TRAMPLING UNDER FOOT THE BLOOD OF CHRIST
Hebrews 10:28-29
God the Holy Spirit declares that those
who despise the gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace in Christ shall, in
the day of judgment, be worthy of much sorer and more severe punishment than
those who despised the law of God given by the hand of Moses to the children of
Israel. There are many proper, very sober applications of this warning. Here
God himself speaks of men who have "trodden under foot the Son of
God", have counted the blood of the Son of God, "the blood of
the covenant", an unholy thing, and have "done despite unto
the Spirit of grace" Those words very accurately describe the religion
and the preachers of this apostate generation.
I have chosen my words deliberately and
purposefully. I have chosen them, either by the Spirit of Christ or by the
spirit of antichrist. I will leave that for each reader to decide. But be sure
you understand this - There is no alternative between the two! Either I am
God’s messenger to your soul, led to write these lines by the Holy Spirit of
Christ, or I am a messenger of Satan, led by the spirit of antichrist.All
preachers of Arminian, freewill, works religion, all
preachers of the damning, blasphemous doctrine of Universal Atonement or Universal
Redemption, all who believe, teach, and preach that the Son of God died to
redeem and save all human beings, even those who perish at last in hell under
the wrath of God, are guilty of this crime. They tread under their feet the
blood of the Son of God, count the everlasting blood of the covenant an unholy
thing, and do despite unto the Spirit of grace!There
is no doctrine in all the world more dishonoring to God, more blasphemous to
the Lord Jesus Christ, more contrary to the Spirit of grace and to the Word of
God, or more damning to the souls of men than the doctrine of universal
atonement.
When I use the terms Universal
Atonement and Universal Redemption, this is what I mean: Universal
Atonement is the damning delusion of men which teaches that the Lord Jesus
Christ died to make atonement for the sins of all human beings without
exception. It is the teaching that, by his blood, Christ merely made atonement
possible for all, though he actually procured it for none. Universal
Redemption is that doctrine which says Christ shed his blood to redeem and
save all people, that he made salvation possible for all and provided a way for
all to be saved, though he did not actually secure and guarantee anyone’s
actual redemption and salvation by the shedding of his blood. It is clearly the
teaching of Scripture that the Lord Jesus Christ actually and effectually
redeemed and made atonement for every sinner for whom he died at Calvary. The
death of Christ was not a gamble. Nothing was left to chance. He, by his sin-atoning
blood, effectually and infallibly secured the everlasting salvation of God’s
elect. To say, as most do, that he died to redeem those who yet perish under
the wrath of God is to trample his blood under foot as a common, unholy,
useless thing! Such doctrine makes the blood of Christ of non- effect. It is
the most odious form of blasphemy imaginable.