Forbid. Here's a call. Hello, this is Pastor Anderson. Hi, Pastor Anderson. This is Tony from Chicago. How's it going, Tony?
Going pretty good. Just want to say God bless you, sir. I came across your videos
about a year ago, and basically the Word of God is in my mind, by the way, when it's
preached the way it's supposed to be preached. God bless you for that, brother.
I appreciate that. Thanks for the encouragement. I have a question. I go to a church, it's
basically people I grew up with my whole life, and I basically get called the
devil. My friends, family members, people I knew all my life just for saying, you
know, that salvation is by faith alone, and that there's no way you can move it.
And I mean, some of these people I know personally, they're genuinely good
Christian people. They believe in Christ, but they believe you can lose your
salvation. My question is, do you believe that people like that are saved? No,
absolutely not. I don't believe that they're saved. I mean, you know, they're
calling you the devil. It's like, that's like the people who believed in a
workspace salvation in Jesus' day. They called the master of the health the
elves above, the Bible says, so how much more than shall they call them of his
household? So they're gonna even call you worse things than the devil. But the
Bible says in 1st John, for example, it says, we are of God, little children, and
have overcome them, for greater is he that is in you, that he that is in the
world. They are of the world, therefore speak they have the world in the world
heareth them. We are of God. He that is of God heareth us, or he that knoweth God
heareth us, he that is not of God heareth not us. You know, hereby know we the
spirit of truth and the spirit of error. I might have messed up a word or two
there, but the bottom line is that John is saying, you know, when people listen to
us preach the Word of God, that's what John was saying, then we know that
they're saved. And that, because the Bible says also in the Gospel of John, he that
is of God heareth God's words, ye therefore hear them not, because they're
not of God. So when people are just refusing to listen to what the Bible
says about salvation, they're clearly not saved, because he that is of God heareth
God's words, and ye therefore hear them not, because you're not of God. Yes, I
clearly, I'm giving them, drawing them out of math on how easy it is that, right,
like they're literally spiritually blind. That's exactly what they are, yeah,
it's because they're not saved. Yeah, you're right.
You know, I personally have not witnessed supernatural events such as healings or
miracles that I could point to, but you know, that doesn't really bother me,
because, you know, John the Baptist did no miracle, the Bible says, and there were
times in the Bible where people went, you know, hundreds of years without seeing
miracles, but honestly, probably the most supernatural things I've seen is that I've
definitely seen a lot of people who were demon possessed, and I don't have any
question about the fact that they were demon possessed. So that's probably the
most supernatural thing that I've seen, you know, along the lines of probably what
you're asking. Yeah, definitely. Yeah, I've had a lot of experience, I've given
illustrations in my sermons, in fact, I have a sermon called, Possessed with
Devils, where I think I gave some of those illustrations, and also in my
series on the book of Mark, I talked a lot about devils and people who are
possessed and stuff like that. Hey, thanks for the call, God bless you. God bless you, sir.
Hey, let me just mention one thing.