When Jesus chose to fulfill the heart of the Father, the Scripture tells us in 2 Corinthians 5, verse 14, that this one gift, “One died for all, then all were dead.”  And I just make that statement because there’s such a move today of reform theology that would promote the TULIP aspect and we’ve talked about it many times.  God has no favorites, He is no respecter of persons.  This death of Jesus Christ, the blood that was shed was not shed for an elect, it was shed for all and whosoever will can come; praise God!  And when we're out sharing the gospel we need to let people know:  you are not so wicked, you have not gone beyond the grace of God; He died for all of us, praise God and He loves you, and He loves you just like you are.  He loves you so much He brought me across your path today.  I can identify.  I, too, and everybody else on this planet, are sinners.  And some of us are saved by the grace of God and some of us will know the justice and the judgment of God, and it’s all based upon our own humility, in whether or not we’ll accept this substitutionary work:  Him having finished it on our behalf and declaring us righteous if we will in fact walk with Him.  Can you imagine John, as he looked up and saw the Lamb, the One coming who was greater than him?  “I indeed baptize you to repentance, but here’s One that’s going to baptize you in the Holy Ghost into the very mystical body of Christ where we become one with Him,” praise God, flesh of His flesh, bone of His bone.

We’re looking at not getting caught up, or allowing others who are professing themselves Christians to get caught up, in this movement today of universal salvation: “God is ultimately going to save everybody in the end.”  We’ll take a few moments and show no; it’s to those that believe; amen?  This is unto all but it only comes upon those that believe.  And we’ve got to believe every day to stay out from under condemnation or self-righteousness; amen?  Every day we’ve got to believe it’s not us, it’s Him; it’s what He did; it’s who He says I am.  We’re not going to be thrown around by our emotions, because we don’t keep putting out a report card on ourselves every day.  We are the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ; praise God!  And so, we not only declare it, we live it.

In Romans, Chapter 5, can you imagine what it must have been like when the Holy Spirit was illuminating Paul’s spirit to these great truths?  I know for a fact, because we know man, I know what Paul was going through at that time.  I know what Paul was thinking, and we know what the rest of society was thinking because they even brought it up: “This is too good to be true”; amen?  As the Holy Spirit began to speak to him and the Holy Spirit said in verse 6, as the Lord was speaking and giving him insight into these greatest truths of redemption, the Scripture saying, “When we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly.”  Hallelujah!  Think about that:  in due time, God died for the ungodly.  “And God, verse 8, “commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”  And then mark it, verse 9, every time you see a “much more” our ears perk up: “Much more then, being now justified…,” that word means, “pronounced righteous, to be considered innocent.”