Jesus also told them to “go and sin no more..” If they continued sinning he didn’t love them less, but they were not included in the fellowship of followers or given the keys to the kingdom…..There are two parts to relationship with God…. his unconditional love (without a doubt) and also his requirement for hungering and thirsting for righteousness in order to enjoy his fellowship and the blessings that come from close communion….. We cannot lose his love, but we can forfeit his fellowship…… Godly love is unconditional positive regard AND accountability in righteous fellowship. Everyone wants the first part but would prefer to conveniently skate over the second part….What kind of relationship only TAKES the unconditional love extended, feeding the self-interest love language of “make ME feel good” and refuses to love God back in the love language that is HIS LOVE Language: “If you love me you will keep my commandments…” My husband’s love language was quality time (including home cooking) and mine is acts of service (including taking out the trash! He could never quite grasp why him remembering to gather and take out the trash before trash collection day delighted me so and usually resulted in my desire to spend more quality time with him!) ) So if we’re both to experience love in the relationship, each has to “speak the love language” of the other. God knows we need to be fully accepted and loved JUST AS WE ARE WHEN WE COME TO HIM. His desire is that the love we feel from him leads to loving him in return and will make us want to BE IN HIS PRESENCE continually and begin living into the holiness that will allow us to do that forever! But if one is living out of a totally self-interest based ethic that is so inculcated by our culture and the selfishness of the human condition, it might just not register in such a self-absorbed person that God desires companionship with his children….and doing so requires observing certain boundaries of holiness, honor and reverence.