Analogy

Warnings Are Mercy

biblical pattern of warning

Scripture is full of warnings. They are not the opposite of love. They are frequently love’s attempt to turn people before the consequences arrive. A God who never warned would be less merciful, not more. Heeding the warning is itself a form of receiving the mercy.

How you’d preach it

Divine warnings are not hostility. They are often the form mercy takes before judgment.

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