Thank you very much.
Thank you.
When you study the Bible, it's obvious that there comes a point where it's too late for
someone to get saved.
Obviously Jesus Christ died for everyone when He died on the cross.
The Bible says He died not for our sins only, but also for the sins of the whole world.
But yet, if a person keeps rejecting Christ over and over again, or if they commit a certain
unpardonable sin, the Bible explains that it's too late for that person.
They can never be saved.
They can never have forgiveness.
Now when you explain this to people and tell them that a person could be at a point where
they could no longer be saved, or they could be what the Bible calls a reprobate, it seems
like people often have a really hard time with that doctrine, or they act like it's
some new thing that they've never heard of, like, what do you mean?
I thought anyone could be saved all the way to the bitter end, and they act like it's
some foreign doctrine.
But in reality, the Bible talks a lot about it.
I mean, there's a lot of evidence in the Bible.
Absolutely.
And in fact, if you think about it, anybody who's died without Christ, who's in hell today,
it's already too late for them.
But the Bible also teaches that a person could actually reach that threshold a lot sooner.
They could actually be rejected and not be able to be saved before they die.
And in fact, multiple times throughout the Bible, it tells us that there's certain things
that a person can do to get to that point.
I mean, if you think about it, the Bible tells us in Mark chapter 3 that someone could actually
blaspheme the Holy Ghost and actually not be forgiven of that.
It says in Mark chapter 3 in verse 28 that all sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of
men, but he that blasphemes against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger
of eternal damnation.
Right.
And neither do you want to have forgiveness, neither in this world, neither in the world
to come.
Right.
So that's what specifically saying right there.
They're rejected.
They can no longer be saved.
Well, and a lot of people will wrongfully take those verses and think it's about someone
losing their salvation.
Right.
You know, when he says, hey, if you blaspheme the Holy Ghost, you'll never be forgiven.
Right.
Or, you know, if you add to or remove from God's word, you'll never be forgiven.
Some people will try to twist that and say, oh, you lose your salvation.
What it's actually talking about, though, is an unsaved person doing those things and
then losing the opportunity to ever get saved in the future.
Right.
Becoming a reprobate.
It's too late for them.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, you mentioned Revelation chapter 22, and the Bible specifically says that if anyone
takes away from the word of God, God will take his part out of the book of life.
I mean, that's specifically saying that they can no longer be saved.
And that's talking to people who are still alive.
That's talking to people who are still here.
And so if any individual, like, for example, the editors of the modern versions of the
Bible who remove large portions of the Bible from the word of God, according to the Bible,
they can no longer be saved.
Why?
Because they've taken from the word of God.
And so God has taken them out of the book of life.
You know, the Bible specifically says that if anybody removes from the word of God, he
shall remove their part out of the book of life.
That's referring to salvation.
Right.
And that's talking to people who are still alive.
So anybody who removes from God's word, God has promised them that he's going to remove
their name out of the book of life, their part out of the book of life.
But not only that, he says that if you add to the word of God, he's going to add to them
the plagues that are written in this book.
And if you study the plagues in the book of Revelation, the vast majority of them are
dealing with the wrath of God.
And we understand that saved people, we're saved from the wrath of God.
We're not going to experience those things.
Yeah, and he says he'll place on them all the plagues that are written in this book.
Right.
Well, what about Revelation 14 when talking about the mark of the beast?
Yeah, it's so crazy sometimes now you'll hear Bible teachers claiming that you could take
the mark of the beast and still be saved.
Yeah.
Oh, you could get saved later on after you take the mark of the beast.
Now, the Bible says that if any man worship the beast or his image or receive his mark
and his forehead or his hand, it says 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 it says he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy
angels, in the presence of the lamb, they have no rest day or night.
And so the Bible is so clear, like if you take the mark of the beast, you are going
to hell.
That would be totally meaningless if you could then just turn around and get saved.
Yeah, I mean, lots of people aren't saved.
But that passage is specifically saying that anybody who takes the mark of the beast is
basically have sealed their faith.
And that's what the Bible teaches when it's talking about the reprobate doctrine is talking
about someone who is alive today that could actually seal their faith where they can no
longer be saved.
And in fact, the Bible specifically says in Second Timothy, Chapter three, it says that
they're ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Now as Janus and Jamborees withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth, men of
corrupt minds, reprobate concerning faith.
And that's about false prophets in that passage, right?
So here's what's interesting.
You know, we have all these scriptures that make it crystal clear.
You know, if you blaspheme the Holy Ghost, you're doomed.
If you take the mark of the beast, you're doomed.
You're done.
If you add to or remove from God's word, you lose your opportunity to ever be saved.
Because obviously these are things that an unsaved person would do.
And then they lose their opportunity to ever get saved.
But then it's just, it kind of blows my mind though, that then you mentioned to someone
the reprobate doctors are like, huh?
But everybody's heard of the things that we're talking about, right?
I mean, everybody's heard of the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost.
But then you get to Romans one and all of a sudden, you know, they don't get it.
So what's the hang up with Romans one?
Well, the hang up with Romans one is the fact that it's specifically talking about sodomites.
And today you have Christians who have this thought and have this idea that sodomites
can be saved.
It's not too late for them.
Well, guess what?
Sodomites fall under that category of being reprobate.
Well, not only that, they don't even just want us to try to reach sodomites, but they
actually want us to tolerate them, love them, accept them, have them in church with us and
all these different things.
And it's really just because our culture has gone that way.
And so they're kind of adjusting their doctrine to go with the culture instead of just reading
what Romans chapter one clearly says when it explains that God gave them up.
God gave them over.
Or how about the fact that the Bible specifically says in Romans one that they didn't want to
retain God in their knowledge and therefore God gave them over to a reprobate mind to
do those things which are not convenient.
And when it says he gave them over to a reprobate mind, it also says he gave them over to vile
affections and even their women to change the natural use into that which is against
nature.
And it explains how they got that way was by being given over to a reprobate mind.
So, yeah, I think that's people's hang up with this doctrine is that when you start
talking about it in regard to Romans chapter one, all of a sudden they kind of just jump
on the defensive like, well, no, no, no, it's not too late for anyone.
Anyone could still be saved.
You know, he can save people all the way until their last breath.
But you know, it says in Romans chapter one how their foolish heart was darkened in addition
to them being, you know, given over and given up.
Well, if you tie that in with John chapter 12, right around verse 39, where it says,
therefore they could not believe because that God had hardened their hearts and blinded
their eyes and so forth.
So these people have had their hearts hardened by God.
Yeah.
And I think a lot of people have a hard time with this doctrine because of the fact that
it's God who's doing this to them.
The Bible specifically says, like you said in John chapter 12, that he, referring to
God, hath blinded their eyes.
He hath hardened their heart that they should not see nor understand what their heart and
be converted and I should heal them.
And that's referring to God doing that to them.
Yeah, exactly.
God's the one who hardened their hearts.
But, you know, I want to make it clear that they did it first.
Right.
It's not like God is just up in heaven, just picking out people and just hardening their
heart and turning them into reprobates.
They first didn't want to retain God in their knowledge and therefore God gave them over
to a reprobate mind.
And think about Pharaoh.
You know, the Bible tells us that God hardened Pharaoh's heart to where even if he wanted
to actually do the right thing and let the children of Israel go, he wasn't going to
because it says God hardened his heart.
But before that, it said that Pharaoh hardened his heart.
So if you read the scripture, first it says Pharaoh hardened his heart, but then later
it gets to the point where it's God hardened Pharaoh's heart because he pushed God and
he pushed God and God hardened his heart.
Another really similar story is with the sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, where Eli is
preaching to his sons and trying to get his sons to repent in 1 Samuel.
But then the Bible says that they hearken not unto him because the Lord would destroy them.
God wanted to destroy them because they had pushed it too far.
They'd gone over the edge.
They'd gone over the cliff to the point where God hardened their hearts, blinded their minds.
And guess what it calls the sons of Eli?
Sons of Belial and Belial, Belial, Bel, Beelzebub, those are all names of the devil, right?
So isn't there also an idea in the Bible of sons of Belial or sons of the devil being
beyond salvation?
Absolutely.
Yeah.
And in fact, when Jesus speaking to the Pharisees who were the religious leaders of the day
of salvation, of works-based salvation, he says to them in John 8, ye are of your father
the devil and the lust of your father what ye do.
He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, but the truth is not in
him.
He's a liar and the father of it, the Bible says.
So he specifically says to them that they are the children of the devil.
And that's the same people four chapters later in chapter 12, he's going to say, therefore
they could not believe.
Right.
It's that same mentality.
It's the exact same people.
You know, the Bible obviously says that sinners, just people in general, are dead in their
trespasses and sin, but the Bible specifically highlights a group of people that are twice
dead plucked up by the roots and that's referring to reprobates.
Right.
Because it also talks about, you know, the scribes and the Pharisees compassing sea
and land to make one proselyte.
And when he's made, they make him twofold more the child of hell as themselves.
And in Jude, when he talks about them being twice dead, he says, trees whose fruit withereth
without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots, raging waves of the sea, foaming
out their own shame, wandering stars to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness forever.
Yeah.
So it's like their parts been taken out of the book of life and out of the holy city
and out of the things that you're written in that book.
And it said they've got a reservation with their name on it in hell.
Yeah.
You know what?
That's why it's important to reach people before they get to that point.
So instead of whining about, oh, these people can no longer be saved.
What about the 90 percent of the population who can still be saved?
Yeah.
More than 90 percent.
Yeah.
We can still go out there and preach the gospel to them.
You know, now's the appointed time.
Today is the day of salvation for them.
We need to go out there and preach them the gospel so they can be saved.
What does the Bible say?
Seek ye the Lord while he may be found.
You know, that's why today is the day of salvation, because eventually it's going to be too late
for people.
Even if they don't become a reprobate, it's going to be too late when they die without
Christ.
Right.
So there's no use crying over spilled milk.
So many Christians think that we're hateful or something because we preach the reprobate
doctrine.
Nothing could be further from the truth because, you know, we love the loss and we want people
to get saved before it's too late.
It's just that we're not going to sit there and try to resuscitate a dead corpse.
You know, we want to administer spiritual first aid to the people who actually need
it.
Right.
Okay.
Instead of just, you know, going to the cemetery, digging up a bunch of dead bodies and then,
all right, get out the paddles.
Let's do CPR.
Let's do mouth to mouth.
Yeah.
It's a fool's errand.
Right.
You know, and people say, oh, the church, the hospital for the sick, you know, but it's
like, yeah, but it's not a morgue, you know, and people that are twice dead, you know,
it's time to just move on and get to the people that still can be saved, which is the vast
majority of people.
Like you said, it's way more than 90% of people that can be saved.
Let's just focus on winning them to Christ.
Let's go.
What about all those times when we only saw one set of footprints?
That's where I carried you.