Can A Person Who Hates Jesus
Ever Be Saved?
By David J. Stewart | November 2018
John 5:40, “And ye
will not come to me, that ye might have life.”
In our text verse, Jesus said “will not,”
He didn't say “cannot.” Anyone can be saved at any time, if they want to be!
John 3:20, “For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither
cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.”
Love for sin hinders people from coming to Christ to be saved, “lest they
be reproved” for their sins. The heathen world hates a righteous Savior.
John 7:7, “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify
of it, that the works thereof are evil.”
All we can do is pray for lost loved ones, keep loving them with God's
unconditional love, and share the Gospel with them at every opportunity. The
lost rich man went to Hell (Luke 16:19-31). He begged Abraham to send
Lazarus from the dead to warn his five living brothers, lest they go to Hell
(the place of torment) too. Abraham said if they won't hear Moses and the
prophets (i.e., the Word of God), then nothing will get them saved.
Very few people ever get saved, because the Devil blinds them with religion,
pride, intellectualism, fame, money and sin (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4). A
disciple asked Jesus in Luke 13:23-24, “are there few that be saved?”
Jesus replied that only a “few” people will enter into Heaven, but
“many” will try. Most people are not saved, because they choose of their
own free will to reject the dear Savior. Many people seek God through
religion, trying to merit Heaven by their own goodness and human effort.
They have been woefully deceived by Satan!
The apostle Paul (formerly known
as Saul) hated Jesus so much, that he broke down house doors, hauling
Christians from Damascus back to Jerusalem to be prosecuted! It was upon
this very road that the Lord Himself appeared unto Saul, and he was
miraculously converted (Acts 9:1-5). Paul is Biblical proof that someone who
hates Jesus Christ CAN still be saved. The most stubborn people oftentimes
become the best Christians when they get saved, because they are stubborn!
The ONLY way to Heaven is by submitting wholly to God's righteousness
through faith alone in the Lamb of God (John 1:29; Revelation 7:14). We are
saved by resting completely (Hebrews 4:10-11) in Christ's sacrifice on the
cross of Calvary, believing that He paid for our sins, was buried, and then
miraculously resurrected from the dead three days later. That is the “GOOD
NEWS” (Gospel), by which we are saved, if we believe (1st Corinthians
15:1-4; Romans 1:16). Just take God at His record, as recorded in His
inspired written Word!
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NOBODY IS LAUGHING IN HELL!!!
Did you know that you don't
have to ask Jesus to save you? God has already told you how to be saved,
that is, by simply believing that His Son died on the cross for your sins,
was buried, and raised up from the dead three days later. Christ raised up
from the dead, which means that God the Father accepted His Son's payment
for the sins of the world. Christ suffered on the cross so that we wouldn't
have to suffer in a literal Hell forever. Amen! You don't have to bow your
head to be saved. You don't have to pray. You don't have to do anything
except believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins, and
make that your only hope for Heaven!
“When America lost her way to the
right kind of church, she lost her way to living right!”
(a truthful quote from the
precious MP3 sermon by Brother Lester Roloff, “Titanic”)
“If your moral judgment is crooked and rotten, and you
have no Bible conviction, when the conscience says, 'Do right!', you may do
what your moral judgment said for you to do, and it's wrong! That's the
reason we need Christian schools. That's the reason we need Christian homes,
to teach our young people!”
(a truthful quote from the
precious MP3 sermon by Brother Lester Roloff, “Titanic”)
Salvation is not doing your best, it is
having Christ's best put to your account through
receiving Him by faith.
Luke 11:28, “But he
said, Yea rather, blessed are they that hear the word of God, and keep
it.”
“Only
the Word of God can make you a man of God!”
—a quote by Pastor
Ralph “Yankee” Arnold from the awesome sermon, “The
Sure Word of Prophecy.”
Redeeming The Time
Luke 19:10, “For the Son of
man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.”
“Nothing
in my future can ever affect the salvation that I have... Once you trust
the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, you are eternally secure!”
—Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008), a quote from the classic MP3 sermon
titled, “How
Permanent Is Your Salvation?”
“Salvation is based upon purely what Jesus Christ has done. And if
you've trusted Jesus Christ here, you're saved forever! Nothing in your
life, nothing in your death, angels, principalities, nothing—nothing in
your future—could ever undo that relationship that has been made when
you trusted Jesus Christ as Savior. And there are many people who are
confused over this whole thing.” —Pastor Hank
Lindstrom (1940-2008), a quote from the classic MP3 sermon titled, “How
Permanent Is Your Salvation?”
“There are many people who name the name of Jesus Christ, who are not
saved, because they're trusting in living the Christian life, or in
their works, or in some efforts that they're doing, in order to obtain
their salvation.” —Pastor Hank Lindstrom (1940-2008),
a quote from the classic MP3 sermon titled, “How
Permanent Is Your Salvation?”
Souls Are Dying!
How Permanent Is Your Salvation?
(an excellent MP3 sermon by Pastor Hank Lindstrom,
1940-2008)
Mark 1:15: “...repent
ye, and
believe the gospel.”
“The mark
of the child of God is that he loves everybody!”
(a quote from Pastor Jack
Hyles' classic MP3 sermon, “FORGIVENESS”)
Mark 11:22,
“And
Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.”
Ye Must Be Born Again!
| You Need HIS Righteousness!
