Christ death for the elect alone and of their assurance

God does not love all sinners, nor did Jesus Christ die for all sinners.
by
Monty L. Collier
God loves some of the sinful humans in this world, but He does not love all of them. God loves some sinners, but He hates the rest. The Bible says: "As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated" Romans 9:13. Those persons loved by God are chosen in Christ to be saved. They are God's elect and He will save them all. Nothing in this universe can prevent God's love from saving us. The Bible says:
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, for thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord"
Romans 8:35-39
God's love is an omnipotent love that cannot fail to save His elect. Election is based on God's love, while reprobation is based upon God's hate. God is not merciful to reprobates. God does not desire to save reprobates. Jesus Christ did not die for any of the reprobates. All reprobates are left in in their sins and justly condemned to eternal damnation by God's Law. Election and reprobation are not based upon anything in men or done by men. Election and reprobation are based on God's sovereign judgment alone. The Bible says: "(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated" Romans 9:11-13.
Election and reprobation took place in eternity, before the creation of the universe. In eternity, God the Father chose God the Son to be the federal head of the elect. The elect were predestined in Christ to be saved, while God chose not to be merciful to the rest of mankind. God did not choose the elect from a fallen mass of people. The Bible says: "Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor?" Romans 9:21. God's decrees to elect and reprobate logically precede the decrees to create man and have Adam fall, plunging the human race into sin.
God loves the elect and Jesus Christ died for their sins alone, saving them. Jesus Christ did not die for the reprobates. The redemption of Christ is limited to the elect alone. Jesus does not pray for all men, does not intercede for all men, for Jesus is the Savior of His people, which are the elect alone. Jesus says: "I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which thou hast given me; for they are thine" John 17:9.
When men wrongly claim that God desires the salvation of every sinful human and that Jesus died for every sinner, they will appeal to a variety of verses for support. However, context and logic easily defeat these arguments for what is called "universal salvation." So, for example, in an attempt to refute Particular Redemption, a Roman Catholic may appeal to 1 Timothy 2:3-6, which reads: "For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior; who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time."
Let's consider this passage. If God will have all men to be saved, that is, every fallen human, then all of them will be saved. Not a single one of them will be condemned, for God is omnipotent and accomplishes all of His desires. The Bible says: "But he is one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth" Job 23:13. However, it is clear that many will not be saved, but condemned (Matthew 7:21-23). Since there are no contradictions in Scripture, for God is logical, not insane, it therefore follows that God does not desire the salvation of all sinners. So, when 1 Timothy 2:4 speaks of "all men," then it is speaking of all elect persons. It is not speaking of reprobates. Likewise, when 1 Timothy 2:6 speaks of Christ giving himself a ransom for all, it is speaking of all of the elect. If Christ died for the reprobates and their sins, paying their ransom, freeing them from the demands of the Law, satisfying the Law for them, then none of them would be condemned. It would be unjust for God to condemn them for sins Christ has already expiated. But God is just, and the reprobates are condemned justly for their sins. It therefore follows that Christ did not die for their sins.
Let's now talk about you. How can you know if Christ died for your sins? That's easy, for the Bible says that all of those who believe the Gospel were elected unto salvation. The Bible says: "And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord: and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed" Acts 13:48.
Do you believe the Gospel?
Do you believe Christ died for your sins? If you do, then you are one of the elect, whom God loves, whom Christ died for. If you are afraid of going to hell, if you desire to be saved by Jesus Christ alone, then know you are justified before God. No reprobate desires to be saved by Jesus Christ alone. Reprobates trust in themselves, not in Christ alone. The one who believes the Gospel responds as Peter did:
"Then said Jesus unto the twelve, will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God" John 6:68-69.
Amen.