That sure is some sandy turf you're on. Your confidence rests on the supposition that Christ died for the mass of humanity, therefore since you are a member of humanity at-large --you are covered. Many unsaved I guess rest on the same idea that God loves them and Christ died for them --they've got coverage.
You are correct, because I know that Christ died for all men, I know I am included, this promise enables me to have faith. And there is no such thing as an unsaved person who is resting (trusting) that Jesus loves them and died for them, they are saved.
Many here think that Christ has appeased the wrath of the Father by being the propitiation for each and every person sin time began and continuing until Judgement Day. But how can there be a J.D. when everyone has no wrath of God abiding on them? everyone must be redeemed -- Universalism.But there's also the issue of those in Hell. their sins have been paid for by Christ -- but yet they themselves are paying for their own sins. A non-Cal view of Christ's propitiation is fraught with so many errors!
Christ did die for the sins of every man and appeased God's wrath for that sin, but his sacrifice is not applied to the sinner without faith.
Heb 4:1
Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it.
2 For unto us was the gospel preached,
as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it.
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For we which have believed do enter into rest, as he said, As I have sworn in my wrath, if they shall enter into my rest: although the works were finished from the foundation of the world.
Many hear the gospel, that Jesus loved them and died for them. And this is truth. But this will not profit them unless they believe this promise, they come short of it. The problem is not that Jesus did not die for these people, the problem is they did not trust in this work.
2 Kings 7:1 Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the LORD; Thus saith the LORD, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.
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Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the LORD would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
2 Kings 7:16 And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the LORD.
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And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.
This lord, this servant of the king did not believe Elisha's promise from God. His unbelief did not prevent God from fulfilling his promise, but because he did not believe he did not profit from this promise and was trampled to death. The food was there for this man, just like it was for all those who believed, but because of unbelief he did not share in the spoil.
Winman,you can have confidence in that as a sinner who recognizes his sin and the separation it has caused you to have with God -- Christ stepped in and saved you by His sacrificial death on the cross. There is no other hope -- no other Savior.By leaning on Him alone for your salvation (in a number of respects) He is yours and you are His.
It is not enough to recognize you are a sinner, many people admit they have sinned, Judas confessed he had sinned. You must trust in the work of Christ that he suffered and died in your behalf.
Mat 27:3 Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned,
repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,
4 Saying,
I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. And they said, What is that to us? see thou to that.
5 And he cast down the pieces of silver in the temple, and departed, and went and hanged himself.
Judas repented, he confessed he sinned. And he meant it, so much so that he went out and hanged himself. But he did not trust Jesus to save him. If he had done so, he would have been saved.
