…..Our Lord and Savior (by the name of “God is Salvation”) better known as “Jesus”, said he came to “seek and save that which is/was lost”. When does he change his character and suddenly stop “drawing all men unto himself”, which he also promised to do?
When does the Father ever stop looking for the prodigal son to come home? When does he stop looking for the lost coin? When does he ever stop seeking the one lost sheep out of the 100 sheep? (When he finds it !!!) When does Jesus ever ever ever change? He will someday be “ALL in ALL” and will “make ALL things new.”
Beloved, let us love one another… unconditionally, for Love is from/of God. God is Love! And LOVE fails? No way! Love wins out through God’s consuming fire…he is the one who will chase you down with his unconditional love until you realize that you or your church or your theology or your good deeds are not your salvation or anyone else’s either. God is Salvation!
John said “Then I heard every creature in heaven and on earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all that is in them, saying: “To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be praise and honor and glory and power, for ever and ever!” By the way, this is the Lamb who was slain from the foundation of the earth….. basically God loved us so much that he cannot bear to part with us forever….any of us.. for while we were yet sinners (and all of us were), Christ died for us…the Righteous for the ungodly… God is going to one day say it is very very good and stop working and enter in to his rest…
“My Father is working and I work the works of him who sent me.” So we may still be in the sixth “day” of creation for not all is good yet. There was a snake in the garden and Adam and Eve didn’t know good from evil. That ain’t good. One day we will be completed in his image but not yet…I can only imagine… This is the Gospel… I ain’t ashamed of this kind of good news! It is the power of God unto Salvation, for the Jew first, and also to the Greek (Gentiles). Doesn’t leave anyone out. Psalm 22:7 says it clearly… “The whole earth will acknowledge the LORD and return to him. All the families of the nations will bow down before him.” 1 Chronicles 29:11 also says “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the VICTORY and the majesty, indeed EVERYTHING that is in the heavens and the earth; Yours is the dominion, O LORD, and You exalt Yourself as head over ALL.” Romans 11:36 : “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things.” John 1:29…”The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world” Daniel 7:14 …”And to Him was given dominion, Glory and a kingdom, That all the peoples, nations and men of every language Might serve Him.
His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away; and His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.” Daniel 7:27…”Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to the people of the saints of the Highest One; His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions will serve and obey Him.” ……..Oh, by the way, these are just a few of the Bible verses banned by “Bible believing believers”, as Peter Hiett would say…(Not trying to plagiarize, but got a lot of these ideas from listening to his sermons.)
To God belongs Salvation for HE IS SALVATION.