"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." 1 John 4:10
John said "Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us..." this is love, God loved us from the beginning of all things. there has never been a time when God did not love us. While it is a fact that God NEVER loved everyone in the world, but there is a remnant He has loved with an eternal love. By eternal I mean He never did not love us nor did He ever come to love us. Some people have an issue with the immutability of God, which means God never changes therefore it is imposable for Gods love to ever change. Either He has forever loved you of He does not. There is nothing man can do to change or persuade God's love for them. There is something else most do not get and that is God hates all that He does not love. We know that God hated Esau, "... Esau have I hated." Romans 9:13 God had always hate Esau even before the world was created. Esau never did anything to cause God to hate Him, God never loved him, ever. Just like Jacob never did anything to cause God to love him. I never did anything for God to love me, and if you are saved by the blood of Jesus Christ you never did anything for God to love you. John said "...not that we loved God..." how could we, we were not even born. When Jesus Christ died for a remnant and not the entire world. If Christ had died for the entire population of the world then everyone would be saved. The sins of the remnant were actually cleansed when the blood of Jesus Christ was spilt on the cross, not when we are acknowledging our faith. We are saved once we acknowledge faith, but salvation includes so much more than faith. We love God because He loved us, not from the moment we acknowledge faith but before the world was created, and into all eternity. This is why we came to the acknowledging of faith, because the Holy Spirit brought us to that point and gave us the faith to be saved. Many people believe that God loves everyone and everyone has the same opportunity for salvation, and God has basically nothing to do with it, because it is our choice. Now beloved that is a gross error of thinking. We are the ones who have nothing to do with our salvation because it is totally in Gods hands of love. Man has made salvation a errors doctrine and have mislead so many to a false salvation. God said in Ephesians 2:8 "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves..." and so many still believe it is by something we do. God not only loved us, elected us as his own, but He also sent the Holy Spirit with a quickening of the spirit, and the faith by which we are saved. Galatians 5:22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is...faith," Since this is that truth, then it is imposable for any lost sinner to save themselves. It is a gross misunderstanding of the scriptures that lead people to believe salvation is their choice. You will never find an occasion in the bible where anyone was saved by today's ways. If man is truly totally depraved because there is not good in them than they cannot change what they are, and they are at enmity with God. Romans 8:7 "Because the carnal mind is enmity against God..." The word "enmity" means they are haters of God, as to who God truly is. They may love the god in their mind but the sovereign God of the bible they hate. You cannot find anyone saved in the bible by today's ungodly standards. Not one time did anyone on the own turn from carnal to God. No one ever made a decision for Christ and no one was ever asked too. No where in the bible was a sinner told salvation was a choice, nor was anyone ever told "God cannot change mans will" as so many errors preached today declare. God has an elect remnant and He sent Jesus Christ to die for them over two thousand years ago, this how God displayed His love to us-ward.
