And so God so loved the world, right?
The world.
So that whosoever believeth would be saved, right?
But that's different of a group from the world.
There's the world which is everybody that he loved and died for and then whosoever believeth
are the people who actually have eternal life.
Because God's gift of salvation is not going to do someone any good if they don't receive
it.
You know, the Bible talks about the word being preached to unbelievers, but the Bible says
the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that hurt it.
You know, if you don't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, his sacrifice on the cross for
you is not going to get you to heaven because you did not receive the gift that he offered.
Okay.
And that's what the Bible clearly says.
It says, what must I do to be saved?
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
That's a must do to get saved.
You must do that to be saved.
So therefore, based on everything that I just quoted and explained right there, you know,
is everybody going to heaven?
Absolutely not.
In fact, the Bible says, broad is the way that leads to destruction and many there be
which go in thereat because straight is the gate and narrow is the way which leadeth unto
life and few there be that find it.
The majority is not saved.
Well, let's see if that matches reality.
Christianity swept the world when it first came out.
I mean, you know, by the first century A.D., Jesus Christ died on the cross, you know,
sometime around 33 A.D., you know, give or take a few years with our calendar system
not being exact, but sometime in that period.
But, but just by the end of that century, the apostles had turned the world upside down
with the gospel and Christianity spread like wildfire throughout the world immediately.
Even history will tell us that by the second century, it's everywhere, you know, it's all
over the place.
It's everywhere.
It's spread like wildfire.
Did the majority of people believe on Jesus Christ then?
No.
Do the majority believe on him now?
No.
Because even if you counted every single person who even vaguely claims to believe that Jesus
is the Son of God, even if you counted them all as saved and, and took all of their word
for it, it's still less than half of the population.
And we know that not everyone who says, Lord, Lord is actually saved.
Okay.
And so therefore, yes, it is the minority that are saved and it is the majority that
are not saved.
Now, I could see why people would want to believe that everybody goes to heaven or that
most people go to heaven or that 90 percent of people go into heaven, but it is false
and anybody who's preaching that, they're prophesying that of their own heart.
That's not what the Holy Spirit's going to show you because that's not consistent with
the Word of God.