The Opposite
of Judgment is Love!
“Nicodemus
answered and said to Him, ‘How can these things be?’ JESUS answered and said to
him, ‘Are you the teacher of Israel and you do not know these things? Most
assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen,
and you do not receive Our witness. If I have told you earthly things and you
do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you Heavenly things? No one has
ascended to Heaven but He Who came down from Heaven, That is, The Son of Man
Who is in Heaven. And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so
must The Son of Man be lifted up, that whoever believes on Him should not
perish but have Eternal Life. For GOD so Loved the world that He gave His only Begotten
Son that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have Everlasting Life.
For GOD did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the
world through Him might be Saved. He who believes in Him is not condemned, but
he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in
The Name of The only Begotten Son of GOD. And this is the condemnation, that
The Light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than Light,
because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates The Light and
does not come to The Light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does
The Truth comes to The Light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they
have been done in GOD.’” John 3:9-21
Love = “For
GOD so Loved the world…”
GOD is Love –
1 John 4:8
Judgment = “but
he who does not believe is condemned already…”
Judgment is
eternal – Revelation 20:11-15
GOD’s Love
overcomes our Automatic Judgment! Humanity has been condemned since Adam’s rebellion.
“Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through
sin, and thus death spread to all men, because all sinned…For the wages of sin
is death, but the Gift of GOD is Eternal Life in CHRIST JESUS our LORD.” “For
we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of CHRIST, that each one may
receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good
or bad. Knowing, therefore, the Terror of The LORD, we persuade men;…For He
made Him Who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the
Righteousness of GOD in Him.” “And as it is appointed to men to die once, but
after this the Judgment, so CHRIST was offered once to bear the sins of many.
To those who eagerly await Him, He will appear a second time, apart from sin,
for Salvation.” Romans 5:12, 6:23; 2 Corinthians 5:10, 21; Hebrews 9:27-28
Study Genesis
3; Romans 5-6; 2 Corinthians 5; Hebrews 9
GOD is Love
and He Loves Eternally And Those who reject GOD’s Love or Rebel against His
Will are Judged Eternally. John 8:31-32, 17:3. Rejecting GOD’s Love and
therefore His Salvation causes eternal judgment, and even those who say they
love GOD but do not obey His Will are judged. Matthew 7:21-23
The point of
Salvation is not Eternal Life because we are born an eternal being, it is
Eternal Life in CHRIST JESUS rather than eternal life in the Lake of Fire. Just
as JESUS had to obey GOD and only do as He was told and shown; so must we obey
GOD and only do what we are told and shown by His Word and by His SPIRIT. Matthew
6:9-15, 25:41, 26:39; John 4:34, 6:38-40, 17:15; Revelation 20:14-15
Study Matthew
6, 7, 25; John 15; Revelation 20
