1 Timothy 2:4 “Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.”
Most of those who fail to recognize and understand the
Sovereignty of God will answer yes and point to scriptures like this one while
ignoring all the rest of the scriptures. God is the Creator of all things and
in that He is Sovereign in all things. David wrote in Psalms 115:3 “But
our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.” God
does as He pleases because He can because He is Sovereign in all things
including Salvation. Paul writes in Romans 9:13 – 14 “As it is written,
Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? God forbid.” God loved Jacob and hated Esau at
His choosing, not because of anything else. God’s Sovereignty allows God to do
anything He chooses and without unrighteousness in His choice. Paul went on to
write these words in verse 15 “For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on
whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
compassion.” God is not unrighteous in His choices even in making a person
righteous and another unrighteous, “Hath not the potter power over the clay,
of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?”
V. 21 If a person is happy taking scriptures out-of-context and making it seem
that the ordained will of God is that all men to be saved as it appears here
then they have found the scriptures to be out-of-context altogether making the
bible worthless at best. The question we must all ask is can God be Sovereign
and will for something He cannot have? Not all men will be saved, people die
everyday lost and without Christ. The truth is, if God wanted all men to be saved
then all men would be saved because the absolute will of God never fails. God
will that people do a lot of things, but unless it is God’s absolute will or
ordained will, none will do anything God wills. It is no different than to say God
wills all men to go to church, or God wills all men to accept Christ. It is God’s
ordained will that causes lost sinners to come to Christ, it is by God’s
drawing power that delivers them. God does not want anything He cannot have,
God never fails. Therefore, it is deceiving to ever look at a scripture that
eliminates the ordained will of God. God would have all men to be saved and
come to the knowledge of truth, but neither will ever happen. This is not
because God failed, it is because God’s Sovereign will did not call them. Romans
8:29 - 30 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many
brethren. (30) Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom
he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also
glorified.”
