Jesus loves everybody and has a wonderful plan for their lives!

I was reading Pink’s Studies in the Scriptures November, 1943 when I ran across this complaint:

“Few words have been employed more inaccurately and loosely in recent years than has “love”. With a great many people it is but a synonym for moral laxity (and) weakness of character…”

Things certainly haven’t changed much; watch the “Holy Homosexuals” video for example or listen to Minister Carlton Pearson who recently decided that a loving God wouldn’t send anyone to hell. Clearly ‘love’ to these people is “moral laxity (and) weakness of character”

I think we could go further than that and say that the “god” of these people is worse than morally lax and weak in character; such a god is morally corrupt and a lover of unrighteousness. What would we think of a courtroom judge who wouldn’t sentence the worst of criminals because he was a “loving” judge? Who would have any respect for such a judge? Isn’t it interesting how those with no moral anchor in trusting the Word of God can turn things entirely on their heads; “Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” Isaiah 5:20

While such people have always been around, their numbers seem to be reaching epidemic proportions in our politically correct days. So is there a cure for this diseased view of God? Absolutely! Its called “The Law of God”.

“Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.” Romans 3:19, 20

The Law of God defines righteousness and unrighteousness for us. The Law of God delineates good and evil for us. The Law of God shows us that God is utterly pure and holy, and we by contrast are vile and corrupted. The Law of God convicts people of their sin and shuts their foolish mouths before the verdict of their Maker.

The Law of God imprisons us in our sin, so to speak(Galatians 3:22), showing us that we have no hope of escaping the bar of Gods justice in and of ourselves . The Law of God teaches us to look at ourselves in utter dismay and abandon all hope; but in so doing it also becomes a beloved teacher prodding us to turn away from ourselves and look to Jesus Christ for the salvation that we cannot accomplish (Galatians 3:24).

In a day and age when people have thrown out the Law of God in favor of a lawless “grace”, we should only expect that a perverted view of the love of God will prevail and that true and lasting conversions will be few and far between.