Recently, I had some guy online ask me, "Why doesn’t God save
everyone so we all go to Heaven when we die?"
If you have never heard
the gospel, that’s a fair question. If you’re from Baltimore, as this guy claimed
he was, it sounds lame. Surely, I told him, you know why the Lord Jesus Christ
died and rose again.
I guess he lived under a
rock because he said he had not. So I told him. He rejected my explanation and
said none of us can know where we will go when we kicks off.
The Bible tells us the
way to God, and how to get saved. And we are all born with a gut feeling there is a God.
The Bible is simple and
clear that Jesus is the Son of God and is the one door – the one way - to
Heaven.
John 14:6 says, “Jesus said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except
through Me.”
On the cross where He shed His sacrificial blood, and died, then rose again from the dead three days days later, He paid for every sin we ever commit.
If we repent to Him of our sins and sincerely believe and accept that Christ died for us, we are saved. We are not saved by good works, church membership, or baptism. These are evidence markers.
If we repent to Him of our sins and sincerely believe and accept that Christ died for us, we are saved. We are not saved by good works, church membership, or baptism. These are evidence markers.
Ephesians
2:8-9 say, "For by grace you have been
saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as
a result of works, that no one should boast."
Some ask, “Why doesn’t God just save
everyone?” That suggests we are more compassionate than God
is, and that puts us on the wrong track from the get-go.
God chose to create a being so like Himself that
man could reason, reflect, and choose his own path. We can accept Christ
or reject Him and wind up in Hell.
For reasons likely understandable only when those
who are saved get to Heaven, will we understand the mind of God, and freewill.
Gifts must be willingly received. God has given His
very best—His only begotten Son—to settle our sin debt. He does not take the
rejection of that offer lightly.
Christian apologist C. S. Lewis
famously stated, “There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who
say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy
will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it.”
