Questions & Answers On Hebrews, Part 1
Questions 54 (COD Page 224)
Scripture doubtless tells us that these are those who will not be... are those who will not be saved. Therefore...
89 That’s exactly right. The Scripture tells us that there is people who were foreordained of God to be condemned.
90 TWould you like to read that, so it’ll always be out of your mind? All right, let’s turn over now to the Book of-of Jude, Jude speaking here.
Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, the brother of James, to them that are sanctified by God the Father, and preserved in Jesus Christ, and called:
91 See who He addresses It to? Not the sinner, not only evangelistic service, but to the sanctified and called. See, those who are already in the Kingdom.
Mercy unto you, and peace, and love, be multiplied. Beloved,... I give all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you... should you earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the saints.
For there are certain man crept in unaware, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation,... (how?)
... turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness,...
92 Ordained of old! Not that God set back on the throne, and said, “I’ll save this man, I’ll lose that man.” That wasn’t it! God died, and when Jesus died, the atonement covered the entire earth for every person. But God, by foreknowledge... Not that He will... He’s not willing that any should perish. He wanted everybody to be saved. That was His-that was His Eternal purpose. But if He was God, He knew who would and who would not be saved. If He didn’t know, then He wasn’t the infinite God. So the Bible teaches that. That we could...
93 If we had time to turn over here in Romans, the 8th chapter, and you could read it. Romans, the 9th chapter, many other places in the Bible. Ephesians, the 1st chapter. And you can see that the election of God, that it might stand sure, God gave the covenant unconditionally. He sent Jesus to die for those who He foreknew. See?
94 Not just to say, “Well, you say God don’t know whether she’ll be saved or not?” God knowed that you’d be saved, or whether you would or not, before the world ever begin, or He wasn’t God.
95 Do you know what the word infinite means? Look at... look in the dictionary and find out what the word infinite means. Why, He knowed every flea that would ever be on the earth, every fly, every gnat, every germ. He knew it before they ever come into existence, or He wasn’t God. Certainly, He knew it. All right.
96 Then, in there, God could not-not say, “I’ll take you, and send you to hell; and I’ll take you, and send you to Heaven.” God wanted you both to go to Heaven. But by foreknowledge He knew that one would be a shyster, and the other one would be a gentleman and a Christian. See? Therefore He had to send Jesus to die, to save that man that He foreknew that wanted to be saved. Do you get it?
Now look here:
Scriptures doubtly tell us that these are they who will not be saved.