How Many Has the Father Given Jesus?

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Ask of Me, and I shall give Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy possession (Psalm 2:8).

We find by reference to the language of the Psalmist that Jesus, as a moral ruler, is in possession of all things or all men.

The Father loveth the Son and hath given all things into His hand (John 3: 35).

Now Jesus positively declares,

All that the Father giveth Me shall come to Me; and him that cometh to Me I will in no wise cast out (John 6:37).

How many had the Father given him? ALL.

Then ALL will finally come to Christ.

Jesus continues in the following verses,

For I came down from heaven not to do Mine own will but the will of Him that sent Me. And this is the Father’s will which hath sent Me, that of all which He hath given Me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day (:38-40).

Here then we see, first, Christ in possession of all men. Second, all are to come to Him. Third, He will lose none which God hath given Him; but, fourth, will raise them up at the last day. And what is all this but Universalism?

Dr. George W. Quinby (1810-1884)
The Salvation of Christ, or a Brief Exposition and Defense of Universalism
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George Washington Quinby, D.D. (Bates College) was a minister, author, editor and publisher. His Universalist periodicals included The Star in the West, Trumpet and Freeman, and Gospel Banner. He conducted his expansive work in Maine (North Yarmouth, Livermore, Saco and Augusta), Massachusetts (Taunton), Ohio (Cincinnati) and Connecticut (Bridgeport and Middletown).

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An Unforgettable Account

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I’ll never forget the first time that I read Jackson Roddy’s account of how he came to understand the grace of God; it impressed on me a different “evangelism” than the salesmanship training that I had been exposed to in my early years.

So thrilled was I, those many years ago, to read those words from Jackson Roddy, that I have regularly recalled and reread them, even to this day. During these passing years I would also come to a clearer and clearer understanding of what the gospel was (the true “evangel”), and how far-reaching God’s plan for His creation went – that He may be “All in all” (I Corinthians 15:28).

The truth is that we’re not trying to get anyone to do anything. God already has done it all. True evangelism is simply living and sharing all that God has done. God uses His own work in Christ to activate His called. How simple to be merely a channel of God’s goodness and grace. This is not a process of some decisional regeneration, but of God graciously granting faith by the hearing of His Word (Romans 10:17).

Clyde L. Pilkington, Jr.
To read a portion of Jackson Roddy’s account see Bible Student’s Notebook #654
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Can We Blame Them?

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And thou, Capernaum, which art exalted unto heaven, shalt be brought down to hades: for if the mighty works, which have been done in thee, had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day (Matthew 11:23).

Why, then, were those mighty works not done? Is it not the will of God that none should perish, but that all should come, through repentance, unto life? Does not He Himself plead with men, saying, “Why will ye die?” (cf. Ezekiel 18:31; 33:11). Yet the Lord Jesus, Who knew what might have been as well as what had been, solemnly declares that even the guilty inhabitants of Sodom and of Tyre and Sidon would have been brought to repentance and life had they witnessed the mighty works wrought in the favored cities of Galilee! Why were they not permitted to witness them, then? Can we blame them; will God condemn them, and condemn them to an eternal death or an eternal misery, because they did not see what they could not see, because they did not repent, when the very means which would infallibly have induced repentance were not vouchsafed them?

Samuel Cox (1826-1893)
Salvator Mundi
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Salvator Mundi: Is Christ the Savior of All Men?

by — Samuel Cox (1826-1893)

(New Enlarged Type Edition) “Salvator Mundi” means “Savior of the World.” First published in 1877, the main object of this book is to encourage those who “faintly trust the larger hope” to commit themselves to it wholly and fearlessly, by showing them that they have ample warrant for it in the Scriptures. Reprint of the 1899 Eleventh Edition.

The All-Sufficient, All-Embracing Love of God

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Originally, man was the offspring of God by creation; now God has come to us as the Savior, Who lavishes favor. All of His dealings with the members of His family have one end: that we renounce all confidence in the flesh and find rest in His all-sufficient, all-embracing love.

Vladimir Gelesnoff (1877-1921)
The Book of Job
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A God Worthy of the Name

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What a relief to point to a God worthy of the name! A God Who has a purpose in pain and a design in death. A God Who will use every groan for His glory and His creature’s gain, and will turn every torment into ecstasy and the exaltation of His great name.

God’s glad message does not consist in heralding a horrid hell. It concerns His Son, and the universal reconciliation is but the gospel ultimate, for it, too, concerns His Son and His eventual triumph. It is the popular orthodox “gospel” which is driving men into various by-paths.

A.E. Knoch (1874-1965)
Unsearchable Riches, Vol. 9, page 98
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If Endless Punishment Was True

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If Endless Punishment Was True …

• Would God have thought everything was very good (Genesis 3)?
• Would He have called it merely death?
• Would He not have revealed it to Adam, Abraham, Moses and all of the prophets, and not waited 4,000 years?
• Would He not have engraved it in stone?
• How would all nations and families of the earth be truly blessed as promised?
• How would God’s mercy endure forever as promised?
• How would God’s precious, heart-warming promises have any true meaning?

Gerry Beauchemin
Why Heaven Prevails, p. 18-19
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Who Would Dare Smile?

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Who would dare so much as to smile, if he really believed endless torments were certain to be the portion of some members of his household? Marriage would be a crime; each birth the occasion of an awful dread. The shadow of a possible Hell would darken every home, sadden every family hearth. All of this becomes evident when we reflect that to perpetuate the race would be to help on the perpetuation of moral evil. For if this creed be true, out of all of the yearly births a steady current is flowing on to help fill the abyss of hell, to make larger and vaster the total moral evil which is to endure forever. “The world would be one vast madhouse,” says the American scholar Hallsted, “if realizing and continued pressure of such a doctrine was present.”

Thomas Allin
Christ Triumphant, page 57
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Christ Triumphant
or Universalism Asserted
by Thomas Allin (1838–1909)

This is a reprint of the 9^th edition of this classic work, originally published over 100 years ago. It answers the question: Can Evil triumph finally over Good?

 

327 pages, PB. $12.⁹⁵

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