Amen, the part of the chapter we're going to focus on this evening is found in verse
number 17 where the Bible reads, This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the
demand by the word of the holy ones, to the intent that the living may know that the Most
High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whosoever he will, and setteth over
it the basis of men.
And the title of my sermon this evening is The Sovereignty of God.
The Sovereignty of God.
Now immediately when you think of a title like that, you ought to think, what?
Calvinism, right?
And here's the thing, I believe that God is sovereign, amen?
But I do not believe the sovereignty of God the way the Calvinists believe in the sovereignty
of God.
Because the Calvinists who teach this matter of the sovereignty of God will use a scripture
like Daniel 4 17 and say, See, you know, he gives the kingdom to whosoever he will, no
one is able to choose, no one is able to go out of their own volition to choose what decisions
they make.
It's all a matter of what God says.
But that's not true.
And we're going to show tonight why that's not true.
And let's start off by saying that I've always hated Calvinism, okay?
Calvinism is of the devil.
Calvinism is a satanic, it's heresy, and it's a doctrine that is leading many people
astray and even to hell, okay?
And unfortunately, Calvinism is a doctrine that has crept in to a lot of independent
Baptist churches.
You know?
And why is that?
Because really, it is the doctrine of convenience.
Because if you're a Calvinist, you don't have to go sowing.
Why?
Because people can just...
They're the elect, right?
They don't have to worry about going out there, knocking on the doors and witnessing to people
and giving them the gospel.
No, because they're already elect, so they're already going to go to heaven.
So it's a doctrine of convenience, but let me say that it's a doctrine of laziness, too.
Calvinists are a bunch of lazy bums, is what they are, okay?
That's what they are.
You say, why is that?
Because they just want to sit behind a desk, just read their ESV, their NASB, sound like
some theological professor, but they're not willing to go out there and put in the work
to go knock on doors and preach the gospel.
And by the way, I'm glad no Calvinist goes out and preaches the gospel.
Because they got a false gospel to begin with anyways.
Every Calvinist believes in a repent of your sins type gospel, okay?
And we're going to see why they do that.
But they believe that, you know what?
Man can't choose.
Guess what?
You guys who are here today, you didn't choose to be here.
You didn't get yourself up to come to church today?
It's God who worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
It was God who made...
You're like a robot who came here, not under your own will, but under God's will, and you're
just a robot doing the will of God from the heart.
That's what they say.
Well, go to Psalm 78, Psalm 78.
Let me first of all say that Calvinistic theology is largely based upon a couple of ideologies
that they have, foundational doctrines that they believe.
First and foremost, they get their beliefs from the false versions of the Bible, okay?
No Calvinist ever really reads a King James Bible.
Why?
Because it just goes contrary to what they believe, you know?
And in fact, you look in the King James Bible, you'll never find the word sovereignty mentioned
in the Bible.
Now look, I believe in the word sovereignty.
I know it's a word that exists, right?
And I believe that God is sovereign.
Why?
Because he's the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
He is the ruler, okay?
But does that mean that he's controlling my will, right?
I don't know what to do, guys.
My arms are just moving.
I'm preaching the word.
I don't even know what's coming out of my mouth.
No, I'm the one who's allowing me to talk, okay?
And here's the thing, but the false versions of the Bible, and we're going to look at some
of them today, really influence the Calvinist teaching on the sovereignty of God.
But not only that, they largely base their doctrinal teachings based upon reasoning.
Because if you talk to a Calvinist, they'll always say, so you believe that you're good
enough to believe on Christ and that you come to God and that you did this?
I mean, you really think that, yeah, I do think that.
Yeah, that's what I think.
I think that because that's what the Bible says.
And here's the thing.
It's funny.
They like to reason away biblical doctrine.
What did Jesus tell the Pharisees?
Why reason you among yourselves, right?
Look at Psalm 78, verse 40 says, if God is really, the God of Calvinism is not God at
all.
He's a devil.
Okay?
And let me tell you why, because they believe that he controls everything.
Well, look what Psalm 78, verse 40 says, how oft did they provoke him in the wilderness
and grieve him in the desert?
Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and look what it says, and limited the Holy One
of Israel.
Whoa, hold on a second.
If God is doing everything according to his will and he can control everyone, how is it
that someone can limit God?
It doesn't work.
But you know why they limit God?
Because of their sin.
And sin can limit God.
See, I can do all things to Christ with strength and with me, but if I allow sin into my life,
if I disobey God, guess what, I'm limiting God.
But the God of Calvinism, they can't answer this, oh, so you believe that you can limit
God by your do.
I'm saying what the Bible's saying, stupid.
It says that they limited the Holy One of Israel based upon their actions.
I don't care about your reasoning.
If the Bible says that you can limit God, it's right there you can limit God.
Now go there to Isaiah 59.
Look, I believe God is all powerful, omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent, he's capable, I understand
it and I believe that, but that does not negate the fact that I have a free will to choose
to obey him or not.
Isaiah 59, I'd like to know what the Calvinists say about that.
You know, go pick up the 50 commentaries off their bookshelf and see what these unsafe
people say about that.
Well limited in the Greek actually means, shut up.
Isaiah 59 verse 1 says, Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, amen, that it cannot
save, amen, neither is his ear heavy, that it cannot hear, amen, but, see the Calvinists
will stop right there, I cannot hear, right, there it is, God's, he's able to do everything,
yeah he is, but look what it says, but your iniquities have separated between you and
your God, and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear.
You see God, his hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, his ear is not heavy that
he cannot hear, but, but, your iniquities, and see here's the thing, it's not like your
iniquities that God made you do, according to the Calvinists, see that's probably what
they would say, right?
They'd probably be like, well yeah, it's because God, you know, prepared them to make those,
do those iniquities, and here's the stupid, if they use so much logic and reasoning, why
aren't they logic and reason their doctrine?
If God commands you to do, not to do something, but then he makes you do it, so you can fulfill
his will, does that make any sense?
That's stupid.
Go to Luke chapter 2, you know, one of the, of course in our area, two of the biggest
Calvinist fools that exist today, John MacArthur, brother Chad, up in Chad's area, and then
we got Ray Comfort in Huntington Beach, you know, we got, by the way, the Ray Comfort's
like the liberal of the Calvinists, right, lame, and here's the thing, John MacArthur
doesn't do any soul winning, but Ray Comfort supposedly does, right, him and his, him and
his New Zealand accent, you know, quoting New King James verses, he ain't getting no
one saved, he's making people twofold the child of hell.
Now here's the funny thing, I was talking to someone at the post trip conference about
this, I remember I saw, because I saw, I used to watch a lot of those videos, and I saw
with this one guy, he approached this guy in Huntington Beach, and this guy was a drunk,
I mean he was drunk, right, he didn't even have a shirt on, he had like shorts, he was
drunk, but he was saved, he was a saved guy, okay, and he believed in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and Ray Comfort came, and he's just like, you know, do you believe, you know, that you're
saved, and he's just like, yeah, you just gotta believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, he
goes, but are you living in holiness, you know, and the guy's like, no, but I believed
on Christ already, he goes, but you know, but you haven't turned from your sin, and
you haven't repented of your sin, and the Bible says you have to repent of your sin
in order to be saved, he's like, no, you just gotta believe, I mean, as drunk as you can
sound, I'm talking about stumbling, like, he's just like, no, it's just by belief only,
you know, and Ray Comfort was getting pretty pissed, like, he's just like, it's for repenting
of your sin, you're not living in holiness, and he's just like, all I gotta do is believe,
and God used this drunk, this drunk, you know, to teach this Calvinist, all you gotta do
is believe, I mean, the guy who's intoxicated knows that, but yet Ray Comfort and all his
theological seminaries, can't even come to that conclusion, it's foolish, what have you
turned to, Luke chapter 2, anybody got a cough drop, got a cough drop anywhere, throw a cough
drop up here, but let me know if you're gonna throw one, you got one, okay, Luke chapter
2, and verse number 11, this is the famous passage, thank you, this is the famous passage
of Christmas, obviously, right, I hope you read this at your homes on Christmas Day,
it's a good tradition, as we talked about this morning, to have, right, the Bible says
here in verse number 11, front to you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which
is Christ the Lord, and this shall be a sign unto you, ye shall find the bay wrapped in
swaddling clothes, lying in a manger, and suddenly there was with the angel a multitude
of heavenly hosts praising God and saying, glory to God in the highest, and on earth
peace and good will toward men, right, well the NIV says this, I can't believe I'm reading
this, I feel just corrupted even reading this, the NIV says this, glory to God in the highest
and on the earth to those on whom his favor rests, something completely, see, in the King
James it said, good will toward men, excuse me, glory to God in the highest and on earth
peace and good will toward men, NIV says, and on earth peace to those whom his favor
rests, what, ESV, glory to God in the highest and on earth peace among those whom he is
pleased, and see, this is, these are the books, these are the Bibles that these Calvinists
are using, and that's why they're formulating the stupidity of God's sovereign to the point
where he's just like controlling and you're elected, because you're the one whom he's
pleased with, no, the Bible says good will toward men, you know, God's sovereignty is
a doctrine that the Calvinists have greatly perverted, I don't even like to use that,
maybe it's just click bait that I used it for, you know, so when people, oh, he preached
on the sovereignty of God, I would tell Pastor Anderson, and then they click on it and it's
just like, psych, you know, but here's the thing, the Calvinists believe, the Calvinists
believe of sovereignty is largely based upon the belief of what's called the Tulip Doctrine,
okay, and we're gonna go ahead and just take the weed whacker of the King James Bible,
we're not gonna tiptoe around the tulips, right, and we're just gonna smash this tulip
tonight, okay, by way of introduction, first, so what is the Tulip Doctrine, well the Tulip
Doctrine stands for total depravity, it stands for unconditional election, limited atonement,
irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints, alright, now here's the funny thing,
Calvinists will swear up and down that they don't believe you can lose your salvation,
don't say that, oh, it's not by works, we know that it's not by works, it's the grace
of God, but once you get away from God in the Calvinist circle, they're like, yeah,
well he never had salvation to begin with, that's just a thinly veiled work of salvation,
you see what I'm saying, and look, let me say this, you need to be careful what kind
of terminology you use when explaining eternal security, or salvation just in general, you
need to be specific, you need to be biblical, use the words which the Holy Ghost teaches,
and stick to that, don't use these Calvinistic teachings and words and terminologies that
confuse people about salvation, you be clear about the Gospel presentation, use the words
of the King James Bible, but the first one is total depravity, okay, now what is total
depravity?
I just took this off of the internet, I got this from some Calvinist idiot, and he posted
it on there, so I said, hey, this sounds pretty stupid, I'm gonna use this, sin has affected
all parts of man, amen, I agree with that, right?
The heart, emotions, will, mind, and body are all affected by sin, we are completely
sinful, I'm gonna read it like a Calvinist, shall I read it like a Calvinist?
We are not as sinful as we could be, but we are completely affected by sin.
The doctrine of total depravity is derived from the scriptures that reveal human character,
man's heart is evil, and sick, man is a slave of sin, he does not seek after God, he cannot
understand spiritual things, he has an enmity with God, and is by nature a child of wrath,
and here's the thing, the Calvinist, this guy wrote this, the Calvinist asked the question,
in line with these scriptures, they declare man's true nature as being utterly lost and
incapable, how is it possible for anyone to choose or desire God?
Now he's not asking a biblical question, and here's the thing, the answer is, well the
answer from who?
The answer is, he cannot, as the curtains close, the lights dim, he cannot, therefore
God must predestine.
Well the answer from who?
You or the Bible?
Because see, their belief about total depravity is that man is incapable, those who are not
elect, they're incapable of looking, seeking for God.
They can't believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, why?
Because they're totally depraved, they're incapable of believing on the Lord Jesus Christ,
and here's the thing, they use all these scriptures, and you go through these scriptures like,
this is not even talking about what they say, and here's the thing, these guys have
to realize that Baptists, we actually look at the scriptures that they're looking at,
we're gonna look it up, okay?
And it's just like, you're not even, it has nothing to do with what you're talking about.
Now look, I believe that man is sinful, amen?
The Bible teaches us that.
But here's the thing, the Calvinist teachings can sometimes be similar to our own, just
like any other religion, simply because Satan takes what God makes and he just perverts
it.
So for instance, Calvinists believe that God hates people, amen, right?
But here's the thing, Calvinists believe that God has hated people from the beginning, since
they were born, since before the foundations of the world, why?
Because he's elected them, those who are, excuse me, those who are elected were elected
before the foundations of the world, as well as those who are not elected, therefore they've
been hated since the foundations of the world.
Now we don't believe that.
We believe that God so loved the world, and there was a time when God loved everyone in
this world, but there comes a time when God can love them no more.
And the Bible says that's when they become a, when they become a reprobate, God can't
love them anymore.
See, that's a biblical doctrinal teaching.
What does Calvinism do?
They take that and they say, well God has always hated them.
I don't believe that God has always hated them.
A bunch of pompous fools who think that they're like, it's some sort of elect and everyone
else is just a reprobate.
Not everyone in this world is a reprobate, okay?
There's the elect, those who are saved, there are sinners, and then there's reprobates.
But not everyone's a reprobate.
People are just, some people are just sinners.
Is that okay?
Okay.
There's people who are just drunk, okay?
They're fornicators, but that doesn't mean they're reprobates.
Now this is so foolish because Revelation 22, 17 says, and the Spirit and the bride
said come, and let him that heareth say come, and let him that is athirst come, and whosoever
will, whosoever will, he says, let him take water of life, let him take the water of life
freely.
Romans 10, 13, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, the Bible
says.
So for them to say, well you know, they're totally depraved, and here's the thing, if
you ask them, you ask them, how is that?
They'll say this, well look, just think about it.
Can a dead man believe?
They'll say that.
I've heard that before.
Can a dead man do anything?
Does a dead man have any emotions?
Can a dead man get, you know, can a dead man walk, can a dead man talk?
And they'll say, well, people are dead in their trespasses and sins.
It's like, ooh, dang, he got me.
Well here's the thing, yes, dead men can believe.
And by the way, do you remember John chapter 11, when Jesus Christ calls Lazarus out of
the tomb?
Well it was Lazarus, he was dead.
So yeah, he can.
And he came out of the grave, and yes, he was hearing.
Why?
Because the word of God is quick and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, and faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
So the fact that someone is dead in their trespasses and sin does not negate their ability
to believe.
Yeah, it negates their ability to have their own righteousness, right?
They don't have their own righteousness before God, their righteousness are as filthy rags
as the Bible says.
But that does not negate the ability to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, nor in the Bible
does it say that.
And here's the thing, go to Ephesians chapter 2.
Here's the funny thing about this, Calvinists are notorious, just like anybody else, just
getting one verse, and just basing off their doctrine off of that one verse.
Because they get this whole, you know, can a dead man believe, you know?
They get that from Ephesians 2, where it says that we're dead in our trespasses and sin.
Well, I think they neglect to read verse 4, okay?
Because look what Ephesians 2, 4 says, but God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love
wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ,
by grace are you saved.
You think, yeah, I do think that, the Bible says it right there.
Even when we were dead in trespasses and sin, trespasses and sin is what he's talking about
in verse number 1 and 2.
And here in verse number 4, making the same correlation to verse number 2 and 1, he says,
we were quickened together.
I mean, what do you have to say about that?
Oh no, see, so you believe that, yes, I believe, I told you, I do.
I believe because the Bible says it.
So this matter of total depravity just falls completely apart.
But let me tell you who's really totally depraved, is the Calvinists.
They're the ones who are lost, okay?
And you know, I'm not saying that every Calvinist is lost, I know there's even Baptists who
were saved, they were saved by grace through faith in the beginning, they believed only
in all these things, and they got carried away by every wind of doctrine, but a guy
like John MacArthur, a guy like Ray Comfort, a guy like Paul Washer, a guy like John Piper,
a guy like fill in the blank, these guys aren't saved, right?
These guys are false teachers teaching a false gospel and they know that they are.
They know they are.
Paul Washer has this huge ministry to like a bunch of Hispanics because he speaks Spanish,
you know, and he's leading a lot of people, and Hispanics are big on Paul Washer, big.
They listen to him a lot, you know.
I remember when I witnessed it also, he got saved, there was a guy there, and man, he
just could not, it was a Hispanic guy, he could not get off of Paul Washer, he just,
and his doctrine influenced his way of thinking, these people are damning people to hell.
These are damnable heresies.
But next, unconditional election.
So the next, so there goes that pedal, okay?
What's the next pedal here?
Unconditional election.
This is what he says, God does not base his election on anything he sees in the individual.
He chooses the elect according to the kind intention of his will.
Yeah, that's very kind, huh?
Just to hate someone from the beginning, from the foundations of the world, and just send
them to hell without giving them a chance to believe on them.
Yeah, that's very kind.
So kind.
That's evil.
That's not the God of the Bible.
Without any consideration of merit within the individual, nor does God look into the
future to see who he would pick.
He said, the guy says, he doesn't look into the future, so they're denying that God is
even omniscient.
He can see into the future of these things.
Also, as some are elected into salvation, others are not.
Now go to 1 Peter chapter 1, and then we're going to go to Romans 9.
So unconditional election says that basically there's no condition to being elect.
God chooses you.
There's no condition.
But you know what?
Over and over again, the Bible teaches us if, and if is in reference to a condition.
If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart that God hath
raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
It doesn't say thou shalt be saved if thou are already elect.
It says if thou confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thy heart.
That's the condition.
But here they're saying, no, there's no condition.
It's unconditional.
They're just chosen.
Now look at 1 Peter chapter 1, and verse number 1, Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the
strangers scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, elect according
to the what?
Foreknowledge.
Well, didn't they just say, didn't they just, without any consideration of merit of the
individual, nor does God look into the future to see who would pick him.
Well, what does foreknowledge mean?
Knowing beforehand what's going to happen, that means it would take for him to see in
the future what was going to happen.
Also, you believe, there we go again.
No, the Bible says it right there.
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit,
unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, grace unto you, and peace
be multiplied.
See, one problem about the Calvinists is they just don't read the Bible.
Because then they make themselves look real dumb.
You should probably take that statement out of your article on the internet.
Because God has foreknowledge of who's going to be saved.
Obviously, he just said it right there.
Now go to Romans 9, because this is largely based upon Romans chapter number 9.
They believe that certain people are elected.
Now look, let me just go on and say, we, saved people, are the elect.
We make no apologies about that.
But we need to understand and define what that really means.
It means that saved people are the chosen people.
The Jews, of course, in the Old Testament were the chosen people of God.
But now we, who are in the New Testament, according to Peter, says that we are now that
chosen generation.
The royal priesthood.
And that's a quote taken from Exodus in Deuteronomy, where he was talking to Jews about being the
chosen generation.
He applies that to the New Testament as being saved people who are the chosen generation,
the elect.
Because elect simply means chosen, right?
But it doesn't mean that we're chosen to salvation.
It means that because we're the saved, now we're that chosen generation.
Does that make sense?
So we, again, it's Calvinism takes something that God made, and then they just pervert
it.
Because here's the thing.
I don't know about you, but I've had many people that, oh, so you're Calvinist because
you think you're the elect?
I've had that said to me, because I believe, I said, yeah, we're the elect of God.
They say, well, that's Calvinistic.
I'm like, no, that's biblical.
Calvinists are the ones who believe that they're elect, that their salvation in regards to
salvation are elect.
That's false.
Romans 9, 9, look what the Bible says.
For this is the word of promise, at this time will I come, and Sarah shall have a son.
And not only this, but when Rebekah also had conceived by one, even by her father Isaac,
for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose
of God according to the election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth, it
was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
And they will use this.
I've met people.
I've met Bible college teachers that use this to prove Calvinistic theology, okay?
And they'll say, there it is, it's God who calleth, okay?
The election, and they'll use this to say, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
That just proves Calvinism right there.
Well, first of all, that's not even talking about salvation.
It has nothing to do with salvation.
This has to do with God dealing with two nations.
And of course, Brother Matt Stuckey did an awesome job on Thursday talking about Esau
and Edom, right?
Edom being the nation from which came, excuse me, Esau.
And he's explained that that's an actual nation.
So a lot of the things that we see here, we didn't see in the life of Esau.
Did we ever see God hating Esau in the Old Testament?
No.
But did we see God hating Edom in the Old Testament?
Yeah.
They were made desolate.
They don't even exist anymore, okay?
He brought them down low, and yet he did hate Edom, okay?
What shall we say then?
Is there unrighteousness with God?
God forbid, for he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and
I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion, so that it is not of him that
willeth.
That's why they say they can't, that's where they get irresistible grace from.
Not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
But here's the thing, this is not talking about salvation.
Because this is talking about the two covenants, right?
This is talking about nations, this is talking about the false nation of Israel, right?
It's not talking about this matter of salvation.
And here's the question I have for those who believe in this doctrine of unconditional
election.
Jesus said to his disciples in John chapter 6 verse 70, have not I chosen?
What has chosen mean?
He liked it.
You twelve and one of you is the devil.
So answer me this, Calvinist, if Jesus Christ chose those twelve and one of them is the
devil, what happened?
Right?
Because how can you be chosen and be a devil?
It doesn't go.
Oh no, but see, so you think that, no, there we go again.
I don't.
It's what the Bible says.
And your doctrine falls completely apart when you start using human reasoning, lean not
unto thine own understanding.
In all thy ways acknowledge him, he shall direct thy paths.
For no reason among yourselves, the Bible says that he that cometh to God must believe
that he is, that he's a rewarder of them that diligently seek him, for without faith it
is impossible to please God.
We need faith to believe the Bible obviously, right?
But there's certain things that is just crystal clear, okay?
Now here's the next one, the next petal on this rampage of demolishing the tulip is this
matter of limited atonement.
Limited atonement is the most blasphemous petal on the tulip flower.
Blasphemous.
What do you think limited atonement means?
It means that Jesus Christ didn't die for the whole world.
He only died for a select few, the elect.
Jesus died only for the elect.
I mean if that's not satanic, I don't know what is.
Though Jesus' sacrifice was sufficient for all, it was not efficacious for all.
Jesus only bore the sins of the elect.
Therefore for this position is drawn from such scriptures as Matthew 26, 28, where Jesus
died for many.
Which say that Jesus died for the sheep, where Jesus in prayer interceded for the ones given
him.
Okay, so because he prayed for his disciples, yeah, that proves it plain and simple right
there.
That he only atoned for their sin because he only prayed for them.
Oh man, let's pray.
Let's pray, let's be dismissed, we're good to go.
Stupid.
Not those of the entire world which state that the church was purchased by Christ.
Not all people.
In Isaiah 53, 12, which is a prophecy of Jesus' crucifixion where he would bore the sins of
many.
Not all.
Many, but not all.
What?
And this is where they get their doctrine from.
Now, go with me, if you would, to 1 Timothy chapter number 4.
First of all, this is very blasphemous, okay?
But you know what, when you hear guys like John Calvin talk about the blood of Christ,
it's no wonder why he talks about it the way he does.
He denies the blood of Christ in its entirety.
He says, it's not the blood that saves you.
What?
What are you talking about?
And here's the thing is, the Bible says that he is a propitiation for our sins.
Amen.
But not for ours only.
But also for the sins of the whole world.
So what do you have to say about that?
If the Bible says that he's a propitiation for our sins, period, then yeah, we can go
home.
But it doesn't finish there.
It says he's a propitiation for our sins, not for ours only, but also for the sins of
the whole world, many, all, everyone.
Even the reprobates before they became reprobate.
First Timothy chapter 4 verse 10 says, for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach
because we trust in the living God.
You know what they'll say?
Yeah, but Jesus Christ gave his life for the sheep.
Amen.
He did.
But look what it says here.
We trust in the living God who is the savior of all men, especially of those that believe.
So yeah, he gave his life for the sheep.
Absolutely.
But he gave his life for those who are unsaved as well.
Those who are sinners, those who are not sheep as of yet.
He gave his life for them.
It says it right there.
These things command and teach.
Go to Romans chapter five.
Romans chapter number five.
I must hasten.
You know, and I'm sure you've heard the all doesn't really mean all.
You know, that's just weird.
That's just weird.
You need to go back to, you need to go back to public school or, I think they teach that
in public school, right?
They teach at least a decent amount of grammar where you know that all means all.
There's even a commercial, wasn't there like a soap commercial, soap brand called All?
A-L-L, All?
You know, because it cleaned all of your clothes and it was just very all encompassing.
But no, no, but that doesn't mean all.
All really doesn't mean all.
Well, look what the Bible says in Romans 5 18, therefore as by the offense of one judgment
came upon all men to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift
came upon all men unto the justification of life.
See here's the thing.
They believe that even they, they elect are sinners.
And if you give them this verse, they'll say, yeah, all men, yes, the judgment came
upon all men to condemnation.
But then what happens in the next part of the verse, even so by the righteousness of
one, the free gift came upon all men and to justify, they'll say, well, that doesn't mean
all as in like, like all who are condemned.
It means all as in the elect.
It doesn't say that.
It just says all.
You're not that special, buddy.
Okay.
Now go to Hebrews chapter two.
Hebrews chapter number two, Calvinism is a wicked doctrine.
And look, if someone comes in here and they have Calvinistic beliefs, we want to get them
saved.
Amen.
And have them become Baptist, have them become a Christian and believe Baptist doctrine.
But if some Calvinist comes in here trying to, trying to bring in their, their, their
Calvinist crap, they get in the boot.
I mean, even at my old, I wasn't allowed to do this, but I did it anyway.
I was a Spanish pastor.
Do you remember that also?
And there's a Calvinist who, I mean, he will, he loved, what's his, what's James, James
White.
I almost felt like dirty just saying that, man.
Give me another one.
I'm just kidding.
And he loved James.
I mean, James White is another Calvinist.
He's major Calvinist.
He grows tulips in his church.
And this guy was a major, major Calvinist who came to our church.
We booted him out.
You know, I don't think my, my pastor very much appreciated it, but guess what?
I didn't want him infecting the flock.
You know, and he would always use reasoning and logic and just say, why don't you just
use the Bible?
Just give me the Bible.
He got into it with me and I said, look, you got to go, leave, get out, you're not welcome
anymore.
You know, and if it was a matter of like, you know, he was humbly coming and he wanted
to learn, it wasn't that.
He was trying to influence others, you know, and look, all Calvinists use different versions
of the Bible.
And we rejected those.
And, you know, he would try to go to some of the guys and say, you know what, you should
really try the NASB and really try this, it was just like, out, you're out of here.
You just got rejected.
Hebrews 2, 9 says, but we, but we see Jesus who was made a little lower than the angels
for the suffering of death, crowned with glory and honor, that he, by the grace of God, should
taste death for every man, every man, not just the elect.
Every man, the Bible says.
I mean, scripture after scripture after scripture shows that Jesus Christ died for all.
I mean, the most easiest scripture to come up with that a child could come up with, John
3, 16.
For God so loved the world.
Well, the world doesn't really mean the world.
Means like Mars.
I mean, what are you going to say about that?
Next pedal, irresistible grace.
Doesn't this sound so gooey?
When God calls his elect into salvation, they cannot resist.
God offers to all people the gospel message.
This is called the eternal, oh, this is weird, this is called the external call.
But to the elect, God extends an internal call, and it cannot, what?
So there's an external call, there's an internal call, that it cannot be resisted.
This call is by the Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit who works in the hearts and minds of the elect
to bring them to repentance and regeneration, whereby they willingly and freely come to
God.
Wait, how do they willingly and freely come to God if they can't resist it?
Some of the verses used, they probably did this through Siri, and Siri just corrected
them, you know what I mean?
Some of the verses used in support of this teaching are Romans 9, 16.
It is not of him who wills, nor who runs, but of God who has mercy.
Of course, a different version.
Where God is said to be the one working salvation in the individual.
John 6, 28, 29, where faith is declared to be the work of God.
Oh yeah, that really proves it.
Acts 13, 48, where God appoints people to believe.
And John 1, 12 through 13, where being born again is not by man's will, but by God's.
Yeah, because God is not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to
repentance.
You gotta compare scripture with scripture.
All right, so here's the thing about irresistible grace, they believe that those who are elect,
you know, as soon as they believe on Christ, it's like they're the elect.
Well, how do you know I'm an elect?
Because you believed on Christ.
You've repented of your sin.
You decided to fall.
You have a desire for God.
That's the elect.
That's like me saying, what if I came up to Mark and I said, I knew you were gonna be
here.
You're like, how did you know?
Because you're here.
What?
I mean, did you find that?
Or how about DJ?
DJ is the first time here.
It's like, what if I never met DJ in my life and I said, DJ, I knew today was the day you
were gonna come.
So do you.
How'd you know?
Because you're here.
I mean, you can't win with that, right?
It's like, but, but I mean, did someone tell you, no, no, no, I can confirm it just by
the fact that you're here, that I know, that I knew that you were gonna be here.
I mean, that's a stupid reasoning that they use, right?
So they'll say those who are elect are elect because they just show up because they're
in church, they're repenting of their sins, and they're like, God knows that they would
be elect.
Why?
Because they're doing God's will.
That's how we know that they're elect.
Well, here's something funny about that because Calvin is obviously, they hold to the pro,
they're pro-Israel too, right?
And they believe the Jews are God's elect, right?
Well, what does the Bible say?
He came unto his own, the elect, and his own received them not.
Where's the irresistible grace there?
It wasn't very, it wasn't very, it was very resistible is what it was.
There goes that doctrine.
Because if the Jews are God's elect in their eyes, though his own received them not.
They resisted it, buddy.
There goes your doctrine.
Why?
Because people have a choice.
And it's funny that right after that, he says, but as many as received him, as many as received,
to them give you power to become the sons of God, even unto them that believe on his
name.
Go to First Timothy chapter number two.
First Timothy chapter number two.
Irresistible grace.
Sounds like a restaurant.
Or a coffee shop or something, you know.
A Christian coffee shop.
Irresistible grace.
First Timothy 2, 3 says, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,
who will have all men to be saved and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
He wants all men to be saved.
But here's the thing.
Every man has a choice to reject it or accept it.
You know, he told the Jews, ye will not come to me.
Right?
They had a choice.
Will.
They had a choice to believe on Christ or not to believe on Christ.
This thing of irresistible grace is foolish.
Okay.
Now, next petal.
This is the last petal.
I'm almost done.
Perseverance of the saints.
This is a thinly veiled works-based salvation.
And here's the funny thing.
It says perseverance of the saints.
Perseverance means what?
Perseverance means you stay in.
What is it?
You're enduring.
Right?
You're just making it.
You're going to stay until the end.
So they're teaching that the saints ought to persevere until the end.
Look at what he says.
You cannot lose your salvation.
That's the first thing they say.
When you start off right off the bat with that after you say perseverance of the saints,
the first thing that should come up is like, this guy's about to teach something about
losing your salvation.
Because the Father has elected, the Son has redeemed, and the Holy Spirit has applied
salvation.
Those thus saved are eternally secure.
They are eternally secure in Christ.
Some of the verses for this position are John 10, 27, where Jesus said his sheep will never
perish.
John 6, 47, where salvation is described as everlasting life.
Romans 8, 1, where it is said we have passed out of judgment, 1 Corinthians 10, 13, where
God promises to never let us be tempted beyond what we can handle.
And Philippians 1, 6, where God is the one being faithful to perfect us until the day
of Jesus' return.
That's all he says.
Has nothing to do with perseverance of the saints.
But here's the thing.
When you put a title like perseverance of the saints, and then you put verses about
eternal security, what is that leading you to believe?
Well, I've got to persevere if I'm going to confirm that I have this eternal salvation,
this eternal security.
And that's exactly what they believe.
And by the way, if you pin anybody down, a Calvinist who believes this, they'll use
this.
Well, they that endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
What do you do with it?
I had someone tell me that one time, a Baptist.
What do you do with it?
They that endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.
I was like, did you read the remainder of the chapter?
Talk about the flesh being saved.
And not every time when the Bible refers to salvation is it referring to a justification
of the soul and spirit.
It's talking about your flesh, right?
It's talking about you being, it's talking about the end times that those that endure
those 72 months, if they endure until the coming of Christ, their flesh shall be saved.
It's foolish.
Calvinists will teach all these things based upon the sovereignty of God, right?
And that's what they'll say.
It's the sovereignty.
That's why all Calvinist churches, they'll have that name on their church, at least.
They'll have sovereignty, because God is in control of everything.
He's in control of all your will and emotions and all your actions that you do.
Now go to James chapter one, and we're almost done here.
So basically, you have no choice whatsoever.
So let me say, if you're a crappy Christian, that's what God chose for you, man.
If you're like, don't read your Bible a lot and all this stuff, and it's like, you can't
change from that.
You're done.
The godly Christian is just like, yeah, his lot was good in life, right?
Look at James 1 13 says, let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God.
For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man.
So how are you gonna say that all this wickedness of this world is responsible by a God who's
moving these people to do these things when the Bible says that he doesn't tempt any man?
That's wicked.
To blame God for all the wickedness, the rapist, the child molesters, the pedophiles, that's
God's fault?
No, you're wicked to believe such a wicked heresy in teaching.
That's man's will.
That's the man who chose to do that.
And let me say this, if that were true, that we would just obey God, why did God give us
all kinds of commandments in the Bible to do?
Wouldn't we just be like, I can't lie, I can't lie, you know, it's just like, I already know.
No, he's given us commandments within the Word of God.
The flesh lesteth against the Spirit, the Spirit against the flesh.
These are contrary ones to the other, so you cannot do the things that you would.
The Bible talks about how we have the flesh, and the flesh constantly wants to do those
things that are wrong, therefore we have to walk in the Spirit.
If we as the elect had always a desire to do right, why would he command us to walk
in the Spirit?
Oh, to confirm the perseverance of the saints, shut up.
That's foolish, that's stupid, and that's wicked.
No, we have to practice.
We have to make sure, we have to practice, we need to try to obey God every, we need
to take up our cross daily.
Right?
We need to make sure that we're walking in the light, obeying God, and look, the successes
of today cannot be counted for tomorrow.
Tomorrow we need to get up and live for the Lord as well.
We need to get up and read our Bibles, we need to get up and deny the flesh, and it's
not like, well, no, I always deny the flesh.
I never sin, right?
Stupid.
Now, go to Proverbs chapter 16, because this is a verse right here in Proverbs 16 that
they'll use to prove the sovereignty of God.
Of course, they read it from their false versions, and it sounds a little different, but it pretty
much almost says the same thing in the King James Bible.
Proverbs 16, verse 33.
So that was all introductory, and this last part is just real small, because we basically
debunked all the pedals.
We plucked them out.
There's nothing left.
But we're going to hit on this thing on the sovereignty of God, because Christians get
hung up on this.
I mean, Baptists.
They don't know how to explain it.
They're like, man, so how do you explain all these things?
All these things that are taking place, is God really in control?
Is he not?
We know that God is Almighty, so doesn't he control some of the actions?
People can get hung up on these things.
Look what the Bible says in Proverbs 16, verse 33.
The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.
Now the word disposing means arrangement, right?
So what is the Bible saying here?
Of course, the lot was a system that God would use to basically choose something, right?
You know, a lot was cast before the rams to figure out which one was going to be sacrificed.
They didn't know which one to do.
So it would cast a lot to see who would fall upon, and then that lamb or that ram would
be taken to be sacrificed.
Okay?
I'm losing my voice, excuse me.
So here it says the lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the
Lord.
So they'll say, yeah, you can cast a lot into the lap, but God is the one who arranges everything.
He's the one who arranges the lot cast into the lap, okay?
And that's what they say.
That is the sovereignty.
This is John Piper.
This is the sovereignty of God.
Now I'm going to explain what that means in just a moment.
Go to Psalm 37, 23.
Psalm 37, verse 23.
Here's another verse that they like to use.
Now by the way, keep your finger in Proverbs 16, sorry.
You're going to use like four of your fingers, so just keep that in mind because we're going
to go through all of these.
Psalm 37, verse 23 says, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth
in his way.
And they'll use that and say, see, the steps of a good man, they're ordered by God.
He's the one who arranges them.
It's the sovereignty of God that uses that, okay?
Go to Proverbs 16.
Hold your place there in Psalms, excuse me, Psalms 37, Proverbs 16.
Go back to Psalm 16, and verse 9, look at the Bible says, a man's heart diviseth his
way, but the Lord directeth his steps.
Oh, there it is again.
And they'll use that.
It's the sovereignty of God.
It's the Lord directing the steps.
That's the sovereignty of God.
I'm going somewhere with this.
You guys are giving me some weird eyes, but just follow me, all right?
So what is it saying?
You know, if the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord, if the Bible says that the steps
of a good man are ordered by the Lord, if the Bible says that the Lord directs his steps,
Is that the sovereignty of God?
Well, go, you're in Proverbs 16, verse 9.
Let's go on and see what that means, because here's the thing.
The last part of the verse says, but the Lord directed the steps, right?
But what's the cause of that?
A man's heart diviseth his way.
See, one essential aspect that Calvinists lose, they don't get, is this matter of cause
and effect.
What does that mean?
In order to get the Lord to direct your step, you have to devise something.
Verse 33, the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord, but what's the cause of that?
The lot is cast into the lap.
Now, let me ask you something.
Can God dispose of that if there's no lot that's casted?
No.
Who has to cast it?
The person who wills to cast it.
You see, I believe that God is able to order certain things and arrange certain things,
but guess what, it's based off of our free will.
It's not like, you see, the Calvinists will say, well, you know, the whole world, the
elect are going to be saved, we don't have to go sowing, wrong.
We need gospel preaching, Spirit-filled Christians to go out there, then they'll get saved.
God will save them, but it takes us.
The cause is this, we need to go out there and preach the gospel.
Look at Psalms 37.
The steps of a what?
A good man, ordered by the Lord, the Bible says, and he delighted in his way.
What's the cause?
It has to be a good man.
Can't be an evil man, he has to be a good man.
So there's a cause to these things, it's not just, well, God just does it, no, there's
a cause to it, and the effect is that God will arrange those things.
Now go to, let's see here.
Go to Psalms 119, we're almost done, sort of, Psalms 119 verse 133 says, order my steps
in what?
In thy word, and let not iniquity have dominion over me.
You see, God can order our steps if we're in the word of God, there's a cause and effect
there.
Now go to 2 Chronicles chapter 12, 2 Chronicles chapter number 12, I'm going to read to you
from Ecclesiastes chapter number 9 verse 11 where the Bible reads, I returned and saw
unto the sun, that the race is not to the swift.
I like to know what the Calvinists say about this verse, look what it says, I returned
and saw unto the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong,
neither yet bread to the wise, nor your riches to men of understanding, nor yet favor to
men of skill, but time and chance happeneth to them all.
Time and chance, what does that mean?
Well, all my Christian life I've heard this, there's a prepared place for prepared people.
If you're prepared, there's going to be a prepared place for you, if you allow yourself
to prepare, God will prepare something for you, but guess what, you've got to prepare.
That's the cause, the effect is that God will prepare a place for you, why?
Because time and chance happeneth to them all, but guess what, it's for those who prepare.
Now 2 Chronicles chapter 12 verse 13, look what the Bible says, so King Rehoboam strengthened
himself in Jerusalem and reigned, for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began
to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen
out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there, and his mother's name was Nama
and Ammonitis, and he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.
You see, he did evil, oh God made him do that, no, it says he did evil because he prepared
not his heart to seek the Lord.
Go to Ezra chapter 7, this is the last verse, Ezra chapter 7 verse 9, the Bible says for
upon the first day of the month, Ezra 7 verse 9, for upon the first day of the first month
began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem
according to the good hand, according to the good hand of his God upon him.
Okay, there it is, God is directing him, right?
Look what it says, for Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord and to do
it and to teach it in Israel's statutes and judgments.
You see, God's hand was on Ezra, but why?
Because he prepared his heart to seek the Lord.
See we believe that God, yes, he can do all things, but we gotta, there's a cause and
effect to these things, we're not robots, okay, and look, you think of Ruth, the Bible
says it was her hap to fall into the vineyard where Boaz was, right, to Boaz's vineyard,
but you know what, the cause was what?
She made God her God, right?
She came to Israel, she put in work, she went to go glean, and what happened, God prepared
a place because she was prepared, and her hap was that she was gonna be in the vineyard
of Boaz.
See, Calvinism just falls apart when you look at all these scriptures.
I believe God is sovereign, he rules everything, and at the end of days, he's gonna, everything's
gonna go back to normal, he's gonna judge everyone who has rejected Christ, and yes,
he is gonna exercise that judgment to its fullest capacity.
But that doesn't mean that we can't choose.
We have a free will.
Praise the Lord for that, amen.
Let's go ahead and bow our heads and have a word of prayer.
Father, we thank you so much for the doctrines found within your word, thank you for creating
a hatred within me and others for Calvinism, because it leads a lot of people to hell,
and it's led safe people astray as well.
It's caused Christians who maybe are saved to become warm in their soul winning, and
because of their lack of love for the lost, a lot of people are going to hell.
And we're nobodies, Lord, we don't deserve anything, but I pray that you would help us
to continue to reach people for Christ through the Gospel, and may we not have this Calvinistic,
lazy mentality that someone else can do it, or that you'll do it without us.
No, you need us, we know that you need us, and that's why you've given us the ministry
of reconciliation, and to go out there and preach the Gospel to every creature.
And I pray that God, you would help us to grow in our hatred for false doctrines and
our zeal for the Bible, but also our love for those who are lost who need the Gospel.
In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen.
Oh yeah.