Why offer to all? To make them without excuse, you say.
So, do those who missed the offer have an excuse?
September 25, 2018
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Simple biblical truth:
- God purposed eternal salvation for His
chosen people,
- Christ accomplished that eternal salvation
for the same,
- The Holy Spirit freely and sovereignly
applies that eternal salvation to each of the chosen people in God's own
appointed time when they were still in their native state of sin and death, and
in enmity against God.
The preaching of the gospel is God's ordained
means of calling out His redeemed people, those to whom He has freely bestowed
the eternal salvation, calling them to believe the truth of their salvation in
Jesus Christ, make disciples of them, gathering them into the churches of Jesus
Christ, teaching them that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, they should
live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world.
The free offer of salvation is just stupid
(i.e. lacking common sense); in the offer, salvation is obviously and
necessarily offered to those without salvation, even those dead in trespasses
and sins; it is as superstitious as offering food to the dead.
There is no offer in the preaching of the
gospel; there is the proclamation of the good news of what God has to save His
people in Jesus Christ, calling the hearers to believe the truth of their
salvation. Those that ARE SAVED among the hearers perceive the gospel as the
good news of God's mighty power in saving them. To the rest, the same gospel is
foolishness.
1Co 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to
them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of
God.
The preaching of the gospel is brought to
them that are saved, that have been saved - to whom the Holy Spirit has freely
and sovereignly applied that eternal salvation when they were still in their
native state of sin and death, and in enmity against God - calling them to
believe the truth of their salvation by the free and sovereign grace of God.
Eph 1:13
In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard
the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye
believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise.
Their salvation by God's free and sovereign
grace is PRIOR and DISTINCT to their act hearing and believing the truth of their
salvation; otherwise, there would be no truth of their salvation to
believe. They are called to believe what
is ALREADY TRUE, not in order to make something come true. That's Arminianism
as well as Calvinism.
This is simple and plain to minds that have
not been poisoned by lies and soundbytes.
