by Jack Wellman ·
Why does God choose to save some people but not others?
Why does God choose to save some people but not others?
Freewill or Human Responsibility?
The Bible reveals that mankind is responsible for their
sins and gives them the freewill to choose what to do. But a hyper-Calvinist
would say that God elects some to destruction.
But
doesn’t that strip humans of their freewill? No, because they are still freely
choosing to reject Jesus Christ, even though it is God Himself Who draws men
and women and children to Himself (John 6:44).
How those
both work together, I cannot explain. That’s okay. I don’t have to know how to
fly a 747 to ride on one (thankfully). I just know it flies.
How all of
the mechanical and natural forces work together to make something so enormous
that’s able to fly, I don’t have a clue. I simply accept that it does.
Why God
saves some and why He doesn’t is found in Scripture, but I must tell you, when
I look in the mirror, I don’t find it there. I see nothing in myself that is
worth saving.
I wouldn’t
have chosen me to be saved. Either way, I am responsible for either believing
in Christ and having eternal life (John
3:16).
Or for I
am responsible for rejecting Christ and having the wrath of God abiding on me (John 3:36b).
I am free to choose and I am responsible for my choices, but why aren’t more
of my family, friends, and co-workers being chosen?
God’s Election
Before
we existed, before time was, and before anything was created, God had an
election, but only God could vote.
I mean, we couldn’t have voted then because we didn’t exist. God
had a vote before we were around and it was a landslide. It was God one,
everyone else, zero! Polls closed!
We read about God’s election even in the Old Testament
when He calls Abram (later Abraham), “Go from your country and your kindred and your father’s
house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation,
and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing” (Genesis
12:1-2).
God didn’t hesitate and think, “What
about what I want? Why can’t I choose to have You be my God?”
All we’re
told is Abraham “believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness” (Genesis 15:6).
However
Abraham would have never believed on the Lord and had his belief accounted as
righteousness unless God had first called him (Genesis
12:1-2).
The Apostle Paul, in writing about Jacob and Esau, wrote,
even “though they were not yet born and had done nothing
either good or bad—in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not
because of works but because of him who calls— she was told, “The older will
serve the younger.”
As it is written, “Jacob
I loved, but Esau I hated” (Romans 9:11-13).
This is why Paul could write that God “chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that
we should be holy and blameless before him. In love he predestined us for
adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of
his will” (Ephesians 1:4-5).
Why did He
choose us? Was it because we were special or good? No, none of us qualify for
that (Romans 3:10-12, 3:23).
It was, as
Ephesians 1:4 says it was “in love.” And that’s in His love, not ours. God loved the
unlovable.
Why is Anyone Saved!?
Or “Why
isn’t everyone saved?” to which I would answer, “It’s not so much, why doesn’t
God save everyone, but rather, why does God save anyone!
We all
deserve hell. None of us deserve God’s grace or to receive His mercy. Not one
of us is righteous and there never has been one that was.
Christ
alone was sinless in His humanity, but for everyone else, it’s impossible.
Someone
who thinks he’s sinless is only gathering a collection of unconfessed sins,
because we all sin (Romans 3:23; 1 John 1:8, 10).
But we
should confess sin (1 John 1:9).
We all
miss the mark. One man once told me that it bothered him that I prayed in
church for God to forgive us sinners because He didn’t think he was one.
I said,
that’s sad my friend because Christ came to die for sinners, of which I am one
of.
Why
doesn’t God save more than He does? For one thing, how do we know who really is
and isn’t saved?
Jesus said
that there will be weeds in the wheat and they will both grow together, so only
God alone knows for certain (1 Samuel 16:7).
We can
observe what kind of fruit they bear, but some people grow at a much slower
rate than others. What might appear to be weeds might be wheat that’s not quite
come to seed yet.
Every one
of us are like plants in nature; we all grow at different rates, but at least
we’re growing (hopefully).
However
anything that isn’t growing, is dying. Just ask any gardener.
Universalism
I have rather grown tired of hearing that God will save
everyone and that in the end, everyone will go to heaven, because that’s
clearly wrong.
The Bible teaches that “many are called, but few are chosen” (Matthew 22:14).
And “the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to
life, and those who find it are few” (Matthew 7:14).
I’m not
sure where they get the idea that everyone will be saved. If everyone will
eventually be saved, then why did Jesus have to come and die in the first
place?
Do
Universalists really think everyone will believe in God? Can they really expect
everyone, even today, will come to believe in God by their own volition?
No, some
hate God so much that it would be against their will to believe in God and obey
Him, and God will not interfere with a person’s freewill decision to reject
Christ.
Universalism
is a lie from the Devil because it strips God of glory that salvation is from
Christ alone (Acts 4:12), and the suffering of Christ at the Passion (Matthew 27:11-50).
Conclusion
Remember,
we can’t save anyone, but God will use us as a means to save some, but those
whom He saves are those whom He has already chosen to save.
We don’t
know who they all are … at least, yet.
Why
doesn’t God save everyone pales in comparison to the question: “Why does God
save anyone?”
Are
you struggling with a big decision or wondering how your eternal future will
play out?
Why
not talk to the God of the universe and let Him work in your behalf?
He
says, “I will instruct you and teach you the way you should go; I will
counsel you with my eye upon you" (Psalm 32:8).
Ask
God to show you what to do. Pray the following prayer:
“Heavenly
Father,
I
admit that I am a sinner and my sins have separated me from You. I now want to
turn away from my past sinful life and begin a new life with You.
Please
forgive me. I now receive your Son, Jesus Christ as my Savior, my Master and my
Lord. I believe and confess that Jesus Christ died for my sins, was buried, and
rose from the dead.
I
want to receive all that Jesus Christ has provided for me as my Savior. Your
Word says, ‘Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved’ (Romans 10:13).
I
believe and confess that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life, and
no man comes unto the Father, but by Him.
Lord
Jesus, I pray and ask You, to come into my heart and be Lord of my life. I
thank You that you have given me eternal life, and according to Your Word, I am
born again.
Heavenly
Father, thank You for the gift of the Holy Spirit Who is in me now. I surrender
my life to You. I promise to study Your Word – the Bible.
Use
me for Your glory.
In
Jesus’ Name. Amen.”
.
Jack Wellman is a father and grandfather and a Christian author, freelance writer, and pastor at the Mulvane (KS) Brethren church in Mulvane, Kansas. Graduate work at Moody Bible Institute. His books are inexpensive paperbacks that are theological in nature: “Teaching Children The Gospel/How to Raise Godly Children,“ “Do Babies Go To Heaven?/Why Does God Allow Suffering?,“ "The Great Omission; Reaching the Lost for Christ," and “Blind Chance or Intelligent Design?, Empirical Methodologies & the Bible."
Jack Wellman is a father and grandfather and a Christian author, freelance writer, and pastor at the Mulvane (KS) Brethren church in Mulvane, Kansas. Graduate work at Moody Bible Institute. His books are inexpensive paperbacks that are theological in nature: “Teaching Children The Gospel/How to Raise Godly Children,“ “Do Babies Go To Heaven?/Why Does God Allow Suffering?,“ "The Great Omission; Reaching the Lost for Christ," and “Blind Chance or Intelligent Design?, Empirical Methodologies & the Bible."
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"WHY HAVE YOU CHOSEN ME"
Rodger Strader
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC65l7kfJpckaraokeCyrusBermejo
Why have You chosen me out of millions Your child to be
You know all the wrongs that I have done
Oh how could You pardon me, forgive my iniquities
To save me give Jesus Your son
You know all the wrongs that I have done
Oh how could You pardon me, forgive my iniquities
To save me give Jesus Your son
But Lord help me be
what You want me to be
Your word I will strive to obey
My life I now give, for You I will live
And walk by Your side all the way
Your word I will strive to obey
My life I now give, for You I will live
And walk by Your side all the way
I am amazed to know
that a God so great could love me so
Is willing and wanting to bless
His love is so wonderful, His mercy so bountiful
I can't understand it I confess
Is willing and wanting to bless
His love is so wonderful, His mercy so bountiful
I can't understand it I confess
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