Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":
Dial Daily Bread has been on safari this weekend! We were invited to a church in Los Angeles where we were not to preach our own sermon (which the people would soon forget, anyway), but to present the actual “most precious message” which “the Lord in His great mercy sent to His people” 120 years ago.
It was the message that the Lord intended should “lighten the earth with glory” as Revelation 18:1-4 says it must come.
Scholars have distilled the message into ten basic “good news” capsules which we will present for the next few days:
Number One: Christ has already accomplished something for every human being. He died the “second death” of everyone and thus actually elected “all men” to be saved. But this is not Universalism, for men have the power to resist and reject what Christ has given them. Esau is the example: he was born a few minutes before his twin, Jacob, and thus inherited the precious “birthright;” but when he grew up, he abandoned it, sold it “for a mess of pottage” (a gourmet meal that he was hungry for!), and never stopped crying in despair ever afterwards for he could never get it back.
The Lord wants everyone to be saved (1 Tim. 2:3, 4), but not everyone will let Him save them. They repeat Esau’s deadly sin—they throw away what Christ has given them, yes, given them, not merely offered them.
In the final judgment at the end of the 1000 years millennium, the lost will be resurrected in the “second resurrection” to face their final judgment; then it will be seen clearly that He gave them salvation but they threw it away.
Cherish the gift that the Lord has given you!
Be sure to check your e-mail for "Dial Daily Bread" again tomorrow.
