![]() ![]() Take time today to share the Good News with someone who God doesn’t want to see perish but desires to be saved. How should God’s heart for people to be saved motivate us to share the Gospel with them?.What do you learn about God’s heart through the reminder that He doesn’t want anyone to perish? God is not willing that any should perish 1 Peter 3:9 Apr The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance (2 Pet. ![]() In His sorrow, Jesus expressed the reality that God does not wish for any to perish but for all to be saved. Jesus was coming down off the Mount of Olives on the way to Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, and the crowd was saying, “Hail Him, hail Him, hosanna!” But He knew in just a few days He would face bloody Calvary and the same group that was saying, “Hail Him,” would be saying, “Nail Him.” At this moment, Jesus said with sorrow, “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!” ( Matthew 23:37). First Timothy 2:3-4 says, “For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth,” and 2 Peter 3:9 says, “The Lord is not slack concerning His promise, as some count slackness, but is longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance.” ![]() But God doesn't predestine anybody to Hell, and He doesn’t want anybody to go to Hell. Some believe certain people are predestined to Hell and others are predestined to Heaven. 100 Bible Verses about That None Should Perish But All Have Eternal Life 2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 108 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance. The Lord is not slack, does not delay, or is not slow concerning his promise To fulfil it, as if the time fixed for the fulfilment of it were past for it shall surely be fulfilled in its season but is long-suffering, to us-ward Children of men not willing that any should perish Any human being, any soul that he hath made. ![]()
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