Thank you very much.
Thank you.
In Jesus' name, I pray.
Amen.
We're set up real quick.
Right here.
So, this is 1 Corinthians
chapter 15.
So, it's nice to be here.
I've been here once before.
Appreciate it another Thursday night.
So, I'm glad I'm coming here again.
There's another good time out of Soul Willing.
This chapter is a great chapter
on the resurrection and the
and the value of the resurrection of Christ, and I want to start, I really want to focus on the beginning few verses.
The title of my sermon is Universal Atonement. Universal Atonement, about who did Christ die for, right?
Did he die for everybody, or as some people say, did he die for a limited amount of people?
So the title of my sermon is Universal Atonement. So 1 Corinthians 15, it talks about the Gospel, the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ.
It starts in verse 1, it says,
For I delivered unto you, first of all, that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture.
So first of all, notice the word received, I want to come back to that later.
But the Bible is talking about Jesus Christ dying for all of our sins according to the scripture.
And the first part I just want to point out, the first thing I want people to know, the Gospel is the death, the burial, the resurrection.
So this topic of the Universal Atonement is very important because we want to find out from the Bible who did Christ die for.
He died for everyone and so forth. So you must understand this is a very important subject because it is the Gospel.
And if you corrupt this or change this, then you are corrupting and changing the Gospel if you mess with God's word anyway.
I want to read to you in 2 Corinthians, we have a verse you can turn there in 2 Corinthians 11, verse 2.
He that cometh preached with another Jesus whom we have not preached, or if ye receive another Spirit whom ye have not received, or another Gospel which ye have not accepted, ye might well bear with him.
So this is Paul talking and he's doubting, he's saying to them that you might even receive another Gospel, another Jesus, and he's doubting their salvation in a sense right here and he's upset with them.
But look at the wording here, it says I want to present you as a chaste virgin. What does that mean? You're not defiled.
And it says in chapter 3 it says that you won't be corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel.
So it's important that we as Christians we aren't corrupted from the simplicity of the Gospel.
And what I'm showing you when I share it to you is a very simple thing but it's a very important thing.
Because of the fact that getting this wrong causes people to go to Hell.
If you think that only a few people are atoned through Jesus, only a few people Jesus died for, then you're not going to go soul winning and it's going to cause people to burn in Hell because you get this wrong.
Or for some reason you don't believe this. So that's why I'm going to go over this milk of the word today. It's very important for that reason.
So next I want to go to Romans chapter 5 verse 11. Here is the only use of the word atonement in the New Testament.
It's mentioned many times in the Old Testament. Verse 11 it says,
And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ by whom ye have received the atonement.
So notice the word receive. I want to go back to that later. How atonement is something that is received.
So that's the only use of the word atonement. And the atonement is in the Gospel go hand in hand.
And what atonement means, it means to make amends. By the dictionary it says to make amends or reparation.
So it means to repay. So what is atonement we think of in our personal lives?
It's when you do something wrong to somebody and you give them atonement. You make a payment back.
Or let's say you hit somebody's car. You make atonement. You make up for it. You make a payment.
So when it's talking about universal atonement or atonement in the Bible, we're talking about did Jesus pay for your sins?
Now I want to show you today that Jesus paid for everybody's sins. But not everyone is saved. But I want to get into that.
So the first thing I want to go over is why I'm talking about universal atonement. It has to do with Calvinism.
And there's five points we have in Calvin. It's called the acronym TULIP.
And that breaks all the major beliefs of Calvinism. So I'm going to go through that.
And the five points are T, total depravity. U, unconditional election. L, limited atonement.
I, irresistible grace. P, perseverance of the saints. So I want to focus on limited atonement.
But I want to go over just the five points just so you know what they are and we can talk about it.
I want to compare Calvinism to free grace, what we believe. That you're saved by grace through faith.
So T for total depravity. What they believe is that humans are not capable of having faith in God because they are totally depraved.
They can't even have faith. That's what Calvinists believe.
And what we believe is that God gave men the ability to choose and they are capable of choosing between God and belief in Christ.
And there's no divine infusion of faith. God doesn't just infuse you and give you the faith, but we have free will and we can choose that.
And what they go to, if you turn to Ephesians chapter 2, this is their go-to verse.
Because I want to explain why they believe that God gives you faith. God infuses faith on people and that's how they get saved.
Well, here's the thing. God has given us the ability to have faith and I'm going to show you what they believe is God giving people faith.
It says, for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not of works.
So they're saying here it is the gift of God. They connect that with faith.
But if you just read that sentence, that's not what it's saying.
If you read it slowly, for by grace are you saved.
So what are we talking about? By grace are you saved? The word is saved.
The whole thing is about salvation. You're saved by grace and it says through faith. What's through faith? Salvation.
Not of yourselves. Salvation is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God. Salvation is the gift of God.
So if you read it in this English language, how you understand that is saved is what the objectives we're describing here.
Salvation is the gift of God. Salvation is not of works.
That is what the Bible teaches and that's what they get deceived on.
They're confused and they say that God's faith is a gift, which is this totally bad English just reading it.
Now, so in the Bible, I mean, so they leave this with the refute total priority because they believe that men are given faith.
And in the Bible we have examples with Jesus where the disciples say, Lord, increase our faith.
And what he says, he says, if ye had faith, he puts it back on them.
Or there's examples in the Bible of people who want to get healed.
And he says, Lord, I believe, help out my unbelief. But always again and again, Jesus puts it on them.
Do they have the faith? Because God gives people free will and he creates us with the ability to believe, right?
So that's the thing. It's on us to believe. It's not like God's infusing faith or putting faith on people.
So that just negates their first point of total depravity, which you're not even able to have faith, which is ridiculous.
The next point is unconditional election. They believe that since men are not capable of coming to faith,
which is based on the first premise, so if that first one is wrong, then the next one is wrong.
Unconditional election. Since men are not capable of coming to faith on their own, God must infuse faith.
God simply chooses to bring some to himself independently or of a choice on the part of the elect person.
So he's saying that the elect person doesn't have a choice. God picks people without any condition.
No faith has a condition. God picks people.
What we believe is that God desires all people to be saved and to come to faith in him.
An election is according to foreknowledge of faith.
So how do we know that it's not God is doing it for you? Well, what does Acts 16 says?
Sirs, what must I do? So I am doing it. What am I doing? I'm doing something to be saved.
What? Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
So salvation is something you do. It's by your faith. And that doesn't mean it works.
The Bible says that it's by faith. It's not of works. Those are two separate things. The Bible defines that.
But there's still a condition. The condition is faith.
So a limited atonement, which I'll get back to because I always ask the sermons about.
But they believe that only the atonement, that Christ only died for some people, not all.
An irresistible grace is man is totally depraved, which is based on the notions we heard earlier.
So the ones we disproved earlier, if that's false, then the rest are false.
But irresistible grace says man is totally depraved. God must impose his grace upon the elect
such a way he's compelled to believe, meaning God forces you to believe.
But what we believe is that grace can be resisted by people and it can also be embraced by people without divine coercion.
So yeah, that's clear and obvious that we have that choice to believe.
And that's what we see in the Bible, that people choosing to partake and believe on Jesus and people rejecting him.
And another one is perseverance of the saints. That's based on how you define that.
But for a lot of Calvinists, it's basically saying, like James 2, that if you have faith, you're going to have works.
And you're shown to be a true Christian, that God gives you faith.
He also makes you perfect through him and basically you do works and so forth.
But we believe differently that salvation is a free gift.
And you cannot have any works, but you still believe and you're saved.
So that's the difference with most Calvinists. When they say perseverance of the saints,
they mean that you will persevere in good works, which is a workspace salvation.
So it's very important and you see there's a corruption of the gospel and that's innately what Calvinism is.
It's a corruption of the gospel and I don't want anybody to be guiled through the simplicity of Christ.
Now I'm not saying every, there's some saved Calvinists and an example I give is,
I met a man who was a dispensation who was different, but it's a similar comparison.
I met a man before in an old IFB church who was saved but was dispensationless.
Now I asked him, because I talked about salvation and he said everything right,
but then he asked me if I'm dispensational and I said,
no, I don't believe people are saved different from the Old Testament and the New Testament.
And he rejected that. He was saying that, no, that's a hyper-dispensation.
So he puts a difference there. So there's some people I think, just like in a similar way,
in Calvinism they could be mixed a little bit, right?
But they don't fall into Calvinism, which would make them heretical.
They full on believe a lot of these things that are described in Calvinism.
So there is that middle ground where people can be deceived.
I don't want anyone to be deceived and I want to show the importance of that.
So let me talk about this concept of universal atonement and who did Christ die for.
Now in the Bible there's probably a hundred verses on this.
Let me just read some of these and I want to belabor the point of who did Christ die for.
First the Bible talks about Christ dying for the whole world.
So let's go to John. John chapter 1. I'll just start reading it.
This is verses about the world. Jesus dying for the whole world.
The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him and saying,
Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world.
So the Bible says here that Jesus is the Lamb of God and elsewhere the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world
and he takes away the sins of the world.
Does that sound like he's taking away some people's sins or everyone's sins?
Clearly he's talking about everyone's sins. He's taking away the sins of the world.
The Bible says in John 3 that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
So if God's giving his only son, he's coming entering into the world and he gave his only son for the whole world.
And it says, again I'll read John 4 42, it says,
And they said unto the woman, Now we believe, not because of thy saying,
for we have heard him ourselves, and know that this indeed is the Christ, the what? The Savior of the world.
So Jesus is the Savior of the world. The Bible tells that to wit that God was in Christ,
reconciled the world unto himself, not impeding their trespasses unto them,
as it can be done to us the word of reconciliation, which is the gospel.
So the Bible also says in 1 John 2,2,
And he is the propitiation, means the atonement, for our sins and not for ours only,
but also for the sins of the whole world.
So did Jesus just die for our sins as believers? No, but for the sins of the whole world.
Now, so that's very clear, but the Calvinist tries to wiggle through all of them.
Let me read to you verses about all men. The Bible says in John chapter 1 verse 7,
The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe.
So that's the same thing is saying to the world, that all men through Christ might believe.
That's why Jesus came, so that all men could believe.
The Bible tells in Romans 5 verse 18,
Therefore the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation.
This is Adam, right? By the offense of one, Adam, the judgment came upon all men.
So when Adam sinned, did judgment come on some men?
No, it came upon all men, because now we of all sinners,
because Adam ate of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil,
now we are going to commit sins.
Because now we have been, you know, mankind has been cast away from that garden,
now we are all repercussion, now we all have, we all have that sinful nature
that we have the propensity to sin because Adam sinned.
So, for thereby the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation,
even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification.
So if all men means everybody there, all men here should mean everybody that Jesus died for.
The free gift came upon all men, that's available to all men.
For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
So there we got more about Jesus dying for all men, and he concludes all.
Here it says again in John chapter 12,
And if I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw all men unto me.
Alright, so Jesus says he will draw all men unto him.
In 2 Corinthians 15, it says,
For the love of Christ constraineth us, because we judge that if one died for all,
then were all dead, that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves.
So again, this is all, everyone.
Just to prove this, one of the reasons the Bible talks about it so much is because it's important.
It's like, why does God repeat himself so many times?
Because it's important, it's an important thing.
You can't go soul-witting, you can't knock on someone's door and say,
Jesus died for your sins if you believe in limit omen,
because you don't know what Jesus died for their sins.
But if you believe in this, that Jesus died for all men,
then you can actually preach them the gospel in an obvious way.
So here it says that he gave himself a ransom for all, in 1 Timothy here,
to be testified in due time.
In 1 Timothy 4, it says,
For therefore we both labor and suffer approach, because we trust in the living God,
who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
So God is the Savior of all men, especially those that believe.
That means a distinction there between those who believe and all men.
That means all men there cannot be believers,
because we have the believers on one hand being specified.
So Jesus Christ is the Savior of all men.
The Bible tells us in Titus 2 11,
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation has appeared unto all men.
So that's what it tells us, and it's very clear in the Bible.
Now the Bible also uses the word every man.
It says that that was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
So that means everyone has been born.
Every man that cometh into the world, that Jesus is a true light
which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
The Bible says that,
But we seek Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for suffering of death,
crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God should taste death for every man.
That some men know it's every man.
The Bible even uses the words like whosoever, like in John 3 16.
It says whosoever believeth in him, or shall not perish but ever last in life.
Whosoever believeth in him shall have eternal life.
So the Bible tells us in, if you go to John chapter 4, let's go to John chapter 4.
Now the word whosoever.
And it's very repetitive.
This is a very clear doctrine.
And this, if you, this doctrine refutes Calvinism because they're all tied together.
If you break one, you break it all.
Now you can individually break each point and disprove each point,
but if you break one of them and you disprove it, then you disprove it all because they're all connected.
In John chapter 4,
I'll read to you from John 11 26,
or no, yeah.
Yeah, it says whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall not perish,
whosoever believeth in me shall never die.
So that's another word that whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die.
In John chapter 4 verse 13 through 14,
let me turn there real quick.
It says right here that Jesus answered and said unto her,
Whosoever drinketh this water shall thirst again,
but whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst,
but the water I shall give him shall spring out into a well of water,
spring up unto everlasting life.
So it's a whosoever.
So that's another way of meeting anyone.
These are all interchangeable meanings,
these words that are being expressed here.
The Bible is very repetitive.
In John chapter 12 verse 46,
it has the same sort of wording.
It says right here that I am come a light into the world,
that whosoever believeth in me, believeth on me should not abide in darkness.
That say some people know says whosoever.
Let's go to Acts chapter 10 verse 43.
So this is the foundation of I want to show you that it's just very clear
before I get into any arguments on the Calvinist side,
I'm going to show you the point that it's very clear that Jesus paid for everybody's sins.
John chapter 10 verse 43 says,
And it came to pass that he tarried,
and many enjoyed it with Simon a tenant.
No, wrong verse, hold on.
It says right here in verse 43,
To him give all the prophets witness,
that through his name whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins.
So whosoever believeth in Jesus shall receive remission of sins.
And the Bible is clear and I'll just skip a few,
but it also talks about any man.
I mean there's a whole bunch of verses on any man.
I'll just go through a couple.
The Bible says, I'll just turn to one in John chapter 6.
You don't have to turn there, but I'll just read it for you.
John chapter 6 verse 51 says,
I am the living bread which came down from heaven.
If any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever.
And the bread which I will give is my flesh,
which I give for the life of the world.
So here we got the world, any man.
I mean I have literally like 15 more verses or more on any man.
I have another 15 verses more on whosoever,
but the point is clear that Jesus paid for everybody's sins.
You cannot deny it if you really believe the Bible here.
It is obvious.
Not only that, maybe we should do one more verse on this,
on this subject, that Jesus not only paid for everyone's sins,
he even says, he clearly says that he didn't pay for false prophets who deny God.
It says that Jesus paid for their sins.
I'll read to you 2 Peter 2 verse 1.
It says, but there were false prophets also among the people,
even as also there shall be false teachers among you,
who privily shall bring in damnable heresies,
even denying the Lord that bought them,
and bring upon themselves destruction.
So these are clearly reprobate false prophet teachers they have here.
And it says that the Lord bought them.
Why? Because Jesus bought these men.
There's no answer Calvinists can give to this because Jesus died for all men.
This isn't just the elect right here, this is all men.
So that's what the Bible says and what do they say to this thing?
Well, here's the thing.
Innately people have a thing where they don't want to lie.
It kind of hurts your brain to lie.
So what people do is they make up their own definition.
That's just like inhuman beings.
I mean there's some psychopath people who just can lie and it doesn't hurt their conscience.
But people in general have a thing where they just don't want to lie,
so when they tell stories and they're lying,
they're technically telling the truth but they're deceiving people.
That's what people generally do,
as far as you study how to catch people with lies and so forth.
So what they do is change definitions.
That's how they can say I believe this verse,
but I also believe Calvinism.
So for them the world means,
or all men, or the world means people all over the world.
Not everybody in the world.
All nations.
The elect in all nations.
Because they only believe the elect or the believers Jesus atoned for and paid for.
They believe everyone else has not been paid for.
So they mean all men, every man, all people,
all these verses, they just write it off and change the definition to say
that the elect in all the world and the saved people in all the world.
That's what they're saying.
So they just completely corrupt and twist and add their own meaning into it
and don't take the plain meaning of the text and don't have faith in that.
So that's their answer.
That's the only response they can give.
There is no response you can give to that.
So Jesus paid for everyone since.
They just changed the definition.
There's no way around it.
That's what they give.
But let me just refute that kind of concept.
Because here are some verses on the world.
Just taking one of the words, the world,
and just talk about it,
how that definition of the world meaning just believers,
it does not hold water.
Let me read Luke 16.
That the world here, because this is the same world that they say is only the believers.
This is the same world that is contrasted with the children of light in Luke 16 8.
It says,
Because he had done wisely.
For the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of this light.
So the children of this world are the unbelievers.
Right?
So here's the world as unbelievers contrasted with the children of light.
So how is the world just believers?
Here is the opposite.
Here's another example.
This is the same world that doesn't know the Father in John 1 10 and 17 25.
It says,
So these are unbelievers and it's the world.
John 17 25,
So you have Jesus and disciples, they know the Father.
Right?
But the world has not known me.
That's what the Bible says.
Jesus says in the Bible.
So here the world again is unbelievers.
Let's do another verse on this.
It says,
This is the world that's differentiated from the disciples in John 14.
It says,
But ye see me, because I live, ye also shall live.
So the disciples see Jesus, but the world does not see Jesus.
And Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot,
Lord, how is it that thou wast manifest thyself unto us, but not unto the world?
So the world is everyone outside over here.
Outside of the disciples.
I'm sure lots of unbelievers.
This is the same world that hates the disciples.
Which seems to be the need to talk about unsaved people.
It says,
If ye were of the world, the world would love his own,
but because ye are not of the world, I have chosen you out of the world.
Therefore the world hateth you.
This is talking about people like the Jews and people of this time who just hated them.
And hated Christ.
They're not saved people.
This is the world, the same world that John 17 has contrasted with those given unto him.
It says,
I pray for them, Jesus speaking, I pray for them, I pray not for the world,
but for them which thou hast given me, for they are mine.
So is the world those who Christ has given?
Are given to Christ from the Father?
No.
This is the world talking about unbelievers here.
And Jesus prayed in John 17, 21.
And Jesus prayed that Jesus would believe.
So these are clearly unbelievers again.
It says here that they might all be one as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee.
That they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.
So he's praying that the world will believe Jesus is.
To the Father, he's praying that.
So is all the world believers?
No.
These are unsaved people.
And again, this is the same world that doesn't believe again in John 12.
It says,
If any men hear my words and believe not, I judge him not.
For I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
So the world needs saving?
Yes.
Because the world is the whole total body of people.
So my point is it's very clear that you can't get around this.
You can't change the definition of word.
You can't do these things and be logically consistent with the Bible.
And there is a list of other verses I didn't even mention
for the sake of being labor in the point.
But Jesus died for everybody's sins.
And there's nothing they can answer.
They just change the definition of the words and that's all that they can do.
Now let me go to some points of what they say.
What are their arguments for limited atonement?
Why do they say that's true?
And why are they arguing that?
Let alone all these verses that say it's for everybody.
Let's just go into their arguments.
Their argument is verses that only mention a specific people.
For example, Matthew 21 says,
And he shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus,
and he shall save his people from their sins.
So what they're saying, well here it says he shall save his people.
That doesn't say he'll save everybody.
He's just saving his people from their sins.
So Jesus only died for his people.
That's their argument.
Again, they'll have verses like,
Take heed therefore unto yourselves, and to all the flock,
over which the Holy Ghost had made the overseers,
to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood.
So look, the church of God is those who God purchases with his own blood.
And it says,
Husbands, love your wife, even though Christ also loved the church,
and gave himself for it.
Oh, he just gave himself to the church of God.
Only the church of God is what they're saying.
No man can come to me because the Father which has sent me draw him,
and I will raise him up at the last day.
So just those who have been drawn.
And then they also go to a verse that says,
I am the good shepherd, the good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep,
and the Father knoweth me even so I know the Father,
and lay down my life for the sheep.
See, Jesus only died for the sheep.
Let alone that contradicts everything we just heard.
This is their argument.
But here's my response to that.
That's what's called in philosophy, it's a negative inference fallacy.
So what does that mean?
This is saying that because the Bible is saying that he died for the saved people,
they're inferring that it means he only died for them.
They're adding that to the scripture.
Here's an example of this being used in the Bible,
how people can use this kind of faulty logic.
People take the verse in Mark 16 that says,
he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved,
but he that believeth not shall be damned.
So that verse says, he that believes and is baptized shall be saved.
They're saved.
The person who believes not is damned.
So what people take with this logic,
it's the same logic of saying, well, you have to be baptized to be saved.
Because if you believe and you're baptized, you're saved.
That's a fallacy of logic because you're inferring that into it.
You're adding that to that.
But the opposite side of that is, he that believes not shall be damned.
It does not say, he that is not baptized, they're all damned or something like that.
No, it says, he that believes not shall be damned.
So they're inferring and I'm reading on it just because the Bible specifies something
and says that Christ died for the believers and paid for their sins,
doesn't mean that negates all these other verses.
It's a fallacy, a logical fallacy.
Now let's take that logic, again, let's take that same logic to Galatians 2.20.
Let's turn to Galatians 2.20.
That because Jesus died to save his people from their sins,
let's see how that holds water in Galatians.
I already have it printed out, but I'll start reading.
This is Paul speaking.
So Paul said that God gave himself for him.
By that same logic, you could say, well Christ only, God only died and Christ only died for Paul.
That's what you could say, that's the same logic, well Christ died for me.
That's how stupid this is.
That's what they're, these are their arguments of limited atonement
and it's just ridiculous that that's, these are the arguments they're putting up.
It's just, you got to be, you got to be blinded to actually see it.
So, that's what I can say and,
Exactly, so another argument I can make against this, these arguments of here is that
like what more could be said?
Like how much clearer can you get?
Like if all can never mean all, so what would Paul, what would Paul have to have said
to really mean all men to everybody?
How, what would the Bible have to say to make it any more clear that Jesus paid for everyone's sins?
They just want to twist it and throw out all these verses.
So, that's another argument I'm saying to negate their argument of using these verses to say that.
So, another thing they do and these are three quick points that are,
arguments they make for limited atonement is,
the first one is that the accusation that the other believers,
basically the other believe, you believe in universal and you believe,
if you believe that Christ died for everybody, then you must believe everyone's going to heaven.
Because it's like called universalism or whatever, it doesn't matter.
But they're saying that if you don't, if you deny this, that Christ only died for some,
you're saying that Christ died, that everyone's going to heaven.
And my response to that is no, I'm not a Calvinist because Calvinists believe in irresistible grace.
I believe that it can be resisted.
So, that's their argument, that these are the arguments they're putting forward.
I just want to present all the arguments for you and you can look it up and these are the things that the people say.
So, basically if what they believe is true of irresistible grace,
that you can't resist God's grace, then everyone would go to heaven if Christ died for all.
But because we know that everyone's going to heaven and they have their belief in irresistible grace,
they have to have this belief in limited atonement for it to make any sense to them.
So, that's my response to that and another thing they do is a prison analogy saying,
to them it's unfair that if you've paid for it, how are you not saved?
But my same response to the other one before is that there's a choice involved.
Jesus paid for all of your sins and they use this logic but just believe the Bible that he paid for all of your sins.
But if they want to take this logic game, the point is there's a choice involved.
If you want to pick a court analogy, Jesus paid for us but you have to actually receive it on your own
and accept that payment for you.
So, another one they put out is double payment.
But that's not it at all because it's not like believing is a work.
That's clear in the Bible that it's not a double payment.
It's just that you believe it, you receive salvation by believing on him.
So, another thing I want to go over is the concept of the elect
and how they use the word elect and how the Bible uses the word elect.
Because really in the Bible, the word elect means chosen.
It's elect to service or as a calling to a purpose.
And oftentimes it's not about salvation.
It's about, for example, Isaiah 42 verse 1 says,
Behold my servant whom I uphold, my elect in whom I sold alighteth,
I have put my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
So, here the choosing is choosing to do work for the Lord.
You're being called for a calling, a purpose, and a service, not for salvation.
Luke 16 says, And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples,
and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles.
So, here the choosing is to do work, to be apostles, then disciples.
And here we have in John 6, 70, it says,
And Jesus answered and said, I have not chosen you twelve and one of you the devil.
So, here choosing is being a disciple.
So, the elect, oftentimes they're like, oh, you're elect and chosen to be saved.
But really, a lot of times it's about choosing to be served.
So, that's another twisting that they do.
But again, in Acts 9 verse 15,
The Lord said unto him, Go thy way, for he is a chosen vessel unto me,
to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.
So, Paul here is a chosen vessel unto the Lord.
So, here God chooses you for work.
And it says in 2 Peter verse 1, excuse me, 2 Peter 1 verse 10,
Wherefore the brethren give diligence to make your calling and election sure,
for if you do these things you shall never fail.
So, your calling and election is a service for God.
In 1st Theologians 1 verse 3 and 4,
So, all these verses are really, they're talking about election to be for the work that God has for you.
That we're called unto good works.
That doesn't mean God chose us to be saved.
There's a difference there.
And that's what they're twisting.
They're just like, oh elect, you're chosen, it's twisting.
And this is the same mentality that Jews have, and have always had.
That we're the chosen people, God chose us to be saved.
But this is, it's ridiculous.
And I think Jews in a sense are like the Old Testament Calvinists.
That they're like, God chose us and nobody else.
And that's what they are today.
But anyway, this is proving to you that election,
often times, and many times, it does not mean chosen for salvation or anything.
It never means chosen for salvation.
It doesn't mean that they save people only.
It also means chosen for work.
That's what I'm saying.
And here's another verse.
So, there's another verse that's kind of related to that.
So, now another concept I want to go into that,
that redeemed or salvation, there's a difference.
The argument now is like, does redeemed and someone being saved equal to Christ dying for you?
Well, here's the thing.
Christ died for everyone, but not everyone is saved.
Right?
Let me go over, what they take as a verse in Revelation says that God redeemed you from all men.
So, therefore, he only died for certain people.
He redeemed you from all men.
But redeemed or being saved is different than Christ is dying for you.
Why?
Because I was talking about earlier, the atonement of Jesus dying for you has to be received.
The gospel has to be received.
Christ did die for you, but you have to receive it.
So, let's go back to Romans 5-11.
This is the only mention of the word atonement in the New Testament.
It's mentioned in the Old Testament several times,
but in the New Testament, we have the only mention of the word atonement.
And it says here, in verse 11,
I have now received the atonement.
So, atonement is there for everybody, but you have to receive it for yourself.
Now, let's go to a verse on this.
I'm just going to go back just to remind you of what I read in the beginning.
1 Corinthians 15, it says,
The gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received.
In verse 3, I delivered unto you first of all,
that which also I received, how that Christ died for our sin.
So, the gospel must be received.
The gospel is the good news and it's good news for everybody.
But you must receive it in order to be saved.
Let's go to Hebrews chapter 6.
These are people, these are another example of people that the gospel can be there,
but you don't receive it.
Let me show you in Hebrews chapter 6.
Because these are clearly unsaved people.
And these are what we call reprobates.
And it says in verse 4,
For it is impossible for those who are once enlightened,
and have tasted of the heavenly gift,
and remain partaken of the Holy Ghost,
and have tasted of the good word of God,
and the powers of the world to come,
if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance.
So, here we have people who are not saved,
but they tasted of the heavenly gift.
They understood that Christ paid for their sins and died for them,
and Jesus is their savior,
but they didn't accept it.
They didn't accept the gift for their own.
And these are an example of the fact that the gospel must be received.
You can taste of it without receiving it.
And that's another proof that you must receive the gospel to be saved.
Let's go and repeat John chapter 10,
another proof that the gospel is received.
This is Jesus saying that he is the door.
In John chapter 10 verse 9.
Excuse me, give me a second to turn.
In John chapter 10 verse 9.
Why am I showing you this?
Because, again, if you get this wrong,
people will literally burn in hell,
if you are confused on this,
or you're messed up on this.
And this is the gospel,
and you don't want to be messed with in any which way.
And you want to disprove any arguments to the contrary.
But again, in John chapter 10 verse 9,
Jesus says,
I am the door,
by me if any man shall enter in,
he shall be saved,
and shall go in and out and find pasture.
So Jesus is the door,
we have to enter in to be saved.
That's receiving the gospel.
The door is there for everyone,
but you have to enter in,
in order to be saved.
Jesus talks about,
he is like the cup,
you have to drink of this cup, right?
In order to drink a cup of water,
salvation is likened unto.
And it's also looking at Jesus,
compared to the serpent,
with Moses,
where he is like the brazen serpent,
you actually have to look at him,
to receive the healing in the Old Testament,
that he got healed and looked at the serpent.
Or to look at Jesus and be saved.
That's you receiving the salvation.
But it was available to everybody,
and that healing was available to everybody,
in that story.
And another argument against the limited atonement,
is the atonement in the Old Testament.
In the Old Testament,
we have a universal atonement,
in the sense that,
the whole congregation was there.
Jesus said,
there's atonement for the whole congregation.
And that was another argument,
that there's examples of cows being sacrificed,
and the sin offering,
and that's for everyone.
So there's atonement for everybody,
and that's the example there.
There's the Passover,
which was available to everyone.
Whether you're an Egyptian,
or a Hebrew, or whatever,
as long as you put the blood on your doorpost,
it was there.
All you have to do is that one thing,
and you received salvation.
But anyone could have done that.
The Egyptian, or anyone.
So there's examples of atonement in the Old Testament.
Another example is that Christ is the second Adam.
Like what I was saying earlier,
if it was all men who've been condemned through Adam,
then it must be all men who believe.
You can't have it both ways.
Christ is the second Adam,
so therefore it's to everybody.
Another argument for universal atonement is,
I said this earlier,
but the elect in Jesus' day were the Jews, right?
They're the chosen people, right?
But not all of them are saved.
So if God chooses them,
then they should all be saved,
if that's how that works.
But that's not what it is.
He's the savior of his people,
but not all of them he chose were actually saved.
So you can be an elect in that instance,
but not be saved.
And another thing is that if Calvinism were true,
then literally half the Bible would be meaningless.
All the commands,
because if there's no free will,
then all the commands,
what's the point?
If you're going to obey them anyway,
then why does God command you to do things?
If you're going to be walking in good works
and have this perseverance
and the works will follow your faith,
then why even have commandments in the first place?
Why all the stories of edification?
How many stories do I offer of edification?
All scripture is given by inspiration of God.
It is profitable for doctrine or proof
and correction of righteousness.
So why are we edified by these?
What's the edification in the story?
What's the whole point of that
if we have this nature now
and now we're just going to live right
or we're going to do all these things?
So if Calvinism is true,
then the Bible,
lots of it is completely meaningless.
So these are my arguments against limited atonement
and why Christ died for everyone.
And this concludes limited atonement
and Calvinism in its innate self is very satanic.
It's a twisting of scripture like the serpent
twisted the scripture with Adam and Eve
and beguiled Eve to eat the fruit of the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil.
So that's what I want to say.
Let me go to a verse in Romans chapter 9.
Here's a verse that Calvinists love
just to throw this out there while discussing Calvinism.
So my point is that Jesus paid for everyone's sins
and no matter who you are, he paid for you.
That's why we can go out and knock your door
and say Jesus died for you.
Why don't you believe on Jesus?
Now even if you were saved in some Calvinist,
then why would you ever go soul winning
if Jesus chooses people?
It makes no sense whatsoever.
So that's why I want people to know.
And I can't emphasize enough how important this is.
When you're in hell, you're on fire.
And there's no, very few people have actually been burned alive.
And if you know about being burned alive,
even those who have been burned,
they don't die from the burning.
They die from the smoke.
And I know there's smoke in hell because
there's fire, sulfur, fire and brimstone which is sulfur.
There's a lot of smoke there I'm sure.
But the point is no one has been,
very few people have been actually killed
throughout by straight burning.
They just usually die from choking.
That's how it works.
This is very painful.
If you were to put your hand in a stove
or something on a gas burner,
you'd pull it out and it would be black and broken.
So my point is, hell is very extreme.
And if you are just going to sit back and be lazy,
which this doctrine causes you to be,
that's the result of this,
then you know it's wrong.
You just know it's wrong that that's going to happen
and it's clear the result when you do these things.
You know there's something messed up with your theology.
So I want people to not be
corrupted in the simplicity of the gospel.
I want people to realize that Calvinism is wrong
and that salvation is easy
and salvation is available to everyone.
It's just something that Christ paid for us
and died for us
and therefore I can have assurance of salvation.
Because if I was a Calvinist
and only some people were saved,
how can I have assurance of salvation,
if you put it that way?
Because how do I know I'm one of the elect?
Can't you just doubt that?
Wouldn't that be easy to doubt if you're a Calvinist?
How do I know that Christ died for me?
I don't know Christ died for me.
Well then are you even saved if you're doubting that Christ died for you?
It seems really hard for someone to be like,
oh I fully believe that only few people are saved in the limit of atonement
to say that they're saved because Christ died for you.
Well I'm not sure.
Well then how do you know you're sure you're going to heaven?
So this is a very important subject
that we rebuke Calvinism and rebuke every false work
and that's why I wanted to share with you this concept
and I hope today that you were
I bring some verses in remembrance that
Calvinism is wrong and there's nothing good coming out of it
and we must realize that
this is a battle that we're going to fight
and there's a warfare we're going to fight
and here's this one example of us fighting
here's one example of their thing
and there's only
there's five main points in Calvinism
you can just refute all of them
and they're all easily refutable
and obviously this might be the easiest to refute
because how clear it is that Christ died for everyone
there's no going
there's really nothing you can do to go around it
but here's a verse I just wanted to bring up
because I've heard from Calvinists
while discussing with them
just in years ago or in the past
but in Romans chapter 9
it's probably one of their favorite verses
Romans chapter 9 verse 18
it's probably one of their favorite chapters too
therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy
and whom he will he hardeneth
there you go
God has mercy on who he will have mercy
and whom he will he hardeneth
there you go
God chooses those
who he has mercy on
who he hardens
and who he sends to hell
and who he sends to heaven
well let's go to Romans chapter 11
if you keep that in mind
God will have mercy on whom he will have mercy
God will have
will harden who he hardens
two chapters later it says right here
for God has included them all in unbelief
that he may have mercy upon all
so God defines who he has mercy upon
upon all
so therefore the mercy is available to everyone
and the analogy I've heard before that
how can Christ be your savior
but you're still going to hell
well I've heard my pastor say before
like here's an example of a hospital right
you can have the doctor
he's the doctor for the hospital
so he's the savior everyone there
but not everyone is going to actually accept him
and accept the work that he has
that he can do for them
and the operation and the help he can provide for them
but he's there to save everyone in the hospital
he's there to help them
he's their doctor
but some people reject it
and reject the work
the help that he can bring for them
so God is our savior
and you say well I don't understand it
well just believe it
the Bible calls all
says he's the savior of all men
you don't have to understand everything
you just have to put your faith that is true
and God is our savior
whether you're saved or not
God is your savior
Jesus is your savior
and that's why his name means savior
I mean that's what the name of Jesus actually means
as far as meaning the name
so it's clear that you must believe that Jesus is your savior
and that's how salvation comes through
and I don't want anyone to think
well only the certain elect and a few people are saved
or excuse me Christ died for
but he's the savior of all men
and anyone can be saved
if they just choose to be saved
so let me just go and
let me just quote a verse in Revelation
it says
whosoever will let him come drink of the water of life freely
so is salvation a choice? yes
God says whosoever will
anyone who wants to can drink of the water of eternal life
really is the analogy there
anyone who wants to can eat of the tree of life
by believing on Jesus
you have received salvation is forever
and it's not an invitation to some
it's an invitation to all
and that's why the gospel
it has power because it's available to everyone
and that's why we're in the world
but not of the world
because we're in the world so we can help save the world
help save people
and that's what I want
you all to leave today
remembering that
just be motivated that
preach the gospel
and realize that
I want them saved
hell is an extreme place
I don't want anyone to go to hell
I care for them innately
I want to do it because God tells me to do it
because hell is an extreme place
because I want to do what God says
and you tell them that Christ died for you
that's what you're doing when you preach the gospel to them
you're literally saying Christ died for you
you just believe on it
receive this gift
that's all you're doing when you preach the gospel
that's the whole point
and I don't want anyone to ever accept any Calvinism whatsoever
I want them to realize that salvation is
completely by faith
and that it's not a work
it's just a condition
and there's a difference there
you say well it is a work because there's a condition
no because the Bible says it's not a work
but it also says you must believe
it's something you must do
so it's something you do
but it's not a work
and that's what the Bible says
and you say well I don't understand what's making sense to me
just believe the Bible
if you're going to nitpick and try to like
you can twist any scripture in the Bible
or any doctrine in the Bible is going to be like that
just accept that salvation is clearly by faith
and faith alone
and it's because Jesus paid for your sins
not just some people's sins
so that's what I wanted to preach on
this concept of universal atonement
he died universal means everyone
so universal atonement
something called unlimited atonement
and Calvinists what they do is they limit the work of God
they say they believe in a limited God
they have their own version of God
and they have an extreme Calvinist
you could say another Jesus
because their Jesus only died for some people
they're limiting God
and God has condemned those
who disbelieve
like in the example of the Old Testament
who didn't trust God to enter the Promised Land
he says you've limited me
because he didn't have faith
so let's all have faith and trust the Bible
this clear doctrine
that Christ died for everyone
and let's not limit God and put God in a box
saying he only died for some
because that's how I understand it to be
no, when Christ died for you
you have to receive it
it's not something you just innately have for everybody
you still have to receive the salvation
you still have to drink of the water
that will spring up to everlasting life
you still have to eat the fruit of the tree of life
you still have to enter the door
you still have to do these things
as metaphorical examples
to get eternal life
you still have to look at the serpent
and you still have to put your faith on Jesus
he that believeth on him is not condemned
but he that believes not is condemned already
if limited atonement is true
then why would Jesus even say that
because if you're going to believe automatically
why even preach all this stuff
it's a waste of time
if that were true
so I don't believe Jesus wastes time
I believe he preached with power
and got people to change
and make differences in their life
and change their beliefs
and in all his preaching God made people to change
and bring righteousness
and bring truth into the world
and that's why he taught us
he was teaching us things
so we can be different afterwards
we can believe on him after we heard the gospel
so it's important that you understand
that Calvinism is satanic
innately the core doctrine of Calvinism is satanic
and it's been around before John Calvin
they had other examples of similar
from a thousand years ago
people who had similar beliefs
there's nothing new under the sun
and I was talking earlier
for instance the Southern Baptists
they're introducing Calvinism into their beliefs
like their head organization
the convention there
is putting Calvinist words into what they believe
so my point is that
Baptists today are being led by blind people
that are leading them into a ditch
and I don't want not every Baptist
I'm saying many
and I don't want any Baptist
not every Baptist I'm saying many
and I want us in this church
and other churches to realize that
the truth of every doctrine of the Bible
and not be led into Calvinism by any means
and not to accept that
and I want us to be clear
and concise
and it's there to warn you
you may know this
but then there's kids who don't know this
or just to be informed on this
and be reminded
to keep a memory the Bible talks about
so I want you to realize that
that this is a war
and it's not just like
well I can't talk about
you have to be
this is a war we're fighting
when we give the gospel
and we're showing
we're combating all these things
we're combating repentance for salvation
we're combating people who say
Christ didn't die for everyone's sins
or stuff like that
we're combating those who deny
the deed of Christ
or the trinity or anything like that
this is just one aspect
that Christ is the savior of the world
and it's clear that
you're saved by putting your faith on him
and you have to accept his salvation
I always give the analogy
when soul winning out
that okay it's a free gift
right
but what do you do with the gift
you either accept it or reject it
right
the gift is there
but you either take the gift
you accept it
or reject it
and that's what it is
you have the option to accept it
or reject it
everyone has that option
no matter who you are
no matter what
you have the option to accept eternal life
or reject it
so
salvation must be received
and it's not automatic
that is heresy
and that is wicked
and that's one of these things
that is bringing people
into this end times confusion
that's corrupting minds
by making the Bible
complexing
making it more complex
and with the simple meaning
of the word of God
and changing things
I mean anyone
all these denominations
they all corrupt the Bible
they have worked salvation
for all these verses
people corrupt the Bible
all over the place
but
we must stay true
and believe what the Bible says
in a simple truth
and the Bible is made
so that even a child can understand
and a child can have faith
and understand and believe it
so
I just want you to realize
that
that these things matter
and that salvation
was for everyone
so let's recap some of these points
salvation
died for the world
the Bible says
he's the savior of all men
well especially
than that believe
the Bible says
he died not for our sins only
but also the sins of the whole world
the Bible says
the propagation for our sins
the Bible says
that he died
even for the ungodly
for the
denying the Lord that bought them
the false prophets
so
Jesus died for every man
and all men
entered into the world
the Bible talks
the Bible talks about this thing
in a very clear matter
and their arguments against it
are literally ridiculous
like
I read their arguments
while studying for the sermon
and
I read them
and half of them
I don't even want to bring up
because they're
just not even arguments
it's just like
some of their arguments
are like
in our
taking like the
assumption of it being true
in their argument
it made no sense
so I don't
I don't want to bring up
something even so stupid
but any argument they actually put
I try to
put including the sermon
and
it's just Calvinism
does not have a leg to stand on
if you really expose him
and put the light on it
and you
and you open it
with the light of the gospel
so
this
these are these logical things
of double payment
and this and that is stupid
Jesus paid for the sins of all men
one time
you just have to believe it
for yourself
to be saved
and that's what I share with people
every time you go to the gospel
that salvation is accepted
and is by
faith
and is simply by putting
accepting in Christ
so let's pray
and
with this now
thank you Jesus
for your
for the Bible
thank you for
the
for paying for our sins
and not for our sins only
but for the sins of the whole world
thank you that you came
that you came as a savior
of the whole world
and that
you were the lamb slain
from the foundation of the earth
and that you came
from the foundation of the earth
and that you paid for everyone's sins
from Adam
to the last man
to live
on this earth
and thank you
thank you for
for being that savior
and for dying for us
and we appreciate it
and may we go boldly out
and
and show people that
Christ died for them
no matter who they are
that they can be saved
they need to put their faith on you
and salvation is simple
and it's easy
easy
and we love you
for paying for our sins
and we appreciate it
and it is the greatest gift
anyone can receive
the salvation of eternal life
because you are
because you are a savior
and we'll appreciate it forevermore
in Jesus' name I pray, Amen
Amen