{"id":3617,"date":"2018-09-18T20:15:11","date_gmt":"2018-09-18T20:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=3617"},"modified":"2022-02-21T23:31:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T23:31:53","slug":"god-is-no-respecter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=3617","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;God Is No Respecter\u2026&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 1<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1<\/strong>\u00a0page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">We Are Made in God\u2019s Image (Gen. 1:26\u201327). This fact is true of every human being, regardless of how low he may have sunk. God has not only given us physical life (first through creation, then through procreation), but He has also made us rational, conscience-possessing beings with an immortal spirit\/soul that will survive death and exist in eternity, either with or apart from our Creator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">In the house of the Gentile, Cornelius, the apostle Peter arrived at a dramatic conclusion for a biased Jew: \u201cGod is no respecter of persons, but in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness is acceptable to him\u201d (Acts 10:34\u201335). He then did the unthinkable for a Jew, offering salvation to his Gentile audience through the Gospel. From a cryptic\u2014at the time\u2014heavenly vision Peter received earlier (vv. 9\u201316), he correctly concluded that Jesus was concerned for all mankind, not just for Jews\u2014as all Jews believed. He learned that the saving Gospel was for Gentiles, even as it was for Jews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Men are still prone to judge others superficially, but Peter learned that God does not do so. In this fact is the Bible\u2019s lofty view of man. God is an \u201cequal opportunity\u201d Creator, and the Christ is an \u201cequal opportunity\u201d Savior. Note some implications of this fact:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Christ died for every person:\u00a0<\/strong>He did not die only for a few, for many, or even for most men, but for all mankind (1 Tim. 2:6; Heb. 2:9; 1 John 2:2). Calvinism\u2019s \u201climited atonement\u201d only for the \u201celect\u201d is a fatal error. This error was basically that under which so many first century believing Jews labored. Peter learned better in the events relating to Cornelius. Jesus died for all mankind because \u201c<strong>God is no respecter\u2026.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Everyone is a potential servant of God:\u00a0<\/strong>Matthew was a despised tax collector. Paul was a radical persecutor of Christians. What spiritual potential did professional anglers have? No one has the right to decide for any other whether or not he\/she will hear the Gospel or serve the Savior. We are to sow the seed of the kingdom so that it may produce good fruit wherever men embrace it (Mat. 13:18\u201323). We are to take His saving Gospel to \u201cthe whole creation\u201d in \u201call the world\u201d so that those who choose to believe it and are baptized may be saved (Mark 16:15\u201316). Everyone has spiritual potential because <strong>\u201cGod is no respecter\u2026.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Everyone can go to Heaven:\u00a0<\/strong>Not all <strong>will\u00a0<\/strong>be in Heaven at last, but all <strong>could\/can\u00a0<\/strong>be. God\u2019s ideal Will is that none \u201cshould perish\u201d (2 Pet. 3:9), for He \u201cwould have all men to be saved\u201d (1 Tim. 2:4). Through God\u2019s grace and mercy, rooted in the shed blood of His Son, He offers Heaven to all who will obey Him (Mat. 7:21; Rom. 5:9; Tit. 2: 11\u201312; 3:5; Heb. 5:9). <strong>\u201cGod is no respecter\u2026.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[<strong>Note:<\/strong>I wrote this article for and it appeared in the <em>Denton Record-Chronicle, <\/em>Denton, TX, May 30, 2014.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>Attribution:\u00a0<\/strong>From <em>TheScripturecache.com<\/em>, owned and administered by Dub McClish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 1[Note: This MS is available in\u00a0larger font on our Brief Articles 1\u00a0page.] We Are Made in God\u2019s Image (Gen. 1:26\u201327). This fact is true of every human being, regardless of how low he may have sunk. 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