God WILL accomplish ALL that He has PURPOSED and thus DECLARED !!!
God here shows us His DECLARED intentions to all of mankind, past, present and future; dead, already in spirit and those still on earth !!!
When the enemy of our souls, the great accuser; tells us that our God's intentions are to torment and torture even babes, young children and all innocents, born in sin, in hell for eternity; thus questioning the very Sovereignty; Omniscience, Omnipotence and Omnipresence of our Advocate, our Saviour, our Redeemer; the Author and Finisher of our faith, the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End; the One Who holds the keys of Hades and Death, having conquered their master, satan and made an open show of him in Hades: we, who believe the One true God and hear His voice, have His clear word as our weapon of defence and offence!!!
God reveals to us His true nature and intentions and shows us that as His children with His very own nature abiding within us: we are to imitate our Father in heaven here on earth; for as we see Him more clearly here on earth, we are changed, not in our spirit, but in our thinking, in our minds; having our minds conformed to His mind; the mind of Christ; from one degree of glory to another, as only by the Holy Spirit of God.
Thus, as our heavenly Father requires us to be imitators of Himself; we by nature, the newness of life now abiding within us, cause our minds to think on the things which are above, heavenly, that we ever clearer see, that are contrary to the old way of Adam's thoughts.
But we must be willing to allow our new spirit man and Holy Spirit; with Whom we are one, to continually gain ground and the ascendancy over the patterns and forms of thinking that were the hard and fast traits of our fallen nature!!!
“But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you, Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also. Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again. And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them likewise. For if ye love them which love you, what thank have ye? for sinners also love those that love them. And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank have ye? for sinners also do even the same. And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again. But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil. Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Judge not, and ye shall not be judged: condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned: forgive, and ye shall be forgiven: Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.”
Luke 6:27-38 KJV
“If thine enemy be hungry, give him bread to eat; and if he be thirsty, give him water to drink: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.”
Proverbs 25:21-22 KJV
The Prophets !!!
For The Love Of God !!!
( And The Clincher !!! )
Of the greater Prophets the same is true; though I need not speak in detail of them. From amid their varied contents, at times break forth promises of the widest, amplest hope; anticipations of a time of universal bliss and joy; of a world in which all pain and sorrow shall have passed away. But these passages are in the main familiar to you, and I need hardly quote them. They have found their way to the heart of Christendom, and have stamped themselves on its literature.
"Take, however, only this one sentence from the evangelical prophet, and take it mainly because S. PAUL echoes it back, and interprets it as he echoes it. It is Jehovah Who speaks these words by the mouth of ISAIAH: 'Look unto Me and be you saved, all you ends of the earth: for I am God and there is none other: I have sworn by Myself and the word is gone out of My mouth in righteousness and shall not return, that unto Me every knee shall bow and every tongue confess.' Could any words more emphatically declare it to be the divine purpose that the whole earth, to the very end of it shall be saved; that every knee shall bend in homage before God, and every tongue take the oath of fealty to Him? Are we not expressly told that this declaration, since it has come from the righteous mouth of God, cannot return unto Him void, but must accomplish its object; that object being the salvation of the human race? S. PAUL echoes this great word (in Rom. xiv. ix,) and again in the epistle to the Philippians, and though on his lips it gains definiteness and precision, assuredly it loses no jot or tittle of its breadth: he affirms, Phil. ii. 9-11, 'that God has highly exalted Him, and given Him a name which is above every name, in order that at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow; not only every knee of man - for now the promise grows incalculably wider - but every knee in heaven and on earth, and under the earth: 'and that every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.' It is hard to understand ISAIAH as proclaiming less than an universal redemption, but if S. PAUL did not mean to proclaim a redemption as wide as the universe, what use or force is there in words ?" - Salvator Mundi.
On one passage I must briefly dwell. "He shall see of the travail of his soul, and be SATISFIED." - Is. liii. 2. By what ingenuity can hopeless, endless evil be reconciled with these words? How can I accept a creed that asks me to believe that Christ is satisfied, while His own children are given over to endless ruin. Who believes this of Jesus Christ? Who can believe Him "satisfied" with the final and utter ruin of any one soul for whom He died ? - "satisfied" that His cross should fail? - "satisfied" with the victory of evil, in so much as a solitary case?
“Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else. I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.”
Isaiah 45:22-23 KJV
“For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.”
Romans 14:9 KJV
“Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:9-11 KJV
“He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.”
Isaiah 53:11 KJV
Reference -:
Christ Triumphant
or
Universalism Asserted
as the Hope of the Gospel on the Authority
of Reason, the Fathers, and Holy Scripture
by
Thomas Allin
Reprint of the Ninth Edition
Published in cooperation with the Saviour of All Fellowship
by the Concordant Publishing Concern
Christ Triumphant by Thomas Allin Ebook PDF
http://www.tentmaker.org/books/ChristTriumphant.htm
