AG STUDY GUIDE FINAL - The Forerunner

10. The Arminian will often ask, “Why every creature? If God is only going to
save His elect, why waste your time sharing with people who have not been
appointed unto salvation?” Quite simply, God doesn’t ________us who the elect
are.
11. Dr. Steven Mansfield: When people say, “Why preach the gospel to every
creature when only the elect are going to respond?” there are two answers. First
of all it is part of the indictment against the lost that the gospel is preached to
them and they don’t respond, number one. And number two, part of the gospel
is its _____________________ effect on the culture as a whole. So even unsaved
men are affected by the gospel that seeps into their lives.
“God has called me to preach his word and if I knew that all the elect had a
yellow stripe painted down their backs, then I would give up preaching the
gospel and go lift up shirt tails!” Charles Spurgeon
We don’t know who the elect are so we instead strive to be all things to all men,
so that by all means some – meaning the elect – might be saved.
I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.
I Corinthians 9:22
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Expendable Crewmen
Why Doesn’t A Loving God Save Everybody?
And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and
glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to
eternal life believed. Acts 13:48
If we’re honest with both ourselves and with God, there are a
lot of things about Him, the world He has designed and the
drama of life He has scripted that seem confusing, unfair and,
at times, even wrong. Godly parents give birth to a little girl
only to watch as she dies in their arms. The father of two on
his way to a prayer meeting is killed by a drunk driver running from the police.
A man spends years studying theology and languages and then leaves
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