Recall, God is Love Toward Everyone (TMF:1318)

Wednesday, March 04, 2020
Peace to Live By: Recall, God is Love Toward Everyone (TMF:1318) - Daniel Litton
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       In understanding God’s wrath, though, I think it is good for us to have a grasp on God’s character (as best we can) as relates to these judgments. In other words, why is God doing what he is doing at the end times? Is it that God just can’t take it anymore, and has decided to react against sin and all the people in the world who are living in sin? In answering these questions, I think it is good for us to remember what the Apostle John has told us elsewhere in the Bible, and that is that “God is love” (1 John 4:8, ESV). In gaining proficiency in God’s judgment, his wrath, and his care, his love, let us consider a passage of Scripture from Ezekiel 33, which God has spoken to his chosen people, Israel. It states: “Say to them, As I live, declares the Lord God, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live; turn back, turn back from your evil ways, for why will you die, O house of Israel?” (v. 11, ESV). You see, God doesn’t want anyone to be judged for sin.