Let me voice it all first.
What can wash away my sins?
What can lift the blood of Jesus?
What can make me hope again?
What can lift the blood of Jesus?
All the precious is the throne
That makes me quite as old.
No longer counts I know
That we love the blood of Jesus
For I'm born in this I see
That we love the blood of Jesus
For my lens in this I feel
That we love the blood of Jesus
All the precious is the throne
That makes me quite as old.
No longer counts I know
That we love the blood of Jesus
Not being there for sin at all
That we love the blood of Jesus
Not of good that I have done
That we love the blood of Jesus
All the precious is the throne
That makes me quite as old.
No longer counts I know
That we love the blood of Jesus
For I'm born in this I see
That we love the blood of Jesus
Not being there for sin at all
That we love the blood of Jesus
All the precious is the throne
That makes me quite as old
No longer counts I know
That we love the blood of Jesus
Amen
Do you know if your song puts a song number 343?
Song number 343
Revive us again and again
That is song number 343
Sing it out
May He praise me, O God
For the Son of Thy love
For Jesus who died
And is now Lord of all
Hallelujah, thy glory
Hallelujah, amen
Hallelujah, thy glory
Revive us again
May He praise me, O God
For thy spirit of life
Who has shown us
Such Savior has gathered our time
Hallelujah, thy glory
Hallelujah, amen
Hallelujah, thy glory
Revive us again
Our glory and praise
To the Lamb that was slain
Who has borne all our sins
And has cleansed every stain
Hallelujah, thy glory
Hallelujah, amen
Hallelujah, thy glory
Revive us again
Fill each heart with thy love
May He so be rekindled
Hallelujah, thy glory
Hallelujah, amen
Hallelujah, thy glory
Revive us again
All right, well, if you'd like a bulletin,
go ahead and slip up your hand,
and one will be brought to you.
And as always, the service times are in there,
and every Sunday at 10 30 a.m.
and again at 5 30 p.m.
And on midweek at 7 on Thursdays,
we'll be in the book of Genesis, chapter 8.
Churchwide Solemnies below that,
as well as the regional Solemnies,
the Solidations of Baptisms.
Don't forget the Eastside Blitz coming up
this next Saturday.
And you've got the scheduled events
If you're going to attend,
please go ahead and sign up.
You don't have to sign up.
If you want to get in last minute,
that's fine too.
And don't forget the Children's and Teens
weekly Bible memory verse.
So it's just one verse this week,
and you can still earn three cookies.
It's kind of a standard there.
The milk is good until the 15th.
But you can go four days past the expiration date
if you don't open it.
Right?
No? Okay.
I guess that's not a rule in my house.
That's how I grew up.
I turned out fine.
On the back, I'll have fresh milk, guys.
Okay? Just calm down.
Continue to pray with the expectant ladies.
There's a men's preaching class in Tempe
and a small town soloing to Eloi
coming up soon.
Let's go ahead and count up the
Salvations going back to Friday.
Anything from Friday or Saturday or today?
I know there was nothing for the group.
All right. Anything outside the group today?
All right.
We'll go ahead and sing one more song
before we get into preaching tonight.
This song fills the song number 187.
Song number 187, Jesus Loves Me.
That's song number 187.
Sing it out.
Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells us so.
Jesus loves me.
He will die.
Heaven's gate to old great wine.
He will wash away my sin.
Let his little child occur.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells us so.
Jesus loves me.
He loves me.
Close beside me, on the way.
Thou hast played a blind for me.
I will raise her clear.
Yes, Jesus loves me.
The Bible tells us so.
Amen.
Good singing.
At this time, we'll pass the offering plate.
And as the offering plate is going around,
please open the Bibles to Revelation 22.
The Bible won't really hear what's happening.
It has agreed to us in Revelation 22.
Revelation chapter 22.
Verse 1 of the Bible reads,
And he showed me a pure root of water and life,
clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the land.
In the midst of the street, on the other side of the river,
was a tree of life, which there were twelve manger of fruits,
and yielded their fruit every month.
And the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
And there shall be no more curse,
for the throne of God and the land shall be in it,
and his servants shall serve him,
and they shall see his face,
and his name shall be in their foreheads.
And there shall be no light there,
and there need no candy,
and light of the sun,
for the Lord God be with them light,
and they shall reign forever and ever.
And he said unto me,
He said unto me,
The faith shall be true,
and the Lord God of the holy prophets
and his angels
to show unto his servants
the things which will shortly be done.
Behold, they come quickly.
Blessed is he that keepeth the saying
of the prophecy of this book.
And I John saw these things,
and heard them.
When I had heard and seen them,
I fell down to worship
before the feet of the angels,
which showed me these things.
Then saith thee unto me,
See thou do it not,
for I am thy fellow servant,
and of thy bread of the prophets,
and of them which keep the sayings of this book,
worship God.
And he saith unto me,
Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this book,
but of the time,
that is at hand.
He that is unjust,
let him be unjust still.
And he which is filthy,
let him be filthy still.
And he that is righteous,
let him be righteous still.
And he that is holy,
let him be holy still.
And behold,
I come quickly,
and my reward is with thee,
to give every man
according to his workshelf.
I am Alfred,
the man,
the beginning and the end,
the first and the last.
Blessed are they
that do his commandments,
and they may have rights
for the tree of life,
and may enter into the gates,
into the city,
but without our dogs,
and sorcerers,
and whore mongrels,
and our servants,
and idolaters,
and whosoever loveth,
and maketh a lot.
I, Jesus,
have sent my angels
to testify unto you
of these things,
and the churches,
and the fruit,
and the offspring of David,
and the bright morning star,
and the spirit of the bride
shall come,
and let him that heareth
succumb,
and let him that is the thirst
succumb,
whosoever will,
let him take the water
of life freely,
for I testify unto everyone
that heareth the words
of the prophecy of this book.
If any man
shall add on to these things,
God shall add on to him,
for I testify unto everyone
that heareth the words
of the prophecy of this book.
God shall add on to him,
the plagues that are written
in this book.
And if any man
shall take away
from the words of the book
of this prophecy,
God shall take away
every part out of the book
of life,
and out of the holy city,
and from the things
which are written
in this book,
he which testifies
these things,
say it,
surely I come quickly.
Amen.
Even so,
come Lord Jesus.
The grace of our
Lord Jesus Christ
be with you all.
Amen.
Father Adam,
would you pray for us?
Heavenly Father,
thank you for reuniting
with the Holy Spirit.
Help me preach to us
tonight, Lord.
And I pray that you
will keep us all safe.
In the mighty name
of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
So I'm going to continue on
tonight in the book of Mark
if you want to keep
something to your revelation.
Go ahead and do that.
We'll come back at the end.
But if you want to go back
to Mark chapter number three.
Mark chapter number three,
I'm going to pick it up
there in verse 22.
We're going to look at
verses 22 through 30.
The Bible says in Mark
chapter number three,
verse 22,
And the scribes which came
and said,
He hath Beelzebub,
and by the prince of the devils,
casteth he out devils.
So if you remember,
Christ is doing
all these great miracles,
and then they're coming
and making this false
accusation against him.
And this false accusation,
which they might very well
have believed,
these scribes and Pharisees,
is that he hath Beelzebub,
which is a name for Satan
or the devil, right?
And by the prince of the
devils,
casteth he out devils.
And then, of course,
Jesus says in verse 23,
And he called unto them
and said unto them in parables,
How can Satan cast out Satan?
And if a kingdom be divided
against itself,
that kingdom cannot stand.
And if a house be divided
against itself,
that house cannot stand.
And if Satan rise up
against Satan himself
and be divided,
he cannot stand,
but hath an end.
So he's saying,
How is it I can be
casting out devils,
like you say,
if I'm, you know,
if I have a devil?
I'm not opposing myself.
That's basically the parable
that he's getting at there.
But then he makes this
other parable in verse 27,
where he says,
No man can enter
into a strong man's house
and spoil his goods,
except he will first
bind the strong man,
and then he will
spoil his house.
And, of course,
this is talking about,
you know, B&E, basically,
a guy breaking into
somebody's house
and spoiling it.
That means taking the
goods that are in there.
But he's saying that
a strong man's house
can only be overcome
by somebody else
unless they first
bind the strong man,
and then he can do
whatsoever he will.
In this parable,
it seems kind of
counterintuitive
because it's not,
you know,
a man entering
into the strong man's house,
that's not a good thing,
but it's a parable
that Christ used
to illustrate what
he's doing with Satan.
Christ is entering
into Satan's house
and binding him
and spoiling Satan's house.
That's the meaning
of the parable there.
I know it seems
counterintuitive,
but, you know,
Christ isn't condoning
breaking and entering
or robbing people
or anything like that,
obviously,
but, you know,
it gets the point across.
He's saying,
look, you can only,
you know,
overcome somebody
if you're stronger
than they are, right?
So that's what
he's saying here.
Like, if I'm
overcoming Satan,
this is why
I'm able to do
what I'm doing
because obviously
what he's doing
is profound.
What he's doing
is a great miracle
to be able to have
power over the devil
and over demons,
to be able to
cast them out.
That's not something,
that's not an
everyday occurrence.
That's something
that's very rare.
That's what the
apostles are doing, okay?
So he has to explain it.
Their explanation is,
oh, he's doing it
by Satan.
He's doing it
through Beelzebub,
the prince of the devils.
He says, no,
it's because I'm
actually stronger
than he is
and I can bind him
and spoil his house.
That's how I'm
able to do this, right?
And that should have
been a big wake-up call
to them to understand
that this is God,
okay, that this is
the Christ,
this is the Messiah
that they're dealing with,
not just some
ordinary man,
not just an
And then he says this
in verse 28,
So there's a lot to
kind of unpack there.
There's a lot of good
doctrine here in these
closing verses that
we're looking at tonight
and the first thing
I want to point out
here is the blasphemy
of the Holy Spirit
is very specific, okay?
A lot of times
people wonder about
the blasphemy of
the Holy Spirit.
What is it?
What does it mean
to blaspheme the
Holy Spirit?
Well, this text
tells us exactly what it is,
okay, and by virtue
of that tells us
what it is not, okay?
It's not only do
we understand what it is,
we also understand
what it is not
and people get confused
about what it is not
often, okay?
People reach out to us.
I've talked to people
who are concerned
that they have somehow
blasphemed the Holy Spirit
and again, I say
why would anyone be
that concerned about that?
So what if you do that?
Well, again, read it.
It says there
that he that blasphemes
against the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness, okay?
If you ask people
what the unpardonable sin is,
a lot of times,
especially if you're
speaking with Catholics,
they'll just come out
and say, oh, it's suicide.
That's not the
unpardonable sin, okay?
The unpardonable sin
is blaspheming the
Holy Ghost.
So this is why
a lot of times
people get concerned, right?
They're thinking, oh,
I think I might have
done that.
I have never forgiveness.
I can't be forgiven.
I'm a reprobate.
I don't want to get
too hard ahead of myself,
but the Bible's
really specific
that the whole
blaspheming the Holy Ghost
is attributing the works
of God and of Christ
to Satan, okay?
Pay attention
when you're reading the verse.
He says there, verse 29,
he that shall blaspheme
against the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness
but is in danger
of eternal damnation
because they said,
he said that,
he said that if you
blaspheme,
you don't have forgiveness
because of what
they had said.
Now, what did they say?
By the prince of the devils
casteth he out devils.
He hath an unclean spirit.
That's what they're saying.
When they say
he hath Beelzebub,
what they're saying is
he has an unclean spirit.
The reason he's able
to do what he's doing
is because he has
a devil himself, right?
And that's why
Jesus gives, again,
that parable,
kind of clearing that up
and saying,
the reason I'm doing this
is I'm able to do this
is not because
I have a devil
but because I can
bind the strong man
and spoil his house
because I am stronger
than the devil
because I am God, okay?
So the blaspheme
of the Holy Spirit
is really specific here,
isn't it, right?
They said he hath
an unclean spirit
and his response was,
he that blasphemes
the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness.
So that's the context
of the blaspheme
of the Holy Ghost.
The blasphemy
of the Holy Ghost
is not you taking
God's name in vain.
That is not blasphemy
of the Holy Spirit, okay?
That's not like
I'm giving you a pass
like it's okay to do.
Obviously, that's
a horrible sin.
We should not
be guilty of that, okay?
But that is not
to be confused
with blasphemy
of the Holy Spirit, okay?
And I'm taking the time
to teach this
because people do
get confused about that.
Now, no one in the room
is probably confused
about that.
No one in the room
is probably confused
about it.
But I guarantee you
if you're around
the ministry long enough
and if you're working
with people, eventually,
you're going to run
into someone who's
confused on this issue, okay?
So, if you're
paying attention,
you'll know how
to answer this.
It's a common question, okay?
It's not, you know,
it's not when
you get every day,
but it does come up, okay?
There's certain things
that people struggle
with consistently, you know?
Not the same people,
but you know,
this is a consistent
struggle with people
that comes up.
People say,
I think I might have
blasphemed the Holy Ghost.
And they're genuinely
concerned, okay?
First of all,
let me just point out
that reprobates,
people who blaspheme
the Holy Spirit,
typically don't sit around
and wonder whether
or not they blaspheme
the Holy Spirit.
They could really, you know,
they couldn't care less
about, you know,
the Bible says they don't
want to retain God
and their knowledge.
You know, a lot of times
people reach out and say,
I think I'm a reprobate.
No reprobate would reach
out to a Baptist church
and look, you know,
for consolation
on this issue.
And a lot of times
I just tell people that say,
look, the fact that
you're emailing us
or calling us,
reaching out to us
out of a genuine concern
tells me that
you're not a reprobate, okay?
So people who are
genuinely concerned
that they somehow
blaspheme the Holy Spirit,
you know, that should tell
you right there
that you haven't, okay?
I mean, really,
you have to attribute
a miracle of Christ
to Satan, basically.
That's what you'd have
to do.
You know, and obviously
the only miracles
you're going to attribute,
the only miracles
of Christ that you're
going to attribute to Satan
are the miracles
that have already been done,
okay?
Now, if you would,
go to Colossians
chapter number three.
Colossians chapter number three.
We'll look at Mark
three a couple times.
So the blaspheme
of the Holy Spirit
is very specific.
It's attributing
the works of Christ
to Satan, okay?
And people who are
really concerned about
having done this,
you know, that should
be your first clue
that you haven't, okay?
Because if you blaspheme
the Holy Spirit,
you can't be saved.
That's basically
what he's saying there,
okay?
And what he's getting at,
he's teaching you
is that you're a reprobate,
okay?
Christ taught the
reprobate doctrine.
Let me point also
that Christians are capable
of blasphemy in general,
okay?
So I'm not saying
that it's impossible
for a Christian to blaspheme.
It is.
I'm just saying
they can't blaspheme.
We're not going to be
blaspheming the Holy Ghost,
okay?
It's a very specific sin.
Look at Colossians
chapter number three.
Verse eight.
But now ye also put off
all these anger,
wrath, malice, blasphemy.
So if we're not capable
of blasphemy,
as Christians,
why is Paul
commanding the Colossians
to put it off,
to not be guilty of this sin?
Obviously it's because
it is a sin that we're guilty
or possibly could
potentially be guilty of.
We have, as God's people,
the ability to be blasphemous,
to have filthy communication,
right?
And again,
blaspheming the Holy Spirit
is a very serious sin.
It's a very rare sin.
But blasphemy itself
is still a very serious sin,
okay?
It's, you know,
it's the fourth commandment,
right?
Thou shalt not take
the name of the Lord
thy God in vain.
You know, taking the name
of God in vain
is a blasphemous thing
because what does it mean
to be blasphemous?
It simply just means
you're insulting
or you're showing contempt
or lack of reverence
for God, okay?
Another way,
another definition
of blasphemy
is claiming the attributes
of deity, okay,
which is what the Pharisees
ended up accusing Christ of,
right?
When they're,
when they're are in,
when they're,
when they're inquiring
after him,
when they've arrested him,
remember?
They said,
what further need
he have witnessed?
He have heard his blasphemy,
right?
Because he said,
you shall see
the son of man's coming
in the power of God
and his holy angels.
So he's basically saying,
you know,
I'm God basically
and that's what's so funny,
I don't know
if funny is the right word,
probably more like ironic
when Muslims will make the claim
that Jesus never said
he was God
when that's literally
what they stoned him for,
that's,
or crucified him for
and that's literally
what they crucified
Christ for,
for blasphemy,
not that he was being
irreverent towards God
but that he,
being a man,
maketh himself God.
That's what they said,
okay?
And I've recently
preached about that.
You know,
I've already gone over
that whole topic.
So that's another form
of blasphemy.
It's claiming
the attributes of deity.
It's being irreverent
towards something
that is considered sacred,
okay?
So just having an irreverent,
kind of just contemptuous,
lack,
you know,
attitude towards God
or the things of God,
okay?
So obviously,
taking the name of God
is a blasphemous thing,
right?
And this is something
that people do every day,
okay?
So not all blasphemy
is the blasphemy
of the Holy Ghost.
The blasphemy of the
Holy Ghost is very specific
and blasphemy is something
that even Christians
are capable of,
being irreverent
towards the things of God,
okay?
Not taking the things
of God seriously,
you know,
having a lack of respect
for the things of God,
you know,
putting things over
the service of God.
You know,
making the things of God,
you know,
putting the things of God,
you know,
into the back seat
in their life.
That's an irreverent attitude.
When you say,
well, you know,
this is more important
than the preaching
of the word of God.
This is more important
than the Bible.
This is more important.
This takes priority
over the things of God.
You know,
that's an irreverent attitude.
That's, you know,
that's not a good place
to be because that's,
you know,
a form of blasphemy.
And God says,
thou shall not take
the name of the Lord
thy God in vain.
People do that every day.
You hear it every day
in everyday conversation,
right?
People just use
the word God
like,
like just express
their personal disdain
for something.
They take that name
which is above every name,
the name in which
every knee shall bow
and tongue shall confess
that Jesus Christ is Lord.
They take that
holy,
precious,
righteous name
in their mouth
and use it
like a cuss word
to express
their disgust
for something
or their frustration
with something.
They'll take that name
Jesus Christ
and use it
in a blasphemous way.
People do this
all the time.
You know,
I'm not saying,
you know,
I'm not gonna sit here
and prescribe,
you know,
to everybody else
so you have to go around
correcting everybody,
but
who do that,
eventually I get fed up.
And I remember
I was working on this
one guy,
it was constantly
Jesus Christ
this
and Jesus Christ that.
And finally,
I was saying,
what did you do?
Did you turn him
to Exodus
and Deuteronomy
and show him
how you shouldn't
take the name
of the Lord God
in vain?
No, every time
he said Jesus Christ
I said,
praise his holy name.
You go,
Jesus Christ said
praise his holy name,
right?
Then they kind of
stop,
well,
you know,
Buddha.
You know,
every time I,
you know,
stub my toe
or someone cuts me off
in traffic,
I'm just going,
Muhammad.
Ah,
Dalai Lama.
You know,
like,
we gotta like,
if we're gonna start
picking on,
you know,
religious leaders,
you know,
it's like,
why the Lord,
right?
Because it's blasphemous
is why.
And because people
have been trained
to use
the name of Christ
by music,
by television.
I mean,
they do it all the time
in film.
They do it all the time.
It's wicked.
You know,
blasphemy is a very
serious sin.
Taking God's name
in vain,
I mean,
just today.
My daughter told me
about some kids,
you know,
and I'm not saying,
you know,
these a bunch of
wicked heathen out there,
but there are just
some kids playing
at the park
across our street.
Our cute little pug,
who does,
the cuteness
is overwhelming,
it does evoke
an emotional reaction
when you see our dog.
He's that adorable,
okay?
I can understand,
but you know,
there's a way
to express that
and saying,
OMG,
you know,
fill in the blanks there,
you know,
that's not the way
to do it.
But people do that
all the time.
Oh my God.
You know,
or they don't want
to do that,
so they'll just
write OMG.
It's the same thing.
The world,
that's just what they do.
But God,
God's people,
you should have more
respect for the name
of God,
for Jesus Christ,
than to use His name
in an irreverent way.
You know,
none of us is likely,
in fact,
none of us is going
to ever be guilty
of the blaspheming
Holy Ghost.
If you were,
you'd be a reprobate,
okay?
Because you have
never forgiveness,
okay?
But every single one
of us in this room
is capable of being
irreverent with God's name.
And it's a wicked sin.
It's a wicked sin
to take God's name
and drag it through
the gutter of your mouth
because you're upset
about something.
It's very wicked.
It's a serious sin.
Well that's why I say,
gosh,
it's the same thing.
You're just,
you're just putting
another word in that place.
Oh gosh.
Jeepers, right?
Cheese and rice.
You know,
they say things
that rhyme with it.
Right?
How about saying nothing?
How about saying ouch?
You know,
you stub your toe, ouch.
That's a good way
to know if you're
full of the Holy Spirit.
Stub your toe
and if you cuss,
you know,
you're probably not.
I mean,
I remember I worked
with a guy that was,
went to our church,
not here,
this isn't another church,
and he was very,
you know,
he said,
man, I had a good day
today.
I said,
what are you?
He said,
I dropped a box.
He worked at UPS.
He said,
I had a good day.
He said,
I didn't cuss.
I went,
bam,
and all the co-workers
turned and looked at me
and I went,
ouch!
Right?
And he's like,
and then it dawned on me,
like,
normally I would have
cussed a blue streak.
You know,
but I didn't.
And he said,
I was really proud of myself.
I said,
well,
God bless you.
Right?
But you know,
even God's people sometimes
we might be guilty
of being frustrated
and just saying
something blasphemous.
So,
there's a few things
we can learn from this.
The other thing
I want to point out
beyond the fact that there's
blasphemy of the Holy Spirit
and just blasphemy in general.
One,
Christians are not capable
of doing.
The other we are.
Otherwise,
why are we told not to be
blasphemous,
not to be irreverent?
And by the way,
blasphemy extends beyond
just taking God's name
in vain.
Okay?
Let me reemphasize that.
When you're irreverent
towards the things of God.
You know,
that's a blasphemous attitude.
Okay?
When people don't give God
the respect that he deserves.
Another one would be,
another thing we can learn
from this passage is that
some people are beyond forgiveness.
Let's,
if you're still there,
let's carefully read it together.
Okay?
Because I know that
this is a doctrine
that is not popular
that people do not like to hear,
but this is what
the Bible teaches.
It's very clear
on this subject.
He that shall blaspheme
against the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness.
Never is going to be forgiven.
Right?
And he's saying this
to the Pharisees.
You want to accuse me
of doing the things
that I'm doing
by the power of Satan?
You will never be forgiven.
That's coming out of
the mouth of Jesus.
You know,
that's being called,
that's called becoming
a reprobate.
And I know we know this here,
but this is an important doctrine.
And I know people think
that this is just
some hobby horse
that I ride
or something like that.
Or like I just,
I never preach anything else.
But here we are
in Matthew,
excuse me,
Mark chapter three,
and here's Jesus
teaching the reprobate doctrine.
You know?
So I'm going to take
a minute and park it here.
Okay?
I've preached a lot
of other sermons
and a lot of different
other topics
and here we find ourselves
reading the very words
of Christ
where he's saying
there's a group of people
that shall never be forgiven.
Okay?
And it's important
because
people are getting this wrong.
And when you start
to get this doctrine wrong,
that's when you start
to put other people at risk.
Okay?
When people want to
dismiss the reprobate doctrine
and say,
oh no,
anybody and everybody
can be forgiven
of anything
anytime they want,
then that's when
people start to open their arms
to literal reprobates.
Okay?
And this is taking place,
it's been going on,
and I'm going to continue
to ring this bell
every chance I get
because Baptist churches
have just fallen,
you know,
have gone by the wayside
on this doctrine.
Okay?
Not here.
It's not happening here.
So what do Baptist churches,
other Baptist churches,
a lot of other Baptist churches
believe about this?
I don't know
because they don't preach it.
Okay?
But I'll say this,
the first time,
I can remember it
as if it were yesterday,
sitting in the Burger King
on Division
in Traverse City
in front of the Meyers,
my pastor in Michigan,
you know,
we were running a bus route
and we were
picking up some kids
who had a couple of
sodomites,
a couple of
you know,
women sodomites
that were,
you know,
had a mixed family
and they were sending
their kids on our bus.
And we were doing
some kind of promotion
and I remember
sitting in that Burger King
with my pastor
and he's like,
I just don't know
if we should invite them.
At the time I'm like,
well why wouldn't we
invite them?
Isn't everybody,
I'm just thinking this.
And I said,
well why not?
He said,
because they're reprobates.
Now,
I'll give him credit
for that,
however,
that's the only time
I ever heard about
him.
Okay?
What that told,
what that tells me
is that that pastor,
that old IFB pastor
understood the reprobate doctrine.
And this is something
that the old IFB
used to preach
and understand
and believe.
Okay?
And you know,
look,
I'm not saying
none of them preach it,
it's just,
I'm not hearing it.
You know,
I'm not hearing it.
In fact,
a lot of times
you're hearing
the complete opposite.
Today,
now it's to the point
where you can't
respect it.
Let's bring him in
and put him in
the children's ministries.
Let's bring him in
and sit him in the front row.
You know,
like those idiots out there
at West Coast Baptist College
who sit there
and want to teach
that they deserve
dignity and respect.
They're reprobates.
They're blasphemers.
They despise God.
They're despisers
of those that are good.
They don't deserve dignity.
They don't deserve respect.
And they surefire
don't deserve
to be welcome
in the house of God.
And they'll never
be welcome here.
As long as I'm
behind this pulpit,
it's never going to happen.
I'll resign,
I'll quit
before I ever let
some sodomite
reprobate in this church.
They might make it in,
but if they're found out,
they're going to go out
a lot quicker
than they came in.
I promise you that.
And we got the muscle
here to make it happen.
Amen?
Amen.
You know,
the Bible says
that people are reprobates.
Did I have you go to Jeremiah?
No?
Well, go to Jeremiah.
Because again,
we're going to teach this,
and I'm going to make
this very clear to people.
And if you haven't
marked this down
in your Bible,
you should,
because it's
an important doctrine.
Christ is teaching it.
They that blaspheme
the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiveness.
Oh, Jesus,
you know,
Jesus will forgive everyone.
Then explain why
He could say
to a group of people,
that there's a group
of people out there
that will never be forgiven.
You have to reconcile that.
Some people,
the Bible teaches,
are beyond forgiveness.
Okay?
Beyond salvation
is rather what I should say.
Look at
Jeremiah chapter 6,
verse 29.
The bellows are burned.
The lead
is consumed of the fire.
The founder
melteth and vests.
The fire
melts.
The fire
melts.
The fire
under melteth
in vain,
for the wicked
are not plucked away.
Reprobate silver
shall men call them,
because the Lord
hath rejected them.
Look, I understand.
We preach this.
We probably all
understand this.
But notice, okay,
a couple things here.
It's men that are doing
the calling, right?
Reprobate silver
shall men call them.
So men are gonna call
another group of people
reprobate silver.
Okay?
What are they gonna,
why are they gonna
call them that?
Why would a group of,
why will men
look at these people
and say,
reprobate silver?
That's what they are.
Let's put a label on them.
Reprobate.
Why would they do that?
Because
the Lord
hath rejected them.
So who's doing
the rejecting?
The Lord.
Who's doing
the name calling?
Men.
Pretty clear,
isn't it?
Say, oh no,
you're rejecting them.
Nope,
nope,
that's not what I'm doing.
I'm calling them
that because
God has rejected them.
I'm only rejecting
people whom God
has already rejected.
That's what it means
to be reprobate,
to be rejected.
It's a great,
it's a crystal clear verse.
And you'll say,
well, you know,
through the Bible
he uses reprobate,
but you know,
no one's rejected.
That's literally
why they're calling them that
because they've been rejected.
Then you tell me
what reprobate means.
If it doesn't mean that,
what does it mean?
And see,
this is why
a lot of people
won't preach it
because they know
this is exactly what it means.
So rather than just,
you know,
pulling up their bootstraps
like a big boy
and preaching it,
they just avoid it altogether
and pretend it's not there.
Men do the calling,
the Lord does the rejecting.
Romans 1 everybody,
let's go.
Romans chapter 1.
Turn to a passage of Scripture
more in one year
than a lot of preachers
will probably turn to
in their entire career.
Romans chapter 1.
The important,
important chapter
in the day and age
that we're living in.
So why do you guys
got to preach about this?
This is the day and age
that we're living in.
I mean, what else,
what else should I be
preaching about?
You know, what other sin
is just taking over our country?
You know, if we weren't
just being inundated
with this embalmable filth,
if we were just having this stuff
just shoved in our face
every single day,
then I wouldn't have
to preach about it.
It's not that I enjoy it,
it's not like I like
getting up and talking
about this topic.
I mean, I'll say this,
I've gotten to the point
where it's easy for me.
It's like, you know,
this is an easy sermon to write
because you know this doctrine.
At least you should.
I know we all know the passage.
Romans 1 verse 18.
The wrath of God
is revealed from heaven
against all ungodliness
and unrighteousness of men
who hold the truth
in unrighteousness.
Okay, that is blasphemy.
Okay, it's not saying it,
but it's expressing the concept
of blasphemy there
when it says that these men
are holding the truth
in unrighteousness.
That's an irreverent attitude, right?
That's irreverence.
That's a disrespect of God.
That's blasphemy, okay?
Because that which may be known
of God is manifest in them,
for God hath showed it unto them.
God's not playing hide and seek
with the people of this world.
The things of God
are clearly seen, right?
The invisible things of God
are clearly seen
being understood
by the things that are made.
That's what it goes on
and says in verse 20.
For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world
are clearly under seen
being understood
by the things that are made.
What are the things that are made?
Me and you.
We are part of the creation.
We are the things that are made.
So we can look
at the creation of the world
and see the invisible things of God.
We can understand them.
We can conceptualize
that there is a God.
The invisible things are understood
by the things that are seen
by those things which are made, okay?
Even his eternal power and Godhead
so that they are without excuse.
People do not have an excuse
in this world to say,
well, I didn't know there was a God.
It's evident.
It's obvious that there's a God.
Verse 21.
And I've preached about that.
Just the fact that you can sit there
and conceptualize the God.
What evolutionary benefit is there
to sit there and think about God?
There is none, okay?
That's something that's unique
to human beings
because we are spiritual creatures.
So there is a spiritual realm.
There is a God.
Because that when they knew God,
they glorified Him not as God.
Neither were thankful
but became vain in their imaginations
and their foolish heart was darkened.
So they get the ball rolling, right?
They're irreverent.
They're blasphemous.
They're not gonna glorify God.
They're not thankful.
They're gonna become vain
in their imaginations
and they're gonna darken
their foolish heart through this.
Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools.
They're being lifted up
with their own pride
and changed the glory of God,
excuse me, the glory
of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like
to corruptible man
and to birds and four-footed beasts
and creeping things.
Some idolatry.
Then when God sees all this,
it says in verse 24,
wherefore God also gave them up.
Now, let me emphasize
one word in particular here,
also.
Also, meaning in like manner
in the same way, okay?
It's a back and forth
but who started it?
They did.
When they were unthankful,
when they were unholy,
when they changed the image
of the uncorruptible God
onto corruptible things,
four-footed beasts,
so on and so forth,
they started it.
That's why it says,
wherefore God also gave them up.
Who gave up first?
Who dismissed who first?
They dismissed God.
This is the path
to becoming a reprobate
when you just reject God
and reject God and reject God.
That's why it's a scary thing
to fall in the hands
of the living God, my friend.
If you're here tonight
and you're not saved,
you need to get saved
and not have this attitude,
well, I'll do it later.
Well, maybe you won't.
Maybe you'll just keep rejecting it.
You say, where is that line?
I don't know.
Do you really want to find out?
Because I don't.
Let's not find out
where that line is.
Why don't we just get saved?
This is especially true
for kids who grow up
in a Christian home
who are under the voice
of sound biblical preaching
who are taught the gospel
in an early age.
You know, you're made
more accountable.
Wherefore, God also gave them
up to uncleanness,
to the lust of their own hearts,
to dishonor their own bodies
between themselves.
So that's where that sin
is coming from.
To change the truth of God
into a lie and worship
and serve the creature
more than the creator
who is blessed forever
and meant for this cause.
For what cause?
The cause of them
turning the truth of God
into a lie.
For the cause of them
worshiping and serving
the creature more than
the creator.
For that cause,
God gave them up.
So again, who started it?
They did.
God just says,
okay, you want to give me up?
I'll give you up.
And he gives them up
unto vile affections.
And we know what
he's referring to there.
Verse 27,
burning in their lusts
one toward another,
working that which is unseemly,
women with women,
men with men.
Okay?
Verse 28,
and even as they did not
like to retain God
in their knowledge.
Every time where it goes,
where it starts to speak
about God giving them up,
notice in the context,
it's very clear that
they started it.
God is giving up on people
that have given up on him.
Okay?
So it's not this Calvinist doctrine
where God is picking one
over another.
Oh, you're saved,
you're a reprobate.
Because to the Calvinist,
you know, reprobate
means something else.
Right?
And you don't have
a choice in the matter.
You're just a reprobate.
That's it.
Okay?
The reprobate is somebody
who has the choice
and gives up on God.
And as a result,
God gives up on them.
Okay?
Even as they did not
like to retain God
in their knowledge,
God gave them over
to a reprobate mind.
Now what's reprobate?
A rejected.
They're given over to a mind
that has been rejected by God.
Okay?
And that's an important verse.
Okay?
And it's specifically the mind.
Right?
Something goes on in the mind.
Okay?
Where their thinking has changed.
Okay?
Their mind has been changed.
It's been rejected by God.
Okay?
Go to John chapter 12.
John chapter 12.
Actually, you know what?
Let's take the time.
Go to 2 Timothy 3.
2 Timothy chapter number 3.
Okay?
And this is what people need to understand
about this doctrine
when it comes to the reprobate doctrine.
Because a lot of people will accuse us
and say, oh, you're saying
that Jesus won't forgive those people.
You know, but Jesus did say
they have never forgiveness.
That if you blaspheme the Holy Ghost,
you have never forgive.
Oh, they'll say,
oh, you're preaching a limited atonement.
You're saying that God
will only forgive certain sins.
Well, that's not what Jesus said.
He didn't say
they're not going to forgive.
And we call it the unpardonable sin
and that's really not an accurate term to use.
Okay?
But it's a sin that will not be pardoned.
Okay?
It's not that it's unpardonable.
It's just that God's not going to do it.
Okay?
Because the people that commit the sin
of the blaspheming Holy Ghost
are reprobates.
Okay?
And when you're given over
to a reprobate mind,
you will not believe on Christ.
Okay?
And this is where people
get a little confused sometimes.
They think that it's like,
oh, no, the sodomite, the reprobate,
if they, you know,
they want to be forgiven
and God just won't do it.
Or somehow, you know,
Christ's blood isn't sufficient.
No, it is.
What they fail to understand
is that the reprobate doesn't care.
They won't believe.
Because they've been given over
to a reprobate mind.
It's their mind that's been affected.
You understand what I'm saying?
It's not that Christ
couldn't forgive their sin.
He could.
But it's not going to happen
because they won't believe.
And look, I've been out soul-winning
and I've seen this happen.
I remember going
and I was by myself
when this happened.
You know, I didn't have a partner.
The other people that I was
soul-winning on another part
of the street or something.
And I knocked on this door
and I remember I was
thinking about this
when I walked up the door.
And I honestly believe
it was the Holy Spirit, you know,
bringing these things
to my remembrance.
It wasn't speaking to me.
Okay, I may be very clear about that.
Well, God told me
as I walked up to the door.
No, these things came to my mind.
I was thinking about
what it means to be a reprobate,
what it means to be rejected.
And I knocked on this door
and this young man came to the door
and he was, you know,
he's very effeminate.
And my first impression of him
was this guy's a fag.
Okay, that was just
an immediate impression I got.
But, you know, I said,
you know what, nevertheless,
I'll give him a chance.
I said, hey, I could show you
from the Bible how to be saved.
Would you like to hear that?
And he said yes.
And he wanted to hear it.
And I preached him
the entire gospel
and he understood all of it.
He understood.
He said, yep, that is.
I said, do you understand
what the Bible is saying?
Yep, that is what it's saying.
That is exactly what
the Bible is saying.
That it's a salvation by
his grace through faith.
It's through Christ alone.
It's eternal.
He got it.
Like he understood it.
But he would not believe it.
He chose not to believe it.
And I walked away thinking
that guy's a reprobate.
He either was very close
to being one
or he just became one
or was one already.
That made such an impression on me
to see that actually
play out in somebody's life.
Now, I can't say for
certainty that it was,
but it left a mark on me.
It made an impression on me.
That whole experience.
And that kind of dawned on me.
It's not that God is
incapable of saving them
or would refuse to do it.
It's that they won't believe.
They will not retain God
in their knowledge.
They're given to a reprobate mind.
A mind that will choose
not to believe.
It's their choice
to not believe.
So it's not a limited atonement.
It's that reprobates
will not believe.
They won't do it.
Look at 2 Timothy 3, verse 1.
Know also that in the last days
perilous times shall come
for men shall be lovers
of their own selves,
covetous, boasters proud,
blasphemers, disobedient
to parents, unthankful,
unholy, without natural
affection, truce-breakers,
false abusers, incontinent,
fierce despisers of those
that are good, traitors,
heady, high-minded,
lovers of pleasures
more than lovers of God,
having a form of godliness
but denying the power thereof
from such turn away.
For of this sort are they
which creep into houses
and leave captive silly women
laden with sins,
led away with diverse lusts.
Notice verse 7.
Ever learning and never able
to come to the knowledge
of the truth.
They're learning,
they're understanding,
but they will never come
to a place of knowing the truth.
Of knowing the truth.
Of accepting the truth.
Of believing the truth.
Look at the end of verse 8.
Men of corrupt minds
reprobate concerning the faith.
Okay?
The problem is they're not
able to come to the knowledge
of the truth.
They won't accept it.
Go to John 12.
John chapter number 12.
You say,
oh, why are you preaching this?
Because it's in Mark 3.
Because Jesus taught it.
That's why I'm teaching it.
Because the Bible teaches it.
That's why I'm teaching it.
Because that's my job,
that's my duty as a pastor,
as a preacher of the word of God
to get up and preach the word of God.
Every word of it.
John chapter 12 verse 37.
But though he had done
so many miracles before them,
yet they believed not on him.
And Jesus said,
if you don't believe me
for my word's sake,
believe me for the miracle's sake.
Give us a sign.
How about all the miracles?
Right?
But this is what reprobates
they won't believe.
They will refuse to believe.
No matter how many signs
you give them.
Oh, I'd believe God
if he just showed up right here.
No, you wouldn't.
You wouldn't believe
if one rose from the dead.
Because one did rise from the dead
and you don't believe.
That the saying of
Isaiah the prophet
might be fulfilled,
which he spake,
Lord, who hath believed
to our report
and whom hath the arm
of the Lord been revealed?
Therefore, they could not believe.
They could not believe
because Isaiah is saying again,
he hath blinded their eyes.
He had blinded their eyes.
They cannot come
to the place of believing.
It's not that Jesus
isn't capable of saving them.
It's that they cannot believe.
They won't believe it.
They've been given
over to a reprobate mind,
not just to do those things
which are inconvenient,
not just be given over
to those vile affections.
They're also given
to the reprobate mind
in the sense that
their mind has been
affected to where
they cannot believe.
They won't believe it.
You say,
well, what if Asada
might believe the gospel?
Would he get saved?
Yes, but he never will
because they cannot believe.
That's what the Bible says.
This is the narrator
scripture in John chapter 12.
Now lest you think that
it's just all, you know,
negative preaching tonight,
let me also point out
in this passage,
go back to Mark chapter 3,
that God does more
forgiving than rejecting.
Okay?
We don't want to run
to the extreme and just,
you know,
as seen people do this,
anyone that doesn't believe
the gospel reprobate,
you know, we don't want
to get on a hair trigger
with the reprobate doctrine.
You know, I asked them
if I could leave them
a verse of scripture
and they said,
no, thank you.
Pretty sure they're reprobate.
You know, we don't want
to go too far with this, okay?
Obviously, the people
that are guilty of the blasphemy
of the Holy Ghost
is a very narrow group of people.
It's a very small group of people.
That encompasses a very small
scope of people, okay?
The people that God
is willing to forgive
is much broader, right?
Look at Mark 3 again,
verse 28.
Verily I say unto you,
all sins shall be forgiven
under the sons of men,
and blasphemies
wheresoever they shall blaspheme.
All sin is capable
of being forgiven,
but certain sins
are not going to be forgiven
because the people
that commit those sins
are reprobates
and they will not believe.
Reprobates could be forgiven
if they could what?
Believe.
But they can't.
The mind's a reprobate.
They are condemned
of themselves, okay?
And reprobates aren't
pleading to be saved.
Again, you know,
when people reach out,
they think I'm a reprobate.
I'm guessing not
because you're, you know,
you're reaching out to somebody
who could clear that up for you
out of a genuine concern, okay?
Reprobates aren't pleading
to be saved.
God is capable of saving them,
but they will not believe.
Go to Revelation 22
where we started.
We were wondering
how we were going to get there, right?
And look, the Bible
is real clear.
God, he said,
all manner of sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven men, right?
Wheresoever they blaspheme,
but whosoever blaspheme
the Holy Ghost
hath never forgiven us
because only a reprobate
would blaspheme the Holy Ghost.
Only a reprobate
who could not believe
would look at the miracles
of Christ and say,
I'm pretty sure that's Satan
doing that, okay?
It's a wicked thought.
It's an extreme form of blasphemy.
But God is willing to forgive a lot, okay?
And God is probably forgiven,
and we could probably,
all of us could probably,
you know, maybe not some of the kids,
you know, and keep it that way.
You know, don't feel like
you got to go live a wicked life
just so you can be, you know,
know the grace of God, okay?
You can just be thankful
that you didn't have to have,
you know, a life of sin forgiven.
But there are people
that could look back and say,
you know, God's forgiven me
quite a bit.
And God does a lot of forgiving,
doesn't he?
You know, whenever I read this,
I always think about,
you know, years ago,
and I'm not coming to this guy's defense
when that UFC fighter
Conor McGregor came out
and basically said
he could beat up Jesus
in a fight, right?
Which is a blasphemous thing to say.
It's wicked.
I'm not defending the guy.
Look, the guy's a scumbag, okay?
Just is, you know?
But, you know, it's funny
because at the time a lot of people
were like, oh, he's a reprobate.
I was like, well, wait a minute.
What did Jesus say?
All men are sin and blasphemy
shall be forgiven.
Shall be forgiven men.
Like, he's still capable
of forgiving that, right?
He didn't get up and say,
oh, I think that the, you know,
the works that Christ did
were done by the power of Satan.
You know, that's my best Irish accent.
Well, that was pretty good, right?
Just like him, you know,
starting doing the thing, yeah?
How does he do the walk?
I don't know.
He's not turning into a,
yeah, you're doing it.
Maybe you could demonstrate for us.
Come on up here.
I'm just kidding.
Don't do it.
Right?
But it's like, well, he didn't say that.
He just said something blasphemous.
And look, what he said was wicked.
Oh, you're defending him.
No, I'm not.
What I'm saying is
let's not be an inherent trigger.
Let's understand that
God wants to forgive people.
That he not come to destroy men's lives
but to save them.
Okay?
Because this is the thing.
People hear you preach
the reprobate doctrine
and they just,
they just think, oh,
you're just this hateful, spiteful person
who just, you know,
wants to see everyone die
and go to hell.
No.
No, that's not the case.
You know, that's,
we love people.
We have compassion on people.
We want people to be saved.
Just like God does,
we get it.
But, you know,
it's just that
we have to preach all of the Bible.
And we have to understand this doctrine.
Okay?
Because it's important.
In the latter days,
perilous times shall come.
Okay?
It's a spiritually perilous time
in which we're living.
It is.
And people want,
and people reject this doctrine
of being, of the reprobate doctrine.
You know, they reprobate
the reprobate doctrine.
I know that's not even
the proper verbiage there.
They reject the reprobate doctrine
to their own peril.
And it's especially dangerous
when it's leaders,
when it's pastors and preachers
of churches that are doing it.
They're leaving themselves wide open.
I would rather deal
with the repercussions
of preaching this
than the repercussions
of not preaching it.
I'd rather deal with
the scorn and ire of the world
for preaching this.
I would rather deal with
hair-lipping people in the pew
and sending people out the door
to never come back
than to deal with the repercussions
of not preaching it
and turning into one of these
soft, weak preachers
that are just going to
open their arms up
to anybody and everybody
so we can just have
a bunch of trannies
sitting in the front row.
You know, you're being
a little extreme.
It's happening.
It's happening!
It's being taught
at Baptist Bible colleges
to accept this filth.
Okay?
So when you reject
the reprobate doctrine,
you do so at your own peril.
That's why you have...
This is the sin of our day.
This is the bell
that must be rung repeatedly.
I'm going to kick this dog
every time I find it.
Revelation chapter 22, verse 8.
And I, John, saw these things
and heard them,
and when I heard it and seen it,
I fell down to worship it
with a few of the angels
of these things.
Then saith unto me,
See, thou do it not,
for I am thy fellow servant
and of thy brethren,
the prophets of them
which keep the sayings
of this book,
worship God.
And he saith unto me,
Seal not the sayings
of the prophecy of the book,
for the time is at hand.
And I know that this message
that's being given to John
is referring specifically
to the vision and the book
that he's been giving
in the book of Revelation.
But, you know,
we can apply that verse
to the entirety of scripture.
We should not seal
the sayings of this book.
The time is at hand.
All of these doctrines
must be preached.
And when you come across
a doctrine that Christ taught,
teach it.
You know, Jesus wouldn't be
welcoming a lot of pulpits today.
You know, it's like,
Jesus would get up
and he'd preach
to reprobate doctrine
because he did.
I've got chapter and verse, buddy.
Mark 3, preached it.
They hath never forgiveness.
That's the reprobate doctrine
coming out of Jesus' mouth.
And you know what?
And I'm convinced that
because of that,
there's a lot of
Baptist Bible colleges
that would say,
well, you're not welcome here.
You can't preach that here.
That's not a loving spirit.
Look, seal not the sayings
of this book.
The time is at hand.
And if it hurts people's feelings,
so what?
Because I'd rather
deal with that
than deal with
the repercussions
of not preaching it.
Verse 11,
he that is unjust,
let him be unjust still.
And he which is filthy,
let him be filthy still.
And he that is righteous,
let him be righteous still.
And he that is holy,
let him be holy still.
You know,
we can't be afraid
to get up today
and say it like it is
and call a spade a spade
and preach
whatever needs to be preached,
preached anything
that's in this book.
You know, and if,
if people,
if people are reprobates,
then let them be reprobates.
Like, if they're unclean,
if they're unjust,
tough.
That's on them.
They did the rejecting.
And it's just,
it's crazy to me
when God's people
and preachers
fancy themselves
more loving and
compassionate than God.
You know,
they fall all over themselves
to say,
to try and reach people
that God has said
and I believe
that he has rejected.
You know,
he that is unjust,
let him be unjust.
He that is filthy,
let him be filthy.
And don't be afraid
to say it that way.
It's a filthy,
disgusting thing
that they're involved in.
I mean,
it's vile affections.
That's where
all that comes from.
But again,
you know,
that's,
that's the,
the chapter tonight
or the,
the passage
clearly taught
the reprobate doctrine.
Well,
let's not also forget
that all manner of sin
and blasphemy
shall be forgiven
the sons of men.
You know,
God is still
obviously very forgiving.
But he has a limit
and he's drawn a line
and it's very clear
where it is.
So,
you know,
there's,
there's plenty of
other people
that we can go out
and be loving
and compassionate
and forgiving to.
You know,
we can go reach,
you know,
fucks,
fornicators,
adulterers,
murderers.
You know,
we can go pick,
you want to go get
a bunch of wicked,
unjust,
and filthy people
saved,
you can do that.
The world's full of them.
The world's full of,
of,
you know,
ungodly,
wicked people
that'll get saved.
It's not like
we're hurting
to find sinners.
Just go knock
any door.
Anyone who answers,
sinner.
But why do we
have to think
of finding
the worst
element of society
and embracing them
and say,
no,
this one group
of people
that God has
clearly said
are reprobate,
we're going to
accept.
That's who we're
going to go after.
That's who we're
going to target.
This extreme
minority,
just to show
everybody how
loving we are.
Oh,
you're more
loving than God.
Why the reprobate?
You know,
go spin your wheels.
And,
you know,
I guarantee you,
I,
me,
and other people
in this church
have preached
to more reprobates
than these
bleeding hearts
ever will.
That's a fact.
I've preached
to more reprobates
on accident
than they
ever will
with all of their
love and compassion
because we,
you know,
we actually go out
there and do the work
that we're
supposed to do.
So,
let's not fall
all over ourselves
to try and save
people that God
has rejected.
Let's be more
concerned with the
people that God
is willing to
forgive,
which is the
vast majority of
people.
Let's not
focus all our
efforts on
people that hate
God and despise
God.
Let's just go
find,
you know,
John Q.
Sinner or
whatever,
you know,
and just get
him saved
Lord, again,
thank you for
the crystal clear
teaching of your
word that there,
so much is just
evident.
Like there's
just no question
about what the
Bible teaches on
so many topics
Lord, and this
one in particular.
And Lord,
we thank you
for the forgiveness
and the love
that is in Christ
Jesus.
We thank you for
the cleansing
power of His
blood.
We thank you for
the sealing of
the Holy Spirit,
the internal security
that we have
and Lord,
we thank you for
the love of God
which is shed
abroad in our hearts.
And Lord,
we pray help us
to preach that
gospel to the
lost Lord,
but help us
also Lord to
understand that
there are some
people that we
should call
reprobate because
you have rejected
them.
And Lord,
help us to know
the difference
between the two
and Lord,
we just thank you
for it in
Jesus' name,
Amen.
All right,
amen.
And he was with us still, and he thought we were just
and good way, just and good way.
For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus,
nor to trust when you fail.
Not a shadow that lies, not a cloud in the skies,
not a smile that really drives me away.
Not a doubt or a fear, not a sigh for your tear,
can apply what we trust and obey, trust and obey.
For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus,
nor to trust when you fail.
Not a burden we bear, not a sorrow we share,
nor to need of which we behave.
Not a grief or a loss, not a crowd or a cross,
but is blessed if we trust and obey, trust and obey.
For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus,
nor to trust when you fail, nor we never get by.
But the light of His love is the light of His love.
For the favor He shows, and the joy He bestows,
after them who will trust and obey, trust and obey.
For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey.
When He fellowships free, He will sit at His feet,
a woman by His side in the wind.
What He says, we will do.
When He says, we will go.
Never fear, only trust and obey.
Trust and obey.
For there's no other way to be happy in Jesus,
but to trust and obey.
Amen.
We are at Christmas.