In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000

downloads. What made the difference? You leaving us a five-star review. The more positive reviews,

the more the algorithm picks us up. And more people are confronted by the law and gospel of Jesus

Christ. Help us press forward the crown rights of King Jesus by leaving us a five-star

review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. If Jesus died for everyone, each and every individual,

world meaning universal, and he died for everyone and everyone's sin. Each person and every sin of each person,

then why do people go to hell? The immediate counter, of course, is, well, Jesus may have died

for each person and for each of their sins, providing payment for their sin,

but that's a gift, the gift of Christ's blood, the gift of his atonement, the gift of his forgiveness

and his payment, it's a gift that's given, and people still have to choose to receive that gift.

And if people choose not to receive that gift,

but rather to scorn it and to toss it aside,

well then even though Jesus paid for all their sins,

all of their sins,

they didn't receive that payment and therefore they go to hell.

That's the common counter.

Here's my counter to the counter.

You're saying that Jesus paid for each person's sin, all the sins of all people.

But they have to receive that payment.

And some people reject his payment.

Is that a sin?

Is a person's rejection of Christ's sacrifice and atonement a sin?

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