Salvation: An interesting example!

Did you ever consider what God will do to bring the Gospel to "all the earth"?
Are all your thoughts about Salvation Scriptural or Church doctrine? There is a difference. My personal "application" of the Salvation Message is very broad "that none should perish but all should have eternal life." Many churches have doctrines that allow for the verbal threat that if you don't receive the Gospel message when they or a member presents it then the time may pass for you to be saved and hell is your only inheritance. Then there is my favorite "Lie" which is that you could be one of the "poor souls" that was born to go to hell. Certainly in both cases above there will be people who will refuse the Gospel and force their entrance into hell "aside from the will of God" which is that "none may perish". Even though Jesus Christ's death and resurrection will only harvest "those who believe" we also must realize that He died for all. The purpose of Gods Unconditional Love through Christ was that the whole world might be saved with the omniscience that many will reject the Gospel. If salvation wasn't open to all then why are we to "fill up the earth with the knowledge of Christ"? Why would God have us preaching to all when only a "predestined few" will believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The reason we preach (as did the apostles and others in Acts) to all is because only God knows who will open the door when He knocks. Every man is given the same chance at salvation so that the Blood of Jesus has redemptive power over all mankind.
Most teaching about the Holy Spirit is that He is working in everyone's lives to direct us to Christ. There is only one purpose for every experience, intervention, and complications of life and that is for us to be drawn to Christ for salvation, simply, deliverance from ourselves and our own wicked ways. Because the Scriptures say that "God fills all of creation" and "we live and move and have our being in Him" and the Holy Spirit is the Mind of Christ on earth it begs to ask: How can He be taken from us? There is only one time mentioned in Scripture that the Holy Spirit is removed from the earth and that is in the 2 Thes 2:7. Surely until He is taken out the Holy Spirit will be doing His job of convicting of sin and  "baptizing with power" so the Gospel of Christ will have proof through out the earth that Jesus is Lord. If one is alive in this creation then he cannot have the presence of Holy Spirit removed from him to "convict him of sin". Period. The fact that people are "given" over to their sins has to do with decisions not the absence of the Holy Spirit. At this point in creation you cannot escape the presence of God the Father, Jesus the Son or the Holy Spirit. Salvation is rich and free to "all" who call upon the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. All who confess with their lips Jesus is Lord and believe in their hearts that God raised Him from the dead shall be saved. At Calvary the Blood of Jesus covered all mankind that none may perish so all might have eternal life. No one was missed in that sacrifice, no not one. I can't believe that anyone would believe that the God of Love,(who is Love), would build this creation to prove His Love and preordain (in that Love) that some should be predestined for hell. This is where Predestination and Omniscience are confused. Hell is for satan and his angels it was not designed for man. Love by the power of the Blood of Christ was our free pass from hell and payment for all our sins. That none might perish! The God of Love created all of us to have "fellowship" with Him now on earth and forever in heaven. Jesus said that He will raise up all whom God has given Him knowing that some will not receive the Gospel of Jesus Christ and perish. Think of this: Were the drops of blood sweat by Christ in the garden just from the stain of His praying about His being obedient to the Fathers will or was it the passion for the one's that would be eternally lost in hell? Consider that thought. His Blood defeated satan's power of bondage over all peoples. Period. Now lets do our job with all the power of the Gospel, gifts and promises to get the message out to all the earth that "none may perish". Let Gods Omniscience work His Love in the lives of those who will not believe, but let us "with power" be the obstacles on their road to hell.

A couple of examples of Gods Salvation that seemed impossible:

I was working on a blast furnace in the late 80's gunning the pant legs on top the furnace ( no need to understand what that means) but it was a very dangerous job. A carpenter was assigned to to me to do the scaffolding. He knew me for many years and himself was not saved but rather a wild man with every kind of moral and spiritual depravity working in his life. I used to call him the wild man of Borneo.
Some background on him:
Owned several brothels/crack houses
Addicted to drugs and alcohol
Violently explosive as nitroglycerin
Carried an Uzi in his vehicle to settle disputes
Verbally abusive as sandpapper
Had a dad and several brothers to back him up with the same outlook on life.
As I have said I worked with this man many times over the years in the same application. On this job when he was assigned to me he said "why do I always get stuck with you? You and your hymns." I told him it was because we were the best at this and they had no other choice than to put the two best together to get the job done. I laughed. He sighed.
In the course of the job he asked me why I was the way I was. So I told him about how God used the sin in my life to bring me to Jesus and how I was set free from sin to serve Him. For the first time he "checked" around and many there knew about my life before salvation. This change made him more curious so he came back to me for more on the topic. Now I have presented the Gospel to this man more times than I can count and backed it up by living it before him just as much. By presenting the Gospel I don't mean the "beat him up with the Romans road" but the kind, consistent, words and life that proves that Jesus is the most important person in my life. I also attracted him with the fact that I truly loved my wife and showed respect for her in all conversation. Things that he never knew but deep down inside wish he had.
During one of these "times of conversation" God had me once again (with power) present the Gospel to him with a promise and a prophesy. It went like this: You lead a very violent life and death is sure to come to you in the near future, so there is something that the Holy Spirit is having me tell you now for that time. He says that the time is coming when you will be exhaling your last breath, (and you will know that it is your last), and He wants you to just remember these words and say them with your last breath: "Jesus save me." At that time he will remind you of the Gospel and He will intervene by delivering and saving you because you are valuable to Him and He loves you more than you have ever experienced in your life. Unconditional Love that you will feel at the time it happens and from then on. This man said was all of a sudden very remorseful and said that he wasn't worth saving because of the way he lived his life. I reassured him that (and here is the prophesy) "you are so important to the purpose of Christ that even if He (Jesus) had to appear before him He would do that because He loves you so much." Then I said "remember Jesus save me."
Several years passed and I was back in that plant to work on a discharge runner for the blast furnace. Presently the furnace was being tapped for the steel and the runner was full of melted steel and racing like a river. As I stood back and watched it flow I noticed something moving very fast to my right and in my peripheral vision. I turned to face it because it was quite dark and the object was moving toward me. All of a sudden I saw that it was a man and I didn't know his intent so I braced myself so as not to be thrown into the runner full of hot steel. (Due to drug use in the plant this was not a stretch of the imagination of what could happen there.) As he got within feet of me I recognize the man I have just talked about and he grabbed me up like a rag doll, (he was a very powerful man with fists like sledgehammers), and said "Jerry you won't believe what happened to me." I said if you put me down (thinking he might be on drugs and I was within 5 feet of flowing melted steel), you can tell me. Then began the story of how he was with his girlfriend at one of his crack houses, drinking, and doing crack when they went to bed. In the middle of the night his girlfriend got up and was hallucinating that the room was crawling with giant bugs. She then set off 2 whole house bug bombs and went back to sleep. The room filled with the poisonous vapor quickly and death was imminent for both of them. He woke up having breathed the fumes for some time knowing that he was going to die and was reminded what I had said by the Holy Spirit. He cried out with his last breath "Jesus save me." Just then Jesus appeared to him at the end of his bed parting the fog and said "you have served yourself all these years now you will serve me. I have cleansed you and made you whole, take your girlfriend to the hospital." She was in a comma for 3 days then recovered. His transformation by salvation was so great that his father and brothers were saved within 2 weeks. He forsook his past and embraced Christ.
Some would say this can't happen but it did. God so loved the world...........Nothing is impossible with God.

The second recall of salvation for this posting is my Mother's.
My Mom was miss diagnosed with diverticulitis when all along she had liver cancer. By the time she got a second opinion the cancer had taken over 75% of her liver and was spreading to other organs. For 3.5 years  she suffered with treatments that had little effect and in the end all her children took turns helping my Dad take care of her. During the last several weeks of her demise I had the opportunity to spend many hours with her and on one particular time the door was opened by God to answer her questions about faith and heaven. I prepared each visit with prayer and asking the same of the congregation I had in our house. Having been given this opportunity her questions started with cancer and bitterness and was led to assurance of salvation (which she had no real confidence in). Not to argue Catholicism but most don't clearly perceive the finished work of the Blood of Jesus. All the presentation is there but there is no guarantee that you will make it. I understand the doctrine because I was raised Catholic. Not to beleaguer the point but she was drawn in to the positive assurance that I had in Christ for salvation. She said " I wish I had your faith in where I am going". I said she could have, then presenting the Gospel again she opened her heart to the message of Christ His death and Resurrection and prayed with me. After we sat and wept with rejoicing Mom having been given witness of her salvation and heaven. Time went by and at the end I gave her the last drink of water she had and she passed a few days later.
Now the next part caused me to have anger without sin:
I thanked the church for their prayers on the following Sunday and reported that my Mom had received Christ as her Savior. After the service a brother approached me with these words: "how do you know that your mother was saved? Maybe she was one of those that were born to go to hell. How can you be sure?" I looked at him calmly and said: "If this could be true for my Mother having confessed Christ, then how can you divorce yourself and your family from the same possibility?" He was adamant that this wasn't the case for himself or his family. How selfish and erroneous was his application of the Gospel. Since Christ's death and Resurrection man has twisted the Gospel to hold power and do wickedness to their fellow man with the application that what they were doing was "of God" and did not apply to themselves.

In closing:

Let God be true and every man a liar. If God sent His only Son that all can be saved then how much more will that same Loving Father "manifest" Himself to the objects of His love for that salvation to take place. My personal practice of faith in salvation is to present the Gospel by life and word then leave the rest to God to validate, however He wants to.

Love in Christ
J&E in Tn