Only Love revealed !
Only Love revealed !
True Believers take God at His Word ! God's Sovereign distinguishing Love for His Chosen is the only Love for man God reveals as per Deut 7:6-7
6For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God:
the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth.
7The LORD did not
set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
Mal 1:2
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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,
Now there is nothing here that suggests that God also Loved the Egyptians or other people groups that existed when this truth was made known, and it would pure assumption to state that He did !
God's Love is not as the False teachers tell us, a general love for all mankind, regardless of their perversion of the Jn 3:16 text or the 1 Jn 2:2 text, but it is special and directed only to His own People Jn 13:1
1Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father,
having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.
The objects of his love are described by his property in them, "his own"; by whom are meant, not all mankind, who are his by creation; nor the Jews, who were his nation and countrymen according to the flesh; nor the twelve apostles only, whom he had chosen; but all the elect of God, who are his own, by his choice of them, by the Father's gift of them to him, by the purchase he made of them with his blood, and by his effectual call of them by his grace:John Gill
The Church Eph 5:25,28-29
25Husbands, love your wives,
even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;
Scripture here is very specific as to who Christ Loved, the Church, same as in Jn 13:1, Which is His own Body
28So ought men to
love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.
29For no man ever yet hated
his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it,
even as the Lord the church:
Again, Christ Loved His Own Church, His Wife, His Own Body, what can be made more plainer to any honest heart quickened by God ?
Read again Mal 1:2, this is the very scripture God inspired Paul to use when preaching about the Election of Grace Rom 9:11-13 cp Rom 11:5-6. That such a truth is really the case [God's Love being discriminate] that God Loves only some men and not others, Paul anticipated the objection of our carnal mind against it and wrote immediately after vs 14
13As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14What shall we say then?
Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
Now how many of us believe that for God to Love only some of humanity and hate others, love them not, simply based upon motives in Himself and not the creature's doing good or evil, that God would be unrighteous[injustice] for doing so ?
Injustice means :
the quality or fact of being unjust; inequity.
violation of the rights of others; unjust or unfair action or treatment.
Those of you who say what Paul anticipated his hearers to say, that if God did this He would be unfair, then you know that Paul Preached a Distinguishing Love of God for some and hating others !