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Hi Trey, this is Gene Summers from Kent, Pennsylvania.
I guess my question is do most dispensationalists believe that the blood of Christ does not apply to their sins until they believe in the gospel?
It seems like the last couple of days I've been called a Universalist at 28 and a Calvinist because I believe all my sins were forgiven at Calvary almost 2000 years ago.
I'm trying to figure it out it seems like the grace movement, most of them, people believe that their sins need to be forgiven too.
They're not believing that their sins were forgiven 2000 years ago at Calvary.
Alright Gene, I really don't know what most of the, as you say, dispensationalists believe concerning this matter.
All I can do is with an open Bible rightly divide the word of truth and tell you what God has to say to you today.
God says that he was in Christ at Calvary reconciling the world unto himself and it was there, it was there at the cross that through the finished work of Christ, he decided to stop charging the world's sins unto them.
This thing people like to say about how it only applies to someone after they believe is birthed out of a form of religion, because the word world does not translate to mean only those who believe.
No, it means what it says, world.
The world's sins are already forgiven, and I don't know any other way to put it.
There are church signs, t-shirts and bumper stickers that say, God said it, I believe it and that settles it.
Well that's not true.
No, God said it and that settles it.
It don't matter if you believe it or not.
And let me add this.
If God reconciled himself to the world but is waiting, waiting for them to believe something before he stops imputing their sins unto them, as some would have you believe, then God reconciled himself to sin.
I have more than one program at the website that deals with this, deals with reconciliation.
So, I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on it today.
And Gene, I wouldn't concern myself with those who call you a universalist for believing 2 Corinthians 5:19, and just believing that it means what it says, for they're obviously unlearned and don't know what a universalist is.
A universalist believes that in the end everyone winds up in heaven.
Now someone please tell me where it says that in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 19.
It doesn't.
Never has, never will.
Therefore, just because you believe 2 Corinthians 5:19 actually means what it says, does not make you a universalist.
It makes you a Bible believer.
The fact that God is not charging the world's sins unto them does not mean the world is saved.
No, it means just what it says.
The world's sins are not imputed unto them.
The reason some cannot see the truth of 2 Corinthians 5:19, is that they have yet to understand that
salvation does not equal getting your sins forgiven.
This is their major blunder, the hurdle they just cannot seem to get over.
Again, salvation does not equal getting your sins forgiven.
We are saved by faith, not by getting our sins forgiven.
If that were true, then the whole world is saved and universalists are right.
But they're not.
But neither are the ones on the other side of the fence that say what Christ did at Calvary does not apply to the world until they first, until they first become believers.
Now, you see they have to change the words in the verse to make it say that.
2 Corinthians 5:19 doesn't say that, and therefore they have a problem.
And their solution is to stoop to calling you a universalist.
This is nothing more than deflecting.
You see, the reason people want to lump you into a category is so they can straw man you to death.
It's the straw man effect.
Not the carbonaro effect, it's the straw man effect.
They put the straw up so they can march in and knock it down.
This makes them feel good about themselves and look pretty good in front of others who don't know any better.
But it don't change the truth one iota.
Instead of straw manning, how about proving it?
Prove that 2 Corinthians 5:19 is only speaking about believers.
Even though it plainly says, the world.
God, not imputing the world's trespasses unto them means, God is not imputing the world's trespasses unto them.
You see, finally yielding to the fact that you aren't as special as you thought you were can be a bit uncomfortable.
Especially for those who still hang on to just a little bit of their past religion.
Gotta keep a little bit.
Coming to grips with the fact that as far as having your sins forgiven you're no different than the guy you judged last night on the evening news.
Well, it's a little rough, huh?
But that's God.
That's his unmatchless grace.
Unmerited grace.
Grace is unmerited.
And no one, including you, can do anything to merit his grace.
His grace took care of the world's sins on the cross, and there's nothing you can do to earn that.
Not even believe in it.
You can look at the verse, 2 Corinthians 5:19.
You can look at it ten times, twenty times, a thousand times, and it won't change.
But if you'll just believe what it says, you'll be on the side of truth.
You'll also be a more effective witness.
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