Dr. R.C Sproul answers the question 'Does God loves the wicked as does the elect?'

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[yvonnekoh]

It Is clearly stated in the Bible. God do not take pleasure in the destruction of the wicked. He wants ALL to be saved.
It’s our duty. To tell others about Christ and His love.
Leave it to God to save . We don’t know who will come. Even at the last minute. Remember the thief on the cross with the Lord. Who repented. Jesus said he will be with. Jesus in paradise. Amen.

[rdwakefield]

two verse that speak of God's hatred of those who work iniquity....Psalm 5:4-5 and Psalm 11:4-5...

Also here is an excerpt from an old theologian...

All the promises of God are made in Christ; none of them can be of any good to those who are out of Christ, for a man out of Christ is out of the favor of God. God cannot look on such a man except as an object of His wrath, as fuel for His vengeance; there is no hope for any man till he is in Christ. But it may be asked, Does not God do many good things to those who are out of Christ, sending His rain on the just as well as the unjust, and filling the bellies of the wicked with good things (Psa 17.14)? Yes, He does indeed, But are those temporal mercies blessings? Indeed they are not: as God says in Mal 2.2 “I will curse your blessings: yes, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart” — cf. Deu 28.15-20. To the wicked, the temporal mercies of God are like the food given to bullocks — they only “prepare them for the day of slaughter” (Jer 12.3 and cf. Jas 5.5).

Now let these sink in and may the Lord open your eyes and change your heart to understand His glorious truth.

[billmartinn]

Well RC, the bible certainly doesn't say Jesus died for only Believers!

[alexmala]

I disagree with the doctrine of election, but I agree with RC here. I agree that God has a special bond and love for the faithful (not the elect). For the world is divided into faithful and unfaithful, into good servants and wicked ones, into righteous and unrighteous. It depends on the individual which side they choose, but the God of the Bible is a God of grace and mercy. He is a just God. He offers salvation to everyone. He will never reject the one who turns to Him.

[billmartinn]

Wow! RC totally denied Luke 5:31, 32. Jesus said in vs. 32 "I have not come call the righteous, but SINNERS, to repentance." Jesus loved sinners, but RC denied it. So very sad!

[earl_grey_]

Granting repentance through following Christ is not for everybody, "It is (only) for everyone our Lord God will choose."(Acts 2:39)
even the devils know exactly who God is, and who Christ is - it was made plain to them so they are without excuse. they continue to go on their ways sinning knowing and "believing" what they know. Will this sort of belief save them in this manner? Absolutely not!. For Christ told them already once :"Why are you calling me "Lord, Lord" and not do what I commanded? - depart from me you workers of iniquity!
therefore "not willing anyone should perish" is a figure of speech that should be taken in context of the full Scripture, because "hell is reserved for satan and his angels", and Christ himself said about salvation : " many are called, few are chosen" and that few enter through the narrow path, and the rest - the many that are already predestined to go through gate to destruction that is the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars that shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
It is God that predestined only certain souls to follow Christ for salvation (John 6:37), and others - those whose sins are too heavy in the sight of God- are already predestined for destruction.
The Gospel, in Romans 9 clearly states:
" God said to Moses : “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
It does not, therefore, depend on human (or any other being) desire or effort, only on God’s mercy. For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” who are you, a human (or any other) being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience (6000 years now) the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory."

The Day of The Lord is near and getting nearer each second like a thief in the night when God's chosen ones will be taken up to the clouds to meet Christ, and the rest are to be delivered to the lake of fire. For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality

Alas(for the ungodly) for that day!
For the day of the Lord is near;
it will come like destruction from the Almighty.

[mikefanofmovies]

YAHUSHUA, He whom you call Jesus, has spoken to THIS generation. More of His Word at the bottom of this comment;

"2/14/11 From YahuShua HaMashiach, Our Lord and Savior
The Word of The Lord Spoken to Timothy
For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

Thus says The Lord: Blood pours down, a waterfall of tears flow down! Rivers of tears and blood run through the desolate places, yet no growth is seen; nothing at all sprouts forth from the hard and cracked ground! The sound of the charadrion is not heard, neither do the doves come out of their hiding places in the morning; no song is heard... Blood pours down to cover the mountains! Blood pours down and tears cover the land! Blood and tears fall upon the parched ground, yet only dust and ashes remain.
The earth cries out in the morning, and the people mourn at eventide; from dusk until the dawn, the bodies are piled up in heaps! The whole world loves violence, and over all this murder barely a tear is shed; the voice of weeping and lamentation is rarely heard above a whisper. And the cries of every unborn child is muffled by the sound of their mother’s dying womb, as her heart becomes stone... The light of her eyes darkening; her life, forfeit.
Mankind is covered in wickedness! The breadth of the whole earth is filled with every kind of evil! Every tree is dry and bears bitter fruit! For the heart of man is black, the void within him deep, a widening chasm filled with deep darkness, sheer cliffs on every side!... Every branch withers, no more will leaves appear, dry and dead branches ready to be broken off and cast into the fire.

The heart of The Lord your God is very heavy. The heart of The Lord is enraged, and is very heavy. The sorrow of The Lord is deep and infinite.
My people, let it be known to you, I take no pleasure at all in what I must do, in what must be done - NO PLEASURE AT ALL! Says The Lord. As My hand draws back, blood pours down! As I strike the earth in My anger, My tears run down! As famine spreads forth across the land, My heart is rent inside Me over the hardness of men’s hearts! As My face fills with the heat of My fury, My eyes are set ablaze with fire over that which I see! My tears run down, My blood pours down. As My own servants turn from Me and run, as My own beloved, whom I have called sons and daughters, turn and fight against Me, as My own body betrays Me, My blood pours down, My tears run down.

As the nations come together and bind
My hands and My feet, My tears run down...

As they bruise Me and spit in My eyes,
While mocking Me, My tears run down...

As they pierce My side, My blood and
Tears run down together!...

As My own people drive in the nails still,
I am risen up from My place with My arms
Spread apart, waiting to receive them!
My blood runs down, the tears run down...
OH MY PEOPLE, WHY HAVE
YOU FORSAKEN ME?!

Hard generation! Sleeping children! Even My own fall asleep, unable to watch with Me for one hour; their hearts hardened, unwilling to weep with Me in this last hour. Do you not understand My sorrows, little flock? They refuse to be healed! Therefore, I must destroy them!...
My blood runs down, and they refuse it! My tears fall like rain upon the nations, yet they will not lift their head, nor do they hold out their tongue to drink it! Where have all My children gone?! They choose death! THEY CHOOSE DEATH! And at the last day, they shall surely receive it; they shall taste of it to the fullest! Therefore do My tears run down; therefore do the rivers run like death through the waste places.
Beloved, they heap up death, only to throw themselves upon the heap! Lo, they have made their covenant with death, and with the grave they are in agreement! They burn candles and make sacrifices to other gods; yea, they bow down to them! Behold, they shall be slaughtered and burned together!... The whole field is diseased, every leaf is blighted and withers, every stalk is rotten even to the roots! It must be purged and burned with fire! Therefore do My tears run down; therefore does My sorrow continue on, forever. The wound is incurable! Therefore My love will weep, and My heart will wail, forever.

Have you not read My words, little flock? Are your ears yet dull in hearing? Yet My words shall not return void. For the beasts of the earth languish, and the creatures of flight fail to soar, for they know what is coming. Lo, I have nourished and brought forth young children to weep in your places, for you were unwilling.
And still the mighty stand proud, and the feeble follow close behind in their example, refusing to bow down, covering themselves in pretense while wearing many disguises, until the face they behold in the mirror has become unrecognizable to them.

THEY DO NOT KNOW ME!...
My blood runs down, yet I do not know them!
My tears run down, yet My own people remain
Unclean, hiding always in their deceitful houses!...

From the least to the greatest, I tell you,
They have surely hated Me!...

Therefore I am come down to take My spoil,
To purge and to slaughter! Blood and fire!
Rivers of blood and pillars of smoke!...
This world is condemned,
And The Father has declared its end!...
I AM COME DOWN![1]...

Says The Lord."

~

"3/15/11 From The Lord, Our God and Savior
The Word of The Lord Spoken to Timothy
For The Lord’s Little Flock, and For All Those Who Have Ears to Hear

Thus says The Lord: Little flock, how is it you say within yourselves the way of The Lord is not equal? How is it you feel as though upon this servant I have poured a bounty, yet you remain desolate?
Beloved ones, by whose power were you called forth into existence? To whose joy were you created? By whose favor were you born into this world by way of water and blood? Therefore, again I say to you, who you choose is everything. For I do not withhold My love, yet on account of your flesh you do always step backward.
Consider the woman who touched My robes and was made whole. Tell Me, how is it that she received and you do not? Was she so highly favored, that she should receive and you should not? Beloved, come close and walk beside Me, for you are indeed highly favored! And all who grab hold of Me shall surely share in all that is Mine.
Little flock, My ways are equal, yet the ways of My people remain unequal. For I have indeed poured out My life for you, yet each one must decide how deeply they drink. Do you not see? My blessings are equal for all who receive of My blessings, and My grace sufficient for all who trust in Me.
Thus among those who come to Me, one is not favored over another, nor is My love bestowed by measure. Rather it is you who receive by measure, resisting on account of all these deceitful weights, trust which remains altogether lacking.
Therefore do not confuse My love with the calling I have purposed for another, nor compare the gifts of the Spirit with The Blessing. For those I have called to serve shall indeed be given gifts, each in accordance with their faith and My will. And those who receive the greater gifts shall also bear the greater burden, even in the heat of the Day.

Therefore, again I say to you,
The Lord’s ways are indeed equal,
Yet the ways of men remain unequal...
Yet those who grab hold of their First Love
With all their heart, with all their mind,
With all their strength and with all their soul,
Shall never go hungry, nor shall they thirst anymore;
Nor shall the heat of the noonday
Sun do them any harm...
Yea, even all their tears shall be wiped away
In the house of The Lord."

[tap-theannexproject]

God loves in 3 levels, sounds like an EA-game. 3 levels to go people to reach top level, the race is on!

[IHIuddy]

Loves them enough to send them to hell because God is just in his decisions.

[davemitchell]

Every century since Jesus, Christianity has had to deal with heretics. In the 1700s it was Samuel Clarke. In the 1800s it was Joseph Smith and Charles T. Russell. In the 1500s it was Calvin. In the 2oth century it was this guy.

[Charlie-fcse]

Can you use the Bible to explain and not common sense

[rafuentesapologetics]

John 3:14-18 is all clear RC you're a false teacher. God loved everyone in the world, that he sent Jesus Christ to the world, that the world through him might be saved! In the context of God's love to ALL people that He wanted to save all people, everybody is loved by God. But God has a condition- to believe in his Son Jesus Christ. That simple.