Featured Proof ALL does not mean all men

Ephesians 4
New King James Version
Walk in Unity
1 I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you to walk worthy of the calling with which you were called,
2 with all lowliness and gentleness, with longsuffering, bearing with one another in love,
3 endeavoring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.

4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called in one hope of your calling;

5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6 one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

Jesus told the unbelieving Jews, God was not their FATHER. So when you read of ALL in the new covenant having to do in context with believers, it means ALL of THEM only, not also ALL of the unbelieving world.

John 8,
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me. 43 Why do you not understand My speech? Because you are not able to listen to My word. 44 You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it. 45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? 47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”

 

Yes, God fathers His children according the Holy Spirit, not according to the flesh. The WORLD, FLESH, DEVIL are all tightly bound together. Believers get freed from that entanglement.
Those in that tangled web are caught by the devil to do his will, only God can grant repentance, they wont repent unless begotten again as a new creation, the old creation is not sufficient to hold Christ in the heart. New Wine cant be poured into OLD Wineskins

Born again is according to His mercy alone, through the word of God, not according to our words (what we say or confess about Christ).

1 Peter 1:3
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

1 Peter 1:23
having been born again, not of corruptible seed but incorruptible, through the word of God which lives and abides forever,

 

Proof Christ died for the sheep, the beloved brethren, similar to what Peter says.
Paul specifically has in mind the church of believers here, it is in the meaning of 'our'
Paul is not talking of evangelizing unbelievers here.

1 Corinthians 15
New King James Version
1 Moreover, brethren, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you received and in which you stand, 2 by which also you are saved, if you hold fast that word which I preached to you—unless you believed in vain.
3 For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 and that He was buried, and that He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He was seen by Cephas, then by the twelve. 6 After that He was seen by over five hundred brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 After that He was seen by James, then by all the apostles. 8 Then last of all He was seen by me also, as by one born out of due time.

58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

 

People only hear Christ when they are of God. The refers to being regenerated by the Holy Spirit.
So anyone regenerated will then have the ears to hear what the Spirit expressly says. Including jewish people.

John 8:47 He who is of God hears God’s words; therefore you do not hear, because you are not of God.”
OF GOd --hear God and Christ, as in harkon and obey the gospel of Christ.
Not OF God, your deaf to God, you turn away and wont listen, meaning you will never believe in Christ. Jesus is telling these unbelievers, they as not of God, since if they were of God, they would love HIM, but they hate HIM or are indifferent and dont care.

John 8:42
Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and came from God; nor have I come of Myself, but He sent Me.

anyway this is a little off topic from my original post

 

“For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ…” (1 Thess. 5:9).

Another scripture showing that the 'us' will obtain salvation while the others, (unbelievers appointed to wrath), versus the church appointed to be saved.

The 'us' here being who Christ died for, verse 10, not the world did Christ die for. The purpose of Christ dying for 'us' is so that we should live together with Him.
Christ died for a purpose to bring us to God, not for an indefinite purpose, not for a potential purpose.

1 Thessalonians 5
1 But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you. 2 For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 3 For when they say, “Peace and safety!” then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall not escape. 4 But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief. 5 You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness. 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night. 8 But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

9 For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, 10 who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with Him.

 

Another proof Christ died for a purpose, that he died to bring the 'us' to God.
'us' here is the church to whom Peter writes. Peter is not writing to the unbelieving world.

1 Peter 3:17-19
New King James Version
17 For it is better, if it is the will of God, to suffer for doing good than for doing evil.

18 For Christ also suffered once for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit,
19 by whom also He went and preached to the spirits in prison,

 

things in heaven -- those in heaven
things in earth --those living on earth
things under the earth -- those in hell

All will confess Christ is the Lord, even in hell they will do that
Acts 15
v14 God visited the gentiles to take out from them a people for His name. Leaving the rest alone.
v17 God intends all the gentiles whom He calls, that they will seek the Lord and be saved.
the later part of v17 signifies who are mentioned in the first part of the verse, and it is not for every single gentile person, just them He calls.
The Lord is the cause of these gentiles doing the seeking for Him. Not that they sought God on their own.
v18, God determined all that He would do from ancient days long past, long before any of us existed, from eternity past.

Acts 15
12 Then all the multitude kept silent and listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them among the Gentiles. 13 And after they had [c]become silent, James answered, saying, “Men and brethren, listen to me: 14 Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name. 15 And with this the words of the prophets agree, just as it is written:

16 ‘After this I will return
And will rebuild the tabernacle of David, which has fallen down;
I will rebuild its ruins,
And I will set it up;
17 So that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
Even all the Gentiles who are called by My name,
Says the Lord who does all these things.’
18 “Known to God from eternity are all His works.