Why Does the Bible Emphasize the Importance of Spreading the Gospel If Some Are Predestined to Believe and Others Aren't?
1) Direct Answer
Because preaching is God’s ordained way to call His chosen, to witness to all, and to separate faith from unbelief. Predestination doesn’t cancel preaching—it guarantees a harvest through it.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- Commanded: “Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature” (Mark 16:15). “Teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19–20).
- God’s method: “How shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? … faith cometh by hearing” (Romans 10:14–17). “It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe” (1 Corinthians 1:21).
- Election responds: “As many as were ordained to eternal life believed” (Acts 13:48). “All that the Father giveth me shall come to me” (John 6:37). “My sheep hear my voice” (John 10:27).
- Assurance to preach: The Lord told Paul, “I have much people in this city” (Acts 18:10), and he kept preaching.
- Witness and separation: “This gospel … shall be preached in all the world for a witness” (Matthew 24:14). The Word is “a savour of life unto life, and … of death unto death” (2 Corinthians 2:16). “If our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost” (2 Corinthians 4:3).
- Sowing to all: The sower scatters the seed everywhere; the good ground receives it (Matthew 13).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Election determines who will truly respond; preaching is the voice that reaches them. Without the call, the sheep don’t hear; with the call, they come.
- God foreknows the harvest, but He uses our preaching as His tool to bring it in.
- Preaching also leaves a clear witness. The same sun that melts wax hardens clay; the same gospel that saves the believer exposes the unbeliever.
- We preach because He commanded it, we love souls, and we trust God to quicken His own.
4) Reinforcing Statement
So we preach to every creature, calling to repentance and faith. The elect will hear, and all will be left without excuse. Predestination makes the mission certain—not unnecessary.
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Hearing, recognizing, acting on the Word of God
60-0221 §59
...se, like Christians, so close that it would deceive the very elect; but by their fruits you shall know them. A woman with shorts on never looked like a Christian to me. The Bible said it's a sinful and a shameful thing for a woman to cut her hair. Only one woman in the Bible ever painted her face---was Jezebel. How about men, you men that's supposed to be Christian men, and let your wives do that? when God will hold you responsible for it! Not men; carnal! "Oh, I'll go out then and join this church [break in tape]...
Seals 6: The Fourth Seal
63-0321 §34
If that brought such positive to them men that they nearly every one of them sealed their testimony with their blood... No matter what come along, as long as they lived they never got over it. It stayed there, because it was the true word of promise vindicated. The revelation become vindicated, and they died sealing their testimony with their own blood. Now, look at the promise of the last days. And here we see it vindicated right before us. The present coming of the Holy Spirit and the works that He was supposed t...
Perseverant
62-0729 §49
Some of them doesn't have even common audacity. That's right. People, they ... some of them will just ... they just don't believe that. There's no way for you to tell them, because they were predestinated to that condemnation. The Bible said so in Jude. Said, "Men of old, predestinated to this condemnation, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness." Exactly. Wouldn't it be a horrible thing to know that you were reading and hearing the Bible preached to you, and then didn't believe it? What a horrible thing to.....
A Super Sign
62-0708 §54
And today, if that light of God, that Holy Spirit, ever strikes a predestinated seed, whose name was put on the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world! The Bible says that. That's right. The light will shine! You can preach to some, and it seems like it's just like water on a duck's back, falls off. But let it once strike that seed, and watch what happens quickly, something is there right now! Why? It's predestinated seed coming forth. It's got to come. And when that light, the gospel, strikes it, t...
A Missionary Talk
58-0330A §11
Now what is the Gospel? The word, Gospel means "good news." The good news is the Bible, but the Bible is the letter. "The letter killeth, and the Spirit giveth life." So Paul said, "The Gospel came not through word only, but through the power and the manifestation of the Holy Spirit." Now notice, the only way that the Gospel could be preached then, would be to manifest the power of the Holy Spirit. Then what's the next quotation? "And (a conjunction) these signs shall follow them that believe." Not these signs may...