In Matthew 7 15, Jesus Christ warned us that false teachers would come.
The Lord said, Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing.
But inwardly they are raving wolves.
Christ warned us that there would be people who looked and acted like saved Christians.
There will be people in churches and even in pulpits, who you may think are saved Christians.
They are dressed in sheep's clothing, however, they are secretly raving wolves.
False teachers are very deceitful and cunning, just like the devil.
We are to call these wolves out and mark them and avoid them.
These heretics need to be reviewed and rejected, and that is what this film seeks to do.
There are many false prophets today who are preaching this heresy started by Augustine
and propagated by Swingley and Calvin.
Many big-name false prophets of the day spread the lines of Calvinism, such as John
MacArthur, James White, John Piper, Ray Comfort, Paul Washer, Jeff Durbin, and many more.
Calvinism has infiltrated the Baptist movement, and even many Baptists today who reject
Calvinism have allowed the theology to affect the practice of their faith.
We will mark this false doctrine and its false prophets.
We will debunk these false teachings and rebuke these heretics.
We will avoid the false teachers, while trying to save those who have been deceived by this
doctrine of devils known as Calvinism, a Reformed theology.
In the fourth century A.D., Catholic Augustine of Hippo taught things like baby baptism and
baptismal regeneration.
He had also begun teaching that God predestined everything.
This doctrine had not been previously taught before.
Even after he taught it, almost everybody still rejected it.
It wasn't until the 16th century when Holdric Swingley introduced the Reformed tradition
in Switzerland.
Where Calvinism comes from, it doesn't come from any Baptist.
It doesn't come from the Baptist history, it doesn't come from the Baptist forefathers.
It comes out of the Catholic Church.
Augustine was also a big proponent of the Coercion Doctrine.
The false religion and all of it, it's all about control.
The people who didn't believe, like the Catholic Church believed, need to be tortured
and exiled, even going as far as killing what they defined as heretics.
In order to get people to believe this, either they have to fool them, or they have
to put fear in them, and that's what they do, is they put fear in people, say believe
this or die.
It's this coercing someone into believing something, using the power of the sword to
force someone to believe a certain thing, and then branding someone as a heretic if
they did not.
And so, whenever we see that word heretic, really, I think of a heretic as someone who
rejects the gospel, but they are branding anyone a heretic that goes against what they
basically say.
In other words, anybody who believed like a Baptist would have been tortured and put
to death by the Catholic Church because of teachings like Augustine's.
You know, I think of just three major kind of false religions that do this, or
did this, was Catholicism.
Obviously, they went into cities and said believe this or die.
You know, Calvinism, a lot of the Baptists, they killed, our forefathers, they killed
them.
And they also think of Islam as also another religion.
They say believe this or die.
So Huldrych Zwingli was actually responsible for the persecution of many Baptist forefathers.
He actually had the Zurich Council put to death anybody who would not baptize their
babies.
Zwingli was definitely taught by Grable and Felix Mons the truth about these doctrines,
and yet he rejected them and persecuted them and eventually killed them.
Huldrych Zwingli believed and taught predestination with other reformers, and people started
referring to them as Zwinglians.
Soon after this, a man named John Calvin of France began pushing this Augustinian
doctrine further.
John Calvin, he hated the Anabaptists as well.
He was responsible for the arrest, banishment, and even the execution of many of our Baptist
forefathers.
And that's why, to me, it is sad that so many Baptists in our present day are Calvinists.
If they understood the history that John Calvin and his followers Calvinists persecuted
the Baptists, and yet now so many Baptists have swung to being Calvinists, really if
we understood our history, I think it would affect our theology and our philosophy
and ministry.
John Calvin was a huge proponent of the predestination doctrine.
He became the face of the movement amongst Protestant reformers, and that is why the
doctrine is now popularly referred to as Calvinism.
Many false prophets have come and gone since the days of John Calvin.
Some of these are the likes of John Knox from the mid-16th century, who founded the
Presbyterian denomination.
John Fox of the 16th century, who was a famous church's school reading.
Roger Williams of the 17th century is famous for founding the first Baptist church in
North America.
However, he was a Puritan and a Calvinist, and preached Calvinist doctrines like the
particular Baptist.
John Bunyan of the 17th century, who was famous for The Pilgrim's Progress.
He was a Puritan Calvinist who taught a hardcore lordship work, Salvation.
Matthew Henry from the late 17th century was famous for his commentary on the Bible,
but was also an unsaved Calvinist.
John Gill, he was a famous theologian and was a hardcore Calvinist.
Then we come to Jonathan Edwards in the 18th century.
Edwards is famous because of his Puritan preaching in America.
So a lot of people don't know this about Jonathan Edwards, but according to Edwards,
his own personal testimony, he said that he wasn't saved until the last year of college,
whenever he finally embraced the truth of Calvinism.
Edwards was popular for kickstarting the first great awakening, in which he preached
hardcore Calvinism.
Now one of the reasons Jonathan Edwards is really popular and famous, especially nowadays,
is because one of his sermons called Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
The thing about the sermon, even though it was hellfire and brimstone, and that would
all make good preaching, he taught a hardcore works salvation.
It was a very Calvinistic sermon.
More Calvinist false prophets include George Whitfield from the 18th century, who was
a popular Calvinist known for being one of the founders of the Methodist church,
and being one of the preachers of the great awakening.
William Carey, he was born in the late 18th century and died in the 19th century.
He was famous for leading to the founding, and also being the first missionary of the
Baptist Missionary Society.
Also a hardcore Calvinist.
George Mueller, from the 19th century, famous for founding orphanages, was also a famous
Calvinist who was one of the founders of the Plymouth Brethren Movement.
J.C.
Ryle, he was born in the 19th century, but he didn't die until 1900.
He was the first Anglican Bishop of Liverpool, and he's really famous amongst theologians,
and he was a popular Calvinist.
Charles Spurgeon, from the late 19th century, was a very famous Calvinist particular Baptist
preacher, who held to the Reformed theology, and defended the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith.
Martin Lloyd-Jones, he was in the 19th century, he was a popular Reformed theologian,
who was also slightly charismatic, but a five-point Calvinist.
Arthur Pink, from the early 19th century, was popular for being an advocate and preacher
of the Calvinist theology.
R.C. Sproul, born in 1939, he died in 2017, just a few years ago, but he was a big advocate
and preacher of Calvinism.
Bettner said the Reformation was essentially a revival of Augustinianism.
In modern times, we have popular preachers today, who are hardcore Calvinists, and
they are ready to pick up the torch.
These popular preachers today are John MacArthur, John Piper, Ray Comfort, Steve
Lawson, Albert Mohler, Paul Washer, James White, Vodie Baucom Jr., Jeff Durbin, and many more.
These are the men of old, and of now, who are preaching the heresies of Calvinism.
When one thinks of Calvinism, one of the first things they think of is God's sovereignty,
or predestination, or their doctrine of election.
It's because this is the backbone and the foundation for all of their doctrines.
It all starts with the idea that God is completely sovereign over everything and foreordains
it.
They teach that God predestines everything.
The idea that God is sovereignly in control of everything, whether good or bad, is really
the backbone of every single doctrine of Calvinism.
God does not mechanically dictate everything.
He has chosen in his sovereignty and his omnipotence that his creation would have a
This is God's choice.
God could have chosen that everything would go by his plan and that everything would
be puppets in his hands, but that's not what God chose.
God chose to create a creation that would have free will, so that way we could have
a choice in whether we would love him and serve him.
Because God wants us to have that choice.
Things happen against God's will or against how he would desire?
The Calvinists have somehow turned the word sovereign to mean total divine deterministic
control.
The word sovereign means supreme authority or leader.
If a king has full authority in a land, does that mean that everything that happens
is exactly how the king wants it to be?
No, but the king would justly punish rebellion.
The presence of sovereignty does not mean the absence of rebellion against the king's
will.
Even the heavens are the Lord's, but the earth hath he given to the children of men.
Everything in heaven happens according to God's will.
It is a perfect, sinless place, but the earth is not so.
The earth is filled with wickedness.
Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.
See, this goes right along with the last verse.
God's will is done perfectly in heaven, but not so in the earth.
If it was, why would we have to pray for this?
Why would we have to pray for God's will to be done in earth as it is in heaven?
It's because it's not done in earth as it is in heaven.
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel but not of me,
and that cover with a cover, but not of my spirit,
that they may add sin to sin, that walk to go down into Egypt,
and have not asked in my earth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh,
and to trust in the shadow of Egypt.
Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame,
and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.
In this world there is sin and there is rebellion,
even though God is surely sovereign.
They rebel against God's authority,
and they commit actions, as it says, not of me, referring to God.
And they build the high places of Baal,
which are in the valley of the Son of Hanom,
to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Moloch,
which I commanded them not.
Neither came into my mind
that they should do this abomination
to cause you to sin.
Here we have a very clear verse about these people
who are literally sacrificing their children to Moloch.
And then God says that he did not command this.
He did not think about this.
He says that it didn't even come into his mind.
Now obviously we know God sees everything.
He knows everything.
So God saw this coming. He foresaw it.
But God is using strong language to get across
that this is not of him.
This is not something he's done.
This is not something that he willed.
This is not something that God made happen.
God did not decree this.
God is disgusted with it.
He is repulsed by it.
It is an abomination in the sight of God.
But for the Calvinists to read the verse and then say,
no, this was in God's mind.
God made it with his mind.
That God decreed it sovereignly.
This is an attack on the nature of God,
on the character of God,
to say that God made this abominable act happen.
For in Jesus Christ,
neither circumcision availeth anything,
nor uncircumcision,
but faith which worketh by love.
Ye did run well.
Who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?
This persuasion cometh not of him
that calleth you.
A little leaven leaveneth the whole.
This verse mentions someone hindering them
from obeying the truth.
And that this persuasion did not come
of the one who called them.
So we can ask ourselves,
well, who called them?
Well, it was God.
So we see that this hindering
from obeying the truth
did not come from God.
Let no man say when he is tempted,
I am tempted of God.
For God cannot be tempted with you,
neither tempteth he any man.
See, God does not tempt man to sin.
He does not tempt you to sin.
He does not tempt me to sin.
When you sin that is of your own will,
you are the one making yourself sin.
God does not tempt anybody to sin.
But the Bible specifically
says in the book of Leviticus
several times,
it talks about the free will offering,
that they will bring the free will offering
of their own free will.
So if God is talking about a free will offering
of people bringing it of their own free will,
how do we not have free will?
This is just a real clear understanding
of this verse and just a clear understanding
in general that God does not
tempt men to sin.
What is bizarre is that the Calvinist
not only teaches that God tempts men to sin,
but that God is actually orchestrating
every sinful act.
What a bizarre and wicked interpretation
of this verse and just an attack
on the nature of God.
Now there is one verse that Calvinists use
and it can confuse some people
and make people think that maybe the Bible
does teach Calvinism.
This is actually a verse that many atheists
and skeptics of the Bible use
to attack the Bible.
This is just a clear understanding
of the definitions of words.
The verse is in Isaiah 45 verse 7.
I form the light and create darkness.
I make peace and create evil.
I the Lord do all these things.
There are two types of evil
or two definitions really.
One is the immoral, wicked, sinful side
and the other is calamity,
destruction, pain, sorrow.
One is sin while the other
is the punishment for sin.
See, God is not evil
in the sense that he is not wicked.
He is not sinful.
He does not do sin.
There is no sin or darkness in him.
But things like tornadoes,
earthquakes, disease,
famine, those are in God's hand
and therefore he does control those.
See, whenever a place
is really wicked,
that is sin or that is evil
but God can punish it
by bringing destruction
or by bringing sorrow
or pain
and that by definition is evil
but it's not sinful.
It's not wicked. God is holy.
God is just. To use this verse
to teach that God is not only
the author of sin but that he orchestrates
every sinful act.
Not only is it a misunderstanding
of scripture or a twisting of the
passage or a misunderstanding
of words, it's also
an attack on the nature of God.
It's a total blasphemous teaching.
Many Calvinists
today herald Romans 9 as
the passage that teaches
their flawed predestination doctrine.
Calvinists will show that Romans 8
is talking about God's love and salvation
and then will assume that Romans 9
is also about salvation.
In the beginning of Romans 9
we see a topic change.
Paul begins talking about how his wish
is for his people, Israel,
is to be saved.
In verses 6-7 we see a shift
in thought explaining how just because you're
Jewish doesn't mean they are God's
children or God's elect but election is
based on Jesus Christ and being
in him and being a child
of promise. Now who is a child
of promise? That is
they which are the children of the
flesh. These are not the children of
God but the children of the promise
are counted for the seed.
For this is the word of promise.
At this time will I come and Sarah
shall have a son. And not only
this but when Rebekah also had conceived
by one, even by our father
Isaac. For the children being
not yet born, neither having done any
good or evil, that the purpose of
God according to election
might stand not of works but of
him that calleth. If you read these
verses out of context it slightly
appears to say that God predestined
everyone before they were even born.
It was said unto her the elder shall
serve the younger. As it is written
Jacob have I loved but Esau
have I hated. Using verse 13
they also say that God chose
to either love you or to hate you
before you were even born as well.
These verses are talking about the children of
promise and how God's plan
was for the promise to come through
Jacob and not Esau.
But here's the thing, these verses aren't
even talking about the people
Jacob and Esau. They're talking
about the nations of Israel and Edom.
Jacob is all this and for the
sins of the house of Israel
what is the transgression of Jacob
is it not Samaria and what
are the high places of Judah are they not
Jerusalem and the children struggled
together within her and she said
if it be so why am I thus and
she went to inquire of the Lord and the Lord
said unto her two nations are in thy
womb and two men earth people
shall be separated from thy bounds
and the one people shall be stronger than the other
people and the other shall serve the younger.
Notice when reading about Jacob
and Esau there was never a point when
Esau served Jacob.
There was never even a point when Esau's
nation served Jacob's nation
in their lifetime. These are
events that happen later on in history.
So we can clearly
see just from the historical account of the Bible
that this was not talking about
Esau and Jacob on a personal level
it was talking about the nations.
What shall we say then?
Is there unrighteousness with God? God
forbid. The following verses follow the
same context. God is
justified in choosing Abraham
Isaac and Jacob and the nation of
Israel to bring the Messiah.
He can choose whatever
nation he wants to bring the Messiah
but he chose Israel.
Why though? Is it
for no reason at all? Is it just an
unconditional election? He just unconditionally
for no reason chose Israel to bring
the Messiah? No.
Is it because they were more righteous?
Was it because they obeyed God more?
No. Is it because
they believed in God
and so God chose them
to bring the Messiah?
If Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob
did not believe in God, if they
followed pagan gods, God would
have never chose them to bring the Messiah.
But because they trusted
in God and they believed in the God of the Bible
then God chose them
to bring the Messiah.
I have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then
it is not of him that willeth, nor of
him that runneth, but of God that
showeth mercy. For the
scripture saith unto Pharaoh,
even for this same purpose have I raised
thee up, that I might show my
power in thee, and
that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore hath he mercy on whom
he will have mercy, and whom he will
harden. Thou wilt say then
unto me, why doth he yet
call? For who hath
resisted his will? Calvinists
love to point at verse 18 and
where it says, whom he will he
hardeneth. And they'll say that God chose
for the non-elect to not be saved.
Or they'll talk about Pharaoh where it says that God
hardened Pharaoh's heart. And they'll say
God chose
for Pharaoh to be damned before he was ever
even born. Now does the Bible say
that God hardened Pharaoh's heart before
he was born? Or does it say that God
chose for Pharaoh to be damned before he was ever
even born? It doesn't say anything like
that. The truth of the matter is
that God rejects people
in response to
them rejecting him. God
loves people and he chooses for people to be
saved, but when they keep rejecting
him, God in turn
hardens their heart. Who changed the truth
of God into a lie, and worshipped and
served the creature more than the Creator,
who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this cause, God
gave them up unto the vile affections,
for even their women did change the
natural use into that which was against nature.
And likewise, also
men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
were burned in their lust for one
towards another, men with men working that
which is unseemly, and receiving in
themselves that recompense of their error
which was made. And even as
they did not like to retain God
in their knowledge, God gave
them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient.
We see that when somebody hates God,
to where they reject God, or they even
hate him even in their mind, or they don't even want
to retain God in their knowledge,
that they despise God that much
that you'll mention God to them
and they just completely reject you.
It makes them angry to even think about God.
That they reject
God, and therefore God in turn
rejects them. That God
he hardens their heart,
he blinds their eyes, he's the one who
sears their mind to not be
saved. And it says that they cannot
believe, that though he had done
so many miracles before them, yet
they believed to not have them.
That the saying of Isaias the prophet
might be fulfilled, which he spake
Lord, who has believed
our report, and to whom
hath the arm of the Lord been revealed.
Therefore,
they cannot believe because that Isaias
said again, he hath blinded their eyes,
and hardened their heart, that they
should not see with their eyes, or understand
with their heart, and be converted,
and I should heal them.
Notice that it doesn't say that God chose
before the war began for them to not
be saved, or for them to not believe,
or that God wouldn't allow
them to believe
from the beginning.
It says that they rejected him
and therefore God blind
their eyes, God hardened their hearts
so that they could not believe.
The offer was always
there for them, but when they keep
rejecting Christ, as we saw in the
passages previous, therefore
Christ in turn rejects them.
You don't get an infinite amount of chances
to be saved.
In Romans 9 we see sort of
a switch. God chose the
nation of Israel to bring forth the Messiah,
but
Israel rejected the Messiah,
Jesus Christ, so he sent
this offer to the Gentiles, and
he called some of them his people, which
were not his people.
and heirs according to the promise.
These further explain that election is in
Jesus Christ, and that predestination
is about the Messiah.
And whether a Jew or a
Gentile, we are elected as God's
chosen based on whether we are in
Christ or not. That
is the context of Romans 9.
Blessed be the God and the Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with all
spiritual blessings and heavenly places in
Christ. And it says,
according as he has chosen us in him
before the foundation of the world,
that we should be holy and without
blame before him in love.
This is the first verse that they mess up
really. Right here it says that
according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy without blame
before him in love. Now they say,
well there you go. They've been chosen
right? Well what have they been chosen
to? God has chosen
the whole world to be without
blame before him in love. That is
God's desire. That is God's
purpose for mankind.
It is not God's, it's not what
mankind will do, it's God's purpose
for mankind. And then verse number five
they mess up again. It says, having predestined
us unto the adoption of children by
Jesus Christ himself, according
to the good pleasure of his will,
to the praise of the glory of
his grace, wherein he hath makes accepted
in the beloved, in whom we have
redemption through his blood that forgives us
sin, according to the riches
of his grace. Calvinists
twist and change this passage
really, really bad.
Now, just at a
base reading of this passage, you
might think that what the Calvinist is saying
is scriptural, but it's not.
Remember, what is the Calvinist saying?
The Calvinist is saying that we are chosen
to be saved, or that we are
chosen to be in Christ.
The passage doesn't say we are chosen to be
in Christ, it says that we are chosen
in Christ. The choosing
isn't based on whether you would be in Christ
or not, it's that all who are
in Christ are therefore chosen.
Because God chose that all these blessings
would come through Christ.
Notice how the scripture constantly says
in him, we were chosen
in Christ, we were not
chosen outside of Christ.
Notice also that
before we were in Christ, when we were outside
of Christ, we were not chosen, because we
were not in him. The choosing is
all about being in him,
being in Christ. The main
crux is that
God did predestinate
Jesus Christ to die on the cross
for our sins, that in the eternal
counsels of God, that he
devised salvation's plan,
and that Christ would come
and take our place, and be
buried and rise again the third day.
The wonderful, glorious gospel message.
And I
am predestinated, Romans 8
29, now to be
conformed to his
image. I am every day
to be more and more like the Lord Jesus Christ.
But
I know that God's
divine, eternal plan
was for Christ to come and to die on the
cross for our sins.
Here is the biblical doctrine of predestination.
Before creation, God
chose, or before ordained, or
he predestined that Jesus
Christ, the Son of God,
God the Son, would come down as a man,
live a sinless life,
die on the cross, be buried
for three days and three nights,
and rise again from the dead,
and that all who would believe in him
would receive eternal life
and would also be conformed
to the image of Jesus
Christ.
That is the biblical doctrine of predestination.
Predestination is
all about Jesus Christ.
It is not about who would be
saved, it is about
Jesus Christ being the way
that we would be saved, and that
if you are saved, that you
will be in him, you will be chosen,
and you will receive the blessings
of God.
When people think about or talk about
Calvinism, one of the main things they think about
is the predestination doctrine.
But another thing that people think about often
is Tulip, or the five points of
Calvinism. There is no such thing as
preaching Christ and him crucified unless you preach
what is called Calvinism. It is a nickname
to call it Calvinism. Calvinism
is the gospel and nothing
else. Many Calvinists actually
equate Calvinism with the gospel
and anything else they
consider a false imitation. But in
reality, we are about to find out that Calvinism
is actually a false gospel.
John Piper said on the back of his book
the doctrines of grace,
total depravity, unconditional
election, limited atonement,
irresistible grace, perseverance
of the saints, are the warp
and the wolf of the
biblical gospel that so many
saints have cherished for centuries.
We could discuss many more
quotes, but understand that Calvinists
do not hold their Calvinist doctrines
as small things. To them
they are the main things, and to disagree
with them is to hold to an imitation
of Christianity. The origin of these
five points came from the
Canon of Dort. This judgment took place
in the Dutch city of Dortridge in 1618
and 1619. These doctrines
were referenced to as the five points of Calvinism
for a couple hundred years after the Canon
of Dort. However, in 1905
Cleland Boyd McCaffey organized
the five points as Tulip in a
lecture to the Presbyterian Union in Newark, New
Jersey. Betner says in his book
that the Calvinistic system especially emphasizes
five distinctive doctrines.
These are technically known as
the five points of Calvinism
and they are the main pillars
upon which the superstructure
rests. These five points
we're going to go over, they're not the whole
of Calvinism, but they are the
foundational doctrines of Calvinism
upon which the rest of their doctrines
rest. R.C. Sproul said
to be a four point Calvinist
one must misunderstand
at least one of the
five points. Sometimes you'll encounter
someone who believes in three or
four points of the
Tulip, but most of the time
if you believe in one logically
you have to believe in all five points.
These five points are as follows
Total Depravity, Unconditional
Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible
Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints.
So today I've come to
Temple Baptist Church in Lenoir, North Carolina
to sit down with Pastor Joel Bixler
and we're going to talk about Calvinism
Predestination, and Tulip.
Without the T there is no Tulip.
I believe that Total Depravity
is the foundation, the groundwork
upon which all the other ones
are built for them. The first
point of Tulip is the doctrine of
Total Depravity, or sometimes
called Total Inability.
These are actually two different doctrines, but they
kind of play off of each other in Calvinism.
The first one we're going to go over is
Total Depravity. They'll say
every unsaved person is capable of
committing pedophilia. Every unsaved
person is capable of being a serial killer.
Total Depravity is basically the
teaching that every single person
is a monster. They cannot
control their sinful lust. They cannot control
their sinful desires. This Total
Depravity again, that
all of us are
we all
hate God and that none of us are
able to decide to trust
Christ as Savior.
God has given
every single man a conscience.
That's why we don't have
as much sin in this world as we do
is because every man is born with a conscience.
Yes, we're born with a sin nature, but we're also
born with a sense of what is right
and what is wrong.
We know nobody had to teach
us whenever we were growing up
that we were born with a conscience.
Yes, we're born with a sin nature, but we're also
born with a sense of what is right
and what is wrong.
Nobody had to teach us whenever we were growing up
that murder was wrong.
The same thing with pedophilia. You go up and you
ask the normal person
it's like, you know, what do you think about
pedophilia? They say it's gross, it's disgusting, it's
vile, it's horrible. Anybody that does that should be
put to death.
What this verse is teaching us is that
as Christians we are tempted with
sins that are common to man.
You know, don't get discouraged in thinking that you're lost
because you're tempted with so much sin
but understand that
all people are tempted with the same sins.
But this is also telling us
that obviously there are some sins that are not
common to man.
The investigation into the high school massacre
is slow moving and dangerous.
The two gunmen who went on the rampage
boopie trapped the building
and even themselves.
Being tempted to harm children is not
common to man. Being tempted to go
into a school or a mall and do that which is
unthinkable and terrifying is not
common to man. Being tempted
to have a relationship with an animal is not
common to man. There are certain
sins that are so vile, repulsive
and unthinkable and unnatural
that no matter how
wicked you are, you're not tempted by
them whether you're saved or unsaved.
This is not a matter of whether you're
Christian or not. Even
the majority of lost people are not
even tempted to do such things.
The only people who are tempted to do such
wicked sins are people who have been
given over to a reprobate mind.
This doctrine saying that everyone is a
totally depraved monster
does not line up with scripture.
Is everyone a sinner? Yes.
But is everybody a totally depraved monster?
No. We have seen that this
doctrine does not line up with the Bible.
If you want to say it does, if you want to say that
we are all totally depraved monsters
then confirm
that you are tempted with any of the disgusting sins
that I've listed and then everybody will know
to keep their kids away from you.
Calvinism is dead wrong
on the doctrine of total depravity.
Now the second part of this doctrine is called
total inability. This is the
doctrine of Calvinism that teaches it.
Everyone is unable to even
come to God. A.W. Pink once
said, few, very
few today really believe
in the complete ruin and total
depravity of man.
Those who speak of man's free will
and insist upon his inherent
power to either accept
or reject the savior.
Do but voice their ignorance
of the real condition of Adam's
fallen children.
And if there are few who believe
that so far as he is
concerned the condition of the sinner
is entirely hopeless.
There are fewer still who
really believe in the absolute sovereignty
of God.
Again Calvinists would say that all men
are unable to believe the gospel
and yet they hold
men accountable. This doctrine
teaches that man is so totally
depraved and wicked and so hating
of God that man is totally
unable to come to God.
That man cannot be saved
or come to God on their own.
Charles Spurgeon tied these two doctrines together.
They declare on scriptural authority that the
human will is so desperately set on
mischief, so depraved,
so inclined to everything that is evil
and so disinclined to everything
that is good that without the powerful
supernatural, irresistible
influence of the Holy Spirit
no human will ever be constrained
toward Christ.
John 644 the Bible says,
No man can come to me except the Father which hath sent me
draw him and I will raise him up
at the last day.
Calvinists like to use this verse and the greatest
commentary on the Bible is the Bible.
And so we always have to compare
scripture with scripture and see what
God says. John 12 31
and 32 says,
Now is the judgment of this world.
Now shall the prince of this world be cast out
and I, if I be lifted
up from the earth will draw all men
unto me. So we know from
that verse Jesus died for all
men. Again he said he would be lifted
up and he would draw all men unto me.
Not just the elect. All means
all. Whether they reject him down the road and
become reprobates that doesn't change the fact
that they were drawn and they were able.
Every soul in hell right now was
drawn and was able to turn to God
but they are the ones who chose not to.
We know Christ died for all men
and we know
that now the Holy Spirit of God
is drawing all men to
Christ. And so to me the whole
it's very simple. The Holy Spirit is
always drawing and pointing people to
Christ. If God requires of the sinner
dead in sin that he should take the first step
then he requires just that which
renders salvation as impossible under
the gospel as it was under the law.
Since man is unable to believe as he
is to obey. The Bible makes it
very clear that in the tribulation period
the antichrist will force people
to receive the mark of the beast.
Lost people will receive this mark and the Bible teaches
that that person is doomed
and can do nothing to be saved after that.
Revelations 14 9-11
and the third angel followed them
saying with a loud voice
if any man worship the beast
and his image and receive his mark
in their forehead or in
his hand the same shall
drink of the wine of the wrath
of God which is poured out
without mixture into the cup of
his indignation and he shall
be tormented with fire and
brimstone in the presence of the
holy angels and in the presence
of the lamb. And the
smoke of their torment
ascendeth up forever and
ever and they have no rest
day nor night who worship the
beast and his image and whosoever
receiveth the mark of his name.
Now notice it doesn't say God
chose them to be damned before creation or
that he chose for them to receive the mark for no reason.
The sealing of their damnation in hell
the decision to worship the antichrist
and receive the mark is completely
conditional. In 2 Thessalonians
chapter 2 the Bible talks about the antichrist
and those who will follow him.
Now Calvinists will use this to teach
that God predestined some to hell
and some to heaven.
That they all might be damned
who believe not the truth
but have pleasure in
unrighteousness. They focus on
the part where it says that God shall send them
strong delusion and that they should believe
a lie that they all might be damned.
But look at what precedes this.
It says because they receive not the love
of the truth that they might be
saved. Then right after that preceding
what they quote it says and for
this cause. There is a cause
there is a condition or a reason.
God didn't randomly choose people to be damned.
No these people had an opportunity to be
saved but they didn't receive it and it
says because of that God sends the
delusion. And for this cause
these four words
drastically affect the text
and goes against everything that the Calvinists
say. It says that there is a
cause that God is sending delusion to
these people and that they won't be saved.
For the invisible things of him
from the creation of the world are
clearly seen being understood
by the things that are made.
Even his eternal power
and Godhead. So that they
are without excuse. Because
that when they knew
God they glorified him not
as God. Neither were thankful.
But became vain in their
imaginations and their
foolish heart was darkened.
Professing themselves to be wise
they became fools.
And changed the glory of the
uncorruptible God into
an image made like to
corruptible man. And to
birds and four footed beasts
and creeping things. Wherefore
God also gave them up
to uncleanliness through
the lust of their own hearts
to dishonor their own bodies
between themselves.
Who changed the truth of God into a lie
and worshipped and served the
creature more than the Creator
who is blessed forever.
Amen. For this cause
God gave them up into
vile affections. For even
their women did change the natural
use into that which is
against nature.
This passage is really amazing and has a lot of truth
to unpack. But what I want you to notice is that
it says no one has an excuse.
We can see the creation and the Creator in the world.
But it says that some they recognize
this but then they choose to
not glorify the Creator. They basically
choose to worship themselves or to worship animals
or the earth. They reject
God. Then in verse 24 it says
that God gave them up. Verse 25 says
that they changed the truth of God
into a lie. This is
a really bad thing. But
what we also notice is
we'll come back to that. It says in verse 26
for this cause God
gave them up. Again the text does not
say God randomly chose some to be
saved and chose others to be deceived for
no cause. It makes it very clear
and specifically says for
this cause. What's
the cause? Because they rejected the Creator
for the creation. Because they changed
God's truth into a lie. Because
they rejected God then God gave them up
unto vile affections. Verse 28
and even as they did not like to
retain God in their knowledge, God
gave them over to a reprobate mind
to do those things which are not convenient.
See here someone hated God
and didn't even want to think about God.
That's why God gave them over, gave them
up to their own delusion and their own
lies. For I testify unto every man
that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book
if any man shall add unto these things God
shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book
and if any man shall take away from the
words of the book of this prophecy God shall take away
his part out of the book of life and out of the
holy city and from the things which are written in
this book. So it says that they changed the truth
of God into a lie. The end of Revelation
says that if anyone adds or takes away from
this book that their part in heaven will be
taken away. It's not that a Christian would lose
their salvation but that an unsaved person
or a false prophet will attack
the word of God and they will change or seek to
corrupt the scripture and those people
when they tamper with God's word they seal
their fate. Where their mansion in heaven
would be it's gone. In the book of
life where their name would be it's gone.
They lose their opportunity to be saved.
If you change God's truth into a lie
God will give you up. Because of this doctrine
that man is totally depraved and
incapable of coming to God they teach
that God regenerates the sinner first
so that they can come to God and believe.
Salvation is described as being
born again. It's a second birth. When you're lost
unsaved you only have one nature.
That's the old man of flesh. That is sinful.
But when you get saved the new
man is born and now you have a fight
between the old you and the new you.
The new man is the spirit in you.
That is why you were born again. Because we were
born again in the spirit. We are
now the children of God being born
of God. This is also referred to as
regeneration because you are being made
alive spiritually.
He says except a man be born of water
and of the spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom
of God. Which is telling us that unless you get
saved you can't understand or experience the things of God.
This is why in many passages of the Bible
it says that the natural man, the unsaved
they cannot understand the Bible
or the other things of God. In Acts chapter 8
there's a story of a eunuch who is reading the Bible
and then a soul winner Philip comes along
and asks him if he understood and he
replied, how can I accept some
man should guide me. Verse 31
Then Philip starts to preach the scriptures
to him and tells him about Christ and through the
preaching of the word of God by the saved
soul winner the Holy Spirit comes on
the eunuch to illuminate his mind
and convict him of Christ.
And the man responds and he gets saved.
But the man in his lost state could
not understand the word of God to be saved
until a born again soul winner explained it to him.
That's why you must be born again to
enter the kingdom of God and to be able
to understand scripture. And the spirit
and the bride say come and let him
that heareth say come and let him
that is athirst come and
whosoever will let him take the water
of life freely.
Unconditional election would refer to
the fact that there's no condition
or reason why God elects or
predestines who he predestines
to what. And so again
it's pre-unconditional election to
heaven, unconditional election
I mean damnation to hell.
If they teach that
God predestines some to heaven
then logically he predestined the rest
to hell.
Predestination is nothing else
than a disposition of
divine justice.
Secret indeed but unblameable.
Because it is certain
that those predestined
to that condition were not
unworthy of it.
It is equally certain
that the destruction
consequent upon predestination
is also
just. The first man
failed because the Lord deemed it
meant that he should.
Why he deemed it meant
we do not know now
it was certain however
that it was just.
R.C. Sproul said
God wills all things that come to pass.
God desired for man
to fall into sin.
I am not accusing God of sinning.
I am suggesting that God created
sin. Just to clear up exactly
what is being said whether Sproul believed as far as
Calvin or not is that
God before creation unconditionally
without reason chose man to fall into sin
and also chose who would not be saved and who
would be. He says the reason why
God made man fall is a mystery
hidden the same as the reason
he chose to save the elect. So according
to Calvin God unconditionally elected
some to salvation and others to damnation
before they were even born.
R.C. said that God created sin
without sinning.
Pomer said the moving of a finger
the beating of a heart
the laughter of a girl
the mistake of a typhus
because he had so ordained by his decree
God not only foresaw
the fall of the first man
and in him the ruin of his
posterity
but allow
at his own pleasure arranged it.
There is no mistake.
They are saying that God made man fall into sin
and God made them be damned to hell.
John Gill explained all things pertaining to a man are
according to the determinant council
and will of God and the body of divinity.
There is no random power
or agency or motion in the creatures
who are so governed by the
secret council of God
that nothing happens but what he has
knowingly and willingly decreed
the councils and the wills of man
are so governed as to move exactly
in the course which he has
destined.
All are not created on equal terms
but some are preordained to eternal life
and others to eternal damnation
and accordingly as each has been created for one
or other of those ends
we see that he has been predestined to life
or death. God arranges all
things by his sovereign council in such a way
that individuals are born who are doomed
from the womb to certain death.
These are not misrepresentations.
These are clear, unambiguous
statements that show that they believe
God unconditionally elected
some men to go to hell
for no reason at all. They even go as far
to say that God even
ordained man to sin.
And when the Gentiles heard this
they were glad and glorified the word of
the Lord and as many as were
ordained to eternal life believed.
John MacArthur says
in his study notes on this verse
one of Scripture's
clearest statements on the sovereignty
of God in salvation.
God chooses man for salvation
not the opposite.
Faith itself is a gift
from God. Some Calvinists
think this verse really proves unconditional
election or the idea that God
elects them to believe but it doesn't.
In the context Paul is preaching to the Jews
and then they reject it and count themselves unworthy
of eternal life and then he
turns and preaches to the Gentiles and they
receive it and then they are ordained
to eternal life and believed. Notice it doesn't
say who ordained them. It doesn't say that they were
ordained to believe or that because they were
ordained they believed. Ordained means
those who elect appoint or choose.
The Gentiles when they heard the preaching
instead of rejecting and counting themselves
unworthy they elected
chose or ordained to eternal life. They
believed. Those who believe
are the same who are ordained to eternal
life. Because we have put our faith
in Christ we are ordained to eternal life.
We choose eternal life.
And since we believe we have it and
can't lose it. You have not chosen me
but I have chosen you and ordained
you that you should go and
receive your fruit and that your
fruit should remain.
And whatsoever you shall ask
of the Father in my name
He may give it you.
This verse is not talking about salvation
really at all.
This is not the context of it.
The Lord is not talking about salvation
He's talking about service.
He's talking about He has in fact
He still does it. He chooses different people
to do different things. Now out of context
this verse almost looks like it's teaching
unconditional election. But it's
actually not. In this verse
we see the Lord talking with the apostles
and so this choosing
of the apostles was about
them. Right? It's about what was going to happen
to them. Christ chose them
for. This is not about
salvation. Calvinists like James
White will accuse people like us and say that we
limit God or that our God is dependent upon
us to save us. No God
is the one who sovereignly and divinely chose
and determined what the condition
of salvation would be. He's the one who chose
it. He's the one who even chose for there to be
a condition. Mankind is not in a
position to tell God that He will or
won't condition salvation. They're not in a position
to tell God how He is to divide
His plan. If that is
what God decided to condition salvation on
that's His sovereign choice.
The Ninevites were sinning against God
and they repented. Okay? They got right
with God and then God He spared them
their judgment. All throughout history
of the Bible
it says that God, whenever mankind's
responses to God's commands
changes God's judgment
or His wrath or
His decisions upon people.
One thing in the Bible that disproves
determinism is that
God repents or changes His
mind. There are many instances in the
Bible where a group of people
have turned from their wicked
ways and God has repented
of the evil. He repented
to destroy them. He changed
His mind and everything is strictly
determined and is
gonna happen. If God plans on every
single thing that's gonna happen then
the fact of Him repenting would be impossible.
And so we see here that God's
repentance also debunks
this idea of unconditional election
that God says you're going to
hell no matter what you do or you're going to heaven
no matter what you do.
A limited atonement would
teach that Jesus' death
on the cross was not for
everyone, that He did not
die for everyone.
His death only atoned for
the few that He elected.
His sacrifice
was limited. It wasn't
for all. I would rather believe
in a limited atonement that is efficacious
for all men for whom it was intended
than a universal atonement that is not efficacious
for anybody except the will of men
be joined with it. To say that
He specifically chose
to only shed
His blood for certain
people, for certain elect, those that
He chooses. A limited atonement
is straight, damnable heresy. It doesn't matter
how you slice it. What kind of love
is this? That God would
only send His Son
to atone for the sins of a
select few. What kind
of love is that?
To me that is again blasphemy
against the very character of God.
A limited atonement, they say well Jesus
only died for the elect.
I can go to any child, any
teenager, any man, any woman, and
any part of the world and
tell them Jesus Christ died
for your sin debt.
And what a great thought that is to think that
Jesus loved me enough to die for my sins.
And what a
heretical thought to
think that Jesus Christ would
only die for a select few.
That God would only love
a select few enough to
send His Son to die for them.
And the rest of you, oh too bad, too
sad. Calvinists often accuse us of
being universalists, which is far from the
truth. Anyone who does not put their
faith in Christ alone is not
saved and will go to hell.
Spurgeon also mocks, he says
if it were Christ's intention to save all men
how deplorably has he been disappointed.
We affirm that Christ died for everyone
and He paid the debt for all, but you
have to accept the gift. Christ will not
force you to receive it. Calvinists like Spurgeon
they use very little scripture to defend this doctrine
because scripture is clear on the
matter. However they use logic
and vain philosophy to attack the atonement
Christ made for all. Remember always
avoid vain philosophy and accept
and receive the clear teaching of
scripture. As in she shall bring forth a
son and thou shall call his name Jesus for
he shall save his people from their sins.
This passage in its context is obviously
talking about how he came to save the
Jews from their sins. This is
clearly the context and even the next chapter says
in verse 6 for out of thee shall come a
governor that shall rule my people
Israel. This passage is
definitely not a Calvinism passage.
Even so father for so it seemed good
and I cite all the things that are delivered unto me
and my father and no man knoweth the son
but the father. Neither knoweth any man
the father save the son and he
whosoever the son will reveal him.
And then verse 28 come unto me
all ye that labor
and are heavy laden and I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn of me
my meek and lowly heart and you shall
find rest unto your souls.
I mean like look at verse 28
all ye right that word all ye
and so to say that this is
limited atonement to say that this is
only for certain people for certain
the elect to say that
his blood is only for certain. The very next
verse it says all ye
it says anybody that wants to come.
Calvinists clearly teach that Christ only died
for the elect. He only died for those who will be
saved. He didn't die for those who die without
salvation. There's one simple way to debunk
this teaching. In Luke 13 23
they ask Christ Lord are there few
that be saved? Matthew 7 13 14
it's a parallel passage. Christ says enter ye
in at the straight gate for wide is the gate
and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction
and many there be which go in there
at because straight is the gate and
narrow is the way which leadeth unto life
and few there be that find it.
The Bible very clearly says that there
will few be saved. Not many
few will actually receive salvation
because many and most will reject
Christ or they'll fall for false religions
and false gospels or whatever
they reject him is. Whatever the reason
is that they choose to reject
Christ. Now Scripture
also makes it very clear that Christ died
for many. In Matthew 26 28
he said for this is my blood
of the New Testament which is shed for
many for the remission of sins.
He shed his blood for many. Calvinists
say this and use a lot
to say that Christ died for all
kinds of people and they'll use it to say that
he died for many not all.
And he said unto them why are you
fearful O ye of little faith?
Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea
and there was a great calm.
Then Mark 4 40 it says and he said unto them
why are you so fearful? How is it that ye have
no faith? Notice here
how the Bible says that no faith
equals little faith
and all equals many.
Saying Christ died for all
is saying that he died for many.
Since Christ told us that few would be saved
and then told us that he would die for
many then the obvious conclusion
is that not everyone Christ died
for would be saved.
If as Calvinists insist that many cannot equate
to all then how in the world can
many equate to few?
This is super simple and it's easy to understand
yet Calvinism just doesn't get it.
The Scripture clearly
and understandably teaches that Christ
died for every man.
Not that every man will be
saved but those who put their
faith and trust in the Lord Jesus
Christ will be saved.
Some insist that Christ died for everybody.
Why then are not all men saved?
Because all men would not believe?
That is to say that believing is necessary in order to make the blood
of Christ efficacious for redemption.
We hold that to be a great lie.
If God sovereignly ordains
that the condition upon receiving Christ's
payment is for a man to put their faith in him
alone then that is God's
sovereign choice and Spurgeon's
vain philosophy cannot attack God's
sovereignty. A redemption which pays a
price but does not ensure that which is purchased
a redemption which calls Christ to substitute
for the sinner but yet which allows a person
to suffer is altogether
unworthy of our apprehensions of Almighty
God. And so whenever
Christ created mankind
he created them because he
wanted somebody to love him and because
of that it creates choice.
There must be a choice
to love God. If God forces to love
someone it wouldn't be love. There has to be a choice.
And so whenever they say God is a failure
if everybody he died for didn't say
well no. I think that proves
just how loving and great
and good God is is the fact
that he died for everyone even though
he knew some people would
wait or some people would just
throw away that opportunity or waste
his sacrifice and they would
themselves pay for their sin
in a place called hell. The Lord is not
slack concerning his promise as some men
do not lack slackness but his long suffering
to us were not willing that any
should perish but that all should come
to repentance. He is the propitiation for
our sins and not for ours only
but also for the sins of the whole
world. See Christ is not
just our propitiation but he's
a propitiation for the whole world.
If it was just that
he died for only us then this verse
wouldn't make any sense at all. He died
for us but he also
died for the whole world.
And we have seen and do testify
that the father sent the son to be the
savior of the world. Not a
savior of a select group of people but the
savior of the world.
For therefore we both labor and suffer
reproach because we trust in the living God
who is the savior of all men
especially of those that believe.
Christ, he is the savior of all men
but especially
of those that believe. It's not
that Christ is only our savior.
Christ is everybody's savior.
It's just that we have been specially
saved by Christ. We are especially
under Christ the savior
because we actually believe.
This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our
savior who will have all men to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
There is one God and one mediator
between God and men, the man Christ Jesus
who gave himself a ransom for all
to be testified in due time. The Bible says
that God will have all men to be saved.
That word will means that God wants
God wants all men to be saved when they come to the
knowledge of the truth. And it says that he gave
himself a ransom not for many
not for some but for all.
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. It says he tasted
death for every man.
He didn't just taste death for us
but he tasted death for everyone.
Wherefore as by one man sin entered
into the world and death by sin
and so death passed upon all men.
For that all have sinned
but not as the offense
so also is the free gift
for if through the offense
of one many be dead
much more the grace of God
and the gift by grace
which is by one man
Jesus Christ
hath abounded unto men
for if by one man's offense
death reigned by one
much more
they which received abundance of grace
and of the gift of righteousness
shall reign in life
by one Jesus Christ.
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 under justification
of life. Calvinists really like to
defy logic and say that all and every
don't really mean what those words mean. They'll just
undermine and ignore hundreds of verses with the
wave of the hand by saying words
don't mean what they actually mean. This passage
makes this understanding impossible.
It starts out by saying sin and death came into the world
by one man. Adam and it
passed upon all men.
No Calvinist would say that all doesn't
mean all here. It says one
judgment came upon all men to
condemnation. But then it says even
so in the same way
the free gift came upon all men.
If all means all
all the times it is used then why wouldn't
all mean all the final time?
This is because all does mean all.
Christ died for all to
offer all the free gift of salvation
in the same way that all are condemned.
Probably one of the greatest
examples to show that Christ died for all
is the fact that Christ did in fact die
for those in hell. But there were false prophets
also among the people even as there shall be
false teachers among you who privately
shall bring in damnable heresies even
denying the Lord that bought them and
bringing upon themselves swift
destruction. These false prophets are reserved
to hell in the same way a believer is
reserved to heaven. They're destined.
Now they were not predestined
unconditionally. They sealed their destiny when they
rejected God and changed his truth into a lie.
Notice it says that Christ
bought the false prophet. According to Calvinism
Christ only bought the elect. He only
died for the elect. However the Bible tells us
something different. Christ died for all
and he brought all the free gift
and they rejected him
and they changed the truth of God into a lie
and they will go to hell. But even so
Christ bought them.
Here's a simple
grace according to Calvinist
theology would teach that the elect
cannot resist God's grace.
Those whom
God has elected or predestined
before the foundation of the world
cannot resist the gospel
or salvation. Another thing they like to talk about
is Ephesians 2, 8 and 9. They try to say that
it's saying faith and grace
isn't of yourselves. And so the obvious
meaning that salvation isn't of yourself.
Charles Spurgeon makes the same case saying
but say others God elected them
on foresight of their faith. Now God
gives faith therefore he could not have elected
them on account of faith which he
foresaw. For by grace are you saved through faith
and not of yourselves. It is the gift of
God not of works as any man should
boast. It doesn't say we're saved
unto faith but through faith.
It makes no grammatical sense to say that
faith is a subject and
it is a gift. Romans 6, 23
makes it clear that eternal life is the gift
of God. Faith is not the gift because
faith comes from hearing the word
preached in Romans 10, 17.
God if you go back and you actually start at the
beginning of chapter 2 it says
and you have been quick and who are dead
and trespasses and sins. Right away
he starts talking about salvation.
The Bible makes it really clear that
people can in fact resist God's grace
and they do it often. You stiff neck
and uncircumcised in heart and ears
you do always resist the Holy Ghost
as your fathers did
so do you.
This verse easily shows Calvinism to be
a fraud. If they
resisted God's call
that means that he was calling them
in the first place. If there was no call
then there would be nothing to resist.
It shows that God wanted them
to be saved by his grace
and they resisted. Charles Spurgeon
illustrated it this way.
The irony is that Christ used an illustration using a hen and chickens as well. But it brings a completely different message.
Christ said that he wanted to gather them
but they would not.
It isn't a matter of Christ not calling them.
It's a matter of them resisting and rejecting.
God is calling for these people to be saved.
He's stretching out his arm.
Stretching out his hand. He's saying
come turn to me.
The Bible says that they refused.
It's not that God didn't want
them to be saved but
there comes a point where they can cross the line.
God says you spit in my face
you rejected Christ
I will reject you.
Now a lot of Calvinists when you debunk
this point will say well the non-elect
can resist but the elect
can't resist. Now anyone
who actually goes soul winning will know
this is false. Because how many times
do we give the gospel to people more than once
and they end up getting saved.
Well if it's irresistible to the
elect then that wouldn't mean that they would have gotten saved the first time
they heard it. Unless you're saying anyone who
doesn't get saved the first time that
they are a fake. Well in the Bible
we see people who are given more than one chance
and they get saved. We are commanded to give
people a couple chances. 1 Corinthians
36 I have planted, Apollos
watered but God gave the increase.
Sometimes we plant seeds and
another soul winner comes along and waters that seed
and they get saved. It's not irresistible
to the elect or anyone.
Man has free will to either receive it or reject it.
In Titus chapter 2 and verse
11 I'm sorry
says that God extends his grace to
all men. Well why would he extend
his grace to all men if he knows some are going
to resist that grace. This irresistible
grace they talk about is so
unbiblical. The Bible says that the grace of God
hath appeared unto all men. God
is calling all men to be saved.
So then we have one question.
Are all men saved?
Obviously not. So we see that the grace
of God is not irresistible.
We must repent and turn
to God to be saved.
Now there's a fifth and final point of
Tulip but before we talk about the fifth point
we're going to talk about the Calvinist doctrine
of salvation. One of the problems
with Calvinism and possibly the biggest
problem is that in regards to salvation
it mixes faith and works.
Calvinists love to say grace
alone through faith alone and they
chant this as one of their mantras but it is
a lie. It's simply a deceiving
smokescreen to make people think
that they're saved. John MacArthur is a
damnable heretic. He denies the blood
atonement of Jesus Christ and he's also
a Calvinist. He's known for teaching
what's called lordship salvation
and they'll say you gotta make Jesus Lord of your life
that means he's the boss
that means he's in charge of your life
which is a
flat out work, salvation. Calvinists
do not believe that belief or trusting in the Lord
is enough for salvation. If someone were
to just ask a Calvinist what must I do to be saved
they will respond similar to this
repent of your sins or surrender
to Christ as Lord or to his lordship
or they might even say submit to the Lord
Jesus Christ and repent of your sins
even though none of this is found in the word of God.
I cannot stand this because
it boils down to what
every other religion boils down to
it puts Christianity in every
other religion category. It works
it works, that's what it is
it's I have to do something
I have to do something in order to get to heaven
okay, whatever, it's so
simple, people stumble so
much over the simplicity of the
gospel. Another proof of the conquest
of the soul for Christ will be found in a real
change of life. If the man does not live
differently from what he did before both
at home and abroad his repentance
needs to be repented of and his conversion
is a fiction. This is
clearly teaching a works gospel
to say that someone's salvation wasn't real
because they didn't change and start living
holy is not the gospel
that is not what Baptists have believed
it is only until recently that we have
this heresy among Baptists
the Bible doesn't say to turn over a new
leaf or to stop sinning to be saved
the only command ever given to be
saved is to believe
put your faith in the Lord
anyone calling for a changed life or
turning from sin to be saved is a damnable
heretic. Many people
again muddy the waters
to me of repentance
and faith in the area
of salvation
the Bible says in Acts 20 and
21 that it is Paul
said it is repentance toward God
and faith in the Lord
Jesus Christ. To me repentance
and faith are two sides
of the same coin
once in a while you'll hear
someone say did you repent of all
of your sins
and if you did not then you're not saved
Ray Comfort says well you got to turn from your sins
to be saved. He said you got to repent of your sins
you got to turn from your sins
well the very fact of turning from sin
means that you're trying to work your way to heaven
the problem is that people don't know how to rightly
divide the word of truth. There are certainly passages
of scripture which speak of turning from sin
there are passages which speak of
striving to live in holiness but it never
ever ever says to do these things
in exchange for salvation. Most people
see these passages preached by false prophets
and they automatically assume it's a condition of salvation
but the Bible never
says this and in literally hundreds of
passages it also says that the
only thing required to receive eternal life
is to believe on Christ. Trust Christ
alone without any work we do. Calvinism
mixes faith and works
instead of separating them as the Bible does
and these answers of how to be saved
is completely different than what we see in Acts chapter 16
brought them out and says
sirs what must I do to be saved
and they said believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved
and thy house. When the apostles were asked
the question they didn't say surrender or
submit to the lordship of Christ
they didn't say repent of your sins
or to turn over a new leaf or to live
a life of righteousness or to serve God
or to go to church or be baptized
no they simply said believe
on the Lord. Preachers
are to call people to righteousness
and people to repent from
their sins but not for
salvation. When we see preachers in the
Bible they preach repentance
of sins not as a condition for
spiritual salvation
Jonah went to the city of Nineveh to call
them to turn from their sins in order to be
spared punishment by God
and they actually heeded the call and turned
from their sin. I believe that
the Lord does call on us
to repent
in Jonah chapter 3
he speaks about again
repentance but it's connected to
the works and not
to the salvation. He
calls on nations to repent.
God saw the works that they turned from their evil way
and God repented of the evil that
he had said that he would do
and he did it not. When God
sees someone turning from their sins or turning
from their evil way God calls it
works. Yes, turning from sins is a good
thing to do. Turning from
sin or repenting of sin
these are works. They can
be good works but the passage has
nothing to do with spiritual salvation from hell
but they were spared physically
from a physical punishment.
When you get that mentality
that goes into work salvation because now
it's something I have to do. I
have to remember all my sins
I have to repent of all of my
sins. It's an impossibility.
Now turning from sin is called works
and we know it can have nothing to do with salvation
because the Bible in so many passages
explicitly states that we cannot be
saved by works. Ephesians 2
8 and 9 says for by grace are you saved through faith
and that not of yourselves is the gift of God.
Not of works lest any man
should boast. One of the most clear scriptures
in the Bible tells us salvation is by grace
through faith. It has nothing to do with ourselves.
We can't earn it or do anything to merit
salvation because it's not of works. It's only
by grace. Salvation is not of works
at all. Therefore by the deeds of the law
there shall no flesh be justified
in his sight. For by the law
is the knowledge of sin.
So right there the Bible is saying by keeping the deeds of the law
nobody is going to be justified. Nobody
is going to go to heaven. Because I want to say
for all have sin to come short of the glory of God
be justified freely by his grace
through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.
Not by works of righteousness which
we have done but according to his
mercy he saved us by the washing of
regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost.
We cannot be saved by works of righteousness.
We cannot be righteous enough
or turn from enough sins. We can't
work our way to heaven. It is solely of
God's mercy. And it's very
simple. Repentance means I'm changing
my mind. And so
here I am. I have believed
that my infant baptism is going to get
me to heaven. I have believed
that my church membership is going to get me
to heaven. I have believed that my
good works is going to get me to heaven. Whatever
there are many things people say.
And then I hear the gospel
of Jesus Christ. And I hear
that I'm a sinner.
And that there's nothing I can do
to get myself to heaven by my good works.
And that without Christ
I'm going to die and go to hell.
And that Christ took my sin debt.
He died in my place. Was buried
and rose again. The gospel.
And now I have to trust Christ as Savior.
So now I'm at a point
and I say, wait
for
let's say 30 years of my life
or however age I am.
I've been trusting in my baptism.
I've been trusting in my good works.
The Bible
says that doesn't save me.
And so I change
my mind about what I have been
trusting in. And now
I'm confessing. The Bible says if
we confess with our mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in our heart that God is raised from
the dead, thou shalt be saved. Romans 10.
Confess means I'm agreeing with God.
So repentance is very simple
to me. It's I was
wrong in what I was believing
and now I'm going to agree with
what God said. That the only way
to heaven is by trusting Christ as Savior
and I trust Christ as Savior.
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified
by faith without the deeds
of the law. This is the conclusion.
I say by faith without the deeds of the law.
We cannot do the deeds of the law. We cannot turn from sin
to righteousness. We cannot work our
way. We cannot merit salvation.
We have to only put our faith in what
Christ did alone.
If you're trusting in your work or anything you do
then you're not saved. You can only go through
Christ. John 14.6.
Now what is really bizarre is that Calvinists
and those influenced by them always say
faith alone. They'll chant salvation is
by faith alone because anyone
with a Bible knows that the Bible teaches
salvation is faith alone. But they'll always
say well you also have to turn from your sins
and put your faith in Christ. Or they'll
say that you have to repent of your sins and submit
to the Lordship of Christ or something along
those lines. Then when you point out
that this is works and show them passages like
Jonah 3.10 where turning from sin is
considered works then they'll
say well you have to have
works. You can't just live however you want and still be saved.
And it's just so you don't actually
believe it's by faith alone then. You believe
it's faith and works. Then
the famous argument is they'll point to James 2
and they'll say see faith without works is
dead. Let's take a moment and look at the
whole text and see that salvation
truly is by faith alone.
Right there in verse 10 it says if you keep the whole law
and offend it at one point
you're guilty. How in the world can
anyone read this chapter and come away thinking
you have to do good to go to heaven?
He just said one sin is enough to
make you guilty of all.
And one of you say unto them
depart in peace be you
warm and filled notwithstanding
you give them not those things
which are needful to the body
what doth it profit?
If you're saved by good works and if
you don't have those good works
your faith it wasn't even
existent. But what does verse
17 here says it? Even
so faith if
it hath not works it's dead
being alone. As a Christian we
get saved and we don't do these good
works we don't do these things
it is our salvation is alone.
And then when we meet Christ it's going to be
a lonely feeling standing there without
anything. Anything
to offer Christ. No
good works, no crowns, no
service. We're going to look at there
at the Christ who died
for us. Who did something so
great for us that gave everything
for us. And we're going to stand before
Him with empty hands.
With no crowns to give
no works to give. We're going to be
utterly alone.
The whole passage has to do with how you treat
people around you. If you have faith
but you don't have any works then
you're no good. You're not profitable to anyone.
Read the text. If you see a brother
that is in need and you show no mercy
and you just stick to yourself then
when you're in that same situation
are you going to be saved just because
you have faith? Not talking about
salvation from hell. It's talking
about judgment without mercy.
You're going to get the same treatment you gave.
No mercy. You'll be naked and destitute
of daily food. This has nothing to do
with eternal life, heaven and hell.
They also take verse 17 out of context
when they say faith without works
is dead. Faith without works is
dead just the same way that a body without
the Spirit is dead.
It is still a body. Dead
faith still saves
but it won't profit to those around you.
Yea, a man may say,
Thou has faith and I have works.
Show me thy faith
without thy works and I
will show thee my faith
by my works. Notice the beginning
of the verse. It says a man may say.
This is someone just saying
they have faith. Not actually saying that they do have faith.
And this is true. How do we know
someone truly has faith? We can't see
it on the outside. We can only go
by what people say. Yes, if someone
tells me they have faith without works I take the
word. But naturally when someone tells me they
have faith but they show me by being in the
word of God, being baptized,
being faithful to church so many, then
of course naturally I'm going to believe them
more. But that doesn't actually mean that
that one is saved and that the other is lost.
It could be the complete opposite.
Thou believeth that there is one God
thou doest well. The devils
also believe and tremble.
But wilt thou know, O vain
man, that faith
without works is dead.
Are we saying that you have to believe that there is
one God to be saved?
There is not a single verse in the Bible that says
if you just believe that there is one God
that you're going to heaven.
No, the Bible clearly teaches
that if we put our faith and trust
in the Lord Jesus Christ that we
will be saved.
Not believing that there is one God but by believing
in Christ and putting our faith and trust
in Jesus Christ.
Was not Abraham our father justified
by works when he had offered
Isaac his son upon
the altar? Seest thou how
faith wrought with his works
and by works was faith made perfect?
This is every work
salvationist's favorite section. They love
to point this out and say that Abraham was saved
by works. Once again, they don't
know how to rightly divide. They don't know
what they're talking about. They don't know
how to rightly divide between what is and is not
a salvation passage. Romans
4, 1-2 explains this well saying
what shall we say then that Abraham our father
as pertaining to the flesh hath found? For
Abraham were justified by works he
hath worked the glory but not before
God. Clear as day
it tells us that if Abraham were
justified by his works
then he could have the glory
but it says but not before God.
So, when we do good
deeds, when we do good works
we are justifying ourselves
towards men and not towards God.
And the scripture was fulfilled which saith
Abraham believed God and was imputed
unto him for righteousness and he was
called the friend of God.
Verse 3, Romans 4 says for what
saith the scripture? Abraham believed God
and it was counted unto him
for righteousness. James 2
and Romans 4, they're not saying different things.
Abraham was saved spiritually
he was counted righteous by
God because he believed God.
He was saved by faith.
His works only made his faith better
and justified him before men.
This passage
is emphasizing that after we're saved by faith
we need to continue on and live godly
and do works and be profitable to our brothers and sisters.
It's not teaching work salvation.
It's amazing how people can be
deceived or actually go to this chapter to argue
work salvation at all when the chapter is clear
as to what it's talking about. And how even
in the chapter it still says man is counted righteous
by belief and not works, not keeping
the law. If you're trusting your
good works, if you're trusting repenting of sin
and turning from sin to be saved
you're trusting in the deeds of law.
Now the
fifth and final point of the Tulip
is one of the worst
and actually a lot of independent Baptists
also preach this. That is the
doctrine of perseverance of saints.
They try to play it like this eternal security
but it's not eternal security.
Because they say those who really are
stable and endure, they'll
persevere to the end.
So perseverance of the saints is basically teaching
that you have to persevere
to prove that you actually were elect
or that you were saved.
It's a thinly veiled word, salvation.
We find the word preservation
and not perseverance and there's a major
difference between the two.
The book of Jude, the first verses
talks about the fact that we are
preserved in Christ Jesus.
What a difference to think that
we are preserved in Christ Jesus
compared to persevering.
This lordship, salvation, or repent of
your sins is the how you're saved
and the how you're saved is the
how you're saved.
We saw that lordship or repent of your sins
for salvation is a work-salvation heresy.
Now we're about to see how that
perseverance of the saints is also
work-salvation as well.
My salvation is not based upon me.
The keeping of my salvation
is not based upon me.
I am preserved in Christ Jesus.
Again, that's
faulty doctrine and
it's man-made works
thinking that I have to
do something to get myself saved or in this
case, I have to do something to keep myself
saved. No, I am
preserved already in Christ Jesus.
And many people misunderstand the
fifth and final point. A lot of people
say that it teaches the exact same thing
as eternal security, but
it's not. It's teaching
lordship, salvation.
And they'll go on to say
someone who's truly saved
will work and persevere and live for God
till the day they die. Calvinists and
reformers really like to
teach that they teach salvation
by grace through faith, but they really
don't. They teach a back door
works salvation.
One thing that people often bring up to us when we're out
soul winning is when we say that once you're saved, you're
always saved, that you can't lose your salvation
because it's based on belief in Christ alone.
People often say
well what if someone stops believing? Or what if
someone turns away from Christ and believes in
damnable heresy? Theoretically
because of the scriptures that tell us that you
once you believe you are
eternally secure, then yes, you would
still be saved. But we don't base
Bible doctrine on theories or philosophy.
We base it on clear scripture
from the word of God. The Bible teaches us
that once someone believes in Christ, they will always
believe and they won't stop believing.
For they know not the voice of strangers.
A Christian who has the Holy Spirit cannot
follow these antichrists. They won't be a Mormon
or a Catholic because they know the voice of
their shepherd and they will not follow the voice
of a stranger.
Ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep. As I said unto you
my sheep hear my voice and I know them
and they follow me and I give unto them eternal
life and they shall never perish. Neither shall
any man pluck them out of my hand.
My father which gave them me is greater than all
and no man is able to pluck them out of my
father's hand. He that believeth on
him is not condemned, but he that
believeth not is condemned already
because he hath not believed in the name of the only
begotten Son of God. The Bible
clearly says that there's two types of people,
those that believe and those that
haven't. Now Calvinism and the perseverance
of the saints doctrine take it way
beyond belief. Calvinists teach that if
you're saved, then you will persevere in
righteousness or service to the Lord.
If someone believed on Christ and was serving in church
and then backslid into sin and got out of
church, but you go to them
and they still trust in Christ alone for salvation
but they're just in sin and out of God's
will, the Calvinists would say that that person
is not saved. And they quote 1 John
2 19 which says they went out from us
but they were not of us. For if they had been
of us, they would no doubt have continued with
us. But they went out that they might be
made manifest, that they were not all of
us. This verse is not talking about church
attendance or living righteousness.
If someone quits going to your church, you
can't apply this to them. This is talking about
people who claim to be believers but then they
convert to Islam or another false religion.
They never believed in Christ at all. They were
fake because the believer is
always a believer in Christ. But a believer
may not persevere in godly living or in
church attendance. And Calvinists love to say
you'll know them by their fruit
and say that if you're living
in sin or you're
backslidden, that
that's bad fruit and so you're not saved.
Well, let's actually read
the passage that they
quote it from. Beware of false
prophets which come to you in sheep's
clothing but inwardly are ravening wolves.
Ye shall know them
by their fruits. Do men gather grapes
of thorns or figs of thistles? It's saying that
we can identify false
prophets. We can know them by
their fruit. False prophets have
bad fruit.
Perseverance of the saints teaches that
if you are elect or saved, then
you will serve God and
your perseverance
that you keep persevering in your
righteousness is proof thereof.
King Saul was a good king at first
and godly. But later in his life he had
backslidden far from God's will and become very
wicked. He got to the point where he no
longer had the Holy Spirit on his life and he wasn't
receiving anything from God. So he was
inquiring of a literal witch.
And he had scores of men of God
slaughtered. And he had gotten so
far from God that he actually ended up killing
himself. If a Calvinist saw
anyone do this today, where
they had backslidden so far from God's will
that they were inquiring of a witch and even killed
themselves, they'd say he was
never saved. But we know Saul went
to heaven. So that shows how enduring
in righteousness or enduring in godliness
has nothing to do with salvation
at all. If you
have to do works to
stay saved,
that's a worse salvation.
In 1 Corinthians 3 verses 11-15
the Apostle Paul is telling us about the
judgment seat of Christ. It's a judgment of Christians
after the rapture to determine our
words.
He starts out
saying you have to have Jesus. The foundation
is Jesus. He can't be saved otherwise.
Once we have Jesus as the foundation, then we
build upon that with our life. And this judgment
is about what was built upon that foundation.
He's going on to say that if you build
good things on the foundation, you
actually do something for the Lord and live for Him.
Then you'll receive a reward.
Then your whole life was a loss.
If it was a waste, you'll get nothing
for your deeds. But notice very carefully this person
is still saved. He doesn't get sent to hell for
not having any works. No, he's still saved
because he had Jesus as his foundation.
The sovereign electing grace of God
chooses us to repentance, to
faith, and afterwards to holiness of
living, to Christian service, to zeal,
and to devotion. And here he's
saying exactly what Calvinists
teach. He's saying that when you're saved, God
will make you live holy and
righteous, and that if you're not
living in holiness, then you're not
saved. Salvation is by believing on the
Lord. It is by grace alone because we can't
earn it. We can't lose it. Once you're saved,
you're always saved because salvation is all
based on Christ. But the Calvinists
teach that if you don't live holy and righteous
and surrender to the Lord for the rest of your life,
then you were never saved to begin with.
We see many passages and examples in the
Bible of people who were wicked and did not
serve the Lord, yet they were saved.
Romans 4-5 says, But to him that worketh not,
but believeth on him that justifieth the
ungodly, his faith is counted
for righteousness. Matthew
24-13,
But he that shall endure unto
the end, the same shall be
saved. Now there are three
interpretations of this verse. You have the Calvinist
interpretation, the Arminian interpretation,
and the correct biblical contextual
interpretation. The Arminian says that
you have to endure the faith and work, and then if
you endure and work to the end of your life,
then you will receive salvation.
The Calvinist interpretation, their
doctrine of perseverance of the saints is that if you
don't endure to the end, as the Arminian says,
then you were never saved to begin with.
Now actually reading the chapter just utterly
destroys both of these, and neither of these make
any sense. The whole chapter is about the
tribulation and the end times, and it's talking about all these
wars and bad things going on.
And it talks about how the Antichrists are persecuting
and killing these saints, and the context
of enduring to the end is in verses 21-22.
For then shall be
great tribulation, such as was not
since the beginning of the world to this time,
no, nor ever shall be.
And except those days should be shortened,
there should no flesh be saved.
But for the elect's sake, those
days shall be shortened.
Here the Bible is saying that
you'll be saved physically, right?
If you endure to the end,
if you last all the way to the end,
your flesh will be saved
from being a martyr.
The famous passage that the perseverance of the saints crowd
loves to chant is 2 Corinthians 5, 17.
Therefore, if any man be in Christ, he is a new
creature. Old things are passed away.
Behold, all things are become new.
They'll read this verse and say that when you
get saved, you will have some
change. They'll say that there has to be a
little change in your life because you're a new
creature. If you're going to apply this to
our walk in the flesh,
or our lives of righteous living
and godliness, the verse doesn't say
you'll have some change.
It doesn't say there's a little change.
It says all things
are become new. If all things become
new, is it talking about our flesh or
our Christian walk? Then we would
be absolutely perfect and
sinless when we get saved.
But we know that's not true. This verse has nothing
to do with the flesh until
we get our glorified body. Now there's
another scripture that they try to use to prove their
false doctrine. 1 John 1.6
If we say we have fellowship with
Him and walk in darkness, we lie
and do not the truth.
They also quote the next chapter where it says in 1 John
2 verses 3-4
Hereby we do know that we know Him.
If we keep His commandments, He that saith I know Him and keepeth
nigh His commandments is a liar
and the truth is not in Him.
This is why Spurgeon said the saint shall persevere in
holiness because God perseveres in grace.
Cowards have a problem with rightly dividing
the word. They can't separate texts about
fellowship with God and salvation.
Both passages are talking about being in fellowship with God
or a relationship with God.
It's teaching us that if we're not keeping His commandments
and we're living in sin, then we can't say we have
a relationship with God. It has nothing to do
with salvation. It's all about fellowship between
the Heavenly Father and His children.
You can be saved and not be in good
fellowship with your Father. When you think of
all the sins that we all commit,
sins of omission,
sins of commission,
the Bible talks about
presumptuous sins, secret
sins, the Bible talks about sins of
ignorance. Now if perseverance of the saints was
correct, would there be any worry of falling?
Because according to them, you will enter to the end.
As saved Christians, we have to take heed
and we have to strive to live godly
and grow in the Lord and stay away from
pride or we will fall. Falling isn't
about losing your salvation or never having been
saved. If we fall, we've
backslidden. The fact that when Jesus Christ
died on the cross, that He died
in my place, He
took my sin debt upon Him
and then the moment I get saved,
His righteousness
is imputed upon my account.
So I stand right
now in the perfect
righteousness of Jesus Christ, the
perfect record of Christ.
Romans 8-1 says,
there is therefore now no condemnation
to them that are in
Christ Jesus. Again, I'm not
persevering. I'm already
in Christ Jesus.
His righteousness has been
put upon my account. When
God sees me, He sees me justified.
Choose a few men who are sincere,
teachable and spiritually minded
and spend time with them in
study and prayer. They will help
you to reform. In the pulpit,
don't use theological
language that is not found
in the Bible. Avoid terms such
as Calvinism,
Reformed, doctrines of grace,
particular redemption,
etc. Most people
will not know what you are
talking about. Many that
do will become inflamed against
you. Calvinists
are always trying to infiltrate churches,
especially Baptist churches,
so they can fill them with their Reformed
theology. They discuss secret
ways that they can proselyte
them to Calvinism.
But that's the thing. They don't
care about the lost being saved.
They care about turning Baptists
into Calvinists. Calvinists
have already infiltrated the Baptist movement
a lot. Many Baptists and
laymen read and listen to Calvinists
exceedingly. Calvinists like
John MacArthur and James White
have influence over
many Baptists. In a lot of Baptist
churches, we find preaching that is heavily
influenced by Calvinist theology.
One to five point Calvinists
fill Baptist pulpits and the pews.
In this documentary,
we have already done what we have set out to do.
We have gone over the main doctrines of
Calvinism and exposed them and
debunked them with the word of God.
Hopefully what we have shown you has been enough
to explain to you and show you why we
need to stay away from Calvinism
and also to win Calvinists who
have watched this documentary.
Now we are going to go into a document that shows
the Calvinist infiltration
in the Baptist movement and that also
is still influencing Baptists today.
The 1689 Confession was written by
particular Baptists, i.e. Calvinists.
It was first published in 1677
based on the 1646
Westminster Confession and the 1658
Savoy Declaration,
but with a Baptist twist.
Many Baptists don't really understand what is so
bad about this Confession. After all,
it has Baptists in the name.
We are going to take a few moments to highlight portions of the
Confession to expose why it is heretical.
Chapter 3 of God's Decree, paragraph
1 says, God hath decreed in
himself from all eternity by the
most wise and holy council of his
own will, freely and unchangeably
all things whatsoever comes to pass,
yet so is there by his God neither
the author of sin, nor hath fellowship with any
therein. This is clearly
teaching the Calvinist view of God's sovereignty and
predestination, except it is trying to make a
loophole for God to not have sovereignly predestined
sin. Later we will see that they go back
on this. Paragraph 5.
Those of mankind that are predestined to
life, God, before the
foundation of the world was laid, according
to his eternal and immutable purpose,
and the secret council of good pleasure
of his will,
hath chosen in Christ
unto everlasting glory, out of
his mere free grace and love
without any other thing in the
creature as a condition or cause
moving him thereunto.
This is clearly teaching unconditional
election and the Calvinist view
of predestination that we covered earlier.
Chapter 5 of Divine Providence,
paragraph 4. The almighty power, unsearchable
wisdom, and infinite goodness of God
so far manifests themselves in his providence
that his determinate council extends
itself even to the first fall,
and all other sinful actions, both
of angels and men, that not by
bare permission, which also he most wisely
and powerfully binds, and otherwise
orders and governs in a manifold
dispensation his most holy ends.
Yet so as the sinfulness of their acts
proceeds only from the creatures,
and not from God, who being most holy
and righteous, neither is nor can be
the author or reprover of sin.
Now here they say that his
determined council in providence does
not just by permission, but actually
orders and governs
all sinful acts. But then they
backpedal again to say that
God isn't the author of sin. It's a logical
fallacy to say that God didn't permit it,
he ordered and governed sin, but
yet he's still not the author. They just want it
both ways. Chapter 6
of the fall of man, of sin,
and of the punishment thereof,
paragraph 1. Then, by
her seducing Adam, who, without
any compulsion, did willfully transgress
the law of their creation,
and the command given to them
in eating the forbidden fruit, which God
was pleased, according to his wise
and holy council, to permit, having
purposed to order it
to his own glory.
Again, says he permitted the fall,
but also that he ordered it at the
same time. Chapter 9 of free
will, paragraph 3 says, man, by his
fall into a state of sin,
has wholly lost all ability
of will to any spiritual good
accompanying salvation. So as
a natural man, being altogether averse
from that good, and dead in sin,
is not able by his own strength to
convert himself, or to prepare himself
thereunto. This is clearly teaching
the doctrine of total inability, according
to Calvinism. Chapter 10
of effectual calling, paragraph 1.
Those whom God hath
predestined unto life, he is pleased
in his appointed and acceptable
time, effectually to call
by his word and spirit, out
of that state of sin and death,
in which they are by nature, to
grace and salvation by Jesus Christ,
in lighting their minds spiritually
and savingly to
understand the things of God,
taking away their hearts of stone, and giving them
a heart of flesh, renewing their wills,
and by his almighty power,
determining them to that which is good,
and effectually drawing them to
Jesus Christ. Yet,
so as they come most
freely, being made willing
by his grace.
This is teaching irresistible grace,
along with the Calvinist view of regeneration,
and a bit of lordship
salvation. Chapter 11 of
justification, paragraph 2.
Faith, thus receiving
and resting on Christ and his
righteousness, is the alone instrument
of justification, yet it is not
alone in the person justified,
but is ever accompanied with all
other saving graces, and is
no dead faith, but works
by love. We went
over how dead faith still saves from hell,
but has nothing to do with eternal life,
yet there are Calvinists
saying that those who are saved
always have works, and never have
dead faith, teaching works salvation.
Chapter 15 of repentance into
life and salvation, paragraph 3.
This saving repentance is an evangelical
grace whereby a person being by the Holy
Spirit made sensible of the manifold
evils of his sin, does by
faith in Christ humble himself for it with
godly sorrow, detestation of
it, and self-abhorrancy,
praying for pardon and strength of grace, with
a purpose and endeavoring
by supplies of the Spirit
to walk before God into all well-pleasing
and all things. This section
of repentance into life and salvation talks of
how you have to detest it and
abhor it, and attempt to walk before God-pleasing
and all things. Teaching this repent of your
sins, lordship salvation, it's
the same works salvation that Calvinists
teach. Chapter 16 of good works,
paragraph 2. These good works
done in obedience to God's commandments
are the fruits and evidences of a true
and lively faith. And by them, believers
manifest their thankfulness, strengthen
their assurance, edify their brethren,
adorn the profession of the gospel,
stop the mouths of the adversaries, and glorify
God, whose workmanship they are
created in Christ Jesus there unto,
that having their fruit unto holiness
they may have the end of eternal
life. Once again,
we're not going to re-debunk the works
salvation heresy, but here
it's in a Baptist confession
that a true Christian will have good works
and they will do all these things, and
then if not, they do not have eternal
life. Rank heresy.
Over 90% of Christians, even in the best
churches, do not have good works.
This is evidenced by how few
go soul-winning.
Calvinism
is a death nail to our
church and to
soul-winning and outreach.
2 Corinthians 5, 18-20
And all things are God
who hath reconciled us to himself
by Jesus Christ, and hath
given to us the ministry of reconciliation,
to wit that God was
in Christ, reconciling the world
unto himself, not
imputing their trespasses unto them,
and hath committed unto us
the word of reconciliation.
Now then, we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though
God did beseech you by us.
We pray you, in Christ's stead,
be ye reconciled to God.
It is our job to go out
and preach the gospel to the world
and to reconcile the loss to God.
Calvinism is like a cancer.
When it gets into a church, there are saved Baptist
pastors who believe in one or maybe
two points of tulip.
They'll even go on to say that we're totally depraved
and that God is completely sovereign and controls
everything, and because of that belief
it will kill the soul-winning in the church.
They'll get this attitude of, oh, well,
God is going to get the job done, whether we do it or not.
No, he told you to do it.
Oh, well, you know, they'll just
get saved anyway. Somebody will tell them,
somebody will go, and maybe
they might not say, oh, well,
you know, it's a certain art elect,
a certain art elect, but the way
they act is the same thing.
So many people, they have this mentality
that, well, I'm not going to go, but somebody
else will. Somebody else will get the job done,
somebody will give them the gospel,
somebody's going to go to that neighborhood,
I don't need to do it, God's going to get it done,
God's going to send an angel or something and preach the gospel,
but that's not the truth.
It is against, is the antithesis
of soul-winning in outreach.
On the other hand, we know
that God commands
us to go into all the world and preach
the gospel to every creature, Mark 16
and verse 15.
The Bible commands us to go out,
go, go, go.
I love the fact that to a lost
person, God always says, come,
but to a saved person, God always says
go, and we find that throughout
the New Testament,
go, go, go.
And so, we believe
in world evangelism, getting
the gospel to every creature, because
Jesus Christ died for all men, and God
wants all people to get saved.
And it's sad to think of people going to hell,
but it's so much better knowing
that I've tried to get them saved. I've gone
out, and I've spent my time every week
to try and get lost people saved.
It makes it easier to sleep at night knowing that
I have tried, and I have given my effort
to preach the gospel.
If you don't get that Calvinism
will kill
Christianity, then I
understand, because Calvinists, they
preach, right, that certain people are elect, certain
people are not elect. And I sought for a man among
them that should make up the hedge
and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I
should not destroy it, but I found
none. Those are sad words, but I
found none. Therefore, have I poured
out my name to the nation upon them.
I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath.
Their own way have I recompensed
upon their heads, saith the Lord God.
People have this Calvinist mentality, and this is why
we need to keep Calvinism out of our churches,
is because they give this mentality, and it's
a false mentality, thinking that God's
going to get the job done. The last side check,
I haven't seen Jesus out knocking on doors.
I haven't seen God knocking on doors. I haven't seen angels
coming out from heaven knocking on doors. No,
he has given to us the ministry of reconciliation,
so that way we are the ones to preach
the gospel to the world. If we
don't go, no one will.
It says right here, he sought for a man.
He looked at him. He sought for a man. All these
atrocities and all these false prophets.
He looked for somebody to preach the gospel.
He looked for someone to stand in the gap.
And he said, I found none.
It's not that he's going to just make somebody
be a soul winner. He looks for somebody
to stand up, and when he doesn't find
anybody, he pours his wrath out on that place.
It's not that just somebody's going to get
the job done. If you don't get the job done,
then nobody will get the job done.
If not you, then who?
I'm not preaching about salvation.
How will people get saved?
How shall they hear the Bible says without
a preacher? How are they going to hear?
If I don't believe that, okay,
that I can tell people how to
get saved, that certain people are elect,
I'm sorry. If I believe that, I'm not going to preach,
you know, come to Jesus Christ. I'm not going to preach,
you know, all that, because why would it
if I believe that? I don't believe
that. But Calvinism, it teaches
us to not put a priority on
salvation, and that's why the
devil brought it into the church.
Because if he can stop us from
soul winning, if he can stop us from going out,
that is what builds
Christ's church, is seeing
people get saved, get baptized,
get in church.
It starts with soul winning.
Then there are Baptists who don't believe in any Calvinism at all,
but they will get the same attitude because they
have heard so much Calvinist preaching today,
and it just kills motivation for soul winning.
Almost no Calvinist goes out soul winning because they believe
the elect will come to Christ and get saved regardless.
Now, of course, every blue moon there's a
Calvinist who goes out and does, but
super rare. But it doesn't matter anyways
because if they do, the only Calvinist you find
going out, they're preaching a false gospel, so they're not even
saving anyone anyways. Calvinists
are not able to weep for the lost.
They're just not able to do it.
If they do, it goes against
every single thing that they
believe in their doctrine of theology.
Think about it. If every
single person is either predetermined
to go to heaven, or predetermined
to go to hell, why would you pray
for the lost sinner to be saved?
These people, these vile, wicked
sinners that
deserve to go to hell, why would you be
weeping? They're getting what they deserve.
And on the other hand,
the people who God
chose to be saved, the people who
will most definitely
be saved,
why would you
soul win? They're going to be
saved either way because it's
predetermined. It goes against
everything, any kind of
fervent prayer, any kind of weeping.
It's useless
in the Calvinist mindset.
There is no reason to weep for souls
in Calvinism. If everything is
sovereignly controlled by God, and everything is
done according to His will, then there
is no reason to weep over anything
for any reason
for that matter. But we know
that according to Biblical Christianity, that
is not the case. Man disobeys God's
will all the time. When thousands of
babies are murdered in the United States every
day, that angers God because He did not
will that, and He does not make that
happen. And when women and children
are violently abused and harmed by
wicked people, God is angry. He weeps
because God does not will that.
He did not cause that to happen. When a false
prophet rises up like John MacArthur,
Paul Washer, and James White, and others, and they preach
false gospels, and they damn souls to
hell, and teach lies, and cause confusion,
God is angry because He did not will
that. He did not cause it to happen.
When the lost go to hell because
Christians don't go in, they preach the gospel to the
lost, our Lord weeps, and He is
angered because He does not will for
them to go to hell. He isn't causing
you to not go soul winning. Yes, God
does love the elect.
He loves those that are saved.
But He also
loves the lost.
Jesus Christ, when He was on this earth, He
weeped over the lost. He prayed
and spent diligent time
in prayer weeping for the lost.
Even those He knew
would never, ever get saved.
Christ prayed, and He
cried over them. You know,
God and Christ, they're not
heartless Calvinists.
They care about
us. Another way Calvinists
attack soul winning is by their use of modern
versions or perversions of the Bible.
Now this isn't all Calvinists because some
are actually King James only, but as a whole
the Calvinist theology or Reformed theology,
the theological culture,
it generally embraces the ESV,
or the NASB, and now even the LSB.
And they use and study these corrupted
Bibles. The Bible
says that we're saved by the incorruptible
seed of the word of God.
Using a corrupted seed in a corruptible Bible
will not produce faith or salvation.
Being born again, not of corruptible seed
but of incorruptible, by the word of God
which liveth and abideth forever.
For all flesh is this grass, and the
glory of man as the flower of grass.
The grass withereth, and
the flower thereof falleth away, but
the word of the Lord endureth forever.
And this is the word
which by the Gospel is preached unto you.
Here's the thing.
Calvinists are all about theology.
They're all about sharpening their
sword. That's all they care about.
But what good is a sword
if you never take it out in battle
and use it? And here's the
thing. Calvinists,
they're not even using a sword
anyways.
They're using a dull
butter knife that is
the modern versions.
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
He that goeth forth and weepeth,
bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come
again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves
with him. This is teaching us that if
we go out and weep for the lost,
meaning we actually care for them and have compassion on
them, and we take the precious seed,
we will reap in joy.
He says that we shall doubtless come again with rejoicing,
bringing our sheaves with us.
There's no doubt about it. If you go soul winning, but you
never get anyone to say it at all, ever,
there's a problem. Either you
don't weep for the lost, you're not preaching the word of God
to them, or the Gospel has lost its
power. The fact
is that all three of these are true
for the Calvinists. The Calvinists cannot
weep for the lost. They cannot
sow in tears. The Calvinists does not
bear the precious seed. He has the
ESV. And 99%
of the time, they have a powerless false
Gospel. And the Calvinists doesn't even go.
Calvinism kills soul winning.
On the other hand, though, I'm glad
Calvinists don't go soul winning because if they did, they'd be
preaching their works Gospel to the lost.
So they'd be soul damning, not soul
winning. Baptists
and Calvinists have been against each other
since the beginning. Calvinists have preached
a false Gospel, and they've killed Baptist forefathers
for thousands of years. We cannot
start letting Calvinist theology creep
in our Baptist churches. It brings
Danville heresy about the Gospel
and Christ's death, and it brings heretical views
about God's nature, and lastly
it brings an attitude that kills soul winning
in our churches. Romans 10
verses 13 through 17 say,
For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall
be saved. How then shall they call on
him in whom they have not believed? And how should they believe
in him of whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear without a preacher?
How shall they preach except they be sent?
As it is written, How beautiful are the
feet of them that preach the Gospel of peace
and bring glad tidings of good things.
For they have not all obeyed the Gospel.
For they say, Lord who hath believed
I report. So then faith
cometh by hearing, and hearing
by the word of God.
Why would God send
Paul, Barnabas, Paul,
Silas, Timothy, others,
Titus, to Crete, to
Thessalonica, to Corinth, to
Ephesus, to all these different
regions. If whoever
is going to get saved is going to get saved, God already elected
them to heaven. No, they
need someone. Romans chapter 10
and verse 13
we're familiar with, For whosoever
shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
Verse 14 says, How shall they
call on him in whom they have not believed?
To me this is a great verse that
debunks Calvinism.
And it goes on to say, And how shall
they believe in him of whom they have not heard?
And how shall they hear without
a preacher? Well, why
would they have to have a preacher? Why would they
have to hear if they were already
elected to go to heaven?
Obviously, they're not elected already
to go to heaven. They need a preacher.
They need to hear the gospel
so they can believe. They need someone
to come to their door
and to tell them how to be saved.
And then, he says in Romans
10-15, And how shall they preach
except they be sent? As it is written,
How beautiful are the feet of them
that preach the gospel of peace
and bring glad tidings of good things.
The Bible is clear. Yes, anyone
can be saved if they call on the Lord.
Christ died for all. But it's given
to us, the ministry of reconciliation.
And it is our job to go out and give the gospel
to the lost so that they can be saved.
They won't get saved as doing their own thing.
They must hear the preaching.
And the preaching must be from the incorruptible
perfect Word of God. Maybe
you're saved. Maybe you're a saved Baptist
watching this film and you disagree with Calvinism
and you understand that it's wrong.
Don't let Calvinist theology affect your
practice and cause you to not go soul winning.
Think for a moment. Do you go soul winning?
Do you actively
try to go out into the world and preach the gospel
and reach the lost? Do you weep
and cry for the lost? When was the last
time you went out door to door preaching the gospel
to the lost to pull them from the fires of hell?
If you're disappointed with yourself by the
answers to those questions, then you may
not be a Calvinist in theology,
but you most definitely are a Calvinist in your practice.
That's the part that burdens
my heart is that
so many, even today, Baptist
churches by name
are so infiltrated with
Calvinist doctrine
and philosophy
that
although they may reject
theologically that God
elects some to go to heaven and some to go to hell
in practice,
they believe it.
Because if you don't go out
to where people are
and confront them with the gospel
and in the compassion of Jesus Christ
try to win them to Jesus Christ
then in essence
you are a Calvinist in your lifestyle.
You may reject it
as far as you may say
oh I don't believe in the five points of the
tulip or I reject
three points of the tulip or whatever you may be.
But in practice
you speak otherwise.
In my doctrine
I reject it
but I try also in my practice
to reject it.
It is time for Baptists to reject Calvinism totally
both in theology and practice.
We need to go out and preach the
gospel to the lost
and actively try to compel them to come in
and be saved from hell.
We need to keep Calvinism and its theology
away from our churches and we need to
stay away from these deceitful wolves
known as Calvinists.
To one of the more difficult stories
that resonated throughout this past year
the Catholic Church along with a
larger community around the world
has been rocked by the Church's long
history of sexual abuse.
We'll pour the waters of baptism
over the head of the child
while we invoke the Triune God
and through that water
and word each child
will be cleansed of the stain of original sin
that we all bear by
virtue of coming from a fallen human race
and then the infusion of the grace
of the Holy Spirit of Christ.
Through baptism all
our sin, original and personal
is forgiven. Baptism
is necessary for
salvation. Therefore we conclude
that a man is justified by
faith without the deeds of the law.
Someone encounters a teaching
of the Catholic Church. People will ask
well where's that in the Bible? And that's a great question
but it's the wrong question. I mean really
ultimately when it comes down to it, it is
the wrong question. The people who didn't believe
like the Catholic Church believed
need to be tortured and exiled
even going as far as
killing what they defined as
heretics. And the woman was arrayed
in purple and scarlet color
and decked with gold
and precious stones and pearls
having a golden cup in her hand
full of abominations and
filthiness of her fornication.
And upon
her forehead was a name written
Mystery Babylon the grave
the mother of harlots and
abominations of the earth.
And I saw the woman
drunken with the blood of the saints
and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus
and when I saw her I wondered
with great admiration.
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