Matthew 2nd here from Verity Baptist Church Manila and providing you with a video on the topic of Calvinism and irresistible grace.
And one of the points in Calvinism, the I states that, you know what, God's grace is irresistible.
So if God chooses you, you cannot reject it, you cannot refuse it, but you're going to be saved no matter what.
That basically if God chooses you, you're going to heaven, but if he doesn't choose you, you're going to go to hell.
Well, here's the thing about this, the Bible actually teaches that God's grace, it is resistible.
Notice what it says in Acts 7 51,
Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised and hardened ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost.
As your fathers did, so do ye.
And so, what is it that Stephen says?
He says ye do always resist the Holy Ghost.
Now wait a minute, I thought God's grace was irresistible.
I thought that you couldn't resist.
What Calvinist is probably going to say is, well, you know, in that verse though, he's talking to people that weren't elect.
So they were able to resist the Holy Ghost.
They were forced to resist the Holy Ghost.
But no, Stephen's putting the blame on them that they chose to resist the Holy Ghost.
It's not that God is forcing them.
They have their choice and they choose to resist the Holy Ghost.
And so Stephen's mad at them.
And obviously this coming from God is God's mad at them for resisting the Holy Ghost.
And what happens, they end up stoning Stephen.
And Stephen says that you did this as your fathers did as well.
And so no matter what time period you live in, people have always had the choice to accept or reject the message of salvation.
And you can resist the Holy Ghost.
God wants us to preach the Gospel to everybody.
And when people hear the Word of God, God wants them to be saved.
He's drawing them, but they've got to make that choice if they're going to believe or not.
And so some people are going to choose to resist the Holy Ghost.
They're going to resist the message of salvation when they hear it, even though God is trying to get them saved.
Even though God is drawing them, they still have their free will choice.
Now we as soul owners, we do not know who's going to accept or reject the message of salvation.
And so what do we do?
We preach the Gospel to everybody.
Because I have no clue when I'm knocking doors whether or not someone's going to accept it or reject it.
If they're going to accept it or if they're going to resist it.
But according to the Bible in Acts 7 51, you do always resist the Holy Ghost.
So it's just kind of interesting how the acronym they use, the I, where they say it is irresistible.
There's a verse that flat out destroys that because Stephen says,
Ye do always resist the Holy Ghost.
Thank you and God bless.