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In chains I was bound,

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But truth found me there.

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I traded my black heart for

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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brought to you from Mountain View Baptist Church

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live every Monday night at 6PM

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central time.

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And welcome in tonight, everyone. We're gonna have

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a great show,

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I think, for everybody.

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Can you hear me now, Dennis? I hear

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you now. There we go. Yes, Dan.

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So Dennis looking like, hey, I'm not hearing

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anything. And I was like, uh-oh.

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It's great to be here tonight and we

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are grateful that you're joining us. We're gonna

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have a pretty deep discussion tonight. But, going

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in, how are we doing this week, brother

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Brian? I'm doing good, man. Doing good. I've,

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had had a couple of funerals already. We'll

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see you had one Saturday.

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Had a memorial service today and,

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you know, just seeing some saints going home.

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that. So

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Awesome. Well, but, hey, that's always a good

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thing to celebrate, somebody getting to

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go home as much as it hurts the

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family and it hurts to lose them. Boy,

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it's a joy to know that they're home

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and they're at peace. Amen. How about it,

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brother Dennis? How you doing tonight? Doing all

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right, man. Doing all right. That's all. It's

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it's another Monday. Another Monday. I was just

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thinking,

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I said to you earlier, I was like,

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man, it don't seem like a week since

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Carter was here. I know. I know. Seems

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like it was about two days ago. Fast.

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Yeah. Did I mention I got a grandbaby?

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You had mentioned that. Okay. When did that

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happen? I said, I

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she's here. Okay. It was like two or

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three days ago. Right? Yeah.

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Well, tonight we are gonna be discussing

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Calvinism,

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Arminianism a little bit,

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but diving into it because there's a lot

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of discussion about this and,

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a lot of people have have teachings on

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this and talk about it. And there's a

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lot of good things to be said for

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all of it.

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You know, one of the things that we

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have to remember anytime you study something like

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this, that's such a deep

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point of our faith

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is that,

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the reason there's a little bit of confusion

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I have to agree with a lot of

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things that a lot of people end it

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with, with God knows. God knows God has

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a plan and, and we do not understand

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all of his ways. And I have to,

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I always go back to that and that

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is 100% true, but it's also nice to,

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at least kind of figure out where you

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stand on some of these issues.

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know. And that's, that's an okay place to

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and to keep it, keep in your mind.

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point out as we go into it,

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a lot of our doctrine that we have

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in the church, it comes from

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so many, so many different sources. It

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the Catholic church,

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say against Protestants is that, well, you guys

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don't really know what you believe cause you

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can't trace it all back to just, you

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know, Hey, what the Pope said, that's it.

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Bible and it's like, well, yeah, but you

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have disagreement on what the Bible says. And

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it's like, well, that's true.

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we believe, believe it in the Bible instead

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of just going back to the writings of

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some saint or the writings of some of

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a Pope from be it the current one

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or the one before him or the one

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thousand, you know, a hundred years ago.

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the modern Protestant faith really evolved over time

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from all of these different ideas and all

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of these different

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concepts and thoughts. And I mean, it all

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started with Martin Luther and the '95 thesis

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and him saying, Hey, look, these things are

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wrong. These things are 100%.

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You cannot argue that they're in scripture.

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of that. And Hey, you know,

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as a lot of people have said, you

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know, some of the ideas and the discussion

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about works

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that came from the Protestant reformation that came

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from, from us saying, Hey, look, faith without

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works is dead. You gotta work. You gotta

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be doing some work. And then it took

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some other people coming along and saying, but

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Hey, it's not all about works. It's about

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Jesus and your salvation is about him. The,

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the works are what come as a result

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of that. And it and these things grow

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and evolve over time. So it's always good

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to remember, we would not be where we

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are today without these ideas and without these

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things,

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either having been a % accepted or accepted

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by 50% or whatever

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at one time.

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people sometimes have a tendency to just immediately

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jump on board without fully understanding. And so

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I just wanna make sure that we keep

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in mind, hey, look. Some of these ideas,

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they they have their reason. They have some

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scripture to back it up, but you gotta

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take it as a whole and we gotta

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put it in context. So

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diving in just really quick tonight, the five,

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main tenants of, Calvinism

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is the idea of total total depravity,

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which is a search that as a consequence

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of the fall of man into sin, every

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person is enslaved to sin. I'm going to

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stop there with the description of it. It

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goes deeper, but I don't want to get

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into that just yet.

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Unconditional election asserts that God has chosen from

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eternity. Those whom he will bring to himself,

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not based on foreseen value, merit or faith

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in those people. Rather his choice is unconditionally

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grounded

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in his mercy alone.

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Limited atonement asserts that Jesus's substitutionary

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atonement was

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definite and certain in its purpose and what

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it accomplished.

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Irresistible

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grace asserts that the saving grace of God

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is, is effectively applied to those whom he

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has determined to save

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and overcomes their resistance to obeying the call

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of the gospel, bringing them to a saving

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faith and perseverance of the saints. The saints

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being those whom God has predestined salvation,

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asserts that since God is sovereign and his

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will cannot be frustrated by humans or anything

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else, Those whom God has called into communion

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with himself will continue in faith until the

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end. So those are the five main tenants,

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the five tenants of Calvinism

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controversy really comes in with those three middle

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ones because pretty much all Christians everywhere agree.

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We are completely and totally depraved. We cannot

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save ourselves. We, it is not in us.

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doing good things even in our depraved state.

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sometimes selfish or there's an ulterior motive generally,

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sometimes it may be somewhat altruistic, but there's

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always that nature of how does this benefit

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me that comes in there when we do

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good and you're not a Christian. There, there

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is something and you know, but then again,

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you also have some atheists that will say,

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Hey, look, I don't go out and do

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bad things because why? And it's like, okay,

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you know, that's

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it. And the, the point is, you see

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no purpose, you see no value in the

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bad things. And, you know, so it's still

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very selfish reasoning there. And the other one

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that we pretty much all, well, I'm not

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going to say all, one of the things

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that we here at mountain view at least

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agree on a % is the perseverance of

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the saints.

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there is nothing that can take you out

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of the hand of God. We get that

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Arminianism teaching

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was that if you can accept it, you

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can choose later to reject it. And it

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was this teaching that came along and said,

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Oh, wait, no, what God has saved is

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Yeah. But it's that middle part that I

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think really

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kind of gets into some interesting conversations. So

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this that,

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a lot of really bright minds and very

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studied people throughout the Christian history have come

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on have landed on different sides of this

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thing. And and, some of this stuff is

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not core to your beliefs. And and if

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you're a believer tonight, you need to talk

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to God and study your Bible, first and

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foremost. So some of the things I believe

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are, I believe some some of the stuff

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like perseverance of the saints is really

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hinges on who I know God to be.

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And that's core to me. But but let's

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let's just be just be careful. We can

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grapple with this stuff and, most people come

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away I'm like, for instance, I'm I'm two

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fifths Calvinist.

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Yeah. Right? And I'm three fifths Armenian. Right.

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Yeah. And and I agree with a lot

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of the the opposite side of this thing

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is the Armenians. Right? They both lived in

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the fifteen hundreds, John Calvin and this Arminius

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dude. And, of course, the Armenians gave birth

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to Wesley, John Wesley, who gave birth to

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the Methodist movement, which gave birth to the

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Wesleyans and the, the Church of God Church

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of God, Yeah. And and a lot of

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people. And and everybody falls on difference. That

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doesn't mean you're not saved. No. No. And

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I mean, even in even the first one

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that we talked about that basically that man

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is unable to self respond to God,

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the the arm Armenianism,

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really rejects that. I mean, not totally, but

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they say if the a sinner can do

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good and respond to God.

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Well, and I did leave I did leave

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that particular part of that explanation out. So

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let's talk about that for a minute because

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that is that first tenant, the total depravity

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does say that we cannot

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respond to God. Mhmm. We cannot. That that

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is actually what that teaching

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says. So we've got to again, we've got

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to come in between them.

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We can respond to God, because we do

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have responsibility. Okay. Let's let's back up just

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for a minute because I want Yeah. I

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I want everybody to don't want this to

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be an argument among Christians, but I want

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you to I want you to understand,

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we're dealing with the sovereignty of God

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and and,

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man's free will.

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is the sovereignty of God true?

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Yes. Is man's free will true? Yes. Okay.

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So you've got two truths that come beside

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each other. Right? That that are there together

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and and both of them both of them

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are very much true.

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And so we've got we've gotten to see

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that. Yes.

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You are totally depraved.

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You have been fall you have fallen into

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sin.

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You do not deserve

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heaven. You deserve hell. And I'm speaking for

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myself,

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as well as anyone else. Right?

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There is none there there's none righteous. No.

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Not one. That's what the Bible tells us.

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So we know that.

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And at the fall of man, I mean,

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from there until now,

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we're born into sin and so

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what what gets sticky in in armenianism

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is that we can somehow do good enough

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to

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stay saved

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which gets back into the perseverance of the

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saints. And the last point that

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somehow if you get saved you can become

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unsaved. And that's what Dennis was talking about.

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Like, yes, I believe we're totally deprived

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and yes, I believe that once we're saved

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that nothing can take that away from us.

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So that makes you do fifth. Right? So,

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yeah, that's that, and I'm there too. Right?

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I'm I'm I'm I'm right there with you.

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Yeah. Yeah. And and and the total total

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depravity is, well, the description I've got is

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not not the full the full Monte on

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thing, you know. But it's,

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people are capable of doing good. Look all

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around us in the world today. Unsafe people

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are doing all kinds of good deeds. Right?

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And and and they do have the capability

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to respond to God. You know, I I

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always reference people like I made that statement

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about how some, you know, atheist will talk

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about,

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the fact that, you know, I don't do

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evil because why would I do these bad

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thing? You know, you look at somebody like

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Ricky Gervais. He is a massive atheist.

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And he has very, very openly spoken against

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Christianity and against God. And one of his

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things that always bothers him is when Christians

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have the audacity to come to him and

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say, well, if you don't have a creator,

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how can you ever do a good thing?

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And he's just like, or what stops you

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from going out and just doing whatever you

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want to do? And he's like, well, I'll

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do whatever I want to do. I just

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don't want to do these horrible things that

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you think I want to do. Yeah. And

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the biblical position is, is that, you know,

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our, our righteousness is filthy. Right.

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We can be righteous. It's just, it still

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falls short. It falls short. Yeah. Here's the

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thing. It does not mean that every perp

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every person as it is as bad as

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they could be. Right. You know what I'm

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saying? I mean, we're bad. We're sinners, but

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some people

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let that sin go a lot further than

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other people do. But here's the thing. Here's

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the here's the point of it all.

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Whether it's whether it's a sin of murder

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or a lie,

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you stole a pencil out of your, school,

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you know,

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your your teacher's

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desk.

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All of those sins

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separate us from God. We've got to understand

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that. It doesn't matter. We're not we're not

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weighing out big sin, little sin here.

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We just know that sin separates us from

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God and that that Jesus Christ is the

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bridge that that brings us back, that connects

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us with the God of the universe and

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allows us to once again

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have a relationship with our creator. Yeah. And

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it goes even deeper than that. Right? Because

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we're born into sin from the sin of

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Adam. Yes. And and we can't get out

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of it. That's right. There's no rescue from

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it other than Jesus Christ. That's it. That's

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it. He is the only way. I'm the

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way, the truth, and life. No one Right.

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No one comes to the father

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but by me. Right.

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So we see a few things here. So

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let's go into some scripture and I know

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you probably got a bunch of scripture over

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there.

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You know,

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John three, John six, John ten, second Peter,

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Matthew. There's just so much. I mean, there's

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so much that we can go to.

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And you can see

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in all of these scriptures,

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or or in the scripture as a whole,

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God's sovereignty

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and man's free will. Yeah. I believe you

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see it all the way through there. You

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cannot you cannot go all the way into

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God's sovereignty and all the way into God

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into man's free will because both of them

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both of them are two truths that that

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are side by side.

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Of course, John three sixteen, for God so

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loved the world The world. The world. Everyone.

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And then that word, whosoever. Yeah. Right? Yeah.

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You're a whosoever. I'm a whosoever. Yeah. If

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you're listening, you're a whosoever too. Whosoever believeth

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in him shall not perish, but have everlasting

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life. The problem is

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is the way that we read this and

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the way that you wanna believe it. Right?

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If you're,

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if you fall on on the side of

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Calvinism,

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then you're gonna say, well, yeah, but but

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he means whosoever

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that he is elected, whosoever he has chosen.

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Yeah. You know, so that's

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you've got to understand

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that both

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both of these running side by side are

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both truth. There's a tension. Yeah. And and

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the the

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there's so many things you can bring up.

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Yeah. You know? And again, second Peter three,

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verse nine, the Lord is not slow about

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his promises, some count slowness, but is patient

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toward you, not wishing for any to perish

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That's right. For all to come to repentance.

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Absolutely. Absolutely. He's he's he's going out into

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all the world. Yeah. Yeah. You know, and

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and the thing that I always do to

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to kind of in within my own mind

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reconcile that is that it in God's

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infinite wisdom,

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he has the ability

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to take away our choice.

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Yeah.

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But he chooses not to. Right. It's

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love.

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It's it's love. Right. He want he he

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because of that relationship he wants and I

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mean and now we're speculating on the reason

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when we say that. We believe it because

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the Bible

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day, for whatever the reason is, he chooses

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to

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limit

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his influence over that particular decision.

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And the times where he doesn't limit his

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influence over that decision, because I think there

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are probably times and there are examples that

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we can find from the Bible where he

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says, I chose you to do this before

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you were even say before you knew. Now

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he already knows that how they're gonna respond

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to his choice. Yeah. But

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there are times where that's what a miracle

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is. That's where you come in with this

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big miracle. And he goes, I am literally

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moving heaven and earth to make this happen.

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And that's people like Paul that's people like,

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some of the, the old Testament prophets that

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you see where he, he, the way he

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chooses them, they, I mean, Jonah runs

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and runs and runs and runs. And God

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says, well, okay, look, I'm really not giving

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you a choice. I mean, you can have

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a choice to stay in the belly of

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the fish, but I'm not really giving you

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a choice here. And he chooses at those

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times, but those are these major miracles,

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which is no greater

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when you think about the miracle of saving

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our totally depraved sinful souls. Yeah. We're dead

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in our sins and trespasses. That's right. It's

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it's that's plain. That's right. Very plain. Right.

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So so in that sense, the depravity is

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real. And and it's and it's we're we're

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born with it. Yeah. Mhmm. Born with it.

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We're not sin sick. We're sin dead. Yeah.

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Yeah. Yeah. We're in slavery. Right? It's just

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like Israel when they were in slavery in

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Egypt, and they were released into the wilderness.

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Yeah.

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Let's look at,

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John six,

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34.

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Yeah.

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Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give

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us this bread. He'd been talking about himself.

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Right? The bread of life. And Jesus said

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to them, I am the bread of life.

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He that cometh to me shall never hunger

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and he that believeth on me shall never

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thirst.

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So we know that he's the bread of

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life, but he also says he that believeth

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on me. He that come to me. You

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gotta trust in me. But I said unto

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you that you also have seen me and

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believe not. So you have the choice to

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believe. You have the choice to believe not.

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All that the father given me giveth me

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shall come to me and him that cometh

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to me I will in no wise cast

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out.

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Again,

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following on on both sides of of the

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spectrum there,

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depending on what you believe, you're gonna you

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may read that a little bit different. But

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again, you have in this in these verses,

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you have God's sovereignty

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and you have man's free will. For I

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came down from heaven not to do my

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own will, but the will of him that

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sent me. And this is the father's will

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which has sent me, that of all which

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he has given me, k, he gave he

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get all that he's given me. I should

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lose nothing, but should raise it up again

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in the last day.

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And this is the will of him that

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sent me, that everyone which seeth the son

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and believeth on him. So he says, hey.

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Here we go. It's it's

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all that the father has given me. So

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Calvin said, well,

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that that means they're elected. That means that

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they're chosen. That means that they don't have

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a choice. But then he says,

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all all of those that that believe on

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me,

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will have everlasting life, and I will raise

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him up in the last day. So, again,

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there's a choice. There's a on both sides.

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Right?

531
00:19:41,134 --> 00:19:42,815
And, of course, I'll say this. And I

532
00:19:42,815 --> 00:19:44,174
I know y'all heard me talk about this

533
00:19:44,174 --> 00:19:45,535
before. I talked about it last night a

534
00:19:45,535 --> 00:19:46,835
little bit in our bible study.

535
00:19:47,615 --> 00:19:48,720
But I believe this.

536
00:19:49,359 --> 00:19:50,960
I I think he chose us when we

537
00:19:51,119 --> 00:19:52,640
when he chose us to breathe the breath

538
00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,640
of life. I mean, I think if you

539
00:19:54,640 --> 00:19:56,640
were born, if you've been born into this

540
00:19:56,640 --> 00:19:59,220
world because he could have chosen not to

541
00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:02,159
not to create you, not to put you

542
00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:03,865
in your mother's womb. Right? He could have

543
00:20:03,865 --> 00:20:06,025
chosen not to do that at all, but

544
00:20:06,025 --> 00:20:09,224
he did. So I think that birth, our

545
00:20:09,224 --> 00:20:11,484
our first birth, our our physical birth

546
00:20:11,785 --> 00:20:14,105
is his choice that he's given us to

547
00:20:14,105 --> 00:20:16,119
breathe the breath of life. Now at some

548
00:20:16,119 --> 00:20:18,220
point in time, we're gonna hear the gospel.

549
00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:19,980
Hopefully,

550
00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:22,519
we hear the gospel. We respond to the

551
00:20:22,519 --> 00:20:25,000
gospel. Either we reject it or we accept

552
00:20:25,000 --> 00:20:27,259
it. If we reject it, then

553
00:20:27,640 --> 00:20:29,720
we're gonna spend eternity in hell. If we

554
00:20:29,720 --> 00:20:32,375
accept it, we're gonna spend eternity with him.

555
00:20:32,434 --> 00:20:34,434
That would be our second birth. That that

556
00:20:34,434 --> 00:20:36,115
is our spiritual birth. So

557
00:20:37,715 --> 00:20:38,674
Yeah. I think about,

558
00:20:39,715 --> 00:20:42,295
the the choices. The choices. Right? Matthew seven,

559
00:20:42,690 --> 00:20:44,529
Jesus says enter through the narrow gate for

560
00:20:44,529 --> 00:20:46,049
the gate is wide and the way is

561
00:20:46,049 --> 00:20:47,349
broad that leads to destruction.

562
00:20:47,809 --> 00:20:49,250
And there are many who enter through it.

563
00:20:49,250 --> 00:20:50,450
For the gate is small and the way

564
00:20:50,450 --> 00:20:51,730
is narrow that leads to life and there

565
00:20:51,730 --> 00:20:53,409
are few who find it. Yeah. That sounds

566
00:20:53,409 --> 00:20:55,345
like a choice we make. Yeah. Sounds a

567
00:20:55,345 --> 00:20:57,345
lot like a choice. And invitations, I've got

568
00:20:57,345 --> 00:20:58,544
a list of them here. I can't I'm

569
00:20:58,544 --> 00:21:00,625
not gonna read them all, but Matthew eleven

570
00:21:00,625 --> 00:21:03,345
twenty eight, John seven thirty seven, John twenty

571
00:21:03,345 --> 00:21:05,984
one twelve, Mark ten twenty one, Revelation twenty

572
00:21:05,984 --> 00:21:07,924
two seventeen says come.

573
00:21:08,509 --> 00:21:11,630
He's he's he's constantly saying come. Yeah. Come.

574
00:21:11,630 --> 00:21:14,929
Join me. Yeah. Follow me. That's right. And

575
00:21:15,069 --> 00:21:17,069
if if it's if it's down to this

576
00:21:17,069 --> 00:21:19,230
unconditional election, which is the you and the

577
00:21:19,230 --> 00:21:21,549
tulip. Right? Mhmm. That people just don't have

578
00:21:21,549 --> 00:21:23,174
a choice but to go to him.

579
00:21:23,654 --> 00:21:25,975
You're either elected or not. And it's this

580
00:21:25,975 --> 00:21:28,134
this little description says because man is dead

581
00:21:28,134 --> 00:21:30,215
in sin, he is unable to initiate a

582
00:21:30,215 --> 00:21:31,355
response to God.

583
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And,

584
00:21:33,414 --> 00:21:35,815
this whole thing this whole thing for me

585
00:21:35,815 --> 00:21:36,934
falls back on,

586
00:21:37,654 --> 00:21:40,579
who is God? Yeah. And and what is

587
00:21:40,579 --> 00:21:42,419
what is he looking for from us? He

588
00:21:42,419 --> 00:21:44,659
is our Abba Father as a Christian. He

589
00:21:44,659 --> 00:21:46,419
is your father, and he wants the same

590
00:21:46,419 --> 00:21:48,980
dynamic we want with our kids. Yeah. And

591
00:21:48,980 --> 00:21:51,299
and and he doesn't he doesn't wanna kill

592
00:21:51,299 --> 00:21:52,955
us. He he wants us to be able

593
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to make a choice and to love him

594
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freely. Right. And the only way that that

595
00:21:57,394 --> 00:21:59,154
can be possible is if we have that

596
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choice and that free will to come to

597
00:22:00,835 --> 00:22:02,994
him or not. Yeah. I agree. And it

598
00:22:02,994 --> 00:22:04,849
goes back to what I was saying. You

599
00:22:04,910 --> 00:22:07,329
know, if you've been born into this world,

600
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then you have a choice, right, at some

601
00:22:09,230 --> 00:22:10,049
point, sometime.

602
00:22:10,509 --> 00:22:13,309
And and it doesn't take away from the

603
00:22:13,309 --> 00:22:14,130
fact that

604
00:22:14,910 --> 00:22:16,849
if you spend eternity in hell,

605
00:22:17,174 --> 00:22:20,134
that it makes God bad. Right? That's that's

606
00:22:20,134 --> 00:22:22,695
the world's view. Well well, okay. But but,

607
00:22:22,695 --> 00:22:24,695
you know, I believe that God is sovereign.

608
00:22:24,695 --> 00:22:26,295
I believe it's it's his will that none

609
00:22:26,295 --> 00:22:27,995
should perish but also come to repentance.

610
00:22:28,775 --> 00:22:30,295
I believe he loves us. He loves us

611
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like a father.

612
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He's not gonna give us, you know, a

613
00:22:33,740 --> 00:22:35,500
a rock when we ask for bread or,

614
00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:38,299
you know, to all he's he's good. He's

615
00:22:38,299 --> 00:22:39,200
good to us,

616
00:22:39,740 --> 00:22:42,299
but he's also a righteous judge. Right? And

617
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so I know that if I do not

618
00:22:44,059 --> 00:22:45,900
accept what he tells me that that is

619
00:22:45,900 --> 00:22:46,880
that is truth

620
00:22:47,224 --> 00:22:49,565
and and I reject that truth, then

621
00:22:50,025 --> 00:22:52,525
by rejection of that truth, I'm found guilty.

622
00:22:52,984 --> 00:22:55,545
Right? I I I mean, I I can't

623
00:22:55,545 --> 00:22:57,625
argue with that and no one that will

624
00:22:57,625 --> 00:22:59,224
stand at the great white throne of God

625
00:22:59,224 --> 00:23:01,190
will argue with the fact that they're guilty.

626
00:23:01,250 --> 00:23:02,950
They may beg for their lives,

627
00:23:03,329 --> 00:23:05,730
but they're guilty. And so you got these

628
00:23:05,730 --> 00:23:08,230
two things. Yes. God is love. Yes. God

629
00:23:08,369 --> 00:23:09,829
cares enough about us

630
00:23:10,289 --> 00:23:11,890
to give us the gospel that we might

631
00:23:11,890 --> 00:23:13,955
choose the gospel. But if we do not

632
00:23:13,955 --> 00:23:15,715
choose the gospel, then we can then we'll

633
00:23:15,715 --> 00:23:18,275
spend eternity separated from him. The difficulty with

634
00:23:18,275 --> 00:23:20,674
Calvinism though. Right? Or reformed theology, whatever you

635
00:23:20,674 --> 00:23:22,195
wanna call it, is that if you don't

636
00:23:22,195 --> 00:23:23,575
have a choice, then then

637
00:23:24,275 --> 00:23:26,515
all the bad decisions I've made are whose

638
00:23:26,515 --> 00:23:27,015
responsibility.

639
00:23:27,475 --> 00:23:29,660
Yeah. I didn't have a choice. They were

640
00:23:29,660 --> 00:23:31,740
God's responsibility, and that makes him guilty of

641
00:23:31,740 --> 00:23:33,900
my sin. And that is a big, big

642
00:23:33,900 --> 00:23:35,900
problem. And and how do you answer somebody

643
00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:37,420
that says, well, how how could a good

644
00:23:37,420 --> 00:23:39,980
God send somebody to hell? Yeah. Yeah. What

645
00:23:39,980 --> 00:23:42,295
are you gonna say? Right. Or his ways

646
00:23:42,295 --> 00:23:43,815
are above ours. That's what I'm saying. Yeah.

647
00:23:43,815 --> 00:23:45,575
Yeah. That's the only answer I can imagine.

648
00:23:45,575 --> 00:23:47,215
If you trust in that, you can't go

649
00:23:47,335 --> 00:23:48,695
you can't get both of them in the

650
00:23:48,695 --> 00:23:50,215
same box. We have a choice. We have

651
00:23:50,215 --> 00:23:50,795
a responsibility

652
00:23:51,255 --> 00:23:53,095
to do something when we've heard the gospel.

653
00:23:53,095 --> 00:23:55,575
Yeah. And and and Jesus says plainly in

654
00:23:55,894 --> 00:23:57,019
look at Matthew

655
00:23:57,480 --> 00:23:58,619
13. Matthew 13,

656
00:24:00,440 --> 00:24:00,940
verse

657
00:24:01,960 --> 00:24:03,500
three. Let me find it here.

658
00:24:03,799 --> 00:24:05,960
I'm doing my flipping here. In verse three,

659
00:24:05,960 --> 00:24:08,279
he he tells a story, a story of

660
00:24:08,279 --> 00:24:08,924
a sower

661
00:24:09,404 --> 00:24:11,644
a sower. Somebody that goes out to sow

662
00:24:11,644 --> 00:24:13,644
seed. Right? And you don't plant seeds in

663
00:24:13,644 --> 00:24:15,725
the ground if you're sowing. You scatter it.

664
00:24:15,725 --> 00:24:18,365
You throw it. Right? It's just slung everywhere.

665
00:24:18,365 --> 00:24:20,045
And some of it lands on the road,

666
00:24:20,045 --> 00:24:21,725
and the birds come and snatch it away.

667
00:24:21,725 --> 00:24:24,230
That's and Jesus explains that's the devil that

668
00:24:24,230 --> 00:24:25,990
takes it away from somebody's heart. That's right.

669
00:24:25,990 --> 00:24:28,070
And this sow this seed that's being sown

670
00:24:28,070 --> 00:24:29,990
is the word of God. Amen. It's the

671
00:24:29,990 --> 00:24:30,490
gospel.

672
00:24:30,789 --> 00:24:32,789
And and some of it hits rocky soil,

673
00:24:32,789 --> 00:24:34,549
and it doesn't have any depth of root,

674
00:24:34,549 --> 00:24:36,330
so it withers in the sun and dies.

675
00:24:36,424 --> 00:24:37,944
And some of it lands in the weeds,

676
00:24:37,944 --> 00:24:40,025
the thorns, and it's all choked up because

677
00:24:40,025 --> 00:24:41,304
of the cares of the world. And he

678
00:24:41,304 --> 00:24:42,904
says some of it falls on good soil

679
00:24:42,904 --> 00:24:45,224
where it produces fruit. Yeah. And it's all

680
00:24:45,224 --> 00:24:47,304
about the soil. What kind of soil are

681
00:24:47,304 --> 00:24:49,544
we? That's right. Amen. And we have that

682
00:24:49,544 --> 00:24:51,899
choice. Yes. I agree. I agree. We

683
00:24:52,619 --> 00:24:53,359
look at,

684
00:24:55,179 --> 00:24:55,759
look at

685
00:24:56,619 --> 00:24:59,740
Luke chapter 14. Luke chapter 14. Let me

686
00:24:59,740 --> 00:25:02,000
let me find that real quick. Luke chapter

687
00:25:06,035 --> 00:25:08,275
14 and I should already had it ready,

688
00:25:08,275 --> 00:25:08,674
but,

689
00:25:09,234 --> 00:25:11,154
go to verse 16. So when you get

690
00:25:11,154 --> 00:25:12,054
to verse 16,

691
00:25:12,755 --> 00:25:14,515
you start reading this. We'll we'll back up

692
00:25:14,515 --> 00:25:16,674
to 15. And when one of them that

693
00:25:16,674 --> 00:25:18,755
sat and meet with him heard these things,

694
00:25:18,755 --> 00:25:20,710
the things that Jesus was saying, He said

695
00:25:20,710 --> 00:25:22,630
unto him, blessed is he that shall eat

696
00:25:22,630 --> 00:25:25,430
bread in the kingdom of God. Then said

697
00:25:25,430 --> 00:25:27,350
he unto them. This is the words of

698
00:25:27,350 --> 00:25:27,850
Jesus.

699
00:25:28,549 --> 00:25:29,690
A certain man

700
00:25:30,230 --> 00:25:31,370
made a great supper.

701
00:25:31,990 --> 00:25:34,744
And listen to these words. He bade many.

702
00:25:34,744 --> 00:25:37,625
In other words, he invited many people to

703
00:25:37,625 --> 00:25:38,365
come in

704
00:25:39,304 --> 00:25:41,944
and sent his servant at supper time to

705
00:25:41,944 --> 00:25:45,065
say to them that were bidden, come for

706
00:25:45,065 --> 00:25:47,679
all things are ready now. So two things

707
00:25:47,679 --> 00:25:50,159
already that we see here. Number one, he

708
00:25:50,159 --> 00:25:50,659
invited

709
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:52,099
people to come

710
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:54,880
and those people if you get an invite,

711
00:25:54,880 --> 00:25:56,799
guess what? You you respond to it. You

712
00:25:56,799 --> 00:25:59,315
RSVP. Right? You respond to it or you

713
00:25:59,315 --> 00:26:00,974
or you reject it. Now

714
00:26:01,515 --> 00:26:03,195
when it when it got time, when it

715
00:26:03,195 --> 00:26:05,375
was getting time close to supper and

716
00:26:05,674 --> 00:26:07,994
and nobody had come, it wasn't like he's

717
00:26:08,154 --> 00:26:10,174
he he didn't care. And he's like, no.

718
00:26:10,634 --> 00:26:12,555
I'm done with him. No. He said, I'm

719
00:26:12,555 --> 00:26:14,335
gonna send the servant out now,

720
00:26:14,690 --> 00:26:16,450
and I'm gonna I'm gonna get the servant

721
00:26:16,450 --> 00:26:17,429
to tell them, hey.

722
00:26:18,130 --> 00:26:20,130
The time's almost here. You know, the food's

723
00:26:20,130 --> 00:26:21,589
almost ready. Come on in.

724
00:26:23,089 --> 00:26:24,069
And they all,

725
00:26:24,609 --> 00:26:25,349
with one

726
00:26:26,130 --> 00:26:28,575
consent, began to make excuse.

727
00:26:29,195 --> 00:26:31,355
The first said unto him, I bought a

728
00:26:31,355 --> 00:26:32,575
piece of ground

729
00:26:33,275 --> 00:26:35,434
and I must go and see it. I

730
00:26:35,434 --> 00:26:37,055
pray thee have me excuse.

731
00:26:37,434 --> 00:26:40,075
Another said, I bought five yoke of oxen.

732
00:26:40,075 --> 00:26:41,455
I go to approve them.

733
00:26:41,779 --> 00:26:44,259
I pray that you have any excuse. Another

734
00:26:44,259 --> 00:26:46,659
one said, I have married a wife and

735
00:26:46,659 --> 00:26:50,359
therefore I cannot come. So the servant came

736
00:26:50,419 --> 00:26:53,299
and showed his lord those things. Then the

737
00:26:53,299 --> 00:26:54,679
master of the house

738
00:26:55,654 --> 00:26:56,474
being angry

739
00:26:56,934 --> 00:26:59,894
said to his servant, go out quickly into

740
00:26:59,894 --> 00:27:01,835
the streets and the lanes of the city

741
00:27:01,974 --> 00:27:04,454
and bring in hither the poor and the

742
00:27:04,454 --> 00:27:06,634
maimed and the halt and the blind.

743
00:27:06,950 --> 00:27:09,269
And the servant said, Lord, it is done

744
00:27:09,269 --> 00:27:11,509
as thou has commanded and yet there is

745
00:27:11,509 --> 00:27:14,170
room. And the Lord said under the servant,

746
00:27:14,309 --> 00:27:16,650
go out into the highways and the hedges

747
00:27:17,029 --> 00:27:19,690
and compel them to come in

748
00:27:20,069 --> 00:27:22,904
that my house may be filled. For I

749
00:27:22,904 --> 00:27:25,384
say unto you that none of those men

750
00:27:25,384 --> 00:27:27,565
which were bidden shall taste of my supper.

751
00:27:27,625 --> 00:27:29,325
In other words, the ones that rejected

752
00:27:29,705 --> 00:27:32,744
him made a choice not to come. And

753
00:27:32,744 --> 00:27:35,465
so Jesus says, hey. Keep going. Keep going

754
00:27:35,465 --> 00:27:39,089
further. That's our command too. Right? Matthew 28.

755
00:27:39,089 --> 00:27:39,589
Right?

756
00:27:40,609 --> 00:27:41,970
He tells us to go go out go

757
00:27:41,970 --> 00:27:44,130
out into all nations, baptize them in the

758
00:27:44,130 --> 00:27:45,490
name of the father, son, and the holy

759
00:27:45,490 --> 00:27:48,690
spirit. Bring them in. Right? Right? Disciple them.

760
00:27:48,690 --> 00:27:51,330
Make them disciples. This is this is, really

761
00:27:51,330 --> 00:27:53,214
is is the same same kind of things

762
00:27:53,214 --> 00:27:55,294
in Matthew 22. The same kind of parable

763
00:27:55,294 --> 00:27:57,714
about the marriage feast. Right? Yeah. Yeah. And,

764
00:28:00,335 --> 00:28:03,394
this this parable that he told was mainly,

765
00:28:03,855 --> 00:28:04,674
to the Pharisees.

766
00:28:05,080 --> 00:28:07,640
Yeah. And and, who was God's chosen people?

767
00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:10,039
Who was who was chosen? Israel. They were

768
00:28:10,039 --> 00:28:12,440
called. They were chosen. Yeah. And they rejected

769
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:14,940
him. That's right. That's right. The chosen rejected

770
00:28:15,000 --> 00:28:17,160
him. Yeah. This goes much deeper than, yeah,

771
00:28:17,160 --> 00:28:18,840
what we're saying. Yeah. I mean, we're talking

772
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:20,894
about But you can be chosen and reject

773
00:28:20,894 --> 00:28:22,894
him because you've got a choice. That's it.

774
00:28:22,894 --> 00:28:24,195
That's it. And, again,

775
00:28:25,055 --> 00:28:27,214
if you're born, if you if you live,

776
00:28:27,214 --> 00:28:29,714
if you're able to hear and and understand,

777
00:28:30,335 --> 00:28:30,835
then

778
00:28:31,214 --> 00:28:33,214
he's chosen you, but now you've got to

779
00:28:33,214 --> 00:28:36,220
choose him. Right. You can reject him. Because

780
00:28:36,220 --> 00:28:38,539
of that's that Abba father relationship. That's it.

781
00:28:38,539 --> 00:28:40,619
You've got to choose it. It's his will

782
00:28:40,619 --> 00:28:43,259
that none should perish, but all should come

783
00:28:43,259 --> 00:28:44,000
to repentance.

784
00:28:44,940 --> 00:28:46,619
It just keeps going back to that. It

785
00:28:46,619 --> 00:28:48,059
keeps going back to that. He is a

786
00:28:48,059 --> 00:28:48,720
good father.

787
00:28:49,035 --> 00:28:51,755
And and look look back at at at,

788
00:28:52,154 --> 00:28:54,234
at the flood. Right? I mean, there was

789
00:28:54,234 --> 00:28:57,055
Noah preaching a hundred and twenty years.

790
00:28:57,595 --> 00:28:59,674
I mean, God loved them that much. He

791
00:28:59,674 --> 00:29:01,134
cared about them that much.

792
00:29:01,570 --> 00:29:03,009
When he told Noah, he said, okay. Here's

793
00:29:03,009 --> 00:29:04,769
what you're gonna do. You're gonna build an

794
00:29:04,769 --> 00:29:06,930
ark, and it's gonna take you a while.

795
00:29:06,930 --> 00:29:08,210
And this is what you're gonna need. You're

796
00:29:08,210 --> 00:29:09,650
gonna need a gopher wood, and you're gonna

797
00:29:09,650 --> 00:29:11,009
need this, and you're gonna need that. And

798
00:29:11,009 --> 00:29:12,930
you're gonna have to start bringing in animals.

799
00:29:12,930 --> 00:29:14,769
And people are gonna say you're crazy, and

800
00:29:14,769 --> 00:29:16,365
they're not gonna believe what you're doing. But

801
00:29:16,444 --> 00:29:17,644
I want you to preach. And that's what

802
00:29:17,644 --> 00:29:19,005
Noah was doing. People were saying, why are

803
00:29:19,005 --> 00:29:20,605
you doing this? Because God's gonna flood this

804
00:29:20,605 --> 00:29:22,924
place. And they're like, whatever. It's never even

805
00:29:22,924 --> 00:29:25,164
rained before. You know? I mean, you're crazy,

806
00:29:25,164 --> 00:29:27,005
old man. And and and he's like, I'm

807
00:29:27,005 --> 00:29:28,710
just telling you. That's what he told me.

808
00:29:28,789 --> 00:29:30,549
And I'm building this and I'm getting on

809
00:29:30,549 --> 00:29:31,829
it and y'all can get on it with

810
00:29:31,829 --> 00:29:33,349
me if you want to. But they were

811
00:29:33,349 --> 00:29:35,509
like, no. No. We're gonna keep doing we're

812
00:29:35,509 --> 00:29:37,109
gonna keep doing what we're doing. We're gonna

813
00:29:37,109 --> 00:29:37,609
keep

814
00:29:38,549 --> 00:29:40,470
living life the way we're living life right

815
00:29:40,470 --> 00:29:43,029
now. And guess what? We are gonna make

816
00:29:43,029 --> 00:29:44,250
a choice

817
00:29:45,134 --> 00:29:47,055
not to get on that boat. Now that

818
00:29:47,055 --> 00:29:48,734
boat was big enough for everybody if they

819
00:29:48,734 --> 00:29:50,174
wanted to get on it but it only

820
00:29:50,174 --> 00:29:52,815
ended up with Noah and his family. Right.

821
00:29:52,815 --> 00:29:54,815
Right. And he's still inviting people today. Right?

822
00:29:54,815 --> 00:29:56,849
One of the invitations is Matthew 28.

823
00:29:57,250 --> 00:29:59,809
Matthew eleven twenty eight. Come to me all

824
00:29:59,809 --> 00:30:01,569
you who are weary and heavy laden, and

825
00:30:01,569 --> 00:30:03,329
I will give you rest. Yeah. Take my

826
00:30:03,329 --> 00:30:04,769
yoke upon you and learn from me, for

827
00:30:04,769 --> 00:30:06,210
I am gentle and humble in heart, and

828
00:30:06,210 --> 00:30:07,970
you will find rest for your souls. For

829
00:30:07,970 --> 00:30:09,615
my yoke is easy. My burden is light.

830
00:30:09,615 --> 00:30:10,894
Come to me. That's right. That's right. Come

831
00:30:10,894 --> 00:30:12,894
to me. He's not just talking to well,

832
00:30:12,894 --> 00:30:14,734
you're selected, so you come to me, but

833
00:30:14,734 --> 00:30:16,994
nah, you can't come. Yeah. Yeah.

834
00:30:17,535 --> 00:30:19,375
That's not the god I know, man. No.

835
00:30:19,375 --> 00:30:21,615
That's not the father that I know. And

836
00:30:21,615 --> 00:30:23,615
and there is a difference. By the way,

837
00:30:23,615 --> 00:30:25,420
when one of the things that you will

838
00:30:25,420 --> 00:30:27,680
hear from people talking about this is

839
00:30:28,059 --> 00:30:29,519
that they're merely claiming

840
00:30:29,820 --> 00:30:31,660
that god in his infinite wisdom and in

841
00:30:31,660 --> 00:30:33,420
his infinite knowledge and in the fact that

842
00:30:33,420 --> 00:30:34,640
he is beyond time

843
00:30:34,940 --> 00:30:37,554
knows everyone. And it's like, no. No. Again,

844
00:30:37,554 --> 00:30:40,174
you go back and you read that unconditional

845
00:30:40,474 --> 00:30:40,974
election.

846
00:30:41,275 --> 00:30:44,174
It they the the statement here is explicitly

847
00:30:45,115 --> 00:30:48,075
that God is choosing the elect. And then

848
00:30:48,075 --> 00:30:49,755
also all of this, by the way, is

849
00:30:49,755 --> 00:30:53,630
also touching on the irresistible grace Saying that

850
00:30:53,630 --> 00:30:56,690
that that once they are chosen, they cannot

851
00:30:57,869 --> 00:30:58,369
reject.

852
00:30:58,829 --> 00:31:01,549
Meaning that, again, it goes back to that

853
00:31:01,549 --> 00:31:03,789
free will becomes abrogated and free will is

854
00:31:03,789 --> 00:31:04,769
no longer allowed.

855
00:31:06,190 --> 00:31:09,825
Miracles happen. Sometimes God has a very specific

856
00:31:09,825 --> 00:31:11,664
purpose and it's like, I have picked you

857
00:31:11,664 --> 00:31:13,825
for this and you will do what I've

858
00:31:13,825 --> 00:31:15,904
picked you for. Yeah. But a lot of

859
00:31:15,904 --> 00:31:18,245
times, it's more of a, yeah, I know

860
00:31:18,384 --> 00:31:18,884
prophecies.

861
00:31:19,200 --> 00:31:21,012
You go back to the prophecies. It wasn't

862
00:31:21,012 --> 00:31:22,824
because God was saying, I'm going to choose

863
00:31:22,824 --> 00:31:24,636
a bunch of people and they're gonna do

864
00:31:24,636 --> 00:31:26,449
this. He was saying, these things are going

865
00:31:26,449 --> 00:31:28,261
to happen because I've already seen the end.

866
00:31:28,261 --> 00:31:30,074
Yeah. He sees it from outside time. Right?

867
00:31:30,074 --> 00:31:31,886
And and that that irresistible grace one, that

868
00:31:32,113 --> 00:31:33,925
that's where I really fall down with the

869
00:31:33,925 --> 00:31:36,365
Wesleyans because, they they have something it's not

870
00:31:36,365 --> 00:31:38,865
not a biblical word, but neither is Trinity,

871
00:31:38,924 --> 00:31:41,164
neither is, you know, all these rapture and

872
00:31:41,164 --> 00:31:43,005
that kind of stuff. But they have something

873
00:31:43,005 --> 00:31:44,544
they call provenient grace.

874
00:31:44,845 --> 00:31:46,525
And it's really just a general grace that

875
00:31:46,525 --> 00:31:48,125
God has out in the entire world, and

876
00:31:48,125 --> 00:31:49,724
it's the same as that story of the

877
00:31:49,724 --> 00:31:52,019
sower. Right? That grace has gone out all

878
00:31:52,019 --> 00:31:53,859
over the world. Yeah. And that we do

879
00:31:53,859 --> 00:31:54,679
have the capability

880
00:31:54,980 --> 00:31:57,000
to respond to that. Yeah. Yeah.

881
00:31:57,460 --> 00:31:58,519
Amen. So

882
00:31:59,059 --> 00:32:01,299
let let's talk about what Tyler was,

883
00:32:02,019 --> 00:32:03,619
was talking about just a minute just a

884
00:32:03,619 --> 00:32:05,894
second ago that, you know, sometimes God does

885
00:32:05,894 --> 00:32:06,394
choose

886
00:32:06,694 --> 00:32:08,934
people to carry out certain things. I think

887
00:32:08,934 --> 00:32:10,954
he chooses all of us that especially

888
00:32:11,734 --> 00:32:12,554
his church.

889
00:32:13,015 --> 00:32:14,534
I think we've all got a job. Right.

890
00:32:14,534 --> 00:32:16,454
Absolutely. If you accepted Christ as your Lord

891
00:32:16,454 --> 00:32:18,154
and savior, we all got a job. But

892
00:32:18,259 --> 00:32:19,779
there are people and and we look through

893
00:32:19,779 --> 00:32:21,559
the bible, especially in the old testament,

894
00:32:22,180 --> 00:32:23,779
and we gotta understand too that the holy

895
00:32:23,779 --> 00:32:25,220
spirit worked a little bit different in the

896
00:32:25,220 --> 00:32:26,900
old testament than the new testament. Right? I

897
00:32:26,900 --> 00:32:27,640
mean, they

898
00:32:28,019 --> 00:32:29,400
he took evil kings

899
00:32:29,700 --> 00:32:31,380
and prompted them by the holy spirit to

900
00:32:31,380 --> 00:32:33,765
do certain things, you know, in in in

901
00:32:34,325 --> 00:32:35,384
in the Old Testament.

902
00:32:35,684 --> 00:32:37,285
The sovereignty. Those are the by the way,

903
00:32:37,285 --> 00:32:38,484
that's what I mean when I say he

904
00:32:38,484 --> 00:32:39,845
chooses that. Yeah. Yeah. Let me be let

905
00:32:39,845 --> 00:32:41,684
me be very clear. Those evil kings were

906
00:32:41,684 --> 00:32:43,445
not suddenly saved by the grace of God

907
00:32:43,605 --> 00:32:45,285
Right. Because they did the thing that he

908
00:32:45,285 --> 00:32:47,684
needed them to do. Right. It's it's that

909
00:32:47,684 --> 00:32:48,150
he

910
00:32:48,630 --> 00:32:51,029
temporarily said, okay, I know you have free

911
00:32:51,029 --> 00:32:52,549
will, but I'm going to put this prompting

912
00:32:52,549 --> 00:32:54,549
on you in such a way, you know,

913
00:32:54,549 --> 00:32:57,029
and I think the FBI talks about doing

914
00:32:57,029 --> 00:32:57,769
this today.

915
00:32:58,070 --> 00:32:59,529
When, when they talk about entrapment,

916
00:32:59,830 --> 00:33:01,670
you know, it's not that we entrap somebody.

917
00:33:01,670 --> 00:33:03,634
It's just that we created a situation where

918
00:33:03,634 --> 00:33:05,474
we know based on the person's profile and

919
00:33:05,474 --> 00:33:07,875
their and all the psychological analysis we've done

920
00:33:07,875 --> 00:33:09,394
of them, they will respond a specific way.

921
00:33:09,394 --> 00:33:11,315
And it's like, and that's, you know, that's

922
00:33:11,315 --> 00:33:12,914
exactly what we're talking about. He took who

923
00:33:12,914 --> 00:33:15,480
they were. And, and, and he used that

924
00:33:15,480 --> 00:33:18,599
for that specific purpose. Now so let's no.

925
00:33:18,599 --> 00:33:19,799
No. You're right. Had to throw that in

926
00:33:19,799 --> 00:33:21,480
there. So let's talk about let's talk about

927
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,160
two people that I mentioned last night in

928
00:33:23,160 --> 00:33:24,140
our bible study.

929
00:33:24,839 --> 00:33:26,440
At the end of our bible study last

930
00:33:26,440 --> 00:33:28,724
night, which Dennis did an awesome awesome job,

931
00:33:28,884 --> 00:33:31,464
and anyway. Yes. Yeah. I appreciate you brother.

932
00:33:32,884 --> 00:33:34,724
But we we started talking about a few

933
00:33:34,724 --> 00:33:35,845
things and about where we were kind of

934
00:33:35,845 --> 00:33:37,365
going on our bible study from there. But

935
00:33:37,365 --> 00:33:37,865
anyway

936
00:33:38,804 --> 00:33:40,565
so let's talk about two people. Let's talk

937
00:33:40,565 --> 00:33:41,785
about Judas

938
00:33:42,380 --> 00:33:44,000
and let's talk about the Antichrist.

939
00:33:44,299 --> 00:33:46,960
Okay? So you got this man Judas who

940
00:33:47,420 --> 00:33:48,240
who basically

941
00:33:49,980 --> 00:33:52,140
Jesus says look I know who you are.

942
00:33:52,140 --> 00:33:53,820
I know what you're gonna do and I

943
00:33:53,820 --> 00:33:55,855
know how you're gonna do it. He I

944
00:33:55,855 --> 00:33:57,694
mean and of course he is all knowing.

945
00:33:57,694 --> 00:33:59,474
Right? He is omniscient, omnipresent.

946
00:33:59,775 --> 00:34:01,535
He's all these things. He's all powerful. He's

947
00:34:01,535 --> 00:34:02,835
all so

948
00:34:03,535 --> 00:34:05,775
so he he does. Right? So Judas does

949
00:34:05,775 --> 00:34:08,494
this thing. He he he sells out the

950
00:34:08,494 --> 00:34:10,319
Lord for silver. And

951
00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:13,359
when he does it when he does it,

952
00:34:13,900 --> 00:34:15,920
and he realizes what he's doing,

953
00:34:16,619 --> 00:34:17,119
Judas

954
00:34:18,059 --> 00:34:20,960
has a sorrow for a sorrowful heart,

955
00:34:21,819 --> 00:34:22,275
but

956
00:34:23,154 --> 00:34:25,154
he doesn't repent to the right person in

957
00:34:25,154 --> 00:34:26,835
the right place. Right? I mean, he goes

958
00:34:26,835 --> 00:34:28,835
back into the he goes back into the

959
00:34:28,835 --> 00:34:30,755
temple and he's like, you know, take this.

960
00:34:30,755 --> 00:34:32,835
I've messed up. You know? But he never

961
00:34:32,835 --> 00:34:34,914
goes he never goes to the lord and

962
00:34:34,914 --> 00:34:37,320
he never says, lord, I'm sorry. Yeah. Did

963
00:34:37,320 --> 00:34:39,079
he have the opportunity to do that? Sure

964
00:34:39,079 --> 00:34:41,400
he did. Yeah. I mean, he kissed the

965
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,519
Lord's cheek. You know? The Lord picked him

966
00:34:44,519 --> 00:34:45,980
to come in. Now

967
00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:49,079
if Judas had not have done if if

968
00:34:49,079 --> 00:34:51,474
Judas had chosen to to not do those

969
00:34:51,474 --> 00:34:54,295
things, if Jesus had, Judas had chosen to

970
00:34:54,434 --> 00:34:56,614
follow Jesus and and be who,

971
00:34:58,914 --> 00:35:00,675
who the Lord was calling him to be

972
00:35:00,675 --> 00:35:03,234
because, again, it was it was already in

973
00:35:03,234 --> 00:35:04,215
Judas' character.

974
00:35:04,859 --> 00:35:06,559
Judas was stealing money.

975
00:35:06,859 --> 00:35:09,099
The bible tells us he was he was

976
00:35:09,099 --> 00:35:10,859
pulling money out of change parts. Right? And

977
00:35:10,859 --> 00:35:12,619
that the disciples said he was a thief

978
00:35:12,619 --> 00:35:13,119
already

979
00:35:13,500 --> 00:35:15,179
and and this was in his heart and

980
00:35:15,179 --> 00:35:17,659
and it continued in his heart and and

981
00:35:17,659 --> 00:35:21,295
Judas died without accepting, without really trusting and

982
00:35:21,295 --> 00:35:22,994
having faith in Jesus.

983
00:35:23,615 --> 00:35:25,934
So we got this man Jesus Judas. I

984
00:35:25,934 --> 00:35:28,095
think that could have could Judas have been

985
00:35:28,095 --> 00:35:30,840
saved? Yes. I believe he absolutely could have.

986
00:35:31,400 --> 00:35:33,000
Now let's talk about this other guy let's

987
00:35:33,000 --> 00:35:34,920
talk about the Antichrist because I got this

988
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:37,400
question the other day and and I love

989
00:35:37,400 --> 00:35:39,160
I love this couple if you are listening

990
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:41,000
tonight they they challenge me all the time

991
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:42,920
they they they're like okay brother Brown what

992
00:35:42,920 --> 00:35:43,844
about this you know.

993
00:35:44,405 --> 00:35:45,925
Sometimes I say, let me get back with

994
00:35:45,925 --> 00:35:48,585
you on that. But but the Antichrist,

995
00:35:49,364 --> 00:35:50,585
you know, is that

996
00:35:51,364 --> 00:35:54,405
is is what he does. And and as

997
00:35:54,405 --> 00:35:55,144
we read,

998
00:35:55,684 --> 00:35:56,425
his personality

999
00:35:57,300 --> 00:35:59,320
and his purpose in the book of Revelation,

1000
00:36:00,260 --> 00:36:01,800
is what he does is that

1001
00:36:02,180 --> 00:36:03,079
God's sovereignty.

1002
00:36:03,699 --> 00:36:04,199
Yes.

1003
00:36:04,820 --> 00:36:05,480
It certainly

1004
00:36:06,340 --> 00:36:08,360
is. God's sovereignty works in that.

1005
00:36:09,380 --> 00:36:10,280
What he does

1006
00:36:10,579 --> 00:36:12,594
serves a purpose in that seven years of

1007
00:36:12,594 --> 00:36:13,094
tribulation.

1008
00:36:14,114 --> 00:36:16,535
Now the question that I was asked is

1009
00:36:16,835 --> 00:36:18,594
is that I mean is this guy just

1010
00:36:18,594 --> 00:36:20,594
doomed to be the antichrist? Is he just

1011
00:36:20,594 --> 00:36:22,914
doomed to be this guy who does this

1012
00:36:22,914 --> 00:36:25,635
heinous thing and and is just so evil

1013
00:36:25,635 --> 00:36:26,099
and

1014
00:36:26,579 --> 00:36:29,460
and is responsible for you know murder of

1015
00:36:29,460 --> 00:36:30,360
all these people?

1016
00:36:30,660 --> 00:36:32,039
Well I mean

1017
00:36:33,140 --> 00:36:34,119
here's the thing

1018
00:36:34,420 --> 00:36:36,260
I don't know where he is right now.

1019
00:36:36,260 --> 00:36:36,760
Okay?

1020
00:36:37,140 --> 00:36:38,835
I I think I think y'all would agree

1021
00:36:38,835 --> 00:36:40,675
with me that we're closer to the Lord

1022
00:36:40,675 --> 00:36:42,355
coming back and we're closer to the rapture

1023
00:36:42,355 --> 00:36:45,074
of the church than we've ever been before.

1024
00:36:45,074 --> 00:36:46,835
Right now, we're closer than we've ever been

1025
00:36:46,835 --> 00:36:48,295
before. And so

1026
00:36:48,675 --> 00:36:50,514
as soon as the rapture happens, as soon

1027
00:36:50,514 --> 00:36:51,655
as that takes place,

1028
00:36:51,954 --> 00:36:52,934
then tribulation

1029
00:36:53,235 --> 00:36:53,894
will start.

1030
00:36:54,339 --> 00:36:55,619
Now I guys I don't know if that's

1031
00:36:55,619 --> 00:36:57,859
tomorrow because it could be or a hundred

1032
00:36:57,859 --> 00:36:59,780
years from now. You know that's that's God's

1033
00:36:59,780 --> 00:37:02,339
choice that's exactly what he's got a plan

1034
00:37:02,339 --> 00:37:02,920
in there.

1035
00:37:03,780 --> 00:37:04,760
But this guy

1036
00:37:05,539 --> 00:37:08,074
could be somewhere alive right now. This guy

1037
00:37:08,074 --> 00:37:09,835
who becomes the antichrist. He could be a

1038
00:37:09,835 --> 00:37:11,594
child right now. He could be 20 years

1039
00:37:11,594 --> 00:37:13,454
old, 30 years old. I don't know.

1040
00:37:13,835 --> 00:37:15,994
But but he could be alive right now

1041
00:37:15,994 --> 00:37:17,855
walking around somewhere right now.

1042
00:37:18,234 --> 00:37:19,594
I don't know what type of guy he

1043
00:37:19,594 --> 00:37:21,099
is right now, but I would say right

1044
00:37:21,099 --> 00:37:22,780
now for sure. I know right now for

1045
00:37:22,780 --> 00:37:25,440
sure if he's alive, he's lost. Okay? Yeah.

1046
00:37:25,820 --> 00:37:27,980
But somewhere during this time, he could hear

1047
00:37:27,980 --> 00:37:31,179
the gospel. Right? Somewhere during this time, he

1048
00:37:31,179 --> 00:37:34,434
could hear the gospel. I believe 100%

1049
00:37:34,815 --> 00:37:38,355
that the person that that becomes the antichrist,

1050
00:37:38,655 --> 00:37:41,135
the the the antichrist. There's a lot of

1051
00:37:41,135 --> 00:37:43,235
little antichrist, but the person that becomes

1052
00:37:43,614 --> 00:37:44,275
the antichrist

1053
00:37:44,735 --> 00:37:45,910
will absolutely

1054
00:37:46,289 --> 00:37:48,950
have to reject the gospel of Jesus Christ.

1055
00:37:49,250 --> 00:37:50,769
I I I think you'll have to hear

1056
00:37:50,769 --> 00:37:52,469
it and say nonsense.

1057
00:37:52,769 --> 00:37:54,070
I don't believe that.

1058
00:37:54,610 --> 00:37:57,410
And here's the other problem. Satan is over

1059
00:37:57,410 --> 00:37:59,809
here too. He's poking at him, and this

1060
00:37:59,809 --> 00:38:01,944
big thing, this big p word is gonna

1061
00:38:01,944 --> 00:38:03,784
come up is gonna be pride. Right? Because

1062
00:38:03,784 --> 00:38:06,264
that's Satan's big thing. He was prideful. He

1063
00:38:06,264 --> 00:38:08,105
wanted to be God and so is the

1064
00:38:08,105 --> 00:38:11,065
antichrist. I wanna be like him. Right? Yeah.

1065
00:38:11,065 --> 00:38:13,484
Well and so Satan uses him

1066
00:38:13,980 --> 00:38:14,480
to

1067
00:38:14,780 --> 00:38:16,460
to do what he thinks needs to be

1068
00:38:16,460 --> 00:38:19,099
done. But but I do think that the

1069
00:38:19,099 --> 00:38:21,679
antichrist could have a choice. Okay? So

1070
00:38:22,219 --> 00:38:24,619
if if if this person is being groomed

1071
00:38:24,619 --> 00:38:25,679
to be the antichrist,

1072
00:38:25,980 --> 00:38:28,184
if he accepts Christ, then what? Well, there's

1073
00:38:28,265 --> 00:38:29,785
there's gonna be somebody else that comes along.

1074
00:38:29,785 --> 00:38:32,025
Try again. Yeah you know and and it's

1075
00:38:32,025 --> 00:38:33,704
not and and then here's the thing. Well

1076
00:38:33,704 --> 00:38:35,785
I mean if God's all knowing does God

1077
00:38:35,785 --> 00:38:37,305
know that he's going to accept it or

1078
00:38:37,305 --> 00:38:38,445
reject it? Yes.

1079
00:38:38,824 --> 00:38:40,605
Does he have a choice? Yes.

1080
00:38:41,369 --> 00:38:43,369
It comes all down to that. Right? You've

1081
00:38:43,369 --> 00:38:44,509
got to have faith

1082
00:38:45,289 --> 00:38:47,769
in the fact that God's sovereign and you've

1083
00:38:47,769 --> 00:38:50,569
got to have faith in man's choice for

1084
00:38:50,569 --> 00:38:52,489
free will. The the free will of man.

1085
00:38:52,489 --> 00:38:54,824
You've got you cannot leave either one of

1086
00:38:54,824 --> 00:38:57,385
them out because both of them are clearly

1087
00:38:57,385 --> 00:38:59,385
stated in the word of God. You know?

1088
00:38:59,385 --> 00:38:59,704
Yeah.

1089
00:39:00,344 --> 00:39:01,804
So God knows the outcome,

1090
00:39:02,264 --> 00:39:04,184
but he also knows that he's given you

1091
00:39:04,184 --> 00:39:05,545
a choice. Yeah. And to us, it's a

1092
00:39:05,545 --> 00:39:07,085
contradiction. But to God,

1093
00:39:07,449 --> 00:39:09,849
we don't know everything. Right? It's not. Well,

1094
00:39:09,849 --> 00:39:11,369
we don't know everything, and we have to

1095
00:39:11,369 --> 00:39:13,690
just trust trust that God's got this and

1096
00:39:13,690 --> 00:39:15,929
his sovereignty and that our free will somehow

1097
00:39:15,929 --> 00:39:18,250
works together with it. Yes. How it how

1098
00:39:18,250 --> 00:39:20,489
that happens when nobody knows. And and I

1099
00:39:20,489 --> 00:39:22,570
always have to throw out and or point

1100
00:39:22,570 --> 00:39:22,875
it out

1101
00:39:23,835 --> 00:39:25,295
that, you know, our,

1102
00:39:27,434 --> 00:39:30,494
our view of everything is contingent

1103
00:39:30,954 --> 00:39:33,215
from the mortal view of time.

1104
00:39:33,914 --> 00:39:34,414
Everything

1105
00:39:34,715 --> 00:39:37,269
has linear. We we have a start, we

1106
00:39:37,269 --> 00:39:39,030
have a middle, we have an end. Every

1107
00:39:39,030 --> 00:39:41,349
story works that way. Every TV show, every

1108
00:39:41,349 --> 00:39:43,349
movie, our lives are that way. We have

1109
00:39:43,349 --> 00:39:44,710
a beginning of our life. We know when

1110
00:39:44,710 --> 00:39:47,030
we were born. We may not remember it.

1111
00:39:47,030 --> 00:39:48,795
Hopefully not because that would be very traumatic.

1112
00:39:49,034 --> 00:39:49,534
But

1113
00:39:49,994 --> 00:39:51,674
you don't remember your birth, but you know,

1114
00:39:51,674 --> 00:39:53,775
you were born, you know, things that happen

1115
00:39:53,835 --> 00:39:55,355
leading up to the point you get about

1116
00:39:55,355 --> 00:39:56,795
middle age, you know, the middle of your

1117
00:39:56,795 --> 00:39:58,315
life. And by the end, you can look

1118
00:39:58,315 --> 00:39:59,755
back and you see the beginning, the middle,

1119
00:39:59,755 --> 00:40:00,954
and then now you see the end of

1120
00:40:00,954 --> 00:40:01,530
your life.

1121
00:40:02,010 --> 00:40:04,090
All of these things are there and we

1122
00:40:04,090 --> 00:40:06,429
see everything in that logical progression.

1123
00:40:06,730 --> 00:40:09,210
But when you step beyond time, when you're

1124
00:40:09,210 --> 00:40:11,869
outside of time, when time does not exist,

1125
00:40:12,090 --> 00:40:14,170
which it does not from God, the Bible

1126
00:40:14,170 --> 00:40:16,335
tells us that. The Bible makes it abundantly

1127
00:40:16,335 --> 00:40:18,735
clear that God exists well beyond any of

1128
00:40:18,735 --> 00:40:21,695
this. For him, it's not this logical series

1129
00:40:21,695 --> 00:40:23,695
of of events that's all laid out. It

1130
00:40:23,695 --> 00:40:25,135
might as well all be happening at the

1131
00:40:25,135 --> 00:40:27,135
exact same instant because he knows the beginning,

1132
00:40:27,135 --> 00:40:28,829
the end, the middle, the the things that

1133
00:40:28,829 --> 00:40:30,430
come before and after. And he knows all

1134
00:40:30,430 --> 00:40:32,750
of it because he can see the entire

1135
00:40:32,750 --> 00:40:35,010
thing. It's like somebody handing you a book

1136
00:40:35,309 --> 00:40:37,630
and you've already read it a hundred times.

1137
00:40:37,630 --> 00:40:39,470
You know how it's gonna end. And you

1138
00:40:39,470 --> 00:40:41,634
know it so well that you know all

1139
00:40:41,634 --> 00:40:43,634
the choices the characters are gonna make. That's

1140
00:40:43,634 --> 00:40:46,034
what the world is for God. We're so

1141
00:40:46,034 --> 00:40:48,994
tiny in comparison to him. He knows all

1142
00:40:48,994 --> 00:40:50,534
of these choices and decisions,

1143
00:40:50,835 --> 00:40:52,949
but it's not to say that he is

1144
00:40:53,349 --> 00:40:55,989
making those choices or treating us like Chesapeake.

1145
00:40:55,989 --> 00:40:57,670
I think and I think this comes back

1146
00:40:57,670 --> 00:40:58,329
to that

1147
00:40:59,670 --> 00:41:02,230
this idea of his that it has to

1148
00:41:02,230 --> 00:41:03,369
be about his sovereignty

1149
00:41:03,750 --> 00:41:05,369
comes back to the idea of dualism.

1150
00:41:05,750 --> 00:41:07,750
They really I think a lot of people

1151
00:41:07,750 --> 00:41:08,250
view

1152
00:41:08,735 --> 00:41:11,375
the the battle between God and Satan like

1153
00:41:11,375 --> 00:41:13,135
a chess match. And it's like, no, no,

1154
00:41:13,135 --> 00:41:14,355
no, no. You don't understand.

1155
00:41:14,815 --> 00:41:17,375
God is over here standing with his arms

1156
00:41:17,375 --> 00:41:17,875
crossed

1157
00:41:18,175 --> 00:41:20,574
until he's ready to move. And, yeah, Satan's

1158
00:41:20,574 --> 00:41:22,820
playing chess, but he don't realize that God's

1159
00:41:22,820 --> 00:41:24,179
not even gonna waste his time going on

1160
00:41:24,179 --> 00:41:25,539
the board. He's just gonna kick that board

1161
00:41:25,539 --> 00:41:26,340
out of the way and say, I'm done

1162
00:41:26,340 --> 00:41:29,380
with this. Satan's playing checkers. Yeah. Satan Satan's

1163
00:41:29,380 --> 00:41:31,460
over here playing checkers and God's like, hey,

1164
00:41:31,460 --> 00:41:32,980
look. When I'm done, I'm gonna flip this

1165
00:41:32,980 --> 00:41:34,500
table and I'm I'm done with it. And

1166
00:41:34,500 --> 00:41:36,554
and I think, you know, the predestination thing

1167
00:41:36,554 --> 00:41:39,275
is absolutely 100% true. In some things, there

1168
00:41:39,275 --> 00:41:41,594
are events that are destined to happen. I

1169
00:41:41,594 --> 00:41:43,675
don't care how much you pray for the

1170
00:41:43,675 --> 00:41:46,394
events to revelation of revelation to not happen,

1171
00:41:46,394 --> 00:41:48,890
they're gonna happen. Yeah. Yep. Right. It's it's

1172
00:41:48,890 --> 00:41:50,030
it's been decreed.

1173
00:41:50,329 --> 00:41:51,309
It's been written.

1174
00:41:51,610 --> 00:41:53,450
God said it's gonna happen just like the

1175
00:41:53,450 --> 00:41:55,530
birth of Jesus, just like the crucifixion of

1176
00:41:55,530 --> 00:41:57,390
Jesus in Isaiah 53.

1177
00:41:57,450 --> 00:42:00,105
Those things were destined to happen and by,

1178
00:42:00,505 --> 00:42:02,744
Mary giving birth on to to a son

1179
00:42:02,744 --> 00:42:03,485
in Bethlehem.

1180
00:42:04,105 --> 00:42:05,405
Those things were destined.

1181
00:42:05,704 --> 00:42:08,204
And and there you know, there's another example

1182
00:42:08,264 --> 00:42:11,144
of God actually in within his sovereign will

1183
00:42:11,144 --> 00:42:13,784
performing a miracle, and it it wasn't about

1184
00:42:13,784 --> 00:42:14,764
Mary's choices.

1185
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:17,039
I mean, he he came to her and

1186
00:42:17,039 --> 00:42:19,680
he said, I have chosen you. Yeah. And

1187
00:42:19,680 --> 00:42:20,180
now

1188
00:42:20,720 --> 00:42:23,280
he knew, again, based on her character, her

1189
00:42:23,280 --> 00:42:24,960
response was gonna be, well, here I am,

1190
00:42:24,960 --> 00:42:27,375
lord. Yeah. I mean, he knew that. Yes.

1191
00:42:27,454 --> 00:42:29,934
But he didn't, he didn't manipulate her in

1192
00:42:29,934 --> 00:42:32,094
any way. He just simply knew based on

1193
00:42:32,094 --> 00:42:33,934
who you are, who I created you to

1194
00:42:33,934 --> 00:42:36,494
be and the person that you've chosen to

1195
00:42:36,494 --> 00:42:38,494
become at this point in your life, this

1196
00:42:38,494 --> 00:42:40,335
is how you're gonna respond to my call.

1197
00:42:40,335 --> 00:42:42,255
And he knew that when he, when he

1198
00:42:42,255 --> 00:42:42,719
sent,

1199
00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:45,519
his son to to be in her, because

1200
00:42:45,519 --> 00:42:46,559
it was, it was a working of the

1201
00:42:46,559 --> 00:42:47,920
holy spirit. She had no idea. I mean,

1202
00:42:47,920 --> 00:42:49,519
she just suddenly this angel shows up and

1203
00:42:49,519 --> 00:42:50,880
says, Hey. Yeah. You're pregnant and you're gonna

1204
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,239
have the son of God. And she's like,

1205
00:42:52,239 --> 00:42:52,739
what?

1206
00:42:53,039 --> 00:42:54,239
Yeah. And I think I think we get

1207
00:42:54,239 --> 00:42:56,320
a little confused maybe, sometimes on the word

1208
00:42:56,320 --> 00:42:57,380
chosen too, because,

1209
00:42:57,855 --> 00:42:59,474
there there are different kinds of chosen.

1210
00:42:59,855 --> 00:43:02,414
Right? Like Paul was chosen to carry the

1211
00:43:02,414 --> 00:43:03,635
word of God as Gentiles.

1212
00:43:04,014 --> 00:43:05,534
You know, that's that's a different kind of

1213
00:43:05,534 --> 00:43:08,815
chosen than just being saved. Yeah. Right? And

1214
00:43:08,815 --> 00:43:10,894
like a pastor, you've been chosen to be

1215
00:43:10,894 --> 00:43:11,474
a pastor.

1216
00:43:12,130 --> 00:43:14,130
There there's different kinds of chosen Yeah. And

1217
00:43:14,130 --> 00:43:14,630
belief.

1218
00:43:15,010 --> 00:43:17,250
Yeah. So so let's talk about this. Can

1219
00:43:17,250 --> 00:43:18,630
God's mind be changed?

1220
00:43:20,050 --> 00:43:20,550
Yes.

1221
00:43:22,289 --> 00:43:22,949
I mean,

1222
00:43:23,329 --> 00:43:24,849
I think there's some things that we can

1223
00:43:24,849 --> 00:43:25,750
do to affect

1224
00:43:26,130 --> 00:43:28,914
things. Right? I think that you talked about

1225
00:43:28,914 --> 00:43:29,414
birth,

1226
00:43:30,514 --> 00:43:31,875
our middle of our life and the end

1227
00:43:31,875 --> 00:43:33,954
of our life. Now we can't control the

1228
00:43:33,954 --> 00:43:36,675
birth part. Right? But we can we do

1229
00:43:36,675 --> 00:43:38,594
have some control and some choice in what

1230
00:43:38,594 --> 00:43:40,195
the middle looks like and what the end

1231
00:43:40,195 --> 00:43:42,059
looks like or maybe even when the end

1232
00:43:42,059 --> 00:43:44,000
comes. Does God know when it is? Yeah.

1233
00:43:44,220 --> 00:43:46,640
But I mean, Ephesians chapter six says,

1234
00:43:47,099 --> 00:43:49,820
children, obey your parents in the Lord, for

1235
00:43:49,820 --> 00:43:51,900
this is right. Honor thy father and mother,

1236
00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:54,114
which is the first commandment with promise that

1237
00:43:54,114 --> 00:43:55,875
it may be well with thee and thou

1238
00:43:55,875 --> 00:43:58,275
mayest live long on the earth. So there's

1239
00:43:58,275 --> 00:44:00,114
some choices that we can make to make

1240
00:44:00,114 --> 00:44:02,855
our life longer. And I'm not saying necessarily

1241
00:44:02,994 --> 00:44:05,094
that it changes the mind of God,

1242
00:44:05,555 --> 00:44:06,055
because

1243
00:44:06,849 --> 00:44:09,250
God is who he is. And he's sovereign

1244
00:44:09,250 --> 00:44:09,909
and everything.

1245
00:44:11,010 --> 00:44:13,329
But but God's he gives us some things

1246
00:44:13,329 --> 00:44:15,250
in his word to say, okay. If you

1247
00:44:15,250 --> 00:44:17,250
will choose this, then I will give you

1248
00:44:17,250 --> 00:44:19,489
this. That's that's the Abba Father thing. Right?

1249
00:44:19,489 --> 00:44:21,010
It is. Because you treat you treat a

1250
00:44:21,010 --> 00:44:22,045
good kid a lot better than you treat

1251
00:44:22,045 --> 00:44:24,045
a bad kid. Right? You end up disciplined

1252
00:44:24,045 --> 00:44:26,284
one off time and blessing the other. Hey.

1253
00:44:26,284 --> 00:44:29,324
Hey. If you'll get a job and and

1254
00:44:29,324 --> 00:44:31,644
you'll pay for half the car, I'll pay

1255
00:44:31,644 --> 00:44:33,164
for the other half of the car. You

1256
00:44:33,164 --> 00:44:34,465
know? I mean

1257
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:36,760
I'm I'm I'm giving you an option here.

1258
00:44:36,760 --> 00:44:39,000
You can do this or you know you

1259
00:44:39,000 --> 00:44:40,679
can pay for the whole thing. Whatever. Yeah.

1260
00:44:40,679 --> 00:44:43,000
But but so so we give our children

1261
00:44:43,000 --> 00:44:45,000
choices and we try to help them and

1262
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,839
we try to we try to lead them

1263
00:44:46,839 --> 00:44:49,474
in the right path. Right? But I mean

1264
00:44:49,474 --> 00:44:51,875
yes God could make us do it but

1265
00:44:51,875 --> 00:44:54,054
he doesn't. Right. Yeah. I mean

1266
00:44:54,434 --> 00:44:56,515
here's the thing I mean it goes all

1267
00:44:56,515 --> 00:44:58,515
the way back to Adam and Eve. I

1268
00:44:58,515 --> 00:45:00,675
mean if God just wanted to create a

1269
00:45:00,675 --> 00:45:02,135
bunch of beings who

1270
00:45:02,539 --> 00:45:05,820
robots who robots. Yeah. Who just loved him

1271
00:45:05,820 --> 00:45:07,199
and adored him,

1272
00:45:07,579 --> 00:45:09,820
and and and never made a mistake and

1273
00:45:09,820 --> 00:45:12,539
never sinned, then he could have made us

1274
00:45:12,539 --> 00:45:14,539
like that if he wanted to. He didn't

1275
00:45:14,539 --> 00:45:16,695
even make the angels like that. No. God?

1276
00:45:16,695 --> 00:45:18,215
I mean They had a choice. They had

1277
00:45:18,215 --> 00:45:20,295
a choice. Even Satan had a choice and

1278
00:45:20,295 --> 00:45:21,114
his pride

1279
00:45:21,894 --> 00:45:25,094
took him the wrong way. And and not

1280
00:45:25,094 --> 00:45:28,135
only him, but other angels. Right? Yeah. I

1281
00:45:28,135 --> 00:45:30,535
mean, that that that fell with him. Because

1282
00:45:30,535 --> 00:45:32,589
love is obedience. Right? That is. And and

1283
00:45:32,589 --> 00:45:34,510
that's Adam and Eve thing. Right? The only

1284
00:45:34,510 --> 00:45:35,789
way they had to show love to God

1285
00:45:35,789 --> 00:45:37,550
was by not eating off that tree. Tell

1286
00:45:37,550 --> 00:45:38,750
them not to eat off of. That's right.

1287
00:45:38,750 --> 00:45:40,589
Yeah. It it it's always tied to a

1288
00:45:40,589 --> 00:45:43,250
choice. Yeah. God said, hey. You can have

1289
00:45:43,469 --> 00:45:44,989
this. You can have this. You can eat

1290
00:45:44,989 --> 00:45:46,545
this. You can have this. You can go

1291
00:45:46,545 --> 00:45:48,304
here. Probably had a steak tree or something.

1292
00:45:48,304 --> 00:45:50,545
Yeah. A bacon tree. I bet he did.

1293
00:45:50,545 --> 00:45:52,065
I bet he had a I bet he

1294
00:45:52,065 --> 00:45:53,125
had a a

1295
00:45:53,585 --> 00:45:55,684
bacon wrapped steak tree. Man.

1296
00:46:02,510 --> 00:46:04,110
Let me go over that to the dessert

1297
00:46:04,110 --> 00:46:07,570
tree now. Right? Yeah. Yeah. Apple pie tree.

1298
00:46:07,630 --> 00:46:09,630
You know, and that and you know, that's

1299
00:46:09,630 --> 00:46:12,210
the thing. You look back at that story

1300
00:46:12,590 --> 00:46:13,410
and it is

1301
00:46:14,030 --> 00:46:15,329
amazing to me

1302
00:46:16,074 --> 00:46:17,914
that when you, when you read through it

1303
00:46:17,914 --> 00:46:20,474
and you see those choices, because they're so

1304
00:46:20,474 --> 00:46:20,974
clear,

1305
00:46:21,594 --> 00:46:24,554
Adam did not have to tell Eve the

1306
00:46:24,554 --> 00:46:25,695
way he told her.

1307
00:46:26,315 --> 00:46:27,675
I mean, Adam made a choice. I mean,

1308
00:46:27,675 --> 00:46:29,550
a lot of times we forget that you

1309
00:46:29,550 --> 00:46:31,410
read the way he described

1310
00:46:32,030 --> 00:46:33,869
what to do. You know, when she repeats

1311
00:46:33,869 --> 00:46:36,190
it to the serpent, she doesn't say what

1312
00:46:36,190 --> 00:46:38,030
God said. God said, don't eat of the

1313
00:46:38,030 --> 00:46:39,309
tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

1314
00:46:39,309 --> 00:46:40,829
And that day you will surely die. She

1315
00:46:40,829 --> 00:46:42,989
tells the serpent, Hey, we can't eat it.

1316
00:46:42,989 --> 00:46:44,744
We can't touch it or look at it

1317
00:46:44,744 --> 00:46:46,344
or anything. We we we can't touch it.

1318
00:46:46,344 --> 00:46:47,704
We can't interact with it. We can't be

1319
00:46:47,704 --> 00:46:49,144
around it. And she kind of it's like,

1320
00:46:49,144 --> 00:46:51,065
oh, where did all these extra things come

1321
00:46:51,065 --> 00:46:52,664
from? So how does Satan get in there?

1322
00:46:52,664 --> 00:46:54,585
Right. He says, oh, we'll come here and

1323
00:46:54,585 --> 00:46:56,184
touch it. Yeah. Well, man. And look, you

1324
00:46:56,184 --> 00:46:59,010
didn't die. Man, you look The all the

1325
00:46:59,010 --> 00:47:01,410
whole Old Testament is filled with chosen people

1326
00:47:01,410 --> 00:47:04,289
who make dumb decisions and rejected God. The

1327
00:47:04,289 --> 00:47:06,210
whole try to go away, or try to

1328
00:47:06,210 --> 00:47:08,130
go ahead of him. How many times is

1329
00:47:08,130 --> 00:47:10,530
that? Saul. King Saul. Yeah. Who's chosen by

1330
00:47:10,530 --> 00:47:12,885
God to be king. Yeah. I mean, look

1331
00:47:12,885 --> 00:47:16,105
at Abraham. I mean, Abraham was this wonderful

1332
00:47:16,164 --> 00:47:18,324
man of God and he said, Abraham, in

1333
00:47:18,324 --> 00:47:20,244
your old age, you and Sarah are gonna

1334
00:47:20,244 --> 00:47:22,824
have a baby. And this baby is gonna,

1335
00:47:23,364 --> 00:47:25,684
you're this is part of the lineage of

1336
00:47:25,684 --> 00:47:29,420
Jesus that's coming. Right? And Abraham says, I

1337
00:47:29,420 --> 00:47:31,039
don't know. You know, Sarah,

1338
00:47:31,659 --> 00:47:32,799
she's pretty old.

1339
00:47:33,179 --> 00:47:35,819
You know? I don't know. You know? So

1340
00:47:35,819 --> 00:47:37,339
I'm gonna go over here and I'm gonna

1341
00:47:37,339 --> 00:47:38,239
get this maidservant

1342
00:47:39,019 --> 00:47:41,175
and I'm gonna get her pregnant. And and

1343
00:47:41,175 --> 00:47:42,775
here you go, God. Here's the baby you're

1344
00:47:42,775 --> 00:47:44,614
talking about. And God's like, no. That ain't

1345
00:47:44,614 --> 00:47:46,775
it. That's not it. That's not that's not

1346
00:47:46,775 --> 00:47:48,855
that's not where where I wanted you to

1347
00:47:48,855 --> 00:47:51,195
go. And so we we make choices.

1348
00:47:51,655 --> 00:47:54,394
Everything that we do in life is made

1349
00:47:54,500 --> 00:47:56,579
up of a choice. So why in the

1350
00:47:56,579 --> 00:47:59,299
world would God say it's it's it's in

1351
00:47:59,299 --> 00:48:01,059
us. Right? It's it's it's,

1352
00:48:01,460 --> 00:48:02,679
inborn in us

1353
00:48:02,980 --> 00:48:04,119
to make choices.

1354
00:48:04,500 --> 00:48:06,099
And so why in the world would God

1355
00:48:06,099 --> 00:48:07,859
not give us a choice whether we reject

1356
00:48:07,859 --> 00:48:09,985
him or follow him? Yeah. Exactly. Amen. And

1357
00:48:09,985 --> 00:48:11,505
then, you know, one of them one of

1358
00:48:11,505 --> 00:48:12,885
these, tulip points,

1359
00:48:13,425 --> 00:48:14,724
getting back to that thing,

1360
00:48:15,105 --> 00:48:17,985
that I this almost universally rejected from people

1361
00:48:17,985 --> 00:48:20,065
I've read about is limited atonement. Yeah. That

1362
00:48:20,065 --> 00:48:22,385
Jesus only died for the selected elect. Yeah.

1363
00:48:22,385 --> 00:48:24,340
Right? Yeah. Right? That not many people believe

1364
00:48:24,340 --> 00:48:26,260
that. There are even four point Calvinists out

1365
00:48:26,260 --> 00:48:28,039
there. Right. And and what I would encourage

1366
00:48:28,099 --> 00:48:29,780
people to do is don't put yourself in

1367
00:48:29,780 --> 00:48:31,539
a bucket. Yeah. You don't call yourself a

1368
00:48:31,539 --> 00:48:34,099
Calvinist. Don't call yourself an Armenian. Call yourself

1369
00:48:34,099 --> 00:48:36,195
a follower of Jesus Christ. I see it.

1370
00:48:36,195 --> 00:48:37,954
And go searching for the truth, and he'll

1371
00:48:37,954 --> 00:48:39,954
show it. Let the holy spirit lead you

1372
00:48:39,954 --> 00:48:42,114
to truth. Yeah. And, hey, look. We we've

1373
00:48:42,114 --> 00:48:43,335
even proven tonight

1374
00:48:43,875 --> 00:48:46,515
this idea, and and this is taught in

1375
00:48:46,515 --> 00:48:48,994
bible colleges across the country. You're one or

1376
00:48:48,994 --> 00:48:51,329
the other. Yeah. And it's like, it's No.

1377
00:48:51,329 --> 00:48:52,630
I'm sorry. No.

1378
00:48:53,010 --> 00:48:55,010
No. Because they think if you do not

1379
00:48:55,010 --> 00:48:56,549
fully accept and embrace

1380
00:48:56,849 --> 00:48:58,150
a particular tenant

1381
00:48:58,769 --> 00:49:01,170
of of one one belief or the other,

1382
00:49:01,170 --> 00:49:03,164
that you're not that belief. Well, okay then

1383
00:49:03,164 --> 00:49:04,765
I'm neither one then because I don't accept

1384
00:49:04,765 --> 00:49:07,005
and fully embrace either of their tenants. Yeah.

1385
00:49:07,005 --> 00:49:08,285
Yeah. Right? Yeah. I had to just I

1386
00:49:08,285 --> 00:49:10,224
went down this road with the the Armenian

1387
00:49:10,445 --> 00:49:12,045
side, you know, and they couldn't get over

1388
00:49:12,045 --> 00:49:13,724
the fact that I believe you can't lose

1389
00:49:13,724 --> 00:49:14,385
your salvation.

1390
00:49:14,889 --> 00:49:17,769
Yeah. Right. And it goes against everything that

1391
00:49:17,769 --> 00:49:19,710
I believe God to be is my father,

1392
00:49:20,170 --> 00:49:22,329
my good father. Amen. Right. That he's not

1393
00:49:22,329 --> 00:49:24,250
gonna give me a snake if I ask

1394
00:49:24,250 --> 00:49:26,010
for a fish. That's right. Right. He's not

1395
00:49:26,010 --> 00:49:27,849
gonna kill me. Yeah. Well, and again, it

1396
00:49:27,849 --> 00:49:30,375
goes against the very reason they have that

1397
00:49:30,614 --> 00:49:31,015
in,

1398
00:49:31,414 --> 00:49:33,114
the the p in TULIP

1399
00:49:33,494 --> 00:49:35,894
is there because the scripture flat out says

1400
00:49:35,894 --> 00:49:37,574
that anything given to me of the father,

1401
00:49:37,574 --> 00:49:39,574
I cannot be taken away. Yeah. No one

1402
00:49:39,574 --> 00:49:41,014
can snatch me from his hand. That's right.

1403
00:49:41,014 --> 00:49:41,514
Yeah.

1404
00:49:41,815 --> 00:49:43,414
I will not lose one that the father's

1405
00:49:43,414 --> 00:49:45,974
given me. Promise after promise. That's it. It's

1406
00:49:45,974 --> 00:49:48,000
there. It's there. We've been sealed with the

1407
00:49:48,000 --> 00:49:50,559
holy spirit of promise. Yeah. Yeah. And there's

1408
00:49:50,559 --> 00:49:52,640
so much that's going on at salvation. You

1409
00:49:52,640 --> 00:49:54,800
can't be unborn again anymore. You could be

1410
00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,440
unphysically born. That's right. You can reject this

1411
00:49:57,440 --> 00:49:58,900
whole thing after you're saved.

1412
00:49:59,280 --> 00:50:00,724
Excuse me. And,

1413
00:50:01,184 --> 00:50:03,265
just just like if if I rejected my

1414
00:50:03,265 --> 00:50:03,765
father

1415
00:50:04,065 --> 00:50:06,224
on earth, my his DNA is still in

1416
00:50:06,224 --> 00:50:08,644
me. Yeah. There's nothing in the human body.

1417
00:50:08,704 --> 00:50:10,545
That's right. Yeah. It's done. Yeah. And it

1418
00:50:10,545 --> 00:50:12,465
is it is I will say this. It

1419
00:50:12,465 --> 00:50:13,204
is not

1420
00:50:13,769 --> 00:50:16,110
very often at all that you see somebody

1421
00:50:16,170 --> 00:50:16,670
reject

1422
00:50:17,530 --> 00:50:19,309
God after being saved.

1423
00:50:19,690 --> 00:50:21,789
And that lasts all the way up until

1424
00:50:22,090 --> 00:50:24,489
they get 80, 90 years old and and

1425
00:50:24,489 --> 00:50:26,329
pass it die of natural causes. Now it's

1426
00:50:26,329 --> 00:50:28,010
not saying somebody might not reject and get

1427
00:50:28,010 --> 00:50:29,574
in a car accident or something, but we're

1428
00:50:29,574 --> 00:50:31,735
talking like just flat out, alright, that's it.

1429
00:50:31,735 --> 00:50:33,255
I've decided I'm not gonna be a part

1430
00:50:33,255 --> 00:50:33,835
of this.

1431
00:50:34,375 --> 00:50:36,614
They they turn back. They come back by

1432
00:50:36,614 --> 00:50:39,735
the end, almost almost always, not always, but

1433
00:50:39,735 --> 00:50:40,715
almost always.

1434
00:50:41,494 --> 00:50:43,894
I I have never actually seen anybody just

1435
00:50:43,894 --> 00:50:44,820
flat out reject

1436
00:50:45,300 --> 00:50:47,300
after being saved and never come back Well,

1437
00:50:47,300 --> 00:50:49,140
they're one of they're one of those types

1438
00:50:49,140 --> 00:50:51,380
of soil. Right? Right. They're they're choked up

1439
00:50:51,380 --> 00:50:53,140
by the weeds, withered in the sun, something

1440
00:50:53,140 --> 00:50:54,980
like that. Let let me throw one at

1441
00:50:54,980 --> 00:50:57,719
you here. Alright. This one is really difficult

1442
00:50:57,780 --> 00:51:00,074
to explain for a non Calvinist, I think.

1443
00:51:00,074 --> 00:51:02,155
At least it is for me. It's this

1444
00:51:02,155 --> 00:51:04,954
is probably the most challenged challenging one out

1445
00:51:04,954 --> 00:51:06,815
of, Ephesians chapter one.

1446
00:51:08,074 --> 00:51:09,914
Starting at verse three, it says, blessed be

1447
00:51:09,914 --> 00:51:11,755
the God and father of our Lord Jesus

1448
00:51:11,755 --> 00:51:13,969
Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual

1449
00:51:13,969 --> 00:51:16,530
blessing in the heavenly places in Christ. Great

1450
00:51:16,530 --> 00:51:17,030
stuff.

1451
00:51:17,730 --> 00:51:20,289
Just as he chose us in him before

1452
00:51:20,289 --> 00:51:22,449
the foundation of the world that that we

1453
00:51:22,449 --> 00:51:24,849
would be holy and blameless before him in

1454
00:51:24,849 --> 00:51:28,505
love, he breed predestined us to adoption as

1455
00:51:28,505 --> 00:51:30,525
sons through Jesus Christ to himself

1456
00:51:31,065 --> 00:51:33,565
according to the kind intention of his will.

1457
00:51:34,744 --> 00:51:36,985
Chosen and predestined. This is where people get

1458
00:51:36,985 --> 00:51:38,664
off the tracks with this stuff. And same

1459
00:51:38,664 --> 00:51:40,825
with Romans nine. Right? The example of the

1460
00:51:40,825 --> 00:51:43,260
pharaoh and he had he had 10 chances.

1461
00:51:43,579 --> 00:51:45,900
Yeah. But God hardened his heart. Yeah. What

1462
00:51:45,900 --> 00:51:48,139
does that mean? Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Well, this

1463
00:51:48,139 --> 00:51:50,079
one I think is difficult. This one

1464
00:51:50,619 --> 00:51:51,840
is as simple as

1465
00:51:52,300 --> 00:51:52,960
to me.

1466
00:51:53,420 --> 00:51:54,400
God has predestined

1467
00:51:54,860 --> 00:51:56,925
all of us to be his children. He

1468
00:51:56,925 --> 00:51:58,684
has chosen all of us. He died for

1469
00:51:58,684 --> 00:52:00,605
all. He died for all. He has said,

1470
00:52:00,605 --> 00:52:01,585
you're all

1471
00:52:02,045 --> 00:52:03,965
this is available to all of you and

1472
00:52:03,965 --> 00:52:04,704
I want

1473
00:52:05,005 --> 00:52:07,085
you all to do this. And he he

1474
00:52:07,244 --> 00:52:08,844
just like in the old testament, he chose

1475
00:52:08,844 --> 00:52:11,389
Israel Mhmm. And they rejected him now. Exactly.

1476
00:52:11,529 --> 00:52:13,769
Same, same thing. I chose you for this

1477
00:52:13,769 --> 00:52:15,929
purpose. And I have this purpose in mind

1478
00:52:15,929 --> 00:52:17,849
and I have this plan from birth to

1479
00:52:17,849 --> 00:52:19,369
death, what you're going to do with your

1480
00:52:19,369 --> 00:52:19,869
life,

1481
00:52:20,329 --> 00:52:22,489
but if you reject it, it's on you.

1482
00:52:22,489 --> 00:52:23,775
Yeah. And the thing is

1483
00:52:24,335 --> 00:52:26,094
the pharaoh thing. I think that's another great

1484
00:52:26,094 --> 00:52:26,594
example

1485
00:52:26,894 --> 00:52:28,275
because yes, God

1486
00:52:28,654 --> 00:52:30,894
knew pharaoh's nature. He knew what kind of

1487
00:52:30,894 --> 00:52:32,994
person he was. And with all of those,

1488
00:52:33,054 --> 00:52:35,614
with everything that was happening, he was providing

1489
00:52:35,614 --> 00:52:37,714
the thing to harden his heart. However,

1490
00:52:38,239 --> 00:52:40,500
Pharaoh still had a choice that entire time.

1491
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:43,760
He was not completely removing Pharaoh's choice. He

1492
00:52:43,760 --> 00:52:47,359
was acting against he was acting within knowing

1493
00:52:47,359 --> 00:52:49,839
how Pharaoh would react within his nature, hardening

1494
00:52:49,839 --> 00:52:51,280
his heart by saying, if I do this

1495
00:52:51,280 --> 00:52:52,695
and if I do this, he's going to

1496
00:52:52,695 --> 00:52:54,135
get harder and harder and he's going to

1497
00:52:54,135 --> 00:52:55,434
reject me more and more.

1498
00:52:55,894 --> 00:52:57,974
Pharaoh had a choice though. He could have

1499
00:52:57,974 --> 00:52:59,755
at any point gone. Okay. Enough.

1500
00:53:00,295 --> 00:53:02,454
But he chose not to. Yeah. It's it's

1501
00:53:02,454 --> 00:53:05,400
just a, a really, really difficult chapter. That

1502
00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:06,920
one is that one is It's it's hard.

1503
00:53:06,920 --> 00:53:08,679
It's hard because he talks about Jacob. I

1504
00:53:08,679 --> 00:53:10,199
love Esau. I hate it. He gives a

1505
00:53:10,199 --> 00:53:11,639
lot of examples and said, who are you

1506
00:53:11,960 --> 00:53:13,559
Right. Old Clay to say, what are you

1507
00:53:13,559 --> 00:53:15,239
doing with me, Potter? That's right. Right. That's

1508
00:53:15,239 --> 00:53:17,239
right. Mhmm. Yeah. And some are made for

1509
00:53:17,239 --> 00:53:18,539
honor, some for dishonor.

1510
00:53:18,920 --> 00:53:21,914
That's difficult stuff. It is. And Paul decided

1511
00:53:21,914 --> 00:53:24,075
not to tackle this subject on his own.

1512
00:53:24,075 --> 00:53:25,375
Yeah. Yeah. So

1513
00:53:25,994 --> 00:53:28,075
Yeah. He he he tended to believe it.

1514
00:53:28,075 --> 00:53:28,575
So

1515
00:53:28,954 --> 00:53:30,315
I don't know, man. Well, and I just

1516
00:53:30,315 --> 00:53:33,210
wanna encourage everybody's listening to not think that

1517
00:53:33,210 --> 00:53:34,650
you got to fall one side or the

1518
00:53:34,650 --> 00:53:37,530
other. Absolutely. You're a believer. Just let God

1519
00:53:37,530 --> 00:53:39,289
lead you to the truth. Find the truth.

1520
00:53:39,289 --> 00:53:42,010
Find the truth. Seek it. Because here's what

1521
00:53:42,010 --> 00:53:43,769
we don't wanna do. And, I mean, even

1522
00:53:43,769 --> 00:53:46,109
the even some some

1523
00:53:46,650 --> 00:53:47,630
sects of Calvinists

1524
00:53:48,704 --> 00:53:49,585
say that,

1525
00:53:50,385 --> 00:53:53,605
evangelism is still needed. Evangelism should still happen.

1526
00:53:53,744 --> 00:53:55,664
Mhmm. I don't I don't know how you

1527
00:53:55,664 --> 00:53:57,825
bring the two together and you say Waking

1528
00:53:57,825 --> 00:53:59,985
people up. Yeah. You know, I don't know.

1529
00:53:59,985 --> 00:54:02,739
Yeah. But but if if they're chosen, then

1530
00:54:02,739 --> 00:54:05,059
then they're they're gonna they're gonna wake up

1531
00:54:05,059 --> 00:54:06,579
at some point in time. Right? If that's

1532
00:54:06,579 --> 00:54:08,440
if that's the thing. Yeah. But again,

1533
00:54:09,219 --> 00:54:12,980
God's sovereignty, man's free choice. God's sovereignty, man's

1534
00:54:12,980 --> 00:54:14,614
free will. Those two things,

1535
00:54:15,474 --> 00:54:17,595
seem like opposite sides of the spectrum. Right?

1536
00:54:17,595 --> 00:54:20,054
But Yeah. I believe that they're both true.

1537
00:54:20,594 --> 00:54:23,235
I I believe that, that God's ways are

1538
00:54:23,235 --> 00:54:26,114
higher than our ways. Much higher. And and

1539
00:54:26,114 --> 00:54:28,534
I don't understand it all. I don't understand

1540
00:54:28,594 --> 00:54:29,989
it all. I don't understand.

1541
00:54:30,610 --> 00:54:32,849
I can't sit here, and I have faith

1542
00:54:32,849 --> 00:54:34,769
in the trinity, the father, the son, and

1543
00:54:34,769 --> 00:54:36,690
the holy spirit. Just like I told y'all

1544
00:54:36,690 --> 00:54:38,769
last night, I can't sit here and explain

1545
00:54:38,769 --> 00:54:40,769
it away that that, you know, the apple

1546
00:54:40,769 --> 00:54:42,929
has us has the skin, the meat, and

1547
00:54:42,929 --> 00:54:45,364
the core. Oh, and which part's not the

1548
00:54:45,364 --> 00:54:47,445
apple? Well, it's all the apple. Okay. So

1549
00:54:47,445 --> 00:54:49,364
that's the explanation of the holy spirit. No.

1550
00:54:49,364 --> 00:54:50,105
That's not

1551
00:54:50,405 --> 00:54:53,065
hardly deep enough. Right? It's a good explanation

1552
00:54:53,684 --> 00:54:55,525
to to maybe give you a little bit

1553
00:54:55,525 --> 00:54:57,599
of a grasp of it that they're all

1554
00:54:57,599 --> 00:54:59,279
one. Right? And they're all part of the

1555
00:54:59,279 --> 00:55:01,619
one, but they're all separate. But good gracious.

1556
00:55:01,679 --> 00:55:04,179
We can't I I have not sat down

1557
00:55:05,039 --> 00:55:07,199
and and read a book or heard a

1558
00:55:07,199 --> 00:55:07,699
preacher

1559
00:55:08,079 --> 00:55:09,219
as as brilliant

1560
00:55:09,894 --> 00:55:12,055
of minds as as there has been and

1561
00:55:12,055 --> 00:55:12,954
there are now,

1562
00:55:13,575 --> 00:55:15,095
sit down and be able to tell you,

1563
00:55:15,095 --> 00:55:17,575
I mean, a a good explanation of how

1564
00:55:17,575 --> 00:55:19,655
the holy spirit works. Right? Some things we

1565
00:55:19,655 --> 00:55:20,795
just have to go,

1566
00:55:21,095 --> 00:55:22,779
I I don't know. I trust you, Lord.

1567
00:55:22,779 --> 00:55:24,699
It's faith. Right. Right? And and that's what

1568
00:55:24,699 --> 00:55:25,980
what I was about to say when you

1569
00:55:25,980 --> 00:55:27,260
were pointing that out. When you look at

1570
00:55:27,260 --> 00:55:28,940
the sovereignty of God, at the end of

1571
00:55:28,940 --> 00:55:30,619
the day, it boils down to faith and

1572
00:55:30,619 --> 00:55:31,920
it boils down to acceptance.

1573
00:55:32,619 --> 00:55:33,440
Most things

1574
00:55:33,819 --> 00:55:35,760
again, this is one of those areas where

1575
00:55:35,819 --> 00:55:36,639
most things

1576
00:55:36,974 --> 00:55:39,795
work within the natural order that God created

1577
00:55:40,015 --> 00:55:42,494
and they work the they it's logical. It

1578
00:55:42,494 --> 00:55:44,695
makes sense. We can observe it and it

1579
00:55:44,695 --> 00:55:46,414
it makes sense. Most of the Bible is

1580
00:55:46,414 --> 00:55:48,575
that way. Yeah. But there are things where

1581
00:55:48,575 --> 00:55:49,235
he goes

1582
00:55:49,730 --> 00:55:51,409
outside of that. And that's where you have

1583
00:55:51,409 --> 00:55:52,710
those miraculous interventions.

1584
00:55:53,089 --> 00:55:54,530
And when he, you know, it talks about

1585
00:55:54,530 --> 00:55:56,369
some being creative one where that those are

1586
00:55:56,369 --> 00:55:58,449
miraculous intervention that that's just I'm like, God

1587
00:55:58,449 --> 00:56:00,230
knows what he's doing. He did a thing,

1588
00:56:00,449 --> 00:56:01,589
whatever that is.

1589
00:56:02,234 --> 00:56:03,594
I'm not going to understand it right now.

1590
00:56:03,594 --> 00:56:05,914
And I may never understand it, but every

1591
00:56:05,914 --> 00:56:07,295
miracle that God does,

1592
00:56:07,994 --> 00:56:10,174
that's how they are. When, when he actually

1593
00:56:10,234 --> 00:56:12,795
moved, like I said earlier, he moves heaven

1594
00:56:12,795 --> 00:56:15,674
and earth. He literally breaks the laws of

1595
00:56:15,674 --> 00:56:17,429
physics sometimes to do things,

1596
00:56:17,909 --> 00:56:18,650
even though

1597
00:56:20,309 --> 00:56:22,389
it doesn't make any sense, but we have

1598
00:56:22,389 --> 00:56:23,369
to accept, okay,

1599
00:56:24,150 --> 00:56:25,369
the creation itself.

1600
00:56:25,829 --> 00:56:27,829
I mean, the creation itself, there was no

1601
00:56:27,829 --> 00:56:29,429
laws of physics. There was none of these

1602
00:56:29,429 --> 00:56:31,750
things in existence until he made them. And

1603
00:56:31,750 --> 00:56:34,525
yet he chose to bring them from nothing.

1604
00:56:34,664 --> 00:56:36,025
Yeah. And I and I think I think

1605
00:56:36,025 --> 00:56:37,885
of of all these tulip things,

1606
00:56:38,825 --> 00:56:40,105
there are only two of them that are

1607
00:56:40,105 --> 00:56:40,845
really core.

1608
00:56:41,224 --> 00:56:42,364
Yeah. Yes. Total depravity

1609
00:56:42,664 --> 00:56:44,664
is the the heart of the gospel. Sure.

1610
00:56:44,664 --> 00:56:46,265
You're a sinner in need of grace. That's

1611
00:56:46,265 --> 00:56:48,619
right. And and I I I would wanna

1612
00:56:48,619 --> 00:56:50,800
put perseverance of the saints in there because

1613
00:56:50,860 --> 00:56:52,380
God is not gonna in the business of

1614
00:56:52,380 --> 00:56:54,880
killing his kids. No. No. He's not like,

1615
00:56:55,019 --> 00:56:56,700
hey. I got you. No. I don't. I

1616
00:56:56,700 --> 00:56:57,900
got you. I'm letting you go. No. I

1617
00:56:57,900 --> 00:57:00,224
don't. That that's conditional. So that's that's me

1618
00:57:00,224 --> 00:57:02,704
saying I'm responsible for my own salvation. Just

1619
00:57:02,704 --> 00:57:04,945
salvation by works. Yeah. Yeah. That is works

1620
00:57:04,945 --> 00:57:07,105
there. And by the way, that's that's when

1621
00:57:07,105 --> 00:57:09,025
we say that we don't fall neatly into

1622
00:57:09,025 --> 00:57:10,465
either of these categories. That's what we're talking

1623
00:57:10,465 --> 00:57:11,684
about because we accept

1624
00:57:12,079 --> 00:57:14,880
that all that, that we are totally depraved.

1625
00:57:14,880 --> 00:57:16,559
We accept that we have the perseverance of

1626
00:57:16,559 --> 00:57:17,139
the saints

1627
00:57:17,519 --> 00:57:19,679
or the preservation of the saints, but we

1628
00:57:19,679 --> 00:57:21,840
completely reject that it is anything to do

1629
00:57:21,840 --> 00:57:25,059
with us. Yeah. Yeah. That salvation has anything.

1630
00:57:25,199 --> 00:57:27,554
The only bit that you play in your

1631
00:57:27,554 --> 00:57:28,054
salvation

1632
00:57:28,434 --> 00:57:28,934
is

1633
00:57:29,315 --> 00:57:30,375
accepting the gift.

1634
00:57:30,675 --> 00:57:32,914
You you're handed a present. You accept it.

1635
00:57:32,914 --> 00:57:33,815
You open it.

1636
00:57:34,275 --> 00:57:36,135
And that's it. Now it's yours.

1637
00:57:37,234 --> 00:57:40,275
Yeah. Exactly. And we we have got to

1638
00:57:40,275 --> 00:57:43,369
understand that whatever God does is righteous and

1639
00:57:43,369 --> 00:57:45,530
holy. Yeah. And he's and he's right in

1640
00:57:45,530 --> 00:57:47,769
it. You know? Yeah. I believe that I

1641
00:57:47,769 --> 00:57:50,170
believe in in the sovereignty of God, and

1642
00:57:50,170 --> 00:57:51,769
I believe in in man's free will. I

1643
00:57:51,769 --> 00:57:53,530
believe in those two things. I believe they're

1644
00:57:53,530 --> 00:57:55,550
both truth. I believe they're both of God.

1645
00:57:56,090 --> 00:57:57,390
But here's the thing,

1646
00:57:58,025 --> 00:57:59,785
and this is not I don't believe this

1647
00:57:59,785 --> 00:58:01,305
is his character, but I'm just giving you

1648
00:58:01,305 --> 00:58:03,945
an example here. If God said, I don't

1649
00:58:03,945 --> 00:58:06,025
wanna save Brian. I'm not gonna give Brian

1650
00:58:06,025 --> 00:58:07,945
the choice to be saved. I'm not going

1651
00:58:07,945 --> 00:58:10,184
to I'm not gonna share the gospel with

1652
00:58:10,184 --> 00:58:10,679
Brian.

1653
00:58:11,079 --> 00:58:12,679
Let me tell you something. God would be

1654
00:58:12,679 --> 00:58:15,239
right in doing it. Okay? I mean, I

1655
00:58:15,239 --> 00:58:16,920
I may not understand it. I may not

1656
00:58:16,920 --> 00:58:18,440
know why, but God would be right in

1657
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:19,179
doing it.

1658
00:58:19,559 --> 00:58:21,719
That's not what I believe. I I believe

1659
00:58:21,719 --> 00:58:23,480
it is his will that none should perish

1660
00:58:23,480 --> 00:58:24,699
but all should come to repentance.

1661
00:58:25,275 --> 00:58:27,835
But what I'm trying to say is is

1662
00:58:27,835 --> 00:58:29,514
that there are things in the word of

1663
00:58:29,514 --> 00:58:31,835
God that we don't understand. Why did it

1664
00:58:31,835 --> 00:58:33,514
happen like this? Why did God choose it

1665
00:58:33,514 --> 00:58:35,755
to be like this? Why did, you know,

1666
00:58:35,755 --> 00:58:37,514
why did this happen, that happen? You know,

1667
00:58:37,514 --> 00:58:39,434
what what was going on here? Why is

1668
00:58:39,514 --> 00:58:40,815
what was God thinking?

1669
00:58:41,250 --> 00:58:43,090
You know, his wage are so much higher

1670
00:58:43,090 --> 00:58:45,750
than ours, and I promise you that anything

1671
00:58:46,050 --> 00:58:48,849
and everything that he does is righteous and

1672
00:58:48,849 --> 00:58:50,530
holy. What kind of God would he be

1673
00:58:50,530 --> 00:58:52,449
if we could understand every part of him?

1674
00:58:52,449 --> 00:58:54,610
Right? He's exactly higher than us. That's what

1675
00:58:54,610 --> 00:58:55,730
we've got to do. He's he's not a

1676
00:58:55,730 --> 00:58:58,425
smarter version of us. No. No. He he's

1677
00:58:58,425 --> 00:59:01,644
got this view of everything, past, present, future.

1678
00:59:02,105 --> 00:59:03,864
You know, he he he's got he's got

1679
00:59:03,864 --> 00:59:05,704
this view. We've got this view of I

1680
00:59:05,704 --> 00:59:08,105
see Dennis and I see Tyler tonight. Right?

1681
00:59:08,105 --> 00:59:10,105
I can't even see what's outside that door

1682
00:59:10,105 --> 00:59:10,320
right

1683
00:59:12,239 --> 00:59:12,304
right now. I may walk outside that door

1684
00:59:12,304 --> 00:59:13,440
and somebody may shoot me going down the

1685
00:59:13,440 --> 00:59:15,360
stairs. I don't know. God You made trip

1686
00:59:15,360 --> 00:59:16,900
walking up the stairs. That

1687
00:59:18,000 --> 00:59:21,360
actually happened tonight. Alright? I mean, that Tripping

1688
00:59:21,360 --> 00:59:23,360
going up the stairs, not the shooting. No.

1689
00:59:23,360 --> 00:59:25,295
Yeah. Yeah. That didn't get Sean, but I

1690
00:59:25,295 --> 00:59:27,055
did trip going up the stairs and it

1691
00:59:27,055 --> 00:59:29,855
takes a special talent to trip walking up

1692
00:59:29,855 --> 00:59:30,835
the stairs. Right?

1693
00:59:31,934 --> 00:59:33,695
But I was like I got one minute

1694
00:59:33,695 --> 00:59:36,335
and a deep discussion coming up. I'm headed

1695
00:59:36,335 --> 00:59:36,835
upstairs.

1696
00:59:38,019 --> 00:59:39,460
You know, he brings that up not knowing

1697
00:59:39,460 --> 00:59:41,059
what's outside. Why do you think we always

1698
00:59:41,059 --> 00:59:42,599
let you go out first? Yeah.

1699
00:59:43,059 --> 00:59:45,539
I'm sure you Just fall. Let's tell me.

1700
00:59:45,539 --> 00:59:47,699
Yeah. I'm sure. I'm a salvageable, I guess,

1701
00:59:47,699 --> 00:59:49,239
but, anyway. That's tough.

1702
00:59:50,864 --> 00:59:52,724
Dumb or tough one? I don't know.

1703
00:59:53,505 --> 00:59:55,505
If you're gonna be dumb, you gotta be

1704
00:59:55,505 --> 00:59:56,724
tough. That's right.

1705
00:59:59,585 --> 01:00:01,344
Oh, well, that I mean, I think we

1706
01:00:01,344 --> 01:00:03,505
solved it tonight. Right? Yeah. Yeah. We got

1707
01:00:03,505 --> 01:00:04,625
it. We got it. I don't think there

1708
01:00:04,625 --> 01:00:06,630
should be any questions in your mind anymore

1709
01:00:06,630 --> 01:00:08,309
out there. I think we got it. Yeah.

1710
01:00:08,309 --> 01:00:09,829
If we could drop these marks, we would.

1711
01:00:09,829 --> 01:00:12,869
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's done. It's done. All

1712
01:00:12,869 --> 01:00:14,869
all the brilliant minds out there that have

1713
01:00:14,869 --> 01:00:17,589
tried to discuss this subject, we have right

1714
01:00:17,589 --> 01:00:20,150
now in Sylvania, Alabama brought truth and light

1715
01:00:20,150 --> 01:00:21,690
to it. Yeah. Let's just just

1716
01:00:22,184 --> 01:00:24,025
seal it all up as just trust God.

1717
01:00:24,025 --> 01:00:26,824
Yeah. Yeah. Just trust God. And, and really

1718
01:00:26,824 --> 01:00:28,585
and truly, we, you know, I go back

1719
01:00:28,585 --> 01:00:31,144
to that statement of there's lots of people

1720
01:00:31,144 --> 01:00:32,744
out there that really, really want to fit

1721
01:00:32,744 --> 01:00:34,344
you into a box when you're a Christian

1722
01:00:34,344 --> 01:00:36,389
say that you believe this, you believe that.

1723
01:00:36,469 --> 01:00:38,069
And because you believe this, you have to

1724
01:00:38,069 --> 01:00:40,889
believe this other thing. No, that that's unfortunately,

1725
01:00:41,190 --> 01:00:42,409
that's not how it works.

1726
01:00:43,029 --> 01:00:44,869
I know that's how it works for if

1727
01:00:44,869 --> 01:00:46,630
you're Catholic. Yeah. That is how it works.

1728
01:00:46,630 --> 01:00:48,789
I mean, they, they, they're told exactly what

1729
01:00:48,789 --> 01:00:50,710
they have to believe and else you're not

1730
01:00:50,710 --> 01:00:52,735
no longer Catholic. Kicked out of the club.

1731
01:00:52,735 --> 01:00:54,574
Yeah. And the rest of us don't do

1732
01:00:54,574 --> 01:00:56,414
that. So don't feel like you have to

1733
01:00:56,414 --> 01:00:58,094
fit neatly into one of these boxes. So

1734
01:00:58,094 --> 01:00:59,934
when you hear these discussions and you hear

1735
01:00:59,934 --> 01:01:02,914
these, these talks about it, do remember that

1736
01:01:03,215 --> 01:01:04,690
you need to go look up what they're

1737
01:01:04,690 --> 01:01:06,690
talking about, look up what they're saying, because

1738
01:01:06,690 --> 01:01:08,369
a lot of these people will make certain

1739
01:01:08,369 --> 01:01:09,829
claims about these things.

1740
01:01:10,210 --> 01:01:13,170
They won't actually say, well, the official statement

1741
01:01:13,170 --> 01:01:15,010
is this, or the actual Canon that we

1742
01:01:15,010 --> 01:01:17,989
get this from says this, but we believe

1743
01:01:18,130 --> 01:01:19,269
XYZ, and

1744
01:01:19,605 --> 01:01:21,684
that's perfectly fine. There, there are probably, like

1745
01:01:21,684 --> 01:01:23,045
you say, there's some that say, well, we're

1746
01:01:23,045 --> 01:01:24,565
only, we only take four of the tenants.

1747
01:01:24,565 --> 01:01:26,085
We don't take all five. And there's probably

1748
01:01:26,085 --> 01:01:27,204
some out there that say, no, we take

1749
01:01:27,204 --> 01:01:28,724
all five, but we modify them so heavily.

1750
01:01:28,724 --> 01:01:30,005
They might as well not be the same

1751
01:01:30,005 --> 01:01:30,505
thing.

1752
01:01:31,284 --> 01:01:32,965
And so don't be afraid of that. Don't

1753
01:01:32,965 --> 01:01:35,550
be feeling like you have to fall into

1754
01:01:35,550 --> 01:01:37,309
one of these categories or fall into one

1755
01:01:37,309 --> 01:01:38,829
of these beliefs because I see and the

1756
01:01:38,829 --> 01:01:40,750
whole reason I wanna talk about this was

1757
01:01:40,750 --> 01:01:43,010
I see so many people pushing

1758
01:01:43,550 --> 01:01:45,869
this idea that that it is really not

1759
01:01:45,869 --> 01:01:48,030
your choice. And the one thing we can

1760
01:01:48,030 --> 01:01:49,710
say is that, look, God is sovereign and

1761
01:01:49,710 --> 01:01:51,494
it is a there is a choice there

1762
01:01:51,494 --> 01:01:53,755
for you. The Bible makes that very clear.

1763
01:01:54,775 --> 01:01:56,614
Now as to how that applies to all

1764
01:01:56,614 --> 01:01:58,694
of this, look, God's sovereign. He he has

1765
01:01:58,694 --> 01:02:00,534
a plan. He knows what he's doing. And

1766
01:02:00,534 --> 01:02:02,694
sometimes we're not gonna understand it fully. No.

1767
01:02:02,694 --> 01:02:05,449
So But there is one truth, right? Absolutely.

1768
01:02:05,449 --> 01:02:07,130
The Bible says that not one jot or

1769
01:02:07,130 --> 01:02:09,210
one tittle of it, it will change. Right?

1770
01:02:09,210 --> 01:02:12,409
It's forever settled in heaven. And so we

1771
01:02:12,409 --> 01:02:14,250
can trust in the word of God. Right?

1772
01:02:14,250 --> 01:02:16,109
Amen. Just let the holy spirit

1773
01:02:16,650 --> 01:02:18,994
saturate you, speak to you. And listen, you

1774
01:02:18,994 --> 01:02:20,835
can't do that by just opening your Bible

1775
01:02:20,835 --> 01:02:22,835
up every once in a while. Right? Or

1776
01:02:22,835 --> 01:02:24,695
on Sunday when the preacher's preaching.

1777
01:02:24,994 --> 01:02:25,394
I'm gonna

1778
01:02:25,954 --> 01:02:28,035
yes. I wanna encourage each and every one

1779
01:02:28,035 --> 01:02:29,670
of you. If you're listening to us tonight,

1780
01:02:30,150 --> 01:02:31,750
dig into the word of God. Right? I

1781
01:02:31,750 --> 01:02:34,650
mean, but find find the truth in scripture.

1782
01:02:35,510 --> 01:02:37,349
If you can't read it, then listen to

1783
01:02:37,349 --> 01:02:39,510
it. Right? There there's there's audio bibles out

1784
01:02:39,510 --> 01:02:41,769
there. It's on your phone. You the YouVersion,

1785
01:02:42,405 --> 01:02:43,925
All those things that Yeah. The You version.

1786
01:02:43,925 --> 01:02:45,717
You just hit play button. Just hit play

1787
01:02:45,717 --> 01:02:47,204
button. And the chapter. Yeah. You could even

1788
01:02:47,204 --> 01:02:48,644
pick a voice that you want to read

1789
01:02:48,644 --> 01:02:49,864
it to. You got concordances

1790
01:02:50,164 --> 01:02:52,565
on your phone. You got Yeah. Dictionaries. All

1791
01:02:52,565 --> 01:02:54,724
kinds of resources. We don't have excuse. Right?

1792
01:02:54,724 --> 01:02:56,164
I was gonna say, you know, back in

1793
01:02:56,164 --> 01:02:57,750
the day, people had an excuse to to

1794
01:02:57,750 --> 01:02:59,150
say they couldn't read the bible or they

1795
01:02:59,150 --> 01:03:01,409
didn't read it. We really don't. We don't.

1796
01:03:01,869 --> 01:03:03,949
It's it's out there. It's out there. And

1797
01:03:03,949 --> 01:03:07,489
not only that, pray. Man, pray. Yeah. Pray.

1798
01:03:07,789 --> 01:03:09,549
I've had people ask me, so, you know,

1799
01:03:09,549 --> 01:03:11,204
what what's the biggest thing you do to

1800
01:03:11,204 --> 01:03:13,764
prepare for a sermon? Pray. Pray. Prayer and

1801
01:03:13,764 --> 01:03:15,844
fasting. There's so many times that I'll start

1802
01:03:15,844 --> 01:03:16,344
studying,

1803
01:03:17,045 --> 01:03:19,204
you know, I'll I'll pray and I'll start

1804
01:03:19,204 --> 01:03:19,704
studying.

1805
01:03:20,005 --> 01:03:22,025
And and then and then I'm just like,

1806
01:03:22,565 --> 01:03:24,880
either I get distracted or I'm just it's

1807
01:03:24,880 --> 01:03:26,960
not going anywhere. And I'm like, no. That's

1808
01:03:26,960 --> 01:03:28,640
not it. No. That's not it. God, what

1809
01:03:28,640 --> 01:03:29,760
do you want me to preach on? God,

1810
01:03:29,760 --> 01:03:30,960
what do you want me to study? What

1811
01:03:30,960 --> 01:03:32,719
do you what's the subject you want me

1812
01:03:32,719 --> 01:03:33,860
to to to bring?

1813
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And so you know what I do? I

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I I gotta stop and I start praying

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again. Right? And sometimes sometimes it'll that'll be

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that'll be three or four hours of that

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before I just really get to the meat

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of the subject,

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of what I believe that God has called

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me to to preach.

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And,

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I'm just those two things, prayer and bible

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study. Right? I mean Yeah. And don't be

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afraid. Yeah. Do not be afraid to say,

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I don't know. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. I mean, really and truly, the this

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this whole

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know. I don't know. Yeah. And there's nothing

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wrong with that. We don't we don't have

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to know everything. That's why we have to

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have faith. Right? That's right. Yeah. Amen.

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Oops.

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All right. Well, I, like I say that

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that wraps us up and we really hope

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that maybe this brought a little light to

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it and a little, little, little bit of,

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information that maybe you'd never heard before,

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on this topic, because it is something that

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a lot of us never really hear. We

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never really get to study. We never really

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get talked about.

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And we hope you enjoyed it and we'll

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join us again next week.

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Brother Brian, why don't you pray us out

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today? Absolutely.

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Lord, we are so thankful for who you

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are. We are thankful that you're sovereign. God,

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you know every choice that we'll ever make.

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God, you know,

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you know,

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time is is,

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is God not a not a factor in

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in what you do? And,

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but lord god, we're only we're only held

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back by time. And and, god, you you

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know you know exactly what's gonna happen to

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me tonight, tomorrow, the next day. Lord, you

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know my past, present, and future, and I'm

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so thankful for that. I'm thankful that I

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have a God that is that is all

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powerful and all knowing,

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and and and that he,

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he looked into,

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the sands of time, and he said, there's

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gonna be a Brian, and I'm gonna call

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him to do this thing. And he's gonna

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make some bad choices, but I'm still gonna

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love him. But his the main choice that

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he's gonna make, he's gonna choose to accept

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what I have done for him by giving

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my son, Jesus Christ. And I'm so thankful

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for that today,

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And I will forever

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speak the name of Jesus, preach the name

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of Jesus until I until I draw my

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last breath. Lord, thank you for giving us

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your word,

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that speaks to our heart, that penetrates our

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heart. And, God, thank you for giving us

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faith. Lord, you you measure

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01:05:54,675 --> 01:05:56,355
our faith out. Right? You give us a

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measure of faith or whatever we need. God,

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we need faith to sometimes not stumble up

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on these things, not trip over these things

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that cause us to have arguments among

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among Christian

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brothers and sisters.

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But, lord, let's just trust in the fact

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that you,

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god, you give us your son, Jesus Christ.

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He died for our sins. He rose again

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in three days. He was buried in a

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borrowed tomb. He he ascended under heaven,

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and and Lord, he sits at the right

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hand of the father making intercession for each

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and every one of us. Lord, that is

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truth and I believe it and I trust

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in it. And God, I pray that many

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will hear this and do the same. In

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Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Special

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thank you to Carter Pridmore,

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01:06:40,079 --> 01:06:42,099
Brian Harris, Waverly Henderson,

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01:06:42,559 --> 01:06:45,735
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our

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theme song, Truth Set Me Free.

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

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We hope you can join us live next

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Monday at 6PM central.

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Thank you for listening. But truth found me

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there.

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It was in my darkest eye.

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I traded my black heart for joy, for

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something real, something with power.

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Truth has set me free.

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Truth came to me.

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I once was blind and now I say

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truth

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set me free.

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Oh,

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oh.

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Truth

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set me free.

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Oh,

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oh.

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Me free.