Four Questions For
Thoughtful People
Will you give thoughtful consideration to these four
questions? Will dare think about what you have been taught to believe for just
five minutes? If you will, I am confident that what I have to say in this
message will shake your religious refuge to its very foundation. I pray that
God the Holy Spirit will be pleased to do just that, that he will tear down
your refuge of lies and build you upon the Rock Christ Jesus, the only true
Foundation.
1.
If God loves all men without exception and some are not saved, what
does the love of God have to do with anyone's salvation?
Nothing! If that were the case, God's love would be
fickle, changeable and meaningless. It could give no comfort to anyone. But God
says his love is saving (Jer. 31:3, 38-40). Thank God, he does love many! But
he does not love everyone (Rom. 9:13). If the omnipotent, almighty God loved
everyone, everyone would be saved.
2.
If it is the will of God that everyone be saved and some perish in
hell, what does the will of God have to do with anyone's salvation?
Nothing! His will would be frustrated, defeated and
reversed. But God says his will is absolute, unalterable (Isa. 14:24).
Salvation comes only by God's irresistible will “So then, it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but
of God that showeth mercy” (Rom. 9:16).
3.
If Christ died to redeem everyone and some yet die under the wrath of
God, what does the blood of Christ have to do with anyone's salvation?
Nothing! If Christ died for those in hell as well as
those in glory his blood is of no value at all. It saves no one. It does not
wash away sin. It was shed in vain! But God says all for whom Christ's blood
was shed shall be eternally saved by it. He declares that every sinner for whom
his Son died at Calvary shall be forgiven, justified, and forever freed from
all possibility of condemnation (Isa. 53:10-11; John 10:15, 25; Rom. 8:34).
4.
If God the Holy Spirit calls all sinners alike to life and faith in
Christ and some die without faith, what does the Spirit's call have to do with
anyone's salvation?
Nothing! If his grace can be resisted it is not the
distinguishing factor in salvation. But God says it is (John 6:63; I Cor. 4:7).
“It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the
flesh profiteth nothing.” It is God alone who makes the difference between
those who are saved and those who are lost. And the difference made is a matter
of pure, free, sovereign grace.