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First Thessalonians chapter 5 let's go back there this evening I'm going to continue with part two of perfect redemption. Our God is a God who is our has an all consuming passion to glorify himself to make known what he is and who he is and how powerful and beautiful. Our wives how holy he is and he has an invincible love is just a part of his nature and his love influences and flavors if you will all of his other attributes, but all of his other attributes help define his love. He has this great great bold choice to cast favor toward me and who are fallen so low in sin and corruption that their inner irreparable condition left to themselves God and leave them to themselves. He came for those worms. He came to reading them. Were talking about this perfect redemption wrought by God, adjust and review real quick. We talked about I the perfect man and the perfect plan. The plan rather perfect plan the perfect man. The plan was God the father's plan that he wanted to say for himself a people that would know God would join God and love God and be an example of God's saving power for time and for eternity when you're saving you become part of the church. You become a part of God's trophy. It's his trophy.
What he can accomplish now what a preacher can do our slick church program can accomplish are any manner whatever it is, what God can come to God had a plan and then he had a man, his son Jesus Christ, whom he sent to care for the children and you know that I've been calling those children what the Bible calls them they are the elect of God are the chosen of God or the called of God are the four known by God, of the predestined by God uses a lot of phrases in it and there a lot of them in the New Testament. You have to really work to get around those if you don't deal with the sovereign choice of God, as he marked out those he would send his son Jesus Christ to provide for them. A perfect redemption number II we talked about the perfect execution of the plan by the man Jesus did come, he was born of the virgin. He lived a holy life.
He fully God's law.
He went to that climactic event, the centerpiece being of all of all time and eternity. And that's the cross and there on the cross he paid our ransom there on the cross.
Our debt was satisfied the justice of God was satisfied against us.
And so therefore we are redeemed ball back out of Satan's house in the bondage of sin into God's house and the freedom and the glory of the sons of God. He perfectly executed that responsibility some point, they we call the unlimited liability assumed in the field that is Jesus assumed our legal responsibility for the justice and the law of God, and he completely fulfilled the requirements of law in making us, freeing us if you will proceed in making a just and holy before the presence of God that we come to the second part of the perfect execution of the plan by the man and that is be a limited application to the elect a limited application to the elect.
I want to listen well and get the balance of all that I want to bring to you from the word of God. Let's go back to first Thessalonians chapter 5 and this is a great text to begin talking about that there is a restriction if you will a limit to the movement, God came to redeem first Thessalonians 5 beginning in verse one. Now as to the times and epochs, brethren, so he's writing to a restricted group is writing the brethren here. You have no need of anything to be written to you for you yourselves know full well that the day the Lord becomes like a thief in the night while they that's the other group that's a separate route for the people he's writing to the war the loss the world they will be saying peace and safety, then destruction will come upon them suddenly like labor pains upon a woman with child, and they will not escape. But you get a different subgroup the many people he stopped into the church you, brethren, are not in darkness of the day would overtake you like a thief or you are all sons of light and sons of day and we are not of not, nor darkness so they let us not sleep with as others do, but let us be alert and sober for those who sleep with her sleeping at night, those who get drunk, get drunk at night.
But since we are of the day, let us be sober, having put on the breastplate of faith and love. It is a helmet and hope of salvation for God has not destined us for wrath is a particular group that's not been destined for wrath, but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Verse 10 who died for the world. No inconsistency with always been saying so far who died for us. A limited subgroup. He could've easily said the world.
He could live easily said all men, but he stays in the fluff. He's not writing to the world is writing to a church he died for us so that whether we are awake or asleep, we will live together with him. Therefore encourage who the whole world know one another. Once he died for, and build up one another, just as you also are doing as we talk about this limited application to the leg. Let me say to you that all Christians again itself and I'll talk a lot about how we use the words and how the people in the day the Scriptures were written used the words the way we use and they use them figuratively use the phrase all the way.
We would use the word all the absently of a person you could say Alabama wins all their games without strewn a figure of speech, but they do when all their games out Auburn fans may have some say about that. They do when absolutely just about all of them but not all of the but it's a figure of speech, but when I say all Christians agree I'm in the great majority of Christians agreed together that the death of Christ is sufficient. Should God decree it so to save our redeem a thousand worlds full of sinners. The blood of Christ has infinite power and infinite value yet though we all agree the death of Christ in the blood of Christ is sufficient for thousand worlds of sinners, we all agree, Armenians and more Calvinist leading people that there is a limitation to the atonement.
There is a limitation to redemption. The two major lines of thinking throughout church history that speak of the fact that the atonement our redemption is limited. The first one is the Catholic or you might even add the Catholic/Armenian line of thinking. The Catholic are the Armenian thinking, which is not our primary forefathers. By the way they would teach that the effects the redemption of Christ death is limited by men, Christ God anybody can be saved if they'll just choose to believe but it's up to me and asked how unlimited this atonement are this redemption is they actually can govern who gets redeemed and who does not. If they believe they would say than the person who believes then becomes the object of God's favor and then receives the benefits of this redeeming death that Christ's death did not actually redeem anyone they would say they would say that Christ's death only made man redeemable Christ's death only put man in a in a and redemptive possibility. It's possible Jesus died and now it's possible but nothing for sure has happened because it's up to men to make it happen. That's Catholic doctrine. That's the more Armenian doctrine. I look at that and I say so there's a real possibility that Jesus could have died in all could've rejected him, and Jesus death would've been a colossal failure. You'd have to say, that would've been a possibility. It literally is up to man as to whether or not the atonement does anything for anybody that's why the Catholic hierarchy came up with this with a call.
The sacrifice of the mass since Jesus death did not secure anybody's redemption. Therefore, you had to come to the priest yet to take the wafer and drink the juice you come to an Catholic priest and you take the wafer and drink the juice, the wafer becomes the body of Jesus crucified for you dream becomes the blood of Jesus shed for you until Jesus dies for you again and you secure your redemption again because nothing was settled back on Calvary.
It's up to you now in evangelical circles. Far too many had drifted toward that kind of thinking. No, we don't teach a priest and we don't teach up eating the wafer and drinking the juice we just preach, raise your hand walked to the front. We give them some motion that helps get the effects of redemption applied to them. So that's one primary line of thinking. Jesus died to make redemption possible. He didn't actually acquire our finish redemption for anyone he just made it possible I and our badges forefathers about the greatest number of them absolutely categorically reject that notion. The Protestant Reformation in early badness in general would say that's not true. The Bible has an abundance of scriptures that teach very clearly Jesus death was not something that made things possible.
Jesus death actually accomplished what he meant for it to accomplish. He actually redeemed his children. He came to redeem when he died some cross verses to support this. Romans 81 Paul writes this is there is therefore now all know Kim condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. In other words, it's all finished the course in the Catholic and Armenian line of thinking you can lose your salvation. You can be condemned and get it back again and lose it and get it back again and course. That's the way they kept people under their power to control you into the hoops I said and honor them and sit under their oversight and their authority so you could make sure you got the effects of the redemption critic to be taken away, we reject that if you know crises and there's no condemnation list for you. Hebrews 13 speaks of how Jesus made purification of sins. It's a past tense emphasis. He made purification he actually purified his children when he died on the cross. Hebrews 912, not to the blood of goats and cash, but through his own blood he entered the holy place. Notice this once for all, having obtained at the finish think it's a past tense verb, having obtained eternal redemption. Just gotta make it possible he obtained it for the children kidnapped obtained it for himself. He was obtaining it for those for which he came to say. So we hold that man cannot in any matter add to his redemption.
It was procured for us and finish for us in Christ death is not subjected to us, but it is our objective to us.
In other words, the Bible speaks of Christ performing our redemption outside of us independent from us. We are just the grateful beneficiaries of his redeeming work, he bore our sins, he purchased those sins. He did not just make a down payment and leave the rest is for someone else to do.
Our debts are not just canceled. They are liquidated. Hebrews 1014 for by one offering he has perfected past tense verb that means he died in redeemed them and it's completed and finished he has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified.
The elect children bask in a holy liberty having been freed from sin free from guilt free from condemnation, freed from death freed from health freed from the grave through the redemptive finished work of Jesus Christ is why Fanny Crosby wrote in her song perfect perfect submission, all is at rest IN my Savior and happy and blessed the courseware. Look, you can't write perfect submission always at rest. If you got to do something to complete your redemption.
Are you hearing me, there's no joy on that personal security and that what I leech in a trembling place to run back to the church authority in defense of what I have to do next. Lucent. I want to get back. That's not the great doctrine of Scripture perfect submission always at rest because when he died for me. He finished the requirements for me.
I met wristed sold the Catholic line in the Armenian line and unfortunately way too many bed to sleep indelible in the modern work.
The main problem with badness and evangelicals is not that they reject this doctrine is almost all theological they don't really have any understanding of Dr. I know two or three little basic things they learn when they were sixth-graders in Sunday school, and I don't want or anything else I come to fill out the job after I learned those two, three little basic things was for the pastor to be creative and funny and humorous and entertaining enough to keep me coming back there at there's a shallow they they don't want to wrestle with the whole counsel of God. That's really the problem but anyway the Armenian Catholic thinking in the far too many bed to sleep in jealous with today say that the atonement of Christ and the redemption of Christ is limited by whether or not man believes there's no effect in anyone's life because man holds the key are until man turns the lock don't know if I really believe that if I really believe Jesus did this, Jesus splashed out there this great possibility didn't do anything. He didn't get anything accomplished but it was up to me and to do something to get it activated for them. If I really believe that when I look for every spin. Every twist, every fad, every bait and switch everything I could find to get men to do that.
Whatever it was you listen to me and that's what we see in modern evangelicalism, every kind of ridiculous nonsense and superstitious poop jumper.
Whatever it is to get people to get in on this redemption and you know in your heart of hearts. Everything about that smacks of error in falsehood and sham. I think there's some good brothers to get caught up in adult misunderstanding and I think there's brothers whose hearts are right because I've been there myself, but they need to keep reading to keep studying if they would study church history there to find out that they were centuries and centuries and centuries and centuries of good Baptist and Protestant and evangelical work where they did none of the shenanigans were doing in churches.
They quote to get people say why did they do know that things because they believe this doctrine that Jesus sealed it and secured it when he died, and it has a limited application to those Jesus chose to those Jesus foreknew to those he predestined, by contrast, we of course hold the sovereign grace. We believe the redemption of Christ is limited not by man, it's limited only by God.
You got decide, choose your limitation sovereign man. Our sovereign God. That's really where it comes to well what saith the Scriptures.
What does the Bible say about this will remember what Joseph said are the angel rather said to Joseph, recorded in Matthew 121 he said Mary's going to have a baby and he came to save it. He is people limited group from their sins, and then a very powerful point passage of Scripture. I think let me say this to you got to understand the cultural mindset of this day, when it came to religion in general. The Jewish mindset was the dominant thinking of the day, even among the Gentile. If they want to talk about one of God who was a Lord of all of the Greeks had all counted demigods will be talked about one central authoritative God, the Jews had not had the corner the market on that thought and everything about God and the Jews was that God elected Israel. Israel's God's elect, Israel's God's called Israel's God forget Israel are God's elect people what Armenians don't jump up and down on the table with both feet about that one of the get mad that God chose Israel is funny that I may not know Armenian pastor they just get read the patient and scream and shout over Israel's God, people, and God chose them and will support Israel and save man in a minute. I may have been why is that okay if you're not okay with God, electing individuals in the salvation. Why is it okay for God elected and so in the mindset of the people of the date as the Bible writers are writing. The writing from that perspective that that they were there was no question that the Jews categorically without debate held God elected Israel and did not choose the Hittites, the Amorites, the Egyptians, the Babylonians or anybody else God chose Israel so the concept of God electing or choosing one group out of the hole was very common. Thinking that's where they started now and in modern Americans faced in the southeast. We started the radically opposite perspective God has to give everybody the exact same fair shake.
You know, by reality that's not true. Some children grow up in homes with. I have a loving Christian environment. Some children grow up in homes with her parents or atheist. You just don't happen. We don't all get the same fair shake, so to speak. We all get more than we deserve. We get more than we deserve. We get more favor than we ought to get, but is not equal in any way shape or fashion gods always had any let people he had Israel. So these Israelites come in here and they begin that this hearing about this Christ is born Joseph he hears that his wife could have the Messiah, Jesus Christ, and he will save his people from their sins. Joseph probably thought while I know that of course he's coming to save Israel from her sins, but there was a shocking, shocking revelation coming and that is that God didn't just have some elect in Israel. He had some elect.
Also among the Gentiles, Jesus, that I've got other sheep not of this fold. That was not the radical revelation was not election. The radical revelation that there could be some elect outside of Israel. That was the radical thought that there were, the revelation of Jesus brought so John 1014 and 15 Jesus teaching. He says I am the good shepherd and I know my own home to see know he knows a restricted group a limited group.
I know my own and my own nose mayor know me, even as the father knows me and I know the father and I lay down my life for the world know the sheep. The sheep I know the sheep know me, it's a limited group you can't make that meeting thing off and on one occasion when the Pharisees were debating with Jesus and not receiving Jesus.
Jesus said you don't believe because you're not my sheep. He didn't say because you don't believe you're not my sheep. He said if you don't believe because you're not my sheep. If it's a limited there's a limited aspect. John 17 nine Jesus is interceding for his followers, his disciples what a radical thing he says to radical, from our perspective anyway. John 17 nine ask on their behalf.
I do not ask on behalf of the world, but of those whom thou hast given me, for they are the I'm not asking you to protect and care for, and keep those who are unbelievers are in the world. I ask you to take care of those you've given me out of the world. It's a limited group is not everyone revelation chapter 5 verse nine we have a picture.
John gives us a picture of what the Saints of God in heaven elicit to meet the saints of God, our head in heaven are praising Jesus for something. Now what do you think the Satan, God of God in heaven praise Jesus for and they sang a new song, saying, worthy art thou to take the book and break it seals for that was slain and did purchase for God with thy blood.
That's the process redemption pretty purchased with his blood man and literally the Greek says men out every tribe out every tongue out of every people and out of every nation, not the whole world a limited, restricted group, but from all the peoples of the world. That's all you can make the tech not many Baptist. Praise God for limited atonement with the saints in heaven.
Do can I get a man that's what that teaches you know why they love it because on that side when you're up there in glory. You see that God did everything he was going to do perfectly everyone. His blood was shed for is cleansed and makes it to glory in their praising God for it.
And by the way that this is what I was taught by every Pat Baptist pastor and every Baptist professor I've ever set under these are clearly Baptist doctrine, we just don't deal with and I deal with them as a come to them in the text and that's what we ought to do this is first time in 38 years. I just bore down and focused on these things now. It's very interesting that the people have died and gone to heaven. Praise God for his death for them and for his blood cleansing men, out of every people tongue try the nation. But you know there's no record in Scripture of people in hell praising God for dying for them. Stuff that was interesting though now to go to Ephesians 5 determine their list go to Ephesians 5, Galatians than right at the Galatians is Ephesians we have the section on marriage and how marriage is a powerful picture of God's salvation and God's gospel. You ladies have been studying about that in your lessons and notice the parallels here that that Paul wants them to get of how husbands relate to their wives the way Jesus relates to his wife.
His church is broad and notice what the wording is here.
Ephesians 525. Husband love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up her, that means he died getting supper. So husbands love all the women in town. No, you're why it's limited. Just as Jesus doesn't have the same eternal favor for all the people of the world, but for his bride.
His elect. If you make this a universal atonement where Christ died in the same way for everybody in the parallel would be men should love all white women but if you understand what he saying husband has unique special devoted peculiar love for one woman. Christ Jesus has a unique special peculiar love for one bride is elect his church. It's limited you lose everything if you make it general and applied everybody continue agon so that he that's Jesus might sanctify her, that's his bride, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word that he, Jesus might present to himself the church in all her glory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she would be holy and blameless in verse 28 so husbands ought also to love their own wives don't get the love other women. What yet. We love all bald men and women in Christian love, but not little espousal of Jesus loves only his bride in that special unit way like manner, only to love their wives in a special peculiar particular way. Verse 29 for no one ever hated his own flesh, because when you're married, of course, you become one flesh has been why so making hate his wife. That's theological now. He loves his wife is one flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church so Jesus does this for the church of the US at a limited group as a husband does it for a limited woman. His wife it's it's it's a limited atonement is a limited redemption. Verse 32 this mystery is great but I'm speaking with reference to Christ and the church. He said the reason why God gave you the picture of one man devoting all of the one woman is because our God has a great love devoted for pitch to your particular specific group is a limit to it.
Revelation chapter 19 verse nine. The Bible says concerning the marriage supper of the Lamb. Blessed are those that are invited. Not that choose to come. Blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the Jesus as I lay down my life for my sheep is high priestly prayer. He said, not praying for the world. I'm praying for out a limited group and at the marriage supper of land.
There's only a limited group invited to come to it.
The whole concept of a limited application is all through Scripture Ellis go to the powerful picture of the Old Testament of Christ sacrificial work for children. What's the powerful picture in the Old Testament of Christ sacrificial work. It's a sacrificial system of Israel.
The Bible taught that if you had certain sins or certain failures or certain unclean things that happened in your life.
You could go to the priest into the Levitical law told you what sacrifice to bring and when you brought that sacrifice to the priest he sacrifice it on your behalf redemption are atonement was made for you limited to you on the Passover. Every year, every family in Israel was to pick out a spotless lamb and there bring that spotless lamb to the temple and the priest would take that spotless lamb was sacrificed on the altar for your family, not anybody else.
It was limited on the great day of atonement. The priest took a goat and he sacrifice one of the goats and he took some of the blood and he went into the holy of hose only time one time a year. He could going to the holy of holies traditions as I put a rope on in case you went in there and cleaning God killed Eddie sprinkled the blood in their symbolizing the atoning the renaming of the nation of Israel. The atonement for their sins. Now why did he sprinkle blood for the Egyptians and the Babylonians came the Hittites and all the other peoples of the world know it was limited to Israel. Every sacrifice will type in the Old Testament has a limited application of its effectual atoning a redeeming work. That's what I'm telling you the whole mindset of people.
This day was any it with the that God comes for his elect. It's very clear throughout the Scripture Colossians chapter 121 and 22 and although you were formally alienated and hostile in mind, and engaged in evil deeds. Yet he has now reconciled you in his fleshly body through death in order to present you before him holy and blameless and beyond reproach. Hebrews 217. Speaking of Jesus, therefore he had to be made like the world know his brethren hit me made like the people he came to save his brethren in all things that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to pertaining to God, to make propitiation. That's his death propitiation. I remember means means a covering, to make propitiation for the sins of the people particular group. A limited group Hebrews 915, and for this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant in order that since a death is taking place for the redemption of the transgression that were committed under the first covenant, that those who have been called who's going to get this benefits of this death. Those who have been called may receive the promise of eternal life is limited to folks if if the Bible is just crystal-clear and Jesus died the same way for every body.
You just would not have all these verses and trust me there many many many more. You would have the topology of the Old Testament sacrificial system being limited you and how the illustration of husbands and wives and wife. Love is limited and saying that's the way Jesus loves his church, you just wouldn't have all of that and be just a glaring contradiction pastor. What about all the text that does say Jesus died for all men. What about some text that since Jesus didn't die for the world lady let me give you three things all that all right, three things on those text not be honest, some of them are challenging, but a closer examination, I'm convinced shows that they're not teaching a universal phone could listen to me friend.
You gotta be careful here you start throwing that around. You hadn't thought through what you're saying because if Jesus died the same way for everybody he's purchased the redemption of everybody in and obtain eternal life for everybody and that universalism.
That means everybody's going to heaven. Nobody will perish.
I guess the folks in hell right now feel bad about that doctrine didn't work for them but three thoughts about those text that seem to imply that Jesus died for all men. Number one thought number one the words all our world or similar words like that are used throughout Scripture as a figure of speech when they, in reality, have a more restrictive meaning so it's often just a figure speech. They were not unlike us when we save everybody say in this old AR. That's one of my common things and Stephanie Pastor everybody saying annoyed time leaving their bunch thing to have, who's well. John said what I would never body it's a figure of speech Romans. Let's say Romans 518 metaframe. I think it's will be on the screen. Blessed turned there together because I got to show you another verse rhapsodic Romans 518.
Look at Romans 518 so they envision as 31 transgression that was our father Adam back in the garden of Eden, he transgressed their and their resulted condemnation to all men, even so through the act of righteousness as the act of Jesus. The result resulted justification of life to all men. While we go do that.
The resulted justification of life to all men will first of all, are you sure you want to hang your hat on that. You sure you will become Universalist and say Jesus has granted justification. Now think about that. That's the finished work right there. Jesus rose from justification you want to claim that Jesus has just about all men and settled in the what's the context say you always look at the contents. Is there clarification of the context I think there is. Look at verse 17 Hussein referring to in verse 17 for if by the transgression of one that's our father, Adam, death reigned through the one, much, much more are much more those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness will reign in life to the one, Jesus Christ. So hello who are these all its those who receive the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. So in verse 17. He's got a restrictive group. Those who receive the abundance of grace in verse 18.
He says the word all so I would say in proper biblical exegesis you got to define the all the other restrictive claims of the verse preceding it. I thought you got to contradictions that makes perfect sense if you hold that the all of 18 is a figure of speech has a more restrictive understanding in the restrictive understanding of that clear in the preceding verse resist know I'm referring to those who receive the abundance of grace and consent to the whole world. Their businesses know it's a more restrictive group. Now look at Hebrews chapter 2. Another troublesome verse that the Armenians would fire at us and say hey this this didn't teach that Christ atonement only affects the elect Hebrews chapter 2. Look at verse nine Hebrews chapter 2 verse nine but we do see him. He was made for a little while lower than the angels, namely Jesus. Because of the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. Will there you go. He tasted death for everyone now is that a figure speech with a more restrictive sense or did Jesus literally actually taste death for all men, women, children, whoever it was it ever lived on the face of their will.
First of all I'd say if that's really what the text is meaning to know me and whatever facelift they would just go in and eternal life of the dog if he actually literally tasted death for the see you getting the trap here.
If you start getting the Arminian thinking, well, okay, he didn't really taste death. He just offered people Victor from that.
That's not what that saves. He took it for them. He put it in his mouth. He chewed it up. He swallowed it and he eliminated it he expurgated death took it out of our way arcing when he says that for a seat he gate hee hee. How does he said again he might taste death for everyone. Is there more of an understanding your list look at the context. Look at verse 10, for it was fitting for him, for whom are all things and through whom are all things in bringing many sons to glory. Not every man he brought brings many Tagore that's more restrictive.
Verse 11 for both. He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified. Those who are sanctified as a restrictive or a limited group are all from one father for rich reason. He's not ashamed to call them brethren saying verse 12. I will proclaim your name to my who brethren in the midst of the congregation I will sing your praise again. I will put my trust in him again bold and the children whom God has given me there you go very restrictive. These of the children who God has given, so the every man of the earlier verse is qualified and amplified and defined by the following context. It's more of a limited group that's the way I would interpret those text. You can disagree that's fine.
And by the way, these are not points to have arguments over our break fellowship over a man. I have people in my family don't quite hold to this point, but they're coming along working but think about some versus where it's obvious the words all or every. In this case the word world doesn't mean every person in the world listen to just listen you ton work, look him up Revelation 29. Satan deceives the whole world weathers lots of believers who are not saved by Satan them and glittered every single person but he is the predominant influencer of the world, not every single person first John 519, the whole world lies in the power of the evil one with the right majority world does.
But the church doesn't every day. Don't live in the power of the evil one. Generally that's true the whole world is not every single person first John 414. Jesus is the Savior of the world you sure you want to hang your hat on that so that means every single person with an ever single persons redeemed going to heaven. This universalism knowing means he can save all people all over the world.
First John 313 Jesus said don't be surprised when the world hates you that mean every single person is not sadist will always hate you if you're Christian know the Bible actually teaches that God can make all men to be at peace with us at time doesn't mean every single person.
It is a figurative phrase as a more restrictive meaning that mean every single person. John 2125 John said if if there were books written to contain all the miracles Jesus did that even the world itself could contain the books that you think John really meant that you start all the books written of all that Jesus did in his three years of earthly ministry. The world cannot know what John saying is there so many things he did. It's as if the world couldn't hold of all.
Now God can do that many wonderful works, but he did limit himself to one finite body you understand for three year. It's a figure speech that has a more restrictive sense. In John 1219, the Pharisees are frustrated about the way Jesus is gaining in popularity and I say the whole world has gone after him. I did mean every single person but I mean a whole bunch of them are it will block the whole world to those Pharisees so you and buck folks, that's just I could give you many many many more of way. The way that the Bible writers of this day. Use these terms. The way we use them today in a figurative sense, but not in an absolute sense. So sometimes if not many times when you run across that phrase. Jesus died for the whole world.
It likely has a meaning that's more restrictive.
Not every single person everywhere. That's my first thought these words properly understood in their context often have and should have most of the time. A more restrictive sense. Number two, when the Bible says all men are everywhere.
All it often means Jews and Gentiles. Because remember, in the Jewish mindset. There was one thing crystal clear settled forever were God's people.
And then there's everybody else right where where where where the world's where where the end-all of end-all and then there's everybody else.
The greatest shock to Israel was that there could be people other than Jews that could be saved by their Jewish Messiah that was what would shop them. There are two categories of people in the Jewish monster that either Jews and anybody else. For example, Romans 323. We know that verse weld only. All have sinned limited context that literally doesn't mean every single person, but it means more than that if you read the contents of Romans chapter 3 policymaking the argument that the Jews who believe your God's chosen people who believe Jesus just came for you. The Jews, the rest of the world all Jews and Gentiles are under sin were all in the same boat to which all good, faithful Orthodox Jews would bristle they would bristle. They carry over as Jesus if you if you violated their doctrine of their exclusive identity as God's covenant chosen people. You are in trouble, so this was a radical that God had people all over the Lord outside of Israel that he was actually saving so admit the Jews and the Gentiles. Second Corinthians 519. Let's say let's let's look that one up. Second Corinthians 519 look over there with me on here your Bible's rustling second Corinthians chapter 5 verse 19. It's as if all the sudden my bottle have second written chapter 5, but there is in second Corinthians 519 the pop apostle is writing to the church at Corinth and he says, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself that you hang your hat on that insight. That's it. He's reconciling me to every single person is ever live, you know that's not true.
If he reconciles then there saying. Then it's down there all going to heaven.
It's a figure of speech limit that God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and he has committed to us the word of reconciliation. So does that mean absolutely everyone is being reconciled. No, let's look at another verse was look at verse 16. What is the context of what Paul saying verse 16, before you get stuck with the verse 19. Therefore, from now on we recognize no one according to the flesh. What you say we don't recognize anyone because there it of any particular blood heritage. It just doesn't matter if Abraham is your full father just doesn't matter if you have the bloodletting to be a surreal you understand all the rest the world under sin. It's all God's reconciling men from everywhere.
That's what this main Jews and Gentiles. Not that he's reconciling every single person because he's not look around the sales area not be people in church tonight. Probably most of the reconciled ones are PA reconciling everybody so it can be a a a figure of speech should have a more restrictive application leases all or everyone of the world.
He could be referring to Jews and Gentiles, and there's 1/3 thought of why we have versus that look like Jesus, atoning redemptive work applies to all men, and that is that there is a sense I believe I can't really give you a lot of strong scripture here.
There is a sense where Jesus death does have benefits and blessings to all mankind in the sense that through his death. The Scripture speaks of him purchasing back the rights over all the earth.
He didn't just redeem me and he redeemed creation to so there's a sense of blessing and goodness now that Jesus is ruling in writing and his his kingdom and his authority mediates over all now in a way after his death that it did not before his death, and were just waiting for the culmination of the ages. When he finally purchased the world of all sin and evil, and he literally reigns on planet are so there are benefits and blessings and and I would be is going to go as far to say that Jesus death is for all men, in the sense that Jesus death has a a a and atoning temporal effect for all mankind. That is why doesn't God come and consume all of us immediately and for all in detail who are not saved immediately. I believe it's because in Jesus death. There is a temporal benefit. A temporal atonement if you will, but it's only temporal. The eternal redeeming work of the cross applies only to the elect. But there are temporal blessings for every man, and so in that sense, the Bible could say Jesus died for all, there are effects and blessings from his death that affect all mankind. Now as we wrap up here. I'm glad we do this on Sunday. Not this is Little Rock similar classroom seven preaching. So the question listen to me faint with you before moment. Use your brains think there so little competition. The question is not, are there benefits and blessings of Christ death for all men for the whole world. Yes, I believe there are temporal blessings and benefits for all men, not eternal. That's only for the elect.
But yes, there are some temporal blessings and benefits. The question is not this Christ have a great love for all men.
This Christ favor all men with more favor than they deserve and will Christ save every single person who will repent and believe. Yes, he will just that I'm convinced based on Scripture or not.
I'm not dogmatic about it.
I'm bulldog gold bull dogmatic about it that that no one on their own will turn to Christ in repentance and faith. But if they would he'll take them so don't you go out there and say pastor says some men think of the US meet anybody who cinches the weight of their city and tells the crowd to Jesus in faith God will save them when you get back of it and turn around look from God's perspective, it was God who called them who predicted them before.
New them who elected them and he drew them by the spirit that's next week session. By the way, when we come to repentance and faith individually. How does that work in the sovereign grace. Talk about that next week. So the question is not, are the blessing and benefits and affect all men of the world. Yes, the question is not does the Scott have a great love for all men will save any and all who repent and believe.
Yes he will. Here's the question and based on the emphatic redundant clear statements of Scripture. Here's the questions whom did Christ redeemed when he died, for whom did he purge of sin when he died, for whom did he cleanse of guilt when he died.
This place did he take when he was a substitutionary sacrifice, that's not a sacrifice is it takes the place of another. Please place it did he take when he died, did he actually complete redemption when he died. Most of the questions and only left with one conclusion on the good Shepherd.
I lay down my life for the sheep. Those whom I foreknew before the foundation of the world, brothers and sisters, I am repulsed by any concept that are perfect, precious Lord Jesus Christ will talk about a perfect redemption here that his death on the cross was some sloppy effort that hopefully would get some folks say I am repulsed that the great majority of people in the Bible Belt not even go to church anymore. Yet Jesus died for them and redeem them and reclaim them has given me all he hasn't because he had lived like it because he's a small one but he doesn't change don't you tell me he's done his perfect work in them when I don't care enough even come to God's house on Sunday.
The cross is not some sloppy roll the dice. Think maybe wing talking to people in the competing say for Jesus to feel good about dying for everybody. Blasphemy are son sound doctrine, false doctrine, and heresy. That's just not with the bowel teaches on to be my Lord Jesus has the highest dignity, the highest of omniscience and power and wisdom and goodness.
And when he died, he secured his children is not a sloppy event. Hopefully some will like it and get saved. Know it was a perfect particular redemption fully successful and finished the redemption of Christ is perfect for the Redeemer is perfect. That's why in that powerful description in Isaiah 53 were talks about him suffering and dying and being rejected and then the than the promise of the father says, but he will see his offspring when he dies he purchases his children, his offspring every single one of them. He'll keep that he will save now if Christ died for all people exactly the same way he died to redeem every single person and then millions perish and go to hell than Jesus has failed. Don't tell me the righteous, holy perfect Lord Jesus died to accomplish something that didn't happen, but if all for whom he died, are indeed saved and will inherit eternal life in Christ indeed is successful as Savior and he did what he said he would do. He did what he said he did when he said in John 639 and this is the will of him who sent me of all that he has given me. I lose nothing but raise it up on the last day. In conclusion, let's remind ourselves that the work of redemption is not shared by us. The work of redemption is not your faith plus the Catholic priest in the Catholic sacrament. The work of redemption is not Jesus plus some who jump you do or go through.
Those are the effects of redemption. Your faith is the effects of redemption about by the way, the Baptist Faith and message will look at this next week.
The Baptist Faith and message clearly points out that your regeneration comes first and then your faith, repentance and faith comes next.
Your Baptist forefathers been running this down in confessions of faith for years and in the great majority Baptist would scoff at it because Vincent for preaching the saints of God.
Don't know the truth but Jesus alone hung in darkness on the cross. It was a physical darkness.
It was a spiritual darkness, thereby himself the son of God, the incarnate son of God. To the exclusion of God the father in exclusion of God the Holy Spirit to the exclusion of angels and of men finished my redemption. There's no indication that demons and devils were there. I know there's been some song sung about demons and devils were there. I'm tell you there was nobody there but Jesus the father's wrath against this redeeming work is the work of God's son and God's son alone. He is the only one qualified to be Redeemer.
He's the only one commissioned by the father to be the Redeemer. He is the one and only faithful high priest who always lives to make intercession for his children. He alone became sin.
He alone shed his precious blood, as the Bible says, knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold for me futile way of life and fair inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ. He alone ascended into heaven, he alone entered the 1 True Holy Pl. in heaven, and he obtained eternal redemption for us. Hugh Martin said the atonement is one solitary matchless divine transaction never to be repeated, never to be equal never to be approached. He finished the work for those he came to say that is perfect redemption price this night songwriter said he saw me plunged in deep despair and flew to my relief for me. He bore the dreadful cross and carried all my grief and he did