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I’ve wanted to write this for a long while now, but recently a video that I saw rekindled this thought in my heart. So, I finally sat down and off-the-cuff wrote my thoughts. However scattered and jumbled, please consider the content. Know that it is from the heart. You will find the video below. Let me preface this by saying that I am about to write about something that will probably offend some of you. Maybe this will wake some of you up to a reality that you have either forgotten or never knew in the first place. Let me also preface this by setting your mind upon the tone and mood of my voice as I write this. It is one of low, compassionate, tear filled concern. There is a war going on for the souls of men. Satan never takes a holiday. He never sleeps. He never tires. He never stops seeking to destroy the lives of people. Some people he simply passes by because they are so convinced that they are headed for heaven and they are so duped into believing that they are “safe” that they pose no threat to him. So he doesn’t bother. Others, he actively seeks to destroy. As Christians I think this, along with the fact that there is a literal hell and people will spend an eternity in its torments, are two of the much neglected reflections and realities of the thought life, prayer life and general lifestyle of professing Christians. What do I mean by this? I would submit to you that most Christians are intellectually concerned about the welfare and souls of men. The problem is that most of that concern is fizzled out by a lack of heart-knowledge in the matter. They are not truly convinced in the heart (i.e. the core of who they are) that hell is real and Satan hates the souls of men. A plain evidence of this is Facebook. You say, “What! How? Facebook has nothing to do with the gospel.” If you would allow me…can I dig around in your heart for a...

Propitiation - Propitiation means satisfaction or appeasment, specifically towards God. Propitiation is the work of Jesus Christ on the cross by which He appeases the wrath of God who would otherwise be offended by our sin and demand that we pay the penalty for it. The concept of propitiation is often associated with the idea of a substitutionary atonement. On a side note: Romans 9:11(For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)  12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.  13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.  14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid. There is a popular view of the grace of God called prescience. Prescience derives from two greeek words: pre meaning before and science meaning knowledge. So, this view basically holds to this truth that God flung the universe into existence and with foreknowledge, or prescience, He knew who would "choose" Him for salvation and who would reject Him and based on that He chooses those for salvation. So in other words, God chooses those who first choose Him through His foreknowledge. Let me ask you a very practical and legitimate question. Why in the world would Paul pose the question "Is there unrighteousness with God?" in Romans 9 if prescience were the true way in which God operated. Meaning; How in the world could someone fathom unrighteousness in God (in which Paul anticipates by his question) if God simply chooses because of His foreknowledge of someones choice to choose Him. Doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Ponder that for a bit....