in the New, on the basis that the Old Testament reveals a God of judgment and the New Testament a God of love. Love and judgment are present in both Testaments.
Man's Origin, Man's Destiny (1974), pg. 179

MALACHI 3:6
FOR I AM THE LORD, I CHANGE NOT (KJV)

HEBREWS 13:8
JESUS CHRIST IS THE SAME YESTERDAY AND TODAY, YES AND FOREVER

DR. R.C. SPROUL, Director of Ligonier Valley Study Center

The attempt to circumvent the sovereignty of God and be free of guilt takes subtle forms. Not everyone forcefully denies the existence of God.
Rather God's nature is reshaped into a deity whose only attribute is love. God is stripped of His wrath, justice and sovereignty;
He is left clad only with a maudlin kind of love that makes no demands. This kind of God requires no repentance, but exhibits a kind of love that means "never having to say that you are sorry."
THIS STRIPPED, WEAK, HELPLESS GOD OF A VERY POPULAR AMERICAN RELIGION, BUT IT IS NOT CHRISTIANITY.
Objections Answered (1978), pg.72

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Does God love the sinner, but hates the sin?
NOTE:. If God separates the sin from the sinner; why doesn't God throw the sin into hell and let the sinner into heaven?
The Bible clearly shows these two to be inseparable, apart from redemption.

THE SIN AND THE SINNER
WILL GO STRIGHT TO HELL TOGETHER
WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY?

ISAIAH 1:28,31
Transgressors and sinners will be crushed together, and those who forsake the Lord will come to an end.
31} And the strong man (sinner) will become tinder, his work (sin) also a spark. Thus they shall both (the sinner and the sin) burn together, and there will be none to quench them.

PSALMS 5:5-6...PSALMS 11:5-6...PROVERBS 6:16-19
LAYMAN"S BIBLE COMMENTARY, Arnold B. Rhodes, pp. 33-34
God's Hatred of Evildoers (Psalms 5:4-5)...
God is not said to love the sinner and hate his sin; he is said to hate both the sinner and his sin.
This sounds harsh to modern Christian ears, but there is truth here we dare not overlook.

GERHARD KITTEL'S THEOLOGICAL DICTIONARY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT:
God's Hating. The OT concept of God includes the fact that God can and does hate...God is hostile both to the sinner and his sin.
O. MICHEL, Greek Scholar Vol. 4, p. 686

AUGUSTUS HOPKINS STRONG, Systematic Theologian: pp. 290-291
There is no abstract sin that can be hated apart from the persons in whom that sin is represented and embodied... "It is the sinner who is punished, not the sin."

J e r e m i a h 2 3 : 1 6

"They keep saying to those who despise Me,
'The Lord has said, "You will have peace"';
And as for every one who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart,
They say, 'Calamity will not come upon you.'

Jeremiah 8:8
"How can you say, 'We are wise, And the law of the Lord is with us'?
But behold, the lying pen of the scribes Has made it into a lie."

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Genesis 7:22
God drowns everything on earth, except Noahs ark.

Genesis 19:14
God destroyed five cities.

Exodus 12:29
God killed all the first-born of Egypt.

Exodus 14:27
God drowned the entire Egyptian army.

Exodus 32:19-28
God had 3000 religious men destroyed.

Numbers 11:1
God consumed with fire an untold number of Israel.

Numbers 16:31-32
God killed Korah and his family.

Numbers 16:35
God killed 250 of the leading men of Israel.

Joshua 10:11
God killed many Amorites.

1 Samuel 6:19
God directly killed 50,070 men.

2 Samuel 24:15
God directly killed 70,000 Israelites.

2 Kings 19:35
God directly killed 185,000 Assyrians.

Acts 5:1-11
God directly killed Ananias and Saphira.

Acts 12:23
God directly killed King Herod Agrippa.

Revelation 9:15-17
God directly kills one-third of all mankind.

Revelation 20:11-15
God throws all who's names are not written in the Book of Life into the Lake of Fire.

Is this the God you love and serve?

J E R E M I A H 9 : 2 3 - 2 4

Thus says the LORD, "Let not a wise man boast of his wisdom,
and let not the mighty man boast of his might,
let not the rich man boast of his riches;
but let him who boasts boast of this,
that he understands and knows Me,
that I am the Lord who exercises loving kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth;
for I delight in these things," declares the LORD.