RESULTS OF SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE LIFE--PART 1

In this section, we shall look at;
1. Eternal Life for those God loves.
2. No Judgment on those God loves.

1. ETERNAL LIFE FOR THOSE GOD LOVES-JOHN 3;16 [Quote].
The Conjunction ''For'' points back, to What has been already said.
The word ''so'' is HUDATOS, and means, ''in this way,'' and points to What follows.

God's Love had no beginning--it is eternal-JERE 31;3[TURN].
God has always loved those, He chose in Christ Jesus.

How shall we view God's Love/
He loved The World [''kosmos'']. This doesn't refer to the extent of God's love. It doesn't refer to Quantity, but to Quality.
It speaks of THE DEPTH of God's Love, The Character of that Love.

The Word for World, ''KOSMOS'' can be used many ways.
For instance, it is used 3 times in John 1;10, and has a different meaning each time--
1st Time-Inhabited World
2nd Time-Material World
3rd Time-World of Unbelievers.

2 Corinthians 5;18-19-[Turn].
Here ''KOSMOS'' refers to those, The Father gave to The Son, in The Covenant of Redemption.
Everyone without exception will not be reconciled to Jesus Christ.
Only those, The Father gave to The Son, without the loss of one, will be reconciled.

Jesus Christ was sent from The Father, because He loved us eternally.
He came down, to where we were.

The Holy Spirit imparted to us, The Work, Christ accomplished at Calvary, and The Love of God, has poured out, in our hearts.

As a result, Christians love One Another.
This Love is expressed BY ALL ITS RECIPIENTS, and It goes back up in Praise, Honor, and
Glory, to The One, Who loved us, with Eternal Love-''For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son.''

GOD CANNOT LOVE US, APART FROM THE DEATH OF HIS SON, WHO BECAME OUR
SUBSTITUTE.
He loved us in Christ;
Christ's Death is just as Eternal, with The Father, as His Love.
The Depth of God's Love is based on Christ's death-
REVELATION 13;8-[TURN].

''He gave his only begotten Son''-''BEGOTTEN'' in the Greek is ''MONOGENES.'' meaning
''Unique.''
There is none equal with Him.
There has never been, and will never be, one like Him.
He stands alone, in Quality.
He is the embodiment of unique characteristics.
Jesus Christ walked on Earth, as The God-Man, Who alone, is The Substitute for those, chosen by The Father. JOHN 3;16-[QUOTE].

Now, Get this truth; NO CHRISTIAN HAS THE AUTHORITY TO TELL A LOST PERSON,
THAT GOD LOVES HIM, AND THAT CHRIST DIED FOR HIM.

The Book of Acts records the early history of The Church. And not once, in the entire book, is anything said, about God loving you, and Christ dying for you.
No Servant of Christ told people, that God loves them.
Paul did not carry a Placard saying, ''Smile, God loves you.''
All the servants were doing, What God commanded.
They were sheep-hunting, and that is all, we are commanded to do.

Now, to tell a lost sinner, that God loves him, is a failure, to distinguish between The Ones, God loves, and the Ones, He hates.
You see, GOD DOES NOT LOVE EVERYBODY; ''Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated''
[ROMANS 9;13].

John 3;16 must be seen in the light of its context. According to the context, there is no appreciation for God's Love in the non-regenerated heart.
To tell people, Who love the darkness, rather than light, that God loves them, is like casting pearls before swine-
MATTHEW 7;6-'' Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.''
Now, This doesn't mean, that a lost sheep, may not act like a hog, or, a dog. Saul of Tarsus acted like a hog, and he attacked people, before God's Grace, came into his heart and life.
The lesson is one of revering God's Truth, and discretion in witnessing, and in admitting people into Church Fellowship.

After the subject of Lawful Judgment in Matthew7;1-5, Christ showed the importance of discerning false prophets coming in sheep's clothing, when they are wolves, seeking to destroy with false doctrine.

Christians must be capable of properly discriminating between dogs, or hogs, and sheep.
PHILIPPIANS 3;2-''Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.''
Dogs were regarded as unclean animals-
MATTHEW 7;6-[TURN].
REVELATION 22;15-''For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.''
Gentiles were considered unclean, and were called Dogs by the Jews.

Paul retorted on the Judiazers, by using their own epithet.

Peter spoke of those who had been exposed to a full human understanding of spiritual things-and then turned away from them, and went back, thus showing that they were apostates-

Now, this is not to say, that some, who are loving darkness, and hating light, are not God's elect.