In saying that, we must not go the other way and think we have a right to pick and find fault with every thing a leader does. Remember Paul described it well when he said that the people were willing to pluck out their own eyes and give them to him.

That was the right kind of godly love and also Paul had the right kind of godly love that would have refused any such donation. We must strive for the perfect love that comes from the Holy Spirit. The 13th chapter of 1 Corinthians describes this kind of love.

True godly love may cause us to lay down our lives for other believers, labor to help others, weep and cry with them, but it will not cause us to be obsessed with them or follow them if they stray away from the truth.

Love also is accompanied by truth. If we always compliment people and try to get on their good side so to speak and refuse to warn them if they get into serious error, that is not real love. On the other hand love is not nitpicking at every little mistake.

Rom 5:6 For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom 5:7 For scarcely for a righteous man will one die: yet peradventure for a good man some would even dare to die.
Rom 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

This is the test of love. We love people when they are still sinners and not so nice. Christ died for us long before we were saved. He loved us when we were bad. He didn't love the sin that was killing us but He loved us enough to stay the course until He could say, it is finished.

Rom 5:9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

We do not hear the blood mentioned as much as we should. It is the blood that He shed for our sins that saves us. The blood of bulls, goats and lambs pointed to the one that was to make the sacrifice that could save from sin, but the blood of the animals had no power to save in themselves.

Hebrews 10:4 For it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins.
Heb 10:5 Wherefore when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me:
Heb 10:6 In burnt offerings and sacrifices for sin thou hast had no pleasure.
Heb 10:7 Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Heb 10:8 Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;
Heb 10:9 Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.
Heb 10:10 By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Rom 5:10 For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.
Rom 5:11 And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

What redemption, what joy in that we are saved from sin by the death of Christ and also justified by His resurrection.
Believing these things reconciles us to God.

Rom 5:12 Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
Rom 5:13 (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law.
Rom 5:14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.
Rom 5:15 But not as the offense, so also is the free gift. For if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Through the sin of one man, Adam, death came upon the whole world. Not only physical death but spiritually we were separated from God. To be separated from our creator is the same as death because it causes the soul to be lost. To keep sin from continuing forever the soul that sins has to go to an eternal hell.

Luke 12:4 And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.
Luk 12:5 But I will forewarn you whom ye shall fear: Fear him, which after he hath killed hath power to cast into hell; yea, I say unto you, Fear him.

Mark 9:43 And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Mar 9:44 Where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

So we see there is an existence of a literal burning hell.

Rom 5:16 And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification.
Rom 5:17 For if by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Rom 5:18 Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
Rom 5:19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

We see that by Adam's offense all became lost and separated from God. Death entered the world by only one man. That is why only one man was necessary to come and reverse this curse upon mankind. That one man who came to undo what Adam did is none other than Jesus Christ.

It had to be a man in the flesh in order for His death to count toward man. It had to be a man to undo the deeds of Adam.

It had to be God to overcome the temptation to sin and live a perfect life to the letter of the law without sin. If Christ had of sinned one time, He would have died for His own sin and not be illegible to die for ours.

God had to become a man. Emmanuel means God with us. God the Son came in the flesh. He became one of us yet He never sinned. He fulfilled the legal requirements of the law so that all who believe in Him can be saved from sin and be granted eternal life where death can never rule over him any longer. Jesus conquered death on behalf of any and all who will believe and receive Him.

Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:

We had to have the law first to show us what was required to get us back to God that the sin of Adam brought upon us. The law shows us what sin is and how it separates us from our creator. The law showed us the penalty of sin and the requirements needed to save us from sin. Blood had to be shed to redeem the sinner back to God. The law says that the soul that sins shall die. Someone had to die in order to pay the price for sin. Jesus came to do just that. If He had failed in one point and changed His mind, none of us could ever be saved. We would all die in sin and be lost and without God forever.

Rom 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

God's mercy and grace reached out to us as sinners and opened up to us a way out. He sent the only way and that way was Jesus. He made it simple and not hard to understand so that even a child knows how to be saved. We turn from our ways and turn to His ways and simply believe in all He did to save us.