...God's Love...

Note: this article is purposefully written in a negative manner in some places.

Does God (Spiritually) Love Every Individual of Mankind ?

The natural man cannot distinguish the love of the Spirit from the natural love that is in all mankind. All people have a natural love that serves the things of their earthly nature, and is commendable for the purpose that it serves, but it is important to the (born again) child of God that these different loves are never confused with each another. It seems to me, that the reason the natural man cannot understand these things, is because he has never truly experienced the love of the Spirit; so he then must have no way to compare these two different loves. In fact the natural man has no way of making any truly spiritual comparisons. The Apostle so clearly explains this to the spiritual mind:

“…Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God…
Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual…

…But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

…But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no (natural) man…”1 Cor 2:12-16.

(The natural man, in his way of thinking about salvation and the fundamental principals of the Grace of God, with the attendant Glory thereof, can make no real sense of, or have a true appreciation for these things of the teaching of the Spirit, as it appears to the spiritual mind, because they can only be seen, much less gloried in only through the faculties of the renewed mind.)

The spirit that is “of the world” is a different spirit from the Spirit of Christ.

The Apostle John perfectly agrees With Paul on this. Listen to his

words: “…Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God:

because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:
And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them. We are of God: he that knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 1 John 4: 1-8.

“… Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.

“…That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit…”
John 3:5-9.

The above verses clearly puts to silence all modern day so called “evangelists”, who are trying to “save” the world at their own charges, based on their own human wisdom, because their whole philosophy and practice is founded upon the idea that anyone of the human race is able to hear, and therefore (has the option) to believe the gospel. The truth is, the natural man, in his mind has no real ability, because He is depraved in his natural faculties toward the love of God with no real desire to love or believe the gospel, as it is in Christ Jesus, but is even at enmity with it in his natural mind until it pleases God to “born” him of His Spirit, and they that do not know God in the work of salvation, shall never know Him in this respect in Christ, until it pleases Christ to reveal Himself to them as their only Savior.”

Now, can you understand that the world in His comparison that Christ is referring to, and John’s world is not limited to the mind of the carnal Jews and their world (system,) but to that natural, or carnal spirit that influences and leads the fallen and spiritually depraved natural minds of all mankind.

“…As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated…” Rom 9:13.

“…I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob,
And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness…” Mal 1:2-3.

“… Having loved His own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end…” John 13:1.

“…A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another…” John 13:34. “…He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest thyself unto us, and not unto the world?
Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings…” John 14:21-24.

“… As the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you: continue ye in my love.

If ye keep my commandments, ye shall abide in my love; even as I have kept my Father's commandments, and abide in his love.
These things have I spoken unto you, that my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full.
This is my commandment, That ye love one another, as I have loved you…” John 15:9-12.

“…I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me…” John 17:23.

“…For I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me; and they have received them, and have known surely that I came out from thee, and they have believed that thou didst send me.
I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine.
And all mine are thine, and thine are mine; and I am glorified in them…” John 17:8- 10.

“…Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.
No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.
Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.
And we have seen and do testify that the Father sent the Son to be the Saviour of the world.
Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him…” 1 John 4:10-16.

“…Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:
According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love…” Eph 1:2-4.

“…For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life…”John 3:16.

“…Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another…” John 4:10-11.

“…We love him, because he first loved us.

And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also…” 1 John 4:19-21.

“…But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him…” John 6:64-66.

Who are God’s (spiritual) children inwardly taught to (spiritually) love ?

I repeat the above statements

Prayerfully submitted,

A poor sinner, trusting in the righteousness of Christ,

OAB