They received not the love of the truth...

Psalms {96:13} Before the LORD
for he cometh
for he cometh to judge the earth
he shall judge the world with righteousness
and the people with his truth.

His truth will be our judge.

We are judged. The entire world is judged and the standard by which He judges is His righteousness and His truth.

We have laws we are judged by. We break a law, we are arrested, we go to court where we are judged for our crime. Once we are judged we are sentenced. Then...the sentence has to be carried out.

The earth, the world, the people will be judged and yet we don't generally act as if we are being judged.

Romans {2:11} For there is no respect of persons with God.
{2:12} For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law:
and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;
{2:13} (For not the hearers of the law [are] just before God,
but the doers of the law shall be justified.
{2:14} For when the Gentiles, which have not the law,
do by nature the things contained in the law,
these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:
{2:15} Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts,
their conscience also bearing witness,
and [their] thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)
{2:16} In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel.

Do you understand what that is saying?

I'm not sure if I do, but I'm going to give it a go.

We are all the same to God as individuals. We all make choices during our lives whether we have a law such as the Children of Israel were giving. Gentiles, Jews, we all have a law that is in our conscience. A sense of right and wrong formed by our choices from the time we are old enough to begin making choices and make no mistake that's pretty young. That sense of doing wrong isn't always taught, it lives within us and we nurture it or we suppress it. People don't like being wrong so sometimes they try to make the wrong seem right and acceptable, once it seems that way it's not so hard to do wrong. We have a history in our world of making the wrong right and calling it acceptable because it allows us to live to our base nature. Yet inwardly we know, we might laugh and ignore the right and wrong voice inside us, we might give it no regard, we might shut it out and want to be left alone completely but it exists for us all.

We talk about God knowing the heart, knowing the inward spirit in each of us and it's true.

'For when the Gentiles, which have not the law do by nature the things contained in the law'

The law is wrought out of love.

Jesus revealed it by saying it's summed up in two laws- loving God and loving Man.

The law is love.

When people by nature keep the law- loving God and Man- and they are judged they'll be judged righteous by the standard set by Jesus Christ. We can't make the mistake of thinking that God doesn't know the inward man. We can't believe that people aren't given the knowledge where by they can be saved. We are all given it, every single person.

Doing the law by nature, loving by nature or loving by choice as we are given the law, it's all wrought in Jesus. It's accepting Jesus Christ's sacrifice, His love, His life. He is love and we have to choose love.

2 Thess. '{2:7} For the mystery of iniquity doth already work:
only he who now letteth [will let,]
until he be taken out of the way.
{2:8} And then shall that Wicked be revealed,
whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth,
and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
{2:9} [Even him,] whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
{2:10} And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish;
because they received not the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.


They received not the love of the truth that they might be saved.

We need to choose love and in that love is the truth, in that love is Jesus Christ our saving grace.

We can choose to ask God to reveal our inward hearts and let Him work in us to show us where we need to choose right from wrong, ask that our eyes be opened, our hearts to be open, we need to accept the chastising of the Lord. We can't choose to wear spiritual blinders and expect to embrace the truth.

May God help us all by the grace of His Son.

Psalms {96:13} Before the LORD
for he cometh
for he cometh to judge the earth
he shall judge the world with righteousness
and the people with his truth.

Amen.