👺Why Evil❓

God will never send anybody to hell. If mangoes to hell, he goes by his own free choice.  ~Bill Graham~

Colossians 3:5 (KJV) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

Mortify, that word means to destroy, be dead. Look what the Apostle Paul is saying to his readers, put to death; “your members which are upon the earth” Not someone else’s but “your members”.

“fornication” your sexual sin”uncleanness” your perversion ”inordinate affection” your passion

“evil concupiscence” your lust “covetousness” your greed “which is idolatry”? Your worship of idols, images, or anything made by hands, or which is not God. Look what Paul is telling those at Colosse to put to death the things that are not pleasing to God. Why Paul? Because they are hurting your relationship with God. We are to put them away why? Because of our Love for our Heavenly Father. Love has become a cheap word in our day. Real love is giving without expecting anything in return. Real love will come out in us when there is trouble in that which we love. I have heard my wife say that she loves the beach. What she really means is that she likes the beach. How do I know that? Because never, not one time has she said after a hurricane has destroyed the beach we need to go help those fix the beach. One might say they love Pizza. What they really mean is they like pizza because you never give your time or money to the Pizza organization. One might hear if God really loves us the way He says He does then why is there so much evil in this world? Great question. Love is one thing we give to another. Love is not bought nor is it sold nor can it be made. Love is something we give of our own free will. I have given my wife my love. I do things for her I don’t do for others. I give her things I won’t give to others. But in no way can I make her love me. She has to also given me her love and she can’t make me love her. Why is there so much evil in this world if God so loves this world? Rewind back to the book of Genesis at the beginning and start reading. There you will read about God creating and then you’ll read about God creating male and female.  God loved Adam and Eve but God could not make Adam and Eve love Him. I don’t want to make my wife love me, I don’t want to make my children love me nor my grandchildren love me. Oh no I want them to love me because I love them?  

1 John 4:19 (KJV) We love him, because he first loved us. Adam and Eve followed wrong advice from the serpent (satan) and because of their following sin entered the world. When Adam and Eve had children Cain and Abel they too were born sinners and all went well until they had a disagreement in the field one day. Genesis 4:8 (KJV) And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him. Why is there evil? Because of sin but one day there will be no more sin Revelation 22:3 (KJV) And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: We can’t serve God doing sexual sinful lustful acts that God has already said He does like and are wrong. But God still loves you and I just as we love our children when they do wrong and go against our will and wishes. We as parents had to discipline our children and we did so because we loved them.