I am not a Calvinist. I'm not a one-point Calvinist. I'm not a half-a-point Calvinist. I'm not a three-point Calvinist. I'm a zero-point Calvinist.
So you are a Calvinist? No, I'm not. Wait, I didn't mean that.
I'm not a Calvinist at all. No Calvinism. Every point of Calvinism is false. Total depravity. It's false. It's a false doctrine.
It's a doctrine that says that the unregenerate man is incapable of doing right. And I don't believe that.
Because there are unsaved people who do some things that are right. And they even teach in total depravity that the unsaved man is incapable of even believing on Jesus Christ.
That's why God has to do it for you. And you know, God has to choose you. No.
Unsaved man is not totally depraved. Is every unsaved person just totally depraved? Just a monster? No. And that's false.
Have you ever known an unsaved person that did something nice? Come on. Get real.
Now every unsaved person has sinned and come short of the glory of God. But they're not all totally depraved.
Now some are totally depraved. But no, I do not believe in the total depravity of mankind. I don't believe in it for one second.
Unconditional election. I'm going through the five points of Calvinism by the way. Tulip. Unconditional election. There's a condition.
Thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God has raised of the dead. Thou shalt be saved.
Now, Brother Dave is a computer programmer. He knows about conditional. It's an if...then.
That's what conditional means. And there is a condition for salvation. It's faith.
It's believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved. That's a condition.
Limited atonement is false. The Bible says he is the savior of all men.
You say, wait a minute, that's just talking about those who are believers.
No, because he said he's the savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
Therefore he's the savior of those who don't believe.
But it's not going to do him any good. The Bible says,
"Howbeit the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it."
But he's still the savior. The Bible says,
"And he is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world."
The Bible says, look at Romans 5. Romans chapter 5 is a great point on this.
Romans chapter 5 is a great chapter to defeat Calvinism. There are many great chapters to defeat Calvinism.
Another one is 1 Timothy chapter 2. But it says in Romans 5, verse 15,
"But not as the offense, so also as the free gift. For if through the offense of one, many be dead,
much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift. For the judgment was by one to condemnation."
Speak of Adam. "But the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. For if by one man's offense,
death reign by one, much more they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness,
shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offense of one," watch this,
"judgment came upon all men to condemnation." You get that? "The offense of one," the Bible says,
"were for us by one man sinned in the end of the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men,
for that all have sinned." He says here, "By the offense of one, judgment came upon all men unto condemnation.
Even so, by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life."
Turn to 1 Timothy. He said in John chapter 1, "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God,
and the Word was God." Job was witness. "The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made.
In Him was life, and the life was the light of men, and the light shineth in darkness,
and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God whose name was Job.
The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light that all men through Him might believe.
Did you hear that? The purpose of John the Baptist coming and preaching and bearing witness of the light
was that all men through Him might believe. He was not that light but came to bear witness of that light.
That was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
But I'm not sure if that really means everybody. I think it's just talking about the elect.
Every man that cometh... I wonder if Jesus meant it when He said among them that are born of women.
There is not greater than John the Baptist. Was He only talking about a certain group?
No, He said everybody comes into the world. Everybody who's born of a woman.
You know, I mean, how could He be any clearer? It's everybody!
It's unbelievable to me that people believe in this stuff.
But look at 1 Timothy chapter number 2 verse 1.
"I exhort therefore that, first of all, supplications, prayers, and recessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men,
for kings and for all that are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.
For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself a ransom for all to be testified in due time."
Now, come on, folks! It's everybody!
Limited atonement! Unlimited atonement!
And what's the fourth one? Irresistible grace.
Irresistible grace, he says, you know, if God decides to save, there's nothing you can do to stop.
Is that why Stephen said you do always resist the Holy Ghost?
I thought it's so irresistible! Or I thought God just wasn't drawing them.
People will say, "We believe we're not Calvinists now, we're Baptists."
Calvin was a Protestant and a Presbyterian.
They say, "We just believe in the sovereign grace of God."
We just believe in the doctrines of grace.
We believe in the sovereignty of God.
Can somebody show me the word sovereign in the Bible real quick?
Can somebody help me out?
Oh yeah, it's not there!
But anyway, you know, you say, "Oh, we just believe in the sovereign grace of God."
We're not Calvinists now.
We just believe everything Calvin believed and put Baptists on our side.
But don't be confused, we're not Calvinists.
And this is what they say.
I lost my train of thought.
What was I talking about?
I don't remember.
This is a really good point.
Irresistible grace.
Oh yeah.
They say, this is what they'll say, you know.
What do they say?
Oh yeah, that's what they say.
I remember now.
They say that Jesus said, "No man can come unto me except the Father draw him."
You know, and if he draws you, you just can't resist.
You know, you're just pulled like a magnet.
Right?
Irresistible grace.
Hold on now.
He said, "No man can come unto me except the Father draw me."
But then shortly thereafter, you know what he said?
He said, "And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, shall draw all men to me."
He's drawing.
But many people resist the Holy Ghost, as Stephen preached.
And so they take one verse out of context.
Or they'll take a verse where he looks at the disciples and says,
"You've not chosen me, but I've chosen you and ordained you,
that you should bring forth fruit, and your fruit shall remain."
And they'll say, "See? You didn't choose him. He chose you."
I was taught that in a Baptist Sunday School class. They were promoting Calvinism to me.
"He didn't choose you. You chose him."
But then I take them just a few pages over.
He says, "If not, I've chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil."
So how is that salvation?
He didn't say, "I chose you to go to heaven and not to go to hell."
He said, "I've chosen you and ordained you."
Ordained you.
That's when I lay hands on you and pray for you and send you out to preach.
Which way did it in the twelve?
He said, "I've ordained you to bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain."
He didn't say, "I chose one to go to hell, and I chose one to go to heaven."
And by the way, the God of Calvinism is a monster.
It's like if I went down to the hospital, baby ward, and I don't think they do this anymore.
I don't know. My kids are born at home.
But you know the thing that they used to do where you'd look through a window and there's a whole bunch of babies lined up?
It'd be like if we went down there and just said, you know, "Kill this one. Kill this one. This one stays alive. Kill this one."
What are you basing that on? Nothing. Random. Just my sovereignty.
Because you say, "Well, what is it based on? What's the choice based on? Is it based on who believes?"
No. He's the one who makes them believe.
What's the base? Is it based on anything that you've done, or said, or believed, or what?
No. He just has that authority to just pick one. He just randomly just picks one.
It's garbage, folks, so enough said on that. I guess we'll finish the last point, the P in Tula.
Perseverance of the saints. How about preservation of the saints? Or how about perseverance of the Savior?
Perseverance of the saints? Look at all the people in the Bible who did not persevere to the end.
Demas had forsaken me, having loved this present world and is departed on the Thessalonica.
Did Lot persevere to the end? And he was called Righteous Lot? Did Samson really persevere to the end?
Did Noah persevere to the end? All these different people in the Bible we see that didn't necessarily
persevere to the end. And if we had to persevere to the end, then we wouldn't really know we were
saved until we got to the end. But Jesus said, "These things have I written unto you that believe
on the name of the Son of God." That's present tense. That you may know that you have eternal life.
So I can know right now that I have eternal life. I'm going to have to see if I persevere to the end.
You know, and all that is is just works salvation. That's right. You gotta work all the way to the
end in order to be saved. That's what they're teaching, folks, is just work your way to the end.
Persevere. And they'll try to say, "Well, persevere to the saints. That's just eternal security."
No, it's not. Because neither Calvinism nor Arminianism teaches eternal security. Because
eternal security, the believer, means that you can believe on Jesus Christ. Get this. Here's a
scenario. Here's what we believe. You can believe on Jesus Christ, come to church, get baptized,
live for God, and then get backslidden, quit the church, back into sin, and then die and you'll
still go to heaven. That's eternal security, the believer. The Calvinist doesn't believe that.
The Calvinist will say, "Oh, they were never really saved." And the Arminian will say they lost their
salvation. But neither one of them believes that you can get backslidden and still go to heaven.
They both believe that you'll lose it. One of them just tries to look at it from another angle,
the same thing. Like this is what a famous Calvinist said, "Charles Haddon Spurgeon,
sick of Baptists having this hero. It was a big compromiser, liar, phony." And this is what Charles
Haddon Spurgeon, the hyper-Calvinist said. And I'm not any kind of Calvinist, but he said salvation is
like a door. He said on this side of the door it says, "Whosoever will." You walk through the door
and you look back and it says, "Oh, you were already chosen and ordained before the foundation of the
world that you would be saved." Wow, that really helped me understand. Thank you. So this is two
different things. It's just a big lie there. So the "whosoever will" was a lie. God lied then if you
get over there and it's like you were damned from the beginning. You didn't even have a choice about
it. You know that "whosoever will" part? I lied. You think that's what God's going to say? God cannot
lie. What a deceptive verse if Calvinism was true when he said "for God so loved the world
that he gave his own God something whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
everlasting life." What a deception. That sounds like it's everybody.