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As I Have “Loved” You

“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also love one another.” (John‬ ‭13:34‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Does Jesus still love us today? Yes of course, His love endures forever and nothing will separate us from the love of God.

Then why did Jesus use the past tense “loved” in the verse above?

I believe it is because He wants us to see Him loving us in a specific way that He accomplished in the past. Not just imagining that He loves us, but based on an event that happened.

For everyone reading these words throughout time, they can look back to the time when Jesus died for them on the cross. They can read about it in the four gospels.

This is how He loved us. He loved us with arms stretched wide, nailed upon the cross.

His back was lacerated by the scourging He endured before being crucified, and in the spirit realm, invisible to the eyes of men, He was burnt by the fiery wrath of God for sins. It was like being tortured in Hell with the most intense level of pain for those hours that He hung alive at the cross.

Anytime you are disappointed or discouraged by circumstances and feel like God has abandoned you to suffer, look back to how Jesus loved you at the cross.

If Abba God gave His only begotten Son who He loves so dearly to die for us at the cross and pay the ultimate price for sins, while we were still enemies who didn’t care about God at all, there is absolutely no way that He will abandon you or stop loving you today.

Our confidence in God’s love for us is not based on a feeling, but based on a true demonstration.

“For when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die; yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die. But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him. For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life. And not only that, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.” (Romans‬ ‭5:6-11‬ ‭NKJV‬‬)

Jesus carried your sins and diseases at the cross even though He was perfect and did no wrong, and He suffered great agony before He gave up His spirit. Nothing the devil throws at you can ever change this truth.

Words really fail to accurately and precisely describe what Jesus went through for us. If could feel just one minute of what He suffered at the cross, we would truly be grateful to Him.

Imagine being pierced, lacerated, and bruised all over your body, all the darkness of the sins of the world entering you, and being burnt with hellfire at the level meant for the worst sinner.

Thank You Jesus for suffering those six hours on the cross. People can die from one moment of getting hit by a car—think about that. Even just one second of the pain and despair of the cross would wreck us. Lord Jesus, we give You all the glory, the honor, and believe that Your love for us endures forever.

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Original artwork of “Jesus On The Cross” by Andrew Halim on Artstation. The special effects were added by me to depict the fire of God’s wrath falling upon Jesus, as well as the darkness that converged upon Him at the cross.

Jesus Came to Fulfill, Not to Destroy

““Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill. For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter or one tiny pen stroke shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.” (Matthew‬ ‭5:17-18‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Even though I write that we are not supposed to keep the Law of Moses today, I am not calling the Law evil or making it seem like something bad.

The Law shows God’s holiness, revealing that only perfection is acceptable to God. Anything short of God’s glory is unrighteous.

Jesus did not come to destroy the Law. He didn’t say, “Oh Israel, I guess this is too hard for you to keep. It’s okay, let Me snap My fingers and cancel this Law. Let’s forget about it okay?”

No, Jesus came to fulfill the Law on our behalf. The requirements of the Law can be summed up by the following verse:

“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins, he shall die.” (Ezekiel‬ ‭18:4‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Sin is a crime that demands the penalty of death. God is holy, so He must punish sin.

However, God also loves us, so how can He spare us and yet justly punish sin?

The answer is the cross. God the Father placed all our sins upon His Son Jesus Christ, and punished Him fully in our place, so that the wages of sin which the Law requires was fully paid by Jesus’ death. The divine, sinless blood which He shed is worth much more than all the sins of the world throughout the passage of time.

So for us who have faith in Jesus, the issue of sin is settled. We are forgiven. He has fulfilled the Law’s requirements on our behalf, making us righteous.

However, the Law will not pass away until God creates a new Heaven and new earth at the end of time. The Law still has a purpose to be met.

“For there is no partiality with God. For as many as have sinned without law will also perish without the law. As many as have sinned under the law will be judged by the law. For it isn’t the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law will be justified (for when Gentiles who don’t have the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are a law to themselves, in that they show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience testifying with them, and their thoughts among themselves accusing or else excusing them) in the day when God will judge the secrets of men, according to my Good News, by Jesus Christ.” (Romans‬ ‭2:11-16‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

At the Great White Throne judgment, Jesus will sit as judge, and the unbelievers will be judged based on their conscience if they are Gentiles, and by the Law (Ten Commandments) if they are Jews.

Jesus has record books of their works, and will measure out the appropriate degree of punishment before they are cast into the lake of fire. Each unsaved soul will experience a different level of torment based on the works they have done in their lifetime. Of course, the one screaming the loudest will be Satan.

“I saw a great white throne, and him who sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. There was found no place for them. I saw the dead, the great and the small, standing before the throne, and they opened books. Another book was opened, which is the book of life. The dead were judged out of the things which were written in the books, according to their works. The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works. Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. If anyone was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.” (Revelation‬ ‭20:11-15‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

After that final judgment, when all humans, fallen angels, and Nephilim giants have been judged and sentenced to their appropriate eternal abodes, then the Law will pass away. At that point in time, all things will be accomplished, and eternity will begin. Christ shall reign supreme and be all in all.

For us who believe, the future is bright. Read this passage which will happen after the Law has passed away:

“I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth have passed away, and the sea is no more. I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband. I heard a loud voice out of heaven saying, “Behold, God’s dwelling is with people, and he will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away from them every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; neither will there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain, any more. The first things have passed away.”” (Revelation‬ ‭21:1-4‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Isn’t it beautiful? Come back soon, Lord Jesus! We praise and worship You this Passover!

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No One is Saved by Default

“So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous.”” ‭‭(Romans‬ ‭5:18-19‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Those who believe that Jesus’ death at the cross paid for everyone’s sins and therefore everyone is saved whether they place their faith in Him or not, often point to the passage above to support their view.

They would say that “all men are justified to life.”

Actually the context is important. Look at the verse after that. It says “many”—not “all” will be made righteous.

Therefore what the apostle Paul meant is that everyone who is born is condemned because of Adam’s sin, and there is only one way for every person—no matter who he/she is, to be saved, and that is by faith in Jesus and His finished work at the cross.

Everyone who wants to be justified to life can only receive it through Jesus’ atoning sacrifice at the cross—not through obedience to the Law, other pagan gods, or an abundance of good works.

“Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.” ‭‭(John‬ ‭14:6‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

Paul was just agreeing with Jesus’ own words. There is no way to eternal life with God except through faith in Jesus Christ—He is the way, the truth and the life.

Is there a Hell and an eventual lake of fire torment for sinners?
Yes, although Jesus did carry all the sins of the world upon Himself at the cross and was punished for every sin, that payment is only credited to those who place their faith in Him as Lord.

If they choose not to accept that payment, God respects their free will, but they will still have to pay for all their sins in full—an eternity in the lake of fire still cannot purge away that immense sin debt.
That’s why the following verse still calls these sinners by their individual sins:

“But for the cowardly, unbelieving, sinners, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”” ‭‭(Revelation‬ ‭21:8‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

If the only sin that God can punish sinners for is unbelief in Jesus, then John wouldn’t call them by their individual sins. He would have just said “the unbelieving”.

Paul and John don’t contradict each other. Both agree that many will be made righteous through faith in Jesus, but those who remain unbelievers will spend an eternity paying for their sins in the lake of fire.

Jesus affirms this truth as well—there are sheep (believers) and goats (unbelievers). They each have different eternal fates. Believers enjoy eternal life, while unbelievers are destined for eternal torment in the lake of fire:

“Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;...These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”” ‭‭(Matthew‬ ‭25:41, 46‬)

Jesus the Son of God became a Man not because He has no choice—He could have stayed as Yahweh in Heaven, forgetting about mankind and creating a new race of creature who would obey Him perfectly.
It is easy for Him to create—just speak.

But He chose to set aside His divine glory, to suffer the most cruel torture and humiliating death on earth just to redeem you and me.
Jesus’ love for you kept Him hanging on that cross, loving you until the very end, when every trace of sin had been completely punished in full.

If you don’t receive Him as your Lord, then you’re just trampling on His sacrifice for you, having made Him suffer needlessly for your sins.

So how to be saved? It’s simple:

“that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” ‭‭(Romans‬ ‭10:9-10‬ ‭WEB‬‬)

You only need to believe that the Gospel is true and confess that Jesus is your Lord. The moment you do that, you pass from death into eternal life, being born-again in your spirit to become a new creation in Christ.

Take note that many times the New Testament scriptures refer to your spiritual ears, heart, eyes and mouth.
Your body is not you—you are the spirit living inside the body (your earthly tent).

For those who are mute, language-impaired, in a coma or on their deathbed who are so physically weak that they can’t speak, in their eternal spirit they can still confess Jesus as Lord with their spiritual mouth and believe in their spiritual heart to receive salvation.

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