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On the front we have our Bible memory passage we're working on Proverbs 31
and we're on verse number two and so if you can quote that as 18 or under
during the week we will give you an ice cream treat after the service
and if you can quote the entire passage this is for everyone
there'll be a special prize for those who are able to complete this passage
and the longer the chapter usually is the better the prize so
since this one's a little bit longer of a passage
definitely will have a good reward and that is having a great wife no I'm just
kidding so obviously there'll also be a carnal
prize there too on the inside we have our service times
our soul winning times just as a reminder the church-wide soul
winning time on Saturday has moved its time
so pay attention to that time with brother Illy
and also there's a new regional soul winning time
listed there on Mondays at six and it's with brother Sam
and it's going to be happening in Irving is he is he here with us this morning
all right will you stand just so everybody can this is brother Sam Foley
he's got a soul winning time on Mondays around the Irving area at 6 p.m so if
you'd like to be with them that just ask brother
Foley and he can help you with that also we have our stats
down below we have on the right the list of
expecting ladies and we definitely have several ladies
who are expecting so continue to pray for them also our
prayer list we try to update this weekly if you
could put an update in there and unfortunately
miss Lucy's mother has passed recently and so if you just being pray for her
and her family and we did update the prayer list on
that but definitely condolences for her and her family on that
also on the back we have our upcoming events so tonight is our barbecue
and those who were offering to volunteer we sent an email just a reminder again
but we do have all the food and stuff here with us
and we're just going to be cooking out here in the back
for the evening also we still have some flyers
if you'd like to hand those out today for soul winning i think
today's probably your best day and you know if you only have a few
just hang on to them just hand them out to the people you talk to or visit in
person because that way because you put on the doors most
likely they won't see it in time so i would just hang on to the ones
that you you kind of talk to in person you might even give them a heads up
that they'll get to be highly motivated not to go to hell if they come and visit
our church and the reason why they'll be motivated
is because they'll be annoyed by all the screaming and yelling of these people
and you know unfortunately those that are going to hell
will have to hear our protest non-stop isn't that just a great reason to get
saved is you just don't have to hear that screeching and screaming and just
blasphemy and just all that evil for all of
eternity and so that's just another great reason
to get saved also we have our upcoming conference
october 12th through the 15th and we are going to
be starting events all day on thursday so just kind of anticipation of that
that wednesday night i'm actually going to be handing out all the conference
shirts and all that kind of stuff so if you want to if you want to get uh
all of those goodies you got to come wednesday night all right
and uh of course we'll have them out for the rest of the conference as well but
just as kind of a precursor and so if you want
to come and join us on that wednesday as well
but i'll be preaching so we don't have a conference preacher but
that thursday night it's going to be at 7 p.m
and we're going to have two preachers we're going to have pastor bruce mejia
and pastor roger menes on thursday night so be a little bit
later of a night and then friday it's a little bit
different schedule but it's going to be at 6 p.m we're
going to have our services start because we're going to actually break in
the middle of those services on friday and have a dinner so if you
are planning on coming the conference is just a reminder again because you might
get a little sleep by that 7 p.m thursday but
friday you want to come on 6 p.m and then on sunday
we're going to have our regular 10 30 service but pastor thompson is going to
be preaching for us and then i'm going to preach that
evening but instead of preaching later we're just going to bump it up to the
time that our spanish time would normally be
and i'm just going to preach then hopefully that allows people to get out
a little bit earlier on that sunday and then you can go
fellowship go out to eat or do something if you'd like to with friends and
family and everything like that so that is going to be kind of a little bit
of an alternate schedule of events so i'm really looking forward to it if
you can bring a dessert on that friday evening
that would be a big blessing to us we're gonna
provide the meal but if you can provide with us
a dessert and of course if you want to be a blessing you'd bring a chocolate
dessert so there there you go um the end of the month we have our
texas chili cook-off instead of worshiping the devil
and then on november 4th abilene texas soul winning marathon
and that's going to be a lot of fun that's pretty much
all i really have as far as announcements are concerned we're going
to sing our psalm of the week some 150 psalm 150
just one more quick announcement there also is a sign-up sheet at the front
there for if you want to help volunteer with cleaning
during that conference as well we're definitely going to need some people's
help for that so please see that sign-up sheet all right we're doing psalm
150
is excellent greatness
praise him with strength instruments
the one high sounding symbols let everything that have breath
praise the lord praise he the lord praise god the father
praise god the holy ghost
great singing as the offering plates being passed around please turn your
bibles to leviticus chapter 27 leviticus chapter number 27
leviticus 22 my mistake 22
so
leviticus 22 the bible reads and the lord spake unto moses saying speak unto
aaron and to his sons that they separate themselves from the holy things of the
children of israel and that they profane not my holy name
in those things which they hallow unto me
i am the lord say unto them whosoever he be of all your seed among your
generations that goeth unto the holy things which the children of israel
hallow unto the lord having his uncleanness upon him that
soul shall be cut off from my presence i am the lord what man so ever of the
seed of aaron is a leper or hath a running issue he shall not eat
of the holy things until he be clean and whoso toucheth anything that is
unclean by the dead or a man whose seed goeth from him or
whosoever toucheth any creeping thing whereby he may be made unclean
or a man of whom he may take uncleanness whatsoever uncleanness he hath
the soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even
and shall not eat of the holy things unless he wash his flesh with water
and when the sun is down he shall be clean and shall afterward eat of the
holy things because it is his food that which diet
of itself or is torn with beasts he shall not eat to defile himself
therewith i am the lord they shall therefore keep
mine ordinance lest they bear sin for it and die
therefore if they profane it i the lord do sanctify them there shall
no stranger eat of the holy thing a sojourner of the priest or an hired
servant shall not eat of the holy thing but if the priest buy any soul with his
money he shall eat of it and he that is born
in his house they shall eat of his meat if the
priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger
she may not eat of an offering of the holy things but if the priest's daughter
be a widow or divorced and have no child that is
returned under her father's house as in her youth
she shall eat of her father's meat but there shall no stranger eat thereof
and if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly
then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it and shall give unto the
priest with the holy thing and they shall not profane the holy
things of the children of israel which they offer unto the lord
or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass when they eat their holy things
for i the lord do sanctify them and the lord spake unto moses saying
speak unto aaron and to his sons and unto all the children of israel and say
unto them whatsoever he be of the house of israel
or of the strangers in israel that will offer his oblation for all his vows
and for all his free will offerings which they will offer unto the lord for
a burnt offering he shall offer at your own will a male
without blemish of the beaves of the sheep or of the goats
but whatsoever hath a blemish that shall ye not offer for it shall not be
acceptable for you and whosoever offerth a sacrifice of
peace offerings unto the lord to accomplish his vow
or a free will offering in beaves or sheep it shall be perfect to be accepted
there shall be no blemish therein blind or broken or maimed or having a
wen or scurvy or scab ye shall not offer these unto the lord
nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the lord
either a bullock or a lamb that hath anything superfluous or lacking it as
parts that mayest thou offer for a free will
offering but for a vow it shall not be accepted ye shall
not offer unto the lord that which is bruised or crushed or broken or cut
neither shall he make any offering thereof in your land
neither from a stranger's hand shall he offer
the bread of your god of any of these because their corruption is in them and
blemishes be in them they shall not be accepted for you and
the lord spake unto moses saying when a bullock or a sheep or a goat is
brought forth then it shall be seven days under the
dam and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an
offering made by fire unto the lord and whether it be cow or you ye shall
not kill it and her young both in one day and when
you will offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving unto the lord
offer it at your own will on the same day it shall be eaten up
ye shall leave none of it until the morrow i am the lord
therefore shall ye keep my commandments and do them i am the lord
neither shall you profane my holy name but i will be hallowed among the
children of israel i am the lord which hallow you that
brought you out of the land of egypt to be your god
i am the lord let's bow our heads for a word of prayer
father god we thank you so much lord for our church
for a pastor at his family and i just pray lord that you would fill in with
the fullness and power of the holy spirit now
and enable him to preach the message you've laid on his heart with clarity of
mind and help us lord to receive the message this morning
soften hearts in the room and open ears lord so that we may apply the sermon to
our lives we love you and in jesus name i pray amen
amen
the uh part of the chapter that i want to focus on here
uh is in verse number 19 where the bible reads you shall offer at your own
will a male without blemish of the beaves of
the sheep or of the goats but whatsoever hath
a blemish that shall you not offer for it shall
not be acceptable for you now in this passage we have
an allusion to a lot of spiritual things about the lord jesus christ as well
but what's really important here is the fact that the bible
is making it clear in verse number 19 that the offerings of the lord are to be
done at your own will as the bible describes this
showing that when the bible defines a very important word
what it really means when it says that free will
is that it's at your own will because notice the verse preceding this
um it i'm not going to read the whole verse but just if you kind of go back to
the last phrase it says and for all his free will offerings which they will
offer unto the lord for a burnt offering you shall offer it at your own will so
when he's defining free will in the bible
he's saying that it's at your own will and this is actually the first mention
of the word free will in the bible and it's making it abundantly clear it's at
your own will now this stands in strong contrast
to a very prevalent doctrine in the church today
and that is the doctrine of calvinism and calvinism
is typically described as a specific acronym called tulip
who's heard of tulip who knows who has no idea what tulip means
okay so yeah lots of the children some other people okay
so and in part i'm going to explain a little bit of what that means
but what's what's kind of uh usually taught when it comes to
calvinism is what i would argue is called the
positive side of calvinism because most of the time when people are
getting up and teaching calvinism they're kind of teaching it from the
lens of your elect and i'm telling you what the elect are
going to be like but there's actually a dark side of
calvinism and that's what i'm preaching this morning is the dark side of
calvinism and it's truths that would would exist
if calvinism were true so it's kind of a hypothetical
that i'm talking about this morning but i think it's really important to
understand why calvinism is so bad and why calvinism
is so bad is because the conclusions that you have to
also talk about are really dark if calvinism were true but
no matter what point we talk about really
calvinism can be summed into just one idea
no free will whereas the bible teaches you have free will
and essentially this word free will is even mentioned in the bible
17 times now what a deception if god writes in his scripture
17 times the word free will but then it's just like haha i'm joking you don't
have any or or specifically when it talks about
these offerings it's saying hey offer at your own will
but really i'm just using you as a puppet and you're just doing
my bidding for me okay and so it's very clear in the bible that we have free
will and i think it's so obvious that
sometimes you'll run into calvinist and they'll still say well i i still
believe we have free will but the problem is they change the
definition or the meaning of free will we believe
that free will means free will okay and essentially what that means is
you get to make choices your choices are of your own will your own voluntary
decision making whereas their idea of free will is that god is using you as a
puppet and you just don't realize you're a
puppet that's basically their definition of free will
and i want to preach another sermon on this later and i'll use some puppets to
illustrate it but that's not the sermon for today okay
now if calvinism is true then we have to always
look at the flip side so their first point is tulip it's the
which stands for total depravity total depravity
is the idea that we are all just reprobates incapable of doing any good
and that we have no option to save ourselves through works
and through choice now again i agree that we have no way to save ourselves
through works but they go also a little further than
that and they say not only do you have no
ability to save yourself through any kind of works you also have no ability
to choose to believe in jesus christ and they'll
often say well you're a dead man and what can a dead man do they'll say i
guess nothing therefore you can't do anything
whatsoever and they kind of also allude to the fact
that romans chapter one is not a description of a reprobate but
rather is a description of all humanity in general now when's the last time you
read romans one and you were thinking like this sounds like me
now if you thought that you can go join those outside all right
how about this when's the last time you read that and you just thought this is
everybody i work with this is all my neighbors this is everybody i grew up
with like that's just absurd to think that
romans one is just a general description of what
people are like talk about a pretty cynical view on
humanity now look i'm i kind of can see like the evil of
humanity and look down upon humanity especially if you watch a
lot of news because they pretty much highlight the worst of society on a
regular basis but most people are not like reprobates
it's super clear that they're not like this
and i don't believe in that whatsoever and the bible is making it clear that we
do have a choice here in the bible how can that gel with their doctrine it
just doesn't it just doesn't gel that they have this free will
and i think that it's really important to understand the free will aspect of
leviticus 22 it's mentioned a few times in this chapter it's not just that once
look at verse 21 and whosoever offer the sacrifice of
peace offerings in the lord to accomplish his vow or a free will
offering and beaves their sheep it shall be
perfect to be accepted now of course it's it's super obvious
number one that this is alluding to jesus christ because it's talking about
an offering that's perfect right without any kind of blemish and
that's to signify christ's sinlessness the fact that he was a
perfect spotless blameless lamb that was being offered
but here's another aspect of jesus christ that's being mentioned is that
jesus christ offered himself of his own free will as well so the free
will is really necessary to understand that
jesus christ wasn't a puppet or a slave to the cross
but rather he of his own choice submitted himself unto the father
and he said not thy will or not my will but thy will be done
now again that doesn't mean that he didn't have free will it just means
that he was willing to submit unto his father's will
and he of his own free will he of his own
voluntary self decided to lay down his life
for his friends and to be that sacrifice and his free will is a model of how we
also are supposed to follow in his footsteps
and use our free will to do good for humanity okay
do good for the lost to get them saved and also do good will
toward those who are saved just because we're following in christ footsteps
what what kind of a strange idea if christ had free will
and none of us have any kind of free will how are we supposed to follow in
his footsteps this doesn't really have any meaningful
impact additionally when christ says not my will but thine be done
that's meaningful because he has free will
now i've heard some people that get a little over the top with this and
they'll say like it was impossible for christ
to go against the father's will and sin and
so therefore he didn't have free will i agree with you that christ can't sin
obviously he's perfect right the truth can never be a lie
okay something that's holy can never be unholy something that's righteous can
never be unrighteous so by definition christ could not have sin
because he never he would never make that choice but at
the same time i do believe he had free will otherwise
that's a meaningless platitude when he said not my will but thine be done
if he literally doesn't even have the choice to begin with
but this is almost how calvinism teaches that we literally don't even have a
choice we're just playing charades here we're just pretending like well i
actually i'm i think i'm making my own decision
but it's just god puppeting me the whole entire way
this is just bizarre now go go to romans chapter 10 go to romans chapter 10 for a
moment and i want to show you a couple different
verses but if total depravity were true
then what's the dark side of calvinism then that would mean
for those who are not elect that they are just damned
they have damnation the dark side of calvinism is damnation
and that damnation is one with no choice you're just damned it wasn't like well
what if i work really hard damned what if i choose to believe in jesus
damn just it doesn't matter what you're just damned you're just you
receive damnation period that's all you get you're just a
reprobate from the beginning you're a reprobate before you're born
and you're reprobate while you're alive and you're a reprobate afterwards
you're just totally just just created to be damned and for damnation and you
have no choice in the matter whatsoever this is bizarre and imagine teaching
that that message to some people but i'll grant you this if you think
about how many people believe in calvinism
very few in contrast of the world how many of those that are even within the
calvinism teachings think that all of them are
saved very they think very few of them are
actually elect and following the gospel so in the calvinist mind i mean 99 of
all humanity is just damnation just damned
just 99 of all humanity is damn no choice
no option just the god of the bible just said you know what i'm going to create
billions of people and 99 of them are damned
just with no option no choice whatsoever and think about the
the trickery involved when then you have verses in romans chapter 10 look at
verse 9 that if that if thou shalt confess with
thy mouth lord jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that god is raised from
the dead thou shalt be saved think about this verse in context of
the 99 that are just damned with no option
it's like he's like tricky to say it says here that if you
if you call on his name you know you would be saved
just joking you don't even have that option
right i mean think about that kind of a message and i mean knocking on people's
door and being like are you the 99 that have no
no even chance like you're just damned there's no choice there's nothing you
can do how does soul winning even work
if you actually believe the dark side of calvinism too which you would have to
if you believe in calvinism you'd have to knock on people's door and
you'd have to say hey if you die today are you 100 sure
you go to heaven they say no and be like well there's
nothing you do about it anyways
they're like why are you here god made me come here
why to show you a verse that probably doesn't even apply to you
i wanted to show you a verse that says if you believe in him but if you're not
even elect you don't even have that choice anyways
i mean this is what calvinism teaches folks
can you imagine that kind of soul winning i wonder why calvinists don't go
soul-winning i wonder why calvinists are not
encouraging multitudes and flocks of people to go
out and preach the gospel of jesus christ
and telling people that they have a choice to be saved
it's because they don't even believe that a dead man can believe in christ
they're just waiting for god to elect them from afar
what nonsense govu would to psalm 19 119 i'm sorry right in the middle of your
bible longest chapter in the bible psalm 119
and look at verse number 108 it's kind of right there in the middle it's like
in the middle middle psalm 119 verse 108 look what the bible
says except i beseech thee the freewill
offerings of my mouth oh lord and teach me thy judgments
how you know think about it this way how much glory is god really getting
if he's forcing our mouths to glorify him
right i mean imagine imagine if you went to someone's house
and they opened up their computer or their phone
and they just had siri just saying like over and over
you are so awesome you are so amazing and they just like they turn on like
every device like they just have like 50 devices just all at once
just like you are amazing you are the great one
you are so awesome and they just they have them all chirping around that you
like this person's a narcissistic psychopath
like that was weird but would it be weird
if you went to someone's house and every once in a while their children or their
wife or someone came along and said man i just really love you dad
man hey you're such a great husband you wouldn't think that that's weird at all
you'd be like wow that's cool that this guy's wife and
children and friends praise him and they actually like him
and they're glorifying him out of their own free will but you know how awkward
would it be if i was sitting at dinner with my wife
and you were there at the table and i grabbed my wife by the neck and i
look at her and i say do you love me and she's like
yes i love you
it's like this is the dark side of calvinism folks
but you know according to the bible it's a free will
offering of my mouth when i glorify god
and think about if you are in control of every single mouth
this is where it's the let's go to the dark side of calvin that was the
the good side let's go to the dark side of calvinism for just a moment okay
now we go to someone's house and they turn on every device their computer
their phone their tablet and it's saying like
you're a horrible person i hate you you're wicked you're evil
you're stupid you're dumb what that would be bizarre to go to someone's
house and 99 out of 100 machines in their
house are programmed to just continually blaspheme the owner
tell him how horrible he is tell him how wicked he is
that is what calvinism is teaching is that god is puppeting
99 of humanity to just sit here and call him the worst names
on purpose how stupid how foolish you would be
freaked out by that individual way more than the one that was praising himself
he'd be like dude don't kill yourself like what's
what is wrong like dude it's okay you don't have to hate yourself that hard
okay but you know what makes sense if god literally gave people free will
and then the words that are coming out of their mouth are coming from their
heart go to deuteronomy chapter 30 go to
deuteronomy chapter number 30 look the dark side of calvinism is just
as true as the good side if it's a true doctrine
but why is it that pastors like john piper aren't getting up and teaching the
dark side of calvinism because then people realize wow this is
complete trash wow this is not in the bible at all
deuteronomy chapter 30 look at verse number 19
i call heaven and earth to record this day against you
that i have set before you life and death blessing and cursing
therefore choose life that both thou and thy seed may live
that thou mayest love the lord thy god and that thou mayest obey his voice
and that thou mayest cleave unto him for he is thy life
and the length of thy days that thou mayest dwell in the land which the lord
swear unto thy fathers to abraham to isaac and to jacob to give them
what a clear verse on how god presents you two options
and says pick one heaven or hell life or death
but again from the illusion of calvinism or the delusion of calvinism he's not
putting two options on the table he's saying there's no options on the
table you're just a reprobate whether or not
you did anything just joking you can't even choose this
life that would make heaven and earth a
lying witness because notice he's saying i've told
heaven and earth they're both witnesses to the fact that what i gave you a free
will i gave you a choice heaven and earth
will testify that you have the option that you have no
excuse that you are given this option to
believe or not to believe and so no one can rightfully say i didn't
have a choice and of course this is the argument that
comes from atheists is they think well what about all the
people in africa that didn't have a choice
well unfortunately africa is filled with missionaries so your doctrine is false
there buddy you know it's like find me the guy
that's never heard of jesus good luck good good
luck finding that person that's never heard of jesus or anything about the
gospel everyone every religion knows who jesus
is look that's our our literal time of day
is based on christ it's 2023 based on christ you don't think that
anybody asked like why is it year 2023
no one ever asked that and it's like ano domini
is what ad even stands for in the year of our lord in latin
also signifying that it's one of the most important languages
which where's the the king james bible come it's coming from the latin base i
mean english is coming from the latin it's that family of language and
basically all the european languages and what are the most important languages
throughout history of the bible european languages latin-based languages
whether we talk about the the bible being translated in latin french german
or we talk about english i mean man has that had a big impact is it any
coincidence that when jesus christ was crucified
that above his name we have hebrew greek and
latin why because these are like the three
primary languages that god has used in order for the gospel and the word of
god to spread throughout the entire world throughout all time
and you could argue in some cases that the latin
is superior only in the context of the fact that
for the first time we have pretty much the bible in one language
you know preserved whereas you kind of have the hebrew and you kind of have the
greek but then you had a combining of these
two into one into the latin and it's fitting
that then we have the king james bible in
english which is from is a byproduct or a fruit
of that marriage and so we have this great text we have this great bible
because of the word of god having power and giving us
this option to be saved i mean english is the most
popular language on the planet what if what if we said you know what we have a
perfectly preserved bible in Klingon
we have a perfectly preserved bible in the most obscure
african dialect that no one can speak or or understand
like that would be kind of like wow that's kind of a shame right
but what if you have the most perfectly preserved bible
in the most important used and spoken language in
all the planet that makes perfect sense because you know what god wants
everybody to be saved and the bible says the word is naive
even in thy mouth and in thy heart meaning that the bible is everywhere
because everybody has a chance to get saved because god wants everyone to be
saved and look if you're anywhere in the world
and i don't care what language you start in what is the most enticing language to
learn next english if you didn't already speak it
ever for us that speak english we look to other languages obviously as
a second language but those who do not speak english as
their primary or first language what is the most enticing language to
learn english you know talk about bad things
turning in for good it's like hollywood spread their tv all over the world
but you know what it can help people learn english so that they can hear the
gospel and get saved talk about turning something that's
evil into good right i mean they're watching friends or
something like that on you know in their language or whatever and they
learn english but you know there's so many people i've met from abroad and
they said they learned english from watching tv
watching movies watching hey at least john wayne's not that bad right okay
there you go watching john wayne or something like that
but go if you would to first peter chapter one go to first peter chapter
one but think about this it's like god went
through all the effort all the martyrs to give us the king james bible for it
to be printed and published under the threat of death for for decades if not
hundreds of years for there to be constant fighting for
this bible for it to be spread throughout all the world
and many places it being smuggled into countries where it's illegal
and for people in china to get a king james bible
or a texas receptionist bible smuggled in handed to them
they can read the book of life and then just say
actually you're a reprobate and there's nothing you can do to get saved anyways
all those efforts all those works all those energies all those things that god
orchestrated together just to give you a bible just for you
to read it and realize you're a reprobate anyways
that's the dark side of calvinism no choice whatsoever
why why even do it's like it's a communist type mentality
where you basically have no motivation to do anything
because in communism it's like no matter how hard you work
you don't get a bigger paycheck from the government like you can be the best
worker on the planet and you get paid the exact same amount
as the guy that sits at home and does absolutely nothing in fact he may even
do worse than that he may show up at work and cause
problems like he may have cost the company money destroyed inventory
stealing from them doing wrong and they'll still give him the same paycheck
is the guy that did good and a blessing and you know what that does it destroys
morale when the works and the things that you do
have no significance no importance that's why a lot of
communist countries just tons and tons of people just become
homeless lazy derelict drug addicts just wanting to kill
themselves and of course this is what the devil wants
the devil wants everybody to have no meaning in life
no purpose in life no choice in life but you know what god
says hey i've set before you life and death choose life
choose life here's the second point i want to talk about
and that is their little tulip goes to unconditional election
unconditional election but the dark side of calvinism
would be exclusion would just be exclusion
you're damned and you're excluded damnation
and exclusion what is what is unconditional election it's the idea
that based on nothing that you did based on no reason whatsoever you're
either saved or not saved which again if you have no free will that
would be the conclusion that's why you have to
understand every point hinges on the idea of no free will
because if you had no free will then it has nothing to do with you because you
didn't do anything in fact you are literally an empty vessel
that makes no decisions congratulations you have no personality
you have no likes or dislikes you're really just absolutely nothing
you're just dirt you're just dirt organized in a really
sophisticated way i mean it's almost like the teaching of
evolution and atheism that we're just chemicals just put
together and and just by chance we think that we
think but we really don't even think you don't even have a mind you're not
even really here like this is the like the fact that you
think you have an experience is fake it's just god controlling you
isn't that bizarre i mean this is so weird
and to think that first of all just even think oh well i'm saved for no reason
i guess god's great but how about the dark side what about the people that are
not saved for no reason well let's see what the bible actually
says in first peter chapter number one as far as people being elected or people
being saved and of course the elect is what means
saved so this is where they're kind of twisting things in the bible but
look at verse two elect so this is those saved
according to the foreknowledge of god the father
notice it doesn't say elect according to nothing
elect according to zero no it says elect according to
the foreknowledge of god so you can never say accurately that
election is unconditional because according to the bible it's
according to something if it were unconditional then it could
never be according to anything okay it's according to something now you
say oh well you don't understand pastor chelly
it's according to god's will that's what it is but wait a minute
it says according to the foreknowledge this means that
something that god knows that's going to happen in the future
according to the future knowledge of god okay
well if god knows everything and every decision is at his own will
then it would be again based on nothing but that foreknowledge is very clearly
evidenced by the fact that he has foreknowledge of what we're going to do
and based on what we're going to do he elects those
who are going to believe in him to say that there's
it's based on nothing is just completely missing the whole point
of this entire passage because it's saying we're elect
because he already knew those who were going to believe in him
but if calvinism were true it would say elect according to nothing
but god's own will why would god have to look into the future
if it was just based on his own will already
he wouldn't even have to look in the future because he's looking in the
future he's looking at something you know what
he's looking at your choice he's looking at what you're going to do
because he already knows what he's going to do so he's looking at what you're
going to do he doesn't need to look into the future
to decide his own will he's already decided his own will he
has to look into the future because he's looking to see what your will is
immediately proving wrong unconditional election
because it's not according to nothing it's according to his future knowledge
of what we are going to do very crystal clear in
the bible and i want to go to another place you go
to second thessalonians chapter number two go to second thessalonians chapter
number two but there's a lot of people out there
teaching this junk just to give you a small sample of some
of the more popular calvinists out there vadi bachman
this is a guy that's out there preaching pretty popular alistair
beg he's like from europe i think he's like a british
calvinist francis chan sure a lot of people have heard of this guy
goes and like hides in caves and does weird stuff
matt chandler he's actually local to this area
um he had to step away from the pulpit because he was texting women
appropriately but nothing weird okay just just so
we're clear it wasn't anything weird or anything
but it was enough for him to step away from the pulpit now he's back so i'm
sure that's great now ray comfort
i didn't know that but mark driscoll jeff durbin captain morgan's what you
call him uh todd friel uh wretched
on youtube jd greer and jd greer used to be the president of the southern
baptist convention and what a lot of people don't realize
calvinism is not limited to the one denomination
calvinism is kind of in a few different forms you have like a presbyterian
version of calvinism that's pretty much just a hundred percent
calvinist presbyterians are pretty much just all calvinists
but then you also have in the southern baptist convention
many that are calvinists um i think i i can't remember the statistic off the
top of my head but i want to say somewhere between 25 30
of the southern baptist convention pastors admit to being a five-point
calvinist so that's a pretty big influence
additionally most of the uh universities or seminaries that are
kind of feeding into excuse me feeding into the southern
baptist convention are ones who are calvinistic leaning and have a lot of
calvinistic tendencies um there's even other denominations
there's other baptists there's like reformed baptists
and they're kind of like non-denom they wouldn't necessarily
even call them they wouldn't call themselves southern baptists they
wouldn't call themselves presbyterian they just call themselves reformed
baptists and they're usually kind of an independent
autonomous they'll just say like i'm from christ church
or they'll just kind of have a random non-denom type style name
but they are calvinists additionally you'll have non-denom churches just
they're not baptists they're not reformed baptists not southern baptists
they're not presbyterian they're just non-denom
but then they teach calvinism this is kind of where you get your matt
chandler's and you have some of those so you kind of have a broad spectrum
of calvinism um and and minor forms of this leaking into
many various denominations it's it's basically the doctrine for pseudo
intellectuals so it really doesn't matter i'm sure
even in pentecostals some of them you know if they went to
seminary or whatever but but typically it's those who are
more educated those that are learning those that have gone to the
seminary and those that have gone to the university and those that
hold a doctorate or a masters in theology these are the ones that always
have the calvinist type leanings they're ones
that are hiding in the ivory towers thinking everybody's damned
okay and so you know this is where you kind of get this group
you also have people like tim keller steve
lawson john mcarthur justin peters john piper david plat
rc sprawl which he's dead uh rick warren paul washer james white
and doug wilson and and you'll notice all of these people are very similar
actually they they network together in many cases
they love the esv that's kind of like typically one of their favorite
bible translations if you meet a calvinist they pretty much almost always
use the esv sometimes they'll use like an nasp but or
or i read the greek you know that that's the
other alternative hafeas you know they that's that's their
bible reading choice and they use logos software you know that's kind of these
type of people but what's super clear in the bible
is that god is not damning people for no reason
but this is what the dark side of calvinism would teach not only are
people elected for no reason they're damned for no reason but what
does the bible say second thessalonians chapter two look at verse number seven
for the mystery of iniquity doth already work only who
he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way
and then shall that wicked be revealed whom the lord shall consume with the
spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of
his coming even him whose coming is after the working of satan with all
power and signs and lying wonders and with all
deceivableness of unrighteousness and them that perish because
they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved
if calvinism were true it'd say in them that perish because nothing
and then that perish because god wanted that to happen
and then that perish because they had no choice but what does the bible say
it's because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved
notice this word that's really important word in the bible might
that word does not gel with calvinism because in calvinism everything's
certain and this is saying might meaning that god is putting on the table
things that people might do meaning they may not or they may
what's going to decide if they do or don't their choice
but if god is just pulling the strings on all these puppets there is no such
word as might it doesn't even make sense it's an impossibility
the word might and gives in detail the idea that someone could choose a or b
life or death heaven or hell truth or lies
and it's saying that they might be saved meaning there's people that have the
opportunity to be saved and they weren't otherwise the word
might can't even make sense folks but it's saying look the truth was
offered to these people that they might be saved but because they didn't
receive the truth because they didn't believe because they
didn't want to be saved then what did god do to these people
well he's going to punish them look at verse 11 and for this cause
oh what cause god what's a cause you know you know why there's a cause
because something happened there's a word like because because
maybe i need to go and hick so they can understand because
you know or maybe it's just like with z's like because
cause for this cause god shall send them strong delusion
that they should believe a lie that they all might be damned
who believed not the truth but had pleasure and righteousness now this is
an important two verses you know why because if calvinism was
true then the dark side of calvinism would
say that verses 11 and 12 apply to 99 of all humanity
he already gave them the strong delusion this is a meaningless verse
because it already happened god basically already gave a strong delusion
to 99 of all humanity that they should not believe and they'd be damned that
they had no choice but you know the bible is even saying
it's for this cause what was the cause because they received not the love of
the truth it doesn't say because of nothing it
doesn't say just because of god's sovereign will
it says because they didn't receive him it's because they didn't believe in him
it's because they hate the truth they don't want to believe the truth and as a
result of that then god punished them with the ability
to not even believe which is kind of a strong delusion he
punishes them with such strong delusion that even when
presented with god in the flesh they would reject it
that's the kind of delusion that we're talking about such a strong delusion
that a guy is going to show up as satan in the flesh the anti-christ basically
and they're going to believe in him as being god
i mean that's crazy it's crazy when you could read in the bible
it's like hey uh he's gonna say get a mark
of a 666 in your hand and you're gonna be damned and go to hell
and people are gonna still do it like there's gonna be people that have read
that in the bible or heard that preached and they're still gonna do it
like think about how stupid you have to be
to literally think like oh wow here's a guy
you know they're probably gonna be kind of like the sodomites in zenithus 19
thinking that he's mocking like they think it's cool or something
like that like oh well the bible is obviously not true
let's just do it because it's fun and it's like
not going to be fun when the locusts from hell come out
not going to be fun when you're burning in hell for all of eternity
and this is the kind of strong delusion that god's going to send
but you know what not all of us are under this strong delusion
you know when we go out and preach the gospel not everybody's under this strong
delusion we're actually earnestly contending for the faith
but you have to believe that some people have been excluded based on
nothing you're just excluded you're just damned
no reason whatsoever go to john chapter four go to john chapter number four
look the dark side of calvinism is horrible
and it's honestly more prevalent and more important to teach if that were
true because that's 99 of people i mean if
you're going to reach the people why wouldn't you preach a message that
reaches them you know hey i just want to let you guys know
that you're damned to hell no matter what
and it's based on nothing and you know that whole story about
jesus dying on the cross to be a savior that wasn't for you
because if calvinism is true their third point is limited atonement
meaning that christ didn't die for everyone
now this point is bizarre okay it also makes me think like you know
if someone can believe that christ didn't die for everyone
why in the world would i want to ask them what they think the trinity is like
why why are people so like falling all over themselves to find out what the
church fathers believe in all these issues
when it's like why do i care what john calvin believed about
anything when he doesn't even believe that jesus died for everyone
and i don't even know exactly what john calvin believed because sometimes
the the groupies that follow a church father don't even actually follow the
church father okay it's not like the catholics are really
following john chris's stone folks okay i've got plenty of quotes from him that
i'm thinking like i wish this is what catholics were really like
i would like them even more okay and so we don't know
everything that calvin really believed but the adherence of calvinism
and attributing it to their father john calvin i mean they're saying that jesus
didn't even really die for everyone this is so bizarre in contrast with the
most popular verse in human history for god so
loved the world what does that mean i saw someone say
well if you go back to the greek
it means you know world there means cosmos
and what that really means is just the universe you know just
the you know the planet yeah god just loved the dirt and the trees so much he
sent jesus to die on the cross right is that is that how we're supposed
to interpret it now i mean this is the kind of bizarre
nonsense that you have to get that's like strong delusion if you ask
me but look at john chapter 4 verse 42 here's another
mention of this and said unto the woman now we believe not because of thy saying
for we have heard him ourselves and know that this is indeed the christ
the savior of the world notice that it's not the savior of the
limited elect the savior of of just a few people no and
you know who's talking here samaritans that was an important point to them
that they were also saved and that he was a savior of the world
because many people thought that the samaritans were just doomed damned
couldn't be saved garbage trash you shouldn't even talk to them they're just
like never going to be reconciled and jesus
christ wasn't honestly even sent to the samaritans
he kind of has a a brief few encounters with samaritans
but it's to kind of illustrate the mystery that's going to be revealed of
how the gentiles are going to be reconciled
and that jesus christ is not the savior of just the jews he's not just the
savior of ben shapiro he's not just the savior of weinstein
and of the presidential cabinet of biden he's the president or he's the savior of
all mankind okay go if you would to uh verse 14
i'm sorry no go to first timothy chapter four go to verse timothy chapter four
uh there's there's so many verses on this that are crystal clear
and when you can start comparing the word world
in the bible it becomes immediately clear and obvious that what we're
talking about is really every person there's no other way to interpret it
john 316 he loved the world john four he's the savior of the world
okay um here's here's another verse that
i don't even know how you could gainsay it but people try
first let me chapter four look at verse 10
for therefore we both labor and suffer approach
because we trust in living god who is the savior of
all men specially of those that believe so you know he's really in a special way
the savior of of the elect in the sense that we're going to actually go to
heaven but you know what he was still the savior
of those who didn't believe here's what happened
they rejected their savior it would be like when peter was drowning in the sea
he said lord save me and he immediately grabbed by the hand and pulled him up
but if peter just said nothing he would have just drowned and died
and it wasn't that jesus wasn't a savior the whole time is that he never did
something he never called upon the name of the lord
in faith and as a result of never calling upon the name of the lord in
faith he never got saved and it wasn't just
him sitting there recognizing hey i know that guy would save me
i know that guy can save me i know that he wants to save me
you know what he did he opened up his mouth and he said lord save me
you know another illustration of the fact that you need to call upon the name
of the lord to be saved it's not just intellectual assent and
recognizing that jesus the savior and that he would save you and that he can
save you it's that he he's going to when you call
upon him and you ask for it that's how he saves
you and notice the the timeline immediately right as soon as
you call upon the name of the lord you have everlasting life you're saved
you're passed from death unto life you're immediately now walking on water
as it were okay and there's no more condemnation
you're just saved okay and he's never going to die in that
that water look at first john go to the right a little bit more go to first john
i'm just going to read for you another verse here
as you're turning there
trying to remember what verse i want to read now
okay well i'll just go to first john chapter
four anyways i think i wrote that one down wrong
but there's only one mediator between god and men the man christ jesus
okay but that that mediator it didn't say there's only one mediator between
the elect it's between men and god and so obviously
jesus christ is the mediator for all men first john chapter number four look at
verse 14 as we've been kind of comparing some of
these verses and we have seen and do testify the father sent the son to be
the savior of the world so we have in john chapter
three he loved the world john chapter four he's
the savior of the world first john chapter number four verse
14 he's the savior of the world now let's
compare this with chapter two first john chapter two and look at
verse two and he is the propitiation for our sins
and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world so when we take
all of these passages and put them together it's super clear that he's also
the savior of the unsaved why because he paid for their sins too
and you know who doesn't have sins trees and dirt
and mars and whatever you know when he's talking about the world
and you know oh well if you go back to the greek yeah it says cosmos here too
oh sorry it's the same word okay but you know what it can mean
a metaphor for people when we use the word world it could mean a lot of
different things okay and it's very clear when comparing
spiritual spiritual when we're talking about the sins of the world
that can be only in reference to people and notice he's their propitiation he's
their payment as well that's that's kind of the
illusion is what it's saying here when it talks about the propitiation
go if you would to jude chapter number one so
number one point if the dark side of calvin if calvin is true the dark side
is that people are damned they're excluded
here's the third they were abandoned they had no savior
no savior what just complete abandonment basically it's just like the kid
who is just left by his parents for no one to ever adopt them
nothing just completely forsaken in the wilderness
just to be damned no one to even try to rescue them no one to offer a lifeboat
i mean it's the titanic where people are just in the water screaming
and there's no savior no boat coming no life raft you're just going to freeze
to death in the water and just scream for all of
eternity but the fourth point is they believe in
irresistible grace which means that essentially if god
tries to save you you're gonna get saved like there's no way to resist his grace
whereas if if that were true then the opposite would be true
that god is extending no grace to the unsaved
he's only extending terror so far we have
they're damned they're excluded they're abandoned
and they're just constantly receiving terror i mean just
terror is the only thing that they are given just terror
i mean that's what i would feel like if i said you're just damned
you you've been completely excluded you've been completely abandoned and
you're just waiting to die to go to hell that would terrify me right that's
terrifying and in fact in this life i don't get any
grace zero grace whatsoever because think about
it if god gives you any grace according to
the bible or according i'm sorry not your bible
according to calvinism it's irresistible meaning if i got any i would be saved
right because at the point that i even get touched
with this little laser beam of grace i'm just like whoo saved you know
so the people that didn't get saved means they didn't even get an ounce of
grace because according to their doctrine it's
irresistible meaning you would just partake in it no matter what but the
bible does not give this illusion god gives grace to everybody jude
chapter one look at verse four for there are certain men crept in
unawares who are before of old ordained to this
condemnation ungodly men turning the grace of our god into
lasciviousness now here's the thing how can you turn
grace into something when you don't even have it
you can't even do it you know they're turning the grace of god and lasciviousness
meaning what they know that they're going to get away
with a lot in this life because god's being gracious to them
not giving them what they deserve right away and so they
allow that to just live these horrible lives
and live it up and just do evil and wicked
thinking in the psalms and a lot of pastors the bible give this illusion
where they say god will not see and he doesn't care and he's not
looking he's not paying attention he's not going to judge he's not going to do
anything and they just keep turning the grace of
god into lasciviousness thinking because there won't be a
punishment that they can just do whatever they want
but it's really just god's being gracious to that individual
giving them an opportunity to be saved you know i was explaining this to some
what seemed like a brain dead college student uh
not that long ago and this guy is saying like
couldn't god just get rid of all the sin in the world
and i said yes because he will well couldn't god just make it where
everything's perfect all the time i said yes he will it's called the new
heaven and the new earth but you know what he didn't he didn't
want to do that yet because he still wants more people to
get saved and the only way for more people to get
saved is for him to be gracious and hold off on punishing and judging
the world so that more people get the opportunity
to be saved and you know i'm so glad that the first time i sinned god didn't
immediately strike me dead and send me into hell
i'm glad that i got an opportunity to sin the next day too and then the next
day and the next day and the next day and then the next day
and then i realized like wow i need a savior
and that's what god does is he gives us just so many opportunities to get saved
out of his grace so that we would get saved he's not doing it to just see how
bad we can get or how lascivious we can be but you know
what false prophets and evil people and the the wicked they take that grace
that they're given and afforded not to get saved but rather to be more
lascivious in their lives but this is a proof text
that they were given that grace and they just decided to reject it anyways
go to luke chapter number two go to luke chapter number two
look god's giving grace to every person
he's long suffering with the whole world he's merciful that's what romans 2 is
all about i'm not even i don't even i'm not even going to go there this morning
but the whole point of romans chapter 2 is the fact that he's given you so much
grace long suffering and mercy that it should motivate you to actually
get saved not motivate you to live up a wicked life
but it should rather motivate you to say like wow if he's allowing me to
to get saved here then i need to do it luke chapter number two is talking about
the birth of jesus christ and it makes it clear that when jesus
christ came to the world it wasn't to condemn the world
but you have to think about it if if limited atonement was true
he did come here in part to condemn the world just not everyone just most
everyone he's not really a savior he's he's like
a executioner for most i mean he's just
like there to just damn everybody and and exclude them and abandon them and
terrify them luke chapter 2 look at verse 14
glory to god in the highest and on earth peace
goodwill toward men again it's not saying the elect here it's saying men
why because what jesus did was goodwill towards every person
and it really is goodwill to every person because he's saying everybody
has the opportunity to accept him as their
savior go to acts chapter number six go to acts chapter number six
i still want to turn to a few more places here this morning acts chapter
number six look at verse number eight
the bible says and stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and
miracles among the people then there arose certain of the
synagogue which is called the synagogue of the libertines and the sirenians and
alexandrians and of them of silicia and of asia
disputing with stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom
and the spirit which he by which he spake oh
irresistible grace right they're unable to resist that spirit
they're unreasonable to resist this but then look just a little bit further
in this chapter look at or i'm sorry the next chapter
a little bit further in the story it's in chapter 7 verse 51
he stiff necked none circumcised in heart and ears you always resist the
holy ghost as your fathers did so do you how does that how does a calvinist
reconcile these verses number one they can't okay but what does
this mean it's saying that the truth is like this
this magnet that just sucks in the worst people
you know they'll protest your church and whatever like they just can't resist
they're just so attracted to you what one person was screaming at me they're
like you know why we protest your church and
it's like yeah because we have the gospel because we have the truth because
we have the bible because you can't resist the wisdom that's coming from the
bible right but at the same time they still
do something they always resist the holy ghost don't they
now how in the world can you say irresistible grace when the holy ghost
is trying to get these people saved and they're resisting it
over and over and over and over and over govie wood to
uh go to matthew chapter number five matthew chapter number five
you know the bible talks about uh lots of instances where people rejected
what god was doing he sent them prophets they resist them he sends them jesus
they resisted him i mean if jesus christ is giving you the gospel in person like
what how much more could he try to get you saved
right you see the mirror he does a miracle before you then he's giving you
the gospel message he's literally preaching many of the
passages in john verbatim to you in your ears
and then they still reject it i mean like how could you believe in
irresistible grace because if you could see jesus before miracle
and he preaches the gospel in person then i would think everyone would get
saved if irresistible grace was true but think about it they're saying
that the opposite is true they're saying that all jesus did was here to just
terrify people just just basically like you know what
i'm not going to do any good to you ever no good
ever only evil i'm going to cloud up and rain on you
with clouds and thunder and i'm just going to strike you with lightning
you're going to break your foot everyone's going to hate you
only bad only evil every time you do something wrong immediately punished
every punishment is going to be way worse than you deserve i mean that's
basically the message of calvin's for 99 of people
but that doesn't even match reality folks you say how do you know it doesn't
match reality joe biden hillary clinton how are they
still walking around here if they're only receiving terror from
lord you know the reason why they're still walking around grace
and for some people it runs out like diane feinstein you know
now she's now she's not getting the grace okay now she's burning in hell for
all of eternity now she's getting her yeah god doesn't
love her at all he stopped loving her a long time ago
now he did love her at some point he was jesus was still her savior
and he didn't he didn't exclude her for no reason because she never believed
and he didn't damn her because she didn't have a choice she chose not to
believe in him she was excluded because she loved not
the truth she was not abandoned but she rejected
her savior she uh it wasn't that she didn't have
grace i mean look how old she was she didn't just only receive terror
she received a lot of grace in her life and lastly you know when we talk about
the the last boy they believe in the perseverance of the saints
well this would mean that it's just completely hopeless
for the unsaved and for these these unelect
if you're unelect you have zero hope no hope whatsoever
now to kind of still think about one of our previous points look at matthew
chapter 5 verse 45
that you may be the children of your father which is in heaven for you make
it the sun to rise on the evil and on the good and send it
the rain on the just and on the unjust do you realize we're all receiving the
same benefits from god continually and you know texas i believe is a
blessing a lot of people trash texas and you know they're not right with god
obviously and uh you know they do resist the holy
ghost but i'm hoping that it's not forever
okay and the thing is is living here is great
i mean of all the places that live in the world this is such an amazing place
right now and like today is beautiful today is an amazing day and you know
what it's not just us that get to enjoy it
reprobates get to enjoy it today and you know they don't get just the
blood you know rain can be a positive or negative
but in this context it's a it's a positive thing because rain
helps grow the crops and gives you produce and gives you money and gives
you wealth i mean rain is kind of a picture of
blessings money monetary gifts and you know there's a
lot of unsaved people that are very blessed
think about all like the vast majority of athletes in this world
that are living a very blessed life i mean they have all kinds of money and
riches and talent and they're doing all these fun
things i mean it's not like they don't have any blessings from god
it's just they're not giving god the glory for them many of them aren't
getting saved as a result of their life being so good
but to say that they're getting no grace and no blessings in this life
is just to deny reality itself
it's bizarre folks now go over to first timothy's chapter number one go to first
timothy chapter one
this last point is kind of an interesting point because
they also believe that those who are saved will persevere to the end
not just in their faith or doctrine of christ
but in their works and so this is why a lot of calvinists they look at someone
who's backslidden and they try to give them the gospel
again you know someone gets out of church or someone's not coming to church
and so then they got to get them saved again
right and then they're always like oh i'm always preaching the gospel and
and really you know what ends up happening is every single passage in the
bible turns into a salvation story like every
parable is about salvation every instruction is about salvation
every story is about salvation and it's so funny
because the people that believe in work salvation and all this stuff you lose
your salvation everything turns into a salvation story
and then i'm thinking like well those of us that are saved is there any part of
the bible that's for me
and i'm like whereas we understand that the vast majority of the bible is just
giving us instructions for life and then there's certain key passages that are
dedicated to salvation itself whereas a lot of these people that
aren't even saved they just turn the whole bible into salvation
and you know why they turn it into that because they know they're not saved and
they're still trying to figure it out so they just turn everything into
salvation but you have to make it abundantly clear
that the people who are saved can still do
whatever they want they still have that free will
okay it didn't change the fact that they can't make good or bad choices of course
they can and those good or bad choices have no
impact on if they got saved or not because we're saved by faith
now first timothy chapter number one verse 16
is is kind of an interesting passage but it's talking about the apostle paul it
says in verse 16 howbeit for this cause i obtained mercy
that in me first jesus christ might show forth all long suffering
for a pattern to them which adhere after believe on him to live everlasting
now think about the apostle paul the apostle paul
is actively fighting against the lord jesus christ
doesn't want to get saved has probably had opportunities and resisted that
but then later in life ends up accepting it and getting saved
and he's saying i was a pattern to those who are
very disobedient been offered that grace and had rejected it
and now i received it as a pattern to other people that could get saved
whereas those who you know if you the darker side of calvinism is true
those who are the unelected they don't even have hope to possibly ever
get saved and once they've shown themselves to have rejected and resisted
then it really sends a reason like oh i guess you're definitely damned
and if perseverance of the of the saints is true
then anybody that comes to our church and gets saved but then backslides
you're not saved and you'll never get saved because if you were saved you
would have persevered the fact that you didn't persevere proves
that you weren't even saved and you'll never be saved and so you're just
damned so it basically encourages those who
even backslide a little to just never go to church ever again
and you just think like i guess i'm not elect and you know what they do this to
a lot of kids and this is where it's really satanic in
my mind go to proverbs 24 because think about it a lot of kids
raised up when do you sin the most when you're five
six and seven or when you're 16 17 and 18
absolutely when you're 16 17 and 18 okay so think about it you're raised in a
church teaching you that you're going to only get better
over time so they get saved at five six seven in their little presbyterian way
they think that they're now elect they think that they're godly and then when
they actually get hormonal and they actually go through life
experience they actually sin the worst in their 16 17 18
and they just think well i guess i'm not elected because look at my lifestyle
look at all the things that i'm doing look at my sinful nature
and all the problems that i'm having and instead of realizing i need to work on
that they just reject church all together and
say this is a bunch of baloney this must be a bunch of lies then
because if if what they're saying is true then i'm just like an
unsaved reprobate unelect no hope person anyways
and who's going to continue going to church who would continue being a
calvinist if they realize they're on the dark side
it's like hey i struggle with sin okay well then i guess you're not elect
well then why in the world are they going to go to church
like you're basically encouraging no one that struggles with sin to ever go to
church for any reason if they understand calvinism and they
realize their sinful condition they'll never go to church that's why it
only attracts the most prideful arrogant punks who think that they're not that
sinful and that's why you run into these people
and they just think well if you're if you're saved then you're definitely
going to have the works look at me you know it's like you
prideful arrogant jerk you have so much sin in your life and of
course then they look down at all the sinful thinking well you're just not
safe that's why they won't go into the poor
areas and the ghetto areas and preach to these people
why because they don't even think they have hope there's no hope for those
people but you know it's wicked as hell because
even if you're saved you're going to still sin and those that are the most
sinful can still get saved because the apostle paul was a pattern
of them which to believe on him and you know what jesus christ can save
the worst of sinners the chief of sinners and you know
there's always hope for those that you know you know haven't already
become reprobate obviously but there's always hope for those that want
to be saved i've always heard this someone said
if you want to be saved then you're not reprobate
and i think that's a pretty good indication because i think the
reprobates inside their heart they have no desire to be saved
whatsoever and so if anybody has that desire internally
you know let them believe on jesus christ but just just to prove the
foolishness of the idea that if if you're saved
you're just going to persevere under the end
how about in proverbs uh chapter number 24 verse 16
for a just man falls seven times and rises up again
well how does that work
it's saying that the just guy is constantly falling and constantly
getting backslid and constantly screwing up that doesn't fit with the
perseverance of the saints if the perseverance of the saints was
true then you know what it would say for a just man never falleth for a just
man perseveres under the end no matter what
for a just man doesn't screw up anymore for a just man
doesn't keep practicing sin that's why they love the esv and all these modern
versions because they go to first john where it says that you don't do any more
sin and they'll twist it to say oh you're not practicing sin anymore
it's like who's not practicing sin you know
i would argue that no one's practicing sin people are just sinning
like i don't think people are going home and thinking like you know what
i think i might lie later today i'm gonna try and i'm gonna test i'm gonna
like kind of practice on that i'm gonna i'm gonna make sure i do a
really good job when i need to lie yeah you know i think i'm gonna commit
murder so i'm gonna start practicing you know it's like people are just
sinning you're either sinning or you're not sinning
and i would argue if you're practicing sin you're just sinning
okay because the thought of foolishness is sin right
him that knows to do good and do it not to him it is sin and you know if you
actually know what the bible says you'd realize we're sinners every single day
go to revelation 22 this last verse i'm going to go to this morning
but you know who wants you to believe in calvinism the devil because you know who
is the god of calvinism the devil the god of calvinism is the devil
and why because number one he's teaching that the vast majority of
people are damned and that's because and that they're
reprobate because the devil wants people to be as
evil as possible he wants people to be as sick and
depraved as possible so that's why he wants to teach that
romans one is everybody because when you start reading those
things on that list you're thinking like whoa this is horrifying but if he's you
know if that's true then he's basically just
saying like it's no problem oh you're not saved yeah just be a
serial killer and rapist and all these horrible wicked things being a sodomite
that's totally normal if you're not saved
it's like that's sick and it's super sick because
here's another conclusion of that if you can be that sick
as just a normal person and then maybe maybe god will give you that irresistible
grace eventually then that means you've got to bring
those people into church because who knows if god's going to eventually elect
that person right so you have to bring in the ted
bundy's and the jeffrey domers and the bill clinton's and you have to bring
them all in because maybe god will eventually elect
that person whereas we realize hey people that are
got to that point bye you know i want nothing to do with
you you can stand outside and scream and yell all you want but you're not coming
in okay and if if we catch you in here we'll
throw you out physically and mentally and spiritually
and all the others all right in every way you can think of okay and
you say is it going to hurt i hope so
but you know what you're breaking the law if you try to uh you know interrupt
a service so and we will exercise our rights
not only this the the devil wants you to believe in this because
he doesn't want you to think that salvation is a choice
because if if if there's unconditional election
that means you're also just excluded based on nothing
well if someone said look you know how you get saved
you can't do anything you know who loves to teach that the devil
why because then you'll never call upon the name of lord to be saved
you know people that are against calling on the name of lord to be saved always
seem to be satanic or influenced by the devil it's a wicked
ideology and it's coming the devil doesn't want
you to do that because he doesn't want you to think that that actually saves you
the devil doesn't want you to believe in christ because he doesn't want you to
think that that'll save you this is what he tells people well if
you're saved you will believe and i remember running to a girl from a
college campus she's like i always heard this that you know
if i'm saved then i'll just believe and i want to
you know like it sounds like a good idea but i just you know it's just not
happening well look it's not automatic it's not
like just one day you're just like walking down the street and then you're
just like i believe now no no you hear the gospel presented and
faith coming by hearing and hearing by the word of god
you're presented with the gospel you're presented with the choice you're
presented with what the scripture teaches
and you just say hey do i believe this or do i not believe it
do i want to put my faith in it do i not want to put my faith in it
and of course that decision is pretty much always typified
and calling on the name of the lord that's that moment of that choice being
solidified in that person's heart of saying i am going to trust christ i
am going to believe in him just like you're drowning in the sea and
you look him up and you say the lord saved me it's not special words
of course because plenty of people will scream and
ask for help and god won't give it to them
because they don't have faith in their heart third point that the devil wants
you to believe this well he doesn't want you to think that
jesus is your savior if limited atonement is true
then the vast majority of people he's not their savior he wants most people
to think jesus is not the savior jesus didn't
really die on the cross for everybody sins
jesus didn't really atone for everybody jesus didn't i mean how could that be
any more satanic to think that jesus is not the savior
you know came up with that doctrine the devil the devil is the only one that
wants people to believe that you know what
there is no such thing as a worldwide savior
additionally the devil wants you to believe that there's no grace being
extended to you from god that god is only cursing you why because
then that would cause you to just hate god
why would you want to love god if all he's ever doing is cursing you
and terrorizing you and doing evil unto you but you know what the god of the
bible is constantly giving you grace mercy blessing love compassion
forgiveness charity i mean all these things
offering you goodwill and lastly you know why the devil wants you to
believe in this doctrine so that you'll have no hope
you have no hope and other people have no hope because you know what we'll all
screw up we're all going to have problems and if
you understand the doctrine of calvinism you think i
guess i'm not saved and i have no hope but you know what gives us hope that
salvation is all of faith and not of any works
so no matter how many times i screw up i just stay
solid i stay steadfast i stay assured of my salvation i still have my hope in
jesus christ i can know and be confident that i'm
saved and i have eternal life because it doesn't matter what i do i've
already believed i've already trusted i'm already sealed with that holy spirit
of promise and you know what that gives me hope to
live the rest of my days for him if i thought i was already doomed and
damned to hell why would i ever live for jesus christ
i wouldn't and that's why so many people as soon as they
just realize oh i guess i'm too sinful to be elect
then they just live for the rest of their days being as worldly
and and reprobate and weird as they can possibly be
because they say you know what it doesn't matter anyways and they
basically live like an atheist they're like atheists many of them are
just so evil this is why this doctrine is so
demonic and evil and we should have nothing to do with it
what does the bible say revelation 22 look at verse 17 and the spirit
and the bride say come and let him that heareth say come
and let him that is a thirst come and whosoever will
let him take the water of life freely oh but the dark side of calvinism not
true no one can come no one can take it's not
free it's not offered to everyone i mean what
does whosoever mean anyone anybody that wants to be saved let
them come i mean the bible constant says seek and
you shall find oh just joking you can't even seek you can't even find
you know what we need to to preach so hard against this junk
and destroy this junk and tell people that they actually have hope
that they can actually be saved that there is someone that actually died for
them that didn't abandon them and you know if you paid attention to
what i was teaching you this morning instead of having a little tulip you
know the dark side of calvinism is death it's death why because they're damned
they're excluded they're abandoned just the terror and you know what
hopeless it's death that's what calvinism really teaches
it's a death doctrine coming from you know
the person that's ultimately the king of death the satan
the works of satan is death and you know when i can tell it's the work of satan
when it leads to death and that's what calvinism leads to is
just death and destruction and it kills a church
it kills soul winning it kills people's souls
i mean it's something that we need to just completely reject
let's close in prayer thank you heavenly father so much for
giving us your savior your your son thank you so much for his free will
offering to die on the cross and a model for us
the fact that we should also choose to believe and have salvation
and not only that but after we get saved to still live the rest of our days
freely serving you and and going out and helping others
to make the choice to choose life to believe in christ
to take that water of life freely to take the bread of life freely thank you
so much for offering it to us all for free
and the wonderful grace that you give to all of us on a regular basis i pray that
we would help people see their need to accept that grace and to
embrace that grace and to love the truth
and i pray that all of these wicked people that teach the satanic doctrine
that they would just dry up and and shrivel and just
just like that cursed fig tree that they would just be plucked up by the roots
and i pray that as we continue to preach the truth on these issues
that they would just lose so much of a following and
and they would just die and quickly go to hell and that you would just
stop this cancer that's spreading in christian churches
and that we could be that bright and shining light to get the world saved in
jesus name we pray amen
all right for our final song this morning we're going to sing 405
the banner of the cross
405 the banner of the cross
song 405 the banner of the cross there's a royal banner given for display
to the soldiers
as an enzyme there we lift it up today
in the boss
let the standard be displayed
on
and see wherever
oh
leave the letter of the cross
Thank you all for coming. Remember our barbecues tonight after the evening
service. Hope to see you then. God bless. Have a great day.