Warnings are the deepest form of love, it is an attempt to snatch someone from their burning house before they perish.
Would anyone be angry that we shouted loudly, "get out of there, the house is burning"?
People believe it is mean to warn them about sin and hell, because they don't believe their house is burning.
Ezekiel 3:18-20 "…18"When I say to the wicked, 'You will surely die,' and you do not warn him or speak out to warn the wicked from his wicked way that he may live, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.
19"Yet if you have warned the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered yourself.
20"Again, when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I place an obstacle before him, he will die; since you have not warned him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand."
Why are warnings the deepest form of love? Because when we warn someone or instruct someone we run the risk of losing a friend or family member who is resistant to truth. Love for God should be greater than our love for family who hate Him. And, we love someone so much that we are willing to experience rejection to save a person's eternal life.
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