That is the good news of the eternal gospel, the unlimited gospel. How can this be? How does it happen? Scripture really makes it quite clear, once we get past our preconditioning.

“Now all these things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Christ, and gave us the ministry of reconciliation, namely, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and He has committed to us the word of reconciliation.” (2 Cor 5:18-19)

Who is the “us” in this passage? The Church, the true Israel, the Bride of Christ. And what is the message we have to preach to all those who rebelled and got left out or sent to hell?

“The Spirit and the Bride say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who hears say, ‘Come!’ Let the one who is thirsty come! Let the one who wishes take the Water of Life without cost.” (Rev 22:17)

You know that Satan is the father of lies, the father of all that is evil, the father of our own evil natures. Jesus says of those with hard hearts, “You are of your father, the devil!” (Jn 8:44) Yet we also know that Jesus came to destroy Satan and all his works. (1 Jn 3:8) That is what hell was made for! (Matt 25:41) But who is the Father of our spirits? (Heb 12:9) Who breathed into us the breath (spirit) of life from the beginning? (Gen 2:7) You know the answer: God! For there really is only one spirit and it is all from Him (Eph 4:4-6) and is returning to Him. (Rom 11:36)

God’s awesome love for His precious ones is not in competition with his incredible hatred of their sin nature. They both work together to accomplish His eternal purpose, either by death on the cross (if we can accept it by faith) or death in hell (if we reject his call). Either way, that sin nature that Satan fathered will be destroyed and the beautiful person that the Father of Spirits sent forth will ultimately return like the prodigal son or the little lost sheep that went astray.

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