Isn’t Everyone Saved?

If, on the cross, Jesus paid our sin debt past, present and future, then everyone in the world is already saved, because all sins by everyone now alive were future sins. Why are so many preachers who teach this doctrine still preaching trying to get people saved?

Q. If, on the cross, Jesus paid our sin debt past, present and future, then everyone in the world is already saved, because all sins by everyone now alive were future sins. Why are so many preachers who teach this doctrine still preaching trying to get people saved? It seems that most of them are talking out of both sides of their mouth. The truth remains that provision for forgiveness of sin was accomplished on the cross and by the foolishness of preaching God saves sinners….

A. John 3:16 is the defining verse here. Yes “God so loved the World that He gave His only begotten Son” … At the cross every sin of mankind, past, present, and future was paid for. But then it says … “That whosoever believes in Him would not perish but have everlasting life.”

That means that it wasn’t His death that saves us, but our belief in what His death did for us. So even though all our sins are pardoned, we have to accept His pardon to be saved. It’s our choice. If we reject it, we’re saying we don’t believe in Him. At that point we’re on our own.

Those who preach this are trying to help people understand that even though God’s pardon is available to anyone and everyone without exception, we have to choose to accept it in order to be saved. We do so by accepting Jesus as our Savior.