I was once a typical Christian. I went to church, tithed, went on short-term missionary trips, taught Sunday School, and went to ‘Outreach Events’ whenever possible. Of course, there was always something missing, something I just didn’t get, but I could never put my finger on it. However, I just did not realize that what ‘I didn’t get’ was so massive and life changing. This revelation was the fact that the True God was the complete opposite of the phony god that I was worshipping in Christianity. I first started to come to a true realization of the Real God when I read a verse in TIMOTHY. This verse is in 1 Timothy 4:10 and states that ….God, Who is the Saviour of all mankind, especially of believers.
This verse sat in my mind and heart for a long time. I was afraid to pursue this scripture because I thought I was abandoning my faith, I felt my pastor and church would shun me and perhaps I would fall into heresy and become a backslidden Christian that the bible talks about. Old ladies, who seemed sweet, would condemn me to hell and would seem to be happy about it. However, I continued to study scripture and realized that many verses and stories support the fact that through Jesus Christ, God would eventually save every single human being that has ever lived.
The scripture mentioned above stood out to me because it says that God is the savior of all mankind and then qualifies the believers with the word ‘especially’ which means they have a special salvation. However, this also means that if God saves all mankind and the believers have a special salvation then everyone else will have salvation. There is no way this verse could mean anything else but the salvation of all. Unless you want to take the position that God is a savior of those whom He does not save, then this scripture clearly teaches that God will save unbelievers while specially saving believers.
There is another verse in First Timothy that resonated with me. Saviour, God, Who wills that all mankind be saved and come into a realization of the truth (1 Timothy 2:4). Clearly, to me, it is that God truly does want every last human to be saved, lest He is not love at all. But, if God wills something or wants something to happen, will it? Or will the almighty God want something and not be able to obtain it? This didn’t make sense to me because we are talking about a sovereign, mighty God. Well, it doesn’t make sense in scripture either. There are so many verses in the bible that speak to God accomplishing His will and all that He wants. These verses are too numerous for this short paper but I will touch on a few.
…One Who is operating all in accord with the counsel of His Will…(Ephesians 1: 11-12)
All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as he pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can hold back his hand or say to him: “What have you done?” (Daniel 4:35).
Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him (Psalms 115:3).
I make known the end from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come. I say, ‘My purpose will stand, and I will do all that I please.’ (Isaiah 46:10).
God does not contrive weak wishes that He wants and cannot bring to pass. He wills it, plans it, ordains it, and BRINGS IT TO PASS! God is not a man that He wishes and dreams only to have those wishes and dreams fall through His fingers. He is God. He will accomplish all that He wills and He wills to save everyone from death.
People cannot shun the love of God forever. In fact, 1 Timothy 1: 14-15 says that the grace of our Lord overwhelms, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. This faith and love will overwhelm even the hardest of sinners. This was the very example that the apostle Paul gives, that of God overwhelming the worst of all sinners, Saul of Tarsus. This is what the apostle Paul had to say about the way Jesus Christ saves:
Faithful is the saying, and worthy of all welcome, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, foremost of whom am I. But therefore was I shown mercy, that in me, the foremost, Jesus Christ should be displaying all His patience, for a pattern of those who are about to be believing on Him for life eonian (1 Timothy 15-16).
This is the pattern for salvation for us, we have done nothing to neither deserve nor desire it, but God overwhelms us and saves us whether we like it or not. That is what He did to Saul of Tarsus and that is what God will do for us. All humans will be knocked off their horse sooner or later and will come to the realization that Jesus Christ will save every man, women and child. All humans will come to the realization that they had nothing to do with their own salvation, but that it is all based on the mercy of God and the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Some will come to this realization now, some will come later. However, in the end, God will be all in all, all will have the spirit of God.
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