God's love is not unconditional.

Imagine the following situation: a husband notoriously cheats on his wife for decades, and she suffers and cries every time. The husband is often gone for the night, lies as befits adultery, fails to care for the children, and neglects every possible responsibility of being a husband and father.

It is obvious that he certainly does not love his wife or children. The question arises, however, does the wife love her husband? Is her attitude love or masochism?

 

Now imagine that a constantly drunk man comes to the evangelical church. Will the elders of the church accept his attitude? No and Paul wrote about this in his letter to the Corinthians that many have already fallen asleep because of it.

 

God's love is conditional.

 

As I proved in one of my texts Israel is a divorcee because he got a divorce letter from God .

This is very significant in understanding God's love. Well, Israel had many opportunities from God and that is what God's love was all about. But due to the fact that he fell away from the faith, broke the covenant, became an adulterous wife and eventually God moved away from him which resulted in Israel's captivity and complete dispersion. Today, Israel being a mixture of Edomites, Khazars and Judeans is trying to form a relationship with God on its own terms, but no longer with this God. However, there was a prohibition in the Mosaic Law against returning to invalidated relationships.

 

After the breakup of Israel, the same path was followed by the Judeans.

 

I now turn to the legal basis for my argument about God's conditional love.

In John's gospel, Jesus made this love clear and explicit.

 

 If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.

 

 

All of Israel did not persevere in God's love and is disconnected to this day.

In the above verse we are dealing with conditional love. Are you keeping the commandments? You abide in God's love. Don't keep the commandments? You are not abiding in God's love.

 

You are breaking the covenant of marriage; you are not abiding in love.

How does this relate to marriages that have survived hard times?

There was goodwill in such marriages, which could be illustrated by Israel's conversion before he received a divorce letter from God. It is the attitude of our heart that determines whether we reject someone or not.

 

Further in John 15 we read:

 

"No one has greater love than this, when someone lays down his life for his friends:

 

Not for everyone, but for FRIENDS.

In the following passage from John's gospel, can we conclude that people who walk away from Jesus because of a high bar are still his friends?

 

"And many of his disciples, when they heard it, said, This is hard speech; who can listen to it? (61) And Jesus, aware that his disciples were murmuring because of this, said to them, Does this make you angry? (62) But what if you see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before? (63) The spirit brings life. The flesh helps nothing. The words I have spoken to you are spirit and life, (64) But there are those among you who do not believe. For Jesus knew from the beginning who were the unbelievers and who would deliver him. (65) And he said, Therefore have I told you that no one can come to me unless it is given to him from the Father. (66) From that moment on, many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him.“

 

No, these people are not friends of Jesus.

 

Two spouses.

 

1. Drunkenly contrite.
2. Light Drinker.

 

 

A repentant addict will want to get out of his situation. If he has a wife - many women are drinking lately - he will apologize and ask for help.

 

The drug addict will do everything according to the slogan Do whatever you want.

 

Someone will say, God saves the latter also. This is true, but it is God who extends His hand, and they must want to need help. The Pharisees did not accept such help. They died in their sins. The Pharisees are unrepentant drunkards.

 

 

I have chosen a few verses to support my thinking:

 

"If you keep my commandments and my laws you will obey and keep all my precepts, following them, and I will keep my word concerning you, which I spoke to David your father. " Kr 6.12

 

There is a condition in both verses.

 

If therefore thou shalt hearken unto all that I command thee, and shalt walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my sight, and keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, then will I be with thee, and will build thee a lasting house, as I built David, and will give Israel unto thee.
(1 Kings 11:38, Warsaw Bible)

 

 

There is no unconditional love. If someone teaches this, they are either wrong or deceiving the faithful.

In the lake of fire there will be people who have not kept God's commandments, and in the Kingdom of God there will be no Christians who have not persevered in God's love.

 

Now it is fashionable to crack a testimony about how much Jesus did. Yes, Jesus still performs miracles and heals, etc., but just as during the apostles' lifetime people received help, and with their lives they turned away from Jesus.

 

 

"If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not hold to the truth." 1 John 6.

 

I know that such a text is harsh and depressing for some, but Jesus is not an inscription on drops. He is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Can something depressing be keeping away from sin?

 

It is said, "God loves you." Yes and His love is manifested in pulling you out of lawlessness. The antichrist is a man of lawlessness.

This is the anti Christ spirit.

God's love is characterized in attraction to holiness, not fixation on a life of darkness.

 

He who has stolen let him steal stop, he who hurts with his tongue let him hurt stop, he who has smoked pot let him smoke stop, he who has same-sex sex let him stop this procedure.

 

 

 IF YOU keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and abide in his love.