GRACE FOR TODAY Radio Message #449
WHO ARE THOSE PREACHERS, CHURCHES, AND PEOPLE WHO TRAMPLE UNDER THEIR
FEET THE BLOOD OF THE SON OF GOD? COULD IT BE YOU?
Pastor
Don Fortner
Grace Baptist Church of Danville
2734 Old Stanford Road
Danville,
Kentucky 40422-9438
God the Holy Spirit declares
that those who despise the gospel of God’s free and sovereign grace in Christ
shall, in the day of judgment, be worthy of much sorer and more severe
punishment than those who despised the law of God given by the hand of Moses to
the children of Israel.
There are many proper, very
sober applications of the warning given in Hebrews 10:28-29. Here God himself
speaks of men who have “trodden under foot the Son of God”,
have counted the blood of the Son of
God, “the blood of the covenant”, an
unholy thing, and have “done despite unto
the Spirit of grace” Those words very accurately describe the religion,
the preachers, and most professing Christians in this apostate generation.
I have chosen my words
deliberately and purposefully. I have chosen them, either by the Spirit of
Christ or by the spirit of antichrist. I will leave that for you to decide. But
be sure you understand this - There is no alternative between the two! Either I
am God’s messenger to your soul, led to preach what I do by the Holy Spirit of
Christ, or I am a messenger of Satan, led by the spirit of antichrist.
All preachers of Arminian, free-will, works religion, all preachers of
the damning, blasphemous doctrine of Universal Atonement or Universal
Redemption, all who believe, teach, and preach that the Son of God died to
redeem and save all human beings, even those who perish at last in hell under
the wrath of God, are guilty of this crime. They tread under their feet the blood of
the Son of God, count the everlasting blood of the covenant an unholy thing,
and do despite unto the Spirit of grace!
There is no doctrine in all the world more dishonoring to God, more
blasphemous to the Lord Jesus Christ, more contrary to the Spirit of grace and
to the Word of God, or more damning to the souls of men than the doctrine of
universal atonement.
When I use the terms Universal Atonement and Universal Redemption, this is what I
mean: Universal Atonement is
the damning delusion of men which teaches that the Lord Jesus Christ died to
make atonement for the sins of all human beings without exception. (Even for
those who were already in hell when he died!). It is the teaching that, by his
blood, Christ merely made atonement possible for all, though he actually procured
it for none.
Universal Redemption is that doctrine which says
Christ shed his blood to redeem and save all people, that he made salvation
possible for all and provided a way for all to be saved, though he did not
actually secure and guarantee anyone’s actual redemption and salvation by the
shedding of his blood.
It is clearly the teaching of Scripture that the Lord Jesus Christ
actually and effectually redeemed and made atonement for every sinner for whom
he died at Calvary. The death of Christ was not a gamble. Nothing was left to chance. He,
by his sin-atoning blood, effectually and infallibly secured the everlasting
salvation of God’s elect. To say, as most do, that he died to redeem those who
yet perish under the wrath of God is to trample his blood under foot as a
common, unholy, useless thing! Such doctrine makes the blood of Christ of non-
effect. It is the most odious form of blasphemy imaginable.
AMEN.