God is love. That's usually all we hear most professing Christians and evangelists and pastors say. They emphasize that to the exclusion of His other attributes, some of which will never pass their lips.
Yes, God is love, but He is HOLY, HOLY ,HOLY.
He is righteous.
But He also has wrath. He hates the wicked.
He is a jealous God for His own.
He is long-suffering, patient, kind, good, slow to anger, abounding in lovingkindness, and gracious.
He does not wish to save all people, otherwise Hell would be empty.
There will be false teachers among YOU and your leaders. The ones you presume would never steer you wrong or offer a heretic as a solid brother in Christ.
All of this is in Scripture and it serves His purpose, which ultimately is to glorify Him. Yes, even Hell glorifies God because it glorifies His righteousness and inflexible justice.
Act 20:20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you publicly and from house to house, 21 solemnly testifying to both Jews and Greeks of repentance toward God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Act 20:26 "Therefore, I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men. 27 "For I did not shrink from declaring to you
the whole purpose of God.
Act 20:29 "I know that after my departure savage wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; 30 and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them. 31 "Therefore be on the alert, remembering that night and day for a period of three years I did not cease to admonish each one with tears.
We cannot pick and choose which parts of Scripture we want to proclaim and which ones we either ignore, but may for some, flatly REJECT. God is not a piecemeal God. Nor is His Scripture.
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