A Note From my Friend Regarding Limited Atonement

Yet again, my best friend & beloved brother, Charlie Brennan, wrote a WONDERFUL note, and the false notion regarding the old evangelistic cliche that Jesus stands at the door of your heart, knocking, awaiting for you to open the door. I would add that the verse, from Revelation 3:20, is actually taken out of context. Christ was actually speaking to the wayward CHURCH in Laodicea.

the picture of Christ knocking on the door

"so let me start here many say that we can choose God. they will use the picture of Christ knocking on the door of someones heart, with the handle on the other said that he is not. now i say to this we cant choose God. "John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you." so we see that by this verse in john that we cant pick to follow God. but the thing that they will say is well you can the handle is only were only you can open it. but i say to this who's to say he goes to all doors. lets go back to the verse, i spoke of before john 15:16 we see that in this verse.

"Joh 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the Father in my name, he may give it to you."

i have heard that this is for the disciples, that Christ pick them and that they had nothing to do with it. now this is true but Christ is talking to all that his father gave him. in fact Christ does not pray for the world but the ones given to him by the father. we see this in John 17:9 I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. that Christ does not pray for the world. now i go back to the picture of Christ knocking on the door. if Christ would not pray for the world why would he not go to every door then, so we see in many verse in the bible that we cant pick but only be picked. Christ did not and i say did not die for everyone. we see this in John 3:16, 15:16 , and john 17:9.

so one might say that i am taking john 3:16 out of context but i will refer you to my past note on this excite verse. and you will see that i take you back to the Greek and go from there.

this picture that we have is in fact taken out of what it means by all who say we can pick. i see this pitcher as him picking the door in which to go to and to save that person not the whole world but the would of the believers only. so we see that the Atonement of Christ on Calvary was, Limited Atonement not universal.


Soli Deo Gloria and God bless"

An Explaination of John 3:16 from my Friend

Now, before, I post this, I'm going to say that my best friend and beloved brother and co-laborer in Christ, Charlie Brennan, wrote this. I didn't.

John 3:16 'For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.' Now many people think that this verse talks about the WHOLE word. Now if we take the word 'world' back to the Greek (κόσμος,n {kos'-mos}) it means 'of the believers only.' Many people when they hear this, they will say. If it means 'of the believers only' they will say that then there is no reason for us to witness to someone. But that is not true we must witness to them. The other thing they will say is that we don’t know who will believe in Christ, and I say this we don’t know who God has picked before the start of time. To be saved and who he has not that is why we must witness. Ok so let me put it this way, Timmy form [sic] the start of time was not picked to be saved so then john 3:16 would not be valid for him. But now we find Timmy and he was picked before the start of time to be saved at the age of 22. So now john 3:16 is valid for him. Now Timmy is only 19 right now so this means that when someone says 'of the believers only' does not mean that it is for the sheep of this time but the sheep of the coming days, weeks, months, and years to come. Many people think that it means of the sheep this day right now. But as I said Timmy is 19 now and will be saved at the age of 22 so if this is true then 'of the believers only' means for all sheep now and to come. So the Greek says for this verse that the word WORLD means 'of the believers only,' not the whole world."