This may be a little superficial on the face of it but perhaps it says something to us about the offer of salvation to the whole world.
When we walk into the animal shelter where the kittens are kept, we desire to get to know all of them. The ones we accept are those who come to us, those who are interested in us. We leave alone those who run away or try to bite us. This might be similar to the offer of salvation to everyone. Christ died for everyone and extends His love to everyone but most will not want Him. The ones we take home with us are the ones who want us.
There were two thieves on the cross beside Christ. One of them acknowledged the glory of Christ and asked to be remembered in his repentance. The other thief mocked and rejected Christ. The one who asked to be remembered was in paradise with Christ that very day. The one who refused Christ had to die on that cross and go to hell.
Mankind has a choice to make, trust in Christ because of His payment for our sin and go to heaven or to reject Him and go to hell.
The choice is simple but pride looms large over those who think they want to be bigger than Christ, just as the devil did in heaven. The devil is going to hell for his rebellion and so are people who reject Christ.
The astonishing thing about those who reject Christ is that Christ offers an eternity with pure love and justice while the devil offers them an eternity of death in hell. This is just how irrational the mind of a rebellious person is, so angry and so foolish they will reject Christ to have their own way even if it sends them to hell.
These same unregenerate people act this way with born again believers. They are so bent on being superior, just like the devil, having their own way, just like the devil and exacting revenge, just like the devil, that they are unable to see truth and the benefit to themselves if they trusted Christ.
1 Corinthians 2:13-15 "…13 And this is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom, but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
14 The natural man does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. For they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.
15 The spiritual man judges all things, but he himself is not subject to anyone’s judgment.…"
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