Follow along silently with Brother Hester as he reads Romans chapter 11.
Romans 11, the Bible reads,
I say then, hath God cast away his people, God forbid?
For I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin.
God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew.
Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias, how he maketh intercession to God against Israel,
saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and dig down thine altars,
and I am left alone, and they seek my life? But what saith the answer of God unto him?
I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
And if by grace then is it no more of works, otherwise grace is no more grace.
But if it be of works, then is it no more grace, otherwise work is no more work.
What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for, but the election hath obtained it,
and the rest were blinded. According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of
slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear unto this day.
And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumbling block,
and a recompense unto them. Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see,
and bow down their back alway. I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall, God forbid,
but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches
of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am
the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify in mine office, if by any means I may provoke to emulation
them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. For if the casting away of them be
the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?
For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy, and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, were graft in
among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree,
boast not against the branches, but if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
Thou wilt say then, the branches were broken off that I might be graft in. Well, because of
unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith, be not high-minded, but fear. For if God
spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness
and severity of God, on them which fell severity, but toward thee goodness if thou continue in his
goodness, otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief,
shall be graft in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if thou were cut out of the olive
tree, which is wild by nature, and were graft contrary to nature, into a good olive tree,
how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graft into their own olive tree. For
I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own
conceit, that blindness is in part happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles be come
in. And so all Israel shall be saved, as it is written, there shall come out of Zion the deliverer,
and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take
away their sins. As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but as touching the
election, they are beloved for the Father's sakes. For the gifts and calling of God are without
repentance. For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through
their unbelief, even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also might
may obtain mercy. For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
O the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his
judgments and his ways past finding out. For who hath known the mind of the Lord, or who hath been
his counselor, or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again.
For of him and through him and to him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
Father in heaven thank you for the Bible and thank you for the gathering of the church today. I pray
that you please bless Pastor Anderson as he preaches your word with the fullness and the
power of the Holy Ghost and help us your children get edified. In Jesus name I pray, amen.
Man, the title of my sermon is election fraud. Election fraud. And look, I'm going to be providing
clear evidence tonight of election fraud on a on a wide scale. All right, I don't care what the
Supreme Court says, there's clear evidence of election fraud. All right, and by the way, let me
just mention this is the most important election of our lifetime that I'm going to be talking about
right now. Okay, so go if you would to Romans chapter 11 verse 5. I'm going to give you the first
type of election fraud that I've seen that's been widespread all over America. Romans chapter
11 verse 5 says, even so then at this present time there is a remnant according to the election
of grace, and if by grace then is it no more of works. Otherwise grace is no more grace,
but if it be of works then is it no more grace. Otherwise work is no more work. The first type
of election fraud that I've seen is number one, election by works. People teaching that you become
God's elect, that you become saved by doing works, when the Bible clearly says for by grace are you
saved through faith, and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God, not of works lest any man
should boast. Salvation is not of works. It's not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but according to his mercy that he saved us by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of
the Holy Ghost. And the Bible says clearly in Romans 4-5, but to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.
You know a lot of people say, well you know, uh, faith and works they're always found together.
That's not true because the Bible says him that worketh not, but believeth. So it's possible to
work not, but believe and your faith is counted for righteousness even as David also describes
the blessedness of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, saying blessed are
they whose iniquities are forgiven and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord
will not impute sin. So election by works is a false doctrine because if it's works then it's
no more grace. I've had people just look me right in the face and say, well it's grace and works,
it's both. How does that work with this verse? And by the way, this is one of the verses that
the modern versions will attack. If you look up Romans chapter 11 verse 6 and say the ESV or the
NIV or one of these new versions, they will cut off the second half of the verse. And so the way
that this reads in the ESV is something along the lines of, and if it be by grace then it is no
longer of works, otherwise grace is no more grace. And then what they'll do with that is it almost
makes it sound like, well it used to be by works, you know, but it's no longer by works. But, but
that's not what this is saying. He's saying if it be by grace then is it no more of works is a
clearer translation in the King James just to let you know if it's by grace then it's not by works,
if it's by works it's not by grace. It has nothing to do with time and the problem with that no
longer translation is that it implies a time element, whereas no more properly conveys the
meaning. You can't misunderstand it. And the second half of the verse being there makes it
impossible to understand when he flips it over and says if it be of works then is it no more grace,
otherwise work is no more work. The second half of the verse is the best part. I love the
redundancy of this verse because that redundancy is necessary because so many people are teaching
work salvation or believing in a work salvation, you can't spell it out clear enough. So I love
how this verse just really just drives it in with that second half saying look if you add works it's
not grace anymore but then oh by the way if you add grace to works it's no longer work. It has to
be one or the other, you can't mix. It's either by grace through faith or it's by works. It can't
be both. And so the election is according to grace, okay? Number two example of election
fraud, and this one's very widespread as well, teaching that the Jews are God's elect. That is
election fraud, my friend. That is a fraud. That's not true because verse seven proves that. Look at
verse seven. It says, what then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for but the
election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded. How could you read verse seven and walk
away saying well Israel's the elect? When he clearly says well Israel has not obtained, the
elect have obtained. Now the Bible is spelling it out here that the election are the saved and that
Israel here, he's talking about unbelieving Israel, unregenerate Israel. You know the so-called
nation of Israel over in the Middle East today, for example, 99 percent are not even claiming the
name of Christ. They're not even claiming to be a Christian over there. And so the Bible says in
verse eight, according as it is written, he's going to elaborate on this, he says the election
has obtained it and the rest were blinded. According as it is written, God hath given them
the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear unto this
day. And David saith, let their table be made a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a
recompense unto them. Let their eyes be darkened that they may not see and bow down their back
alway. Doesn't sound like he's blessing Israel there. He's actually praying a curse upon them.
Now what's interesting is that if you actually look up this context in Psalms, you'll find that
it's a scripture that's used to describe Judas, right? If you look at the the Psalms that are
prophesying about Judas Iscariot, that the New Testament refers back to about Judas Iscariot,
we just went over one on a Wednesday night not too long ago. I believe it's Psalm 69 and then
the other one's in Psalm 109, which we didn't get there in the Wednesday night series but I've
preached it many times. What's interesting is that you've got these verses applying to Judas
Iscariot, these type of curses that we see, these type of imprecations. And then the the funny thing
to think about is that they're also applied to the Jews because in a sense the Jews in general
were kind of like one big Judas. And what's interesting about that is that Judas is the
New Testament version of the Old Testament name Judah. And Judea is who Christ came to. You know,
he came to the land of Judah. He came unto his own and his own received him not. And so Judah
ended up becoming a Judas because what did they do? They delivered him to the Romans to be
crucified. They screamed out, crucify him! Crucify him! Why? What evil hath he done? Right? That's
what Pilate said, I find no fault in him. Take you him and crucify him. And I'm free from the blood
of this just person. And they screamed out and said his blood be on us and on our children.
So if you think about Judas Iscariot, the person being the traitor, and then you can think of
the nation in general of Judah, the nation of Judea, the Jews betraying Christ. And that's
what's interesting about these Psalms being used for both. You know, the same Psalms are quoted in
the New Testament about Israel and quoted like right here about Israel and quoted about Judas
Iscariot because Judah became a Judas. They betrayed Christ. So we see here clearly that
when the Bible used the word election, he's not talking about the Jews. The Jews are blinded once
they rejected Christ. And only when they turn to Christ will their eyes be opened. The Bible says
that if they shall turn to Christ, then the veil shall be removed. So of course there is a remnant
according to the election of grace. That's what this chapter is about. It's about the fact that
all of Israel has not been rejected because there are Israelites who believed in Christ.
Now a lot of people will take Romans chapter 11 at the beginning there where it says,
you know, I say then hath God cast away his people God forbid. And they'll just kind of stop there
and say, well see God didn't cast away his people. But what's he saying? He's saying God did not cast
away the ones that believe in him. God did not cast away all his people. He says in verse 2,
God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. What ye not what the scripture saith
of Elias? How he maketh intercession to God against Israel saying, Lord they've killed thy
prophets and dig down thine altars and I am left alone and they seek my life. But what saith the
answer of God unto him? I have reserved myself seven thousand men who've not bowed the knee to
the image of Baal. Even so then at this present time also there's a remnant according to the
election of grace. So you have these promises in the Old Testament where he says I'm not going to
forsake all the house of Israel. You know as long as the sun is in the sky, as long as the moon is
there, I will not forsake all the house of Israel. But notice he didn't say I'm not going to forsake
any Israelite. He said I'm not going to forsake all the house of Israel. Why? Because there's
always a remnant. There are always the seven thousand men that haven't bowed the knee to Baal.
And when Jesus Christ came the Bible says he came unto his own and his own received him not.
And as we said as a nation Judah was the Judas that betrayed Christ and turned him over to the
Romans, delivered him to be crucified. But weren't there a ton of Israelites who got saved?
Weren't there a lot of Jews that received Christ? Absolutely. So he came unto his own and his own
received him not, but as many as received him, which a lot of them were Jews, to them gave you
power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, which were born not of blood.
What does that mean, born not of blood? It's saying it's not just oh we're Jews by blood,
you know, we're the children of Abraham. They were born not of blood, nor the will of flesh,
nor the will of man, but of God. They're born of God. That's what matters, the new birth,
not the physical birth. Now let's back up in the Word of God and look at some some mentions of this
word elect in the Bible, election. Go back if you would to Isaiah chapter 42. We're going to go
through the Old Testament mentions. And this word's not really used a lot in the Old Testament,
it's only used a few times. But here's the thing, we could look up all the words that,
all the verses that say chosen, because that's all elect means. Just put an s on the front of it,
select. That's what elect means. We don't really use the word elect very much today unless we're
talking about politics. But you think about select, you know, our, remember the grocery
store Safeway, didn't they have something called Safeway Select? You know, or meat that will be
called USDA Choice. So what does it mean when something is choice or select? Well all throughout
the Bible, sometimes military men will be known as chosen men. It's, you know, it's going through
the different armies and the mighty men that are with David, and it says these men are chosen men.
And basically it's saying that they're like a special forces or they're some kind of a
elite group. They're not just your grunts, but they are chosen men of war. So it's, it's another
level, you know, when you're one of the chosen men of war. Just like the meat that's choice or
select, it's something special, right? Now here's the thing about being chosen or selected is that
there's always a criteria. It's impossible to choose without there being some selection
criteria. It's not like I'm just going to pick 50 random troops and just these guys are select,
these guys are choice, these guys are special forces, these guys are an elite group. Isn't it
going to be based on something? Yes it is, but I'm getting ahead of myself. That's later in the
sermon. So when we hear the word elect, we need to understand that it means chosen, selected, choice,
whatever. Now when we hear it today, we constantly think of politics, especially right now because
that's a big thing that's on people's mind. That's why I'm kind of joking around with the title of
the sermon about election fraud because, you know, and the sad thing is some people are probably
disappointed that I'm not actually talking about the Trump and Biden election, but they don't
realize that this is the most important election of our lifetime that I'm talking about here.
Okay, and you know what's so funny is that every single election is called the most important
election of our lifetime. Who remembers every election in our life being called that as long
as we can remember every single time? Yeah, I saw that video. They had, I saw that video. It started
like 1945 and it went from 1945 until now showing TV people saying this is the most important
election, politics, this is the most important, this, it was like every single election between 1945
and now somebody put it all together in a montage and, and, and you know people are, are really
fixated on that right now. And look, I'll just throw this in there as a little commercial break.
I have zero doubt that there's election fraud and that this whole election was a fraud, but here's
the thing, I already knew it was a fraud back in 2008 when it was a fraud and in 2012 when it was
a fraud. I'm just glad that everybody else is finally catching up and realizing how much voter
fraud there is because guess what? There's voter fraud in the primaries too and voter fraud has
been widespread for a long time and so I'm glad that people are finally waking up to this, but
honestly it really isn't that important. You think it's super important whether it's Trump or Biden,
it's really not going to affect our lives that much. I don't care what anybody says.
What's going to affect your life is whether you live for God or not. If you live for God,
you're going to do great in the next four years. God will bless you and all things work together
for good to those who love God and to those who are the called according to his purpose.
If that's you, you have nothing to worry about. If you love God and you're the called according
to his purpose, Biden and Kamala can't hurt you, okay? It doesn't matter. Let the, let the heathen
rage and worry about those things, but we don't want to get fixated on those things because we
need to keep our focus on things that actually matter, spiritual things. The things that are not
seen are eternal. The things that are seen are temporal and so we need to keep our focus right,
but it, you know, is the election a fraud? I believe it's a fraud and I think it's been a
fraud for a long time and to say there's absolutely no evidence of fraud, you know, I think is
ridiculous because I, I think just the mathematical anomalies alone need to be explored
because of the fact, you know, some of the math of like, I don't, anyway, that's a stupid, stupid
subject. Let's talk about something that matters. Isaiah chapter 42 verse 1. I don't want to geek
out on math all the, you know, I have to get out the Dr. Spurgle glasses and, you know, geek out on
math and everything like that. So, uh, let's do Isaiah chapter 42 verse 1. This is, and again, I'm
going through the Old Testament mentions of elect. There's only four, but like I said, we could look
up a lot of chosen verses, but, you know, I just want to look at these because they say elect.
Isaiah 42 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold, mine elect in whom my soul delighteth. I have
put my spirit upon him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. Who are we talking
about in this verse? Jesus. This is a prophecy of Jesus in the New Testament. Clearly this is quoted
as referencing Jesus Christ. Okay, so the first thing we need to understand about this doctrine
is that Jesus is the elect. According to scripture, Jesus is the elect. He is the chosen.
He is the anointed, right? Christ means anointed. Messiah means anointed. He is the ultimate chosen
one, okay? Now flip over to Isaiah chapter 45 verse 4. So that's Isaiah 42 1. We're just looking up
four Old Testament mentions of elect. We've got Isaiah 42 verse 1. Behold my servant whom I uphold,
my elect. That's, uh, Jesus. Chapter 45 verse 4 says, For Jacob my servant's sake and Israel
mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name. I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known
me. Now in this verse, Jacob is elect, okay? Now what does that mean? God chose Abraham,
then he chose Isaac, then he chose Jacob, and he chose them to be the father of a great nation.
And that nation would be a light unto the Gentiles. It would be a pattern nation.
It was to preach the gospel and spread salvation to the Gentiles. But here's the thing. There was
something more significant about that was that actually through that nation was going to come
Jesus Christ, who is the ultimate savior. So on the surface he's telling them, hey, you know,
I've set you a light to the Gentiles. But who's the real light to the Gentiles? It's actually
Jesus who comes from Abraham. So when God says to Abraham, in thee shall all nations of the earth
be blessed, that is explained in Galatians chapter 3 as because Abraham is going to give us Jesus.
And so Jesus is going to bless all the nations. It's not that the physical nation of Israel is
going to bless all the nations. Now obviously that's one of the meanings. There's multiple
layers of meaning, like, you know, when he says, hey, I've set you a light for the Gentiles,
they were supposed to do that. They failed at that, okay? Jesus succeeded at that. And so the
prophecy is ultimately fulfilled. And so what we see here is that Jacob, the person, Israel is his
other name, he's called both Jacob and Israel, is the elect, okay? Flip over if you would to Isaiah
chapter 65. Isaiah chapter 65. So Jacob was chosen to be the father of this nation. That's
why the nation is named after him. His name personally was changed to Israel, don't forget
that. Jacob was called Israel. He said, your name shall no more be called Jacob, thy name shall be
called Israel. The nation's named after Israel because the 12 tribes of Israel are Israel's 12
sons. Jacob's 12 sons that are enumerated in the book of Genesis. So you've got the physical
nation of Israel, and when God brought them out of Egypt, he said to them, you're going to be a chosen
people unto me. You're going to be a special people unto me above all nations of the earth.
But he said, if you keep my commandments, if you continue in my covenant. He put a lot of
stipulations on that, a lot of ifs. They ended up breaking that and losing that. Now look at Isaiah
65 verse 9 and he says, I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah an inheritor of my
mountains and mine elect shall inherit it and my servants shall dwell there. Now stop and think
about this scripture for a moment. Is he saying there that all of Judah and all of Jacob is going
to inherit his mountains? Or is he just going to bring out of that group a select group that's
going to inherit? Do you see that? How he says, I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of
Judah an inheritor of my mountains and mine elect. Now the seed out of Jacob of course ultimately is
Jesus. Jesus is the seed singular of Jacob and he's going to bring out of Judah an inheritor of
his mountains. Ultimately that's Jesus but anyone who is in Christ is included in that. That's why
the Bible says if you be Christ's then are you Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise
because Jesus is the seed according to Galatians 3. So if you're in Christ, you're the seed. Well
guess what? If you're in Christ, guess what else you are? You're the elect. Jesus is ultimately the
elect. If you're in Christ, that makes you elect. So you don't have to be an Israelite or Jewish to
be elect. You just have to be in Christ because that's how you're elect through Christ. Christ is
the elect. If you're in him, you're the inheritor of his mountains. He says my elect shall inherit
it. That's Jesus. And my servants shall dwell there. That's all the people that are in Christ.
Those are the people that are elect with him. Look at verse 22 and of course we're talking about the
millennial reign of Christ. They shall not build in another inhabit. They shall not plant in another
eat for as the days of a tree are the days of my people and my elect shall long enjoy the work of
their hands. Now what are we talking about here? The days of a tree, trees live a lot longer than
people. You have trees that are hundreds of years old or even thousands of years old. I think the
oldest tree on this earth is like almost 4,000 years old or some some incredible age. You see
pictures of this gnarled tree or you can go look at those giant redwoods and you can only just
imagine how old they must be. Thousands of years old. I don't know the exact numbers but you know
you got to count the rings I guess but it's going to be a lot of rings. And so my people are going
to long enjoy the work of their hands like as the days of a tree. You know what are we talking about?
Hundreds and hundreds of years. Maybe thousands of years. So the point is that these are God's people
who believe in Jesus Christ. Christ is ruling and reigning. They're with him in that millennium.
Inheriting the promised land. So go if you would to Matthew chapter 24. Matthew chapter 24.
It's important to understand who the elect are and and to get this right. Number one,
we need to understand that election is by faith not works. Why does that matter? Because election
is salvation. To be saved is to be elect. To be elect is to be saved in the New Testament. That's
how the word elect is used. It's used about saved people. So it says for example who shall lay
anything to the charge of God's elect it is God that justifieth. So the people who are justified
are the ones who are elect. The ones who are in Christ are elect. Okay so we need to understand
that when you see the word elect in the New Testament you're not talking about Jews.
You're certainly not talking about unsaved Jews. You're talking about saved people. That's what the
word elect is referring to in the New Testament because in the Old Testament God chose a physical
nation to do his work but in the New Testament he chose a spiritual nation made up of all believers
and so it's Christians in the New Testament who are elect. So the number one election fraud
is teaching that elections by works. No, elections by grace and it can't be both. Number two,
election fraud is teaching that the Jews are elect and I mean the religion Judaism,
Christ rejecting Judaism, or Christ rejecting Israel, they are not elect. This is a fraud.
Matthew 24 verse 22 says this, and except those days should be shortened. This is the first
mention of elect in the New Testament. Except those days should be shortened there should no
flesh be saved but for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. And what we're talking
about here is the tribulation and he's basically saying that the the great tribulation is going to
be so bad, there's going to be so much persecution on believers where you know you got to take the
mark of the beast, you can't buy or sell without having this mark, that if those days were not
shortened no flesh would be saved. Now the beginning length here is 42 months so if the
thing were to run its entire course, and I'm talking about the portion of this where the mark
of the beast is rolled out and where you can't buy or sell without the mark of the beast, that
program is a 42 month thing, okay, because the first there's you know you got the seven year
period often called Daniel's 70th week in the end times and that seven year period at the midpoint
has the abomination of desolation and it's at that midpoint that the mark of the beast is rolled out.
So there's no mark of the beast until you're until you're three and a half years in.
That's when the mark of the beast gets rolled out, okay, and so you still have three and a half years
left. So if that three and a half year period were allowed to run its course, he's saying no flesh
should be saved because think about how can you survive in this world for three and a half years
where you can't buy or sell without the mark of the beast and you know if you don't take the mark
of the beast you're going to be killed. I mean three and a half years is a long time to to get
around that, you know, once the storable food runs out and you know you're hiding places or whatever,
you know, if this thing were allowed to run its course nobody would get through but but the thing
is the Bible says for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened. So actually this is not going
to run its full course. It's really going to be only a few months until Christ comes in the clouds,
the rapture takes place, and everything like that. So that's why, you know, this thing isn't
going to be fully implemented, my friend, because a lot of people wonder like well if everybody's
left on the earth who they all took the mark of the beast then how could anybody get saved,
but here's the thing it's because there's going to be a ton of people that don't take the mark
of the beast just because it's only going to be partially rolled out because the time is shortened.
Think about how many people you know that aren't even saved that probably wouldn't take the mark
of the beast anyway just because they're a conspiracy guy. You think Alex Jones is going
to take the mark of the beast? And he's not saved. He's not taking it, okay? But the but but here's
the thing, obviously it's not it's probably not going to make it to the most rural areas.
There are going to be a lot of people who just don't want to take it because it's sketchy.
There are going to be a lot of people that are just kind of putting it off. There are going to
be children and teenagers. That's why when the plagues start getting rolled out, when God pours
out his wrath, the first plague is a grievous sore when the vials are poured out a grievous
sore upon all those who have the mark of the beast who've received the mark. Well you know that shows
there's a lot of people that didn't receive the mark that are still there because once people
receive the mark they're reprobate. They're doomed. They can't be saved, but there are still a lot of
people who haven't sealed their fate yet and there are going to be many many Christians who are alive
and remain under the coming of the Lord. It's only going to be a minority of Christians who are
martyred or killed for the cause of Christ during the tribulation. Now will many Christians be killed
during the tribulation? Absolutely, but the majority are going to survive. How can that be?
Because the days are shortened. For the elect's sake those days are shortened allowing the flesh
to be saved, you know, people to get out of it with their skin. Because here's the thing, we're all saved
in the sense that we're all going to heaven and to die is gain, but here we're talking about the flesh
being saved, you know, except those days will be shortened no flesh would be saved. But we are going
to see a lot of people who survive and make it to the end and see Christ coming in the clouds and
going up in the rapture because they made it through. But why? Because it's shortened, because
it's only going to have, it's only going to last for approximately a couple months, you know. We,
you know, it's, I believe that it's going to be 75 days and you know I've laid that out and I think
there's a lot of clear evidence for that. But you know whether you subscribe to that theory or not
we know that the rap's going to happen sometime during that second half of Daniel's 70th week and
we know that it's going to be a shortening, you know, that makes it possible to get through and it
makes it actually plausible to get there, probable to get through because I think most people are
going to get through is what the scripture teaches. So he says in verse 24, uh, because we're talking
about the word elect, for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall show
great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect.
And you know what that verse is saying is that it's not possible to deceive the elect.
Now the elect can believe a lot of dumb things, you know, you run into saved Christians who believe
some dumb stuff, but they're not going to fall for a false Christ. You know, some guy comes along and
says I'm Christ and you see people falling for that, just mark it down, those people aren't saved.
The elect, and he's saying look some of these people are going to be so slick,
they're going to be so good that if it were possible they would deceive the very elect,
but the Holy Spirit provides that discernment where even just with that minimal discernment
of just being saved, it's not possible to deceive the elect. Now think about how dumb it would be to
interpret this as the Jews being elect, because this passage is rejected as being about Christians.
When you try to show people how the rapture comes after the tribulation and you try to show them
this, they'll reject this passage outright and say oh Matthew 24 that's for the Jews, that's talking
to the Jews, and you say well it's the elect right here, oh that's the Jews. How could the Jews be the
elect when it says the Jews, when it says the elect can't be deceived? If it were possible they
would deceive the very elect, let me ask you this, is it possible to deceive the Jews? Yes. They're
deceived every day. All they are is deceived. Every rabbi is deceiving them and not only that,
they will embrace the anti-Christ. They're going to love the anti-Christ. When the anti-Christ
comes on the scene, they're going to embrace him as their Messiah. They're still waiting for Christ.
So you know when the anti-Christ shows up, he's perfect for them. That's what they've been waiting
for. Now of course he turns on them at the midpoint and wipes them out and punishes them,
but in the beginning man they love him, they eat it up. So that proves they can't be the elect in
this passage because they are deceived. And here's the thing, not only are they deceived by the anti-Christ,
they are anti-Christ. Because the Bible says who is a liar? But he that denieth that Jesus is the
Christ. He's anti-Christ that denied the Father and the Son. So not only are they the deceived,
they're the deceiver. And so of course they're not the elect, that makes no sense. And then of course
we get into the key passage here in Matthew 24 beginning in verse 29 that says, immediately
after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened and the moon shall not give her light
and the stars shall fall from heaven and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken and then
shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn
and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory and
he shall send his angels with a great sound of trumpet and they shall gather together his elect.
And this is where the pre-Tribbers will say, oh that's the Jews.
But hold on a second, that makes no sense with the context, we already disproved that.
He's going to gather the Christians. So let's see, Christ in the clouds, trumpet sounds, gather the
Christians, hmm, I wonder what that is. It's the rapture folks, you'd have to be blind not to see
that this is the rapture. And so he gathers together his elect from the four winds from one
end of heaven to the other. But they say, well it can't be the rapture because we know the rapture
is pre-Trib. So I mean, this is after the tribulation, that's got to be something else.
Of course they think that the wrath of God's the tribulation.
They're mixing those things up. The tribulation is God's people being persecuted, natural disasters,
it's all the things before the wrath is poured out. There's the tribulation, then the rapture,
then the wrath of God. That's why we don't believe in a pre-Tribulation rapture, we believe in a
pre-wrath rapture. You know, raptured before the trumpets and the vials of God's wrath,
but not raptured before persecution, not raptured before the mark of the beast,
not raptured before the anti-Christ. We're going to be there for that stuff. So no, don't worry,
Christ is not returning tonight. He will not return before the end of this service. And no
coronavirus vaccine is not the mark of the beast, okay. I can't, people are so goofed up. Now look,
I'm not taking the stupid coronavirus vaccine, but it's not the mark of the beast. Give me a break.
It's crazy. Anyway, let me, let me move forward here. We could go to Mark 13 and see the exact
same thing. Exact same verses about the elect, the rapture, but we'll skip it for sake of time.
Jump if you would to Luke chapter 18, and then we're going to go to Romans 9 for the final point.
Luke chapter 18, and then we're going to go to Romans chapter 9. Luke chapter 18 says this,
shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long
with them. So another identifier about the elect, number one, they're justified by God. Number two,
they're in Christ. Number three, they're not going to be deceived by false Christs and false
messiahs. But number four is that they're the ones whose prayers God will answer. God will answer
their prayers. Well here's the thing, no man cometh unto the Father but by me. That's what Jesus
said. There's one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. Without that mediator,
without the Son, you don't have the Father, and so you're not going to just have this direct line.
You can't come boldly before the throne of grace as a Jew. You've got to be a Christian to boldly
come to the throne of grace through Christ. So look at Romans chapter 9, you know, because while
we're talking about election fraud, we might as well bring up 9-11. So Romans 9-11 says for the
children, this is Romans 9-11, it says for the children being not yet born, I'm just trying to
trigger all the algorithms on YouTube, you know, all the robots and artificial intelligence,
it's like election fraud. Oh by the way, did I mention the last Trump? The Trump shall sound,
you know, so it's just like all the, all the robots are hearing is like election fraud,
Trump, vaccine, 9-11, shut it down. But anyway, Romans 9-11 says for the children being not yet
born, neither having done any good or evil that the purpose of God according to election might
stand, not of works but of him that calleth. And so I want to bring up the third election fraud,
election fraud number one, election by works. Election fraud number two, teaching that the
Jews are elect. Election fraud number three is teaching that God elects people to go to hell,
that God elects people unto hell, and this doctrine is known as Calvinism, right? Calvinism
teaches that God chooses which people go to heaven and which people go to hell, and that my friend
is a false doctrine, it's a fraud, and this is their favorite passage to teach that is Romans
chapter 9. This is the big Calvinist passage that they go to. There are about three passages that
they go to and what's interesting is if you look at all three of them, they're all talking about
the same thing and they're reading all three of them wrong for the same reason. Because you got
the big Calvinist passages I would say are probably Romans 9, Ephesians chapter 1 and 2,
and 1 Peter chapter 1 would be the ones that I think they would probably go to the most.
And what's interesting is if you look at all of these, they're all talking about the fact that
Christians are the elect and not Jews. They're all talking about the fact that it's not Israel,
it's not the Jews, but that we as Christians are the chosen people. But what they do is instead
of looking at this as talking about, hey the Gentiles are elect now and Gentiles can be saved
and they can be elect if they're in Christ, what they do is they look at this as a passage about
personal salvation and that's not what this passage is about. It's not about personal
salvation, it's about nations. Okay, I'm going to prove that to you. Look at Romans chapter 9
verse 6. Let's get the context back up to chapter 9 verse 6. It says,
Not as though the word of God had taken none effect, for they are not all Israel which are
of Israel. So again, everything called Israel isn't Israel folks. That nation over there,
you can call it Israel, but it's not of Israel. Neither because they are the seed of Abraham are
they all children. But an Isaac shall thy seed be called. Now of course the people are just so
blinded by their Zionist views, we're just looking, well that's just saying that you know
Ishmael, you know the Arabs, that they're not the chosen. Folks, he's using Isaac as an illustration
saying, look, Ishmael's the son of Abraham, but that doesn't make him chosen. Isaac's the chosen.
Esau is the son of Abraham. Doesn't make him the chosen. Jacob's chosen. But the illustration is
that Ishmael represents the Jews, the physical seed of Abraham, but not the spiritual seed.
The Jews that are the physical seed, ironically it's the Jews that are Ishmael. And that's why
the Bible says Hagar and Ishmael correlates to Jerusalem that now is and correlates to Mount
Sinai. Galatians 4 says Mount Sinai and Jerusalem, that's Ishmael. Why? Because it's the physical
child. We as Christians, and you know what the Bible says? We brethren, as Isaac was, are the
children of promise. We're Isaac, that's what he says to Gentile believers in the New Testament.
So he says here, neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children, but an
Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are
not the children of God. But the children of the promise are counted for the seed, for this is the
word of promise. At this time will I come and Sarah shall have a son. So illustration number one
is Isaac versus Ishmael. They're both sons of Abraham, one's the son of the flesh, one's the
son of promise. But then he says not only that, here's the next illustration. Not only this, but
when Rebekah also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac, for the children being not yet
born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might
stand, not of works but of him that calleth, it was said that the elder shall serve the younger,
as it is written Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? God forbid. So here's what we need to understand. The same point that
he was making about Isaac and Ishmael is the same point he's making about Jacob and Esau. He's
continuing the parable. And here's the thing, the whole rest of the chapter is about this.
How does how does Romans 9 start telling you they're not all Israel which are of Israel?
How does Romans 9 end? Still hammering that same point at the end of Romans 9.
Okay, but what they want to do is they want to just isolate this part and make it about personal
salvation instead of being about the nation of Israel. And here's the proof that it's not about
personal salvation because he says here in verse 12, the elder shall serve the younger. Let me ask
you this, if this is about people, can you show me one stitch of evidence that Esau ever served
Jacob in his life? Read the book of Genesis, study the book of Genesis, and show me one place
where Esau served Jacob. Guess what? It never happened. In fact, what we see is Jacob serving
Esau. We never see any evidence of Esau serving Jacob ever did not happen. Now you say, well,
wasn't God telling the truth? Of course he was because when you look up this verse, the elder
shall serve the younger in Genesis 25, here's what it says, two nations are in your womb,
two manner of people are in your belly, and the elder shall serve the younger. So he didn't say
Esau the person is going to serve Jacob the person, he said there's two nations in your
womb, there's two manner of people in your belly, and the elder shall serve the younger.
So if you look up that quote, the elder shall serve the younger, it's not about people
individually, it's just about the nation. God chose the younger brother. And by the way,
there's a younger brother theme all the way through Genesis, right? Cain and Abel,
the younger brother is righteous, right? And then we get to Ishmael and Isaac, it's the younger
brother that's chosen. Jacob and Esau, he chose the younger brother. Then when he gets to the
patriarchs, is it Reuben? Nope, it's the younger brother. And then we get to Ephraim and Manasseh,
nope, it's the younger brother. So you see that's a theme, it's symbolic. Don't feel bad if you're
a younger brother, I'm a younger brother, okay? I'm sorry, it's the older brothers that should
feel bad, but don't feel bad if you're an older brother because guess what? It's just a picture,
it's just symbolic. There's nothing wrong with being an older brother. The firstborn gets a
double portion because you don't get to be part of this cool illustration of being the younger
brother. But here's the thing, God's trying to show here that salvation is not a birthright.
It's, and also the picture is the older brother represents the Jews, the younger brother represents
Christians. And remember how the older brother in the Prodigal Son story is all mad about the
younger brother coming home? That's talking about the Jews getting mad about the Gentiles late in
the game coming into the fold of God's chosen people. So what we see here is that, you know,
this is about nations, when we look up elders shall serve the younger, Genesis 25, look it up.
It says nations, clearly. But then let's look at the other verse, Jacob have I loved but Esau have
I hated. Now go to Malachi chapter one to get that quote, we'll do this quickly. Malachi chapter one
and we'll do this quote, Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated. The Bible says in verse two,
I've loved you, saith the Lord. And by the way, is you plural or singular? See, this is one of
the benefits of the King James Bible, that these and the vows are singular and anytime you have a
y word, ye, you, your, it's always plural. I've loved you, saith the Lord, yet ye say,
wherein has thou loved us, was not Esau Jacob's brother, saith the Lord? Yet I loved Jacob and I
hated Esau. There's your quote from Romans, right? But finish the sentence. I hated Esau and laid his
mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Did God ever do that to the
person Esau in the book of Genesis or did Esau prosper and thrive and die in peace? In fact,
Esau ends up being a pretty nice guy. He starts out being a jerk but then he ends up getting
right and forgiving Jacob and they they lived happily ever after. Obviously Jacob was more
righteous but Esau ends up prospering unto the end and we see him thriving and being made into
a great nation. But his descendants became very wicked because he married heathen wives and
obviously, uh, you know, the descendants went bad. But the Bible says here not only that he hated
Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste, which did not happen to Esau the person,
but to Esau the nation. Whereas Edom saith, we are impoverished, verse four, but we will return
and build the desolate places. Thus saith the Lord of hosts, they shall build but I will throw down
and they shall call them the border of wickedness and the people against whom the Lord hath
indignation forever. Is God mad at the person Esau or the people of Esau? The people Edom.
And again this goes back to the fact that the nation is named after the person.
There's a person named Israel. His descendants became known as the nation of Israel. There's a
person named Esau and Esau's name was changed to Edom. So Edom is not just a nation, it's a person.
So when you see Jacob or Esau, sometimes you're referring to the person, sometimes you're
referring to the nation. And in Romans 9 are we referring to the person or the nation? Well guess
what? Looking up both examples it's crystal clear they're both about the nation. What's the context
of Romans 9? The nation. So God did not choose Esau to go to hell. He did not choose and say okay
Jacob if I love, Esau if I hated, Jacob's going to heaven, Esau's going to hell. That's a false doctrine.
And I would not be surprised at all to see Esau in heaven. It wouldn't surprise me at all because
we don't know for sure whether he was saved or not saved because of the fact that just because
he married some heathen wives and had some bad descendants, we see some good attributes in him,
we see some bad attributes, we see him uh you know honoring his father and and whatever. I mean
who knows? I mean he's raised in the same home with Jacob. It's quite likely that he got saved.
Okay but he rep- he represents or pictures something wicked and his descendants became
something wicked. But God did not pre-ordain Esau for hell. He did not pre-ordain Ishmael for hell.
You know when Ishmael prayed to God, God heard the voice of Ishmael. God said I'm gonna bless
Ishmael and make him a great nation. So therefore just just consigning Ishmael to hell or Esau to
hell has no basis in scripture. And to use that to say well God chooses certain people for hell. Hey
I don't believe that for one second. God is not willing that any should perish but that all should
come to repentance. And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely. You know it'd be
quite disingenuous of God to say for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that
whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life if if it's really not
available to everybody. And notice God didn't just love only the elect or the people that would get
saved, he loved the world. And here's the proof that the world is referring to everybody is
because he says he so loved the world that whosoever believeth. That's a different group.
He loved the whole world so that within that group the subgroup whosoever believeth
would not perish but have everlasting life. And so God is making salvation available to everyone
and here's the thing if you go to hell it's your fault.
It's not just well I was four, no you screwed up. You did not, but Jesus said to the Pharisees you
will not come to me that you might have life. They didn't have the will to come to him. We have free
will my friend. Okay people who reject free will, first of all that's not a biblical concept and
it's also just kind of a bizarre thing to even believe because you would think that it's just
obvious our intuition tells us that we have free will. That's what separates us from a machine or
a computer. That's the only thing that really truly will you know could separate you know uh
some kind of an advanced artificial intelligence or something. It has no will you know and maybe
in our lifetime there will be some highly advanced uh artificial intelligence and and so you know
some of you guys will finally have a woman that will talk to you and hang out with you
you know on there but but you know I keep getting I literally I keep getting advertisements in
Facebook showing me a picture of some electronic looking woman's face saying this is your AI uh
companion you know that it's so advanced and she literally says like I missed you or something
that's what it's like it has a little speech bubble and I'm thinking like and I'm just like
hide this ad irrelevant I'm not looking for uh an artificial intelligence female companionship
I'm married with 11 children you know I'm not looking for uh that kind of a a soul mate
that's a machine because guess what it's not real it's not human it doesn't have a soul
it's just a computer that can only do what you tell it to do you know you know if you
go on the computer and you go to a random number generator you know those numbers aren't really
random because it's impossible to really create a truly random number through computer programming
because that number is based on something can I get a can I get a witness uh is anybody here
a computer programmer they'll verify what I just said they've got a particular lava
lamp wall that they get the lava lamps are constantly moving and the image is what they
use to generate the code so that's one example changes yeah that's but I'm just saying random
number generators they're based on something there's some kind of a criteria there's some
choice that's being made it's not like the computer is just like oh well let me think
of a number between one and a hundred real quick okay it's possible that there may be some true
randomness in nature at the quantum level but that's another story that shall be told at another
time the point is that computers can't make decisions they have no desire they have no will
we as human beings are not a machine we're not a robot we're not we're not a computer god's not
just this great big computer programmer up in heaven they just create a bunch of robots and
a bunch of artificial we're not artificial intelligence we're actual intelligences and you
know what separates us from a machine is that we have free will we make decisions and the most
important decision that you ever make is what will you do with jesus right what did pilot say
what shall i do with jesus of nazareth what should i do with jesus who's called to christ
what do i do with them hey that's the most important question you'll ever ask yourself
what will i do with jesus and the key word there is will what will you do because the choice is up
to you to accept or reject christ anybody who goes to hell it's their own fault
if they are damned it's their own damn fault okay they went there because of their rejection of
christ it's that simple so look at first peter chapter one verse two first peter chapter one
verse you can't blame anyone but yourself if you go to hell and if you go to hell you know what you
have to do you have to go over a lot of obstacles to get to hell there are all these obstacles
between you and hell you have to shove a bunch of soul winners out of your way you have to shove a
bunch of bible preaching out of your way you guys shove the holy spirit out of your way all the
people that are trying to stop you from going to hell all the bible verses that are trying to stop
you from going to hell all of the the the the times the holy spirit is convincing you or reproving
you of sin of righteousness and of judgment because the bible says he'll reprove the whole
world of sin of righteousness and judgment so you know you in order for you to get to hell
it's not like it's just a it's just a you're not just on a conveyor belt to hell my friend
there are obstacles where god is giving you all these checkpoints where it's a chance to be saved
a chance to be saved a chance to be saved and you know what if you choose to stay on that conveyor
belt then you're going to hell and it's your fault it's no one else's fault now what what do
we do and i got to hurry for sake of time but what do we do with all these verses that are saying
you know well you're elect because a lot of people will take that concept of being elect and say well
that means god picked you personally to be saved and you're elect because god picked you and he
didn't pick these other people so they're damned and it's all based on god's choice it's not up to
you it's up to him god picks one for heaven he picks another for hell and some people they say
well he didn't really pick him for hell he just didn't pick him for heaven
so they're like we just believe in single predestination we don't believe in double
predestination well isn't that if he doesn't pick you for heaven then you're isn't that kind of the
same thing see that's the dark side of calvinism the dark side of election is is the thing of
picking billions of people to send them to hell and not even giving them a chance
when supposedly god so god yeah god so loved the world that he damned 90 some percent of them
without even giving him a chance he loved them so much that he just damned them and gave them
no choice does that sound like a loving god does that sound like the god who so loved the world
to me the whole the god who so loved the world died for everybody and opened it up to everybody
and extended the free gift to everybody and and basically is up work you know if you think about
this god is working every day to try to get people saved just like we are think about it you think
god's just sitting up in heaven seeing what happens jesus and the holy spirit just kicking
back like i wonder how many people are going to get saved today they're working there's work going
on am i right i mean god's working like the holy spirit has a ministry daily reproving the world
of sin and righteousness and judgment and the holy spirit is daily at work in us leading us
directing us motivating us shaping us and molding us the lord is at work he's in heaven also
coordinating events and and making things fall into place have you noticed how uh sometimes
people's salvation testimony will involve certain things kind of falling into place
you know god's at work he's working in the hearts of us to try to get us out there preaching he's
not just passively allowing the world to go to hell but he gave the ultimate gift he loved the
world he died for us and then he's at work so that as many people will be saved as possible
but ultimately he leaves it up to us and people who do not accept this gift are doomed
it's up to us to do it now the the point i want to make here about elect is because obviously we
are those who are saved are elect but it's not that god chose individual people just you're
going to be saved and you're not he chose to save a classification of people or he chose
basically here's who he chose he chose believers that's why the bible says that we're predestined
to be conformed to the image of his son whom he did for know he also did predestinate to be
conformed to the image of his son so what you say what's predestination it's where god looked
forward into the future and he knows exactly who's going to be saved because he knows everything and
so does god know exactly which people will be saved and which ones will not absolutely but
that's different from him determining it and giving us no choice knowing the future is
different from controlling the future right and so basically god looked into the future
and whom he did for know he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son
so he looked forward and said okay well i know steven anderson is going to believe in me
you know i i know that ramin cooper is going to believe me you know i know that and insert your
name here right and so i'm going to predestinate them to be conformed to the image of my son
i'm going to call justify glorify i'm going to do all these things right because he foreknew and
look at first peter one verse two it says elect according to the foreknowledge of god the father
through sanctification of the spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of jesus
christ grace unto you and peace be multiplied folks is not elect according to nothing
elect according to randomness elect according to his caprice elect because i like your face that's
not what it says it's elect according to god's foreknowledge what did he foreknow
what's the criteria for being saved the criteria is faith in jesus and he knew this guy's gonna
believe this guy's not gonna believe he already knew that do you think god surprised like whoa
you got saved before the foundation of the world he already knew who is going to be saved and who's
not going to be saved but that does not mean that he chose and here's the thing i always whenever
i talk to calvinists i always love to ask them this question what's the criteria because the
word choose or select you have to have a criteria you think that people just hey i'm going to go
elect the president what are you basing your choice on just my the mystery of my will
do you think that some mysterious will led people to choose either trump or biden
or do you think that people chose biden because they like creepy old men or whatever you know
what i mean like you know they have a reason or maybe just they hate trump so much you know that's
probably the biggest reason developer by just i hate trump so who's the other guy i don't even
care just you had me at it's not trump but here's the thing there's always a reason you know i have
people who are voting for trump you know they have some reason they have something that that
some criteria that something that they're looking for in a candidate right if i had a bag with with
red yellow and green and blue marbles in it and i held it out to you and said i want you to select
one of these marbles you're not going to close your eyes and stick your hand into that blindfolded
because that's not that's not a selection that's not choosing choosing would be to look into the
bag and choose based on what you know that's my favorite color i like the way that one looked or
i chose a different one last there's always a reason you cannot use the word elect or select
or chosen if it's random it's like i said earlier you think that the usda just just certain random
meat wins a lottery wins a meat lottery this is usda choice certain food wins a lottery and
becomes safe way select whatever that even means i don't remember folks choice is based on criteria
and i always ask people what's the criteria who did god okay if god chooses one man to be saved
and another not to be saved what's that choice based on oh it's just the mysteries of his will
well you know if it's so mysterious why do you keep talking about it so much why don't you just
shut up about it if it's so mysterious they they fixate and talk about something that they can't
even explain that they don't even understand and folks it doesn't make any sense to just say well
the choice is based on nothing and they'll point to romans 9 and say well they hadn't done any good
or evil so therefore the choice was based on nothing wrong the choice was not based on nothing
the choice was based in that case on the fact that he wanted it to be the younger brother
so he picked the younger brother not based on anything that they had done he just chose the
younger brother because it fit his younger brother motif and what he was doing and so he picked that
had nothing to do with picking one for heaven and one for hell but every choice has a reason
behind it and a criteria okay and let me tell you so something folks the criteria of what it takes
to be the elect is no mystery there's zero mystery in it it's not the world's just the mysteries of
god's will no it's this simple it's faith faith is the criteria faith and don't miss this faith
in christ is the criteria okay if you want to be elect you got to have faith in christ that's
the criteria that's the one criteria faith in jesus so god before the foundation of the world
he looked in the future he sees who has faith in jesus and who doesn't he sees who's going to have
and look he knows this person if they hear the gospel is going to get saved so he's like okay
you know and he'll work it out so that they hear the gospel and that's what's going on in his mind
not just this randomness or capriciousness but rather it is elect according to the foreknowledge
of god so god does not choose who goes to heaven and who goes to hell he chose the believers to be
his chosen special nation in the new testament he chose the believers and predestined them to
be conformed to the image of the sun but he doesn't choose which person is going to be a
believer does everybody see the big difference there and so we need to go out and preach the
gospel to every creature and compel them to come in and persuade them to be saved because of the
fact that they have the power to either accept or reject the lord jesus christ that's up to them
and so we want to persuade people to make the right choice and just because just because it's
already happened or god knows the future folks that'd be that'd be a silly reason to uh sit back
and just let it all happen because you know what from our perspective it hasn't happened yet
and the choices haven't been made yet and i don't believe that i'm up here influencing nothing right
now you know if i show up for soul winning if you show up for soul winning is that just some kind of
an exercise do we just really need to just get out and stretch our legs no folks we show up for soul
winning because souls are at stake souls are in the balance we are pulling people out of the fire
what we do matters we are well god already knows which ones yeah he knew that your butt was going
to be out soul winning preaching to people and getting people saved that's what he foreknew
or he foreknew that you were going to be not going and not participating and and letting
everybody around you be doomed okay and you say well you know god gives everybody a chance yeah
i know god gives everybody a chance i believe every person in this world gets a chance to be
saved every single person but you know what i don't want everybody in this world to have a
chance you know what i want to have two chances you know i want to have five chances seven chances
i want people to have 10 chance what do you think a person's more likely to get saved if they heard
the gospel three times or 13 times or 15 times or 17 times that's why we go soul winning folks
because it works because we're getting people saved because we're preaching the gospel so don't
ever fall for this calvinist junk but and here's the appeal of calvinism to people
is people who don't want to go soul winning and they love to study a lot and you'll notice that
calvinists are pretty into studying and i'm pretty into studying but you know what i'm not going to
let my love for studying turn me into a calvinist because of the fact that calvinism is a lie
it's a false doctrine okay and here's the thing just because you want to study and don't want to
get out there and knock doors and preach the gospel and get out there and get out of the
ivory tower and actually talk to people and and preach to people and get out there with the
publicans and sinners you know don't don't build a doctrine around what's convenient for you
or what you like you build a doctrine on what the bible says and you know these and by the way let
me just kind of go off on the calvinist for a minute have you noticed how many of these
calvinists they love to speak in a language that only them and their buddies can understand
they use all this really uh you know esoteric lingo right they use all this nomenclature
that only them and their buddies they i mean if you if you actually listen to a calvinist preach
a lot of times you can sometimes you're listening for like 10 minutes and you think yourself like
you know i i'm a pastor i've been a pastor for you know 15 years i've i've studied a lot and so
you know i know what you're talking about but i don't think 99 of people are going to be able
to understand any of this and a lot of times i don't even understand what they're saying and
it's just like i can barely understand i've been saved for 30 some years and i've studied this
stuff and some of this stuff that you're saying some of these words that you're using it's like
what in the world you think that they're you think they're gonna you think that's gonna fly
out on the indian reservation i mean imagine taking this calvinist theologian talk and
gobbledygook and and nomenclature and bring that out to the indian res oh man the you know what the
bible says about jesus though the common people heard him gladly hey if the common people don't
hear you gladly you're doing something wrong you know what here's the thing we in our church we go
to the indian reservation we fit right in we become all things to all men and we go there
and they listen to us they talk to us they like us we get along with them and and we don't we
don't just walk up to them and just start talking about the hypostatic union you know what i mean we
talk to them on on on a on a level and when i preach i think everybody understands what i'm
saying when i preach and maybe even if a little bit of what i preach goes over your head i bet
you walk out of every sermon knowing what the sermon was about and understanding 99 of it and
even someone who was totally uneducated could walk through that door and totally understand what i'm
saying even if they weren't educated at all because of the fact that i'm preaching to the
common man in a common language okay the calvinist they just want to get all puffed up on knowledge
and just kind of just talk to each other and pat each other on the back it's about reaching people
friend and so you know you're not going to go into the hood with all that theological jargon
okay and the hood is where you're going to get the salvations amen and so we want to make sure
that we don't get into a doctrine that fits our lifestyle or our convenience we need to have a
doctrine that fits the word of god and you know what the doctrine that fits the word of god is
go and preach the gospel to every creature go into all the world open your mouth boldly to make known
the mystery of the gospel and get out there and preach to people and not get this election fraud
that says oh the election's all preordained or now look maybe the outcome of this election was
predestined by the elite maybe the 2020 election was foreordained and there was nothing you could
do to change it because it had already been chosen and foreordained by a higher power
but let me tell you something this election that we're talking about is a fair election
the biblical election is a fair election where your vote actually matters
your vote matters in this election you don't have to worry about being counted wrong or fake ballots
or you know midnight deliveries or ballots crossing state lines you know it's all real
but you know according to the calvinists you know they i guess they think god's election's all rigged
it's all it's all fixed it's already been rigged it's already fixed your vote doesn't matter well
you know what when you show up for soul winning your vote counts at faithful word baptist church
let's go ahead and have a word of prayer father we thank you so much that election is not a fraud
but lord there are people out there who who have a fraudulent election going on where they teach
elections by works or where they teach that the jews are the elect or where they teach the
or where they teach that god elects people to go to hell lord thank you so much for the fact that
that we have a real fair election through grace and lord help us to get out and preach the good
news to as many people as we possibly can in jesus name we pray amen amen please grab your
hymnals and we'll be dismissed and singing number 431
number 431 silent night
let's sing it out on that first verse number 431
oh
the infant so tender and mild sleep in heavenly peace
is
holy night shepherds quake at the sight
side glory stream from heaven afar
christ the savior is born
oh
holy night son of god loves your life
holy face with the dawn of redeeming praise jesus lord at thy birth
jesus lord at thy birth
silent night holy night
wondrous star
with the angels let us sing
to our king
christ the savior is born
so