If God Loves Everybody, Why Will Anybody Be Lost? Sermon outline from Romans Christian Living     Bobby Stafford

If God Loves Everybody, Why Will Anybody Be Lost? 

Introduction:   

      “If God loves everybody, why will anybody be lost?” M. Connelly      The answer is: Love is a two-way street.  Some will be lost because they do not return God’s love and refuse to follow His commandments. 

Body: 

• Romans 1:15-18 “So, as much as is in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome also.  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.  For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, The just shall live by faith.”  NKJV              There is no favoritism; God loves everyone.  He has provided a way for all to be saved.  Salvation comes through union with Christ.

 

• Romans 2:6-11 “who will render to each one according to his deeds: eternal life to those who by patient continuance in doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness – indignation and wrath, tribulation and anguish, on every soul of man who does evil, of the Jew first and also of the Greek; but glory, honor, and peace to everyone who works what is good, to the Jew first and also to the Greek.  For there is no partiality with God.”  NKJV                                              God loves everyone, but some will not love God back.  The gospel is for all.  How we spend eternal life will be determined by the attitude of our heart.  If we are self-seeking, tribulation will come to us.

 

• Romans 3:23-26  “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed. to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.” NKJV  The gospel has the power to save.  Redemption comes through Jesus and His grace.  Everybody was offered grace, because all have sinned.  One must accept grace by following His commandments.  There is no demonstration of righteousness outside of Jesus.  Therefore, they are not saved.  God would not be just if He saved everyone.  Not everyone is justified.  There are those who do not return God’s love.

 Invitation:

     God loves all and has provided a way for all to be saved.  If I reject that, I will be lost; not because God did not love me, but because I would not love God.  

 Bobby Stafford

September 4, 2011