God Is No Respecter of Persons

"For there is no respect of persons with God" (Rom. 2:11). "Then Peter opened his mouth and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter or persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him" (Acts 10:34,35). Consider some matters in which God is no respecter of persons.

ALL MEN ARE UNDER THE SAME LAW. "But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed" (James 1:25). The perfect law of liberty is the Gospel of Christ which is to be preached to all the world (Mk. 16:15) and to which all the world is amenable. That means those who are out of Christ became sinners by violating that law (I John 3:4). Does that mean that aliens sinners are amenable God's marriage law? Yes! Then it is possible for an alien sinner to be guilty of adultery (I Cor. 6:9-11) as well as many other sins (Gal. 5:19ff).

ALL MEN SIN, ALL MEN NEED FORGIVENESS. Jesus, the Divine Son of God, is the only responsible being who ever lived on earth without sin (I Pet. 2:22). No mere man has ever lived without sinning, "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:23). "...if one died for all, then were all dead..." (II Cor. 5:14). "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins..." (Eph. 2:1). All men need God's forgiveness.

SALVATION PROVIDED FOR ALL MEN. "But we see Jesus, who was made a little lower than the angels for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honour; that he by the grace of God should taste death for every man" (Heb. 2:9). "Who gave himself a ransom for all..." (I Tim. 2:6). "For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost" (Lk. 19:10).

FORGIVENESS IS OFFERED TO ALL MEN ON THE SAME CONDITIONS. Jesus said, "...I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the father, but by me" (John 14:6). He also said, "...if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins" (John 8:24). "And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent..." (Act 17:30). It is repent or perish (Lk. 13:3) for repentance is "...unto life" (Acts 11:18). "For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation" (Rom. 10:10). "And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God" (Acts 8:37). "And now why tarriest thou? arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord" (Acts 22:16). "...Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins..." (Acts 2:38). "...the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water. The like figure whereunto even baptism doth also now save us..." (I Pet. 3:20,21). It is at the point of baptism, not faith, that God remembers "...their iniquities...no more" (Heb. 8:12) for baptism puts one into Christ (Gal. 3:27; Rom. 6:3) where salvation is (II Tim. 2:10).

A COMMON CHURCH IS PROVIDED FOR ALL. Jesus said, "...upon this rock I will build my church..." (Mt. 16:18). He did not say churches, He said, "...church...." "But now are they many members, yet but one body" ( I Cor. 12:20) and the body is the church (Eph. 1:22,23). If there is one body, there is one church. The idea that one church is as good as another and one can choose the church of "his choice" is not in the Bible.

ALL WILL BE JUDGED BY DIVINE STANDARD. "And it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment.." (Heb. 9:27). "...we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ" (Rom. 14:10). "He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day" (John 12:48). "...the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works" (Rev. 20:12).