07/07/17 IT AIN'T EASY, BUT IT IS ESSENTIAL

07/07/17 IT AIN'T EASY, BUT IT IS ESSENTIAL

Do you hate anyone enough to send them to hell?

OF COURSE NOT!!!

Now think about this.
If you don't love them. love them redemptively by showing them your love, and acting according to that love, then you are actually hating them, because hate is the absence of love.

As a Christian, lack of love is an action that denies the lost person the light of truth and salvation. Divine love is an active and positive manifestation demonstrated in our demeanor and behavior.

Yes, the sinner chooses sin and answers for his own choices.
But God demonstrated HIs love for us, and to us while we were yet in our sins.
John 3:16-17
(16) For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
(17) For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

Likewise, believers are to manifest the same love of God for the people we know, not only other believers, but also for the people who hate us.

Remember, love covers a multitude of sins. After the lost person is dead and separated from God forever it is too late to wish you had said and done the loving, Christlike thing. And think about how minor the issues are that cause us to cut them off.

We cannot add anything to the redemptive work of Christ, but we are doing the work of Christ in this world when we reach out to others, while we suffer at the hands of wicked people.

Don't forget, Jesus taught that the believer who goes to worship at the altar, and then remembers that someone is angry with them, must take humble steps to reconcile with that angry person. As much as lieth in you, live peaceably with everyone.