How firm a foundation,

Ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Are you really giving God your best?

Well, that's the question Dr. J. Vernon McGee puts on the table as we dive into Malachi Chapter 1.

I'm Steve Schwetz.

Glad you're here coming along with us in the five-year journey through God's entire word.

So open your Bible, settle in, and get ready because Dr. McGee is about to talk about something that he calls sloppy agape. Sounds funny, right? But his point really hits home, so let's listen now.

We have a lot of sloppy agoppy going around today. God loves the sinner,

but God hates his sin, and we have seen that that is a fallacy.

He made it very clear in Psalm 5-5, Thou hateest all work of iniquity.

You can step over a place where you'll not know what the love of God, nor could you experience it at all.

And this idea to try to separate the two,

as Thomas Fuller said, it was like starving the profanity of the baga while feeding his body.

You can't separate the sin that God hates from the sinner. But God loves us as sinners.

And if there's any chance of us turning to God,

I tell you he'll save us. Now, we've had our thinking, therefore, colored by this flabby and flashy

age. We've had cream puff and French pastry theology. We've been feeding on clouds buttered with oleo margarine.

We have human and hot humanism today and pious platitudes and double think today, as

or will put it, and desiccicable double talk, and it's meant spiritual suicide to tell the truth.

This overemphasis of love, it's given a warped view of God.

It's cutting the dog's tail off back of his ears, and we shouldn't do that.

Love does not save you.

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