Can We Just tell People......'God Loves You?'

                It was a while back....but for many years I had a friend....a single man about my age....and he had a few passions in life....scuba diving and golf....and there were some oddities about him....for instance over the decades really he would buy something on sale....a camera or a telescope or anything like that....particularly vinyl records....and never take them out of the wrap....but he had one other habit or hobby that amazed me. Over the decades of his life he would....as many of us do....throw his loose change in a bucket....only his bucket turned into a 55 gallon drum....and he filled it up! I didn't care what those coins might add up to....what I would have liked to do is just go through those coins....looking at the dates. I never asked but I would have separated that whole drum of coins for him for nothing. He was amiable and intelligent....and really liked to talk. Oh could he talk....but he had absolutely no interest in God or what happened after one died....and then he died suddenly.
                 Someone once asked R. C. Sproul if he thought that Billy Graham would go to heaven....this because of the doctrinal differences that some Christians had with him. R. C.....I can't remember the exact words....said something to the effect that Billy Graham would be up there so close to God that he...R. C.....might not even be able to see him.
                 That's about how I feel....only I feel that about everybody....and I listen to Billy Graham crusade messages on occasion. As a matter of fact I listened to one this afternoon as I drove an elderly couple somewhere they needed to go....they do not have a car. I'm doing this rather regularly actually....and the only thing I ask of them is that when I take them somewhere that they sit and listen to a gospel sermon. Today it was another Billy Graham crusade message.
                  There is just one thing that often appears in the Reverend Dr. Graham's messages that I don't like to hear him say....as he will look out at the arena full of tens of thousands of people and say...."God loves you."
                   This statement is not as...black and white....cut and dried....as it might at first appear. Yes....God has a love for His creation....but that is not the same love that He showed for those who are His elect....who He suffered and died upon that cross for.
                   So my concern is that when multitudes hear....in  a sermon or evangelistic crusade....that God loves them....period....that the tendency of most.....from my observation anyway....is that they think that even if they choose to remain away from Jesus Christ as to faith and repentance....that since God loves them....it will somehow work out OK in the end!
                   I know that God loves me....but I cannot imagine how or why He would love someone like me. The fact that I believe that He loves me does not lead me to be careless....other things may lead me to do that....but it rather leads me to pray to Him that I might not bring shame to His mercy and compassion and love for me.