Sovereign Grace of God - Universal Scheme of Redemption

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"But by his own blood he entered in once into the holy place, HAVING OBTAINED ETERNAL REDEMPTION [for us].

What is the meaning of Universal Scheme of Redemption? Today it is taught in most churches that Jesus Christ paid for the sins of everylast individual in the world. Below are some thoughts concerning the effects of such a teaching.

What does the Universal Scheme of Redemption do to the following ?

LOVE OF GOD - ELIMANATED

Universal Redemption seems to magnify the Love of God but in reality it lessens it, Reducing it to NOTHING! What kind of love is it that does not secure the salvation of any by it. According to Universal Redemption; God loved Peter no more than he did Judas, nor the saints now in heaven, any more than those in hell, since they were both loved alike and equally redeemed by God. God loves men with such intense a love at one time, as to give His Son to die for them and wills that they all should be saved and afterwords this love is turned into wrath and fury and will punish them with everlasting destruction. And yet.... to multitudes of them, God does not sent them so much as the Gospel.

WISDOM OF GOD - FOOLISHNESS

Where is God's Wisdom in forming a scheme in which he fails of His end? Either God did know or He did not know that these men would not perform the conditions required. If Universal Redemption is true then why would God pay the Sin Price for many that would not believe in Him when he had the FOREKNOWLEDGE to see that they would not believe?

JUSTICE OF GOD - BROKEN

If Christ died for the sins of all men, and the punishment of their sins is inflicted on him, and bore by him, and yet multitudes of them are everlastingly punished for them, where is the justice of God? Would the Justice of God allow the Sin Price to be PAID TWICE. Once by the blood of Jesus Christ on the cross and twice by the sinner for all eternity? NO! God's Justice says that if Jesus Christ paid the sin price then you are FREE INDEED!

POWER OF GOD - REDUCED

Is the power of God and his gracious will, to be obstructed by the corrupt dispositions of men? According to this Universal Scheme of Redemption it is the will of God that every individual man should be saved. For if Christ has redeemed all men, and all men are not saved, it must be either from lack of GOD's WILL to save them or from lack of GOD's POWER.

IMMUTABILITY OF GOD - CHANGED

According to Universal Redemption it should be rather, I am the Lord, I CHANGE and therefore some of the sons of men are consumed, are lost, and perish, eventhough redemmed by Christ. At one time he loves them so that he wills their salvation; at another time his love is changed into hatred and his mind is to damn them.

GLORY OF GOD - ROBBED

Where would be the glory of God the Father, in forming a scheme which does not succeed? The ultimate end of God, in the redemption of men, as has been observed, is his own glory.

LOVE and GRACE of GOD - NONE.

What sort of love is that, to love men to such a degree as to die for them and yet withhold the means of Grace from multitudes of them?

WORK of CHRIST - IMPERFECT.

If God has made full satisfaction for the sins of all men, they must all be saved for they are said to be reconciled unto God by the death of His Son. Christ is said to have obtained eternal redemption for us, and yet if all are not saved through it, it must be imperfect, it can not be a full redemption, nor of eternal efficacy.

DEATH of CHRIST - IN VAIN.

If Christ died to redeem all men and all men are not saved by his death, then his death must be in vain. Christ therefore did not die for them or otherwise they would not come into condemnation or else Christ's death has no efficacy against condemnation.

WORK of INTERCESSION.

Now those for whom he prays and interceeds, are not all men, himself being witness.

"I pray for them: I PRAY NOT FOR THE WORLD, but for them which thou hast given me: for they are thine."

TRAVAIL OF HIS SOUL - NOT SEEN.

What a dissappointment must it be to Him to see millions whom he so loved, spending an eternally in hell under the wrath of God!

IRREMISSIBLE SINS

There were multitudes in hell at the time when Christ died. Did He die for them? Or was there a different salvation plan prior to Chirst? Sodom suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

USELESS TO SOME.

Some were not sent the gospel message. This gospel message was not preached to all. Many people in the world have never heard of Christ. Was Jesus Christ's Redeeming Blood useless to them?

NO ENCOURAGEMENT for HOPE in CHRIST.

If many people are redeemed but not saved then where is the hope? The Universal Redemption Hope must be in themselves.

NO FOUNDATION TO LOVE CHRIST.

The difference between the SAVED and UNSAVED is not owing to the efficacy of Christ's death but to their own wills and/or works.

ADAM SEED - NATURAL SEED
CHRIST SEED - SPIRITUAL SEED.

"Forasmuch as ye know that ye are not REDEEMED with corruptible things, .... BUT WITH THE PRECIOUS BLOOD OF CHRIST"