I. Everyone is

of God

a. No one is

before God (Rom. 3:10-12; Mark 10:18)

b. Everyone is

before God (Rom. 5:12)

c. Everyone is

of punishment (Rom. 6:23)

d. God doesn’t have to

anyone (Heb. 2:16)

For surely it is not angels that he helps —Heb. 2:16

II. What about God’s

?

a. God reveals Himself to

(Rom. 1:18-20; 2:15)

b. Everyone who wants to know God will have an

(2 Pet. 3:9)

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. —2 Pet. 3:9

There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, ‘Thy will be done,’ and those to whom God says, in the end, ‘Thy will be done.’ All that are in Hell, choose it. —C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce

c. God will graciously save some from all

(Rev. 7:9-10)

After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands, 10 and crying out with a loud voice, ‘Salvation belongs to our God who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb!’ —Rev. 7:9-10

III. God is both loving and

a. If God is not just, what hope is there for the

?

b. If God is just, what hope is there for

? (Rom. 3:23)

Bad News of the Bible: you are a

deserving of eternal

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