1. Matthew 5:45 (ESV)
  2. Exposition

What do the two main aspects of this verse mean?

Matthew 5:45 (ESV)

45 so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

For God to make the sun rise on the evil and the good and to send rain on the righteous and the unrighteous is for him to show his favourable attitude toward all those whom he has made, not only the elect.