and it's interesting because it says that they will call upon me but I will
not answer okay Lord save us but he won't answer now here's the thing here's
what we have to understand is that there are many that will say unto him Lord
Lord the Bible says but they're not saved because he says not everyone that
sayeth unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that
do it the will of my father which is in heaven many will say to me in that day
Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name of cast out devils
and in thy name done many wonderful works so what are these people trusting
their works is oh we've done all these works we preached in your name we cast
and then will I profess unto them I used to know you know he then will I
profess unto them I never knew you depart from me that work iniquity the
good works that they thought they were doing in God's side are works of
iniquity because they came from a sinful heart a wicked heart works of iniquity
they're not saved so the Bible is teaching that saying Lord Lord is not
enough to get you saved okay in order to be saved you have to believe salvation
is by faith now truly the Bible does say and this is where people get
confused because the Bible says that whosoever shall call upon the name of
the Lord shall be saved right but then they're looking at a scripture like
Proverbs and they would say this is a contradiction you know because here he
says they'll call upon me and I won't answer but then over here he says
whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved but what happens
is they're taking scripture out of context because what's the very next
statement after it says whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be
saved how then shall they call upon him in whom they've not believed so calling
upon God without faith in Jesus can't save you so you could pray a prayer
saying save me Jesus take me to heaven but if you don't believe in Jesus you're
not saved because the Bible says that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus and believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead
thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and
with the mouth confession is made unto salvation you can't just confess and be
saved if the faith isn't there if the belief isn't there you got to have the
faith right does everybody understand that now in this passage we see people
calling upon the Lord and he's not answering he's laughing at him he's
mocking them they're done too late for you guys you had your chance too late
for you now go to John 12 John chapter 12 and I don't have time to go into all
the ramifications of this but you know Romans 1 is a great chapter on this
where people are are given over to a reprobate mind now what did Zechariah
7 say Zechariah 7 said I sent you the prophets you wouldn't hear them well now
you're calling to me and I'm not hearing you you don't listen to me I'm not gonna
listen to you isn't that what he said in Zechariah 7 then in Proverbs 1 he said
something similar I stretched out my hand I made no my words unto you you
didn't want to hear what I had to say and so now that you're talking to me I
don't want to hear what you have to say I'll laugh at you I'm not I'm not gonna
answer you when you call me it'd be like this think about this since we're in the
the cell phone generation it'd be like if Jesus kept calling you on your phone
and Jesus is calling Jesus is calling Jesus calling and you're just like
ignore ignore ignore ignore ignore Jesus is calling you're ignoring it you're
ignoring it you're 37 missed calls from Jesus okay one really long voicemail
okay then all of a sudden things go bad and you're like who do I call Oh Jesus
call him up and he's like ignore it's true that's I mean does that help does
that help this generation I was in all the teenagers are like I get it now whoa
you know everybody's so confused on this reprobate doctrine but you have to you
know you have to explain it you know in a way that we can get it today you know
but in John chapter 12 we're talking about the same type of people what did
they do in Zechariah 7 they'd harden their heart like an adamant stone okay
they would not hear God's Word they would not listen and he said well I'm
not gonna hear you either so they'd gone over that line what does the Bible say
in verse 37 of John chapter 12 but though he had done so many miracles
before them yet they believed not on him that the saying of his eyes the Prophet
might be fulfilled which he spake Lord who has believed our report and to whom
at the arm of the Lord been revealed therefore watch this they could not
believe because the desire said again he has blinded their eyes and hardened
their heart that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with
their heart and be converted and I should heal them now notice these people
and in this context we are talking about the Pharisees we are talking about the
Pharisees it says that they could not believe why could they not believe
because God had hardened their heart and blinded their eyes why would God do that
why would God you say wait a minute God's a God of love God so loved the
world that he gave his only begotten son God's not willing that any should
perish but that all should come to repentance God wants people to be saved
he will have all men to be saved to come to the knowledge of the truth why is God
hardening people's hearts and blinding their eyes there's one reason why it's
the same reason in Zechariah 7 same reason in Proverbs 1 same reason in
Romans 1 because of the fact that they rejected him first and not once but many
times and repeatedly and not even just a casual not even just not even just
hitting ignore but saying man I wish that he would stop calling me that's
what they did not even just ignoring the call but saying I want him to stop in
fact the Bible says in Romans 1 they didn't even want to retain God in their
knowledge man I wish I could just forget about him I wish he would just lose my
number right and when a person does that God will eventually take them up on that
and the Bible look it's taught in the scripture Romans 1 Proverbs 1 many other
places we run into this doctrine with Pharaoh you know all kinds of scriptures
where people get to a point where God hardens their heart and God blinds their
eyes and it says they could not believe because a lot of people will always
whenever you talk to them about this doctrine of being a reprobate that
Romans 1 covers so thoroughly here's what they'll say well you're saying that
if a person believes in Jesus they still won't be saved because they're a
reprobate no I've never said that let me just make it clear anybody who believes
on Jesus is saved anyone as long as they truly from their heart believe on the
Lord Jesus Christ otherwise John 3 16 is a lie it says that whosoever believeth in
him should not perish but have everlasting life so anyone who believes
will be saved because people come at you with like well what if one of these
reprobates believes on Jesus so they then they can't get so what can't they
get saved but all I say you must not even understand what it means to be a
reprobate because what does it mean to be a reprobate you cannot believe
because your heart is hardened and your eyes are blinded what does it say read
it and don't you say well I just don't agree with what pastor Anderson saying
right now look what the look what Jesus is saying look what the Bible said look
down at your Bible verse number 40 or verse number 39 therefore they could not
believe because the desire said again he hath blinded their eyes and hardened
their heart why that they should not see with their eyes nor understand with
their heart and be converted and I should heal them God's saying I'm to the
point with these people where I no longer want them to be converted or
healed I'm to the point with them now where I'm just blinding them because I'm
through with them they've been given it says even as they did not like to retain
God in their knowledge God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those
things which are not convenient what does it mean to have a reprobate mind
listen to me now a reprobate mind is a mind that is incapable of believing on
Jesus so I enjoy and the reason I take the time to explain this to I've had
some people come to me and say like you know I'm afraid that I might have
blasphemed the Holy Ghost because one of the things where God says that he'll
pretty much just set you to you know go straight to voicemail when you call him
where he'll put you straight to voicemail he's not going to answer when
you call one of the things is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit right now
people will say well that's the only thing that's the only sin that can't be
forgiven yeah that's the only sin that can't be forgiven but that's not the
only thing that will send you down the road to being a reprobate because adding
to or taking from God's Word the Bible says you're for sure damned the Bible
also says that if you take the mark of the beast you're done you know so there
are other things that you could do where God will or just if you just keep
refusing God he will give you over to a reprobate mind it's not that you've
committed an unforgivable sin it's that because again they're mixing two things
here he says he'll forgive all sins he won't forgive the sin of the blasphemy
the Holy Spirit but he's only going to forgive the sins of those who are what
how do you get your sins forgiven you got to be saved right okay well if he
turns you over to a reprobate mind are you getting saved so that's why your
sins are forgiven it's not that you've committed an unforgivable sin I think
you know I keep explaining this doctrine over and over again and I keep explaining
it and I understand it real well and and some people understand it real well and
then other people just never get it but you know I wonder if they just don't
want to get it because I don't see why this is that complicated I think some
people just they're really resistant to this doctrine because it's different
than what they've been taught when there's a lot of scripture about it
where did I have you turn anywhere still on John so I had something really
important to say and I forgot where was I going somebody help me out
somebody help me get the train back on the rail here oh yeah yeah thank you
perfect yeah people come to me and they're like I'm afraid this is
important I really wanted to talk about this thanks for telling me that I'm
afraid I blasphemed the Holy Ghost Pastor Anderson I'm afraid that I'm a
reprobate or they'll name some other thing that they did and say hey I'm
afraid I'm a reprobate Pastor Anderson and and here's what I always ask that
person I always ask that person do you hate God no do you not want to retain
God in your knowledge no do you believe in Jesus yes then you're not a reprobate
period I mean you don't have to worry like oh I'm afraid I'm a reprobate look
reprobates hate God they're reprobate heart is like an adamant stone okay a
reprobate eyes are totally blinded to where they can't see the truth they
can't understand the truth now do these reprobates sometimes pose as Christians
and infiltrate like a Judas Iscariot type of course but but they're not if
you have to wonder like am I a reprobate I want to be saved I love you know I
believe in Jesus I love the Lord I love the Bible then you're not a reprobate
because the Bible says it reparations that they're haters of God hard-hearted
what does it mean to be hard-hearted you know what's it you know what a tender
heart is it's sensitive sensitive to the Word of God being preached sensitive
to the Holy Spirit a hard heart just everything bounces right off
everybody understand so therefore even just the fact that you're so worried
about it shows that you even care you know and and the fact that you believe
and understand the gospel look if you believe and understand the gospel then
you're apparently not blinded because you see it you get it you understand it
now compare that with the reprobate in Proverbs 1 where they call on the Lord
and he won't save him it does it say they'll believe on Jesus and they won't
be saved did it say they believed in the Lord and he wouldn't save them no no it
just says they called upon him anyway this is just somebody who's like you
know let's say you know they're they're they're just dying on their deathbed or
or you know whatever they're in it they're in a car crash and the car is
sailing over the cliff and they're like oh god you know that's not really
believing he's just gonna laugh and be like see ya sucka right he's gonna mock
when their fear comes he's gonna laugh or somebody who's you know well or some
some reprobate sodomite who goes out and he fills his body with AIDS and staph
infections and gonorrhea and syphilis and every other filthy thing that these
homos are filled with he goes out and fills body with all this disease and
then he's just withering and dying away in some hospital bed and he's like oh
god please help me God that's a little that's not him going that's not him
believing on Christ because guess what that guy his heart is hardened he's not
gonna believe on Christ but he might just call out to God he might just call
out to the Lord is that salvation though no because it's not accompanied by the
faith in his heart his heart is hardened to where he could not believe so anyway
just wanted to go over that with you because it's it's such an important
doctrine mainly because of the fact that number one it's not being talked about
today it's become uncool it's become unpopular unkosher you know in churches
in the Judeo-Christian world and number two is because of the fact that our
country is actually filled with reprobates you know more and more and
so this is becoming more relevant to us than it was to previous generations
where you didn't have as much of a god-hating spirit in this country that
you do now there's a lot more just god haters now than there were in time past
this country why it's it's it's it's people that are reprobate that have that
god-hating mentality
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