A Reply to a Charge of Hyper-Calvinism

It has come to my attention that there is a belief among some people that I disagree with indiscriminate evangelism, therefore they have accused me to be a hyper-Calvinist. But this is far from the truth. A certain sister messaged me all of sudden with that accusation. Below is our exchange on 31 March 2025:

A sister:

But if Grace is only for the elect, and U don't believe in evangelism,

then how do you explain Matthew 28:18-20 where Christians are instructed to go into all the world and preach gospel

Me:

Who said i don’t believe in evangelism? I still preach the Gospel indiscriminately. If you don’t know what i believe in, u don’t act smart trying to refute me.

A sister:

You yourself told me that U believe grace is only for the elect alone ...and not upon all...my dad says hypercalvinist view is like this .they don't bother preaching the gospel because they already know that God predetermined who is to be saved

Me:

Your dad is right about hyper-Calvinism, except that I am not a Hyper-Calvinist. And I don’t know who the elect and reprobates are.

You act smart by trying to refute me without asking further the implications of my belief. Don’t act smart next time.

Grace only for the elect does not mean preaching is only for the elect.

Preaching in the ears of the elect is grace unto salvation. Irresistible grace.

Preaching in the ears of the reprobate whom God has predestined to everlasting death (double predestination), is a means to harden their hearts (e.g. pharaoh) and a slippery slope unto destruction (Psalm 73:18). Psalm 92:7 says “When the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever:” In other words, when the wicked reprobate grow up in health and wealth like pharaoh, and if the Gospel reaches to them, it is for the purpose that they will be destroyed forever.

“The curse of the LORD is in the house of the wicked: But he blesseth the habitation of the just.”

‭‭Proverbs‬ ‭3‬:‭33‬ ‭KJV‬‬

The curse of the Lord is always in the house of the wicked reprobate. Be it in their poverty, their wealth, their health, and in them hearing the Gospel, is always a curse to them, never grace unto them. God sovereignly chooses not to open up their hearts that they may believe the Gospel.

Jacob have I love, but Esau I have hated. Romans 9:13

Indiscriminate preaching then has two purposes: to bring the elect in the world to believe the Gospel to fulfill God’s decree of eternal election, and to harden the hearts of the wicked reprobate to fulfill the decree of God’s sovereign reprobation. Since we don’t know the identity of any of them as we cannot read hearts, we just preach indiscriminately and promiscuously. There is no way of knowing who the elect and reprobates are as humans. Only God knows their identity and we leave it to God to do the work of softening and hardening of hearts even as Christians share the Gospel indiscriminately.

Hear Jesus’ doctrine of Eternal Reprobation:

13Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:15For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them. 16But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear. Matthew 13:13-16

Jesus preached in parables to fulfil Isaiah’s prophecies that the Jews will not understand Christ and would reject Him.

But to the Apostles, said Jesus: blessed (that is blessing of grace) are your eyes and ears! Not because of anything good in them, but because God opened up their hearts to believe, unlike the reprobates who will never believe no matter how many times we preach the Gospel to them.

Hear your favourite verse:

28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28

All things work together for good to them that love God.

How can we be able to love God? Only because God alone that enables us to love Him, and therefore all things shall work together for good (for true Christians).

How about those who don’t love God? Those who are wicked reprobates, predestined unto everlasting death? According to Romans 8:28, we must logically think that all things DO NOT work together for good to them that DO NOT love God, to them who are NOT the called according to His purpose.

Good things only happen to the elect. Be it poverty, sicknesses and suffering. All things are good and grace only for the elect (even the most extreme suffering).

Bad things and curses are only for the wicked reprobates, those who are predestined to eternal death. No grace for them whatsoever (even in their health and wealth).

Proof that my view is reformed and historical from a confession called the Geneva Theses, written by Calvin's successors in Geneva. The Genevan theologians of the 17th century wrote the following in Geneva Theses (1649) to refute the Amyraldians:

"REJECTION of the error of those: 1. Who teach that in God there is granted, under the condition of faith and repentance, some good will of saving those who perish. 2. Who, using economy (ὂικονομίας) for an excuse, ascribe to God the inclination or volition or disposition or affection or less ardent love or power or intention or desire or will or counsel or decree or covenant or necessary or universal conditional loving kindness, by which He wills each and every man to be saved if they believe in Christ. 3. Who assign to God a design previous to election in which He determined to be merciful to the whole human race without limit. 4. Who attribute to God a twofold loving-kindness, one clear or first and universal by which He willed each and every person to be saved: the other more clear, second, and particular towards the elect."

(Dennison Jr., James T.. Reformed Confessions of the 16th and 17th Centuries in English Translation: (1523-1693). Reformation Heritage Books. Kindle Edition)

Listen to 2 Cor. 2:14-16 -

14Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place. 15For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish: 16To the one we are the savour of death unto death; and to the other the savour of life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

The true Christians, are a sweet savour of Christ unto God (v14-15a). But for the reprobates, those who are perishing, the Christians’ preaching of the Gospel is a savour of death unto death unto them (v15b-16a). The preaching of the Gospel is only the savour of life unto life for the elect (v16b). Explicit! Preaching is Grace only for the elect. For the reprobates, a slippery slope unto destruction, only CURSE.

And that sister has not responded to my theological reply yet as of 28 August 2025