The following excerpt was taken from a recent issue of the Daily News:
"Friend, as valuable as your soul is, its salvation rests upon you. God's will is to save it, but He will not save it against your will. The Devil is using every devise that he can to destroy your soul. But he cannot destroy it unless you yourself will let him."… "let Him (Jesus) become your savior…"
"Remember that the soul of man is the prize that all heaven strives to save and all Hell plots to destroy, and the choice is up to you."
Lucifer, "son of the morning," became Satan when he sought to exalt himself "above the stars of God and be like the most High," (Isa. 12-14) His aim, effort and purpose since his fall has been to thwart God's purpose to redeem a people from Adam's lost race, whom He chose and gave to His Son before the foundation of the world.
Satan has ever tried to build the super man. He will, when God permits, bring this being into existence as the Antichrist, during the period of time, which is yet to be. (2 Thess. 1:3-10; Rev.13.)
I now find, according to the above excerpt, that both God Almighty and Satan are riding the rumble seat and Almighty man is doing the driving and riding up front. Please read carefully the above quotations and ponder what they teach.
Since God cannot save man's soul without man's help and Satan cannot destroy it without man's help, pray tell me where will the soul of man finally wind up? According to the above he won't be in Heaven and he won't be in Hell-so where?
According to the above, man is stronger than both God and the Devil.
If Jesus has to have help to save a soul then He is but a partial Saviour. He only helps save. All that He did while in the world was for nothing unless mighty man allows His work to become effective. My Bible tells me that He is the Saviour, the only saviour, that He can work and no man can hinder. I Tim. 2:15 tells me, "Thou shalt call His name Jesus. Why? For He shall save His people from their sins." He doesn't try to save or help save, but He shall save. Read John 10:28; Rom. 6:23; Luke 19:10. He doesn't offer Divine life. He gives divine life.
Divine Life is a gift wholly by God's grace. Eph. 2:8-9, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: Faith is the gift of God: not of works lest any man should boast.". God gives Divine life to the dead soul, thus bringing it alive to Him. As a result of the then regenerated soul, the new source of life comes repentance, belief, confession, baptism, church membership and all the other faithfulnesses of God's children. All these are the evidences of life. None or all of them bring life, or are conditions of receiving Divine life, but are the effects of Divine life. One cannot manifest activity in any course of life until he has life to begin with. Man is dead spiritually when he comes into this world as an offspring of Adam. Eph.2:1, "And you hath He quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins…". He must of necessity be made alive spiritually by some source outside of himself before he can react to spiritual things. I Cor.2:14, "but the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God; for they are foolishness unto him; neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned."
Life of any nature comes from pre-existing life. Our divine life comes from God through Jesus Christ, as He sees fit to grant it. It is not earned or merited but freely given because Christ purchased it by His sacrificial sufferings and manifested its reception by the Father in His resurrection.
Jesus will not fail to bring every soul that God gave to Him before the world was to full redemption. He will save His people, His sheep, His elect or chosen ones, since this was the reason He came into the world. John 6:37,10:9; 17:9.