What Is Your God's Batting Average?
”Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners..." (1 Timothy 1:15)
When I was a kid playing peewee baseball I read a book entitled "The Kid Who Batted 1000". I loved that book but of course batting 1000 over a baseball career is impossible.
So how about God? In the game of salvation, what will be God's career batting average?
"...John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world...he is the atoning sacrifice for our sin, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world...we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world." (John 1:29; 1 John 2:2; 4:14)
I heard an evangelist say that about 10% of mankind will make it to heaven while the other 90% will be eternally separated from God...or worse. His god has a poor batting average and will not make the big leagues.
God, the real one, informed John and Paul of His success rate in the game of salvation...
"God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him..For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive... so that God may be ALL IN ALL..we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things." (John3:17; 1Corinthians 15:22, 28; 1 Timothy 4:10-11)
God sent Jesus to "take away the sin of the world" by becoming "the atoning sacrifice...for the sin of the whole world". Therefore he is "the Savior of the world" and "those who believe...teach these things".
When I was a kid playing peewee baseball I read a book entitled "The Kid Who Batted 1000". I loved that book but of course batting 1000 over a baseball career is impossible.
So how about God? In the game of salvation, what will be God's career batting average?
"...John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world...he is the atoning sacrifice for our sin, and not only for ours, but also for the sins of the whole world...we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world." (John 1:29; 1 John 2:2; 4:14)
I heard an evangelist say that about 10% of mankind will make it to heaven while the other 90% will be eternally separated from God...or worse. His god has a poor batting average and will not make the big leagues.
God, the real one, informed John and Paul of His success rate in the game of salvation...
"God did not send His son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him..For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all will be made alive... so that God may be ALL IN ALL..we have set our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, and especially of those who believe. Command and teach these things." (John3:17; 1Corinthians 15:22, 28; 1 Timothy 4:10-11)
God sent Jesus to "take away the sin of the world" by becoming "the atoning sacrifice...for the sin of the whole world". Therefore he is "the Savior of the world" and "those who believe...teach these things".
For a religious institution, a 1000 batting average is impossible...and so they settle for 1 hit out of 10. But not God, He goes 10 for 10...every time.
"Who then can be saved? Jesus looked at them and said, With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” (Luke 18:26)
"Who then can be saved? Jesus looked at them and said, With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” (Luke 18:26)