#DailyDevotion The Father Wants You To Be Certain & Assured You Are Saved

1 Tim. 2: ⁴Who wants all people to be saved and to come to know the truth. ⁵There is one God, and One Who brings God and men together, the Man Christ Jesus, ⁶Who gave Himself as a ransom to free all people, and this was announced at the right times.

One of the devil’s little schemes is to convince people that God doesn’t want to save everyone. This false doctrine is often called limited atonement. That is to say, Jesus didn’t die, he didn’t shed his blood for all people, in all times and in all places. What makes this such a wicked teaching is it makes people doubt their salvation, it makes them doubt their faith, and it makes them doubt God’s word. It makes people constantly looking at the their faith, their feeling or their good works to see if they are really one of God’s elect. It takes about the certainty, the surety, the assurance and the comfort of their salvation. On the other hand, some people fall into the other side of the ditch, they look at these things and become self-righteous thinking what they have of these things is why they are saved.

God, your heavenly Father, wants you to have the assurance, the certainty, the security and the comfort of the salvation Jesus has won for you by his life, death and resurrection. To that end he gives us verse four here, “Who wants all people to be saved and to come to know the truth.” That is pretty straight forward. God wants all people to be saved. It doesn’t matter who they are or what they have done. He wants them to be saved. In 2 Peter 3:9 he says, “He is patient with you and doesn’t want any to perish but wants them all to come to repentance.” Again, you see, it is not God’s will that any perish.

The one God and Jesus who brings men to God wants you to be saved to believe his good will towards you. So Paul writes in 2 Cor. 4, ¹⁴“… we’re convinced One died for all and so all have died. ¹⁵He died for all…” Again in the same he says, “¹⁸But God has done it all. He has restored our relationship with Him through Christ, and He has given us the task of proclaiming this restored relationship. ¹⁹In Christ God restored the relationship of the world to Himself by not counting their sins against them…” There is a wonderful word there in verse 19, “world.” Are you part of the world? Christ has reconciled you to God the Father. This is all God’s doing. The reconciliation of you to God has taken place in Christ, all apart from anything you are doing, have done or will do. Paul says again in Romans 5, “¹⁸Now then, as by one sin all people were condemned, so also through one righteous act, justification which brings life came to all people. ¹⁹When one man disobeyed, the many were made sinners. So when One obeyed, the many will be made righteous.” So we see again, Jesus has provided for us what we need to be saved. His one act of righteousness justified all people.

Jesus tells us, if this is not enough, in John 3, “ ¹⁷You see, God didn’t send His Son into the world to condemn the world but to save the world through Him.” There’s that word “world” again. In John 1:29 the Baptist says, ““Look at the Lamb of God Who takes away the sin of the world.” There’s that word “world” again! So Paul in our lesson says, “[He] gave Himself as a ransom to free all people…” So don’t believe the devil’s lie that God didn’t save you. Jesus saved all people, especially you.

Heavenly Father, give us your Spirit so we may believe the good news you saved all people, the world through Jesus Christ. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.