WHY GOD DOES NOT DRAW ALL MEN Michael Jeshurun “No man can come to Me, except the Father which hath sent Me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day”! [John 6:44] The word ‘DRAW’ in the Greek literally means to DRAG! The same word is used when Peter after fishing DRAGGED the nets ashore and again when he ‘DREW’ his sword in the garden. [John 18:10; 21:6-11] Hence from its usage in the New Testament we are therefore obliged to understand that fallen man if he is to ‘come to God’ at all, he MUST BE DRAWN OR DRAGGED BY THE POWER OF OMNIPOTENCE! And yet the plain truth is – God does not so DRAG ALL MEN! Why is this so?! In other words why does He not save ALL? Mankind, just like the devils are a fallen race. This is something we need to understand before we understand anything else. The first requirement to understand the plan of salvation is to understand the ENORMITY of the Fall and the consequences thereof. ‘Election’ or ‘Predestination’ always appears ‘unfair’ to many because they do not see the dreadful consequences of Adams’ transgression. “IN ADAM ALL DIE” [1Cor 15:22] “And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth”! [Gen 5:3] Not in the image and likeness of God, but in his fallen image and likeness! Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. How can he be clean that is born of a woman? Behold the stars are not pure in his sight. How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm”? [Job 25:4-6] “Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned”![Rom 5:12] Please read that very carefully, ‘Death passed on ALL men because ALL HAVE SINNED’! The whole human race has already been judged and condemned in Adam. Unless people grasp this awful truth, they will never understand anything else that follows. The reason that babies are sometimes born deformed and some die in infancy is because they are guilty of the original sin?! If according to the delusion of many, they were born ‘righteous’ and are not sinners till the so called ‘age of accountability’ then they should not die in infancy as some do! Only the wages of sin is death, but death hath no power over the ‘sinless’! It is out of THIS sinful, condemned race that God has chosen to have mercy on SOME and chosen not to have mercy on the REST. The real question to be asked is not “why does God have mercy on only SOME”?, but “why does He have mercy on ANY”?! Please bear in mind that God has provided redemption ONLY for man, but ALL the angels that sinned have been condemned to an eternal hell. God could have dealt in the same manner with fallen man as he did with the devils, but he has CHOSEN to save SOME men and women! As to WHY God ‘CHOSE’ to set His love on these FEW and save them, only ONE answer is given in Scripture; and that is – “Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight”! [Matt 11:26] Why is it that ALL are not saved, particularly all who hear the Gospel? Do you still answer, Because the majority refuse to believe? Well, that is true, but it is only ONE part of the truth. It is the truth FROM THE HUMAN SIDE. But there is a DIVINE SIDE too, and this side of the truth needs to be stressed or God will be robbed of His glory. The unsaved are lost because they refuse to believe; the others are saved because they believe. But WHY do these others believe? WHAT is it that causes them to put their trust in Christ? Is it because they are more intelligent than their fellows, and quicker to discern their NEED of salvation? Perish the thought— “WHO MAKETH THEE TO DIFFER FROM ANOTHER? And what hast thou that thou didst not RECEIVE? Now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?” (1 Corinthians 4:7). It is GOD HIMSELF WHO MAKETH THE DIFFERENCE between the elect and the non-elect, for of His own people it is written, “And we know that the Son of God is come, AND HATH GIVEN US AN UNDERSTANDING, that we may know Him that is true” (1 John 5:20). God does not love EVERYBODY as is commonly supposed! Those whom He ‘loves’, He ‘DRAWS’! “The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: THEREFORE with lovingkindness have I DRAWN thee”. [Jer 31:3] WHY did he ‘draw’ the ones whom He did? He ‘DREW’ them because HE LOVED THEM with an everlasting love! And he does not ‘DRAW’ all men, because he does not ‘LOVE’ ALL MEN!
Posted on: Sun, 29 Sep 2013 23:17:37 +0000
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