Why Preach Christ: Question: Why preach at all if God is going to save whom he is going to save anyway and ultimately? Why do anything at all if all of God’s will is being accomplished regardless?
Answer: I’m only going to briefly touch briefly on the second question, which really overlaps with the first. “Why do anything at all if God’s will is going to be accomplished anyway?” If followed consistently, that kind of reasoning would dissolve all of life. Why eat? Why work? Why pray? Why love your children? Why warn someone standing in danger? Why plant crops? Scripture never treats God’s sovereignty as rendering human activity meaningless. Rather, His sovereignty is the very reason our labor is not meaningless. “Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.” I Corinthians 15:58. Paul grounds meaningful labor in the certainty of God’s accomplished purpose and resurrection power. And because God reigns, what He appoints actually matters. Believers act, speak, labor, pray, and witness Christ, not because they imagine themselves capable of frustrating or completing God’s purpose, but because God Himself works in and through the lives of His people according to His own good pleasure. “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.” Philippians 2:13. At the end of the day, believers speak of Christ because Christ is worthy to be spoken of. Because the gospel is true. And because those who are taught of God cannot help but speak of the One who loved them and gave Himself for them. MPJ