Exodus 34:6 NKJV And the LORD passed before him and proclaimed, “The LORD, the LORD God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abounding in goodness and truth,
God is merciful, gracious, longsuffering and abounding in goodness and truth.
John 3:16 NKJV For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
1 John 4:8 NKJV …for God is love.
God is love and all the things mentioned in Exodus 34:6. God is love and He is good all the time. But there is much more to God than only these few characteristics and there's a lot more to Him in the fullness of all He is. This is where people make a grave mistake by not telling of all that God is but only one side of Him, the side that makes everyone feel good.
God is holy and jealous, Joshua 24:19
God is a righteous judge, 2 Samuel 14:8
God’s ways are just and true, Revelation 15:3
God is a consuming fire, Hebrews 12:29
God is a God of wrath, Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Now you have a fuller view and knowledge about what God is really like in all. He’s all of these all the time and more. God’s love, goodness and mercy do not preclude His anger, wrath and judgment. He’s all the good stuff we like and all the scary stuff we don’t want to hear about and especially experience. He’s the Lion and the Lamb both at the same time. It all depends on what we do with Him while on earth as to which of these characteristics and ways of God we experience first hand.
God loves the whole world but has wrath against all sin.
He’s merciful, gracious, longsuffering and good while at the same time a holy, righteous and a jealous wrathful God who rewards us for all we do on earth in life and with Him.
Exodus 34:14 NKJ (for you shall worship no other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God),
Deuteronomy 4:24 NKJ For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Joshua 24:19 NKJV But Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”
Isaiah 26:21 CEV The LORD will come out to punish everyone on earth for their sins.
Isaiah 59:18 NKJV According to their deeds, accordingly He will repay, Fury to His adversaries, Recompense to His enemies;
Isaiah 63:63 NKJV “I have trodden the winepress alone, And from the peoples no one was with Me. For I have trodden them in My anger, And trampled them in My fury; Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments, And I have stained all My robes.
Revelation 19:15 NKJV Now out of His mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it He should strike the nations. And He Himself will rule them with a rod of iron. He Himself treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
Revelation 20:11 NKJV Then I saw a great white throne and Him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And there was found no place for them. 12 And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. 13 The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. 14 Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. 15 And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
Revelation 21:8 NKJV But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.”
2 Thessalonians 2:9 CEV When the wicked one appears, Satan will pretend to work all kinds of miracles, wonders, and signs. 10 Lost people will be fooled by his evil deeds. They could be saved, but they will refuse to love the truth and
accept it. 11 So God will make sure that they are fooled into believing a lie. 12 All
of them will be punished, because they would rather do evil than believe the truth.
Romans 1:18 NIV The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness,
You have only just read a few Scriptures from the Bible of what God will do to those who sinned have against Him and would not receive the truth but live their life own way without God. I could give you a lot more passages. You might be asking yourself why is he hitting this topic so hard. My answer to you is because so few even preach or mentions this subject or these Scriptures anymore.
By the way I must add that God isn’t schizophrenic or on an emotional roller coaster either. He is God and He is Love. He is Good and He is perfect. All He does whether we like it or not is done out of pure, holly, righteous and jealous love. We make the choices, He doesn’t. He only gives use what we ask for even if it’s not spoken by us verbally. Our actions speak louder than our words. He hears and sees all.
Hebrews 4:13 NKJV And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Malachi 3:6 NKJV “ For I am the LORD, I do not change;
God is who He is and will not change nor conform into our image which so many are doing in the world of the lost and the church of today. We shouldn’t try to make Him to fit in our world and our form. We are to submit to His Word and will, are to be conformed into His image and fit into His world and His kingdom which lives forever and ever. He doesn’t do this because He’s a mean, angry, party pooping, buzz killing tyrant. He does it because of His love for us and it’s the only way to keep us from destroying ourselves, others and the world we live in and on.
If you don’t believe this then look at the Godless world today and ask this question, “How is it all working out for humanity on this planet with out GOD right now? Any famine? Any murder? Any rape? Any natural disasters? Any wars? Any sickness and disease? ANY TERRORISM IN THE WORLD? Watch the news; read the paper; surf the web. What do you see? What’s your answer? Is God running this world or are we with the help of some other obvious dark demonic forces?
1 John 5:19 NKJV and the whole world lies under the sway of the wicked one.
2 Corinthians 4:3 NKJV But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, 4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.
Ephesians 2:2 NKJV in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience, 3 among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.
Buy the way if you don’t know the Bible very well, I’m speaking about the Devil, Satan who is the spiritual creature behind all of this mess on earth. He works through any submitted person to do all his dirty work in an attempt to destroy God’s creation and man.
Have you broken any of God’s Commandments?
Is there any hope for you, a SINNER?
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