God is not blind like your average referee. God is not influenced by the situation, swayed by the moment. God does not check public opinion or get swept up with the crowd. God never has bias. He never prejudges. He sees all. He knows all. Everything he has spoken is good and true. He will never prosecute the innocent. He will never hold anyone accountable for sins they have not committed. He will never judge you on the basis of anyone else’s accusation. God’s righteous judgment is perfect.
God does not love the sinner. God loves his creation. God loves the world. He loves humanity. God loves you. God loves every soul. Paul writes, God shows his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (Romans 5:8) Jesus died not only for those who hate him, but for those whom he hates. Jesus becomes what he hates, not by act or deed, but with his whole heart, by his Father’s declaration, God made him who did not know sin, to become sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God. (2 Corinthians 5:21) God hates the sinner, so he will put every sinner to death. Every sinner will die. Each will die, either physically and eternally when their time is over, or the sinner will die by God’s grace. All of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? We were buried therefore buried with him by his baptism into his death…consider yourself dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. (Romans 6:3-4, 11) When the Psalms speak of the “righteous” they do not mean “good people” or people who do righteous things, but those who are made righteous, that is declared righteous by faith in the promise of Christ.
