By Destroying Them

Deuteronomy 7:6-11 ESV

6For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, 8 but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. 9 Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations, 10 and repays to their face those who hate him, by destroying them. He will not be slack with one who hates him. He will repay him to his face. 11You shall therefore be careful to do the commandment and the statutes and the rules that I command you today.

The God revealed in the Bible is the same from the Old Testament through the New Testament.  In these verses we see God warning all those who disobey His commandments.  This warning begins in the Garden and is repeated throughout Scripture, ending with the final outcome in Revelation. It is lack of understanding or disbelief to say otherwise. One of the central themes of Scripture is that we would know that He is God, One and Almighty, from everlasting to everlasting. 

Don't rest just with the parts you are comfortable with or make you feel warm and fuzzy. Look at what He has said. The point is not God agreeing with us, but our agreeing with Him. 

Bear the fruit that is in keeping with His righteousness. Remember the withered fig tree and the branches that will be cut off and thrown into the fire.

Though He loves us and came for us, it's not about us.