Episode 1346: Who can be saved and why? Part 2

Hello everyone. In this morning's Bible study we take a look at salvation through God's eyes.

What? What do you mean, Kevin, through God's eyes?

Well, what I mean is through the eyes of what God told us in the scriptures. The problem with most people today, both believers and unbelievers, is how they read and understand the Bible.

For the Believer, their understanding is deficient due to them reading the scriptures segmentedly. Segmentedly? Yes, meaning when the read the book of Romans, in all sincerity, they attempt to live out the book of Romans.

You may be thinking at this moment, what's wrong with that? Oh my friend, there is a lot wrong with that. If you do that then you will only be living out a segment of God's word in lieu of the entirety of God's word. Although that which you do may look good externally, when you compare that with the weight of the entirety of scriptures, it is deficient and sin.

Wait, what? How can obeying God be sinful? Obeying God is not sinful, attempting to obey God yet not obeying Him nor His word fully with the proper understanding which provides the proper intent IS SINFUL. Maybe not to you but to a holy, righteous, and just God who cannot compromise with sin, it is sinful.

With respect to unbelievers, there is absolutely nothing they do that can ever please God. They are without hope, under the curse of the law of sin and death, and are perishing. The saddest part about this is that there is nothing they nor God can do about it, because it is written by God who had already determined it to be so.

The Lord gave us to perfect examples of this through the life of two Old Testament prophets, Jonah and Nahum. Jonah preached the gospel of grace. through death and resurrection from the belly of the fish and purchased salvation for everyone in Nineveh, all were saved.

Nahum preached the gospel to the same city and all were killed by the same God, none were spared. Men, women, children, and animals were all killed and the city burned to the ground. So it will be for all unbelievers to whom God has determined not to save.

I know, I know, I already know what you are thinking. Why in the world would God do something like that?

Well I can only give you the answer given to us in the Bible. Listen very carefully.

Matthew 13:10-11 (NKJV) The Purpose of Parables
10 And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
11 He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, BUT TO THEM IT HAS NOT BEEN GIVEN.

2 Corinthians 2:14-16 (NKJV)
14 Now thanks be to God who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and through us diffuses the fragrance of His knowledge in every place. 15 For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. 16 TO THE ONE WE ARE THE AROMA OF DEATH LEADING TO DEATH AND TO THE OTHER THE AROMA OF LIFE LEADING TO LIFE. And who is sufficient for these things?

Ephesians 1:7-12 (NKJV)
7 In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace 8 which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence, 9 having made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself, 10 that in the dispensation of the fullness of the times He might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth—in Him. 11 In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, BEING PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO THE PURPOSE OF HIM WHO WORKS ALL THINGS ACCORDING TO THE COUNSEL OF HIS WILL, 12 that we who first trusted in Christ should be TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORY.

Romans 11:33-36 (NKJV)
33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!
34 “For who has known the mind of the LORD? Or who has become His counselor?”
35 “Or who has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?”
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

That is God's answer to your questions.

This morning's study is 1 hour and 12 minutes in duration. I have broken it into seven segments. This is segment 2 of 7 titled Who can be saved and why? Part 2