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GOD’S DESCRIPTION OF LOVE, Part 4
I begin today with a statement I wrote yesterday:
GOD’S AMAZING GRACE DOES NOT COVER A LIFESTYLE OF UNREPENTANT SIN.
To permit a son or a daughter to have their homosexual partner living and sleeping together in your home is a false love and a false grace. Even to allow unmarried couples of the opposite sex to sleep together in your home is a false love and a false grace. This is happening in Christian homes across America and I am saddened by it.
Whatever the world accepts as acceptable and normal behavior when it comes to morals is now becoming the norm of the church.
I am not saying that we should not actively, as Christians, love those who are committing sin. God loved us while we were yet sinners so much that he sent His Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, to die a horrible death for our sins. Romans 5:8 says: “But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
We must actively show our love toward sinners and yet at the same time let them understand that we actively reject their sin.
Under the guise of love and grace many so-called Christians will not judge abortion as murdering innocent lives and yet at the same time they will actively stand up against those who murder innocent people on our streets, schools, and Walmart’s. What hypocrisy. This is false love and grace and we fail to discern what is right from wrong. Murdering unborn, innocent children is just as evil as murdering people in Walmart.
Under the guise of love and grace we must not allow your children to have uncontrolled use of Internet games and programs that pervert their innocent minds and lives. This is false love for your children and false grace. Christian parents have a God-given mandate to protect their children from watching the wrong things.
God’s grace should never be treated as a band aid to cover sin so that sin doesn’t look so bad.
Many Christians allow this to happen so their children will not be bored with nothing to entertain them. They think that one day they will grow out of it. This is a false love and a false grace.
Hebrews 12:28, 29: “Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: For our God is a consuming fire.” This is the love and grace that is acceptable to God.
Titus 2;11, 12 explains more of what it means to walk in grace: “For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world.”
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell