ForTheBodyOfChrist

God is perfect. His ways and not our ways. He is just, good, and righteous. Many people today say “God is love”. This is true but God is so much more than just love. They try to act like God has just one emotion.

1 John 4:8 KJV
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 John 4:16 KJV
And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

See the scriptures above say “God is love” and people who are ignorant of the scriptures will block out everything else. God does love us but God also chastises.

Hebrews 12:5 KJV
And ye have forgotten the exhortation which speaketh unto you as unto children, My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

Hebrews 12:6 KJV
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

Hebrews 12:7 KJV
If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not?

Hebrews 12:8 KJV
But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons.

Hebrews 12:9 KJV
Furthermore we have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence: shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live?

Hebrews 12:10 KJV
For they verily for a few days chastened us after their own pleasure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holiness.

God creates…

Isaiah 45:7 KJV
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.

God forms the light, he creates darkness, he make peace, and creates evil. Wow, what a powerful scripture.

Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

God kills, makes alive, wounds, and heals.

Genesis 1:1 KJV
In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

God created the heaven and the earth.

Genesis 1:21 KJV
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

God created the animals.

Genesis 1:26 KJV
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Genesis 1:27 KJV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

God created man and woman.

Exodus 4:11 KJV
And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?

Isaiah 45:8 KJV
Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the LORD have created it.

The LORD is…

God is holy.

Leviticus 19:2 KJV
Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

1 Peter 1:16 KJV
Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

1 Corinthians 3:17 KJV
If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

The first and the last.

Isaiah 41:4 KJV
Who hath wrought and done it, calling the generations from the beginning? I the LORD, the first, and with the last; I am he.

Isaiah 45:21 KJV
Tell ye, and bring them near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath declared this from ancient time? who hath told it from that time? have not I the LORD? and there is no God else beside me; a just God and a Saviour; there is none beside me.

God cannot lie.

Numbers 23:19 KJV
God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

God is a consuming fire and he is jealous.

Deuteronomy 4:24 KJV
For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Deuteronomy 6:15 KJV
(For the LORD thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the LORD thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Hebrews 12:29 KJV
For our God is a consuming fire.

Nahum 1:2 KJV
God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

God is merciful.

Deuteronomy 4:31 KJV
(For the LORD thy God is a merciful God;) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which he sware unto them.

Psalm 116:5 KJV
Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.

God is mighty.

Deuteronomy 7:21 KJV
Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the LORD thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

God shows no favoritism.

Deuteronomy 10:17 KJV
For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

Acts 10:34 KJV
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

God is light.

1 John 1:5 KJV
This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

God knows all.

1 John 3:20 KJV
For if our heart condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things.

God is not ashamed.

Hebrews 11:16 KJV
But now they desire a better country, that is, an heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed to be called their God: for he hath prepared for them a city.

God is not unrighteous.

Hebrews 6:10 KJV
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.

God is true.

2 Corinthians 1:18 KJV
But as God is true, our word toward you was not yea and nay.

1 Corinthians 14:33 KJV
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

God is faithful.

1 Corinthians 10:13 KJV
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

1 Corinthians 1:25 KJV
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men.

God is slow to anger.

Nahum 1:3 KJV
The LORD is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the LORD hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

God is a shield.

Psalm 84:11 KJV
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

God is a judge.

Psalm 75:7 KJV
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Psalm 7:11 KJV
God judgeth the righteous, and God is angry with the wicked every day.

Fear the LORD

Deuteronomy 6:13 KJV
Thou shalt fear the LORD thy God, and serve him, and shalt swear by his name.

Job 28:28 KJV
And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

Psalm 19:9 KJV
The fear of the LORD is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether.

Psalm 89:7 KJV
God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him.

Psalm 111:10 KJV
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.

Psalm 115:11 KJV
Ye that fear the LORD, trust in the LORD: he is their help and their shield.

Psalm 115:13 KJV
He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

Proverbs 1:7 KJV
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Proverbs 2:5 KJV
Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God.

Proverbs 3:7 KJV
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the LORD, and depart from evil.

Proverbs 8:13 KJV
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.

Proverbs 9:10 KJV
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.

Proverbs 10:27 KJV
The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

Proverbs 14:27 KJV
The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death.

Proverbs 15:33 KJV
The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.

Proverbs 16:6 KJV
By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil.

The LORD is to be feared.

Don’t do this

Don’t tempt God.

Deuteronomy 6:16 KJV
Ye shall not tempt the LORD your God, as ye tempted him in Massah.

Matthew 4:7 KJV
Jesus said unto him, It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

As you can see from all the scriptures God is so much more than just love.