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Well happy good evening everybody welcome faith for Baptist Church, please take your hymnals or please take your seats and grab a hymnal close by
It's good to see everyone here this evening, please turn to him number 202 number 202 my redeemer
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202 I will sing of my redeemer and his wondrous love to me number 202
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Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for helping us all gather here on this Sunday night
I pray that you bless this service bless the singing the preaching the fellowship
Phil pastor at the Holy Ghost and give us what we need to hear in Jesus name. Amen
Amen over to him number 236 number 236. No, not one
Him number 236 there is not a friend like the lowly Jesus number two three six
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This time we'll go through our announcements together
If you don't have a bulletin slip up your hand nice and high we'll get to you with one on the inside
We have our service time Sunday mornings at 1030 is our preaching service Sunday nights at 6
Wednesday nights at 7 is our Bible study will be in Psalm 71 this week
We've got the soul winning times listed there below as well as salvations and baptisms
Across the page are all the November birthdays and anniversaries that we celebrated this morning with coffee and donuts before the service
The Bible memory passage is a piece of cake this time around
We like to rotate between one that's easy and one that's hard. This is the easy one. All right, this is a really easy one
This is level beginner. So if you want to jump in and just get a little experience memorizing the Bible
This is a really low hanging fruit for you to work on John chapter 3 verses 5 3
It's a great passage as well. And then below that is the note about the yearbooks
We are taking the pictures for the yearbooks right now in that back corner. We've got the portrait studio set up
so this is a way for you to get a
Really nice family portrait done, you know
How time flies and years go by without you getting a family picture and so be sure to get your picture taken for that
We want to include everybody in the yearbook. We do this every year and it's always really fun to get the yearbooks
It's all free. Of course. The pictures are free you get the electronic
Format of the pictures for free in high resolution and you get the yearbook for free when they come out
So you can't beat the price folks
And even if you're just a single get your picture taken as well want to include everyone singles couples families
Let's get everybody in there and then on the back and by the way
The signup sheet is in the back corner of the auditorium over there
So pick a time that works for you and get photographed on the back. We've got the birth announcements
We've got baby Victoria baby autumn and baby Jacob
Be sure to congratulate the families on that and we got the pictures to prove it right here
And then below that is the note about the ladies game night. That's this Friday at 6 30 p.m
And please RSVP either on the Facebook event page or with mrs. Suzanne Forte and
then below that are
Some other upcoming events. We've got the Spanish night every second Thursday of the month
Which this time will be November the 12th
And then we've got the church picnic coming up in just a couple weeks on
November the 14th from 3 o'clock to 6 o'clock that is going to be on the
Southwest corner of College and curry don't just type in Papago Park
you have to actually go to the southwest corner of
College and curry because Papago Park is huge and GPS could take you to a lot of different places
So it's it's basically the same place that we've always been for the last 14 years in a row and
That's always a fun activity who's planning on going to the church picnic put up your hand if you're planning on going
All right, very good. And
Then other events are listed there below as well
And then let's go ahead and count up the soul winning from the past few days going back to
Thursday anything from Thursday
Okay, I
Thought I saw something over here. There we go. All right
All right. Gotcha. Anything else from Thursday?
All right. How about Friday anything from Friday? Gotcha?
Okay
Got it
Anything else from Friday? How about Saturday anything from Saturday? Gotcha?
Gotcha
Got it
Anything else from Saturday and then how about today? I know that the main group with brother Scott had eight
Anything else other groups? Okay nine for a brother Tilson's group. Yeah one in the back
Okay, anything else from today?
All right, very good. Keep up the girl. Are you pointing? Well, there we go. All right
Gotcha
All right, keep up the great work on soul winning. And with that let's go ahead and sing our next song come lead us
Or
We're gonna sing Psalm 20 or Psalm 81 Psalm 81 if you need one you can raise your hand
Psalm 81 sing it on this first
Make a song and bring you the temple of pleasant heart with the Psalm to read
Blow up the trumpet in the new blue
In the title pointed on our solemn feast day
For this was a statue for Israel in the law of the God of love
This we ordained in Joseph for a testimony when he went out
Through the land of Egypt where I heard of language that I understood not
I removed his shoulder from the burden
His hand was delivered from the pause
Thou caused me trouble and I delivered thee
I answered thee the secret place of thunder
I proved thee at the waters of her rainbow
See the hero my people
And I will testify unto thee
From grace from hell the Lord can unto me
There shall no strange God be me
Neither shall thou worship any strange God
I am the Lord thy God which brought me out of the land of Egypt
Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it
But my people when the heart gets to my voice
And Israel would none of me
So I gave my loved ones to their own hearts' loves
And they walked in their own counsels
All that my people had hearkened unto me
And Israel had walked in my ways
I should soon have subdued their enemies
And turned my hand against their adversaries
The haters of the Lord should have submitted
Should have submitted themselves unto him
But their times should endure forever
He should have fed them also
With the finest of the wheat and the money
Out of the rock should I have satisfied thee
Please turn to hymn number 297
Number 297 close to thee
Thou my everlasting portion number 297
Thou my everlasting portion
More than friend or life to me
All along my field of journey
Savior, let me walk with thee
Close to thee, close to thee
Thou art thou, I build my journey
Savior, let me walk with thee
Not for ease or worldly pleasure
Not for fame, but there shall be
That we will, life's worth, and suffer
Only let me walk with thee
Close to thee, close to thee
That we will, life's worth, and suffer
Only let me walk with thee
Meet me through the veil of shadows
Fairly your lessons we'll see
In the gate of life eternal
May I enter, Lord, with thee
Close to thee, close to thee
In the gate of life eternal
May I enter, Lord, with thee
Alright this time we'll pass the offering plates around
As the plates go around let's turn our Bibles to Proverbs chapter 1
Proverbs chapter number 1
And as we always do we'll read the entire chapter
Proverbs chapter 1 beginning in verse number 1
Follow along with brother Raymond as he reads
Proverbs 1 starting in verse number 1
The book of Proverbs chapter 1
The proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel
To know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding
To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment and equity
To give subtlety to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion
A wise man will hear and will increase learning
And a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels
To understand a proverb and the interpretation
The words of the wise and their dark sayings
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge
The fools despise wisdom and instruction
My son, hear the instruction of thy father
And forsake not the law of thy mother
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head
And chains about thy neck
My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not
If they say, Come with us, let us lay weight for blood
Let us work privily for the innocent without cause
Let us swallow them up, alive as the grave
And whole as those that go down into the pit
We shall find all precious substance
We shall fill our houses with spoil
Cast in thy lot among us, let us all have one purse
My son, walk not thou in the way with them
Refrain thy foot from their path
For their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood
Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird
And they lay weight for their own blood
They lurk privily for their own lives
So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain
Which taketh away the life of the owners thereof
Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth her voice in the streets
She crieth in the chief place of concourse
And the openings of the gates
In the city she uttereth her words, saying
How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity
And the scorners delight in their scorning
And fools hate knowledge
Turn you at my reproof
Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you
I will make known my words unto you
Because I have called and ye refused
I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded
But ye have set at naught all my counsel
That would nud on my reproof
I also will laugh at your calamity
I will mock when your fear cometh
When your fear cometh as desolation
And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind
When distress and anguish cometh upon you
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer
They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me
For that they hated knowledge
And did not choose the fear of the Lord
They would none of my counsel
They despised all my reproof
Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way
And be filled with their own devices
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them
And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them
But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely
And shall be quiet from fear of evil
Brother Nick, will you pray for us?
Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, thank you for this great church.
Lord, at this time, please fill Pastor Anderson with your spirit
and allow us to be edified, that we may better glorify you
and to be better Christians for your name and in Jesus' name, amen.
Amen.
In Proverbs chapter 1 there, the part of the chapter that I'd like to focus on
is beginning in verse number 23 where the Bible reads
I will turn you at my reproof
Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you
I will make known my words unto you
Because I have called and ye refused
I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded
But ye have said it not all my counsel
And would none of my reproof
I also will laugh at your calamity
I will mock when your fear cometh
The title of my sermon tonight is
Too late, reprobate. Too late, reprobate.
Now, this concept is all throughout Scripture
that it can become too late for someone.
There isn't just always another chance.
God truly is the God of the second chance
and God gives people second chances and third chances and fourth chances
but eventually the Bible says
He the being often reproved hardeneth his neck
shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.
Suddenly means it's without warning
and without remedy means there's no fixing it.
There's no going back.
It gets to a point where it's just too late
and in Proverbs chapter 1
the Bible is describing a time when it would become too late
for people who had rejected the word of God.
They didn't want to listen to what God had to say.
Now they're looking for him.
Now they're seeking him and they can't find him.
Now let's go through this point by point here in Proverbs 1.
It says because I've called and ye refused
I have stretched out my hand and no man regarded.
It's not that God isn't interested in saving people.
It's not that God doesn't love people
and reach out to them and give them every chance.
Look, he stretched out his hand but they didn't regard it.
He called unto them but they refused.
He says but you would none of my reproof.
He's saying you didn't want to be corrected.
You didn't want to be told that you were wrong.
You said it not all my counsel.
So you looked at the wisdom and truth of the Bible
and you turn your nose up at it and say well I don't need that.
I'm not interested. That's nothing.
That's just written by a bunch of goat herders or what, right?
Isn't that what people say when they mock the Bible
which is the greatest book on this planet
which is not even in the same class with any other book.
No other book can even be compared to it.
He says I also will laugh, verse 26, at your calamity.
I will mock when your fear cometh.
Now some people would look at this and see God laughing at the wicked
or mocking the wicked and they would say well I isn't very loving of God.
I can't believe that he would do such a thing
but folks hold on a second.
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son
that whosoever believeth in him should not perish
but have everlasting life.
God's love is not in question.
God is an extremely loving God.
He's very merciful, compassionate.
He's very gracious and God loved us so much
that he sacrificed his son on the cross to save us.
The Bible says the very hairs of our head are numbered.
Every thought that we have, he knows it all together.
He forms and fashions us in our mother's womb.
It's not that God isn't a loving God.
It's just that God eventually when you spat in his face
and rejected him so many times will eventually give up
and give you over and turn you over to a reprobate mind and you're done.
And so it's not that God isn't a loving God
when he has reached out to people, he sacrificed his son,
he's done everything for them and they hate him
and reject him and mock him.
Well eventually he says okay well you know eventually I'm going to mock you.
Now stop and think about this.
What if there were a young man and he were in love with a young woman
and he said all kinds of nice things to her
and he bought her gifts and he expressed his love to her
and she just kept rejecting him and rejecting him and rejecting him.
Don't you think eventually he's just going to move on and find someone else?
Eventually he's going to realize hey she's not interested
and he's going to move on and walk away.
And then maybe five years later she's going to be like
oh man I should have been with him all along after she's been with a bunch of losers.
And then she tries to go back and call him and it's like
oh sorry that ship has already sailed.
He's already married to someone else.
That offer's not open anymore. That's not on the table.
And so you see it's a similar concept with God
is that God loves us and he offers us forgiveness,
he offers us salvation but you can't just keep saying no
and just expect a bug just flew into my mouth.
Can you believe that?
I'm not that uncouth to just be spitting on the pulpit for no reason.
I had a good reason.
Ejected.
But here's the thing, okay.
God is not just going to be rejected and mocked
because what does the Bible say? God's not mocked.
God is not mocked, okay.
And there's only so much that God's going to put up with
even though he's very forgiving, he's very compassionate,
he's very merciful, he has a limit to that.
There's a line that you can cross with God where he says
I will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh.
When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind,
when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me
but I will not answer.
They shall seek me early but they shall not find me.
Now this is the God that said ask and it shall be given you.
Seek and ye shall find.
Knock and it shall be opened on you.
For everyone that asketh receiveth and everyone that seeketh findeth
and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Folks, God's not a respecter of persons.
Jesus Christ died on the cross for every single person who's ever lived.
And if they ask it shall be given.
But here's a group of people that have gotten to a point where now they ask
and he says no, it's too late.
Where they seek and they can't find.
He said in verse 28 then shall they call upon me but I will not answer.
They shall seek me early but they shall not find me.
Why?
Well you know God before the foundation of the world just picked that certain people were doomed.
That's not what a reprobate is folks.
That Calvinist reprobate doctrine is the wrong reprobate doctrine.
The biblical reprobate doctrine says the reason why he won't answer is because they hated knowledge verse 29
and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
See they didn't choose the fear of the Lord.
That's why he's now rejecting them.
Verse 30 they would none of my counsel.
They despised all my reproof.
Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own ways and be filled with their own devices.
He's saying you did this to yourself.
If you are a reprobate you did it to yourself.
You know Jesus Christ died for you.
He loved you.
He offers you everything.
But if you just keep on rejecting him eventually it becomes too late.
Okay now let's flip over to the book of Matthew.
Now a lot of people they struggle with this doctrine.
And they have an attitude that says it's never too late for anybody.
You know just until the last breath you can be saved.
And that's what a lot of people out there teach and believe that it's just it's never too late until your last.
But here's what's so funny about that even by saying until your last breath you know what they're admitting.
There comes a time when it's too late because they said until your last breath.
So everyone acknowledges that there comes a time when it's too late.
Even the Hallmark crowd that just says you know as long as your heart's beating there's still hope there's still a chance.
You know what even they're acknowledging that when your heart stops beating it's over at that point.
But guess what the Bible teaches that for some people it can be over before their heart stops beating.
It can be over before they breathe their last breath.
Where a person can get to a point where they can no longer be saved.
A person can get to a point where it's impossible to reach them.
You say how can that be.
Folks it shouldn't surprise us because we know that when they die without Christ it's too late.
So why would it shock you that someone could push God so much and reject him so much that they could just get to that point a little bit early.
It shouldn't be hard to believe at all.
And it's in all four gospels very clearly.
Go if you would to Matthew chapter 12.
Let's see the book of Matthew.
Matthew chapter 12 here's what Jesus said.
Starting in verse 31.
Wherefore I say unto you all manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men.
But the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men.
And whosoever speaketh the word against the Son of Man it shall be forgiven him.
But whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not be forgiven him.
Neither in this world. Watch this.
Neither in the world to come.
The Bible is describing a situation.
And here's the thing.
Even people who scoff at the reprobate doctrine.
Even people who would quote unquote disagree with that position.
They would all agree that well if someone blasphemes the Holy Ghost it's too late for them.
Well that's all this doctrine is.
That's all it's saying is that there can come a situation where a person has done something.
To the point or gotten to a point where they can no longer be saved.
And the Bible says look all kinds of sins are going to be forgiven to people.
All manner of sin and blasphemy.
I mean there are going to be people who are forgiven of murder and adultery and drunkenness and fornication.
I mean look all kinds of sins are going to be forgiven to men and thank God for that.
Because without that a lot of people wouldn't be going to heaven.
We've all sinned and come short of the glory of God.
And thank God he'll forgive all that sin.
But he says there's a situation.
There's a group that cannot be saved.
Because he says the people who have blasphemed against the Holy Ghost.
He said it shall not be forgiven them.
Neither in this world.
Neither in the world to come.
That's a pretty clear scripture isn't it?
Go if you would to Mark chapter 3.
It's pretty clear when he says hey you can get forgiven of all manner of sins.
But you cannot be forgiven of blaspheming the Holy Ghost.
And it's not going to happen in this world.
And you say well you know maybe in the next life.
Nope there is no next life.
It's appointed unto men once to die and after this the judgment.
And you're not going to be forgiven in this life.
And you're not going to be forgiven in the world to come either.
He says in Mark chapter 3 verse number 28.
Verily I say unto you all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men.
And blasphemies wherewithsoever they shall blaspheme.
But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness.
But is in danger of eternal damnation.
And he explains what they did when they blasphemed the Holy Ghost.
Because they said he hath an unclean spirit.
So when they accused Jesus of casting out devils by the prince of the devils.
And having an unclean spirit.
At that point they had crossed a line where they had blasphemed the Holy Ghost.
And Jesus said you will never be forgiven.
You are doomed.
You cannot be saved.
Go if you would to John chapter 12.
John chapter 12.
And we'll see the Bible talk about this same group of people.
Who rejected the Lord Jesus Christ to a point where it became too late for them.
And as you can see this is a pretty clear doctrine in the Bible.
Proverbs 1 was pretty clear warning about people that could refuse God too many times.
And then he won't be found of them anymore.
They can't find him.
They seek him and they can't find him.
Remember this morning by the way in Genesis chapter 9 when they sought the door.
They wearied themselves to find the door.
But they were too blind to find the door.
Well guess who the door is in that story.
Jesus.
Jesus said I'm the door.
If any man enter in by me he shall be saved.
And so yeah they are blind and can't find the door.
I wonder what that means.
Go if you would to John chapter 12.
And we'll see another scripture to support this.
It's in Luke as well but for the sake of time we saw it in Matthew and Mark.
But jump down if you would to verse 37 of John chapter 12.
But though he had done so many miracles before them.
Yet they believed not on him.
That the saying of his eyes the prophet might be fulfilled which he spake.
Lord who has believed our report.
And to whom at the arm of the Lord been revealed.
Therefore they could not believe.
Because that Isaiah said again he hath blinded their eyes.
Now stop and tell me who's the he there.
It's God.
Obviously.
He hath blinded their eyes and hardened their heart.
That they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart.
And be converted and I should heal them.
These things said Isaiah when he saw his glory and spake of him.
So stop for a moment here.
We have a group of people where God has blinded their eyes.
God has hardened their heart if you're there in verse 40.
That they should not see with their eyes nor understand with their heart.
And be converted and I should heal them.
These people have been blinded by God.
Their heart is hardened by God so that they won't believe.
And it says in verse number 39.
Therefore they could not believe.
Why couldn't they believe?
Why could they not believe?
Because God blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts.
And it may seem like I'm kind of belaboring this point.
But so many people don't get this.
So I want to just really hammer it.
Because so many people resist this truth.
But it's a biblical truth that God can get so fed up with someone.
That he can actually blind them.
Harden their heart and then they can't believe.
Now if you would flip over to Romans chapter 1.
Actually before we go to Romans 1 go to Hebrews 6.
Hebrews chapter 6.
And here's the thing.
Some people will twist what I'm saying.
And it's funny because I don't really even think that they don't understand me.
Because what I'm saying is so clear.
I think that they're pretending to not understand and twisting my words on purpose.
Because I don't think anybody could really walk away from this sermon.
Or walk away from other sermons that I've done on this subject.
And not understand what I'm saying.
Because I'm just going over it and over it and making it so clear.
But people always twist this.
And here's how they twist this.
Well you're saying that if certain people believe on Christ they won't be saved.
Is that what I said? Did I say anything like that ever?
No because what did I show you from the Bible?
The people who are blinded and whose hearts are hardened don't believe in Jesus.
Does everybody get that?
So everybody who believes shall be saved.
Let's just start there.
The Bible says that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The Bible says believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
So there's no question that every single person who believes on the Lord Jesus Christ is saved.
No question about that at all.
There are 7.4 billion people in this world.
If one of them truly believes in the Lord Jesus Christ and goes to hell then John 3.16 is a lie.
Then all the other hundred some verses that teach salvation by faith are a lie.
The Bible is not a lie. God cannot lie.
And the Bible tells us over and over again that those who believe on Jesus Christ are saved.
Here's the thing about the reprobate.
The reprobate doesn't believe in Jesus.
And people can ask the question, well, what if a reprobate believes in Jesus?
Folks, that's what a reprobate is, someone who can't believe in Jesus.
That's the whole point.
They are a reprobate because God has blinded their minds and hardened their hearts and so they can't believe as a result.
If they believed, they'd be saved.
You know, people ask the question, well, you know, if a homo believed in Jesus, would he be saved?
Anyone who believes in Jesus would be saved.
But here's the thing, the reprobate, which is what homos are, by the way, they're not going to believe.
Because they can't believe because their minds have been blinded, their hearts have been hardened.
This is what the Bible says.
Look what it says in Hebrews chapter 6.
It says in verse 4,
For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost
and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come, if they shall fall away, to renew them again unto repentance,
seeing they crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame.
For the earth which drinketh in the rain that cometh off upon it and bringeth forth herbs, meat for them by whom it is dressed, receiveth blessing from God.
But that which beareth thorns and briars is rejected and is nigh unto cursing, whose end is to be burned.
But, beloved, we are persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
So you've got a couple of groups being described here in Hebrews chapter 6.
You've got the used guys group.
He's talking to the reader and he's saying to them, we're persuaded better things of you and things that accompany salvation, though we thus speak.
Then we've got this other third party.
So he uses the second person pronouns when he's talking to the reader.
He's talking to save people.
And he says to the saved people, you guys aren't in this boat.
We're persuaded better things of you.
But these other people over here, okay, what do we know about those people?
Let's work backwards, okay?
Let's start in verse 9 and we see the good guys saved, right?
Back up to verse 8, we have this other group.
And what characterizes this group?
There are three things that characterize this group according to verse 8.
Number one, they bear thorns and briars.
You know what that is?
Bad fruit, evil fruit, corrupt fruit.
Number two, they're rejected.
And by the way, look up reprobate in a dictionary, guess what it means?
Rejected.
Those are synonyms.
And then the third thing I want you to see is that their end is to be burned.
So it's not really hard to see the contrast between these two different groups.
We've got a group that's the reader that he's writing to and he's saying, hey,
we're going to move on from the basics and you guys are in a better boat.
You're saved.
And then there's this other group that brings forth briars and thorns and they're
rejected by God and they are going to hell is basically, you know, they're going
to be burned.
They're toast, okay?
So these are the couple of groups here that we see.
Now, let's back up and he says in verse 4, it's impossible for those who were once
enlightened.
These are the thorns and briars, rejected, damned group.
It's impossible for those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the heavenly
gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good word of God
and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again
and to repentance.
Now look, whoever this group is, it's impossible to renew them to repentance.
It's not possible.
Whoever they are, right?
Can you reach these people?
Can you fix these people?
Can you straighten these people out?
No, you can't.
Whoever they are.
It doesn't matter if you agree or disagree with who I'm saying they are.
Whoever they are, you can't fix these people.
You can't reach these people because it's impossible to renew them again unto repentance.
It's not going to happen, okay?
Now look, these people I submit to you are the same group of people that we've been
reading about elsewhere that could not believe.
They're reprobate, they're rejected, their eyes are blinded.
And what the Bible is saying here is that these people were once enlightened.
Do you see that in verse four?
It's impossible for those who were once enlightened.
What does it mean to be enlightened?
Well, picture a cartoon character where a little light bulb comes on, like ding.
It means that they understand, they get it, they think of something, right?
So when the Bible says they were once enlightened, it means that they understood or comprehended
something about God, right?
They were enlightened as to the things of God.
It says that they have tasted of the heavenly gift.
Notice it does not say that they received the heavenly gift.
You know, imagine if I were at Costco surfing through the samples and going from table to
table at Costco and I'm grabbing this toothpick and I'm grabbing that toothpick and I'm
tasting of those things, but here's the thing.
That doesn't mean that I am going to buy that product.
It doesn't mean that I've chosen that product.
It doesn't mean that I've embraced that product because you know what I could do?
I could taste it and spit it out and say, I don't like this.
I'm not going to buy it.
I'm never going to buy it.
If it's offered to me for free, I'm never going to eat it again because I don't like
it.
So you can see how tasting something is not the same as receiving something.
See, a lot of people will take this and say, well, they tasted the heavenly gift and they'll
say, see, they're saved.
Hold on a second.
That's not the same as receiving.
You know what the Bible says about Jesus when he was on the cross?
I was just reading it this afternoon.
Jesus is hanging on the cross and you know what?
They give him on a sponge vinegar to drink and when he had tasted it, he would not drink
thereof.
So here's Jesus tasting something and not drinking it.
So you could taste of the heavenly gift without taking of the cup of salvation and actually
drinking the water of life freely, okay?
Being enlightened and understanding the gospel is not salvation.
Just understanding something mentally isn't salvation.
Tasting something isn't salvation.
You have to put your faith and trust in Jesus Christ.
You have to receive that gift.
You have to pull the trigger and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
Call upon the name of the Lord.
It's not enough just to understand or to taste.
And it says made partakers of the Holy Ghost and people would again say, oh, see, they're
saved.
No, they're not.
Because remember, if we look at verses 8 and 9, there are the people who are saved.
We're persuaded better things of you and the better things accompany salvation because
you guys are saved.
You have those better things that accompany salvation.
Whereas these people aren't saved, they are going to be burned.
They bear thorns and briars.
They are rejected.
What does it mean to be a partaker of the Holy Ghost?
Well, here's what you have to understand.
The Holy Ghost has a ministry to the entire world, even unsaved people.
That's what the Bible teaches.
When Jesus Christ taught that the Holy Spirit would come and that he would send the comforter
and, well, let's not turn there for the sake of time.
But in John chapter 16, he says that he will reprove the world of sin because they believe
not on me.
The Holy Spirit actually works in the hearts of unsaved people, even people who never get
saved.
The Holy Spirit works in their heart and reproves them of sin and testifies to them.
The Holy Ghost was working on you before you got saved and then eventually you got saved.
But you know what?
Some people, the Holy Ghost works on them and they taste it and they get it and the
Holy Ghost is ministering unto them and working on them, but then they reject it and they
can get to a point where it's too late for them.
So it says they've tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come.
Notice that it says taste, taste, taste.
How can you say that these people have embraced the gospel or that they have accepted Jesus
Christ as their savior?
Here's what they did.
They tasted, they tasted, and then they tasted some more.
Well, you know what?
If I said to somebody, hey, he tasted, he tasted, he tasted, it's like, okay, did he
end up buying it?
And obviously we don't buy salvation, but we receive salvation.
Did he end up eating the meal?
I could put a bunch of food in front of a guest and they can taste and taste and taste
and they might just push the plate away and say, you know what?
I'm going to go to Burger King.
So the Bible here is talking about someone who cannot be renewed to repentance.
You cannot reach them.
You cannot fix them.
Now, some people have tried to twist.
The reason I'm emphasizing so much that this isn't saved people is because some people
have tried to twist this passage and say, oh, this teaches you can lose your salvation.
Who's ever had someone try to use this passage to say you could lose your salvation?
Well, here's what's so dope about that.
All these people who believe that, they all think that you could lose it and then get
it back.
All of them.
But yet this passage says that whoever these people are, they can never be restored.
And by the way, you can never lose your salvation because Jesus gives you eternal life and he
said, I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
The Bible says nothing can separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus
our Lord.
And so here's another passage talking about people who are doomed for whom it's too late.
And look, the thorns and briars, that's straight out of Matthew chapter seven when Jesus said
every good tree brings forth good fruit, a corrupt tree brings forth evil fruit, and
he said a good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit.
Neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.
Every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast in the fire.
The context of that is false prophets.
The false prophets are the evil trees that bring forth corrupt fruit and the good trees
bring forth good fruit.
And so, and by the way, that's why saved people are the only ones who can get someone
saved.
An unsaved person can't get someone saved because you know what that would be?
That'd be a corrupt tree bringing forth good fruit.
That'd be like if you gathered grapes of thistles.
That'd be like gathering figs of thorns.
Is that ever going to happen?
No.
The good tree brings forth good fruit and it says a corrupt tree cannot bring forth
good fruit.
It can't happen.
And you say, well, you know, the fruit there is just what you say.
You know, one of these phony false prophets was preaching and false prophets love to preach
this because they don't have any good fruit.
So that's why they have to preach this.
So this phony false prophet, he said, no, no, no.
That Matthew seven passage, it was Tyler Baker.
But anyway, he said that Matthew seven passage, he said, that's just the words that come out
of your mouth.
Okay.
So stop.
Let's test that for a second.
Okay.
So I guess a good tree can never say anything bad.
Folks, the Bible says the tongue can no man tame.
Doesn't the Bible teach us that no one has total control of their tongue?
Haven't we all said something bad?
Who's ever said something bad after you got saved in the last week, in the last hour?
No, I'm just kidding.
But anyway, look, we've all said bad stuff because of the fact that the Bible says the
tongue can no man tame.
It's an unruly evil full of deadly poison.
And so how can you say that a, that a good tree can't bring forth evil fruit so they
can never say anything wicked?
Come on.
It's ridiculous.
Of course, good people can say bad things and even more so let's flip that over.
Can bad people say good things?
Of course they can because of course they can be an imposter and talk the talk and creep
in unawares and say all the right things.
But inside what look, what did the Bible say?
He said, this people draw an eye to me with their mouth, but their heart is far from me.
So they're saying the right thing.
So that doesn't make it easy.
But now let's test the correct doctrine that bringing forth fruit in this context is talking
about reproducing, like be fruitful and multiply like as in some 30, some 60, some 100.
Okay.
And if it's talking about reproducing, well, everything reproduces after its own kind.
And so dogs beget dogs, cats beget cats, and Christians beget Christians.
So the Christian, the good tree brings forth good fruit.
The Bible says the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life and he that winneth souls is wise.
So the good tree brings forth good fruit.
Okay, so now let's test that.
Can an unsaved person win a saved person to Christ?
No.
And that makes perfect sense that an unsaved person isn't going to go around getting people
saved.
Some other idiot pastor recently said, I think the Judas Iscariot probably got more
people saved than any of the other disciples.
Well, you know, I guess it's a shame that he hung himself then because he was such an
amazing soul winner.
He could have stuck around.
That's that's just stupid, folks.
You know, when people don't actually have God leading them when they preach, that's
the kind of stupid junk that they have to come out with to entertain their listeners
because they don't actually have biblical truth and the fullness of the Holy Spirit.
So they got to pull out all this little cute junk like it's that's nonsense.
It would have been better for that man if he had never been born.
Oh, but thank God he was the best soul winner, better than John, better than Peter, better
than James, better than Andrew to be a complete idiot to believe that.
You know, I wonder why any idiots would even be in that guy's church after he says something
stupid and he says something stupid like that almost every week.
Beloved, let's go to Revelation.
Let's go to Revelation Chapter 22.
Revelation Chapter 22.
Folks, that's crazy.
Folks, a good tree doesn't bring forth evil fruit.
An evil tree doesn't bring forth good fruit.
OK.
And so, you know, this doctrine that it could be too late for certain people.
Where have we seen it so far?
We saw it in Proverbs Chapter 1.
That's where we started.
Then we saw it in Matthew.
We saw it in Mark.
You're going to have to trust me that it's in Luke.
We saw it in John.
OK.
And then we saw it in Hebrews Chapter 6.
So, I mean, this isn't an isolated doctrine, is it?
OK.
Now let's look at Revelation Chapter 22, verse number 17.
It says, and the spirit and the bride say, come, and let him that heareth say, come,
and let him that is athirst come, and whosoever will, let him take a little taste.
No, it says, let him take the water of life freely.
For, he's saying, look, get saved.
Receive it.
For I testify unto every man that heareth of the words of the prophecy of this book,
if any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto 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 his part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things which
are written in this book.
OK.
So let's stop and think about this for a minute.
OK.
Let's say you got a guy.
He's going through life.
And he becomes a corruptor of God's word.
He goes through and starts editing and changing God's word.
And he comes out with his own version of the Bible where he has removed things and changed
things and twisted things like a Joseph Smith or something, you know, who most of the Book
of Mormon is plagiarized from the Bible anyway.
But imagine someone going through life and they would do that.
Can this person be saved?
Can this person change their mind and say, OK, never mind, I'm going to be saved now?
Well, no, because the Bible says if you take away from the words of the book of this prophecy,
God shall take away your part out of the book of life and out of the holy city and from the things
which are written in this book.
Now, folks, that would be a meaningless statement if you could just do that and then just turn
around and later get saved.
Then what is he even trying to scare you with here?
Isn't this supposed to be a stern warning?
It's the very end of the Bible.
By the way, it's a very famous passage because a lot of people, even if they don't read the whole
Bible, they look at the first page and the last page.
So this is super famous.
And look, are you going to tell me that this has no teeth in it?
This is the big curse at the end of the Bible, the big old curse saying, don't you dare add anything.
Don't take anything away, because if you do, I'll add to you the plagues in this book.
I'll take away your part out of the book of life.
Look, the place where your name would have been.
There's not even a slot for you.
There's not even a place for you.
It's not even like, oh, there's a blank where your name.
No, no, there's nothing there.
Your part is gone out of the book of life.
Your part is gone out of the holy city.
It's over for you.
OK, go to Revelation Chapter 14.
Revelation Chapter 14.
And the Bible reads in Revelation 14, verse 9.
And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice,
If any man worship the beast in his image and receive his mark in his forehead or in his hand,
the same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God,
which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation,
and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels
and in the presence of the Lamb,
and the smoke of their torment ascendeth up forever and ever,
and they have no rest, day nor night,
who worship the beast in his image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Now, how could the Bible be any more clear here
that if you receive the mark of the beast in the end times,
you know, when the Antichrist is giving out the mark of the beast,
that if someone receives the mark of the beast, they can never be saved?
And again, this is not talking about saved people.
No saved person could or would receive the mark of the beast.
No saved person would be a corruptor of God's word,
removing things, adding things.
Every saved person is indwelled by the Holy Spirit of God,
and there are certain limitations and certain boundaries,
and that's one of them, okay?
They're not going to believe in the Antichrist,
because what does the Bible say about the Antichrist?
It says that he'll be so slick that if it were possible,
he would deceive the very elect.
You know what that means? It's not possible.
If it were possible, he would deceive the elect.
It's not good, but it's not possible.
And again, people ask this what if scenario.
Well, what if, you know, someone marries a wife,
and then she marries all seven of his brothers.
You know, people always have these goofy what if crazy scenarios.
It's like, well, what if somebody is saved,
and they do worship the Antichrist, because here's the thing.
You don't just, when the mark of the beast rolls around,
you don't just go to the post office and fill something out
and just, or do it online.
Folks, according to the Bible, to receive the mark of the beast,
you have to worship the Antichrist.
You must worship the Antichrist.
Those two things go together.
Everybody who receives this mark, they also worship the Antichrist.
So people say, well, what if they did?
Well, here's, we know two things.
We know, number one, that you can't lose your salvation.
We've got a hundred Bible verses on that, very clear.
And then on the other hand, we know anybody
who receives the mark of the beast is going straight to hell
in a hand basket, according to the scripture.
So the way that both of those two things can be true
is to understand that people who are actually saved
are incapable of receiving the mark of the beast.
Does everybody understand that?
That's how both of those things can be true.
Look, you either believe the whole Bible or you don't.
And if you believe the whole Bible,
both of those things have to be true.
And the way that they can both be true
is if no saved person can take the mark of the beast
because then you won't have this quandary of, you know,
well, you know, they're saved,
but they took the mark of the beast, whatever.
But here's the thing.
We have false prophets out there now teaching
that someone could take the mark of the beast
and then get saved later.
John MacArthur, Kent Hovind.
I believe Sam Gipp.
I know that that chipmunk guy, Robert Breaker,
teaches it for sure.
He said that if they, you could cut off your hand
or behead yourself.
It's like, what? It's crazy.
That's what he said.
Okay, but here's the thing.
You say, well, how can a saved person not receive it?
Because what if a saved person is just so backslidden
and they just get really desperate
and they're just like, that's it.
I'm getting the mark of the beast.
Well, here's the thing.
It would be very easy for there to be a technology in place
where they'll know if you really mean it
when you worship the beast.
Because stop and think about this.
And, folks, I'm not trying to get all crazy
and sci-fi right now,
but, folks, it's no longer fiction.
It's reality, okay?
And I'm not talking about a polygraph,
which goes back to what, the 1960s?
Okay, so they already have lie detectors
that are highly sophisticated,
and today there are a lot of people who can beat the polygraph,
and it's not that high-tech, like I said,
because it's been around for many, many decades.
It's an old technology.
Folks, now they're getting into technology
where they can read your mind,
and it's already here,
and it's going to be more so in the future.
Obviously, as the years go by,
this technology is going to get better and better and better.
And, again, this is just my speculation, okay?
So don't say that I'm just teaching this
as some kind of a dogma,
but here's my speculation on this,
is that let's say during the Tribulation
somebody got desperate and said,
you know what, I'm just going to go down
and just worship the stupid Antichrist
because I don't want to lose my job
or I don't want to lose my position or whatever.
Let's say you go down there, right?
And in order to receive this thing,
you obviously have to go through some kind of a ritual
or some kind of a process,
because the Bible says that they worship the beast.
They have to worship him and receive this mark.
And, you know, you can't buy or sell
unless you receive the mark of the beast, okay?
Well, here's the thing.
What if you went down there and you do that,
and there's just some kind of a technology in place
that just triggers if you're faking?
If you're a faker, it triggers, and here's the thing.
Maybe there could be some false positives or whatever,
but let's say you go down there
and you go to worship the Antichrist
and you trigger the thing.
And this is not far-fetched at all
because this kind of technology is, like, this close,
and in some ways it already exists.
And here's the thing.
Then if you trigger it, it's like,
okay, you need to go to secondary.
When you trigger it, you're sent to secondary
where you get a further interrogation,
further testing, and they find out that you're fake,
that you're an infiltrator, that you're not for real,
and, you know what?
It's interesting that the Bible says this
in regard to end times.
You could tie this in.
He that seeketh to save his life shall lose it.
Now, obviously, that's slightly out of context,
but that principle would apply
in the scenario that I'm describing,
that if you seek to save your life, you'll lose it.
So, look, I'm not gonna sit here
and disregard what the Bible says
just because I don't understand it,
because, look, I guarantee you two or three hundred years ago
when someone read Revelation
and it said that when the two witnesses are killed
and they're laying in the streets of Jerusalem
and the whole world is gonna see their dead bodies,
every kindred, tongue, people, and nation in the world
will see their dead bodies lying in the street.
I bet somebody in the 1700s
would have been scratching their head thinking,
how are people in Brazil gonna see that?
How are people in Japan gonna see that?
How are the Eskimos gonna see that?
But you know what?
Nowadays, we have no problem
understanding that scripture, do we?
Because we know that the Eskimos
and people in the jungle
and people in Brazil to Japan,
they're all gonna be watching it on the Internet.
They're gonna be watching it as a webcam.
You know, it's funny, preachers used to say,
well, now we have TV.
They can watch it on TV.
But, folks, this is even more ubiquitous than TV.
I mean, cell phones are everywhere.
People who don't even have a TV have a cell phone, okay?
And they can watch it everywhere.
People in all kindreds, tongues, nations,
families, places will all see it.
So it's the same thing with stuff like this.
Instead of just scoffing at this
or not taking it for face value,
maybe just understand that there could be
some future technology that we don't understand yet
that would make it possible for all of this stuff
to be fulfilled totally, literally, without exception.
You know, let's just have enough faith in what God said
that, you know, we may not fully understand
how it's all gonna play out,
but that we have the faith to believe
it's gonna play out how He said it would play out.
Amen?
It's gonna play out how He said it would play out.
And I just painted a very realistic scenario.
I'm not saying that I'm right,
but I'm throwing out a very realistic scenario
for how this could take place.
But here's the big takeaway, folks.
The big takeaway is, according to Revelation 14,
it couldn't be any clearer
if you receive the mark of the beast,
you're doomed, you're damned, it's over for you.
You can no longer be saved, okay?
So unsaved person can still get saved down the road, right?
Not if they took the mark of the beast, though.
So your unsaved buddy might get saved next year,
but once someone takes the mark of the beast,
they can't be saved.
Once someone adds to or removes from God's Word,
they cannot be saved.
Once a person blasphemes the Holy Ghost,
they cannot be saved.
Are you just gonna ignore all this?
Because this is what the Bible says.
Go to Romans 1.
Romans chapter 1.
So there's just verse after verse after verse
explaining situations where a person can't be saved.
And again, let me emphasize,
it's not that if they believe they wouldn't be saved,
it's that they cannot believe.
Once you've taken the mark of the beast,
your eyes are blinded, your heart is hardened,
you cannot believe.
Tamper with the Bible, you cannot believe.
Blaspheming the Holy Ghost, could not believe.
Just like it said in Proverbs 1,
they'll seek me early, but they shall not find me.
Even though Jesus promised to be found of everyone
who would seek Him,
but that's why the Bible says,
seek the Lord while He may be found.
Because eventually, you get to a point where it's too late.
You can't just be burning in hell and be like,
okay, God, save me now.
I changed my mind.
It doesn't matter what you say,
it's too late at that point.
Romans chapter 1,
and this is of course the big reprobate chapter,
that's why I saved it for last.
Saved the best for last.
Romans chapter 1 is the big one.
And a lot of people will try to say,
well, you're not understanding Romans 1 correctly.
But hold on a second.
When we look at all those other scriptures,
we can compare them to Romans 1
and see if we're understanding Romans 1 correctly.
Like if Romans 1 existed in a vacuum,
then you could say, well, you're interpreting it wrong.
Except that I also showed you evidence
from Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
I also showed you evidence from Revelation 14,
Revelation 22, Hebrews chapter 6,
and we could have gone to many other places.
Proverbs 1 we showed, we could go to many more.
This is just a sampling.
But look what the Bible says in Romans chapter 1,
in verse number 21,
because when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God.
You know what that sounds like to me, being enlightened?
And new here, when it says they knew God,
this is like the Spanish word conocer.
Some preachers go back to the Greek,
I go to the Spanish, all right?
But anyway, conocer,
you know the difference between conocer and saber.
They both mean know, but it's two different kinds of knowing.
And conocer is knowing as in being familiar with,
like if I said, I know that guy.
I know him, okay.
They knew God.
Now look, if I know that guy,
that doesn't mean he's my friend,
it doesn't mean he's my savior,
it doesn't mean I trust him,
it doesn't mean anything.
It just means I'm familiar with him.
So when they knew God,
it means they were familiar with God,
they were exposed to God,
they were enlightened about the things of God,
but when they did, they glorified him not as God,
but became vain in their imaginations.
Now whose fault is that?
That's their own fault, right?
They knew God and they glorified him not as God.
But then we get to this part at the end,
their foolish heart was darkened.
Now do you see the difference?
First it's what they did.
They knew God, they glorified him not as God,
they became vain in their imaginations,
but now we've switched from active to passive.
Now their foolish heart was darkened,
and here's the question that we must ask, by whom?
By whom was their foolish heart darkened?
Well John chapter 12 tells us,
but let's keep going.
Professing themselves to be wise,
they became fools,
and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man,
and to birds, and four-footed beasts,
and creeping things,
wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness.
So if he said their foolish heart was darkened,
and then a moment later it says God gave them up,
hmm, I wonder who darkened their foolish heart.
God gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts,
to dishonor their own bodies between themselves,
who changed the truth of God into a lie,
and worshiped and served the creature more than the creator,
who is blessed forever, amen.
For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections.
And notice folks, it's no mystery why the reprobate is a reprobate.
You know the Calvinists, they can't figure it out.
They're like, well, it's just the mysteries of God's will,
and it's just, you know, the mysteries of grace,
and we don't really know why God chooses one and he doesn't choose another.
Why does one man believe and another man doesn't?
And we don't understand,
but they believe that God made that choice before the world began,
and we don't really know what the criteria was.
That's what Calvinism teaches.
We don't know what the criteria is.
But hold on a second.
I know exactly why the reprobate is a reprobate.
I know why.
I can articulate to you why the reprobate is a reprobate,
because the Bible tells us why.
The Bible says because that when they knew God,
they glorified him not as God.
That's why they're a reprobate now.
It says in verse number 26,
for this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections.
What was the cause?
Because they worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator,
because when they knew God, they glorified him not as God,
because they changed the glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like to corruptible man.
And because they did these things, they did A, B, C, D, E, F, and G,
now God gave them over to a reprobate mind.
God darkened their foolish heart.
God gave them up to vile affections.
Folks, it's not like, well, you know, God just picked certain people
and just made them reprobates.
They are a reprobate through their own fault.
It's not God's fault.
They did this to themselves, as Proverbs chapter 1 taught.
For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections,
for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature.
Even women!
Likewise also the man, in the same way, likewise means the same way.
Leaving the natural use of the woman, you know, that would have been normal.
To use the woman to satisfy that appetite,
God ordained that a man would have a wife and that a wife would have a husband,
and that's the normal way for that natural human appetite to be fulfilled,
is within marriage, a man and a woman.
But no, no, they leave the natural use of the woman,
and they burned in their lust one toward another, it says.
Men with men, working that which is unseemly,
and receiving in themselves that recompense of their error which was made.
And even as, don't miss this,
even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
Why did God give them over to the rejected mind, the reprobate mind?
Because they didn't want to retain God in their knowledge.
And that's what it said in Proverbs chapter 1,
they despised his reproof, they would none of his counsel,
they didn't want God's word, they don't want to hear from God,
they don't want the Lord, they don't want the word of God.
And here it says they didn't want to retain God in their knowledge,
and it's almost like God is just really hammering this point on purpose that it's their fault.
Because it's like he says it over and over again,
well they had their chance, I mean they knew God back when they knew him,
they didn't glorify him, and they did this,
he lists so many things that they did and he keeps saying,
for this cause, because that, even as they did this,
well guess what, you know what he's saying,
he's saying look, I'm justified in what I'm doing,
because look what they did leading up to this,
they did this to themselves, that's what's being hammered in Romans chapter 1.
Even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
Now what does that mean, convenient?
You know when we think of the word convenient,
we think of something that's just easy, right?
Like oh yeah, driving through In-N-Out Burger is convenient.
It's just easy, and that's what we mean with that.
But if you think about this word convenient,
convenient in this context as being something that basically comes naturally,
something that's easy for it to happen, right?
Even taking what we know about the word convenient,
the way we would use it,
if you think about that word and then you read this passage
and kind of just let the context define it,
it's pretty easy to see what this word means.
And you can even kind of dissect the Latin roots of this a little bit,
or let's go Latino roots, amen?
Spanish, because you could take the Spanish verb venir,
which a lot of you probably know, means to come, right?
So venir means to come, and con means what?
Does anybody speak Spanish?
Con means with, and venir means to come.
So convenient is something that just kind of would come naturally,
and it's just kind of at hand, it's there.
And here's the thing, what the Bible's saying here when it says,
He gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
He's saying like these aren't things that you just happen to do,
or you accidentally do, or you kind of stumble upon.
You know what I mean?
Like something that's convenient, like for example,
just kind of putting a couple quarters into a machine and a Coke pops out.
And can you imagine somebody kind of just being a little bit absent-minded,
because I'm trying to help you with this word convenient.
Can you imagine somebody being a little bit absent-minded,
and let's say they had a habit of drinking a lot of Coca-Cola.
I'm not talking about Hunter Biden's Coke habit.
I'm talking about like a Coke habit, like you're drinking a lot of Coca-Cola.
Let's say somebody had a habit of drinking a lot of Coke,
and then they went on a diet, right?
So hey, I'm on a diet.
I can't drink that stuff.
Well then, let's say they just kind of are on autopilot.
They're talking.
They're busy.
And they just kind of on autopilot, put a couple quarters in,
and a Coke comes out, and they start drinking.
Oh, whoops.
Can you see that happening?
Like oops, I can't believe it.
And I've done that before where I was on a diet,
and then my wife made some really rich meal or something,
and next thing I know, I'm just gorging on it,
and I'm like whoa, what happened to that diet?
But here's the thing.
It's because those things were made convenient to me.
They were like put on a plate right in front of me.
Somebody hands you a drink.
Oh, whoops.
I'm not supposed to be drinking this.
Well, I might as well just go all in now.
No, I'm just kidding.
But anyway, but the point is, what about this?
Do you think I'm just going to kind of accidentally on autopilot
go out to a tree, put a ladder against the tree,
climb up the tree, gather a bunch of oranges,
and bring them in the house and be like squeezing them and juicing it
and make myself like a pint of orange juice
and drink it and be like, oh, what am I doing?
Because it's something that a lot of effort would have to go into.
It's something that took a lot of thought.
It wasn't convenient.
Does everybody understand what I'm saying?
And again, that's not exactly what this word means,
but I'm just trying to kind of help you understand the word
by explaining kind of the connection with the modern word convenient.
When you think about all those illustrations that I just gave
and when you think about the Latin roots of the word and everything,
you know, and then you read the context, he's saying, look,
they wouldn't have done this stuff if it hadn't been the fact
that God gave them over to do that stuff.
Isn't that pretty clear?
And I'm just going to stumble into this or accidentally do this
or it just comes naturally or it's just at hand
because convenient, to me, it's like it's right at hand.
You know, if something's convenient, I can reach it.
If something's on a really high shelf, that's not convenient.
If something's right at face level, boom, convenient, okay.
That's what's going on with this.
This sin of men with men, women with women, that's not convenient.
He gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient.
They would not have done those things except that God had given them over to that reprobate mind.
Only a reprobate even wants to do those things
because any normal person is repulsed by that, disgusted by that,
saved or unsaved.
Unsaved people are disgusted by that.
And look, you say, well, I don't think that's what convenient means.
Okay, well then back up to verse 26.
For this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections.
What are you going to do with that?
That's what I just spent the last five minutes explaining about convenient.
You don't like that?
Well, guess what? Here's a more convenient proof for you
where it says right here, for this cause, God gave them up unto vile affections.
So you still think they would have done that without God giving them up?
No, that's why they did those vile affections
because God gave them up unto vile affections.
God would never give up on anybody.
Three times in this passage, God gave them up,
God gave them over, God gave them over.
It's three times.
He gave them up, he gave them over.
That's why they're doing these things.
Folks, people can't figure out how the homos got that way.
The Bible tells us how they got that way.
By being a reprobate.
Okay, so the title of the sermon again is called Too Late Reprobate.
Too Late Reprobate.
And look, make no mistake, Jesus Christ died on the cross for everybody.
Jesus Christ loved the entire world.
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son.
God the Father, Jesus the Holy Spirit loved this world.
Every single person who is born in this world
has been at some point the object of God's love.
Jesus loves the little children.
All the children of the world, red and yellow, black and white.
They're precious in his sight.
Jesus loves the little children of the world.
But there can come a point where a person crosses a line.
And we looked at a lot of evidence,
we looked at a lot of examples of how they could get there, okay.
They could cross that line to the point where they become a reprobate
and it's too late for them.
Or they could die without Jesus Christ and it's too late for them.
Those are two different options.
Now notice another thing that I did not say.
Did I get up and say tonight that homosexuality is the unpardonable sin?
Did I say that?
Okay, here's what else I didn't say.
Did I say that doing something homo makes you a reprobate?
Did I say anything like that?
Did I say, hey, if you do something homo,
or did I say this, people are reprobates because they did homo stuff.
Is that what I said?
Did I say God can't forgive that sin and so because they did that,
now they're a reprobate.
No, no, no, friend.
Let's get the cart behind the horse.
I did not say that they are a reprobate because they are a homo.
I said they are a homo because they are a reprobate.
Does everybody see the difference?
Which came first, being a homo or being a reprobate?
Being a reprobate.
Now look, there are people that have come to me over the years
and they said I'm scared I'm a reprobate
because they had said something super blasphemous
and they were afraid that maybe they'd blaspheme the Holy Ghost.
Other people had been molested as a kid
and then experimented with something as a teenager or something
and then they said maybe I'm a reprobate.
You know, I'm scared I'm a reprobate.
Well, here's a little self-check for whether or not you're a reprobate.
Do you not want to retain God in your knowledge?
Do you hate God and not want to retain Him in your knowledge?
Because, folks, that's what the Bible says about the reprobate.
Okay, and here's another one.
Do you believe in Jesus?
Because what does the Bible say about the reprobate?
They can't believe.
And they hate the Lord.
So look, if you don't hate the Lord and you believe in Jesus,
you have nothing to worry about because everyone who believes in Jesus is saved.
The reprobates don't believe.
They can't believe.
Does everybody understand that?
And look, I do think that it's possible for someone to do something
and, you know, perhaps because they've been molested,
they could get confused and experiment with something,
especially kids, teenagers and things like that,
or they get brainwashed or they do something
because they're pressured into doing something
and they experience something weird.
And look, obviously it's gross, it's sick, it's perverted, it's wrong,
but that doesn't necessarily make them a reprobate.
But when you see men burning in lust toward other men, they're reprobates.
And you say, well, are all homos reprobates?
I say, yes, because any man who is burning with lust toward another man,
that doesn't make sense, folks.
No normal dude feels that way.
So you have to explain, how did he get that way?
Oh, they're born that way.
How did he get that way?
You don't just drink too much BPA or something and get that way.
You don't just eat too much soy and get that way, folks.
There has to be some explanation for how they got that way.
The Bible provides an explanation.
So these ones who are just burning in lust
and they're just attracted to other men, they're reprobates.
And you know what, the same goes for women, too.
And a lot of times people will say, well, you know, it's just the men.
But what does the Bible say?
Even their women did change the natural use in that, which is against nature.
And likewise, the men burned in lust toward one another.
That likewise allows us to flip that over.
Likewise means the same way.
We can flip that over.
And you know what we can flip that over to?
Women burning with lust toward other women.
That's a reprobate.
When you have a woman burning, and again, not saying that they got drunk.
And sometimes people get drunk and under the influence of drugs
and get pushed into weird things.
Because the Bible talks about homos doing that to people.
Habakkuk 2.15.
Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that put his thipodal to them
and maketh him drunk and also that thou mayest look on their nakedness.
That's a him giving a him booze to look on his nakedness.
And we see examples of that.
So we're not talking about somebody who was drunk or on drugs
or young and stupid and did something filthy.
Hey, that's a wicked sin.
But when you have a woman who's burning with lust toward another woman,
when you have a man who's burning lust toward another man,
you know what that is?
That's an outward manifestation of something that happened in their heart
in the past, where they were given over to a reprobate mind,
where they had been darkened and hardened
and where they had become a reprobate.
And what you're seeing is the sympathy.
It's just like sneezing doesn't make you sick.
Coughing doesn't make you sick.
You're just like, I better stop doing that or I'm going to get sick.
But, folks, if you saw me coughing and sneezing,
you might say, hey, less social distance, buddy, because you're sick.
Well, here's the thing.
When we see men burning lust toward other men,
women burning lust toward other women,
what is that symptom telling us?
I mean, it's just like if somebody said, oh, I have a fever.
Okay, well, let me listen to your lungs.
And I hear a rattle in their lungs.
It's like, okay, you have pneumonia.
That's a symptom.
It's not that the rattling in your lungs gave you pneumonia.
It's that pneumonia gave you rattling in your lungs.
Have I got that right?
All right.
I'm no doctor.
You know, warning, this is for entertainment purposes only.
This is not medical advice.
Consult your physician to see if Faithful Word Baptist is right for you.
Because if you have a heart condition
or are easily startled or sudden movements could put you into fits,
you know, maybe you might want to consult a physician
before attending services at Faithful Word.
But look, folks, we want to understand that this is a symptom of the disease.
The disease is rejecting God.
The disease is hating God.
The disease is blaspheming the Holy Ghost or whatever got them there,
whatever they did to get there.
The symptom is what we see with the out and proud sodomites.
And anybody who walks away from this sermon
and tries to twist what I said like they always do,
you know, again, I submit to you,
I believe that every single person in this room
understands what I've said tonight.
And so anybody who hears these sermons
and goes around saying that is just a liar.
And there are a lot of liars out there that love to lie about what I teach.
But I think it's pretty clear tonight.
Father, we thank you so much for your word, Lord,
and thank you so much for saving us, Lord.
And, Lord, thank you for the fact that none of us
could ever become a reprobate once we believed on Jesus Christ, Lord.
Thank you for giving us that assurance of our salvation,
that we have eternal life, we shall never perish,
we shall never come into condemnation, Lord.
And, Lord, a lot of Christians get offended by this doctrine.
But, Lord, instead of us lamenting the people for whom it's too late, Lord,
help every single one of us to get out there on a weekly basis
and try to reach people before it's too late.
Because there's so many people, 90-some percent of people, it's not too late, Lord.
Help us to reach them before it's eternally too late.
Not sit around lamenting about the ones that got away, Lord,
but help us to reach the ones who still have hope,
which is the vast majority of people that are not reprobates
for whom it is not too late, Lord.
Help us to do our best, and in Jesus' name we pray, Amen.
Amen.
Amen. Let's grab our psalm books and please turn to hymn number 364.
Number 364, Standing on the Promises of God, number 364.
Sing it out on this verse, number 364.
Standing on the promises of Christ my King,
Through eternal ages let his praises ring,
Glory in the highest, I will shout and sing,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God,
Standing on the promises that cannot fail,
When the howling storms of doubt and fear of sin,
By the living Word of God I shall prevail,
Standing on the promises of God.
Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God,
Standing on the promises of Christ the Lord,
Bound to him eternally by love strong forth,
Overcome the daily with the Spirit's sword,
Standing on the promises of God,
Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God,
Standing on the promises that cannot fall,
Listening every moment to the Spirit's call,
Resting in my Savior as my all in all,
Standing on the promises of God,
Standing, standing, Standing on the promises of God my Savior,
Standing, standing, I'm standing on the promises of God.
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