Good morning, everybody. It's
wonderful to see you. Wonderful to be here. Let's continue
to remember our sister, Irene. She is back in the hospital again.
She had another infection and They had to do a procedure, and
the procedure caused her to spike an extremely high fever, extremely
high. But they got it back down, and
she's the last that I talked to Tony and Chris. She's doing much better, and
pray the Lord will. continue to be with her and continue
to heal her body. Tony told me that she is getting
a little better each time with each setback. And I pray if the
Lord would be willing, he would continue that. But let's remember
her. Brother Luke Coffey is in Rescue,
California this morning. And let's pray for him. I was
telling him, I was talking to him yesterday about him getting
ready to fly, and you know, it sounds like, well, you're going
to California, he's going out to California, you know? But
you get on a plane, and it is, it's just grueling, you know? The hurry up and wait, and usually
it's two connections out there, and he didn't land until late,
late last night, and you get up and your body's on a different,
time, and you preach. His flight leaves California
at 10.30 tonight, which is 11.30, 12.30, 1.30 in the morning to
us, and he lands back. It's just, you know, we're praying
for him. It's hard. It's tough. and pray
for the brethren. I pray the Lord will truly meet
with them. I pray that the Spirit of God,
Paul said, when I'm weak, I'm strong. And I pray he'll give
Brother Luke much strength and bless him greatly. Dee Parks,
I mentioned to you a while back that we were going to send a
gift to Dee and Christy Parks. We are going to do that. We waited
because they initially received some help. And I think that it
would be good to send a second wave. So we've given it just
a minute before we send it. But if anyone would like to contribute,
you can still do that. All right, let's have a word
of prayer together. Our high and holy Heavenly Father,
Lord, we do acknowledge your. Highness and we acknowledge your
holiness. And we acknowledge how amazing
and wonderful it is that we can right now from this lowly place
here on Earth. Talk to the. King on his throne
in heaven. But an amazing thing it is, Lord,
that you will hear us and Our cry reaches you according to
your word in Christ. That's how we approach the throne
of grace and mercy. We approach in Christ. And we
approach asking for help in our time of need. Lord, we need mercy. We need mercy every day and every
hour. We pray, Lord, that you might
show that mercy to us and show that mercy to your people. Show
that grace to us, Lord. Show your kindness and your favor. Every good and perfect thing
comes from you. And we come to you for all of
our need. We bring our loved ones to you.
We especially bring our sister Irene to you, Lord. Would you
please be with her? Touch her body, heal her. You
are the physician. You are the healer. You are the
Lord that heals us. And so we come to you, Lord.
Would you touch her body as you see fit? and heal her according
to your will. We pray for her family. We pray
for Dwight, Chris, Tony, Pam, Debbie. We pray for their spouses
and pray for the entire family. Lord, strengthen them and touch
them and help them. We pray, Lord, for our brother
D that you will give him comfort, Lord, ease his pain. We pray
for Christie and their family and we pray for the congregation
there, Lord, be with them and help them and comfort them through
this time. We pray for all of your people
everywhere who continually go through difficulty and struggle
and trial and sickness. Lord, be with us and help us.
We're such a weak and sinful and needy people. Please help
us, Lord, please. Be with all the men who stand
and preach the truth today, Lord. Be with all of our brethren who
will hear the truth today. Send your spirit, Lord, bless
your word. Bless the Bible classes with
the children. Lord, please open their hearts.
Cause them to remember their creator in the days of their
youth before the evil day comes where they say, I have no need
of these things. Please give those teachers wisdom.
Please give them a word that will reach the hearts of these
children and call them to yourself. Lord, please meet with us here
now, we pray. Open our eyes and teach us. Cause
us to know more of you and know more of your truth and your word
concerning our salvation. We ask all of these things in
forgiveness of sin in Christ's name, amen. Turn with me to 1 Timothy chapter
four. First Timothy 4 verses 9 and
10 will be our text, but let's begin reading in verse
8. This is the last verse we looked at the last time we were
here. Verse Timothy 4 verse 8 says,
for bodily exercise, and last time we were here, we looked
at the fact that that's not talking about working out, that's talking
about man's works. Profiteth little, but godliness
is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that
now is, and of that which is to come." And let me tell you
that that is a key to what we're going to look at today. Having
promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.
Verse 9, he said, this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation. This is the truth and worthy
to be believed. And I love how he, our Lord inspired
Paul to say that right here. This is the truth and worthy
to be believed. Verse 10, for therefore we both
labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who
is the savior of all men, especially of those that believe. All right,
now let me tell you the title of this Bible study. Is Christ
the Savior of all men? Is Christ the Savior of all men? Verse 10 says, for therefore
we both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living
God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that
believe. Is Christ the Savior of all men? Now the answer is plainly stated
in that verse. Whatever our Lord writes, He
means. This is something very important
for us to learn. Everybody here who knows something
of God's Word has an answer. You said it in your mind. When
I said, is Christ the Savior of all men? You answered it in
your mind. But it's very important that
we do not look at the scripture and say, I know it says that,
but that's not what it means. Whatever our Lord says, He means. It's so important that we look
at the scripture in this way. Whatever it says, that's what
it means. Now, sometimes we need to do
a little searching in the scripture to understand what it means.
Just because our Lord says something, that doesn't mean we understand
what He means. His ways are higher than our
ways. But if He is willing, He can open our understanding. He can reveal to us what He means
in what He says. And He has revealed to us the
meaning of what He said right here in this word, throughout
this word. He's revealed it to us. So let's
search the scriptures for a minute. and see what the Lord has to
say about this. We'll see if he will teach us
something concerning this. Is Christ the Savior of all men? That's the subject matter. Turn
with me, if you would, to Matthew 25. Matthew 25, verse 31, it says, this is our Lord speaking, He
said, when the Son of Man shall come
in His glory and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He
sit upon the throne of His glory. And before him shall be gathered
all nations, all men, all men and women. And he shall separate
them one from another as a shepherd divided his sheep from the goats. And he shall set the sheep on
his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the king
say unto them on his right hand, come ye blessed of my father,
inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of
the world. Now look at verse 41. Then shall he say also unto them
on the left hand, depart from me ye cursed into everlasting
fire prepared for the devil and his angels. We quote Matthew
7 all the time where our Lord said, when many come to him on
the day of judgment, wanting to enter into glory based on
the merit of their own works. He said, I will say to them,
depart from me, I never knew you. Never knew you. Turn to
Luke 13. This is a similar account to
Matthew 7. This is so important to see because
the world, if you ask them, is Christ the Savior of all men,
the world has an answer too. Many people in the world, so
critical to see this. Luke 13, verse 24. Our Lord said, strive to enter
in at the straight gate. For many, I say unto you, will
seek to enter in and shall not be able. When once the master
of the house is risen up and hath shut to the door, shut the
door, and you begin to stand without and to knock at the door
saying, Lord, Lord, open unto us. And he shall answer and say
unto you, I know you not whence you are. Then shall you begin
to say, we have eaten and drunk in thy presence, and thou hast
taught in our streets. But he shall say, I tell you,
I know you not whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers
of iniquity. Now watch verse 28. There shall
be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you shall see Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God and you
yourselves thrust out. He didn't say when you see yourselves
miss out because you wouldn't take advantage of it. No, he said thrust out. Thrust
out. Turn over to 2 Thessalonians
1. Second Thessalonians one verse
seven. And to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus
shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming
fire. This is how he's coming back.
Taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not
the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. who shall be punished
with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord
and from the glory of His power. When He shall come, and that's
what I want to point out, this is Him, this is the Lord Jesus
Christ coming, coming back. When He shall come, verse 10
says, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired in all
them that believe because our testimony among you was believed
in that day. So let's go ahead and answer
the question. Christ is not the savior of all men. We know that because all men
are not saved. Christ is not the savior of all
men and we know that because all men are not saved. There
is a hell and people are in it. There's a hell and people are
in it. Who put them there? You say, well, the devil put
them there. No. God put them there. Jesus Christ
put them there. God. Jesus Christ puts men and
women there. Turn over to Revelation 20. Revelation 20 verse 11, it says,
and I saw a great white throne and him that sat on it who sits
on the throne. Jesus Christ does. The King does. The King is the one who sits
on the throne. I saw a great white throne in him that sat
on it from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away. And
there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead small
and great stand before God and the books were opened. All the
record of man's works, the books were open and another book was
open, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged out
of those things which were written in the books according to their
works. That means outside of the Lord
Jesus Christ, every man is going to be judged based on how he
lived this life. And you and I both know that
will not go well for us if that's how we're judged. Every soul
judged in Christ who is our life, the book of life. Every soul
judged in Christ has already been judged in Christ. Oh, that we might be judged in
Christ. But it says verse 12, I saw the dead small and great
stand before God. And the books were opened and
another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the
dead were judged out of those things, which were written in
the books, according to their works. And the sea gave up the
dead, which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead,
which were in them. And they were judged every man,
according to their works. And death and hell were cast
into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
into the lake of fire. By who? By the one who sits on the throne.
Jesus Christ, the judge of the earth. This is what the scripture
says, John 5, 22. It says, all judgment has been given to him Romans 14.10 says, we must all
stand before the judgment seat of Christ. Christ. So all men are not saved. And
we know that because Christ did not come into this world to save
everybody. If he did, all men would be saved. Someone could ask this question
and people do. People do ask this question. Do you think maybe that he failed
at trying to save everybody? Nope. How do you know? You can say that, but how do
you know? We know that because in Isaiah 42, the father said
he wouldn't. And in John 17, he said, Father,
I didn't. I finished the work you gave
me to do, the work of saving our people. Well, do you think
that he made salvation possible for everybody if everybody will
take him up on his offer? This is a legitimate question
that people ask. Do you think that when he died,
he opened that door and made it possible for all men to be
saved if they will, you know, take him up on his offer? Here's
the answer. No. John 6 says no man can. And John 5 says no man will. And nowhere in the scripture
does it say that Christ made anybody an offer. Christ made an offer to God.
But he didn't make an offer to men. Christ did not come into
this world to make salvation possible. He came into this world
to make salvation finished, complete, certain. That's what he did.
Don't turn, but 2 Thessalonians 2.13 says, all of God's people
were chosen to salvation. Acts 13.48 says, all of God's
people were ordained to eternal life. Well, then why does our text
say, go with me back over to 1 Timothy 4. 1 Timothy 4 verse
10. It says, for therefore we both
labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who
is the Savior of all men, especially of those that believe. Why does
our text say that the living God, Jesus Christ, is the Savior
of all men? Number one, it's because if any
man or woman is going to be saved, he is the one who has to do it.
He's the one who has to do it. In Isaiah 43 verse 11, he said,
I, even I am the Lord and beside me, there is no savior. There is no other savior beside
the Lord Jesus Christ. He's the only one. He's the only
one. There is no other name given
among men whereby we must be saved. You can't name any other
names. He is the way, He is the truth,
He is the life. No man comes to the Father but
by Him. He is the Savior of all men. Of all who are gonna be saved,
He's the Savior of them. All right, the second reason
is because He's not just the Savior of the Jewish nation,
He's the Savior of Gentiles too. Men and women from all over this
world, He did not come to save all men and women in the world,
but He did come to save all of the men and women that the Father
gave to Him out of the world. All of them. And of all that
the Father gave to Him to save, He saved them. All of them. He said none of them are lost.
None of them. And all of the men and women
that Christ saved, all of them are evidenced by the faith that
the Spirit of God gives to them. Every single soul, every single
soul. A lot of men don't want to hear
this. I get so much hate mail over this. Every single soul
that Christ saved will be evidenced. by the faith that the Spirit
of God gives to them, puts in them, works in them. Every single soul that Christ
saved will believe on Him. They shall all be taught of God.
Every single one of them, like Simeon. Simeon said, it was revealed
to him that he would not see death till he had seen the Lord's
Christ. Every child of God will be able to say that. Salvation
is of the Lord. Salvation is in the Lord. It's
not by my works, it's by His grace. It's in His blood. It's
His doing, it's His choice. Now, I told you that the end
of verse eight was a key to what we were gonna look at. It says,
having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to
come. Concerning all men and women
in this world, the scripture says, if we just want to get
to the heart of why this is written the way it is. Concerning all
men and women in the world, the scripture says, this is Matthew
5, 45, it says, he maketh his son, S-U-N, that's shining right
now, he maketh his son to rise on the evil and on the good,
and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. The things that
are needed to sustain life God is supplying that to all men,
all men and women. Every man and woman in this world,
if they take a breath of air, God gave them that breath of
air. That's the kindness of the Lord. Every soul right now that
breathes is experiencing the kindness and the sustaining favor
of the Lord in that moment, physically. If men and women have minds and
faculties and abilities and health and strength to work and earn
a living and eat and live in this world, God gave them that. If they recover from a sickness,
any man or woman in this world, I kill, I make alive, I wound,
I heal, I the Lord do all these things. If any man or woman recovers
from a sickness, if they're in a life-threatening situation
and they're spared and delivered from it somehow, God did that
for them. God gets the credit for that.
God gets the glory for that. Concerning the life that now
is in this world until a man or a woman comes to their appointed
time to leave this world. God is the daily, hourly, minutely
sustainer of all men and women. And it's all for His purpose,
for the good of His sheep. God will sustain a nation of
unbelievers if He wants to, for the good of one sheep, somehow. He is the sustainer of all men
and women in this life, right now on this earth. That's the
case for the just and the unjust, the saved and the condemned.
But when our time on this earth is done, the redeemed who believe
on him are going to be spared from the eternal condemnation. That condemnation that's coming
to all men and women who are without Christ. They're going
to be saved to eternal glory with Christ. Verse 10 says, therefore,
We both labor and suffer reproach because we trust in the living
God who is the Savior of all men, especially of those that
believe, especially. for those that believe, the eternal
savior. Verse nine, Paul said, this is a faithful saying and
worthy of all acceptation. This is the truth, it's worthy
to be believed. Lord, give us faith to believe
it. Cause us to see Christ in his victory, in the glory of who he is and
what he's done for his people. Because seeing him truly for
who he is and what he has done is life eternal. This is life
eternal. That we might see him, know him,
Lord, let us see Christ, believe on Christ, is our only hope of
salvation. Pray we will. All right, you're
dismissed.