Just as there are unbelievers that are reprobates, so there are also religious reprobates that are unbelievers that do not believe the "Historical Gospel" of Jesus Christ. They are just as lost as the unbelieving reprobates. No one will be saved without faith in Christ and his Gospel. To reject the Gospel is to reject Jesus Christ. Paul wrote,
"They are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith" 2 Timothy 3:7, 8.
"Reprobate concerning the faith" They have abandoned the Gospel and justification by faith and have embraced a doctrine that is in conflict with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A reprobate cannot be saved. They have rejected the Gospel so many times that the Holy Spirit has given up on them. No one can come to Christ without the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. They have become reprobates.
This is indeed very sad, but there is nothing that anyone can do about it. When the Holy Spirit is no longer able to convict someone of their need for Christ and his Gospel they have become reprobates and are eternally lost. This is why no matter how much scripture you show them they are not able to understand and comprehend the Gospel. They are spiritually dead and the Gospel is hid from them.
"But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them" 2 Corinthians 4:3,4.
Religious reprobates believe that they have the truth, but when confronted with the truth of the scriptures and the Gospel their false doctrine fails. This does not bother them because they don't have the Holy Spirit that is the teacher of truth, John 16:13, to teach them. I have witnessed to several people that are religious reprobates. When you explain the Gospel to them by the scriptures, their eyes just seem to glass over and they seem to go into a stupor, like they never heard what I said to them. They are spiritually dead.
Belief or unbelief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ determines who is a Christian and who is not. Paul wrote,
"For unto us was the Gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it" Hebrews 4:2.
They heard the Gospel but it did nothing for them. Were they reprobates? We don't know. It is not our business to try and figure out who is a reprobate and who isn't. Our business is to teach and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The results of our effort are not always known to us. Some Christians are waterers of the word and some are sowers. Whether you are watering or sowing, it is good to remember that Jesus will do the reaping and not us.
"They are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith" 2 Timothy 3:7, 8.
"Reprobate concerning the faith" They have abandoned the Gospel and justification by faith and have embraced a doctrine that is in conflict with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. A reprobate cannot be saved. They have rejected the Gospel so many times that the Holy Spirit has given up on them. No one can come to Christ without the convicting power of the Holy Spirit. They have become reprobates.
This is indeed very sad, but there is nothing that anyone can do about it. When the Holy Spirit is no longer able to convict someone of their need for Christ and his Gospel they have become reprobates and are eternally lost. This is why no matter how much scripture you show them they are not able to understand and comprehend the Gospel. They are spiritually dead and the Gospel is hid from them.
"But if our Gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost: in whom the God of this world has blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ, who is the image of God should shine unto them" 2 Corinthians 4:3,4.
Religious reprobates believe that they have the truth, but when confronted with the truth of the scriptures and the Gospel their false doctrine fails. This does not bother them because they don't have the Holy Spirit that is the teacher of truth, John 16:13, to teach them. I have witnessed to several people that are religious reprobates. When you explain the Gospel to them by the scriptures, their eyes just seem to glass over and they seem to go into a stupor, like they never heard what I said to them. They are spiritually dead.
Belief or unbelief in the Gospel of Jesus Christ determines who is a Christian and who is not. Paul wrote,
"For unto us was the Gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it" Hebrews 4:2.
They heard the Gospel but it did nothing for them. Were they reprobates? We don't know. It is not our business to try and figure out who is a reprobate and who isn't. Our business is to teach and preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The results of our effort are not always known to us. Some Christians are waterers of the word and some are sowers. Whether you are watering or sowing, it is good to remember that Jesus will do the reaping and not us.
