Can all men be saved? And when I say men, I mean mankind. The Lord is speaking in First Samuel 2:6-8. He said, "I form the light and create darkness." So he makes some poor, some rich, some high, some low. The Lord does that. I, the Lord, make peace and I create evil. The Lord makes the wicked for the day of evil. That tells me that God has all things under control. That he does presently, and he will in the future, control all things.

In Leviticus 18:8 it says, "The nakedness of your father's wife shalt thou not uncover." In other words, ham had relations with his mother, and that was considered his father's nakedness. He took advantage of his mother, having sexual intercourse with her while Noah and his wife no doubt were drunk. He knew that his wife was pregnant by ham. So he cursed the child that was to be born. But yet, the child was not at fault. Because it was by divine order.

God chose Isaac and rejected the older son, Ishmael, when usually the birthright went to the elder son. These are not children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for the seed, for this is the Word of promise. It was said, and to her the elder shall serve the younger as it is written. Paul is saying that God chose whether or not he would show mercy to Moses and compassion to the Israelites, and on whom he would have compassion. The only thing he asks us to do is to believe that God has chosen mercy for us.

What if, God willing, he chose to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much long suffering? When he was alone, those that were with him asked him the parable. To you, it is given to know the mystery of the Kingdom of God; but to those that are without, all these things are done in parables. John 12:38-And how then will you know all the parables? In Isaiah's day, a prophet was prophesying the destruction of the land of Judah, and it was destined that those Jews, unbelieving Jews in Judah, be destroyed.

In John 12, Jesus repeats that same prophecy and applies it to the people standing before him. John the Baptist knew who he was speaking to, for when the Pharisees came out to his baptism, he came right out and said it. He knew who they were. They were not going to be saved. In Matthew 12, verse 31, Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for blaspheming the Holy Ghost. Broad is the way that leads to death, destruction, and many that go that way. He tells them they will not come to me that you might have life. These days, this universalist concept, this egalitarian concept, well, we all just kind of tweak the Scripture and somehow the Lord lets us in.

I don't think everybody will be saved, Paul said, not at this age or the next age. The Apostle Paul describes the utter wickedness of a generation. And we are repeating that generation of wickedness, of evil, and debauchery in our day in America. It fits our generation. What do you think about transgenderism? Could that be an indication of transgenderism changing their bodies against nature? Can those people be saved? Sex, perversion, mental perversion. God gave them up to affections. That was the condition, the moral condition in Rome, Corinth, Athens, and other cities of that time. And it's the condition of America today. There comes a point where God says, "I will give you up." I give up on that generation because they are worthy of death.

Thessalonians tells us that Christ is coming back in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them, that no, not God and that they obey, not the Gospel of Jesus Christ. So folks, as the writer said, check up on yourselves to see whether you are in the faith. We thank you, Lord, for what you have done for us to show us the truth of salvation individually.