Compare two statements below:
We tell them about the Cross because we know that God’s wrath is upon them unless they believe and repent, otherwise they will go to hell.
We tell them about the Cross because we know that God loves them and want them to believe and repent so that they can be saved rather than go to hell.
The first statement is most of Pastors, Preachers, Evangelist and Christians use when they go out and spread Gospel. Imagine, if you are a non-Christian and a Christian tells you that God’s wrath is upon you unless you believe and repent, what would you think? FEAR?? But God is love.
Both of them have to same meaning, same consequences if those (non-Christians) don’t believe and repent.
The question is why we use FEAR to FEAR them rather than God’s love to love them. From the Bible we know that God is love. God sacrified His only Son Jesus Christ for us – sinners.
If you can FEAR someone to believe in God, the one you successfully FEARED will only live in FEAR of God but not love of God.
This was my personal experience living under FEAR of God. I woke up every morning and felt fear. I kept asking myself what I shouldn’t do in order not to make God angry. I kept forcing myself to change my bad attitude so that God can loves me. But did it work? No, it didn’t. The more I fear, the harder I changed myself.
But, once I feel God’s love to me. I cried, I studied Bible hard and I repent. I changed my bad attitude. His love is so great until I can tell you that not even a single word in this world can describe His love. Because of His love, I totally changed myself.
Now, each and everyday, I wake up with God’s love, with God’s hope, the world is so different. My relationship with my family, with my girlfriend, with my colleauge totally changed.
Brothers and sisters, the love I mention here is love with justice, we can’t take God’s love for granted but we shouldn’t live in fear. Jesus Christ died for us is Gospel – Good News, not Bad News!
