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God Is Immutable
A person will never concede God’s sovereignty if they are their own god. God is not interested in fitting into the confines of man’s preferences for Himself. God is immutable.

Jn 3:16-17
“For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life.  For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.”

God Is Unity
All three Persons of the Godhead testify that Jesus’ mission on earth was consistent with His own words, “For the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Lk 19:10).

J. Vernon McGee on Lk 19:1-10
“By [his fruit] I know he has been converted. And, friend, this is the only way the world will know that you are converted. They do not know it by testimony; they know it only by what they see in your life.”

Why Do Some Evangelists Stumble?
One of the primary reasons people reject the Gospel is that they respect man’s self-esteem over God’s. As a result, they’d rather insult God’s sovereignty than the sovereignty currently ruling an unbeliever’s heart.

MacArthur On Soteriology
"Every lesson we can legitimately learn from biblical soteriology (the doctrine of salvation) points to the glory of God, not the self-esteem of the sinner."

It's THE LORD'S Gospel
Salvation isn’t meant to accommodate the sensibilities of man, rather it is meant to accommodate the sovereign God of the Universe.

Pastor Collins
Manmade doctrine has an accommodating thread to it.

Check Your Motivation!
The human emotion “that all be saved” is often different than God’s in the sense that it is absent of divine viewpoint on justice. God’s grace is not accommodating to man’s sensibilities; rather, it is accommodating to God’s sovereignty.

Propitiation
Generically, we say that it means to placate an offended deity’s wrath. Specifically, in Christianity, we say that God’s wrath and righteousness are satisfied by the Cross of Jesus Christ. This paves the way for believers’ justification.

The Gospel “Paradox”
Some will say, “How can a wrathful God who demands payment for sin pay for the sin Himself?” When you figure that out, you now understand what the grace of God is! (Ro 3:23-26)

The Gospel “Paradox”
God solved the sin problem for us! He decided to become a man (Php 2:7-8) so that our justification may come as a “gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus” (Ro 3:24).