Brethren…our Heavenly Father IS a good and loving Father…with those children of His who DO as He commands! Somewhere in the not too distant past…the ‘powers to be’ in the Christian Church ‘twisted’ and/or ignored what the Scriptures say about Yahweh being a holy and just…and have turned Him into a ‘candy-man’ God who freely and unconditionally ‘hands out’ all of His blessings…just because He can!
Brethren…our Heavenly Father and our Savior say what they mean…and mean what they say! So, those Bible teachers who ignore the biblical qualifying factors for Yahweh’s promises are going to face some serious (i.e. bad) consequences at the Judgment Seat of Christ! By ‘cherry-picking’ Bible verses Bible teachers can come up with all kinds of soft and chewy, sweet sounding fairytale (i.e. false) sermons about how their God is always good…or always loving…or always forgiving etc. in order to make the (biblically dumb) sheep in the pews feel good about their lackadaisical (i.e. lukewarm) attitudes about what the Scriptures really teach! You see, IF spineless Church ‘leaders’ can convince their sheep that their Heavenly Father IS ALWAYS good, kind, loving and gracious (He’s NOT!) towards them…regardless of how the Believer is living their earthly life…these feckless church leaders know that the sheep will return week after week to fill the church coffers.
When our Heavenly Father says IF you DO as I SAY…THEN I will DO as I promise He means just that! And to believe otherwise means that you’re either biblically ignorant or willfully stupid. P.S. Now the Spirit of Yahweh can help those Believers who are biblically ignorant learn that God’s biblical promises for His children are conditional. He cannot help those Believers who choose to be willfully stupid!
Isaiah 48:18 “If only My children had paid attention to My commandments! Then their well-being would have been like a river, and their righteousness like the waves of the sea.
Speaking the Truth (i.e. telling it like it (really) is, because so few are,
Brother Bob