To make this clear I will start today by giving an example of this idea of love and acceptance being different.
Jesus loved the sinners but did not accept their sins.
Jesus loved on people but could not let them keep sinning meaning he could not accept what they were doing or how they were.
Fast forward to today, we as Christians are to love but not be accepting of sins.
We are to love people as Jesus loved but this does not mean that we accept what they do or how they are.
There was a commercial that said we are to love all Americans. You can say that of other countries too.
I agree with the premise of that saying but the part they get wrong is that according to that statement in the commercial we have to accept them even if they are sinning, that is the idea.
That is the idea of love today, we have to love people just as they are and not care if they might be going to hell (let them sin or be who they are).
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3:16
God did not give His son for acceptance but for repentance.
16 These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: 17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, 18 An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, 19 A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. Proverbs 6:16-19 KJV
This Is about how God hates sin.
We will continue tomorrow!!!
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