WEBVTT 00:00.300 --> 00:03.220 Philip Ostromer here with the Holy Spirit as a preacher in Jesus name we pray. Amen. 00:04.800 --> 00:09.200 Amen. Okay, we're in Ephesians chapter 1. Look down at your Bibles at verse number 4. 00:09.200 --> 00:09.700 It says, 00:09.700 --> 00:14.360 According, as He hath chosen us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should 00:14.360 --> 00:20.920 be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestinated us unto the adoption 00:20.920 --> 00:27.360 of children by Jesus Christ to Himself according to the good pleasure of His will. 00:27.360 --> 00:31.040 And the time I'm going to be serving this morning is I am not a Calvinist. I'm not a 00:31.040 --> 00:32.720 Calvinist. This is not a Calvinist. 00:32.800 --> 00:36.400 We do not believe in reform theology. 00:36.400 --> 00:39.720 We completely reject all five points of Calvinism. 00:39.720 --> 00:42.640 And I want to explain to you in this sermon why that is. 00:42.640 --> 00:44.640 Now you're in Ephesians chapter one. 00:44.640 --> 00:45.640 Hold your place there. 00:45.640 --> 00:47.160 Put a piece of paper or a pen there. 00:47.160 --> 00:48.360 We're going to come back to that in just a bit. 00:48.360 --> 00:50.560 Go to Romans chapter three, if you would. 00:50.560 --> 00:51.680 Romans chapter three. 00:51.680 --> 00:54.040 I am an independent fundamental Baptist. 00:54.040 --> 00:56.720 I believe in salvation by grace through faith. 00:56.720 --> 00:58.920 And I believe in free will. 00:58.920 --> 01:00.800 I believe that God has given us the ability 01:00.800 --> 01:06.800 to choose things, you know the Bible says choose you this day whom ye will serve right? 01:06.800 --> 01:13.800 The Bible constantly emphasizes the importance of us exercising our will to choose to do the will of God 01:13.800 --> 01:17.800 to choose to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, to choose to disobey Him 01:17.800 --> 01:25.800 we're not made like robots, we're not made with as sentient beings that cannot select or choose what to do 01:25.800 --> 01:27.800 whether to obey God or not 01:27.800 --> 01:28.800 We have the ability to 01:28.800 --> 01:33.160 to choose these things and God did not elect certain people to go to heaven and 01:33.160 --> 01:37.200 you know essentially choose certain people to go to hell and you say what is 01:37.200 --> 01:38.200 Calvinism? 01:38.400 --> 01:41.000 What exactly do Calvinists teach? 01:41.000 --> 01:43.600 Well, at the end of the day, that's exactly what they believe. 01:43.600 --> 01:48.900 They believe that God essentially chooses certain people for eternal life 01:48.900 --> 01:53.900 and in turn damns others to eternal damnation just based on a whim. 01:53.900 --> 01:56.900 Not based upon their rejection of the Gospel, 01:56.900 --> 01:59.900 not based upon whether they're reprobates or not. 01:59.900 --> 02:02.900 It's literally just based upon the whim of God 02:02.900 --> 02:06.400 that he essentially selects certain people for salvation, others for eternal... 02:06.400 --> 02:10.540 damnation just because. So if we're to look at this group right here it's 02:10.540 --> 02:15.400 basically God saying you're going to heaven not you not you you you not you 02:15.400 --> 02:20.440 not you not you you you you not you and it's just like why just because it's 02:20.440 --> 02:24.000 according to the good pleasure of his will it's his will for some people to be 02:24.000 --> 02:27.160 saved and for other people to be damned but that's not what the Bible teaches 02:27.160 --> 02:31.520 Bible says that God is not willing that any should perish but that all should 02:31.520 --> 02:34.400 come to repentance right he wants all men 02:34.400 --> 02:39.280 to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and he wants people to choose to believe on 02:39.280 --> 02:39.840 his son. 02:40.200 --> 02:46.580 We always know that many people will not because broad is the way to lead to destruction and many there be which go in the rat 02:46.580 --> 02:50.520 But at the end of the day, you know, God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked 02:50.520 --> 02:52.680 He doesn't want them to die and go to hell 02:52.680 --> 02:56.240 That's the reason he sent his son to die on the cross to pay for the sins of the world 02:56.240 --> 03:02.160 The Bible says that he is the propitiation for our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world 03:02.940 --> 03:07.720 Demonstrating that God is not partial in that manner. He wants all people in all places 03:08.200 --> 03:09.200 to be saved. 03:09.200 --> 03:11.760 Now let me give you a couple of introductory statements before I get into my main points 03:11.760 --> 03:14.160 this morning about not being a Calvinist. 03:14.160 --> 03:15.280 You know, today... 03:15.900 --> 03:20.860 On the internet, people typically categorize people into three separate categories. 03:20.860 --> 03:22.460 These three sections. 03:22.460 --> 03:28.460 And basically, they say, well, if you are not for Coca-Cola, you must be for Pepsi. 03:28.460 --> 03:31.420 Right? If you're not a Democrat, then you must be a Republican. 03:31.420 --> 03:34.220 But we as a church don't fit into any of these descriptions. 03:34.220 --> 03:35.260 Now, what do I mean by that? 03:35.260 --> 03:39.420 Well, to them, you're either a Catholic, a Calvinist, or an Armenian. 03:39.420 --> 03:39.900 Okay? 03:39.900 --> 03:42.620 Now, I don't mean Armenian like Brother Hyke from Armenia. 03:43.300 --> 03:44.300 We're not talking about that. 03:44.300 --> 03:50.380 We're talking about those who uphold the doctrines of Jacob Arminius from the 1500s that essentially 03:50.380 --> 03:53.780 is the counterpart to Calvinism. 03:53.780 --> 03:56.780 And really what they'll do is Catholics will look at people like us and say, so what are 03:56.780 --> 04:00.720 you, a Calvinist or do you believe in Arminianism? 04:00.720 --> 04:01.740 And it's just like, no. 04:02.900 --> 04:04.280 No, no, no, you didn't hear me right. 04:04.280 --> 04:06.360 Do you believe in Calvinism? 04:06.360 --> 04:09.000 Are you a reformed Christian? 04:09.000 --> 04:12.880 Or do you believe in the doctrines of Jacob Arminius? 04:12.880 --> 04:14.400 And it's like, no. 04:14.400 --> 04:15.320 Now here's the thing. 04:15.320 --> 04:18.080 You say, what is the difference between the two? 04:18.080 --> 04:19.920 Well, they're basically the same in a lot of ways, 04:19.920 --> 04:21.160 to be quite honest with you. 04:21.160 --> 04:21.920 OK? 04:21.920 --> 04:24.240 They pretty much believe the same exact thing 04:24.240 --> 04:25.480 with a few nuances. 04:26.300 --> 04:33.100 You know, we already know what the Calvinists believe. They believe that basically God gives the people the ability to believe. 04:33.100 --> 04:38.900 So you're not choosing to be saved. God basically gives you the faith to believe in Him. 04:38.900 --> 04:45.000 But obviously that's not a biblical doctrine. Because the Bible talks about people, you know, thy faith has saved thee. 04:45.000 --> 04:49.500 Referring to the fact that people have the faith that they have to place that faith in Christ to be saved. 04:50.000 --> 04:56.400 Calvinists will assert that God provides a certain power of grace in order to help someone to believe. 04:56.400 --> 05:07.000 Whereas Jacob Arminius essentially asserted that people are elected, they're chosen based upon their faith in Christ. 05:07.300 --> 05:13.300 So basically it's kind of similar to what we believe in that once you place your faith in Jesus Christ, you are the chosen of God 05:13.300 --> 05:17.700 Okay, you know once you have been saved you're the child of God 05:18.220 --> 05:22.480 You're God's chosen people you are the elect that is essentially true 05:22.520 --> 05:29.300 But he still held to this belief that God basically uses his grace to kind of draw you into himself 05:29.800 --> 05:32.100 Which is very Calvinistic, okay? 05:32.100 --> 05:35.000 So he proposed these doctrines 05:35.000 --> 05:37.700 and he said, well, if we believe exactly like that, 05:37.700 --> 05:41.300 why wouldn't we say that we believe in Armenianism? 05:41.300 --> 05:44.500 Well, because they believe that you can lose your salvation. 05:44.500 --> 05:47.000 Which is a damnable heresy, okay? 05:47.400 --> 05:53.700 They essentially assert that, well, you can lose your salvation and it's possible to lose it. 05:53.700 --> 05:56.200 And Jacob Arminius was actually quoted as saying, 05:56.200 --> 05:59.900 you know, when it comes to losing your salvation, I just place a big question mark on that. 05:59.900 --> 06:00.700 Okay? 06:00.700 --> 06:04.900 Which obviously, if you place a big question mark on eternal security, you're probably not safe! 06:05.200 --> 06:08.840 Because then, you know, the Bible teaches that salvation is forever. 06:08.840 --> 06:12.000 I give unto them eternal life and they shall never perish. 06:12.000 --> 06:14.400 Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 06:14.400 --> 06:16.280 I will and no wise cast them out. 06:16.280 --> 06:20.720 He says, no wise is an old way of saying for any reason whatsoever. 06:20.720 --> 06:23.880 Under any condition will you ever lose your salvation. 06:23.880 --> 06:27.040 And if salvation could be lost, it should not be called eternal life because eternal 06:27.040 --> 06:28.040 never ends. 06:28.040 --> 06:29.000 Okay? 06:29.700 --> 06:31.700 So you have these two camps here. 06:31.700 --> 06:36.900 Jacob Arminius asserted these five points refuting John Calvin. 06:36.900 --> 06:41.000 And then what you have later on is the canons of Dorr meeting together 06:41.000 --> 06:43.900 and essentially creating the five points of Calvinism. 06:43.900 --> 06:48.100 Calvinism, of course, stems from the reform theologian, 06:48.100 --> 06:50.700 the popular reform theologian known as John Calvin, 06:50.700 --> 06:53.100 who essentially taught the doctrines of grace. 06:53.100 --> 06:57.700 They were later consolidated and expanded upon at the canons of Dorr as refuting. 06:57.700 --> 07:02.700 referring to the five points of Calvinism, what we know today as being the tulip, okay, 07:02.700 --> 07:07.280 that cute little flower that teaches these doctrines of Calvinism. 07:07.280 --> 07:08.620 You say, well, what are we? 07:08.620 --> 07:09.620 We're Baptists. 07:09.620 --> 07:10.620 What are we? 07:10.620 --> 07:11.620 We're Christians. 07:11.620 --> 07:12.620 We believe in the Bible. 07:12.620 --> 07:15.620 Now, here's the thing is that Calvinists will assert that they believe in one saved, always 07:15.620 --> 07:16.620 saved. 07:16.620 --> 07:18.460 They preach one saved, always saved. 07:18.460 --> 07:19.300 You know... 07:19.500 --> 07:25.980 Obviously when it comes to Calvinism it is a broad spectrum because I've run into Calvinists who are saved and they believe in the biblical 07:25.980 --> 07:31.540 Doctrine of one saved always saved but I've also you know heard about other Calvinists and met other Calvinists 07:31.540 --> 07:36.700 They claim to believe in one saved always saved but then they assert well if you don't continue in your works 07:36.700 --> 07:41.700 Then you're not really saved, but that's not one saved always saved now is it that's a workspace salvation 07:43.100 --> 07:47.980 If a pastor gets up and says, well, you know, if you're faithfully serving God now, 07:48.540 --> 07:53.180 if you are serving the Lord Jesus Christ now, but somewhere along down the line, 07:53.180 --> 07:57.980 you get out of the church, you leave the will of God, you stop serving the Lord, 07:57.980 --> 08:02.700 you get involved in sin and you remain in that sin, then that means you're not really saved. 08:02.700 --> 08:06.380 That's not one saved always saved. That's a workspace salvation. 08:07.000 --> 08:09.880 And they'll often quote the verse from 1 John chapter 2 that says, 08:09.880 --> 08:12.520 They went out from us, for they were not of us. For if they had been of us, 08:12.520 --> 08:16.760 they would have no doubt continued with us. Essentially asserting that you need to continue 08:16.760 --> 08:21.480 in your works in order to prove that you're saved. But that's not a biblical doctrine, my friends. 08:21.480 --> 08:26.040 But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is 08:26.040 --> 08:30.840 counted for righteousness, not of works that any man should boast, not by works of righteousness, 08:30.840 --> 08:35.000 which we have done, but according to his mercy, he saved us. And quite frankly, we have an example 08:35.000 --> 08:41.240 the Old Testament by the name of Saul who did not persevere in his works. This 08:41.240 --> 08:46.960 man died a godless person in his actions. This man, you know, he was going to the 08:46.960 --> 08:53.360 palm reader, he's going to the witch at Endor, he is murderous, he basically lived 08:53.360 --> 08:57.920 a wicked life to the very end. He committed suicide, yet the prophet Samuel 08:57.920 --> 09:01.100 said what? Today thou and thy son shall be with me. 09:01.100 --> 09:03.360 And where was Samuel when he said that? In heaven. 09:03.360 --> 09:10.900 Proving, once saved, always saved, that Saul was a saved man, and yes, he died a dishonorable death. 09:10.900 --> 09:16.000 He died in his sin, but thankfully salvation is not based upon the works that you do in the future. 09:16.000 --> 09:19.200 So what is it based upon? The finished work of Jesus Christ! 09:19.200 --> 09:21.400 It's based upon your faith in Him. 09:21.800 --> 09:30.120 And so we reject all forms of the gospel that teach that you have to do something on your end, 09:30.120 --> 09:35.400 some sort of deeds on your part, some sort of works that you have to do to maintain your salvation. 09:35.400 --> 09:40.280 Because 1 Peter chapter 1 tells us that we are kept by the power of God, listen to this, 09:40.280 --> 09:43.240 through works? No, through faith. That's what the Bible says. 09:45.100 --> 09:47.940 And a lot of people have beef with that, but who cares? 09:47.940 --> 09:49.060 It's what the Bible says. 09:49.060 --> 09:50.940 Oh, you're saying that I can just go and sin? 09:50.940 --> 09:52.500 You sin anyways. 09:52.500 --> 09:53.400 What are you talking about? 09:53.600 --> 10:00.000 You know, you're under this illusion that somehow, oh, you can stop sinning after salvation. 10:00.000 --> 10:01.000 Yeah, I agree. 10:01.000 --> 10:03.760 There are certain sins that you don't have to commit anymore. 10:03.760 --> 10:06.480 You don't have to live in fornication. 10:06.480 --> 10:07.480 You don't have to commit adultery. 10:07.480 --> 10:09.420 You don't have to commit drunkenness. 10:09.420 --> 10:10.420 But guess what? 10:10.420 --> 10:12.420 The thought of foolishness is still sin. 10:12.420 --> 10:16.000 And he that keep it the whole law, get offended at one point, he's guilty of all. 10:16.000 --> 10:21.240 So even though you're not out there being a serial killer, being a complete drunkard, 10:21.600 --> 10:24.600 You're still sinning in other ways according to the Bible. 10:24.600 --> 10:28.600 And there's not a just man upon earth that doeth good and sinneth not. 10:28.600 --> 10:33.600 So if you think you're just, well I'm saved and I'm just completely sinless now. 10:33.600 --> 10:36.600 No, you're actually lying to yourself and you're calling God a liar. 10:36.600 --> 10:39.600 That's what the Bible says according to 1 John chapter 1. 10:40.400 --> 10:44.900 If you say you have no sin, you do not the truth, and you're calling God a liar. 10:44.900 --> 10:46.360 That's what the Bible teaches. 10:46.360 --> 10:49.320 Because according to the Bible, for all of sin comes short of the glory of God. 10:49.320 --> 10:51.480 There's none that do with good, no, not one. 10:51.480 --> 10:55.600 And so over and over again, the Bible emphasizes the fact that we are sinners because we have 10:55.600 --> 10:58.280 a corruptible body, a corruptible flesh. 10:58.280 --> 11:00.320 And so we're not Armenian. 11:00.600 --> 11:08.000 We're not Calvinists. We're just Bible believers. We're Baptists and we believe in one saved always saved you say well 11:08.080 --> 11:12.640 You know if you believe in one saved always saved then what exactly does that mean? 11:12.800 --> 11:16.620 Are you saying that someone can somewhere along down the road? 11:17.240 --> 11:20.620 Believe in Mormonism and still be saved the answer is no 11:22.200 --> 11:29.200 The biblical prescription for the person who deviates from the faith in that manner, meaning that they become a Muslim, 11:29.200 --> 11:37.200 they become a Catholic, they become a Mormon, a Jehovah's Witness, the biblical description for that person is that they were never safe to begin with. 11:37.200 --> 11:43.200 Because they deviated from the doctrines of Christ. This is what the Bible means when it says that they've fallen from grace. 11:43.200 --> 11:49.200 They pretended, they masqueraded as a believer, but they were never really a believer to begin with. 11:49.900 --> 11:52.740 And look, at least we have a biblical example of that. 11:52.740 --> 11:55.740 Judas Iscariot is a biblical example of that. 11:55.740 --> 11:59.540 And the funny thing is, people try to point to Judas Iscariot as someone who lost his salvation, 11:59.540 --> 12:05.260 and just completely ignore the words of Jesus Christ that says that he didn't believe from the beginning. 12:05.700 --> 12:08.180 Literally what it says it doesn't say he lost his salvation 12:08.180 --> 12:13.260 It says that he was a devil from the beginning and that he did not believe according to John chapter 6 12:13.500 --> 12:20.240 Me that he masqueraded as an apostle of Jesus Christ. He masqueraded as a disciple as a Christian 12:20.240 --> 12:23.000 He had everyone fooled but the Lord Jesus Christ himself 12:23.720 --> 12:28.520 He didn't lose salvation. He never had it to begin with because you can't lose salvation. Okay 12:29.100 --> 12:34.660 So we believe in one saved always saved and again when it comes to Calvinist, it is a broad spectrum 12:34.660 --> 12:39.280 I have personally talked to Calvinist that believe right on salvation 12:39.280 --> 12:41.960 They don't believe you have to persevere in your works to be saved 12:41.960 --> 12:46.100 They don't believe you have to repent of your sins to be saved because that is a workspace salvation 12:46.180 --> 12:50.820 They don't believe you have to keep God's commandments. They believe it's strictly by your faith in him alone 12:50.820 --> 12:53.500 And that is the right gospel my friends 12:54.300 --> 12:57.700 Armenians on the other hand, you know, they assert that they believe these things 12:58.200 --> 13:03.520 But they still believe you can lose your salvation. Of course that idea has evolved into more damn double heresy 13:04.040 --> 13:10.100 Since the 1500s so we don't fit into any of these categories of being an Armenian or a Calvinist 13:10.220 --> 13:14.540 You know and often Catholics will look at people like us and say oh you're Protestants 13:15.180 --> 13:20.880 You know and to a certain degree. I don't really have a problem with that, but it's an inaccurate label though for us 13:21.500 --> 13:22.900 You say, why is that? 13:22.900 --> 13:26.020 Because a Protestant is synonymous with a reformer. 13:26.020 --> 13:28.700 And the reason I'm not a reformer is because reformers, 13:28.700 --> 13:31.620 the name reformer literally means to try to make the 13:31.620 --> 13:33.460 Catholic Church better. 13:33.460 --> 13:34.400 That's what it means. 13:34.800 --> 13:39.960 It means they came out of the Catholic Church, and they're trying to reform the Catholic 13:39.960 --> 13:40.960 Church. 13:40.960 --> 13:41.960 You understand? 13:41.960 --> 13:45.520 We're not trying to do that, because they believe that the Catholic Church was right 13:45.520 --> 13:51.240 at one time, and that they deviated from the faith and became Catholics or something. 13:51.240 --> 13:53.640 No, Catholicism is an apostate religion. 13:53.640 --> 13:55.360 It's not the original church. 13:55.360 --> 13:56.760 You know, you're like, what about church history? 13:56.760 --> 13:58.560 Who cares about church history? 13:58.560 --> 13:59.680 Here's my church history right here. 14:00.800 --> 14:03.800 This is the superior church history book right here. 14:03.800 --> 14:10.800 So why would I appeal to an inferior source when I have the superior source right here telling me what the Bible actually says? 14:10.800 --> 14:20.800 Well, you know, it's just good to, you know, study men of the past and church fathers, those who were really close to Jesus Christ in the first churches, to know what they practiced. 14:20.800 --> 14:23.700 Why? If their heretics existed during that time too. 14:25.100 --> 14:29.500 Just because someone was in close proximity to the first century AD doesn't make them accurate. 14:29.500 --> 14:35.100 You know, you have Hymenaeus, for example, who was in the churches that Paul started, 14:35.100 --> 14:37.900 and he was a heretic teaching that the resurrection had passed already. 14:37.900 --> 14:40.300 There's your preterism doctrine right there. 14:40.800 --> 14:42.800 So there's heretics even back then. 14:42.800 --> 14:43.840 You know what that tells me? 14:43.840 --> 14:50.160 You know, studying the lives of men in the past in order to validate my doctrine is a fool's errand 14:50.160 --> 14:52.640 because you don't really know what they believe. 14:52.640 --> 14:55.600 You know, here's the accurate book that you need to go to is just the Bible. 14:56.800 --> 15:00.800 You're trying to tell me do you know more Bible than people from the first century AD? 15:00.800 --> 15:02.800 Apparently if some of them were damnable heretics. 15:05.800 --> 15:07.800 Folks, the Holy Spirit doesn't age. 15:07.800 --> 15:11.000 The same Holy Spirit that existed then dwells within me. 15:11.000 --> 15:13.000 And He's the Spirit of Truth. 15:13.000 --> 15:16.500 And so yeah, if there is a person in the first century AD 15:16.500 --> 15:20.800 that taught, listen to me, in the second or third century AD 15:20.800 --> 15:23.800 that taught that salvation was by taking the Eucharist 15:23.800 --> 15:26.300 Yeah, I know more Bible than that person for sure. 15:27.600 --> 15:30.800 And people take offense to that, but I don't really care because you know what? 15:30.800 --> 15:32.800 My final authority is not church history. 15:32.800 --> 15:34.300 It's not the church fathers. 15:34.300 --> 15:35.600 It's God the Father. 15:35.600 --> 15:36.600 Amen. 15:36.600 --> 15:38.600 It's Bible is what it is. 15:38.600 --> 15:39.600 Okay? 15:39.600 --> 15:41.600 You know, all scripture is given by inspiration of God. 15:41.600 --> 15:45.600 It's profitable for doctrine, for proof of correction, and instruction in righteousness. 15:45.600 --> 15:49.100 First John chapter 2 tells us that we need not that any man teach us. 15:49.100 --> 15:53.100 Because the anointing which dwells within us basically teaches us all things. 15:53.400 --> 15:56.400 So you think you have the authority to interpret the Bible? 15:56.400 --> 16:00.400 Well, because I have the Holy Spirit, because I have a local New Testament church, 16:00.400 --> 16:04.400 because I have all 66 books here according to the Bible, yeah, that's all I need. 16:04.400 --> 16:10.200 Okay? At least to study or to know the basic fundamentals of the faith. 16:11.300 --> 16:16.500 So I'm not you know I digress, but that's important to note there, so we're not Armenian. We're not Calvinist 16:16.500 --> 16:21.740 We're not Catholics. We're just Bible-believing Baptists fundamental Baptists that believe in the fundamentals of the faith, okay? 16:21.740 --> 16:26.500 Now with that in mind I do want to say that I'm not a Calvinist because a lot of times again people will say well 16:26.500 --> 16:33.460 You must be a reformer you must be a Protestant a Protestant someone who came out of the Catholic Church and protested the Catholic Church 16:34.000 --> 16:38.000 And the only reason I say, okay, that would be an accurate statement because we do protest the Catholic Church. 16:38.000 --> 16:41.000 The only difference is we didn't come from the Catholic Church. 16:41.000 --> 16:42.000 Okay. 16:42.000 --> 16:45.000 You know, oh, show me a church. 16:45.000 --> 16:49.000 You know, the first century AD that believed like you. 16:49.000 --> 16:51.000 Right here. 16:51.000 --> 16:52.000 Oh, after that. 16:52.000 --> 16:54.000 Why would I go after that? 16:54.000 --> 16:56.000 This is the most accurate one right here. 16:56.000 --> 16:58.000 You know. 16:58.000 --> 16:59.000 But here's the thing. 16:59.000 --> 17:00.800 They don't follow that same standard. 17:00.800 --> 17:03.440 Show me a verse in the Bible where people prayed to Mary. 17:03.440 --> 17:05.440 You know? 17:05.440 --> 17:08.240 Show me a verse. Show me a verse in the Bible that says Pergadus. 17:08.240 --> 17:10.240 Show me a verse in the Bible that says Catholic. 17:10.240 --> 17:13.200 Doesn't exist. You know, for a church that claims to have given us the Bible, 17:13.200 --> 17:16.000 you sure didn't put a whole lot of Catholic doctrine in the Bible. 17:16.000 --> 17:21.840 But again, you know, not Catholic and not Calvinist. 17:21.840 --> 17:22.600 Okay? 17:22.800 --> 17:29.560 Calvinism is a... there's a lot of damnable heresy, but there's just heresy in general. 17:29.560 --> 17:32.800 And you know, I get that there's a lot of good Calvinists out there, 17:32.800 --> 17:35.720 and there might be good preacher Calvinists out there, 17:35.720 --> 17:38.000 I just don't know of very many, I'll just be honest with you. 17:38.000 --> 17:41.840 And you know what? People get offended when I call out John MacArthur, 17:41.840 --> 17:44.200 but John MacArthur was a damnable heretic. 17:45.600 --> 17:51.120 And you shouldn't be shocked that you're hearing that at a fundamental Baptist church because fundamental Baptists have always preached against John MacArthur 17:51.520 --> 17:52.720 You say why would you say that? 17:52.720 --> 17:56.160 You know, i'll tell you why because he preached that you have to repent of your sins to be saved 17:56.960 --> 18:03.920 And he preached that if someone got out of church stop doing good works, then they were basically not saved 18:04.560 --> 18:08.240 And he also taught that you could take the mark of the beast and still be saved 18:09.120 --> 18:12.740 How about that? What's the context? The context is the mark of the beast 18:14.700 --> 18:19.020 This is what people often say when they don't want to accept the truth, but what's the context? 18:19.740 --> 18:22.060 The context is salvation and the mark of the beast. 18:22.700 --> 18:23.900 That's what it was. 18:23.900 --> 18:27.020 And he said you could take the mark of the beast and still be saved. 18:27.020 --> 18:30.140 But then turn around and say, well, if you don't repent of your sins, you're not really saved. 18:30.940 --> 18:34.860 And again, he held to the doctrine of election fiercely. 18:35.420 --> 18:40.220 In fact, there's a video out there where, you know, he would do these Q&A's in his church. 18:40.900 --> 18:44.900 And a woman just completely devastated because she had just lost her brother. 18:44.900 --> 18:46.900 Her brother passed away. 18:46.900 --> 18:51.900 And her brother was part of the church, he was serving, and I don't know exactly what her brother believed, 18:51.900 --> 18:56.900 but he passed away, and he didn't pass away, you know, doing the Lord's will, per se. 18:56.900 --> 18:58.500 He was like in a backslidden state. 18:59.000 --> 19:02.700 And she asked him, like, you know, I have these nightmares about my brother. 19:02.700 --> 19:05.800 I'm just like, I'm troubled in my spirit about my brother, 19:05.800 --> 19:07.300 because I don't know if he was saved or not, 19:07.300 --> 19:09.300 because he died like outside of the church. 19:09.300 --> 19:10.800 He's died not serving God. 19:10.800 --> 19:14.200 And you know, John McCarthy basically said, yeah, he probably wasn't alive then. 19:14.200 --> 19:15.900 You know? Oh, how comforting. 19:17.000 --> 19:21.640 But this is where the doctrine of election is so damaging 19:21.640 --> 19:24.760 And again, I don't know if the guy would say it, I don't know what he believes about salvation 19:24.760 --> 19:29.000 But I don't base someone's salvation based off of the works that they do 19:29.000 --> 19:32.000 You base it off of what they believe, you say, how do you know that? 19:32.000 --> 19:37.000 Because the Bible says, by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words thou shalt be condemned 19:37.000 --> 19:41.400 It doesn't say by thy works thou shalt be justified, by thy works thou shalt be condemned 19:41.500 --> 19:46.060 by thy words, essentially stating what you believe is what justifies you 19:46.060 --> 19:49.820 or what condemns you, because if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus 19:49.820 --> 19:52.940 and believe in thine heart that God hath raised them from the dead, thou shalt be saved 19:52.940 --> 19:56.780 and so don't be a respecter of people in here 19:56.780 --> 20:00.580 oh man, I have all these John MacArthur CDs or something 20:00.580 --> 20:05.580 and I feel like he's helped me a lot. Folks, if someone's wrong on salvation, they're wrong on everything else 20:06.100 --> 20:11.100 You're not to be a person of partiality, a person who's a respecter of people. 20:11.100 --> 20:14.100 Have loyalty to the Bibles, which you need to have. 20:15.000 --> 20:19.280 Now with that being said, let's go ahead and destroy the tulip real quick and talk about 20:19.280 --> 20:22.840 the doctrines of Calvinism and how they are in error. 20:22.840 --> 20:26.480 You're in Romans chapter 3, let's talk about total depravity. 20:26.480 --> 20:28.120 Now what is total depravity? 20:28.120 --> 20:32.240 What do they mean by total depravity when it comes to Catholic theology? 20:32.240 --> 20:34.440 All right, I'm sorry, Calvinist theology. 20:34.600 --> 20:41.560 They essentially assert that the entire world, both elect and those who are not elect, are 20:41.560 --> 20:46.440 totally depraved and incapable of seeking after God. 20:46.600 --> 20:50.960 Okay, so whether you're elect or not according to their position 20:51.320 --> 20:57.080 You are unable to actually seek after God seek after the truth 20:57.080 --> 21:03.140 Which is why you have to be elected and which is why they teach something called irresistible grace 21:03.160 --> 21:08.640 Okay, and the idea here is that no man is able to seek after God and this is their text verse here 21:08.640 --> 21:10.640 Look at Romans chapter 3 verse 9 21:11.300 --> 21:12.700 We're going to read a couple of passages here. 21:12.700 --> 21:13.700 It says, what then? 21:13.700 --> 21:14.700 Are we better than they? 21:14.700 --> 21:16.100 No, and no wise. 21:16.100 --> 21:21.380 For we have before proved both Jew and Gentiles that they are all under sin. 21:21.380 --> 21:23.680 As it is written, there is none righteous, no not one. 21:23.680 --> 21:25.020 There is none that understand it. 21:25.020 --> 21:28.340 There is none that seeketh after God. 21:28.800 --> 21:34.480 So specifically saying here that people are sinful and there's none that seeketh after God 21:34.800 --> 21:38.260 They would interpret this to mean that man is absolutely 21:39.260 --> 21:45.220 Incapable of having it having it within them to actually seek the lord seek salvation 21:45.600 --> 21:48.660 Seek the bible because there is none that seeketh after God 21:48.900 --> 21:52.280 But it's important to understand folks that when the Bible talks about there's none that 21:52.280 --> 21:58.200 seeketh God, it's in the context of simply condemning all of mankind as being sinners. 21:58.200 --> 22:02.380 And the way to interpret the Bible is not through just one verse. 22:02.380 --> 22:03.780 You got to compare scripture with scripture. 22:04.100 --> 22:07.780 Okay, now go with me if you would go let's go to Acts chapter 15 22:07.780 --> 22:12.660 Acts chapter 15 now the reason this idea that everyone's totally depraved 22:13.060 --> 22:19.600 Incapable of seeking God is silly is because the Bible literally says in Matthew 7 7 ask and it shall be given 22:20.360 --> 22:21.800 seek 22:21.800 --> 22:23.800 And you shall find 22:25.420 --> 22:28.540 Just kidding you can't see jokes on you. You can't look for anything 22:29.100 --> 22:33.420 Seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you. 22:33.900 --> 22:38.180 So how is it that in one portion of scripture it says that none seeketh after God 22:38.180 --> 22:43.540 but then another portion of scripture it commands us to seek the way we reconcile these is based upon the context of 22:44.500 --> 22:50.900 Salvation of being a sinner Romans chapter 3 when it says that none seeketh after God is essentially saying that we're all sinners before the Lord 22:51.280 --> 22:58.780 We cannot obtain salvation on our own merit. We cannot reach eternal life through our own 22:59.600 --> 23:05.880 ability, okay? We can't obey God's will to heaven, we cannot obey the commandments to 23:05.880 --> 23:10.200 heaven, we are all sinners. But yet the Bible tells us that we can seek and God will make 23:10.200 --> 23:17.520 Himself known unto us. Now let's look at another example here in Acts chapter 15. Acts chapter 23:17.520 --> 23:20.300 15, let's go down to verse 17 if you would. 23:22.500 --> 23:27.500 It says here in verse 17 that the residue of men might seek after the Lord. 23:27.500 --> 23:30.500 He said, well that's referring to the elect though. 23:30.500 --> 23:32.500 The residue of men, that's the elect. 23:32.500 --> 23:34.500 So that makes perfect sense pastor. 23:34.500 --> 23:40.500 It lines up with Calvinistic doctrine because it's saying the residue is just those certain parts of people 23:40.500 --> 23:42.500 who are the elect that can seek after the Lord. 23:42.500 --> 23:47.400 Well it goes on to say here that the residue of men might seek after the Lord and all the Gentiles. 23:47.900 --> 23:52.900 And when the Bible talks about Gentiles, in general it's referring to the unregenerated of this world. 23:52.900 --> 23:55.900 So here's two people groups that are commanded to seek after the Lord. 23:55.900 --> 23:58.900 One is the residue of men, referring to just people groups. 23:58.900 --> 24:01.900 And then it just says in general, all Gentiles. 24:01.900 --> 24:04.500 Well, how can that be if you're totally depraved? 24:04.900 --> 24:11.620 If you're incapable of seeking after the Lord, if you can't find it within you to stir yourself up to seek the truth 24:11.620 --> 24:17.820 How is that even possible for him to say hey the residue is going to seek after the Lord and so all the Gentiles 24:17.940 --> 24:24.920 Upon whom my name is called say the Lord who doeth all these things go to Acts chapter 17 Acts chapter 17 24:28.000 --> 24:32.000 Folks, what the Bible actually teaches is that all men can seek after the Lord. 24:32.000 --> 24:33.000 Okay? 24:33.000 --> 24:34.000 How do we know that? 24:34.000 --> 24:37.160 Well, because God has left Himself with the witness, right? 24:37.160 --> 24:40.800 We have the witness of creation, we have the witness of our conscience, and we have the 24:40.800 --> 24:43.000 witness of the Word of God. 24:43.000 --> 24:49.320 All of which work in conjunction to help people to be positioned to hear the Gospel and believe 24:49.320 --> 24:50.320 it. 24:50.600 --> 24:53.400 Look what it says in Acts chapter 17 in verse 26. 24:53.400 --> 24:57.080 It says, and hath made of one blood all nations of men, 24:57.080 --> 24:59.000 for to dwell in all the face of the earth. 24:59.100 --> 25:02.540 and have determined the times before appointed 25:02.540 --> 25:04.540 and the bounds of their habitation. 25:04.540 --> 25:05.340 So what does that mean? 25:05.340 --> 25:08.620 You know, the African who's born in Africa, 25:08.620 --> 25:09.900 it wasn't by accident, 25:09.900 --> 25:11.660 God appointed for that person to be born 25:11.660 --> 25:13.580 in that specific part of the world. 25:13.580 --> 25:16.620 Same thing in China and Russia and Central America 25:16.620 --> 25:17.740 and all places, 25:17.740 --> 25:20.300 and God specifically positions them there 25:20.300 --> 25:22.300 so that they would seek the Lord. 25:22.300 --> 25:24.300 Look what it goes on to say in verse 27. 25:24.900 --> 25:32.940 Why? That they should seek the Lord, if happily, they might feel after him and find him, though 25:32.940 --> 25:36.460 he be not far from every one of us. 25:36.460 --> 25:40.880 Well, how does this work in conjunction with total depravity, since total depravity says 25:40.880 --> 25:45.320 you can't do that? You don't have it within you to seek the Lord, yet we're being commanded 25:45.320 --> 25:50.300 here and we're being taught here that all nations are positioned in different parts 25:50.300 --> 25:51.140 to the world. 25:51.300 --> 25:54.740 with the intent that they would seek after the Lord in their situation. 25:54.740 --> 25:58.340 So the person who's in poverty, you know why they're born in poverty? So they can seek the Lord. 25:59.140 --> 26:04.100 The person who's born with abundance, the abundance should invoke within them gratitude, 26:04.100 --> 26:11.380 and by gratitude seek the Lord. The person who's born with sicknesses, illness, disease, 26:11.380 --> 26:14.660 it's done in that manner so they can seek the Lord. 26:15.300 --> 26:19.700 The person who's born in neighborhoods of violence and countries of violence 26:19.700 --> 26:23.060 where horrendous things happen, the Lord allowed that. 26:23.060 --> 26:25.300 So in light of that, they would seek the Lord. 26:26.260 --> 26:28.980 This is why it's important for you not to complain about where, 26:28.980 --> 26:30.740 what household you were born into. 26:31.400 --> 26:33.400 What color skin you have or something. 26:33.400 --> 26:35.400 I wish I was just a different race or something. 26:35.400 --> 26:37.400 I wish I wasn't born in the hood. 26:37.400 --> 26:39.400 I wish I wasn't born in this part of the world. 26:39.400 --> 26:41.400 I wish I wasn't...no, actually that 26:41.400 --> 26:43.400 helped you to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 26:43.400 --> 26:47.400 It's not going to bring you to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 26:47.400 --> 26:49.400 It just positions you spiritually 26:49.400 --> 26:51.400 so that in light of that position 26:51.400 --> 26:53.400 you seek the Lord 26:53.400 --> 26:55.200 and guess what? You find Him. 26:55.500 --> 26:58.620 It's not like, oh, sorry, you can't find anything. 26:58.620 --> 27:00.780 You're just completely incapable. 27:00.780 --> 27:03.260 You're not able because you're just totally depraved. 27:03.260 --> 27:05.300 It's just impossible for you to do so, 27:05.300 --> 27:06.860 not according to the Bible. 27:06.860 --> 27:08.460 Not according to the Bible. 27:08.460 --> 27:12.620 Go to Romans chapter 2, if you would, Romans chapter 2. 27:12.620 --> 27:16.620 And again, according to this total depravity doctrine, 27:16.620 --> 27:19.860 the non-elect are incapable of just obeying the word of God, 27:19.860 --> 27:21.060 period. 27:21.060 --> 27:22.180 They're just not able. 27:22.180 --> 27:22.680 OK? 27:23.200 --> 27:26.400 But again, the Bible teaches contrary to that. 27:26.400 --> 27:30.040 Look at Romans chapter two and verse number, 27:30.040 --> 27:31.680 we'll start at verse number 12. 27:31.680 --> 27:33.920 For as many as have sinned without law 27:33.920 --> 27:35.920 shall also perish without law. 27:36.300 --> 27:39.540 And as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law. 27:39.540 --> 27:44.700 For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified. 27:44.700 --> 27:52.020 For when the Gentiles which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, 27:52.020 --> 27:54.140 these having not the law are law unto themselves." 27:54.140 --> 27:58.940 So the Bible says here that the Gentiles, which is synonymous with the unregenerated, 27:58.940 --> 28:01.500 they do the things which are contained in the law. 28:01.700 --> 28:05.140 Even though they don't have the law. Well, how is that possible if they're totally depraved? 28:05.700 --> 28:11.300 How is that possible if they're just incapable of seeking after God reading the Bible obeying the 28:11.300 --> 28:17.220 Bible? I'll tell you how because within every single human being God has placed something called 28:17.220 --> 28:24.260 light. No one is born into this world without light. Okay, what is light? Truth. 28:25.000 --> 28:33.000 It comes through our conscious, it's invoked by creation, and it's enlightened, made brighter 28:33.000 --> 28:35.960 so to speak, when we're given the gospel. 28:35.960 --> 28:37.400 Go to John chapter 1 if you would. 28:37.400 --> 28:39.200 John chapter 1. 28:39.200 --> 28:43.040 Actually, John chapter 3 and then we'll go to John chapter 1. 28:43.040 --> 28:45.720 Go to John chapter 3 first. 28:45.720 --> 28:48.080 You see, every person in this world has light within them. 28:48.080 --> 28:49.080 It doesn't mean they're good. 28:49.080 --> 28:51.120 Because there's none that do with good, no not one. 28:51.700 --> 28:57.060 The light that is within every human being is a measure of truth that God expects for you to respond to 28:57.060 --> 29:00.280 that eventually positions you to hear the gospel later on. 29:00.280 --> 29:02.760 And that light is called the conscience. 29:02.760 --> 29:03.760 Okay? 29:03.760 --> 29:06.500 You know, it's able to tell you that you're doing wrong. 29:07.200 --> 29:09.000 In light of that you seek after God 29:09.000 --> 29:16.060 This is what Romans chapter 7 means by the law slaying us and in light of that we would seek after the Lord seek after 29:16.280 --> 29:20.780 Salvation that would bring us to the foot of the cross. This is the light that God gives us look at Romans 29:20.780 --> 29:24.500 Excuse me John chapter 3 and verse number 19 29:24.500 --> 29:30.620 It says this is the condemnation that light is coming to the world and men love darkness 29:30.840 --> 29:32.840 Rather than light because their deeds were evil 29:33.200 --> 29:39.320 For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reprieved. 29:39.320 --> 29:45.720 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." 29:45.720 --> 29:47.040 You say, oh, see, there you go. 29:47.040 --> 29:50.960 One man hates the light, the other one responds to the light. 29:50.960 --> 29:53.040 Yeah, but here's the point. They both have light. 29:53.040 --> 29:55.600 So how do you know? Go to John chapter 1. 29:55.600 --> 29:56.800 John chapter 1. 29:59.000 --> 30:03.160 John chapter 1 and we'll start in verse number 1 30:03.160 --> 30:06.840 it says, in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God, the Word was God 30:06.840 --> 30:10.160 the same was in the beginning with God all things were made by Him and without 30:10.160 --> 30:11.960 Him was not anything made that was made 30:11.960 --> 30:17.900 it's a good passage for the Muslims amen. In Him was life and the life was the light of men 30:18.000 --> 30:21.840 And the light shineth in darkness, the darkness comprehended it not. 30:21.840 --> 30:26.160 Skip down to verse 7, the same came for a witness to bear witness of the light, 30:26.160 --> 30:28.000 that all men through him might believe. 30:28.000 --> 30:31.760 He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. 30:31.760 --> 30:38.240 That was the true light, listen to this, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 30:38.240 --> 30:40.800 You know what that means? Every man has light. 30:41.400 --> 30:46.000 Every man has a measure of truth within them to the Lord Jesus Christ 30:46.000 --> 30:49.280 You know, it's kind of like it sounds like just God wants people to be saved 30:49.920 --> 30:51.880 Just like everyone 30:51.880 --> 30:58.520 He's not like well you get light not you you get and when you propose these verses when you show these verses to Calvinist 30:58.880 --> 31:02.880 They're like, well, yeah, it is true. They have a measure of light, but it really it only affects the elect though 31:04.000 --> 31:05.500 book chapter and verse on that 31:06.000 --> 31:08.400 Well, no, that's just how it is, you know. 31:08.400 --> 31:11.680 Everyone has light, and everyone gets a measure of grace, 31:11.680 --> 31:13.520 but only the elect are able to respond. 31:13.520 --> 31:17.360 How convenient that you just completely ignore 31:17.360 --> 31:20.240 the clear portions of scripture that specifically says 31:20.240 --> 31:23.360 that we all have light, which refutes total depravity. 31:23.900 --> 31:28.500 Because total depravity basically asserts there is no light in everyone. 31:28.500 --> 31:33.660 Light only exists in those who are called for salvation in the elect. 31:33.660 --> 31:38.100 Now let me also make something very clear that we do believe that Christians are the 31:38.100 --> 31:40.920 chosen of God. 31:40.920 --> 31:42.300 We are the elect. 31:42.700 --> 31:50.020 The difference is we don't believe that that election is based upon God's whim where others are not elect. 31:50.020 --> 31:55.900 The election is based upon simply our faith in Jesus Christ, and at that point we are the chosen people of God. 31:55.900 --> 31:56.600 Okay? 31:56.600 --> 32:02.700 Ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, and a holy nation, and so forth, 1 Peter chapter 2. 32:02.700 --> 32:08.860 And so total depravity completely falls apart when you recognize that for all that have sinned, 32:09.000 --> 32:13.800 When you recognize that God commands people to ask, seek and knock 32:13.800 --> 32:17.300 That people are placed in certain habitations around the world 32:17.300 --> 32:19.600 So that they can seek the Lord 32:19.600 --> 32:22.800 So they can, you know, call upon the name of the Lord 32:22.800 --> 32:26.200 So they can seek after Him and we have plenty of examples of that in the Bible 32:26.200 --> 32:28.200 You have Cornelius for example 32:28.200 --> 32:31.100 Who was not saved yet he sought the Lord 32:31.100 --> 32:32.700 You say, well that's because he was elect 32:32.700 --> 32:34.700 Yeah, but according to your 32:35.400 --> 32:39.400 Calvinistic interpretation, he's totally depraved, God has to come to him 32:39.880 --> 32:44.020 But what do we see with Cornelius is that he sought out the truth 32:44.480 --> 32:48.620 He's the one who sought out Peter. He's the one who sought out the gospel. Okay 32:49.680 --> 32:52.880 Now go back to Ephesians chapter 1 if you would Ephesians chapter 1 32:54.720 --> 32:57.860 I am not a Calvinist because I believe that all men can be saved 32:58.800 --> 33:01.840 I don't believe that all men are totally depraved. 33:01.840 --> 33:06.840 Obviously there comes a point, according to the Bible, where someone can be beyond the 33:06.840 --> 33:07.840 hope of salvation. 33:07.840 --> 33:09.720 It's called reprobation. 33:09.720 --> 33:15.040 But it's based upon their continuous and aggressive rejection of the gospel. 33:15.600 --> 33:18.600 to the point where they become enemies of the cross of Christ. 33:18.920 --> 33:20.960 They don't want to retain God in their knowledge. 33:21.160 --> 33:23.440 Therefore, God gives them over to a reprobate mind 33:23.640 --> 33:25.840 to do those things which are not convenient. 33:25.840 --> 33:29.080 Totally different from total depravity that asserts while certain people 33:29.080 --> 33:33.000 have been elected for total depravity, they will never come to the same knowledge 33:33.000 --> 33:37.560 of Jesus Christ, not because of some foreknowledge of their acts or their deeds, 33:37.560 --> 33:39.560 but just simply because maybe just God doesn't like them. 33:40.200 --> 33:42.520 You just choose for them not to be safe. 33:42.520 --> 33:45.160 Now here's what's wicked about this idea, 33:45.160 --> 33:47.800 and what a lot of people don't think about, 33:47.800 --> 33:50.120 is that this basically means that according to Calvinism, 33:50.120 --> 33:52.760 some of the babies are in hell. 33:52.760 --> 33:54.120 Think about that. 33:54.120 --> 33:57.600 According to them, there are babies, infants, 33:57.600 --> 34:00.120 that are in hell right now. 34:00.120 --> 34:00.760 And you know what? 34:00.760 --> 34:03.280 Calvinists hate to address that. 34:03.280 --> 34:05.840 But it's consistent with what they believe. 34:06.300 --> 34:14.060 How so? Well, if a child dies in his mother's womb, if there's a still birth, if an infant dies, 34:14.060 --> 34:18.540 but they were not elect, then according to Calvinist theology, they go to hell for sure. 34:19.180 --> 34:23.740 And you can talk to a Calvinist about this and they will beat around the bush all day long about 34:23.740 --> 34:30.220 it. Because they know how godless and wicked that doctrine is. Okay? Whereas the Bible teaches 34:30.220 --> 34:33.900 that every infant, every baby who dies, goes to heaven. 34:35.400 --> 34:38.240 Because they have not yet been slain by the law. 34:38.240 --> 34:40.240 They don't understand salvation. 34:40.240 --> 34:43.680 They don't understand that they're corruptible or that they're sinners. 34:43.680 --> 34:46.000 They have not yet been slain by the law. 34:46.000 --> 34:50.840 A good way to say it is that they're not saved, but they're safe in the Lord. 34:50.840 --> 34:52.800 And so in that regard, they will go to heaven. 34:52.800 --> 34:53.320 And guess what? 34:53.320 --> 34:55.120 We have biblical proof of that now, don't we? 34:55.500 --> 35:01.740 where David's child died and David said, I shall go to him, but he shall not return unto me. 35:01.740 --> 35:06.900 Why shall he go to him? Because David is saved. So he knows full well that his child, well, that just means he was elect. 35:06.900 --> 35:12.900 It's nonsense, my friends. It's a godless doctrine that essentially has no love. 35:12.900 --> 35:17.100 And this is a wicked God. The Calvinist God is a wicked God. 35:18.400 --> 35:21.840 who basically just doesn't care about people 35:21.840 --> 35:26.000 and by the way, you know, limited atonement is also another wicked doctrine 35:26.000 --> 35:30.240 because it basically says that the blood of Jesus Christ was not shed for the whole world 35:30.240 --> 35:31.800 even though the Bible literally says that 35:31.800 --> 35:34.320 that it was only shed for the elect 35:34.320 --> 35:38.280 even though it literally says that his blood is the propitiation for all men 35:38.280 --> 35:41.560 but yeah, it's like, oh no, all men really just means the elect 35:42.000 --> 35:46.400 Okay, so that's total depravity. Let's talk about unconditional election 35:46.840 --> 35:50.760 We've already hit on this a little bit and what does this mean unconditional election? 35:50.760 --> 35:54.880 It means that God chooses people for salvation, but it's not based upon 35:55.920 --> 35:57.100 foreseen faith 35:57.500 --> 36:04.000 In other words, they believe that God just elects people for salvation and they can't do anything about it. 36:04.000 --> 36:06.000 That's just how special they are. 36:06.000 --> 36:11.500 They just won the lottery, the spiritual lottery, and now they're elect for eternal life. 36:11.500 --> 36:16.500 Now, this is very, you know, closely related to predestination. 36:16.900 --> 36:19.140 And people often assert, well, you don't believe in predestination. 36:19.140 --> 36:20.300 Predestination is in the Bible. 36:20.300 --> 36:21.700 And to that I say, amen. 36:21.700 --> 36:23.580 Of course we believe in predestination. 36:23.580 --> 36:27.820 We don't believe in the Calvinist definition, though, of predestination. 36:27.820 --> 36:29.020 It's very different. 36:29.020 --> 36:29.940 OK? 36:29.940 --> 36:33.260 So when people say, oh, you reject predestination, 36:33.260 --> 36:35.620 you need to respond with, no, we believe in predestination. 36:35.620 --> 36:40.140 We just reject the Calvinist definition of what predestination actually means. 36:40.140 --> 36:41.420 Now let's read it here in. 36:41.900 --> 36:46.220 Ephesians 1 verse 4 says, according as he hath chosen us in him 36:47.100 --> 36:49.100 Well, that's important to note there 36:49.260 --> 36:50.940 He chose us 36:50.940 --> 36:52.940 In him in who in christ 36:53.820 --> 36:58.780 Before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame before him in love 36:59.100 --> 37:05.580 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will 37:05.900 --> 37:11.420 Skip down to verse number 11 and whom also we have obtained an inheritance 37:12.180 --> 37:14.180 being predestinated 37:14.260 --> 37:21.180 According to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will so we have a couple things here 37:21.500 --> 37:24.820 first and foremost we see in verse number four 37:26.300 --> 37:31.980 that we are chosen, predestinated, before the foundation of the world. 37:31.980 --> 37:33.340 And I agree with that 100%. 37:33.340 --> 37:38.700 And I'm going to explain to you what the scriptural position to that phrase in this teaching is in just a bit. 37:39.200 --> 37:41.440 But we see the term predestined being used here. 37:41.440 --> 37:48.040 And what they'll assert is, well, people who are elect are simply preselected, predestined for salvation. 37:48.040 --> 37:49.160 This is what that's referring to. 37:49.160 --> 37:50.800 We're predestined to the adoption. 37:50.800 --> 37:52.520 We're predestined in him. 37:52.520 --> 38:00.400 But what they neglect to do is to seek after the condition of predestination, which is in the text. 38:00.400 --> 38:03.600 Now, Calvinists are big on context, just not when it comes to this. 38:04.600 --> 38:09.940 So verse 11 says that they are predestined according to the purpose of Him who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will 38:09.940 --> 38:11.940 And I want you to notice verse 12 38:11.940 --> 38:14.940 That we should be to the praise of His glory, listen to this 38:14.940 --> 38:18.940 Who first trusted in Christ 38:18.940 --> 38:21.940 Who first trusted in Christ 38:21.940 --> 38:27.940 So who are those who are predestined? Those who are, those who have first trusted in Christ 38:28.700 --> 38:34.380 So once you trust in Jesus Christ, now you're considered the predestined one 38:34.380 --> 38:36.700 Before the foundation of the world 38:36.700 --> 38:41.300 Now go to Romans chapter 8, and then we're going to go to Revelation chapter 3 38:41.300 --> 38:43.980 Romans chapter 8 38:43.980 --> 38:47.940 I'm going to read you a couple of verses from Romans 8 38:47.940 --> 38:53.900 And then we're going to examine the before the foundation of the world 38:53.900 --> 38:55.580 Because that's a strong argument that they have 38:56.100 --> 38:58.740 You can look at that and say, oh, I mean, it does say 38:58.740 --> 39:01.540 that we were chosen before the foundation of the world. 39:01.540 --> 39:03.260 What are you going to do with that? 39:03.260 --> 39:05.460 How do you reconcile that? 39:05.460 --> 39:08.700 Well, let's look at Romans 8 first in verse 29. 39:08.700 --> 39:11.420 It says here, for whom he did foreknow. 39:12.300 --> 39:19.900 He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 39:19.900 --> 39:29.800 Moreover, whom he did predestinate, them he also called, and whom he called, them he also justified, and whom he justified, them he also glorified. 39:29.800 --> 39:31.500 Now, what does the passage begin with? 39:31.500 --> 39:33.800 Whom he did foreknow. 39:34.400 --> 39:42.700 This means that predestination, being conformed to the image of his son, being justified, being glorified 39:42.700 --> 39:46.000 is based upon the foreknowledge of God 39:47.200 --> 39:52.000 Not his foreselection, it says foreknowledge 39:52.000 --> 39:58.700 Foreknow basically means he knew who was going to accept Christ and who was going to reject Jesus Christ 39:59.200 --> 40:02.100 That's what it means to foreknow, it means he knew ahead of time 40:02.500 --> 40:06.940 It doesn't say he's selected ahead of time, it says that he knew ahead of time. 40:06.940 --> 40:10.580 So every single person who gets saved, God already knows who's going to get saved. 40:10.580 --> 40:13.940 He doesn't choose them, He knows. 40:13.940 --> 40:15.700 Now with that in mind, let's go to Revelation chapter 3. 40:20.600 --> 40:22.600 Revelation chapter 3 40:23.160 --> 40:25.040 Let's talk about 40:25.040 --> 40:27.740 The before the foundation of the world, okay? 40:28.480 --> 40:30.940 That they're chosen before the foundation of the world. How is that? 40:31.080 --> 40:32.280 How is that you know? 40:32.280 --> 40:36.060 How do we reconcile being predestined and that they're chosen before the foundation of the world? 40:36.080 --> 40:40.860 Well, let me let you in on a little secret that should not be a secret and that is that 40:41.360 --> 40:44.100 Everyone's name actually starts off in the book of life 40:45.760 --> 40:46.700 Okay 40:47.600 --> 40:52.400 You're like, well, I thought our names are written down once you believe on Jesus Christ. 40:52.400 --> 40:58.160 No, it's already there. In fact, the Bible never records someone being written down in the book 40:58.160 --> 41:04.640 of life after they believed on Jesus Christ. The vast majority of verses in the Bible that deal 41:04.640 --> 41:08.160 with the book of life often addresses those who have been blotted out. 41:09.500 --> 41:13.900 So that means names are removed, they're not added to the book of life. 41:14.460 --> 41:18.380 Why? Because the names are already there before the foundation of the world. 41:19.180 --> 41:22.860 Now let's read Revelation chapter 3 and verse 5 here. 41:23.500 --> 41:28.780 It says in verse number 5, he that overcomeeth, the same shall be clothed in white raiment, 41:28.780 --> 41:33.340 and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my 41:33.340 --> 41:35.260 father and before his angels. Now, 41:35.800 --> 41:41.880 To overcome according to 1 John chapter 5 is the equivalent to believing on Jesus Christ. 41:41.880 --> 41:46.920 You can read that in 1 John chapter 5, who is he that overcome it but he that believe it that Jesus is the Son of God. 41:46.920 --> 41:52.520 Okay, so someone who places their faith in Christ is the equivalent to someone who overcomes. 41:52.520 --> 41:55.800 Which by the way, why would it be called overcoming if they didn't overcome anything? 41:55.800 --> 41:57.800 If they're not able to choose. 41:59.500 --> 42:05.920 Sounds like the Bible is telling us here that the person has a responsibility to overcome their false ideology and believe on Jesus Christ 42:06.500 --> 42:11.020 to reject false Gospels to reject a workspace salvation and 42:11.500 --> 42:17.720 Overcome those things and place their faith in Christ. Whereas according to Calvinist theology. No, it's nothing that you do 42:18.380 --> 42:21.000 God is the one who invokes you to be saved 42:21.000 --> 42:24.700 He's the one that moves you to be saved and so forth. Well, it says here that they have to overcome 42:25.300 --> 42:30.500 The point being here is that once you're saved, the Bible promises that your name will never be blotted out. 42:30.500 --> 42:36.900 So that means every single person in this room, if you place your faith in Jesus Christ exclusively for salvation, 42:36.900 --> 42:41.500 your name is permanently embedded within the registry of the Book of Life. 42:41.500 --> 42:43.300 It's never going to get blotted out. 42:43.300 --> 42:45.500 It doesn't matter what sins you commit. 42:45.800 --> 42:47.800 Doesn't matter if you backslide 42:47.800 --> 42:49.320 Doesn't matter if you get out of church 42:49.320 --> 42:51.000 If you've already placed your faith in Christ 42:51.000 --> 42:53.000 You'll never be blotted out according to the Bible 42:53.000 --> 42:54.280 Go to Revelation 17 42:54.280 --> 42:55.800 Revelation chapter 17 42:55.800 --> 42:58.680 Revelation chapter 17 if you would 43:03.200 --> 43:09.780 Revelation 17 verse 8 says the beast revelation 17 verse 8 the beast that thou sawst was and is not and 43:09.920 --> 43:13.560 Shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition 43:14.100 --> 43:21.540 And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world 43:21.760 --> 43:28.260 When they beheld the beast that was and is not and yet is so in its context 43:28.260 --> 43:33.820 This is addressing people who have taken the mark of the beast at which point their names have been blotted out of the book 43:33.820 --> 43:40.540 Of life these are not saved people. These are people who have worshiped the Antichrist and by proxy are worshiping Satan 43:41.300 --> 43:48.100 Therefore their names are completely blotted out. Now, how does this relate to refuting unconditional election? 43:48.140 --> 43:54.580 Well think about this unconditional election asserts that the elect are chosen before the foundation of the world and 43:54.900 --> 43:59.620 By proxy the non-elect are also chosen for eternal damnation 44:00.140 --> 44:04.760 Whereas the Bible teaches that every single person starts off in the book of life 44:05.900 --> 44:07.400 Start off in the book of life 44:07.700 --> 44:12.100 And the Bible says that if your names are not written in the book of life, then you'll go into the lake of fire 44:12.260 --> 44:17.780 What is it showing us? It's showing us that god originally intended for all men to be saved 44:19.620 --> 44:21.220 That's his intention 44:21.220 --> 44:26.820 So unsafe people are currently listen to this in the book of life right now 44:28.180 --> 44:30.180 That's a fact 44:30.660 --> 44:32.660 They're blotted out once they die without christ 44:34.100 --> 44:35.400 That's what the bible teaches 44:35.900 --> 44:38.900 Why? Because he's not willing that any should perish. 44:38.900 --> 44:43.900 And it's almost as if God in faith put your name in the book of life, 44:43.900 --> 44:46.900 hoping that you come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 44:46.900 --> 44:49.900 Because he actually, I don't know, because he loves you? 44:49.900 --> 44:51.900 Because he doesn't want you to go to hell? 44:51.900 --> 44:56.900 So this alone refutes unconditional election because it demonstrates 44:56.900 --> 45:00.900 that before the foundation of the world, the elect are not the only ones that are chosen. 45:00.900 --> 45:02.800 Everyone is, according to the Bible. 45:02.900 --> 45:08.500 He's calling all men everywhere to repent and to come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 45:08.500 --> 45:10.740 But of course people are going to get blotted out. 45:11.200 --> 45:18.480 People will be blotted out once they die and go to hell, once they become reprobates, they are blotted out but they're not written there. 45:18.480 --> 45:24.880 They're permanently embedded within the registry. Once you believe on Jesus Christ, you're no longer blotted out. 45:24.880 --> 45:29.440 The point being here is that unconditional election is completely contrary to the Word of God 45:29.440 --> 45:33.200 because it essentially asserts that, you know, God doesn't really love everyone else. 45:33.840 --> 45:37.440 That's not true. He's the savior of all men, but especially those that believe. 45:38.500 --> 45:41.140 For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. 45:41.140 --> 45:43.700 Oh, just kidding, that's just for the elect. 45:43.700 --> 45:46.240 And here's one thing that Calvinists can't reconcile. 45:46.240 --> 45:49.300 You know, when you give them all these passages of scripture 45:49.300 --> 45:52.060 that demonstrates that God loves the entire world, 45:52.060 --> 45:55.600 they're like, well, he does love the world, but he's only giving salvation to the elect. 45:55.600 --> 46:00.140 It's like, yeah, but it says that he gave, he shed his blood for the whole world. 46:00.140 --> 46:02.540 Yeah, he did for the whole world, but it only applies to the elect. 46:04.000 --> 46:07.200 Well, it says here that everyone can seek after God. 46:07.200 --> 46:09.360 Yeah, but only those who are elect actually seek after God. 46:09.360 --> 46:10.080 Like, what is that? 46:11.120 --> 46:13.840 It's all these things that are being inferred into the text. 46:14.640 --> 46:20.000 This is what happens, my friends, when you just completely fall off the Bible. 46:20.200 --> 46:24.600 and you make up your own doctrines, you just want to become a scholar of the Bible 46:24.600 --> 46:29.800 and then you end up just vain-jangling, increasing unto more ungodliness 46:29.800 --> 46:33.200 and teaching just a bunch of damnable heresy, and it's not in the Bible. 46:34.400 --> 46:39.400 So total depravity, false doctrine. Unconditional election, false doctrine. 46:39.400 --> 46:43.600 What does it mean to be predestined? It means that God has destined you 46:43.600 --> 46:47.800 after salvation to be conformed to the image of his son. 46:48.000 --> 46:49.500 That's what that means. 46:49.500 --> 46:51.500 It means, you know, this is what the Bible says, 46:51.500 --> 46:53.500 for by grace are you safe through faith, and that not of yourselves, 46:53.500 --> 46:56.000 it is the gift of God, and not of works that any man should boast. 46:56.000 --> 46:57.800 Then what does it say after that? 46:57.800 --> 47:01.200 For we are as workmanship created in Christ Jesus, right? 47:01.200 --> 47:03.000 That we should walk in them. 47:03.000 --> 47:07.400 He created us unto good works, which God had before ordained, 47:07.400 --> 47:08.900 that we should walk in them. 47:08.900 --> 47:11.600 So what are we predestined for? Good works. 47:11.600 --> 47:14.600 What are we predestined for? To be conformed to the image of His Son. 47:15.500 --> 47:20.700 It's not like, well, I chose Morrie because, you know, I just like him. 47:22.220 --> 47:23.580 I just rather have him. 47:24.060 --> 47:27.180 And you know, what a terrifying thought for Calvinist parents. 47:28.540 --> 47:28.860 Right? 47:28.860 --> 47:30.140 Isn't that a terrifying thought? 47:31.100 --> 47:33.660 Because what if you have kids, you're just like, which one of us are elect? 47:34.940 --> 47:36.220 What if my kids are not elect? 47:37.420 --> 47:37.900 What if? 47:38.600 --> 47:44.200 Just dealing with this absolute doubt in your mind of whether you're actually elect or not. 47:45.080 --> 47:47.960 Whereas the Bible makes the message of salvation very clear. 47:47.960 --> 47:50.040 Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. 47:51.320 --> 47:54.840 And look, this is why a lot of Calvinists, there's Calvinists out there that doubt their salvation. 47:55.480 --> 47:57.800 And they should, especially if they believe in this. 47:58.440 --> 48:00.600 Because a lot of people wonder like, well, I don't know if I'm really saved or not. 48:00.600 --> 48:03.480 I don't know if I'm really the elect because I still desire to sin. 48:04.400 --> 48:08.480 I still desire to do these things. I'm not really persevering. I'm out of church 48:08.480 --> 48:12.060 So I just don't know if I'm really the elect of God. Well, not us 48:12.060 --> 48:14.800 You know, the Bible says that he may know the eternal life 48:15.840 --> 48:18.980 You know, I don't struggle with whether I'm whether I'm saved or not 48:18.980 --> 48:26.180 I got saved, you know about 20 years ago and just never have to revisit that and wonder am I saved based upon my works 48:27.600 --> 48:30.160 because it's already been settled for me that works cannot save me 48:30.160 --> 48:32.700 it's the finished work of Jesus Christ that saves and so forth 48:32.700 --> 48:35.780 so total depravity, false doctrine, unconditional election, false doctrine 48:35.780 --> 48:37.940 go to John chapter 6 if you would 48:38.940 --> 48:40.220 John chapter 6 48:45.800 --> 48:53.400 John chapter 6, along with unconditional election, is this idea of irresistible grace. 48:53.400 --> 48:54.400 Okay? 48:54.400 --> 48:57.400 And this is kind of corny to me, I'll just be honest with you. 48:57.400 --> 48:59.400 This is just corny. 48:59.400 --> 49:00.400 Okay? 49:00.400 --> 49:03.400 Because basically what they're saying is like, how do you know if you're the elect though? 49:03.400 --> 49:06.900 Well, if you're just drawn to God. 49:06.900 --> 49:10.280 Because the grace of God is so irresistible. 49:10.280 --> 49:10.900 It just... 49:10.900 --> 49:14.900 You know, you can't help yourself, but become an elect person. 49:15.900 --> 49:16.900 Okay? 49:16.900 --> 49:20.900 And, you know, the irresistible grace of God is only available to the elect. 49:21.900 --> 49:25.900 So the totally depraved who are not elect, they don't know what irresistible grace is. 49:26.900 --> 49:28.900 They don't know what the grace of God is, period. 49:28.900 --> 49:29.900 Okay? 49:29.900 --> 49:36.900 You know, basically irresistible grace is God's inward call to bring the elect to salvation. 49:37.300 --> 49:42.100 This is just a very prideful, arrogant doctrine, I'll just be honest with you 49:42.100 --> 49:48.700 It's just arrogant, it's prideful to think that you somehow merit eternal life just because you're chosen of God or something 49:48.700 --> 49:51.600 It doesn't make sense at all and it's completely against the Bible 49:51.600 --> 49:54.400 Now what are some of the verses that they'll use? Look at John 6 verse 37 49:54.400 --> 49:55.600 It says here, 49:55.600 --> 50:01.900 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me, and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out 50:01.900 --> 50:04.300 So they say, the Father gives him to me 50:04.600 --> 50:10.120 They will come to me and I'm not going to cast them out skip down to verse number 43 50:10.840 --> 50:16.200 Jesus therefore answered and said to them murmur not among yourselves. No man can come to me 50:16.840 --> 50:22.940 Except the father which hath sent me draw him and I will raise them up at the last day 50:23.200 --> 50:28.040 So they use this to try to demonstrate the doctrine of irresistible grace. 50:28.040 --> 50:32.340 God draws that person. There's just something within that individual 50:32.340 --> 50:36.420 that just wants to seek after the truth, that wants to get saved. 50:36.420 --> 50:40.240 It's just God's irresistible grace, and it's not going to fail. 50:40.240 --> 50:43.420 They will eventually come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ because of the grace of God. 50:43.420 --> 50:45.740 Now when it comes to this particular doctrine, 50:45.740 --> 50:48.160 there's two separate types of grace according to them. 50:48.160 --> 50:49.000 Okay? 50:49.200 --> 50:53.840 There's like a general grace and then there's saving grace 50:54.980 --> 50:58.040 Because you know you find throughout the Bible, I think grace is available to everyone 50:58.660 --> 51:02.820 He's like, well yeah, of course grace is available to everyone because God is just gracious 51:02.820 --> 51:04.820 But saving grace though 51:05.400 --> 51:10.400 Saving grace is what motivates, it's the grace of God that saves them. 51:10.400 --> 51:16.400 So, you know, and it's just like, well, does God offer grace to like unregenerated people? 51:16.400 --> 51:20.400 Yes, of course. But just not for salvation. Then what is it for? 51:20.400 --> 51:24.400 Just to give them grace. For what? 51:24.400 --> 51:28.400 And you ask them, like, does the Holy Spirit work in unsaved people? 51:28.400 --> 51:32.400 It's like, yeah, but just not for salvation. So for what? 51:33.300 --> 51:36.740 just to work in them. 51:36.740 --> 51:38.980 And it's just like, what? 51:38.980 --> 51:40.980 So you're saying that, it's like, well, 51:40.980 --> 51:43.220 can unsaved people understand, hear the gospel? 51:43.220 --> 51:44.420 Yeah, they can understand. 51:44.420 --> 51:45.140 But they can't get saved. 51:45.140 --> 51:47.420 No, no, they just can understand. 51:47.420 --> 51:49.420 But it's just not for salvation. 51:49.420 --> 51:52.180 It's retarded. 51:52.180 --> 51:55.100 That's what it is. 51:55.100 --> 51:59.220 Now, what does it mean here when it says that God draws people? 51:59.900 --> 52:04.100 And because they're drawn, they will eventually come, they get saved. 52:04.100 --> 52:06.200 And then he will know why it's cast them out. What does that mean? 52:06.200 --> 52:10.700 Well, according to the Calvinists, it's just this supernatural pull 52:10.700 --> 52:12.900 within them that God is working within them. 52:12.900 --> 52:16.400 But that's not what the text says. Look at the text, verse 45. 52:16.400 --> 52:18.400 It is written in the prophets... 52:19.200 --> 52:27.440 And they shall be all taught of God, every man therefore that hath heard and hath learned of the Father, cometh to me." 52:27.440 --> 52:32.800 So what does it mean to be drawn unto God? It means that they're hearing the preaching of God's Word. 52:32.800 --> 52:36.200 You know how we're drawn to God? By hearing the Bible. 52:36.200 --> 52:40.400 Why? Because faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. 52:40.400 --> 52:45.200 You know how faith is invoked in us? You know how it's increased by the Bible? 52:45.600 --> 52:49.600 You know what draws us to Jesus Christ? It's called the gospel of Jesus Christ. 52:49.600 --> 52:50.100 That's right. 52:50.100 --> 52:52.100 That's what draws us to Him. 52:52.100 --> 52:54.100 You know what? That's what draws everyone to Him. 52:54.100 --> 52:54.600 Amen. 52:54.600 --> 53:00.600 So this idea that only the elect can be drawn of God, only the elect have this irresistible grace. 53:00.600 --> 53:04.600 Wrong, because anybody can hear the Word of God. Anybody can. 53:04.600 --> 53:09.600 And you know what? And they have the ability to reject the gospel if they want to. 53:12.300 --> 53:15.740 Go with me if you would to Titus chapter 2. Titus chapter 2. 53:17.980 --> 53:20.380 Now the Calvinists again, they will hear that and they'll say, 53:20.380 --> 53:27.820 well you're just mistaken, the grace of God is for everyone, but again, saving grace is only for the 53:27.820 --> 53:32.700 elect. Okay, we're not saying God's not gracious. God is obviously gracious to all. 53:33.300 --> 53:40.800 He's gracious to all, He extends His grace to everyone, but saving grace though is only for the elect. 53:40.800 --> 53:42.100 Really? Is that true? 53:42.100 --> 53:46.000 Look at Titus chapter 2 and verse 11. 53:46.000 --> 53:51.800 Titus 2 verse 11, for the grace of God, listen to this, that bringeth salvation, 53:51.800 --> 53:55.400 listen to this, hath appeared, listen to this, to all men. 53:59.000 --> 53:59.800 Hmm 54:02.600 --> 54:03.600 Crap. 54:03.600 --> 54:08.800 I mean, that's what it says. 54:08.800 --> 54:09.800 Isn't that what it says? 54:09.800 --> 54:13.440 You know, your saving grace? 54:13.440 --> 54:16.120 That's what grace of God, that brings salvation. 54:16.120 --> 54:17.120 Check. 54:17.120 --> 54:20.360 Well, it's only for the elect appear to all men. 54:20.360 --> 54:21.360 Everyone. 54:21.360 --> 54:28.080 Well, when it says all men, it's just referring to like all kinds of men and more specifically 54:28.080 --> 54:30.120 the elect within those kinds of men. 54:31.100 --> 54:35.100 And I'm telling you, I'm not being facetious here, that's literally what they'll say. 54:35.100 --> 54:38.100 That's literally what they'll say! 54:38.100 --> 54:42.100 So you're telling me that when the Bible says all men, it doesn't really mean all of them? 54:42.100 --> 54:45.100 Like all of humanity? No, it doesn't, it just refers to the elect. 54:45.100 --> 54:49.100 Okay, go to Romans chapter 5. 54:49.100 --> 54:52.100 Romans chapter 5. 54:52.100 --> 54:54.700 Now this is what you call cherry picking, amen? 54:56.200 --> 55:01.040 So how about this, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. 55:01.040 --> 55:04.040 They'll say well that refers to just everyone. 55:04.040 --> 55:07.380 So when it says for all have sinned that applies to everyone, but when it says that the grace 55:07.380 --> 55:09.720 of God has appeared unto all men it doesn't refer to everyone? 55:09.720 --> 55:12.200 You got it. 55:12.200 --> 55:14.280 Thou art not far from the kingdom of God. 55:16.900 --> 55:19.560 Okay, look at Romans chapter 5 and verse 18. It says, 55:19.560 --> 55:25.420 Therefore as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, 55:25.420 --> 55:28.420 check, it's for all men, 55:28.420 --> 55:34.760 even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. 55:34.760 --> 55:39.100 So they will agree that the all men in the first part of verse 18 refers to just everyone. 55:39.700 --> 55:46.800 Both elect and non-elect but somehow just conveniently the all men in the second half of the verse only 55:47.140 --> 55:49.140 applies to the elect even though 55:49.780 --> 55:55.920 Both phrases in the same verse just say all men and look you can go to the original language. It says all men 55:57.060 --> 56:04.460 It doesn't say all kinds of men. It doesn't say the elect. It doesn't say the chosen of God. It just says 56:07.700 --> 56:12.300 You know, but again, this is what happens when people want to be scholars. 56:12.300 --> 56:17.500 This is what happens when people just infer into the text things that are just not there, my friends. 56:17.500 --> 56:20.500 All men literally means just everyone. 56:20.500 --> 56:26.300 Okay, go to Acts 17, Acts 17 again, and then we're going to go to Hebrews chapter 6. 56:31.000 --> 56:34.040 So irresistible grace, no it can be resisted actually 56:35.240 --> 56:37.240 It can be resisted 56:38.040 --> 56:40.520 And they'll often say well if an elect person 56:41.080 --> 56:46.200 Receives the grace of God because the reason that they say it's irresistible once an elect person 56:47.220 --> 56:52.380 Experiences that grace they have no choice but to like get saved. That's just what they believe 56:53.000 --> 57:01.000 And again, that saving grace, that power to save is only displayed to the elect. 57:01.000 --> 57:03.000 So you've got to keep that in mind. It's very important. 57:03.000 --> 57:07.000 They believe that saving grace, and by the way, what is grace? 57:07.000 --> 57:11.000 Grace is just getting what you don't deserve. It's not like some power. 57:11.000 --> 57:14.000 It's not like some supernatural power within us. 57:14.000 --> 57:17.000 It just means we're getting what we don't deserve. That's what it means. 57:17.300 --> 57:18.560 For by grace are you saved. 57:18.560 --> 57:20.100 This basically means you're getting saved, 57:20.100 --> 57:22.100 not because you deserve it. 57:22.100 --> 57:23.640 Through faith in that not of yourselves, 57:23.640 --> 57:24.860 it is the gift of God. 57:24.860 --> 57:26.260 When it says not of yourself, it's 57:26.260 --> 57:29.900 referring to the fact that it's not of our works. 57:29.900 --> 57:36.160 Okay, it's not by our own merit meaning that we receive it. We see we receive unmerited favor 57:36.660 --> 57:41.740 Not because of anything that we do. Okay, look at act 17 in verse number 30 57:41.740 --> 57:48.940 It says in the times of this ignorance God winked at but now commandeth listen to this all men 57:49.860 --> 57:51.660 everywhere to repent 57:51.660 --> 57:53.740 Now when you ask them about this, they'll say well, yeah 57:54.700 --> 57:56.380 That's for everyone, of course. 57:56.380 --> 58:00.180 But only the elect can come to the saving knowledge. 58:00.180 --> 58:04.220 And so he's commanding even the non-elect to repent? 58:04.220 --> 58:05.460 Yeah. 58:05.460 --> 58:06.380 But they can't repent? 58:06.380 --> 58:08.420 Nope. 58:08.420 --> 58:09.700 But he's commanding them to? 58:09.700 --> 58:10.400 Yeah. 58:12.600 --> 58:14.600 retarded 58:14.880 --> 58:16.880 You guys understand this 58:16.880 --> 58:21.300 You know, it's just like always come in at all men. Yeah, cuz they can't refute the fact that it says all men 58:22.120 --> 58:28.100 It says it right there and it applies to the heathen because he's at Mars Hill in this passage of scripture 58:28.900 --> 58:32.560 And he's saying all men need to repent and it's just like yeah, he commands it 58:32.560 --> 58:38.360 But the only people who could actually do it are the elect of God. So according to their way of thinking 58:39.260 --> 58:40.500 unsaved 58:40.500 --> 58:44.640 Unregenerated knowledge people are commanded to repent even though they just can't 58:45.300 --> 58:51.880 Even though they can't change what they believe but they're still commanded to no matter what it's nonsense. It's a demonic teaching 58:52.320 --> 58:55.780 Okay, let's go to Hebrew chapter 6 Hebrew chapter 6 58:58.500 --> 59:02.660 Hebrews chapter 6 while you're turning I'm going to read to you from Acts chapter 6 59:03.460 --> 59:09.380 now again irresistible grace basically means that the elect are incapable of resisting the word of God 59:10.820 --> 59:15.220 okay they're incapable of resisting the grace of God I'm going to reach you from Acts 6 59:15.780 --> 59:22.340 and verse 10 it says and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he 59:22.340 --> 59:25.980 So here we have people who cannot resist the Word of God 59:26.700 --> 59:29.100 The grace of God is just irresistible 59:29.100 --> 59:31.820 They cannot resist, but then later on 59:31.820 --> 59:34.180 They resist in their hearts to Holy Ghosts 59:34.180 --> 59:37.260 Meaning that they're rejecting the Gospel 59:37.260 --> 59:39.820 So they're not able to resist the wisdom 59:39.820 --> 59:42.700 And the power of the preaching of God's Word, it's coming to them 59:42.700 --> 59:45.220 But then later on, they actually reject salvation 59:45.220 --> 59:48.340 You know why? Because anybody is able to understand and hear the Gospel 59:48.340 --> 59:50.340 But you have a choice whether you're going to accept it or not 59:50.340 --> 59:51.340 That's right 59:51.340 --> 59:51.900 Okay 59:53.300 --> 59:55.700 Hebrews chapter 6 and then we're going to go to 2nd Timothy. 59:57.940 --> 01:00:03.620 2nd Timothy chapter 2. Now look, so saving grace is for those who are elect. Once it once it 01:00:03.620 --> 01:00:12.500 goes to you, the elect are enlightened, they understand it, and they just like, I'm chosen. 01:00:12.500 --> 01:00:17.620 Like this is what I was born. I was born for this. Okay. 01:00:18.700 --> 01:00:21.300 Well, let's look at Hebrews chapter 6 and verse 4. It says, 01:00:21.300 --> 01:00:23.900 For it is impossible for those who were once enlightened 01:00:24.900 --> 01:00:28.500 and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost 01:00:28.800 --> 01:00:31.800 and have tasted the good word of God and the powers of the world to come. 01:00:32.000 --> 01:00:35.300 If they shall fall away to renew them again into repentance, seeing 01:00:35.300 --> 01:00:39.100 they crucified to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to an open shame. 01:00:39.100 --> 01:00:40.700 So this is addressing the reprobate. 01:00:41.100 --> 01:00:48.380 The person who is in close proximity to the truth rejected it indefinitely and therefore are made a reprobate 01:00:48.380 --> 01:00:53.900 They're no longer, you know, available for salvation because they rejected it so much they hate their haters of God 01:00:54.620 --> 01:00:56.940 But here we see that they were enlightened 01:00:57.580 --> 01:00:59.580 Meaning that the grace of God 01:00:59.580 --> 01:01:01.580 Was made available to them 01:01:01.580 --> 01:01:03.500 They tasted of the heavenly gift 01:01:03.700 --> 01:01:05.820 In fact, they were made partakers of the Holy Ghost. 01:01:05.820 --> 01:01:08.540 These are all things that according to Calvinist doctrine 01:01:08.540 --> 01:01:11.580 is only sanctioned for the elect, 01:01:11.580 --> 01:01:12.980 people who will get saved. 01:01:12.980 --> 01:01:14.780 This stuff doesn't happen to unsaved people, 01:01:14.780 --> 01:01:17.340 non-elect people, according to the Calvinists. 01:01:17.340 --> 01:01:20.740 They don't, they're not enlightened. 01:01:20.740 --> 01:01:22.140 They don't taste of the heavenly gift. 01:01:22.140 --> 01:01:23.740 They're not made partakers of the Holy Ghost. 01:01:23.740 --> 01:01:26.460 These are only supernatural actions 01:01:26.460 --> 01:01:28.620 that are only delegated to the elect. 01:01:29.100 --> 01:01:33.900 But yet we find here that these apostates, it's impossible to renew them again into repentance, 01:01:33.900 --> 01:01:36.400 meaning they're not going to get saved. 01:01:36.400 --> 01:01:38.820 They have gone apostate. 01:01:38.820 --> 01:01:43.720 That flies in the face of this idea that the grace of God, the saving grace is only made 01:01:43.720 --> 01:01:45.660 available to the elect. 01:01:45.660 --> 01:01:48.260 It's made available even to the reprobate, believe it or not. 01:01:48.700 --> 01:01:52.420 I mean think about this folks, the Bible literally says in 2nd Peter chapter 2 01:01:52.420 --> 01:01:55.940 that there is false prophets among the brethren 01:01:55.940 --> 01:01:58.100 even as there shall be false teachers among you 01:01:58.100 --> 01:02:00.580 who privily shall bring in damnable heresy 01:02:00.580 --> 01:02:03.180 denying even the Lord God, listen to this 01:02:03.180 --> 01:02:06.180 that bought them 01:02:06.180 --> 01:02:08.420 talking about false prophets 01:02:08.420 --> 01:02:12.060 were bought by the Lord Jesus Christ 01:02:12.060 --> 01:02:15.220 he said, does that mean they're saved? No, it just means that 01:02:15.500 --> 01:02:17.500 the Lord sacrifice for them as well. 01:02:17.500 --> 01:02:20.200 But what do they do? 01:02:20.200 --> 01:02:22.400 They denied. 01:02:22.400 --> 01:02:25.200 They chose to reject 01:02:25.200 --> 01:02:27.500 the Lord Jesus Christ. 01:02:27.500 --> 01:02:29.200 Look at 2nd Timothy if you would. 01:02:29.200 --> 01:02:31.800 2nd Timothy. 01:02:31.800 --> 01:02:35.800 2nd Timothy chapter 2. 01:02:38.000 --> 01:02:40.860 And I think this portion of scripture that I'm going to show you 01:02:40.860 --> 01:02:44.400 flies in the face of irresistible grace, probably more than anything else. 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:49.000 It flies in the face of people not being able to choose, okay? 01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:50.900 More than anything else. 01:02:50.900 --> 01:02:54.240 Look what it says in 2 Timothy chapter 2, 01:02:54.240 --> 01:02:55.780 and let's read verse 24, it says, 01:02:55.780 --> 01:03:00.540 The servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men, 01:03:00.540 --> 01:03:05.780 apt to teach, patient, in meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves, 01:03:06.800 --> 01:03:10.440 If God peradventure will give the repentance to the acknowledging of the truth 01:03:10.440 --> 01:03:12.120 Listen what it says in verse 26 01:03:12.120 --> 01:03:16.400 That they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil 01:03:16.400 --> 01:03:18.480 Who are taken captive by him at his will 01:03:18.480 --> 01:03:23.960 So where does the responsibility lie upon when it comes to getting saved according to this verse? 01:03:23.960 --> 01:03:25.480 The person themselves 01:03:25.480 --> 01:03:29.440 It says that they need to recover themselves out of the snare of the devil 01:03:29.440 --> 01:03:31.440 Well why? If you have irresistible grace 01:03:32.000 --> 01:03:35.000 There's nothing to resist. There's nothing to recover yourself from. 01:03:35.000 --> 01:03:39.000 All you have to do is just let the grace of God come within you. 01:03:39.000 --> 01:03:41.000 You're elect. Accept that fact and you're good to go. 01:03:41.000 --> 01:03:45.000 But according to this, they have to recover themselves. 01:03:45.000 --> 01:03:50.000 In other words, they have to overcome their false ideologies about the gospel 01:03:50.000 --> 01:03:52.000 and come to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. 01:03:52.000 --> 01:03:54.000 Now how does this look on a practical level? 01:03:54.000 --> 01:03:56.000 Well, sometimes you'll talk to someone about salvation 01:03:56.000 --> 01:03:59.000 and they just can't get over the fact that it's by faith alone. 01:04:00.300 --> 01:04:07.300 They think, oh you have to do something on your part, you got to get baptized, you got to repent of your sins, you have to do this, that, and the other. 01:04:07.300 --> 01:04:11.300 You know what that person's problem is? They can't recover themselves. 01:04:11.300 --> 01:04:20.300 Because the snare of the devil, the devil has kept them in this deception that they have to repent of their sins to be saved. 01:04:20.300 --> 01:04:22.200 That they have to do good works. 01:04:22.300 --> 01:04:25.500 That they have to, you know, persevere in their works in order to be saved. 01:04:25.500 --> 01:04:30.140 But as we show them the scripture, as we are apt to teach them, 01:04:30.140 --> 01:04:34.140 as we are demonstrating what the Bible actually says, what happens? 01:04:34.140 --> 01:04:38.060 They end up understanding, oh, actually it says that it's not of works. 01:04:38.700 --> 01:04:43.020 Oh, it's not by repenting of my sin. Oh, it's not by baptism. 01:04:43.020 --> 01:04:45.100 And if they come to the same knowledge of Jesus Christ, 01:04:45.100 --> 01:04:48.460 what have they done according to the biblical standard? They recover themselves. 01:04:49.000 --> 01:04:50.340 Out of the snare of the devil 01:04:50.340 --> 01:04:52.340 Why? Because it's everyone's choice 01:04:52.340 --> 01:04:53.340 My friends 01:04:53.340 --> 01:04:57.180 Irresistible grace is a false doctrine 01:04:57.180 --> 01:04:58.180 Now what do we see? 01:04:58.180 --> 01:05:00.980 Now the last two, I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time on because they're just easy 01:05:00.980 --> 01:05:02.980 Limited atonement, we already debunked that 01:05:02.980 --> 01:05:04.980 Jesus Christ's blood was shed for everyone 01:05:04.980 --> 01:05:07.860 And then perseverance of the saints is the belief that 01:05:07.860 --> 01:05:12.260 You have to persevere in your works until the end in order to be saved 01:05:12.900 --> 01:05:15.700 And they'll often use Matthew 24 that says, 01:05:15.700 --> 01:05:19.200 he that shall endure until the end, the same shall be saved. 01:05:19.200 --> 01:05:23.500 And you have a lot of false prophets that say this. 01:05:23.500 --> 01:05:25.700 Philip Anthony is one of them. 01:05:25.700 --> 01:05:29.500 Let me just remind you that Philip Anthony is a damnable heretic. 01:05:29.800 --> 01:05:32.040 He doesn't believe in the right gospel. 01:05:32.040 --> 01:05:34.120 You know, I know a lot of you like to post him 01:05:34.120 --> 01:05:36.040 because he's just so melodramatic. 01:05:36.040 --> 01:05:37.480 He's so theatrical. 01:05:37.480 --> 01:05:38.200 But you know what? 01:05:38.200 --> 01:05:40.840 He's the guy in Matthew 7 who will say, 01:05:40.840 --> 01:05:44.040 Lord, Lord, have not I cast out devils 01:05:44.040 --> 01:05:45.960 and prophesied in thy name 01:05:45.960 --> 01:05:47.880 and in thy name have done many wonderful works. 01:05:47.880 --> 01:05:49.080 But God doesn't know him. 01:05:49.080 --> 01:05:49.800 So how so? 01:05:49.800 --> 01:05:52.360 Because he denies the biblical form of salvation. 01:05:52.360 --> 01:05:55.320 And he says, you have to endure until the end to be saved. 01:05:56.200 --> 01:05:58.200 You have to endure in your works to be saved. 01:05:58.920 --> 01:06:00.920 That's damnable heresy, my friends. 01:06:01.720 --> 01:06:09.080 We need to get away from, you know, being so drawn in by false prophets just because they're so theatrical. 01:06:11.080 --> 01:06:15.000 They that endure till the end shall be saved. 01:06:15.720 --> 01:06:18.280 And then you see him in his interviews and his podcast, you're just like, so, 01:06:19.080 --> 01:06:21.080 let me just say this right now. 01:06:21.560 --> 01:06:23.560 I'm going to make a lot of people mad right now. 01:06:25.000 --> 01:06:26.000 Swipe. 01:06:26.000 --> 01:06:29.000 People are powerful. 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:31.000 Amazing. 01:06:31.000 --> 01:06:33.000 Wonderful. 01:06:33.000 --> 01:06:36.000 You know, we need to start checking people's doctrine. 01:06:36.000 --> 01:06:39.000 You know, and look folks, 01:06:39.000 --> 01:06:43.000 you need to recover yourself from the snare of the devil if that's you. 01:06:43.000 --> 01:06:47.000 And not just think that every single person on the internet is just saved. 01:06:47.600 --> 01:06:49.800 Just because they have a large following, 01:06:49.800 --> 01:06:51.600 just because they speak well. 01:06:51.600 --> 01:06:53.100 You know, you're like, well I was drawn here 01:06:53.100 --> 01:06:54.000 because you speak well. 01:06:54.000 --> 01:06:55.600 Yeah, but you can check my doctrine though. 01:06:55.600 --> 01:06:57.100 Come on. 01:06:57.100 --> 01:07:00.000 And look, here's the difference between me and Philip Anthony. 01:07:00.000 --> 01:07:03.300 You can actually talk to me after the service. 01:07:03.300 --> 01:07:05.400 I'm reachable. 01:07:05.400 --> 01:07:08.200 We can literally fellowship as long as you want 01:07:08.200 --> 01:07:10.200 and we can just talk doctrine, talk shop, 01:07:10.200 --> 01:07:11.600 as long as you want. 01:07:11.600 --> 01:07:12.900 He ain't doing that for you. 01:07:13.500 --> 01:07:17.500 You know why? Because out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh 01:07:17.500 --> 01:07:22.460 and they speak with great swelling words of vanity having men's persons in admiration because 01:07:22.460 --> 01:07:27.500 of advantage. And you know what? It doesn't matter if he speaks christianese if he has a false gospel 01:07:27.500 --> 01:07:32.060 he's a damn double heretic according to the bible. That's what the bible actually teaches. 01:07:32.060 --> 01:07:36.220 When you get away from this well I just there's so many people that really admire him and I feel 01:07:36.220 --> 01:07:40.540 like he says a lot of good things wrong way of determining if someone is a good prophet or not. 01:07:41.900 --> 01:07:45.500 The way he determined it is like first and foremost, what is their gospel presentation? 01:07:46.100 --> 01:07:48.600 Well, he was against the lockdowns. 01:07:48.900 --> 01:07:50.700 Anybody is against the lockdowns. 01:07:52.200 --> 01:07:53.700 That's not a good qualifier. 01:07:55.200 --> 01:07:58.700 Well, you know, he said some good stuff, you know, against whatever, 01:07:58.800 --> 01:08:02.800 you know, whatever's going on, the trending issue that's going on. 01:08:02.900 --> 01:08:06.900 Doesn't matter. You need to ask, what does he believe about salvation? 01:08:08.700 --> 01:08:10.700 Does he believe in the right gospel or not? 01:08:10.700 --> 01:08:13.700 And look, sometimes one video just doesn't cut it. 01:08:13.700 --> 01:08:15.700 Let me explain something to you. 01:08:15.700 --> 01:08:18.700 One video does not cut it at all. 01:08:18.700 --> 01:08:22.700 Why is that? Because these people speak out of both sides of their mouth. That's why. 01:08:22.700 --> 01:08:24.700 They will tell you what you want to hear. 01:08:24.700 --> 01:08:26.700 That's literally what the Bible tells us. 01:08:27.300 --> 01:08:33.340 They will scratch your itching ear because you're heaping up to yourselves 01:08:33.340 --> 01:08:37.620 These false teachers and false prophets who simply want to placate you 01:08:37.620 --> 01:08:40.700 So they'll say, oh yeah, salvation is through Jesus Christ 01:08:40.700 --> 01:08:43.740 But then in the next video it's just like, yeah, but you've got to make sure you do worse 01:08:43.740 --> 01:08:45.740 Because works validate whether you're saved or not 01:08:45.740 --> 01:08:47.340 That's a false gospel! 01:08:47.340 --> 01:08:49.340 But check my videos 01:08:49.340 --> 01:08:52.860 Any video where I talk about salvation is consistent all the way through 01:08:53.300 --> 01:08:54.140 all the way through. 01:08:54.140 --> 01:08:54.980 And in fact, you don't believe me, 01:08:54.980 --> 01:08:57.660 you're going to concoct me yourself. 01:08:57.660 --> 01:09:00.300 Corner me! 01:09:00.300 --> 01:09:04.620 You have every, I give you the opportunity 01:09:04.620 --> 01:09:07.900 to just corner me after the service with Bible in hand, 01:09:07.900 --> 01:09:10.180 and we'll spar. 01:09:10.180 --> 01:09:13.300 You can't do that with these false prophets. 01:09:13.300 --> 01:09:14.500 Because they're liars. 01:09:15.700 --> 01:09:18.980 And during to the end, according to Matthew chapter 24, 01:09:18.980 --> 01:09:22.540 is not referring to the justification of the soul. 01:09:22.540 --> 01:09:24.460 Don't think that just because the Bible uses the word 01:09:24.460 --> 01:09:27.140 saved or salvation, it's always referring to the 01:09:27.140 --> 01:09:29.280 justification of the soul, because it's not. 01:09:29.280 --> 01:09:31.660 When Peter fell into the water and said, Lord, save me, 01:09:31.660 --> 01:09:32.980 he wasn't saying, like, I'm about to die, 01:09:32.980 --> 01:09:34.460 I need to get saved real quick. 01:09:35.460 --> 01:09:37.180 I need you to forgive me of my sins. 01:09:37.180 --> 01:09:38.020 What did he say? 01:09:38.020 --> 01:09:38.700 Don't let me drown! 01:09:39.800 --> 01:09:45.000 It just means to be delivered and what we're being delivered from depends upon the context of the chapter 01:09:45.000 --> 01:09:48.800 And the context of Matthew 24 is what? The tribulation 01:09:48.800 --> 01:09:57.300 And in fact the specific context is the great tribulation where believers are being put to death en masse 01:09:57.300 --> 01:10:03.300 And so he says if you're able to endure until the end, your flesh will be saved 01:10:03.300 --> 01:10:07.300 You will be delivered from public execution 01:10:07.700 --> 01:10:13.300 That's literally what Matthew 24, Mark 13, Luke 21 all specifically teach. 01:10:13.300 --> 01:10:15.700 But they love to pull that one verse and say, 01:10:15.700 --> 01:10:18.300 oh, we're going to use this to show that you have to persevere in your works 01:10:18.300 --> 01:10:20.100 until the end in order to be saved. 01:10:20.100 --> 01:10:21.300 Wrong, wrong. 01:10:21.300 --> 01:10:23.800 Doesn't work that way, my friends. 01:10:23.800 --> 01:10:27.500 And anybody who teaches you that believes in a workspace salvation. 01:10:27.500 --> 01:10:29.200 Let me say this, if you believe that, 01:10:29.200 --> 01:10:32.100 you believe in a workspace salvation and you need to get saved today. 01:10:32.100 --> 01:10:34.900 There's no shame in getting saved in a church. 01:10:36.000 --> 01:10:39.000 There's no shame in you thinking, well, I guess I was wrong about that. 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:43.000 Because here's the thing, folks. I'd rather you be wrong and get saved, 01:10:43.000 --> 01:10:48.000 than you be prideful and arrogant, remain wrong, go out and die and split hell wide open because of it. 01:10:48.000 --> 01:10:51.000 It'd be a horrible fate for you. 01:10:51.000 --> 01:10:54.000 It'd be a horrible fate for you. But you know what? That is your fate. 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:59.000 If that's your belief, that you have to endure in your works to be saved, that's your fate. 01:10:59.000 --> 01:11:02.700 That's your destiny. But thankfully, you can choose. 01:11:03.600 --> 01:11:05.600 Thankfully, you're not a Calvinist 01:11:06.000 --> 01:11:09.300 And you know what you're hearing the preaching of God's Word right now 01:11:09.300 --> 01:11:14.160 And you know what this is God drawing you with the preaching of God's Word unto salvation 01:11:14.880 --> 01:11:16.880 to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ 01:11:18.480 --> 01:11:24.520 Exclusively to be saved and you can't lose your salvation and guess what it's your choice whether you want to resist that or reject that 01:11:25.240 --> 01:11:29.480 In and simple and so what does the sermon this morning? I'm not a Calvinist 01:11:30.800 --> 01:11:32.800 Oh, what are you a Calvinist or Armenian? 01:11:33.260 --> 01:11:36.540 You know when I first heard that I'm like I know I look Armenian sometimes like 01:11:37.100 --> 01:11:44.580 But I'm like oh, this is someone else. This is like because Armenians basically believe the the theologians 01:11:45.060 --> 01:11:50.980 Believe in free will but they just disagree with Calvinist. So people just want to put you into these boxes 01:11:51.800 --> 01:11:57.000 You know, oh, if you're not for Trump, then you must be for Democrats. 01:11:57.000 --> 01:12:01.480 If you're just not for Coke, well, I'll, you know, I'm for Coke, I'm not for Pepsi, 01:12:01.480 --> 01:12:03.480 but I like Canada Dry, I'll just be honest with you. 01:12:06.600 --> 01:12:11.400 I don't have to fit into your little box of what my belief system is. 01:12:11.400 --> 01:12:14.600 Here's the category you can put me into is just I believe the Bible. 01:12:14.600 --> 01:12:18.000 And again, let me just say one last thing and I'm done, okay? 01:12:18.000 --> 01:12:22.000 Just because someone says they believe the Bible doesn't really mean that they 01:12:22.000 --> 01:12:23.100 believe the Bible now, does it? 01:12:23.100 --> 01:12:27.000 Just because they have in their bio, a Bible believer, 01:12:27.000 --> 01:12:31.100 I love the Bible. We gotta see what the Bible says. 01:12:31.100 --> 01:12:32.900 Let's see what they actually say. 01:12:33.400 --> 01:12:37.960 Because if they give you one verse and the rest is just church history, it's not true. 01:12:37.960 --> 01:12:38.960 You know? 01:12:38.960 --> 01:12:40.680 I'll give you an example. 01:12:40.680 --> 01:12:44.400 You know, there's this belief amongst Protestants that women should wear head coverings. 01:12:44.400 --> 01:12:45.400 Yeah. 01:12:45.400 --> 01:12:49.120 Those little doilies on the head. 01:12:49.120 --> 01:12:50.120 You know what I'm talking about? 01:12:50.120 --> 01:12:54.200 That weird cult-looking thing they got going on? 01:12:54.200 --> 01:12:58.680 And they'll use 1 Corinthians 11 as a proof text as to why women should wear doilies on 01:12:58.680 --> 01:12:59.040 the head. 01:12:59.400 --> 01:13:05.400 But of course when we actually look at it in its context, it demonstrates that it's just referring to women having long hair. 01:13:05.400 --> 01:13:11.400 Now I've talked to these people and I'm like, well this is what it says, it says women, the long hair is a covering unto them. 01:13:11.400 --> 01:13:15.400 And this is literally what they say, well you know that's not what the Bible teaches. I'm like, it is, look what it says right here. 01:13:15.400 --> 01:13:18.400 And they're like, well, what do you think about church history though? 01:13:21.300 --> 01:13:24.100 You know, people in the early church used to practice it. 01:13:24.100 --> 01:13:26.300 I don't care what people practiced in the early church. 01:13:26.300 --> 01:13:28.100 Bro, you want to talk about early church? 01:13:28.100 --> 01:13:29.500 How about the church of Jerusalem? 01:13:29.500 --> 01:13:32.900 It was just filled with Jews. 01:13:32.900 --> 01:13:35.400 Is that the kind of church you want? 01:13:35.400 --> 01:13:38.500 It was so close to the first century AD. 01:13:38.500 --> 01:13:41.300 Should we just fill our church with a bunch of Jews? 01:13:41.300 --> 01:13:44.000 Allow Pharisees to come in and Judaize the church? 01:13:44.000 --> 01:13:45.600 No, we shouldn't. 01:13:45.600 --> 01:13:46.300 It's not right. 01:13:47.400 --> 01:13:53.180 So it's just like, you know, the only way for them to substantiate their doctrine is by twisting the scriptures 01:13:53.180 --> 01:13:55.700 and then interpreting the Bible through church history. 01:13:55.700 --> 01:13:56.980 Let's just stick to the Bible. 01:13:56.980 --> 01:13:57.740 Amen. 01:13:57.740 --> 01:14:00.400 So just because they say they believe in the Bible doesn't make it so 01:14:00.400 --> 01:14:04.440 until they can actually only use the Bible to tell you what they believe. 01:14:04.440 --> 01:14:05.880 Fact. Let's pray. 01:14:05.880 --> 01:14:07.480 Father, we thank you so much for your Word. 01:14:07.480 --> 01:14:12.280 Help us as your people, Lord, to recognize and to identify the right types of doctrines. 01:14:12.280 --> 01:14:14.280 And, Lord, we're thankful that... 01:14:14.600 --> 01:14:17.600 We're chosen because we place our faith in Jesus Christ. 01:14:17.600 --> 01:14:19.600 And Lord, it's not... 01:14:19.600 --> 01:14:22.600 We placed our faith in Jesus Christ because we're chosen. 01:14:22.600 --> 01:14:26.600 We're thankful that Lord, you want all men everywhere to be saved. 01:14:26.600 --> 01:14:28.600 You're not willing that people should perish. 01:14:28.600 --> 01:14:31.600 You want people to come to repentance and to the saving knowledge of Christ. 01:14:31.900 --> 01:14:38.580 I pray that you'd help us Lord as your people to continue to go out and reach people with the gospel problem with Calvinism 01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:41.620 Even those who may believe in the right doctrine is that it makes them lazy 01:14:41.900 --> 01:14:45.220 They're not willing to go out and preach the gospel to others to reach others 01:14:45.220 --> 01:14:50.920 But you've called us to do so and I pray that you'd help us Lord because knowing therefore the terror of the Lord we 01:14:51.060 --> 01:14:56.260 Persuade men and I pray that you'd bless us as we go on our way. We love you. We thank you pray this things in Jesus name 01:14:56.260 --> 01:14:56.900 Amen 01:15:02.400 --> 01:15:05.200 Please turn your song into song number 44? 01:15:09.100 --> 01:15:11.100 Song number 44.