Is salvation a matter of pre-selection

The speaker discusses the topic of salvation and whether it is predetermined or a matter of personal choice. They argue against the belief that God has already chosen who will be saved and who will not. They emphasize that salvation is available to all who respond favorably to the gospel of Christ. The speaker also mentions the importance of obedience to God and following his commandments. They conclude by stating that the kingdom of God was part of God's eternal plan and that those who prove to be true children of God will inherit the kingdom. Welcome to our weekly exhortation. Thank you for joining me. Thank you for your precious. My name is Giza Milner, Servant of God, Servant of Jesus Christ. In our today's message, we wanted to know if salvation is a matter of preselection or better, if the identity of the individual who will inherit the kingdom already decided before they are born. Some Christians have this idea that the identity of the individual who will inherit the kingdom of God is already decided before they are born. In support of these ideas, they quote the passage in Matthew chapter 25 verse 34 which says, You who are blessed by my father inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. How are we to understand this? In fact, we read in this passage that the kingdom of God had been prepared from the beginning of time. When we read this declaration carefully, we notice that it is talking about the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world. Some Christians hold the view that the identity of the individual who will inherit the kingdom is already decided before they are born. Their belief is that God has already prepared who will be saved and who will not be saved. In addition, they believe that anyone who is not among God's elect cannot choose to place faith in Christ and be saved, and that Jesus did not die for them. They were just predestined to be separated from God for all eternity and have not ability to choose to be saved. It is possible that they read this declaration of Jesus in a more personal sense to the point of thinking that, for example, a particular religious group will be saved while others will be lost. Friend, as a believer, how are you going to respond to such an interpretation? As for me, I want to pause here and remind you of the warning the Lord Jesus gives us regarding the end time. He says, Then, if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe it not. Matthew chapter 24 verse 23. Why should we not believe that? Well, because the kingdom of God is already within you. It is within me. The Holy Spirit is in you. And as a result, we should not fall victim to the merchant of illusion. Friend, if you receive Jesus as a Savior and Lord, then do not be troubled, just stay faithful to God, and you will not be disappointed, for salvation is already with those who respond favorably to the gospel of Christ. Otherwise, wouldn't God be contradicting himself if he declared that those who will inherit the kingdom are already preselected? The grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men, says the Apostle Paul in Titus chapter 2 verse 11. Did you hear that? To all men. Not only to some individuals. Praise the Lord. How is it that suddenly the God of justice, he who does not lie, says something else? How come God preselected some before their birth to be saved and others not? You know, according to this interpretation, even if some people do God's will and remain faithful to Him throughout their lives, they will not be saved because God did not preselect them right from the beginning. Is that right? We should not deceive ourselves. You know, the truth behind this verse, Matthew chapter 25 verse 34, is that God has prepared His kingdom for a class of people who will prove to be worthy of it. That's what we need to understand. Who those people will be is determined on the basis of their response to the gospel. Hallelujah. That's what the phrase, prepare for you, in that verse means. In Matthew chapter 25 verse 33, the Lord Jesus talks about sheep and goats. He says that God will place the sheep at His right hand and the goats at His left. So what has been decided in advance is that those who prove after the judgment to be sheep, that is, the obedience, will inherit the kingdom rather than the idea that certain individuals have been preselected before their birth to be sheep. You see that? There is quite a gap here. On the right, you have the blessed, the sheep, and on the left, you have the cursed, the goats. The truth is that the blessing is for obedient God. The curse is for those who disobey God. You give the healing and grace our hearts always hunger for. Oh, oh, oh, our hearts always hunger for. Conclusion. In this message, we were answering the question, is salvation a matter of preselection? Or better, is the identity of the individuals who will inherit the kingdom already decided before they are born? We said that it is not true. To affirm that is heresy. The scripture says no one can come to God except through Jesus. Jesus was the true light which lighted every man that cometh into the world, said the Apostle John, John chapter 1 verse 9. So to have this light, Jesus Christ, the salvation, the world has to know him first. This means that the world will be saved provided that he knows Jesus. When the Apostle Paul says in Ephesians chapter 1 verse 5 that those who will be saved are predestined by God, it is in the sense that God foreknows from eternity who will be saved. This means that according to divine plan, it has been decided in advance that those who prove as a judgment to be true son of God will inherit the kingdom. Praise the Lord. Why is it then that God preselected some before their birth to be saved and others not? In fact, what we should understand is that the kingdom of God was not some kind of afterthought, but it was part of God's eternal purposes. Even from the time of when he created the universe, the kingdom was already in his mind and he had a purpose for this kingdom. It was to establish a world in which his righteousness dwells and where his character will be manifest. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Once my heart was heavy, I was living in sin. Then I gave my heart to Jesus and he took me in. In the context of this passage, we can say that those who will be saved are those who will follow God's command and stay faithful to him till the end. Matthew chapter 24 verse 13. This is the real identity of those who will stay at the right of the Lord in his kingdom. Those are the ones the Bible calls the poor in spirit. But on the other hand, those who will not be saved, whatever they may have professed with their mouth, are those who failed to obey God. Friend, I hope you enjoyed this message. If the Lord Jesus wills, we will be together next week. Abundant blessings. Shalom. I'll tell you what to do. Just put your trust in Jesus and he'll save you too. And he saved me, saved me, and from sin set me free. Yes, he saved me, God love me. Yes, Jesus saved me.