Does God love the sinner and just hate the sin? Or does He also hate the sinner? Does that mean that God hates me? Does He hate you or hate anyone who is not in His presence? Who does not repent? I really want to go over this subject today, in today’s episode and give a Biblical perspective of what God’s hate represents, and what God’s love ultimately represents as well.
So I want to off in our opening verse for today, and that specific verse is I’m sure a verse everybody knows. You see it hanging on every banner, people holding it up at sports events, and come on, who does not know this specific Bible verse? John 3:16. “For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son, that whosoever believes in him shall not perish, but have eternal life.” A lot of people today have the statement that God loves the sinner and hates the sin. It’s a statement that really can hit home in somebody’s heart. In my opinion, I really believe it can make someone identify themselves as a sinner, but there has been a lot of debate with it, and of course we also get the statement that people like to say when they are evangelizing, preaching the gospel, speaking to an unsaved person, maybe even to a saved person as well, and that’s the statement “Jesus loves you, and he’ll never leave you nor forsake you.” And lately today, in certain sermons recently I’ve been seeing certain people really kind of challenge this idea when they’re street preaching, when they’re evangelizing, or maybe even preaching this on a Sunday sermon that God is not so much the God of love that most people portray him as, and actually believe that God actually does hate people.
And they pull up different verses in The Bible that actually back this up, and state that we should not be telling people that God loves them. We should actually be telling people that God hates them, because they are a sinner. They are an unbeliever, and the only way to find the love of God is for them to repent and turn from their sin, and then they’ll receive the love of God. Now this really kind of hit home for me in a certain way, because I know you could say that that definitely challenges the common myths today in Christianity. It definitely challenges the common message of the gospel, because I really believe the purpose of the gospel is to what? To give the good news, and I feel like the love of God definitely should apply to the gospel of Christ, and it should not apply to, “Hey, God hates.”
But let’s really dig deep into this. Is it necessary to tell somebody that God loves the sinner, but just hates the sin? And ultimately, is it necessary to even tell an unbeliever, someone who we consider a sinner, or just not saved at all, is it necessary to say that God loves them? And to really get started with this episode today, I really want to dig deep into just the idea of what God’s hate is, and I really took a lot of preparation to speak this specific message. I don’t want to specifically just come in and try to throw everything all at once. I did a lot of research. I did a lot of study, and more importantly, I really opened up my heart to this with The Lord. Understanding like, “God, what is Your truth? What is the real identical way that You want this message to be spoken?” And it took a lot of prayer. Like I said, a lot of studying, a lot of preparation. So to really get into this specific episode today, I want to go ahead and get started and start talking about, “Okay, does God hate?” Yes, God is a God of love, but is He also a God of hate?
So let’s ask the first question that I feel like is probably an easy question to ask:
“Does God hate sin?”
The answer is without a doubt, yes! God hates sin. He cannot stand sin. Sin is something that God cannot be around, and there are different verses in The Bible that support the idea of God hating sin or that back up the idea of God hating sin, but I feel like one verse really communicates it a lot, and it’s in Proverbs 6:16-19. And if we start in verse 16 it says, “These six things The Lord hates. Yes, seven are an abomination to Him. A proud look, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that devises wicked plans, feet that are swift in running to evil, a false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among the brethren.”
Wow. I mean we could all say yes, all these actions, all these things are things that are sinful, but God or Solomon, the person who wrote the proverb, obviously Solomon, wrote on here, “Hey, this is stuff that God hates, and it’s a proud look, a lying tongue.” Anything that you could say that back up what He wrote on The Ten Commandments. The Law. So God hates sin, and that’s something that of course is very easy to understand, and why does God hate sin? Well, there are more Scriptures that I really want to back up, spoke to me that maybe a lot of people have not done too much research on, is in Zechariah 8:17 saying, “Do not devise evil in your hearts against one another, and love no false oath. Or false idols. Another translation says that. For all these things I hate, declares The Lord.”
Also in Isaiah chapter 59, I feel like God, when He spoke to the prophet Isaiah, really backed up why He hates sin, and why He believes it’s an abomination, and you got to understand, if we remember one thing about the prophet Isaiah, is he was getting a lot of revelation from the fall of Babylon, the fall of Israel and the rebellion that people were living in during that time, and it was in Isaiah chapter 59:2. He says, “But your iniquities have separated you from your God. Your sins have hidden His Face from you, so that He will not hear.” Wow! I’m going to read that again. I really want people to grasp that, about the idea of God hating sin. “Your iniquities have separated you from your God.”
“Your iniquities have separated you from your God. Separated. That’s a key word. I have that highlighted in bold right there. Separated. Your sins have hidden His Face from you, so that He will not hear.” Wow! So to understand, why does God hate sin? Well, because there’s a separation from it, and the person that is committing the sin, He cannot be around that person. Does that verse actually sound familiar? Matthew 27: 45-47, when Jesus is hanging on the cross, and he feels the Face of The Father turning away and he shouts out, “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?” Which means, “My God, my God, why have You forsaken me?” Jesus dying on the cross for our sins, taking on the wrath and absorbing all the sin that the world has committed and that the world will still commit to this day.
God saw sin upon His son, and turned His Face from him. So, let’s just get this out of the way. Sin and God cannot go hand in hand. Why? Because God is holy, God is perfect. God is just, and we have to understand this is ultimately what separated Him from His Goodness and from His Glory, and it’s very easy to talk about the idea of God hating sin, but I think it’s very difficult to talk about the idea of God hating people. Now as I mentioned earlier, when I first heard this statement, it really took me by surprise like, man, why would you tell people who definitely either don’t believe in God, who are either atheists, or people who we can identify, definitely do not support Christianity at all. How could you look at them in the face and say, “God hates them?”
And there are some Scriptures that people have backed this up on, and that begs the question that I think a lot of people are really curious to hear:
“Does God hate people?”
The answer I really want to give to that, believe it or not, anyone who may be listening, YES, but it’s not in the way that you think. First question I have is what comes to mind when you hear the word, “hate?” What does hate mean? Typically, you’re going to think about one thing, and that’s hate means you have a strong dislike for that person. You cannot stand seeing that person, hearing about that person. More cases out of one thing is you want revenge on the person. You want to hurt the person. Hate is not good, and we can all agree that it’s the opposite of love, and I really want to dive deep into that later in this episode, but there are some scriptures that back this up, of God hating unbelievers or we can say in so many words, sinners. Jumping into Psalm 5:4-6.
It says, “For you are not a God who delights in wickedness. Evil may not dwell in you. The boastful shall not stand before your eyes. You hate all evildoers. You destroy those who speak lies. The Lord abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.” OMG guys. OMG. And there’s another Psalm that was written that backed this up as well, and that’s Psalm chapter 5, verse 5, in the New King James Version actually, to really back this up, because a lot of people are like, “Well, what does the King James say?” It actually says the same thing. “The foolish shall not stand in thy sight: thou hatest all workers of iniquity.” And notice that word, “iniquity” once again appears in this verse. But to dig a little bit deeper in this verse, Psalm chapter 1, verse 5, as I was mentioning, also backs this up. “The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, and those who love violence, he hates with a passion,” and this is in the NIV Version.
I know what you’re thinking. You’re reading this and you’re like, “Oh my gosh!” You may be thinking like, ‘Does God really hate a person who is not saved? The person who is an unbeliever?”
Or a person who is an unbeliever?” I know this can really take a lot of people by surprise. There are some people who may say, “Well, come on. If The Bible condemns hate, why does He hate? How can our God also hate?” And another verse that I think comes along a lot is Malachi chapter 1, verses 2-3, when the prophet Malachi is repeating back what he was receiving from The Lord, and that’s starting in verse 2 and 3. It says, “I have loved you, says The Lord. But you asked, How have you loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother, declares The Lord? Yet I have loved Jacob, Esau I have hated, and I have turned his hill country into a wasteland, and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
The verse goes on and on, and of course Paul repeats this in Romans, but let’s be real here. This takes a lot of people by surprise, and it identifies that God can indeed hate people, and I feel like in the book of Psalms, He’s talking about people that love violence. That you hate all workers of iniquity. You hate the people that are bloodthirsty and all this stuff, and that you stand before the righteous.
So I know what people might be thinking when they’re hearing this. It’s like, “Oh my gosh, like man, does God really hate someone?” But I really want to challenge that statement and I really want to help people understand what this specific word “hate” may actually mean, and how the different translations in The Bible, when it comes to the word “hate” may actually have different meanings to it.
And now let’s go back to what I said with God actually hating the sin. It’s very easy just to get that out of the way and say, “Yes. God does indeed condemn sin, and does not condone it whatsoever.” But I think what we need to understand is the Bible actually condemns hate for people, and actually warns against it. And if we jump into Matthew chapter 5, verse 22, Jesus actually warns, “But I say, even if you are angry with someone, then you are actually subject to judgement. If you call someone an idiot, you are in danger of being brought before the court. And if you curse someone, you are in danger of being in the fires of hell.”
Of course, to be more clear on this, in 1st John chapter 3 verse 15, it says, “Whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.” So, when we think of hate, we think of the idea of what? Anger. We think of the idea of one thing, and that’s wrath. It’s easy to say, “Yes, God does have love,” but a lot of people sometimes don’t really talk about the idea of the wrath of God. The wrath of God yes, as tough as it is to talk about, the wrath of God does exist. But we also have to understand one thing. The reason why I am stating that in The English translation Bibles, the word “hate” actually may have two different types of meanings from it, based on the certain Hebrew and Greek language. This is what I actually mean. Jesus also said this about the idea of hate. “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his mother, wife, children, yes, a brother or sister and yes, even their own life, then that person cannot be my disciple.” In Luke chapter 14, verse 26. Contradiction?
We understand that The Bible condones hatred, and the main reason why Jesus was condemning hatred, condemning building towards anger, was because what? It builds into one thing. Forgiveness! I’m highlighting that keyword. I have it hear on the screen. Forgiveness! Unforgiveness is something that is not of God, and I really want to hang on to that word. We’re going to get deeper into it. But what does Jesus mean in Luke chapter 14, verse 26? Does he really mean hate your brother and sister? Does he really mean actually hate the people in your family, once you give your life to me? No! He’s not talking about actually building a certain hatred for someone in that specific thing. So the plain and simple question needs to be asked. It is, “Does God hate sinners?” Yes, or does he also hate sinners who do not serve Him? If they could clearly identify as a worker of iniquity or someone who is wicked in His sight? Truth is….
“God does not hate you!”
Let’s go ahead and get that answer. God does not hate you, the way that most people will identify hate. Believe it or not, I actually believe today that this is a Scripture. These are verses I feel like the enemy is coming in, into the English world, or into the world where people are reading their Bible, hearing The Word of God, hearing people speak, and I feel like the enemy is coming in and perverting this message, and twisting The Scriptures, to create this false image of salvation, and prevent someone from opening their heart to Jesus, and when I really was praying over this, and I know 2belikechrist really hit this on the nail as well. There really came the idea or the analogy that really spoke to my spirit, about this idea of hate.
And I want you to think if you are, let’s say a parent, someone who has children of your own. When you have a child, and of course I don’t have kids yet, and I pray hopefully one day The Lord blesses me with children; when a child is born and you see the child coming in to this world, it’s a breathtaking experience from what I’ve seen most parents go through, and I feel like that’s the same exact thing.
The same exact feeling God feels when He creates you. When God creates a human. Just like He creates Adam. Just like He created Eve. It’s that special creation, and when you see that innocent baby, you know it’s special, and you want just the best for it. But let me tell you, what happens if that child grows up and becomes rebellious? What happens if that child grows up, and it does something just drastic?
Kills. Steals. Destroys. Curses you. God forbid, becomes a murderer. God forbid, does things in this world that impact not only you, but other people. Recently I was reading a book. It was a book written by one of the Columbine parents. It was actually one of the parents of one of the shooters of Columbine. Very interesting book. It’s not so much of a Christian book, but it really had a certain message that I had really never thought about that really hit me as a young adult.
And it was, she talked about the legacy that her son has left. She actually talked about how much she truly hates it. How much of an impact that her son has had, and something that really got to me in the book, where she said that she did not hate her son. She still had that motherly love for her son. Remembering him when he was just a young innocent child. She said she hated the idea of what he became, and I really want to dig deep into that.
It is when God talks about hate. It is not, “I hate you as a person. I just hate you and I want to just destroy you.” No. It’s I think God’s idea of hate is, “I hate what you have become.” When we’re talking about Psalm chapter 5 and Psalms 11, I think we really have to identify who wrote those two psalms. Yes. It was David. We got to remember one thing. King David was a man who had a lot of victory when he was a young child. Defeating Goliath. Winning thousands of wars and taking on so many missions that The Lord was blessing him with. But all it took was that one fall with Bath-shebah, and the evil action that he did that really pretty much brought him out of God’s Presence, and actually felt the wrath of God come upon him, based on his action.
As I was really doing more research on this and just allowing The Holy Spirit to speak to me, The Holy Spirit really challenged me to really dig deeper to see what some of these translations actually may mean. It led me into reading about that there is actually a word translated in the Hebrew language, in the book of Psalms which is known as sane or shane. The word “hate” translated into Hebrew actually represents the word sane. And sane believe it or not, based on what a lot of people would use that word in the Hebrew language was the idea of, translation of a thorn. A thorn on someone’s side. So thorns were actually used in Biblical times as a fence to protect flock. To protect evil. In other words like weapons or ferocious animals to come in and cause more pain.
We all think of that Scripture in 2nd Corinthians where Paul talks about having a thorn on his side. And thorn is basically when sin—we have to understand God hates sin, and when someone is committing a sin, we all can identify, going back to Isaiah chapter 59, that sin separates people from God! God cannot be around sin. So when someone is falling into sin, God separates Himself, or it separates the person from God. Because why? It’s a thorn. So when we are speaking the idea of God saying….
“I hate who they have become.”
I think it really means that God hates the actions that they are doing. God hates that person’s heart. The heart that they have created within themselves based on their own freewill. But does that mean this hatred means that they want to tear the person apart? And some people say, “Well there’s a hell, so yeah. That must mean God really hates.” Well let’s hold on there for a second. Truth is God’s hate for unbelievers is not the same hate that satan has for people in general.
There are two types of hate that are translated in the English translation. Hate, obviously the Hebrew translation means sane, and the best way to describe that is to what? To avoid. As I mentioned, the word “sane” it was a fence that was put up back in the Biblical times. Because why? It was a separation of the thorn. The fence that prevented evil, or certain things on lands, cattles, everything, to come in. So sane, the word for hate means to what? To avoid or resist.
And we think of the statement, God what? Resists the proud and gives grace to the humble. Or opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble. So I think to identify what does God’s hate really mean? Well, God’s hate–we have to understand, it’s not being involved with a person who willfully, intentionally, sometimes maybe even unintentionally does evil.
In our world today, let’s be honest guys. Evil is real in this world. We see evil things happening. There have been different mass shootings. Let’s see what’s going on with Ukraine right now. All of those innocent families losing their homes. I mean very recently, even in San Antonio, there have been drive-by shootings on the highway. Road rages. People that are doing hideous things. Some people ask God the question, “God how can You allow all this evil to happen in this world?”
Well I think one thing is for certain. You have to understand God has nothing to do with those people. God has nothing to do with those people at all. But, we have to understand one thing. Why does The Bible still condemn hate? If it’s okay for God to hate in this certain way, then why is it wrong for us to hate? Well, there is another translation for hate, and it’s in the Greek language, in the Greek translation, it actually means, it’s translated into miseó. Miseó, and the meaning for that specific word in hate, is to antagonize or to persecute.
When people have hate in their heart, one of the reasons we can say hate is a sin on our part, or why hate is so deceptive, is because it makes something evil. It’s not even so much so that specific hate, miseó, means you want to be separated from that person. No. It means you want to antagonize the person. You want to cause harm to that person. You have horrible thoughts of the person suffering. I mean, these are thoughts that we have when we struggle with unforgiveness or anger.
That is not of God. God does not have a desire to hate people to ruin them. But we all know that’s exactly how the personality of the enemy is. Is to what? To antagonize people. To persecute believers. To harm people. Because why? The devil truly hates people. He wants to cause destruction. He wants to cause his own personal wrath on people.
So there are two words that represent hate: It’s sane, to avoid or resist, because let’s be real. In Psalm 11 verse 5, why does it say God hates the evildoers with a passion? It’s because He does not want anything to do with their sin, with their evil, with their wickedness. Does that mean because they are evil, because they have done these wicked things, does that mean He still does not want anything to do with them?
Does that not mean He will accept them, if they cried out to Him? The answer is no. He still is God at the end of the day. So the final question that I have is:
“Is it necessary to tell somebody who is not saved that God loves them?”
My answer is not yes. My answer is heck yes! You need to preach the message that God loves people. God even loves the sinner. Now, very recently, when I was studying for this specific episode, and I was spending some one on one time with The Lord and opening my heart to Him. I was just there and just opening my heart, and very suddenly, I felt a statement being spoken over my life, and it was so simple, but it hit my heart really strongly, and it was, “My love overpowers everything.” Just plain and simple. That’s all that was said, and I actually realized just from that statement alone that there was a strong revelation that The Lord gave me about His love, and how it overpowers everything today.
In our world today, as I mentioned earlier, that we see a lot of dictators, murderers, thieves. People that do evil in this world, and I say God has nothing to do with those people. And not just that. It really made me truly believe that I see God’s love every single day of my life. Everyday. Not just in my life, but in everybody’s life. The people I see in the grocery store. The people I see at the mall. The people I see at the parks. Sporting events. Everything! I see God’s love just everywhere, and you may ask, “What do you mean by that?” Well, to really hit this or briefly explain this. Everyday I wake up I get to breathe. I breathe fresh air. I have the strength to get up. I get to wake up, drink some coffee, maybe drink some water. Eat breakfast. Eat lunch. Go to work. Money comes into my pocket. I get to fellowship with family, friends, and I actually realized that I’m not the only person in the world that actually has that privilege.
And regardless of a circumstance or a storm or how tough life may truly be for people, I actually realize that God’s presence and God’s faithfulness is still in the midst of everybody. And when we were talking about God’s hate and His wrath, I think that’s what people really need to understand, with everything I just mentioned. The reason why we warn about hell, is because when a soul goes to hell, not only is hell a terrible place of fire, torture, torment, I think the worst part about hell, believe it or not, is that you are completely absent of God’s goodness. You’re absent of God’s love. There is no love in hell, and I think when a person, when a poor soul goes to hell, that’s the first thing they start noticing when they are there, and they scream out for it. That’s the message I really want to give today.
This is why we need to tell people that Jesus loves them, because he does not want wrath on a person. And that’s why He sent Jesus. To take on that wrath. To take on the eternal punishment. To take on the punishment that we so badly deserve. When I say I see God’s love on even unbelievers who curse Him, who mock Him, who say they want nothing to do with Him, as much as they deserved to just be killed right in the spot, and thrown into the lake of fire, He’s still there. He separated. He does not want anything to do with your sin, but He’s still there, with His hands open saying, “I want you. I want a relationship with you.”
Imagine evangelizing the good news or evangelizing the gospel, walking up to somebody, pointing at a person at a social event, and saying, “Hey, you see that guy right there? He hates you. He cannot stand you. He cannot stand you and he just wants the worst for you, because of all these terrible things you’re doing, but you need to say you’re sorry to him right now. If not, he’s going to do terrible things to you.” Is that the gospel? No, that’s not! How about a better way to say it is, “Hey, you see that person over there? He loves you. He loves you so much. He’s known you since before you were in your mother’s womb. He knows all the hairs on your head, and it gets him angry seeing the things that you do in life. Not because he hates you as a person, but because he knows you were created to be so much more. You were created to be so much better. You are not a murderer. You are not an adulterer. You are not the person who you think you are, and you need to open your heart to him. Open your heart. He is quick to forgive you, because he wants the best for you. He wants to be with you.”
What is that? That is love. Love is the opposite of hate. Some people say, “Love over hate.” Yes, correct! But I think something that we have to know for people who reject Jesus, and who say that he needs to stop telling me how to live my life. One thing that stands out in love is the desire to be. The desire to be around the person. The desire for something from the person, because you love them. You don’t just push away your child when they are an infant. You want to be with your baby. 24/7. You want to be with your child 24/7. Vice versa. The child is going to run to their parent. Why? Because they love them. When we evangelize the gospel, when we preach, even if it is offensive to what is convicting you in your sin, it’s the desire to let you know God wants to be in the midst of you.
God is love. He does not have the hate that we think He has. His love is greater than His hate. This is backed up in so many Scriptures, but just to give you a few. It’s in 1st John chapter 4, verses 7-8. “Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.” Some people say, “Well, come on. There are certain things that God does not forgive of.” God is quick to forgive more than a human being is! To back it up with more verses, the apostle John really gave a good idea of God’s love, or a great description. 1st John chapter 4, verses 9-11: “This is how God showed His love among us. He sent His one and only Son into the world, that we might live through him. This is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice of our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.”
Not only is God loving, He is faithful. God’s love is faithful. Isn’t that what we struggle with as human beings today, is being faithful to one another? 2nd Timothy chapter 2, verses 11-13, “For this is a faithful saying, for if we died with him, we shall also live with him. If we endure, we shall also reign with him. If we deny him, he will also deny us. If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He cannot deny himself.” Wow! Come on! God’s love is faithful upon everybody, and the reason why I can say it’s necessary to tell people that Jesus loves them, is because even though they deserve pure hatred. Even though they deserve wrath, they deserve a terrible punishment away from His presence, while their time is up here on earth, Jesus is remaining faithful in somebody’s life.
Interceding for them. Longing for them like the lost sheep, because he is faithful. When we deny him, he’s like, “Okay. Then if you deny me, then we’re separated. There’s nothing I can do about that, but I’m still going to be faithful.” When a horrible sinner, when a terrible sinner, does all these terrible things, believe it or not, as much as people don’t want to hear this. If they were to scream out Jesus’ name and pray to him, and scream for mercy here on earth, Jesus will hear them, and he will come to them, because he cannot deny who he is. He cannot do that in hell, however. This verse just hit me when I was reading this, and it’s in Isaiah chapter 38, verses 17 and 18. “Surely it was for my benefit that I suffered such anguish. In your love, you kept me from the pit of destruction. You have put all my sins behind Your back. For the grave, the grave, cannot praise you. Death cannot sing your praise. Those who go down to the pit cannot hope for faithfulness.”
Faithfulness! I am sorry, but man! People really need to get that verse down in their spirit! The gospel today, a lot of people think it’s offensive, but they do not realize that there is an Almighty God who is still faithful in a sinner’s life, because one second after they die, it is too late! And the reason you’re hearing the gospel on your streets, why people are inviting you to church. Offering to pray for you, speaking the gospel is because we are wanting to let them know that there is God who loves them. Who wants to be near them. Who wants to bring them in as His own because He is The Good Shepherd.
Final Thoughts
To conclude here, I want to go ahead and start by saying one final verse. A lot of people like to read Psalm chapter 5, and really kind of manifest on that Scripture and say, “See? This shows that God hates people! It’s proof! God hates the worker of iniquity, and we need to tell them that.” Well, if they continue to read, right after verse 6, they actually need to read, coming from David, verse 7. On Psalm chapter 5, “But I, by Your great love, can come into Your House. In reverence, I bow down toward Your Holy Temple. Lead me Lord in Your righteousness, because of my enemies, make Your way straight before me. Not a word from their mouth can be trusted. Their heart is filled of malice. Their throat is an open grave. With their tongues they tell lies.” I wonder who David was talking about with the enemies?
We have to understand one thing about iniquities, is that it’s an inward sin. As I was even talking about just before I jumped on this mic and talked about God’s wrath, God’s hate, there’s a spiritual force out there, guys, that is behind a lot of sin. As I was telling another gentleman on TikTok, demons are very real. The enemy is very real, and this is what God is up against. God cannot partner with darkness, which is satan and his minions. God is against it, and when a soul chooses to live wicked, when a soul chooses to follow ways that the devil places before them, as much as God wants nothing to do with that person, He really at the end of the day wants nothing to do with the enemy and his darkness. That’s why He is calling out to the person who is blind, saying that He loves them. “Come to me,” and that’s what David is talking about. “But by Your great love. If I can turn my wicked ways. If I open my heart to You, You will still let me come into Your House.”
This is just proof that God hates a person, by the separation and the thorn of sin, but He has no desire to put them in wrath. Even though even in the Old Testament, there were times where He did do that, but because of Jesus’ sacrifice, His wrath is actually really delayed on Judgement Day, or when a soul dies. God’s faithfulness is calling out to you today. You may be hearing this message and you’re wondering, “Does God love me?” My answer is yes, He does love you. Your sins are not defined by you. You are not defined by your sins, and His heart is going to touch you, and He’s going to transform you. So, if you’re listening to this today, and you’re not a believer, I encourage you to open your heart to Him. Jesus has already forgiven you before you even said you were sorry. Now it’s just up to you, if you want to ask for forgiveness, repent, and open your heart to him, because he wants you to be that sheep that he takes so great care of.
I want to end with prayer. Father, in the name of Jesus, I pray that You are touching people’s hearts today, Lord. You are not using a false image of yourself, that You hate people, and you’re just a God of wrath. No. You are a God of love, and Your love overpowers everything in humanity today, Lord. I pray that You just begin to touch the hearts of souls, Father God, who are living wicked, but you are shouting out that, “You are Mine.” The enemy thinks that they have them, but You are saying, “No. You are mine, and I will go to the ends of the earth to bring You into My hands.” As You said in Your Word, “No one can pluck you away from the palm of My hand.” Jesus I just pray that any soul who is opening their heart to you today, that they feel your love, and your ultimate sacrifice on the cross, Jesus. We just thank you for all of this, in Jesus’ name. Amen.
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