Jesus Christ is my God!
Issued 24.05.2004
Message to the man of lawlessness
You have experienced love but what kind of love? You don't call your affection towards your evilness love, do you? What does your love hate that tells much about the content of your love. The experience of God's love that denies God's anger has created people of lawlessness. Jesus Christ fights against the gospel of lawlessness with the sword of His mouth.
God hates evildoers
God hates a person who is committing an evil deed. Because the imagination of our hearts is evil from our youth, we all have grown up into God's enemies. Fortunately He is so wonderful that he also loves when He hates. He even loves His enemies. He proved this by giving His only Son to suffer the punishment of our sins. God doesn't love us because we are sinners, but because He is Love.
God's anger is not only against an evil deed, but also against its doer. Because of His anger He says to an evildoer: "You will surely die." This should be a self-evident fact to everybody but the gospel of lawlessness has caused many to believe that God loves an evildoer, although He hates his bad deeds.
Certainly a doer can be separated from his evil deed, if he did it by accident and against his will. The responsibility of your deed comes from your thoughts to which you yielded yourself. What you thought in your heart before you did your deed has an effect on the seriousness of your responsibility. God hates the attitudes of evildoers. The deeper those attitudes have rooted in you the hotter God's anger against you is.
God hates a person who is committing an evil deed. Because the imagination of our hearts is evil from our youth, we all have grown up into God's enemies. Fortunately He is so wonderful that he also loves when He hates. He even loves His enemies. He proved this by giving His only Son to suffer the punishment of our sins. God doesn't love us because we are sinners, but because He is Love.
God's anger is not only against an evil deed, but also against its doer. Because of His anger He says to an evildoer: "You will surely die." This should be a self-evident fact to everybody but the gospel of lawlessness has caused many to believe that God loves an evildoer, although He hates his bad deeds.
Certainly a doer can be separated from his evil deed, if he did it by accident and against his will. The responsibility of your deed comes from your thoughts to which you yielded yourself. What you thought in your heart before you did your deed has an effect on the seriousness of your responsibility. God hates the attitudes of evildoers. The deeper those attitudes have rooted in you the hotter God's anger against you is.
Lawless spirit in Christianity
Fall silent you, who say: "God loves sinners." Why should you do so? Because "you have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, 'In what way have we wearied Him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them' or 'Where is the God of justice?'" Mal.2:17-18
You have wearied God and deceived people with your words. You have led people to believe that God is pleased with them, although they keep on sinning. In reality God hates them and His punishment is standing at their door. Because they don't realize that God hates them, they don't understand to seek peace with Him. Thus the gospel about Jesus doesn't touch them. The love of Golgotha is there that God loved His enemies and not there that He loved sinning people.
Stop you who say: "God doesn't judge. He loves everybody." Revive and open your eyes to see that God's wrath is a daily experience of the whole mankind. God has cursed nature because of our wickedness and still you say, where is the God of justice? Every day He causes us to suffer diseases and accidents due to our rebellious spirit and yet you are saying that God doesn't judge.
You have spoken deceptively about the Cross of Golgotha. You have left the anger of God unsaid. Why have you not spoken about God's love and His wrath at the same time, although it is according to the reality of the gospel? - Because you have had mercy on your sinful nature, therefore you don't want to speak about God's wrath. Those who believe in God's wrath "have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires." Gal.5:24
The atoning day of our sins on Golgotha was the day of God's wrath, the day of His judgment against our sins. Through this sacrifice you are able to be saved from the wrath of God. Do you experience any need?
The death of Jesus demonstrated how much God hates sin. He didn't even spare His only Son, when our punishment was upon Jesus. How great a sacrifice! Rend your heart and be frightened at yourself before it. He took your place on the cross, so that you could get from Him a place in the Kingdom of God!
Tremble, you who say: "Jesus is law-minded and hard-hearted." He who doesn't follow the teachings of Jesus has hardened his heart to love. He who obeys the teachings of Jesus has hardened his heart to evil. God doesn't become soft before injustice and He doesn't give His grace to those who have fallen in love with lawlessness.
Jesus has predicted our time: "Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold." Matth.24:12 He doesn't speak about the lawlessness of the godless but the lawlessness that is among believers. Read the previous verse and you are convinced of it: "Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many." Matth.24:11 Among us there are more preachers of the gospel of lawlessness than preachers of the gospel of God.
Fall silent you, who say: "God loves sinners." Why should you do so? Because "you have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, 'In what way have we wearied Him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and He delights in them' or 'Where is the God of justice?'" Mal.2:17-18
You have wearied God and deceived people with your words. You have led people to believe that God is pleased with them, although they keep on sinning. In reality God hates them and His punishment is standing at their door. Because they don't realize that God hates them, they don't understand to seek peace with Him. Thus the gospel about Jesus doesn't touch them. The love of Golgotha is there that God loved His enemies and not there that He loved sinning people.
Stop you who say: "God doesn't judge. He loves everybody." Revive and open your eyes to see that God's wrath is a daily experience of the whole mankind. God has cursed nature because of our wickedness and still you say, where is the God of justice? Every day He causes us to suffer diseases and accidents due to our rebellious spirit and yet you are saying that God doesn't judge.
You have spoken deceptively about the Cross of Golgotha. You have left the anger of God unsaid. Why have you not spoken about God's love and His wrath at the same time, although it is according to the reality of the gospel? - Because you have had mercy on your sinful nature, therefore you don't want to speak about God's wrath. Those who believe in God's wrath "have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires." Gal.5:24
The atoning day of our sins on Golgotha was the day of God's wrath, the day of His judgment against our sins. Through this sacrifice you are able to be saved from the wrath of God. Do you experience any need?
The death of Jesus demonstrated how much God hates sin. He didn't even spare His only Son, when our punishment was upon Jesus. How great a sacrifice! Rend your heart and be frightened at yourself before it. He took your place on the cross, so that you could get from Him a place in the Kingdom of God!
Tremble, you who say: "Jesus is law-minded and hard-hearted." He who doesn't follow the teachings of Jesus has hardened his heart to love. He who obeys the teachings of Jesus has hardened his heart to evil. God doesn't become soft before injustice and He doesn't give His grace to those who have fallen in love with lawlessness.
Jesus has predicted our time: "Because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold." Matth.24:12 He doesn't speak about the lawlessness of the godless but the lawlessness that is among believers. Read the previous verse and you are convinced of it: "Many false prophets will rise up and deceive many." Matth.24:11 Among us there are more preachers of the gospel of lawlessness than preachers of the gospel of God.
Are you a man of lawlessness?
Have you hardened your heart before the teachings of Jesus so that you don't want to follow them? What spirit has made you give up following Jesus? That spirit doesn't come from the gospel of God.
You say that in practice it is impossible to obey the teachings of Jesus. You consider them unreasonable. However you say that you believe in Jesus and you think that you are going to be saved through the work of Jesus that He did on the cross.
If you loved Jesus, His teachings would be spirit and life for you. If you lived from the gospel of God, you would love Jesus.
You, who married a divorced one, don't love Jesus, for He says: "Whoever marries a divorced one commits adultery." (Luke 16:18)If you had hated your selfishness, you could have loved Jesus in this matter. You would have been able to hate your selfishness, if you had besides love also recognized God's anger against yourself in the event of Golgotha.
You, who used violence to protect yourself, don't love Jesus, for He says: "Don't resist evil persons and love your enemies." (Matth.5:39,44)If you had hated your pride, you would have been able to love Jesus in this matter. You would have been able to hate your pride, if you had accepted that God hated proud man on Golgotha.
You, who wearied yourself out to get rich, don't love Jesus, for He says: "Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth." (Matth.6:19)If you had hated your greed, you would have been able to love Jesus in this matter. You would have been able to hate your greed, if you had fallen in love with God who hates greedy man on Golgotha.
Anger of a guilty one doesn't bring about the righteous life that God desires. Instead the heart that is cleansed with the blood of Jesus is able to hate evil cleanly. If you don't hate yourself as an evildoer with this anger, you are not able to follow Jesus. He says: "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:25
The salvation doesn't depend on man's desire to be saved or his efforts, but on God's mercy. He can take away His mercy from us, if we insult His grace with our sin loving attitudes. Jesus has compared this event when He takes away His mercy with vomiting. "Because you are lukewarm, and neither cold or hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth." Rev.3:16
The gospel of lawlessness makes man into a Christian who doesn't hate evil and doesn't love good. He is "so merciful" that he has had mercy also on wickedness. He is "so righteous" that he has condemned even Jesus. He doesn't dare to hate evil that he would not come to hate himself. He is not able to love good, because He doesn't know God. However he claims to be spiritually rich and know God.
Jesus stands at the door of hearts of the lawless-minded believers and knocks. This knocking is rebuking and discipline. With that He conveys His love to the deceived ones. Hopefully you do not take lightly His discipline. If you don't open your heart for Him and let Him come in, you cannot stay inside Him either.
Have you hardened your heart before the teachings of Jesus so that you don't want to follow them? What spirit has made you give up following Jesus? That spirit doesn't come from the gospel of God.
You say that in practice it is impossible to obey the teachings of Jesus. You consider them unreasonable. However you say that you believe in Jesus and you think that you are going to be saved through the work of Jesus that He did on the cross.
If you loved Jesus, His teachings would be spirit and life for you. If you lived from the gospel of God, you would love Jesus.
You, who married a divorced one, don't love Jesus, for He says: "Whoever marries a divorced one commits adultery." (Luke 16:18)If you had hated your selfishness, you could have loved Jesus in this matter. You would have been able to hate your selfishness, if you had besides love also recognized God's anger against yourself in the event of Golgotha.
You, who used violence to protect yourself, don't love Jesus, for He says: "Don't resist evil persons and love your enemies." (Matth.5:39,44)If you had hated your pride, you would have been able to love Jesus in this matter. You would have been able to hate your pride, if you had accepted that God hated proud man on Golgotha.
You, who wearied yourself out to get rich, don't love Jesus, for He says: "Do not store up for yourself treasures on earth." (Matth.6:19)If you had hated your greed, you would have been able to love Jesus in this matter. You would have been able to hate your greed, if you had fallen in love with God who hates greedy man on Golgotha.
Anger of a guilty one doesn't bring about the righteous life that God desires. Instead the heart that is cleansed with the blood of Jesus is able to hate evil cleanly. If you don't hate yourself as an evildoer with this anger, you are not able to follow Jesus. He says: "He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life." John 12:25
The salvation doesn't depend on man's desire to be saved or his efforts, but on God's mercy. He can take away His mercy from us, if we insult His grace with our sin loving attitudes. Jesus has compared this event when He takes away His mercy with vomiting. "Because you are lukewarm, and neither cold or hot, I will vomit you out of my mouth." Rev.3:16
The gospel of lawlessness makes man into a Christian who doesn't hate evil and doesn't love good. He is "so merciful" that he has had mercy also on wickedness. He is "so righteous" that he has condemned even Jesus. He doesn't dare to hate evil that he would not come to hate himself. He is not able to love good, because He doesn't know God. However he claims to be spiritually rich and know God.
Jesus stands at the door of hearts of the lawless-minded believers and knocks. This knocking is rebuking and discipline. With that He conveys His love to the deceived ones. Hopefully you do not take lightly His discipline. If you don't open your heart for Him and let Him come in, you cannot stay inside Him either.
Do you love Jesus?
Jesus says: "If you love me, you will obey what I command." John 14:15
You are able to love Jesus only for that reason that He died for you. Do not deceive yourself by believing that you are able to love Jesus for any other motive. Remember Peter, the apostle! He thought that his love to Jesus will endure. Human love to God disappears like the morning mist.
God's love is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, when we are watching how it comes out from the death of Jesus. If you don't see God's anger in the death of Jesus, you cannot get His love from it. Jesus didn't die for the good ones, but for the enemies of God, that means - for you. Did this gospel hit you or did it miss?
The sweetness of this sacrifice is there that through it your sins are forgiven and you will get eternal life as a gift. The saltiness of this sacrifice is there that it proclaims God's judgment to sin.
The gospel of lawlessness proclaims the cross of Jesus only as the evidence that God loves you. Because you are not sure of His love, you received the gospel. Those evangelists who left God's wrath unsaid lied to you, although all they said was true. A lie is also leaving something essential unsaid and not only telling a lie as the truth.
Unsalted love doesn't give you the ability to love Jesus, because it doesn't give you the experience of how God's wrath against you is changed into love towards you. Therefore those who experienced the lawless love don't obey what Jesus has commanded. The world has been filled with unsalted Christianity. Woe, how Jesus feels sick because of them! He would not want to vomit them out, but yet it happens, because there is God's offering salt in Him.
Even now you can return to God and get mercy from Jesus. Just in that hope I have written this.
Jesus says: "If you love me, you will obey what I command." John 14:15
You are able to love Jesus only for that reason that He died for you. Do not deceive yourself by believing that you are able to love Jesus for any other motive. Remember Peter, the apostle! He thought that his love to Jesus will endure. Human love to God disappears like the morning mist.
God's love is poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, when we are watching how it comes out from the death of Jesus. If you don't see God's anger in the death of Jesus, you cannot get His love from it. Jesus didn't die for the good ones, but for the enemies of God, that means - for you. Did this gospel hit you or did it miss?
The sweetness of this sacrifice is there that through it your sins are forgiven and you will get eternal life as a gift. The saltiness of this sacrifice is there that it proclaims God's judgment to sin.
The gospel of lawlessness proclaims the cross of Jesus only as the evidence that God loves you. Because you are not sure of His love, you received the gospel. Those evangelists who left God's wrath unsaid lied to you, although all they said was true. A lie is also leaving something essential unsaid and not only telling a lie as the truth.
Unsalted love doesn't give you the ability to love Jesus, because it doesn't give you the experience of how God's wrath against you is changed into love towards you. Therefore those who experienced the lawless love don't obey what Jesus has commanded. The world has been filled with unsalted Christianity. Woe, how Jesus feels sick because of them! He would not want to vomit them out, but yet it happens, because there is God's offering salt in Him.
Even now you can return to God and get mercy from Jesus. Just in that hope I have written this.
The Bible version used in references is NIV