Let me paint a picture with words.
The doctrine of Divine Election is both, flatly stated and presumed throughout Scripture. God will have mercy on whom He wills (Romans 9:14-18; Exodus 33:19). That’s not just an eastern proverb meant to encourage a certain attitude applicable in some limited contexts. It is fundamental to our understanding of God. You must get it through our heads that not every living soul is precious in His sight.
Nor can you pretend to grasp the grounds on which He makes such decisions. He made some vessels for destruction; His plans and reasoning are beyond us. Given the whole of Scripture, you should understand that a majority of the human race, from Genesis to Judgment Day, were made for destruction.
The foul doctrine of individualism keeps people from hearing the Word of God. It’s the false notion that every human is equal before God, the silly attempt to place a judgment against God should He fail to give everyone an equal opportunity to make their own eternal destiny. This is another lie from Hell and is part of what damns Western Civilization.
Further, it’s not just Eternity alone that is so selective. Do you not grasp that Jesus Himself said the majority of the human race will never find peace with God in this life (Matthew 7:14)? And parts of Romans 9 are more about walking in divine truth in the here-and-now than in Eternity. Paul was making the point that both Eternity in Heaven above and the blessings of Covenant life here below are a matter of Election. You cannot come to the Covenant of Christ unless/until you are called.
The Great Commission is not to win the whole world, but to present the message and see who responds.
The focus of activity in churches is not getting people into Heaven. We must wipe from our minds the massive pile of theology that assumes we have any part in that as humans. The sole purpose of church is to gather and enjoy the Covenant provisions. This is the core of our call to world; if we are not conspicuously consuming the divine heritage of God’s family on this earth, we have nothing to say.
We are obliged to build a distinction between the family of God and rest of the world, which belongs to the Devil. The distinction of going to Heaven is not visible to anyone. What people can see is how we walk in the Covenant. Do Americans even know that the Covenant exists? The vast majority of American church folks aren’t even aware of it. We have long substituted a repressed western middle-class materialism for the Covenant. We worship stuff and fear death. Aging is primarily thought of as being no longer productive for the economy.
Instead, we worship youth, as well. Folks, children are not born innocent; they are born into the Fall. Weep if you must upon the loss of a child’s life, but our American culture is morally little different from the fires of Moloch. American life is the biggest threat to American children. If you really cared about children, you would build a very different world into which they can be born. The best thing you can do for children is to clearly portray moral distinctions, not load them down with material comforts. How many of them are born already defiled by the lack of covenant parents to give them a moral covering? Those children belong to Satan.
The only way you can do anything at all for humanity at large is to separate from the society at large and build up a community that is clearly different, in which both children and adults are guided to a different orientation. Do not expose yourselves to the temptations of the world until you are strong enough to march in like a privileged servant of God Almighty. A cosmopolitan childhood is not a blessing from God; a sheltered life is a blessing until you are ready to face the mind-numbing moral chaos.
We have such a very long way to go, and the task is too big for mere humans. We need to pray and seek the Lord’s guidance and power to overcome our own fleshly natures. Stop investing yourselves into this world at large; stop throwing pearls to pigs. Your soul, your life, your resources — all of it belongs to Christ. Stop assimilating to the filth of Hell in the world around you. The primary mark of our progress is when people around us notice we are different and start to reject us.
