Does
God Love Everyone in the world?
All scripture quotations are from the King James
Bible
By Dr. Ken Matto
The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou
hatest all workers of iniquity.
(Psalm 5:5)
One of the major teachings which goes along with the
free will movement is that God loves everyone in the world.
If that is so true then why does God demand that we become saved in
Christ, repent of our sin, and turn our backs on the world?
The old adage that God loves the sinner but hates the sin has been
tossed around by free will preachers for years and they don’t even search
the Scriptures to see if that saying is true.
It is probably not researched because it keeps the attendance high
and the good givers to keep on giving.
Half of that saying is correct and it is half where God hates the
sin.
The other half that God loves the sinner is nowhere
found in scripture.
The foolish shall not stand in thy
sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.
(Psalm 5:5) The
Hebrew word behind “hatest” means “to personally hate.”
I have never heard any free will preacher ever refer to this verse
simply because they don’t want to offend their listeners.
The reality is that the unsaved person who is in rebellion to God is
the enemy of God. One of the
biggest mistakes Christians make is to believe that just because an
unbeliever has much money or is very handsome or beautiful that they are
somehow in favor with God.
That ye may be the children of your
Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on
the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
(Matthew 5:45) The
reality is that the more God has given to an individual, the more they are
accountable to him. This
applies to both believers and unbelievers.
This also includes the gospel message. An unbeliever who physically
hears the gospel and keeps snubbing it will be held accountable for what
they heard and their actions afterward.
Here are some verses which show the condition of
those who are unbelievers in which the Bible refers to them as sinners.
You will see that they are not loved by God but they are detested.
{5} Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the
judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
{6} For the LORD knoweth the way of the righteous: but the way of the
ungodly shall perish. (Psalm
1:5-6)
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the
wicked every day. (Psalm 7:11)
{8} The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination to
the LORD: but the prayer of the upright is his delight.
{9} The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the LORD: but he
loveth him that followeth after righteousness.
(Proverbs 15:8-9)
For the wicked boasteth of his heart's desire, and
blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
(Psalm 10:3)
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and
him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
(Psalm 11:5)
Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul
hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.
(Isaiah 1:14) This was
told to ancient Israel.
He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law,
even his prayer shall be abomination.
(Proverbs 28:9)
I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not
smell in your solemn assemblies.
(Amos 5:21)
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and
arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
(Proverbs 8:13)
And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you:
depart from me, ye that work iniquity.
(Matthew 7:23)
These twelve verses alone show that God’s anger is
kindled against all those who are unbelievers because they are enemies of
God. This message needs to be
preached not only from the pulpits but also Christians must tell it to those
whom they come in contact with.
Preaching God loves you is false teaching to the unbeliever while it is
correct teaching for the true believer.
Many Bible tracts that are passed out by Christians do not have the
truth of scripture on them and are just cute little stories.
We must get back to “Thus Saith the Lord” and preach the reality of
the fact that the unbeliever is an enemy of God.
Then the question remains, “how do I experience the
love of God?” First we must
realize that as an enemy of God the war must end between us and we must have
peace.
Therefore being justified by faith,
we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:
(Romans 5:1) Once a
person becomes saved the war with God is over and we have peace and a new
eternal relationship with him.
God’s love is qualified and is only for the believer in Christ.
In scripture, God is never stated as loving the unbeliever but only
loving the true believer as these verses show that truth.
Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus
knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the
Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them
unto the end. (John 13:1)
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he
it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father,
and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
(John 14:21)
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye
have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.
(John 16:27)
But God commendeth his love toward us, in
that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(Romans 5:8)
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us,
(Ephesians 2:4)
Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our
Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting
consolation and good hope through grace,
(2 Thessalonians 2:16)
Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that
he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
(1 John 4:10)
We love him, because he first loved us.
(1 John 4:19)
And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness,
and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the
earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own
blood, (Revelation 1:5)
As you can easily see directly from the scriptures
that the love of God is only for the true believer.
When a person becomes saved, they have both the love of the Father
and the Son. This is never said
about the unbeliever. The only
two major promises for the unbeliever are the two verses below:
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.
(John 3:18)
He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life:
and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God
abideth on him. (John 3:36)
As we plainly see in these two verses the stark contrast in the condition of the believer and that of the unbeliever. For the believer it is no condemnation and eternal life. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. (Romans 8:1) For the unbeliever it is condemnation and the wrath of God. What the scripture is saying is that God hates the sin and the sinner because he is sending the sinner to hell on Judgment Day and not just the sin. Let’s start teaching the truth about the condition of unsaved man and leave the results to God.