Stop Selling Unconditional Love

Jesus purchased with his own blood, from every nation, tribe, and tongue, a people for himself. (Rev. 5:9) This was not without regard for our sinfulness, but to demonstrate his goodness in forgiving it, that he might be known as glorious for his mercy. (Rom. 3:25)(Rom. 9:23) Only those deserving of wrath have a claim to this mercy. (Gal 5:4) His enemies are the ones in need of grace, and to those who are much more his enemies, grace for transformation does much more abound. (Rom. 5:20) It is plain that God's love is prescribed specifically for haters of God, (Mat. 9:13)(Rom. 5:10) so that those with apparently more grievous wounds do not find themselves embarrassed among the pious. (Jas. 2:5) Instead they find his glory, honor, and power more richly celebrated and extolled, for having chosen praise for himself in the context of such weakness. (1Co. 1:27) He has chosen to exalt his strength in turning those hard set against him, to rejoicing in his having been raised and made king of all. (Ps. 110:2) It will diminish our conception of his love and his majesty, if we conceal the condition which was met to acquire it for us, that is the condition of his blood shed which was given to acquire us for him. (1Co. 6:20)(1Co. 7:23) We must hear that at our worst, particularly where we were most against him, he embraced us, received the agony of our hatred, and received us as his own, that we would rejoice in him in place of and above all else. (2Co. 5:15) It should be understood that the love of God  works in us a life transformed at its core into that which earnestly pursues recognition in every sphere of the greatness of his name. (Php. 2:13) It's love because it works love in us. In the sense that it grieves our wrongs, It's not unconditional, it is transformational! 

       "Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD!
       O Lord, hear my voice!
       Let your ears be attentive
       to the voice of my pleas for mercy!

       If you, O LORD, should mark iniquities,
       O Lord, who could stand?
       But with you there is forgiveness,
       that you may be feared.

       I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
       and in his word I hope;
       my soul waits for the Lord
       more than watchmen for the morning,
       more than watchmen for the morning.

       O Israel, hope in the LORD!
       For with the LORD there is steadfast love,
       and with him is plentiful redemption.
       And he will redeem Israel
       from all his iniquities."

       -Psalm 130 (English Standard Version)