IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
The god that I used to believe in was nothing like the True God.The god I used to worship was a god that I controlled, a god that did things the way that I would do things, but alas,this god did not exist.
when I came to Jesus, by the Father drawing me...I was atheist but through the years..life issues, trials and troubles..had brought me to my knees. I became more of an agnostic and eventually I was willing to take up an offer to go to church. you'd think I wouldve hardened my heart more and become more of an atheist...I eventually agreed to go to church..but had no real belief id have a heart change and given a desire to serve Jesus as Lord by the Holy Spirit. 2005 I became a born again Christian a year after leaving the military and I praise God for the working of His amazing grace in my life.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
These videos are the true blessing. R.C. Sproul is one of my favourite pastors-teachers. But we definitely are Christians firstly and then Calvinists. Knowledge is so important, but debating with the Arminian bretheren with love is more important. Greetings from Ukraine (Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian church of Odesa).
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
I would never attach a man's name to my belief system , especially a man outside of the Bible. Besides this, there are too many errors. For example, limited atonement is false and goes directly against the scriptures.
I'm glad I found him in RUclips videos - he is incredible evangelist I am learning so much from him even if he passed away he is still helping everyone to know "God's Word,"
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
G is right. I didn't realize how great of gift RC was until he was gone! My understanding of my Lord's words is partly because of him. His intro to each of his broadcast and his chalkboard writing as he preached will always one of my "sounds of comfort"! R.I.P. "mighty man of God"!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
We are so blessed by God that He allowed R.C.Sproul to continue to teach posthumously via these recordings. God's word is timeless and just as Paul was able to scribe the word 2000 years ago, understanding it better via these videos is a blessing. R.C. and his like-awakened and educated theologians/pastors are a gift and mode of the Holy Spirit to touch the fractured hearts of the chosen.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
I'm so thankful I found the teachings of R. C. Sproul. He explains doctrine/scripture and interprets it logically, lovingly, passionately. So much is becoming clear to me. Praise our triune God!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
@@iacoponefurio1915 If you ever follow JESUS instead of being a preacher parrot, you will begin transitioning from a bipolar barbarian to something more meek.
It is shameful and amazing how thoroughly man has distorted and maligned the beautiful truths of God's Holy word! I thank God for answering my prayer to correct my false doctrines and misunderstood theological beliefs. I bless the Lord for raising up faithful men that commit themselves to diligent study and guide the flock towards Reformed and Biblical truth. Thank you Brother Sproul and rest your soul in the presence of the LORD.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Incomprehensible how.many anti biblical cults try to claim to be Christian America is a joke and it's amazing the Lord tsrried with us as long as he has
"What the Holy Spirit does do is change the inclination and the disposition of our hearts, so that when we were previously unwilling to embrace Christ - now we are willing!.... We aren't dragged to Christ! We run to Christ!"
That’s a great way of seeing it. I also think of it this way, when we are unregenerate, we have only tasted the bitter water that sin can provide. We know nothing of the sweet and refreshing water that God provides until He has first given us a drink of it. The living water God provides is something He gives, not something we take. Once we’ve tasted, resistance is not even a thought to ponder.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
What a divine exposition!Thank you dear Lord for this Servant of yours , He amazingly reignited in me an overwhelming appreciation and love for the gift of salvation! #ThankyouJesusforchoosingme!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
@@thomasj5332 That verse actually refutes the view you're proposing. The pharisees resisted the Holy Spirit because their hearts were uncircumcised. Someone with a circumcised heart *will not* resist the Holy Spirit (Read Romans 2:28-29)
@KTTGHMTJWYCBLAC Once God makes himself known to you, and you now know for a fact that God is real, you can't resist...it's not like you are being compelled, but my god...you now know God is real without a shadow of a doubt. I have no clue why God would save me.
@KTTGHMTJWYCBLAC ?? Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, *I will pour out my spirit unto you,* I will make known my words unto you. *Because I have called, and ye refused;* I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Amen, Ramson. I've been a believer for twenty years, and for the first ten I didn't even know about the doctrines of grace until I began questioning Ephesians 1:4 and Romans 9. These Bible verses bothered me because I felt as if I had no "control" over my own salvation. It led to a nearly two year study of these doctrines. But even before this happened, when I would give my testimony about my salvation, I would say, "And when the pastor showed me the gospel from the Bible, there was something inside me that couldn't say no." I was saying this before I ever heard of reformed theology. I had the gospel presented to me so many times before I was saved and never felt that way until the day the Lord saved me. Now I know it was that effectual call where my heart was changed and I now obeyed the gospel that I couldn't and wouldn't obey before. Sinful man will always resist the general call of gracious salvation because the nature of man hates God (John 15:18-23). Yet when that Spirit moves to make you alive at a moment that is still mysterious to us in many ways (John 3:8), we will hear that call and respond, not unlike the dead Lazarus made alive first before he could heed the call of Jesus. Lazarus couldn't do anything because he was dead; he had to be made alive first and then he responded. It happened all at once. That is what happens to sinners when God has made us alive from our spiritual deadness; we hear Him call because He is our shepherd and we are His sheep (John 10:27-30). All glory to God for His salvation from start to finish.
Faith is not an attribute of man, but a gift from GOD. Because it is a fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT, therefore apart from Him, man cannot believe. It's not in His nature. "No one seeks for GOD. No, not even one." And, "no one can come to me except the FATHER draws Him." What a blessing today!
@@ronald968 I hate to burst your free will bubble but type in free will into your bible search engine and see how many references there are to it in the entire bible. Hint ..........zero times.
If I can help, in a nutshell Romans 8:28-30 is a great summary of what God does. Notice in this passage, there is not one time where the creature is seen cooperating with God. Many like to quote John 1:12 but always ignore John 1:13 which clearly tells us that God is the one doing everything.
God is the only source of anything good. We are the wayward source of our own troubles, our ancestors first and then we proved to be just like them. We have violated His covenant and are adulterers and idolaters An eye for eye would.leave all men rejected as we rejected Him.
I'm proof effectual grace is real. I weent to rehab strung out on dope, God gave me a spiritual experience and awakening wind blowing burning bush type. No-one believed me neither do my own family except one or two people, no-one showed me Jesus but I knew immediately it was him, had a reborn again dream which I knew nothing of until I looked it up and immediately started praying repenting not knowing anything and started watching the signs of his return while reading the bible and being on fire for Jesus
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
The opposite of resistance is acceptance. Accept Jesus Christ. Believe unto righteousness. God is not willing that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Can't see anyone not liking this "GOOD NEWS" isn't this exactly what it is? Hard to think of this as anything other then the Gospel (GOOD NEWS) of Christ's salvation. Starting around 18:00 isn't this exactly what we read in 1 Cor 1:30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption, All God!
As Rev. Jones once said: God chooses those who “Will”, not those who “Won’t”. This man makes Salvation impossibly complicated and in error. A child may understand: “Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life”. We are created in the image of God, therefore having “Free Will”, to receive or reject Christ.
Yeah, by this standard God predestines you to heaven or hell. And no one will know till they are dead. That means mr. Sprouls him self might not be in heaven. God in nature is Good and sending people to hell for no reason other that willing it, is not by nature good. If that were the case then why even send himself to die for us? It didn't need to happen.
What’s described by RC Sproul is exactly the way God worked in my life. And what you wrote is not true at all. I made it abundantly clear to God that I wanted nothing to do with Him. But in the middle of my resistance God came with His Word in such way my desires were immediately changed. Now I was willing. But God chooses to gave me regenerative grace when I was absolutely not willing at all. Free will nonsense.
@@Lena.9such a claim that free will is nonsense is not consistent with the historical view of the Church and is actually consistent with the heretics of old.
Sproul never denied that whosoever believes will not perish but have everlasting life. To say that Sproul denies this is to either be ignorant of what it teaches or to lie point blank. If you believe, you will be saved. Guaranteed. Where you go wrong, and I’m not trying to be mean, is not ultimately understanding that dead means dead. One isn’t even neutral in their deadness. They’re blinded by the god of this age that they cannot see the light of the gospel. You teach that while dead, they can see the light of the gospel and believe in it. I’ll add too, and this applies to me too, while we are called to be adults in our thinking, sometimes our job is to simply believe, not understand.
What God, the Father of Jesus Christ, does before faith comes is to give him ears that hear. Faith is the substance (mass) that the (gravity) of grace compels to come. Thus saith the Lord Jesus Christ, “None of My sheep have free will.” I am forever praising and believing Jesus Christ and this is pleasing to God.
Yes I believe regeneration preceded faith in my case - I came to God only as a last resort, after 1st trying the gods of our time & finding them unprofitable - did God’s grace perhaps consist in part in that realization?
His saying the truth about how a person is saved by grace like Aposlte paul and John newton the composer of Amazing Grace its a savage chain of grace that we can't resist it but cry and fall into our loving Fathers arms😇🙏❤💖❣💝
@@HaroldZwingley also in the early Church Fathers, you DO see the Trinity taught. You don't see concepts contrary to the Trinity being taught, unlike the early Church teaching concepts contrary to Calvinism.
Even the faith I have in God I don’t fully understand, it’s like if is something that is handed over. It is as if Christ lets me borrow his lungs in order to breath. Yes I believe and am aware of it when it happens, but even when I doubt it is still there. One’s human moods fluctuate and for my salvation to depend on this, is too much to bare. I know that Christ assists me all the way through.
Thanks for all these lessons. Sure is complicated stuff. So pleased you were able school us. You must have a deeper knowledge than a regular guy just reading the Bible?, I do wonder if all Protestant teachers are Popes?
How does regeneration precede faith? Regeneration is when you are born of the Spirit; when the Spirit dwells in you. The Spirit didn't come until Acts. What about all the faith in the OT that preceded regeration? Or the faith of Cornelius before the Spirit fell on Gentiles? (I'm genuinely asking this because it is a point I'm hung on.)
It starts at total depravity, or total inability. Romans 1 to 3, Ephesians 2 and Colossians 1. Man cannot have saving faith with his heart of stone because being in the flesh means you can't please god, unable to submit to his law (Romans 8). John 8 has Jews in it that believe on Christ, yet Christ calls them sons of the devil.
**If a man has the ability to do good and still chooses to do wrong he is far more depraved than a man who CAN’T do good.** Mankind is without excuse precisely because we all have been offered this free gift of salvation and we all have the freedom to either accept it or reject it. The greatest excuse that anyone could ever have when standing before God on Judgement Day would be be that, “well Lord you didn’t choose me...” Reformed theology gives mankind the greatest excuse and so must be rejected. Dead is NEVER SHOWN in the scriptures to mean MORAL INABILITY to respond to God’s truth. Dead means SPIRITUALLY SEPARATED from the presence of God due to sin and the only way to get into His presence is through Christ. **If we were actually dead as reformers portray then we wouldn’t even be able to sin!** When speaking metaphorically of deadness it’s never described as a morally incapacitated condition from birth due to the Fall, but instead as a condition of being separated from God by our own rebellion. Scripture supports a totally depraved man that is spiritually separated from God and obviously unable to save Himself. This does NOT mean man is totally incapable of responding to Him. Dead does not relate to your “ability” but to your RELATIONSHIP.
Daniel Omitted all of that comes from scripture. No Jesus wasn’t lying. The problem is you have no clue what the context is. Either that or you don’t care about it. Reformed theology is based on assumptions and opinions and isolating passages out context. Cherry picking verses and twisting them to say things they don’t say. And at the same time disregarding the rest of scripture and turning a blind eye to it.
Daniel Omitted Jesus said if He be lifted up He would draw all men unto Himself . Was Jesus lying? Is Jesus failing at what He would say He would do? JOHN 12:32 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL people to myself.
@@apilkey so let me get this straight. Jesus begins a thought in John 6 and waits to finish it in John 12? Hmm am I really the one who struggles with context? So let me get this straight. Jesus said "no one can come to me unless the father draws him" but he didnt stop there "and I will raise him up on the last day" theres no distinction made between the one that is drawn and the one that is raised. Do you believe everyone is going to be raised up on the last day? If you do then congratulations youre a univsalist. Now lets examine John 12 and see what going there. In verse 19 we see the pharisees are upset with Jesus as usual. Why are they upset this time? Because "the whole world had gone after him". Now why is this an issue? Because to the pharisees the messiah was only for the jews, not the gentiles. It explains further that there were some greeks who wanted to follow Jesus who Jesus then began ministering too. In the middle of that he says he will draw all men too him. Now contextually it would appear Jesus is correcting the misconception that he was ONLY the jewish messiah. Nah this cant be the case. Clearly im wrong. Clearly Jesus begins his thought telling the jews no one can come but then doesnt even bother finishing that thought until that crowd had left him and too a completely different crowd. Cause I know thats how I like to communicate to people. I tell one group one half of my thought on a certain subject then wait til they leave and finish with an entirely new group of people. Clearly this how we are supposed to do exegesis.
@@apilkey "cherry picking verses" 😂 said the guy whos attempt at correcting me wasnt going through John 6 to examine whats going on there. Because if you did you would know Jesus is telling this to a group of people who do not believe in him. So his response to disbelief is to tell these people "you can't come". But don't stop there, read what he said to his disciples. Do you want to leave to? And they answer him. We believe you are the Holy One of God. Jesus response to this BELIEF is to say "Did I not choose you 12"? So lets examine the contrast here. Jesus answer disbelievers with "you cant come". He answers his believers with "I chose you". Wow it seems like youre the one here cherry picking and ignoring context.
Perhaps the term should be Infallible Grace. To those who are the "elect" (chosen) by God for salvation, THEN these will be Infallibly saved by God. God DOESN'T make mistakes. Good job on this on Dr. Sproul.
leepicker67 If God in His Sovereignty chose to save only those who would freely believe in Christ would you have a problem with that or would you accept it?
@@apilkey I KNOW that God will save ANY and ALL persons who would freely believe ON (trust) Christ as their Savior. However, His election is NOT contingent on that person's choice. "Election" is God's choice made in eternity past BEFORE there was ANYONE. His choice is sovereign, dependent ONLY on the good pleasure of his will. It is an error do believe that God "elected" anyone to salvation through Christ because He "foresaw" that they would "choose" to trust Christ as their Savior. If YOU personally trust in the redemptive power of Jesus Christ for your salvation, THEN you WILL BE saved and know FOR certain that you are one of the elect. If you DO NOT make that choice, THEN you are NOT someone who God "elected", and you will be LOST. The miracle of "grace" IS that God "elected" ANYONE to salvation, for "all have sinned and fallen short." God therefore was NEVER under any obligation to save ANY sinner. He chose to "save" some and not others.
leepicker67 Election in scripture has nothing to do with salvation. Election in the scriptures is: 1) Jesus Christ the Elect One 2) The Elect nation of Israel 3) Believers IN Christ for Christian SERVICE 4) Individuals chosen or elected to SERVICE not salvation. ... According to Isaiah 42:1 Jesus Christ is God’s elect servant who shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles: ISAIAH 42:1 1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; MINE ELECT, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. ************************************ ... According to Isaiah 45:4 the nation of Israel is God’s elect: ISAIAH 45:4 4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and ISRAEL MINE ELECT, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me. ************************************ ...According to Titus 1:1 BELIEVERS in Christ are called Elect and again they are elect to SERVICE. TITUS 1:1 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the FAITH OF GOD’S ELECT, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness; You can’t have faith from before the foundation of the world.
As I see it, the mistake in the line of reasoning that leads to the Reformed doctrine of election is the assumption that God’s grace must be irresistible. It’s one thing to say that humans won’t believe in Christ without the Holy Spirit and quite another thing to claim that with the Holy Spirit humans must believe. The Holy Spirit will bring us to the point where we can believe, but never to a point where we must believe. So, if we do believe, it is all credited to God’s grace, working through the Spirit. If we refuse, however, it’s our own fault. Does this view in any way compromise the claim that salvation is 100% by grace? Does it leave room for anyone to take any credit for their salvation? I don’t see how it does. The Bible gives us warnings to not resist the Holy Spirit (e.g. Acts 7:51; Eph 4:30; Heb 3:7-8)
King Saul, anointed of God, received the Holy Spirit TWICE (1 Samuel 10:6-13, 16:14, 19:21-24, 24:10, 26:23). And yet chose to do evil. Adam and Eve when they were sinless, chose to know evil through their God given freewill. Sproul believes God has freewill and when God decided to create man in His likeness and image, suddenly, an atheist has freewill to disbelieve God but has no freewill to believe God. A muslim has freewill to ask forgiveness from anyone but has no freewill to believe in God upon hearing the Word. He has freewill to believe in Islam or allah but has no freewill to believe in God. Calvinism has to remove freewill in their “irresistible grace” doctrine to fit their philosophical cunundrum they have created. You will never find a passage that says “irresistible grace” in the entirety of the Scripture. This Calvinism is based from John Calvin’s created doctrine that God Himself “reprobated” many to damnation along with predestining others to being chosen. Calvin chose to damn God by saying that He Himself created and authored evil in Calvin’s difficulty understanding with election, and presestination passages in Romans , Ephesians and elsewhere. Calvinism is the exact description of Colossians 2 about being a deceptive empty philosophy, man made religion, according to tradition of men and basic world principles that have an appearance of wisdom and humility “yet none are of any value for stopping indulgence of the flesh.” John Calvin, the Calvinist’s super hero, when he was ruler of Geneva, has Michael Servetus, a Spanish physician and theologian, seized and burned alive in Oct 27, 1533. He in fact wanted him beheaded. And dor what...for disagreeing Calvin. So Calvinists are so deluded think that they honor God by calling Him evil.
Can someone please explain to me how you can claim to see life before you believe when scripture is clear that he that believeth NOT shall not see life and is still under God’s wrath? So are you saying you are born again but still under God’s wrath? JOHN 3:36 36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son SHALL NOT SEE LIFE; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
Regeneration comes after faith because of the receiving of Holy Spirit! Only during our regeneration and washing of the Spirit can we please and glorify God! I don't think God will make us or force us to repent, but only His kindness "might" lead us to repentance! noticed the word "might"? Yes, because few people repents of their sin. We always neglect God's kindness till few have repented. If God loves the cheerful giver(and we are not always a cheerful giver), will He make us a cheerful giver so that He will love us? Salvation(by grace thru faith) is not irresistible. How Jesus wants to gather israel under His wings, but they won't!
The logic behind regeneration preceding faith can be explained using a metaphor. 1. An apple must exist before it can be perceived. 2. We must perceive the apple before we can believe it exists. 3. Therefore, the apple must have existed before our belief in it. Replace the apple with God. And voilà.
I remember reading Dr Sproul's "Chosen by God" in which he lists the acrostic "RULEP" - I think he must have developed it somewhat over his life. #semperreformanda
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
So then would this reformed theology on irresistible grace exclude the active and willing receiving of God’s grace from by the soul as itself being a work of sorts, so that in a limited sense the saved soul is willed by God to be involved is it’s own salvation?
Now that we’ve listened to a man’s OPINION let’s look at straight SCRIPTURE and see what the Word of God says and hang what this man says in the balance and see if he comes out wanting. We need to ask ourselves what does God’s Word day? Is scripture actually your true authority or is a man made systematic? Scripture is clear you have to RECEIVE God’s saving grace that’s available to ALL. Receiving something in faith is NOT meritorious. You have to believe that THROUGH THE GRACE PROVIDED you will be saved: ACTS 15:11 11 But WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ WE SHALL BE SAVED, EVEN AS THEY. We have to RECEIVE the grace of God that’s AVAILABLE TO ALL in Titus 2:11. ...According to Romans 5:17 we receive the abundance of God’s grace BY FAITH: ROMANS 5:17 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; MUCH MORE THEY WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE and of the gift of righteousness SHALL REIGN IN LIFE by one, Jesus Christ.) Q: WHO shall reign in life? A: Those who RECEIVE the abundance of GRACE. ************************************ ... According to Jonah 2:8 you can forsake the mercy that’s been made available to you: JONAH 2:8 8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their OWN mercy. Mercy is available to ALL but we can choose to reject it. They had their OWN mercy. It was theirs. They had it. They forsook what was theirs. ************************************ ...According to Hebrews 10:29 there will be those whom the Spirit of grace was offered to but they refused to enter in and instead trampled Christ underfoot. They did this DESPITE the Spirit of grace that they indeed had: HEBREWS 10:29 29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE? ************************************ ... It’s clear in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 the very reason that some are not saved and perish. It’s simply and unarguably because THEY RECEIVED NOT the love of the truth. Not because it wasn’t offered to them but because they freely chose not to receive the gracious offer initiated by God and therefore are legitimately without excuse: 2 THESSALONIANS 2:10-12 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT the love of the truth, that they might be saved. 11 And FOR THIS CAUSE God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie: 12 That they all might be damned WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. ************************************ ... According to John 12:48 mankind will be judged based on receiving or rejecting God’s word. It makes a mockery of God’s Justice if we will be judged on something we are completely unable to respond to: JOHN 12:48 48 HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day. ************************************ ... According to Acts 13:46 there were some who put the word of God sway from themselves and judged THEMSELVES unworthy of eternal life: ACTS 13:46 46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: BUT SEEING YE PUT IT FROM YOU, AND JUDGE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF EVERLASTING LIFE, lo, we turn to the Gentiles. ************************************ ...According to Romans 13:2 those that RESIST what’s available to them (the power and ordinance of God) receive damnation: ROMANS 13:2 2 WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER, RESISTETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD: AND THEY THAT RESIST SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION. ************************************ ... According to Acts 7:52 those with stiff necks RESISTED the Holy Ghost: ACTS 7:51 51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, YE DO ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY GHOST: AS YOUR FATHERS DID, SO DO YE. ************************************ ... According to 1 Thessalonians 5:19 one can QUENCH the Holy Spirit: 1 THESSALONIANS 5:19 19 QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT. ************************************ ... According Ephesians 4:30 one can GRIEVE the Holy Spirit: EPHESIANS 4:30 30 And GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. ************************************ ...Here’s the BIBLICAL doctrine of Grace: It’s just simply called GRACE. Not prevenient, not anything else. Just simply GRACE. SAVING GRACE. Titus 2:11 clearly states God’s SAVING GRACE has appeared to ALL men. TITUS 2:11 11 FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION HATH APPEARED TO ALL MEN, Not just grace but SAVING grace. Grace that BRINGETH SALVATION. ************************************ Q: WHO has this SAVING grace appeared to? A: ALL men. ...Not all me are saved so obviously we can reject this gracious option: 2 THESSALONIANS 2:10 10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
@@Mikael5732 My spirit has been reached by Christ and knows the truth of God’s Word that is directly against Calvinism. Sounds like you don’t have ears to hear or eyes to see.
Is this the reason why other people they are Christian but they don't have faith because God has not draw them therefore there are bound to go to he'll.. meaning that God predestined others to go to he'll and other to heaven on purpose..I need help on this..its been bothering
Yes regeneration (by grace) precedes faith (a gift of grace) Moreover, verses, which appear to assert "Justified by Faith" (Rom 3:28, 5:1, Gal 2:16, 3:11, 3:24) have been mistranslated, and should have more properly translated, and contextually-consistent as: "Justified by a faithfulness", thereby removing apparent contradictions with, "justified by the Blood of Jesus (Rom 5:9 ), or the faithfulness of Jesus (Rom 3:24) justified by grace (Titus 3:7), and not justified by faith alone (Jam 2:24).
What I don't understand is how Sproul separates salvation as work completely of God and yet that sanctification is our work or partly thereof. The moment you accept Christ as Saviour, your sins, past, present and future, are atoned for and you recieve the righteous nature of Christ.
Wrong. Blessed is the man who God will never count His sins against Him. God always knew the destination of every human he decided to make before time.l began. You peabrain realization does not create yourself in God's eyes hahahahhahaha
Why would God leave a person's eternal destiny upto the man? People go to hell for not being clever enough to save themselves? God is judging people and he grants salvation and belief to those who are ashamed after their sin. Those who have no shame show themselves to be evil. You cannot escape or take God's grace. If he gives it you will be transformed and given the Holy Spirit. If there are no Christians around (like in tribal jungle areas) you will just be saved at your judgement by grace. The only way a person can go to heaven is if they gain and keep God's grace. Grace causes belief. Belief does not cause grace.
WE OBEY JESUS Freely believing in Christ is not saving yourself where did you come up with that idea because it’s not scriptural. God saves. 0% man. 100% God. Scripture is clear you have to RECEIVE God’s saving grace that’s available to ALL. ...According to Romans 5:17 we receive the abundance of God’s grace BY FAITH: ROMANS 5:17 17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; MUCH MORE THEY WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE and of the gift of righteousness SHALL REIGN IN LIFE by one, Jesus Christ.) Q: WHO shall reign in life? A: Those who RECEIVE the abundance of GRACE. *********************************** ...According to Acts 15:21 clearly states you have to believe that THROUGH THE GRACE PROVIDED you will be saved: ACTS 15:11 11 But WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ WE SHALL BE SAVED, EVEN AS THEY.
Apostle Paul is the best example of how one cannot resist Irresistible Grace. No one hated Christians and Christianity more than him. If God saved him by His grace, and Paul immediately repented and believed, then I don’t know how people don’t believe in Irresistible Grace and call it unbiblical! I can bring many examples from the Bible to prove Irresistible Grace to be BIBLICAL!!!
I agree. I look on myself and now see that i was not able to repent and believe in LORD Jesus but it was the change of my heart by Holy Spirit. In a moment of seconds i became alive to the things of God.
The "drawing" of Jn 6:44 is misleading, and decreases the sovereignty of God toward the Arminian "wooing". The proper rendering of the verb, "Elkuo" is "drag" as in dragging reluctant fish or reluctant prisoners. The verb means to use whatever force is required to achieve the desired outcome, consistent with the absolute and complete sovereignty of God. This verse is one of many verses, in which the sovereignty of God in the Greek text is watered down by biased Arminian translators.
@@bible1st True, knowledge does not imply causation. However, "God works all things according to the counsel of His desire." (Eph 1:11, Grk text). Since "all things" includes all our circumstances, choices, wills, desires, and abilities, "Free-will" is Biblically impossible. Moreover, when disciples of Christ fail, discipline will intensify, until they comply with their Master's desire (Heb 12:6).
"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still." Dr. Sproul may say that God doesn't "drag" or "compel" sinners to come to Christ against their will, but that they come freely. But what he doesn't say is that God, by changing a person's will and nature by regeneration, is literally changing them against their will. God changes their nature and will irresistibly, and then they have the freedom to resist (because they're regenerated) but they never would resist, so they always come willingly. But they only come willingly after they've had their nature changed against their will and nature...
And when Non-Calvinists say that Jesus said, "...When the Son of Man is lifted up, I will draw all men to myself" (which has the same word for "drag" or "compel" as the previous verse about no one coming to Jesus unless the Father "draws/drags/compels" him) they don't let the word have any real force.
@@iacoponefurio1915 True. But that only makes moral sense in a non-Calvinistic, non-deterministic paradigm. In the Calvinist worldview, those people, even though they are drawn, are never brought to repentance -- NOT because they refuse to repent as if they could have repented-- but because they were never regenerated unconditionally-- even worse, they were salvific-ly hated before they ever even did anything self-righteous or sinful. Their whole lives, including all their selfishness, sinful desires, and self-righteousness, came not ultimately from themselves, but was pre-determined by God. THAT'S THE PROBLEM-- Determinism. The problem is not with the scriptures here, which say Christ draws all men, and that God truly loves the world enough to send His son to die for all of their sins-- even the unrepentant. The problem is the Calivinistic view that God determines even the sinful desires of man, and pre-condemns them for those determined desires and actions. That's not scripture. That's not even Gospel. That's neo-Gnosticism and neo-Manichaeanism and should be firmly rejected for the sake of the honor and glory of Christ.
If one must exercise faith ,by believing something, we have something to boast about, thereby contradicting Eph 2:8-9. If R. C. had read his Greek texts more carefully, he would have found that "Pistis" (usual rendered "Faith") could have also been rendered "a Faithfilness" (of Jesus), which makes all the apparent contradictions evaporate.
God use suffering and despair to make us cry to God to save us and then to keep us saved always and perfected... Paul washer thought suicide before his new life.pslm18 in Distress I called.. my cry.. then the Earth shook quickened
Great teaching. But no one comes to the father unless the holy spirit gives them conviction of sin. Showing us we have a need for Christ. No one no matter what you believe accepts Jesus unless God moves work's in your heart.
Harry William I couldn’t help but notice you misquoted John 6:44 and left out the word “can”. Here this is what it actually says: JOHN 6:44 44 No man CAN come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day. Drawing gets a man TO Christ, it does not get a person IN Christ. Believing in FAITH gets you IN Christ. DRAW does not equal conversion Calvinists remove the word “can” and say,”no one come(s) to me.” John 6:44 clearly shows that man has the ABILITY to come because it says “CAN” come. So if the Father draws them then they CAN come. Q: Does the Father draw ALL amen or only some men? A: JOHN 12:32 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL people to myself.” Sentence is: MAN/CAN/COME Modified by: NO/EXCEPT DRAWS HIM. When the Father Draws, the RESULT is that man CAN come. Questions: Are they forced to come? Do they come? Doesn’t say. CAN they come? Yes. ************************************ JOHN 6:65 65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that NO MAN CAN COME UNTO ME, EXCEPT IT WERE GIVEN UNTO HIM OF MY FATHER. Q: Was it given? A: It WAS GIVEN in John 6:32,33,51 It was also GIVEN in John 1:9 and 2 Corinthians 5:18-20 JOHN 6:32,33 32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but MY FATHER GIVETH YOU THE TRUE BREAD FROM HEAVEN. 33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and GIVETH LIFE UNTO THE WORLD. ************************************ JOHN 6:51 51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: IF ANY MAN EAT OF THIS BREAD, HE SHALL LIVE FOR EVER: AND THE BREAD THAT I WILL GIVE IS MY FLESH, WHICH I WILL GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD.
King Saul, anointed of God, received the Holy Spirit TWICE (1Samuel 10:6-13, 16:14, 19:21-24, 24:10, and 26:23). And yet chose to do evil. Adam and Eve when they were sinless, chose to know evil and chose to disobey God by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge using their God given freewill. Sproul believes that God has freewill and when God decided to create man in His image and likeness, suddenly an atheist has freewill to disbelieve God but has no freewill to believe in God. A muslim has freewill to ask for forgiveness from anyone but has no frewill to believe in God upon hearing His Word. He has freewill to believe in Islam or allah but has no freewill to believe in God. Calvinism has to remove freewill in their “irresistible grace” doctrine to fit their philosophical cunundrum they have created. You will never ever find a passage that says “irresistible grace” in the entirety of the Scripture. This Calvinism is based from John Calvin’s created doctrine that God Himself “reprobated” many to damnation along with predestining others to being chosen. Calvin chose to damn God’s holy character, defaming and profaning His Name by saying that He Himself created and authored evil in Calvin’s difficulty with understanding foreknowledge, election, predestination passages in Romans, Ephesians, and elsewhere. Calvinism is the exact description of Colossians 2 about being a deceptive empty philosophy, man made religion according to tradition of men and basic principles that have an appearance of wisdom and humility “yet none are of any value for stopping the indulgence of the flesh (v 23).” John Calvin, the Calvinists’ super hero, when he was ruler of Geneva, had Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, seized and burned alive in Oct. 27, 1533. He in fact wanted him beheaded. And for what...for disagreeing Calvin in some doctrine. So, Calvinists are so deluded that they think they are honoring God and yet call Him evil as well. If you were the father or brother or mother or sister of Michael Servetus, would you embrace Calvinism?
Every parent can understand electing and damning their kids, right? Of my 4, it is easy to select 2 for election to show my grace and select two for damnation to show my justice
Why doesn't God regenerate everyone? 1 Timothy 2:3-6 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour; Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
7:25 that thing God did, was give us all a conscience and offer a mediator for our sins (Jesus). Everyone can be justified thru faith. please stop changing the Biblical definition of the elect with your calv version
D Prince said in several of his teachings, he received Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the middle of the night before even having any knowledge of the Bible. That this experience radically changed his life. In this respect I have experienced the same situation without having started studied the Bible and heard about him. I experienced an intense and supernatural manifestation at 03:00 am that woke me up, without understanding the real meaning of it. But I was already personally convinced of the existence of God as Creator. Later, I realized I was deist somehow, but not able to relate Him (God) with the Bible. Anyhow, this manifestation dragged me forwards to really start reading the Bible and follow teachings of the Scripture on Internet. Sometime later I was born again by listening to the sermon "The Holy Spirit as Guide" by D Prince ; by receiving the revelation and understanding the message, meanings and implications of Christ's blood sacrifice on the Cross. Then I changed and really engaged a forgiving step into my life. I became thoroughly dissociated from the world. And sometime later I stepped into a true repentance process by being reminded about teachings from the Bible and being able to apply them into my own life. I also asked my self about the need to get baptised in water ; but I was reminding my Catholic background (from which I had no understanding at all and turned away at the age of 11), I assumed I had already been baptized short after my birth. At the light of the Scripture and lectures, my individual process to the Lord looks really chaotic & atypical, now. All this took place in a period of 3 to 4 years but was preceded by a strong desire of knowledge of truth and equity, and by trying to understand what was really going on on earth... But now, I'm deeply granting God in Thanksgivings for His infinite love and mercy. Since I really understood I lived in complete darkness by being spiritually a dead person by not realising I was a creature of God. Thank you God for your Work of redemption through your Son Jesus Christ.
Jesus answered Matthew, and said to 17.11 of them. Likewise the son of man is also about to suffer @ their hands. Then The Disciples understood that He spoke to Them of " John the Baptist"! Peter said to him and so 26.35 disciples : " even if I have to die with you, I will not deny You!" And Jesus came and spoke to them all 28:18 authority. Now Luke' 3:15 all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether He was the Christ !! And woe to you 11:46 Lawyers !! (( For 22:28 have continued with Me in My trials ..24.33 rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem and found The Eleven , and Those who were with Them gathered together saying :" the Lord is risen indeed and has appeared to Simon !")) John, who believes in Him, 3.18 is not condemned..., However, other 6.23 boats came from Tiberias, near the place were they ate bread, after the Lord had given thanks ( Translate the Sea of Galilee and Tarsus ) Now, Acts 5:24 - the High Priest ; The Captain of the Temple and The chief priests wondered what the outcome would be !!!( Agrippians) Now about that time Herod the king stretched out His hand to harass 12, some Acts from the church. And now indeed 13:11 Acts of Sergius Paulius are all Paul's 2 LIPS with The Proconsul of 14 Romans, where to His Own Master He stands or falls. Indeed He will be made to stand for God !!! But now after 4:9 Galatians have known God, how is it that You turn again to the weak and beggarly elements ? Peter ? Or James ... that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of 3.6 Ephesians & partakers of His Promise in Christ ?... Through the gospel?? Of which I became minister ? - "irresistible grace " ? Is not the words of wind have an end ?? According to the gift of grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power, you are all retarded beyond limitations...
Wonderful preaching RC Sproul, You are indeed a brilliant theologian, However there is still one revelation of Jesus that you lack knowledge of, because if you do know what Jesus revealed then you will know that those totally depraved people are not the fallen descendants of Adam, The descendants of Adam are not totally depraved, but they are born sinner brcause they inherited the sinful nsture of Adam after the Fall, they still have the desire to do good, they still have the desire to be with God but they cannot make it, and they still need to be regenerated to overcome the sin that grip them.. The totally depraved people are the children of the devil, they are not the descendants of Adam, Example of them can be found in John 8:44...
WHAT IS THE INTERPRETATION of the PARABLE of WHEAT and TARES? In this parable, Jesus revealed the doctrine of election and pre destination..and who are those people who are predestined to be saved, and predestined to be burned in the lake of fire.. Jesus revealed in this parable that those who are predestined to be saved are the children of God literally.. And those those who are pre predestined to be cast to the Lake of fire are the children of the devil literally.. Adam and his descendants are the children of God because Adam is a true son of God as revealed in Luke 3:38... Cain and his descendants are the children of the devil because Cain is the seed of the serpent(devil) as mentioned in Genesis 3:15... Cain is not the son of Adam, he is not included in the Genealogy of Adam in Genesis 5... Cain has his own Genealogy in Genesis 4.. all the descendants of Cain are very evil people like him... GOD BLESS YOU ALL WHO BELIEVES IN THIS REVELATION OF JESUS IN THIS PARABLE .
@@HaroldZwingley, Please use your common sense, How can Abel be included in the Genealogy of Adam when he is already dead and cannot reproduce a son.. The Genealogy of Adam cannot continue if you put Abel next to Adam... Another thing, why is Cain very evil? he even was very angry with God, of his own sin, God said to him, if you do well will you not be accepted? John 8:44, Jesus was talking to the sons of the devil and told them, you are like your father who is a murderer, He was refering to Cain their great grandfather.. If Cain is not the son of the serpent, who is the seed of the serpent mentioned in Genesis 3:15? There is not even one verse in the entire bible that says Cain is the son of Adam, you just misinterpret Genesis 4... Sorry bro, your knowledge of the bible is just the wrong interpretation of the evil Catholic church...
It’s not a caricature. It’s absolutely the reality of this false doctrine taken to its logical conclusion. At no point in the history of Christianity was this doctrine EVER in line with the Gospel and the true teachings of the Church…until one arrogant murderer from the 16th century took it upon himself to make it so. TULIP makes a mockery of God at all levels. Lord have mercy!
If you view this comment as hate, then you are no believer at all. You lack discernment and feel the need to virtue signal to someone calling out your erroneous beliefs in love. “Woe to them call good evil and evil good.”
Would you like a new Bible version to support these teachings? "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever [He elected and compelled to believe in Him] should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16 "The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to [His chosen ones], not willing that any [He elected and compelled to believe in Him] should perish, but that all [He chose] should come to repentance, [while those He preordained to damnation shall never have such opportunity]." 2 Peter 3:9 "...and they were judged every man according to [God's preordained decision whether or not they'd be a recipient of His divine grace]." Revelation 20:13 I would not do such, as the warning is given in Revelation 22:18-19 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
+Kevin C The quick answer is in Rom. 3:11. There is none who seeks for God. An unsaved person may believe there is a God and seek His blessings for selfish reasons, but he does not seek God Himself. After Adam and Eve sinned, when God came down to the garden, they ran away. They wanted nothing to do with God.
+Jay Smith does a person get under " Holy Ghost conviction" but never come to Christ for salvation. I get this question a lot. I believe in the doctrines of grace. I would love to hear a good response to this, a sermon, etc.
Jay Smith You're taking Rom 3 out of context. God is not a liar. Isa 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
EW Ross The bible records people resisting the Holy Spirit. Acts 13:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye. Luk 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John. 30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him. Faith comes before regeneration..... Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, I don't understand how people can believe in this doctrine. God bless
I'm certain Jesus must be grieved when He hears people say he only died for the "elect". Calvinism was first articulated by Augustine (a Roman Catholic) in the 4th century. So, the Church did quite well for 300 years without this doctrine. The Biblical doctrine of salvation is best described by the “Corporate View of Election” or the “Provisionalist Salvation Doctrine”. Don’t look to be right; look to find truth.
So lets assume that Christ died for every person ever born. Will every person ever born then have eternal life after death because they can say "Christ died for me" or will only those that were born again by God and drawn to Christ by God (John 3:3 & John 6:44) have eternal life?
Grace is resistible, 1 Cor 215 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”[d] But we have the mind of Christ. You can only resistance to the things you know. RC said that those who resist are not born again (quicken). To say that reprobate resist is illogical because they don't know what are they resisting. We can only resist something that we very well known. That is why everybody is born again. For you cannot believed unless you're born again. There is no way. Some just ignore what was revealed to them. They chose to be independent of God. John 6:44,65 are time lined, this was before the cross, when all are dead in sins. But after the cross all became alive (spiritual), there's no need for God to qualify anyone.
If a lost soul has absolutely no ability to respond to the gospel of God's grace, then why does the God of the Bible command ALL MEN everywhere to REPENT and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ??? Is God insincere, full of guile, and a vile deciever??? Does the holy and just God of the Bible condemn and decree billions of souls to an eternal Hell for not responding to the gospel??? Is this lack of response not exactly what CALVINISMS false god has PREDESTINED these dammed (before birth) souls to do??? BEWARE of the deadly flower of TULIP CALVINISM. It is doctrines of devils. You have been warned in love and concern for your souls.
That’s not a misconception. In Calvinism a person will go to heaven because God forces them. RC was a great man and he explains things in a nice way but it doesn’t change the doctrine. In Calvinism you are going to Heaven if he says so and you are going to Hell if he says so. This decreed before you were ever conceived. Nothing in the New Testament teaches that God makes you born again before you call on the Name of Jesus. Nonsense, nicely explained with eloquence but nonsense anyway.
Ephesians 1:4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world. Before there was a world, a choice was made and that choice precedes anything any human being did.
@@pastordavidberman2091 Alright so "men" when used in context in the Bible usually means all mankind and not biological males. Could it be possible that you're also misinterpreting what "all" means in the context of the verse you just quoted?
*Irresistible grace is only one of the nonsenses embedded in calvinism.* The Word is very very clear when says we can resist the Holy Spirit. Grace is by definition a gift. A gift is always something we can decline. If not, it's not a gift. *CALVINISM my friends, is an heressy.*
@@HaroldZwingley if you are forced to receive the gift, then it's not a gift. Bible said clearly you can resist the Holy Spirit, so... your problem is with the Bible.
The best teacher on the doctrines of grace I have ever heard. I love RC Sproul
True Dave wittkop! Haha
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
The god that I used to believe in was nothing like the True God.The god I used to worship was a god that I controlled, a god that did things the way that I would do things, but alas,this god did not exist.
I would suggest Chafer's work, "Grace."
What a blessing it is to have access to these.
when I came to Jesus, by the Father drawing me...I was atheist but through the years..life issues, trials and troubles..had brought me to my knees. I became more of an agnostic and eventually I was willing to take up an offer to go to church. you'd think I wouldve hardened my heart more and become more of an atheist...I eventually agreed to go to church..but had no real belief id have a heart change and given a desire to serve Jesus as Lord by the Holy Spirit. 2005 I became a born again Christian a year after leaving the military and I praise God for the working of His amazing grace in my life.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
These videos are the true blessing. R.C. Sproul is one of my favourite pastors-teachers. But we definitely are Christians firstly and then Calvinists. Knowledge is so important, but debating with the Arminian bretheren with love is more important. Greetings from Ukraine (Evangelical Reformed Presbyterian church of Odesa).
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Agreed!
I would never attach a man's name to my belief system , especially a man outside of the Bible. Besides this, there are too many errors. For example, limited atonement is false and goes directly against the scriptures.
@@louierivera7512Yes, Jesus never said unless you're Evangelical, Catholic, Pentecostal, Protestant, etc., you cannot enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
Whenever I am overtaken by online madness and false teaching, I make it a point to watch an R C Sproul video to restore my sanity.
I'm glad I found him in RUclips videos - he is incredible evangelist I am learning so much from him even if he passed away he is still helping everyone to know "God's Word,"
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
I can't believe how much I miss RC, he's like a family member.
I know, same here.
Amen G.T.!
Hes a brother in christ
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Agreed! He is one of my favorite fathers in the faith by God’s beautiful AMAZING GRACE!!
This message is wonderful it describes my miraculous conversion when I was Born Again, thank you Jesus so much!!!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
RC always spoke with such conviction and compassion. Truly a gift from God.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
G is right. I didn't realize how great of gift RC was until he was gone! My understanding of my Lord's words is partly because of him. His intro to each of his broadcast and his chalkboard writing as he preached will always one of my "sounds of comfort"! R.I.P. "mighty man of God"!
Same here, God Bless you brother
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
We are so blessed by God that He allowed R.C.Sproul to continue to teach posthumously via these recordings. God's word is timeless and just as Paul was able to scribe the word 2000 years ago, understanding it better via these videos is a blessing. R.C. and his like-awakened and educated theologians/pastors are a gift and mode of the Holy Spirit to touch the fractured hearts of the chosen.
Amen Sproul. That Lord must draw us to Himself. May we praise Him forevermore for drawing sinners like you and me to Himself. God bless you all.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
I'm so thankful I found the teachings of R. C. Sproul. He explains doctrine/scripture and interprets it logically, lovingly, passionately. So much is becoming clear to me. Praise our triune God!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
@@bobreese4807 you are really desperate for followers haha you can't fool those who eyes have been opened
What a wackjob
@@iacoponefurio1915 If you ever follow JESUS instead of being a preacher parrot, you will begin transitioning from a bipolar barbarian to something more meek.
Dr Sproul is a beyond amazing teacher. Every time I have some doctrinal crisis … I search his sermon list and found the answer.
It is shameful and amazing how thoroughly man has distorted and maligned the beautiful truths of God's Holy word! I thank God for answering my prayer to correct my false doctrines and misunderstood theological beliefs. I bless the Lord for raising up faithful men that commit themselves to diligent study and guide the flock towards Reformed and Biblical truth. Thank you Brother Sproul and rest your soul in the presence of the LORD.
Well said.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Amen Brother, ditto for me too.
Amen
Incomprehensible how.many anti biblical cults try to claim to be Christian
America is a joke and it's amazing the Lord tsrried with us as long as he has
I was guided by the Lord to this man's teaching. Thank you Lord for Mr R.C. Sproul.
Wow, I wish I would of sat under his teaching…R.C was an amazing gift from GOD!
"What the Holy Spirit does do is change the inclination and the disposition of our hearts, so that when we were previously unwilling to embrace Christ - now we are willing!.... We aren't dragged to Christ! We run to Christ!"
That’s a great way of seeing it. I also think of it this way, when we are unregenerate, we have only tasted the bitter water that sin can provide. We know nothing of the sweet and refreshing water that God provides until He has first given us a drink of it. The living water God provides is something He gives, not something we take. Once we’ve tasted, resistance is not even a thought to ponder.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Did you receive Jesus first, then were quickened ?
Wrong. We are dragged. Draw means dragged. After we're quickened we run to Christ. But who says your Christian but you? American Jesus.
What a divine exposition!Thank you dear Lord for this Servant of yours , He amazingly reignited in me an overwhelming appreciation and love for the gift of salvation! #ThankyouJesusforchoosingme!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
But when God steps in personally, like he did with me...there is no possible way to refuse his amazing grace. How could you?
Acts 7:51 “Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.”*
@@thomasj5332 That verse actually refutes the view you're proposing. The pharisees resisted the Holy Spirit because their hearts were uncircumcised. Someone with a circumcised heart *will not* resist the Holy Spirit (Read Romans 2:28-29)
@KTTGHMTJWYCBLAC Once God makes himself known to you, and you now know for a fact that God is real, you can't resist...it's not like you are being compelled, but my god...you now know God is real without a shadow of a doubt. I have no clue why God would save me.
@KTTGHMTJWYCBLAC ??
Proverbs 1:23 Turn you at my reproof: behold, *I will pour out my spirit unto you,* I will make known my words unto you.
*Because I have called, and ye refused;* I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof:
26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;
27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Amen, Ramson. I've been a believer for twenty years, and for the first ten I didn't even know about the doctrines of grace until I began questioning Ephesians 1:4 and Romans 9. These Bible verses bothered me because I felt as if I had no "control" over my own salvation. It led to a nearly two year study of these doctrines. But even before this happened, when I would give my testimony about my salvation, I would say, "And when the pastor showed me the gospel from the Bible, there was something inside me that couldn't say no." I was saying this before I ever heard of reformed theology. I had the gospel presented to me so many times before I was saved and never felt that way until the day the Lord saved me. Now I know it was that effectual call where my heart was changed and I now obeyed the gospel that I couldn't and wouldn't obey before.
Sinful man will always resist the general call of gracious salvation because the nature of man hates God (John 15:18-23). Yet when that Spirit moves to make you alive at a moment that is still mysterious to us in many ways (John 3:8), we will hear that call and respond, not unlike the dead Lazarus made alive first before he could heed the call of Jesus. Lazarus couldn't do anything because he was dead; he had to be made alive first and then he responded. It happened all at once. That is what happens to sinners when God has made us alive from our spiritual deadness; we hear Him call because He is our shepherd and we are His sheep (John 10:27-30). All glory to God for His salvation from start to finish.
Faith is not an attribute of man, but a gift from GOD. Because it is a fruit of the HOLY SPIRIT, therefore apart from Him, man cannot believe. It's not in His nature. "No one seeks for GOD. No, not even one." And, "no one can come to me except the FATHER draws Him."
What a blessing today!
bur what we do with that free will is uo to us, not God or Satan
@@ronald968 I hate to burst your free will bubble but type in free will into your bible search engine and see how many references there are to it in the entire bible. Hint ..........zero times.
I don't know how to respond to reformed theology but my conversion was totally aligned with what RC Sproul is teaching.
If I can help, in a nutshell Romans 8:28-30 is a great summary of what God does. Notice in this passage, there is not one time where the creature is seen cooperating with God. Many like to quote John 1:12 but always ignore John 1:13 which clearly tells us that God is the one doing everything.
Because it is spiritually revealed and discerned. Keep looking up Reformed resources most of all spend time with Him. I hope to do the same.
God is the only source of anything good. We are the wayward source of our own troubles, our ancestors first and then we proved to be just like them. We have violated His covenant and are adulterers and idolaters
An eye for eye would.leave all men rejected as we rejected Him.
This teaching is a breath of fresh air!! Praise God!!
I'm proof effectual grace is real. I weent to rehab strung out on dope, God gave me a spiritual experience and awakening wind blowing burning bush type. No-one believed me neither do my own family except one or two people, no-one showed me Jesus but I knew immediately it was him, had a reborn again dream which I knew nothing of until I looked it up and immediately started praying repenting not knowing anything and started watching the signs of his return while reading the bible and being on fire for Jesus
Tunefully can you explain your dream
Good 4 u. Praise God.
That is the thing. To believe what Sproul is saying here you need to experience it. Many does not have such an experience so they dont believe it.
I hope to meet this dear servant one day soon, I hope ❤
Excelente serie de mensajes. Dios bendiga cada día más al Dr. Sproul y al ministerio Ligonier.
Síí!
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Thank you for this teaching it has blessed me.
The opposite of resistance is acceptance. Accept Jesus Christ. Believe unto righteousness. God is not willing that ANY should perish, but that ALL should come to repentance.
I agree "Effectual Grace" is a better terminology.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
Praise GOD for His salvific work! He alone is the author, sustainer, and perfecter of faith.
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
@@bobreese4807 why don't you read a bible re0ent and believe
No one is in your crazy strawman fake assumption backwards fake hypocritr
He alone is the source of anything good.
AMEN!!! Heavy duty stuff.
Can't see anyone not liking this "GOOD NEWS" isn't this exactly what it is? Hard to think of this as anything other then the Gospel (GOOD NEWS) of Christ's salvation. Starting around 18:00 isn't this exactly what we read in 1 Cor 1:30 But by His doing you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,
All God!
As Rev. Jones once said: God chooses those who “Will”, not those who “Won’t”. This man makes Salvation impossibly complicated and in error. A child may understand: “Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life”. We are created in the image of God, therefore having “Free Will”, to receive or reject Christ.
Yeah, by this standard God predestines you to heaven or hell. And no one will know till they are dead. That means mr. Sprouls him self might not be in heaven. God in nature is Good and sending people to hell for no reason other that willing it, is not by nature good. If that were the case then why even send himself to die for us? It didn't need to happen.
@@NevetsWC1134 hahaha I mean a kindergartener can figure that out when taught properly and they do every day
What’s described by RC Sproul is exactly the way God worked in my life. And what you wrote is not true at all.
I made it abundantly clear to God that I wanted nothing to do with Him. But in the middle of my resistance God came with His Word in such way my desires were immediately changed. Now I was willing. But God chooses to gave me regenerative grace when I was absolutely not willing at all.
Free will nonsense.
@@Lena.9such a claim that free will is nonsense is not consistent with the historical view of the Church and is actually consistent with the heretics of old.
Sproul never denied that whosoever believes will not perish but have everlasting life. To say that Sproul denies this is to either be ignorant of what it teaches or to lie point blank. If you believe, you will be saved. Guaranteed. Where you go wrong, and I’m not trying to be mean, is not ultimately understanding that dead means dead. One isn’t even neutral in their deadness. They’re blinded by the god of this age that they cannot see the light of the gospel. You teach that while dead, they can see the light of the gospel and believe in it. I’ll add too, and this applies to me too, while we are called to be adults in our thinking, sometimes our job is to simply believe, not understand.
very well said
One of the great bible scholars!
@christsavesreadromans1096 Please - feel free to start your own channel and teach the world. I'm sure you have amazing credentials.
The guy's a heretic
Wonderful pastor.
What God, the Father of Jesus Christ, does before faith comes is to give him ears that hear.
Faith is the substance (mass) that the (gravity) of grace compels to come.
Thus saith the Lord Jesus Christ, “None of My sheep have free will.”
I am forever praising and believing Jesus Christ and this is pleasing to God.
Amen glory to God
Yes I believe regeneration preceded faith in my case - I came to God only as a last resort, after 1st trying the gods of our time & finding them unprofitable - did God’s grace perhaps consist in part in that realization?
His saying the truth about how a person is saved by grace like Aposlte paul and John newton the composer of Amazing Grace its a savage chain of grace that we can't resist it but cry and fall into our loving Fathers arms😇🙏❤💖❣💝
great teacher
THEREFORE WITH JOY SHALL YE DRAW WATER OUT OF THE WELLS OF SALVATION. ~ Isaiah 12:3
Speaking to ISRAEL Einstein hahahaha
Beautiful scripture
Simple question: what did the early Church teach on this issue?
@@HaroldZwingley also in the early Church Fathers, you DO see the Trinity taught. You don't see concepts contrary to the Trinity being taught, unlike the early Church teaching concepts contrary to Calvinism.
Even the faith I have in God I don’t fully understand, it’s like if is something that is handed over. It is as if Christ lets me borrow his lungs in order to breath. Yes I believe and am aware of it when it happens, but even when I doubt it is still there. One’s human moods fluctuate and for my salvation to depend on this, is too much to bare. I know that Christ assists me all the way through.
We must be Born Again.
My faith goes against the entire rest of my being.
Thanks for all these lessons. Sure is complicated stuff. So pleased you were able school us. You must have a deeper knowledge than a regular guy just reading the Bible?, I do wonder if all Protestant teachers are Popes?
Also Matthew the Tax Collector is an amazing example in the Bible to prove Irresistible Grace to be biblical!
Saul of Tarsus
How does regeneration precede faith? Regeneration is when you are born of the Spirit; when the Spirit dwells in you. The Spirit didn't come until Acts. What about all the faith in the OT that preceded regeration? Or the faith of Cornelius before the Spirit fell on Gentiles? (I'm genuinely asking this because it is a point I'm hung on.)
It starts at total depravity, or total inability. Romans 1 to 3, Ephesians 2 and Colossians 1.
Man cannot have saving faith with his heart of stone because being in the flesh means you can't please god, unable to submit to his law (Romans 8).
John 8 has Jews in it that believe on Christ, yet Christ calls them sons of the devil.
You obviously have no idea what regeration is
**If a man has the ability to do good and still chooses to do wrong he is far more depraved than a man who CAN’T do good.**
Mankind is without excuse precisely because we all have been offered this free gift of salvation and we all have the freedom to either accept it or reject it.
The greatest excuse that anyone could ever have when standing before God on Judgement Day would be be that, “well Lord you didn’t choose me...”
Reformed theology gives mankind the greatest excuse and so must be rejected.
Dead is NEVER SHOWN in the scriptures to mean MORAL INABILITY to respond to God’s truth.
Dead means SPIRITUALLY SEPARATED from the presence of God due to sin and the only way to get into His presence is through Christ.
**If we were actually dead as reformers portray then we wouldn’t even be able to sin!**
When speaking metaphorically of deadness it’s never described as a morally incapacitated condition from birth due to the Fall, but instead as a condition of being separated from God by our own rebellion.
Scripture supports a totally depraved man that is spiritually separated from God and obviously unable to save Himself.
This does NOT mean man is totally incapable of responding to Him.
Dead does not relate to your “ability” but to your RELATIONSHIP.
Cant help but notice none of this came from scripture. Jesus said no one can come, was he lying?
Daniel Omitted all of that comes from scripture.
No Jesus wasn’t lying.
The problem is you have no clue what the context is.
Either that or you don’t care about it.
Reformed theology is based on assumptions and opinions and isolating passages out context.
Cherry picking verses and twisting them to say things they don’t say.
And at the same time disregarding the rest of scripture and turning a blind eye to it.
Daniel Omitted Jesus said if He be lifted up He would draw all men unto Himself .
Was Jesus lying?
Is Jesus failing at what He would say He would do?
JOHN 12:32
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL people to myself.
@@apilkey so let me get this straight. Jesus begins a thought in John 6 and waits to finish it in John 12? Hmm am I really the one who struggles with context? So let me get this straight. Jesus said "no one can come to me unless the father draws him" but he didnt stop there "and I will raise him up on the last day" theres no distinction made between the one that is drawn and the one that is raised. Do you believe everyone is going to be raised up on the last day? If you do then congratulations youre a univsalist. Now lets examine John 12 and see what going there. In verse 19 we see the pharisees are upset with Jesus as usual. Why are they upset this time? Because "the whole world had gone after him". Now why is this an issue? Because to the pharisees the messiah was only for the jews, not the gentiles. It explains further that there were some greeks who wanted to follow Jesus who Jesus then began ministering too. In the middle of that he says he will draw all men too him. Now contextually it would appear Jesus is correcting the misconception that he was ONLY the jewish messiah. Nah this cant be the case. Clearly im wrong. Clearly Jesus begins his thought telling the jews no one can come but then doesnt even bother finishing that thought until that crowd had left him and too a completely different crowd. Cause I know thats how I like to communicate to people. I tell one group one half of my thought on a certain subject then wait til they leave and finish with an entirely new group of people. Clearly this how we are supposed to do exegesis.
@@apilkey "cherry picking verses" 😂 said the guy whos attempt at correcting me wasnt going through John 6 to examine whats going on there. Because if you did you would know Jesus is telling this to a group of people who do not believe in him. So his response to disbelief is to tell these people "you can't come". But don't stop there, read what he said to his disciples. Do you want to leave to? And they answer him. We believe you are the Holy One of God. Jesus response to this BELIEF is to say "Did I not choose you 12"? So lets examine the contrast here. Jesus answer disbelievers with "you cant come". He answers his believers with "I chose you". Wow it seems like youre the one here cherry picking and ignoring context.
Perhaps the term should be Infallible Grace. To those who are the "elect" (chosen) by God for salvation, THEN these will be Infallibly saved by God. God DOESN'T make mistakes. Good job on this on Dr. Sproul.
leepicker67 If God in His Sovereignty chose to save only those who would freely believe in Christ would you have a problem with that or would you accept it?
t w I asked a very simple question to leepicker67, are you able to answer it?
@@apilkey I KNOW that God will save ANY and ALL persons who would freely believe ON (trust) Christ as their Savior. However, His election is NOT contingent on that person's choice. "Election" is God's choice made in eternity past BEFORE there was ANYONE. His choice is sovereign, dependent ONLY on the good pleasure of his will. It is an error do believe that God "elected" anyone to salvation through Christ because He "foresaw" that they would "choose" to trust Christ as their Savior. If YOU personally trust in the redemptive power of Jesus Christ for your salvation, THEN you WILL BE saved and know FOR certain that you are one of the elect. If you DO NOT make that choice, THEN you are NOT someone who God "elected", and you will be LOST. The miracle of "grace" IS that God "elected" ANYONE to salvation, for "all have sinned and fallen short." God therefore was NEVER under any obligation to save ANY sinner. He chose to "save" some and not others.
leepicker67 Election in scripture has nothing to do with salvation.
Election in the scriptures is:
1) Jesus Christ the Elect One
2) The Elect nation of Israel
3) Believers IN Christ for Christian SERVICE
4) Individuals chosen or elected to SERVICE not salvation.
... According to Isaiah 42:1 Jesus Christ is God’s elect servant who shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles:
ISAIAH 42:1
1 Behold my servant, whom I uphold; MINE ELECT, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
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... According to Isaiah 45:4 the nation of Israel is God’s elect:
ISAIAH 45:4
4 For Jacob my servant's sake, and ISRAEL MINE ELECT, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.
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...According to Titus 1:1 BELIEVERS in Christ are called Elect and again they are elect to SERVICE.
TITUS 1:1
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the FAITH OF GOD’S ELECT, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
You can’t have faith from before the foundation of the world.
Bravo!
As I see it, the mistake in the line of reasoning that leads to the Reformed doctrine of election is the assumption that God’s grace must be irresistible. It’s one thing to say that humans won’t believe in Christ without the Holy Spirit and quite another thing to claim that with the Holy Spirit humans must believe. The Holy Spirit will bring us to the point where we can believe, but never to a point where we must believe. So, if we do believe, it is all credited to God’s grace, working through the Spirit. If we refuse, however, it’s our own fault. Does this view in any way compromise the claim that salvation is 100% by grace? Does it leave room for anyone to take any credit for their salvation? I don’t see how it does. The Bible gives us warnings to not resist the Holy Spirit (e.g. Acts 7:51; Eph 4:30; Heb 3:7-8)
King Saul, anointed of God, received the Holy Spirit TWICE (1 Samuel 10:6-13, 16:14, 19:21-24, 24:10, 26:23). And yet chose to do evil.
Adam and Eve when they were sinless, chose to know evil through their God given freewill.
Sproul believes God has freewill and when God decided to create man in His likeness and image, suddenly, an atheist has freewill to disbelieve God but has no freewill to believe God.
A muslim has freewill to ask forgiveness from anyone but has no freewill to believe in God upon hearing the Word. He has freewill to believe in Islam or allah but has no freewill to believe in God.
Calvinism has to remove freewill in their “irresistible grace” doctrine to fit their philosophical cunundrum they have created. You will never find a passage that says “irresistible grace” in the entirety of the Scripture.
This Calvinism is based from John Calvin’s created doctrine that God Himself “reprobated” many to damnation along with predestining others to being chosen. Calvin chose to damn God by saying that He Himself created and authored evil in Calvin’s difficulty understanding with election, and presestination passages in Romans , Ephesians and elsewhere. Calvinism is the exact description of Colossians 2 about being a deceptive empty philosophy, man made religion, according to tradition of men and basic world principles that have an appearance of wisdom and humility “yet none are of any value for stopping indulgence of the flesh.”
John Calvin, the Calvinist’s super hero, when he was ruler of Geneva, has Michael Servetus, a Spanish physician and theologian, seized and burned alive in Oct 27, 1533. He in fact wanted him beheaded. And dor what...for disagreeing Calvin.
So Calvinists are so deluded think that they honor God by calling Him evil.
Amen Brother
James 2:18-26 explains to importance of faith that works rather than dead "faith," and how Abraham and Rahab were justified by works.
Can someone please explain to me how you can claim to see life before you believe when scripture is clear that he that believeth NOT shall not see life and is still under God’s wrath?
So are you saying you are born again but still under God’s wrath?
JOHN 3:36
36 He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son SHALL NOT SEE LIFE; but the wrath of God abideth on him.
if it is by faith, then whose faith?
if it is by work, whose work?
and we know it's by Grace, God's Grace through Christ.
Regeneration comes after faith because of the receiving of Holy Spirit! Only during our regeneration and washing of the Spirit can we please and glorify God! I don't think God will make us or force us to repent, but only His kindness "might" lead us to repentance! noticed the word "might"? Yes, because few people repents of their sin. We always neglect God's kindness till few have repented. If God loves the cheerful giver(and we are not always a cheerful giver), will He make us a cheerful giver so that He will love us? Salvation(by grace thru faith) is not irresistible. How Jesus wants to gather israel under His wings, but they won't!
It is God who grants us the ability to repent.
You might want to read about John the Baptist. Or Cornelius, who pleased God before the Gospel had even come to him.
God the holy spirit
The infallible guide and teacher
Put trust in him
He will never lead you astray!
Thanks!
The logic behind regeneration preceding faith can be explained using a metaphor.
1. An apple must exist before it can be perceived.
2. We must perceive the apple before we can believe it exists.
3. Therefore, the apple must have existed before our belief in it.
Replace the apple with God. And voilà.
I remember reading Dr Sproul's "Chosen by God" in which he lists the acrostic "RULEP" - I think he must have developed it somewhat over his life. #semperreformanda
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE !!!!!! So since God is not willing that any should perish... why doesn't GOD just ZAP every Earthling with this IRRESISTIBLE GRACE and save everyone???? (including satan and his buddies) AND since we are saved by GRACE, then ZAP us with this powerful GRACE every second so we stop sinning TOTALLY???? Calvinism is HERESY, IDOLATRY and mocks GOD!!!
So then would this reformed theology on irresistible grace exclude the active and willing receiving of God’s grace from by the soul as itself being a work of sorts, so that in a limited sense the saved soul is willed by God to be involved is it’s own salvation?
super Wonderfull explain. and Thats the truth!!!!!
Now that we’ve listened to a man’s OPINION let’s look at straight SCRIPTURE and see what the Word of God says and hang what this man says in the balance and see if he comes out wanting.
We need to ask ourselves what does God’s Word day?
Is scripture actually your true authority or is a man made systematic?
Scripture is clear you have to RECEIVE God’s saving grace that’s available to ALL.
Receiving something in faith is NOT meritorious.
You have to believe that THROUGH THE GRACE PROVIDED you will be saved:
ACTS 15:11
11 But WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ WE SHALL BE SAVED, EVEN AS THEY.
We have to RECEIVE the grace of God that’s AVAILABLE TO ALL in Titus 2:11.
...According to Romans 5:17 we receive the abundance of God’s grace BY FAITH:
ROMANS 5:17
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; MUCH MORE THEY WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE and of the gift of righteousness SHALL REIGN IN LIFE by one, Jesus Christ.)
Q: WHO shall reign in life?
A: Those who RECEIVE the abundance of GRACE.
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... According to Jonah 2:8 you can forsake the mercy that’s been made available to you:
JONAH 2:8
8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their OWN mercy.
Mercy is available to ALL but we can choose to reject it.
They had their OWN mercy.
It was theirs.
They had it.
They forsook what was theirs.
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...According to Hebrews 10:29 there will be those whom the Spirit of grace was offered to but they refused to enter in and instead trampled Christ underfoot.
They did this DESPITE the Spirit of grace that they indeed had:
HEBREWS 10:29
29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and HATH DONE DESPITE UNTO THE SPIRIT OF GRACE?
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... It’s clear in 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 the very reason that some are not saved and perish.
It’s simply and unarguably because THEY RECEIVED NOT the love of the truth.
Not because it wasn’t offered to them but because they freely chose not to receive the gracious offer initiated by God and therefore are legitimately without excuse:
2 THESSALONIANS 2:10-12
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And FOR THIS CAUSE God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned WHO BELIEVED NOT THE TRUTH, BUT HAD PLEASURE IN UNRIGHTEOUSNESS.
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... According to John 12:48 mankind will be judged based on receiving or rejecting God’s word.
It makes a mockery of God’s Justice if we will be judged on something we are completely unable to respond to:
JOHN 12:48
48 HE THAT REJECTETH ME, AND RECEIVETH NOT MY WORDS, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.
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... According to Acts 13:46 there were some who put the word of God sway from themselves and judged THEMSELVES unworthy of eternal life:
ACTS 13:46
46 Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: BUT SEEING YE PUT IT FROM YOU, AND JUDGE YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF EVERLASTING LIFE, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
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...According to Romans 13:2 those that RESIST what’s available to them (the power and ordinance of God) receive damnation:
ROMANS 13:2
2 WHOSOEVER THEREFORE RESISTETH THE POWER, RESISTETH THE ORDINANCE OF GOD: AND THEY THAT RESIST SHALL RECEIVE TO THEMSELVES DAMNATION.
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... According to Acts 7:52 those with stiff necks RESISTED the Holy Ghost:
ACTS 7:51
51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, YE DO ALWAYS RESIST THE HOLY GHOST: AS YOUR FATHERS DID, SO DO YE.
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... According to 1 Thessalonians 5:19 one can QUENCH the Holy Spirit:
1 THESSALONIANS 5:19
19 QUENCH NOT THE SPIRIT.
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... According Ephesians 4:30 one can GRIEVE the Holy Spirit:
EPHESIANS 4:30
30 And GRIEVE NOT THE HOLY SPIRIT of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
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...Here’s the BIBLICAL doctrine of Grace:
It’s just simply called GRACE.
Not prevenient, not anything else.
Just simply GRACE.
SAVING GRACE.
Titus 2:11 clearly states God’s SAVING GRACE has appeared to ALL men.
TITUS 2:11
11 FOR THE GRACE OF GOD THAT BRINGETH SALVATION HATH APPEARED TO ALL MEN,
Not just grace but SAVING grace.
Grace that BRINGETH SALVATION.
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Q: WHO has this SAVING grace appeared to?
A: ALL men.
...Not all me are saved so obviously we can reject this gracious option:
2 THESSALONIANS 2:10
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; BECAUSE THEY RECEIVED NOT the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
You clearly don't understand what youre trying to refute.
@@danielomitted1867 This Pilkey does this all the time. He argues using circular reasoning. He is the type of guy who has an un-teachable spirit.
Wow @MikeDuke, and you're the kind of guy who thinks he is judge and condemner. Keep on living in your arrogance and pride and see where it gets you.
@@danielomitted1867 I clearly understand the truth of God’s Word and that it refutes the false gospel of Calvinism.
@@Mikael5732 My spirit has been reached by Christ and knows the truth of God’s Word that is directly against Calvinism.
Sounds like you don’t have ears to hear or eyes to see.
When were the original lectures given?
Well yeah, the FATHER must draw us unto HIMSELF...
There was no beauty that we should be attracted to Him
Wonderful theologian. See He didn't use any note.
Is this the reason why other people they are Christian but they don't have faith because God has not draw them therefore there are bound to go to he'll.. meaning that God predestined others to go to he'll and other to heaven on purpose..I need help on this..its been bothering
I thank GOD that through RC Sproul that a once semi-pelegianism believer has become a monergist.
Yes regeneration (by grace) precedes faith (a gift of grace) Moreover, verses, which appear to assert "Justified by Faith" (Rom 3:28, 5:1, Gal 2:16, 3:11, 3:24) have been mistranslated, and should have more properly translated, and contextually-consistent as: "Justified by a faithfulness", thereby removing apparent contradictions with, "justified by the Blood of Jesus (Rom 5:9 ), or the faithfulness of Jesus (Rom 3:24) justified by grace (Titus 3:7), and not justified by faith alone (Jam 2:24).
What I don't understand is how Sproul separates salvation as work completely of God and yet that sanctification is our work or partly thereof. The moment you accept Christ as Saviour, your sins, past, present and future, are atoned for and you recieve the righteous nature of Christ.
The holy spirit is the one who sanctifies the believer. There are no works of man in that process.
Wrong. Blessed is the man who God will never count His sins against Him.
God always knew the destination of every human he decided to make before time.l began.
You peabrain realization does not create yourself in God's eyes hahahahhahaha
The brainless narcissist assumptions you first world bots go by are so astoundingly blind.
Look into Molinism. Calvinism is incredibly logically flawed.
Amen 🙏🏻
Why would God leave a person's eternal destiny upto the man? People go to hell for not being clever enough to save themselves? God is judging people and he grants salvation and belief to those who are ashamed after their sin. Those who have no shame show themselves to be evil. You cannot escape or take God's grace. If he gives it you will be transformed and given the Holy Spirit. If there are no Christians around (like in tribal jungle areas) you will just be saved at your judgement by grace. The only way a person can go to heaven is if they gain and keep God's grace. Grace causes belief. Belief does not cause grace.
WE OBEY JESUS Freely believing in Christ is not saving yourself where did you come up with that idea because it’s not scriptural.
God saves.
0% man.
100% God.
Scripture is clear you have to RECEIVE God’s saving grace that’s available to ALL.
...According to Romans 5:17 we receive the abundance of God’s grace BY FAITH:
ROMANS 5:17
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; MUCH MORE THEY WHICH RECEIVE ABUNDANCE OF GRACE and of the gift of righteousness SHALL REIGN IN LIFE by one, Jesus Christ.)
Q: WHO shall reign in life?
A: Those who RECEIVE the abundance of GRACE.
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...According to Acts 15:21 clearly states you have to believe that THROUGH THE GRACE PROVIDED you will be saved:
ACTS 15:11
11 But WE BELIEVE THAT THROUGH THE GRACE of the Lord Jesus Christ WE SHALL BE SAVED, EVEN AS THEY.
Apostle Paul is the best example of how one cannot resist Irresistible Grace. No one hated Christians and Christianity more than him. If God saved him by His grace, and Paul immediately repented and believed, then I don’t know how people don’t believe in Irresistible Grace and call it unbiblical! I can bring many examples from the Bible to prove Irresistible Grace to be BIBLICAL!!!
I agree. I look on myself and now see that i was not able to repent and believe in LORD Jesus but it was the change of my heart by Holy Spirit. In a moment of seconds i became alive to the things of God.
@@eklektos_en_Christo_ I am sure you spend all day every day looking in yourself narcissist
The "drawing" of Jn 6:44 is misleading, and decreases the sovereignty of God toward the Arminian "wooing". The proper rendering of the verb, "Elkuo" is "drag" as in dragging reluctant fish or reluctant prisoners. The verb means to use whatever force is required to achieve the desired outcome, consistent with the absolute and complete sovereignty of God. This verse is one of many verses, in which the sovereignty of God in the Greek text is watered down by biased Arminian translators.
Knowledge doesn't imply causation. God can be completely sovereign and yet give us free will, and that's what I would argue has happened.
@@bible1st True, knowledge does not imply causation. However, "God works all things according to the counsel of His desire." (Eph 1:11, Grk text). Since "all things" includes all our circumstances, choices, wills, desires, and abilities, "Free-will" is Biblically impossible.
Moreover, when disciples of Christ fail, discipline will intensify, until they comply with their Master's desire (Heb 12:6).
"A man convinced against his will, is of the same opinion still."
Dr. Sproul may say that God doesn't "drag" or "compel" sinners to come to Christ against their will, but that they come freely.
But what he doesn't say is that God, by changing a person's will and nature by regeneration, is literally changing them against their will. God changes their nature and will irresistibly, and then they have the freedom to resist (because they're regenerated) but they never would resist, so they always come willingly. But they only come willingly after they've had their nature changed against their will and nature...
And when Non-Calvinists say that Jesus said,
"...When the Son of Man is lifted up, I will draw all men to myself"
(which has the same word for "drag" or "compel" as the previous verse about no one coming to Jesus unless the Father "draws/drags/compels" him) they don't let the word have any real force.
@@sketchbook1 they affirm their self righteousness and refuse to repent
@@iacoponefurio1915 True. But that only makes moral sense in a non-Calvinistic, non-deterministic paradigm.
In the Calvinist worldview, those people, even though they are drawn, are never brought to repentance -- NOT because they refuse to repent as if they could have repented-- but because they were never regenerated unconditionally-- even worse, they were salvific-ly hated before they ever even did anything self-righteous or sinful. Their whole lives, including all their selfishness, sinful desires, and self-righteousness, came not ultimately from themselves, but was pre-determined by God.
THAT'S THE PROBLEM-- Determinism.
The problem is not with the scriptures here, which say Christ draws all men, and that God truly loves the world enough to send His son to die for all of their sins-- even the unrepentant. The problem is the Calivinistic view that God determines even the sinful desires of man, and pre-condemns them for those determined desires and actions.
That's not scripture. That's not even Gospel. That's neo-Gnosticism and neo-Manichaeanism and should be firmly rejected for the sake of the honor and glory of Christ.
If one must exercise faith ,by believing something, we have something to boast about, thereby contradicting Eph 2:8-9. If R. C. had read his Greek texts more carefully, he would have found that "Pistis" (usual rendered "Faith") could have also been rendered "a Faithfilness" (of Jesus), which makes all the apparent contradictions evaporate.
amen
I remember when God the Father drew me to Jesus. It was irresistible. Nothing to do with me deserving of it.
God use suffering and despair to make us cry to God to save us and then to keep us saved always and perfected... Paul washer thought suicide before his new life.pslm18 in Distress I called.. my cry.. then the Earth shook quickened
Doesn’t God already know who would want to be His?
Yes,He knew them even before the world began
Great teaching. But no one comes to the father unless the holy spirit gives them conviction of sin. Showing us we have a need for Christ. No one no matter what you believe accepts Jesus unless God moves work's in your heart.
Harry William I couldn’t help but notice you misquoted John 6:44 and left out the word “can”.
Here this is what it actually says:
JOHN 6:44
44 No man CAN come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.
Drawing gets a man TO Christ, it does not get a person IN Christ.
Believing in FAITH gets you IN Christ.
DRAW does not equal conversion
Calvinists remove the word “can”
and say,”no one come(s) to me.”
John 6:44 clearly shows that man has the ABILITY to come because it says “CAN” come.
So if the Father draws them then they CAN come.
Q: Does the Father draw ALL amen or only some men?
A: JOHN 12:32
32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL people to myself.”
Sentence is: MAN/CAN/COME
Modified by: NO/EXCEPT
DRAWS HIM.
When the Father Draws, the RESULT is that man CAN come.
Questions:
Are they forced to come?
Do they come?
Doesn’t say.
CAN they come?
Yes.
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JOHN 6:65
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that NO MAN CAN COME UNTO ME, EXCEPT IT WERE GIVEN UNTO HIM OF MY FATHER.
Q: Was it given?
A: It WAS GIVEN in John 6:32,33,51
It was also GIVEN in John 1:9 and
2 Corinthians 5:18-20
JOHN 6:32,33
32 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven; but MY FATHER GIVETH YOU THE TRUE BREAD FROM HEAVEN.
33 For the bread of God is he which cometh down from heaven, and GIVETH LIFE UNTO THE WORLD.
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JOHN 6:51
51 I am the living bread which came down from heaven: IF ANY MAN EAT OF THIS BREAD, HE SHALL LIVE FOR EVER: AND THE BREAD THAT I WILL GIVE IS MY FLESH, WHICH I WILL GIVE FOR THE LIFE OF THE WORLD.
King Saul, anointed of God, received the Holy Spirit TWICE (1Samuel 10:6-13, 16:14, 19:21-24, 24:10, and 26:23). And yet chose to do evil.
Adam and Eve when they were sinless, chose to know evil and chose to disobey God by eating from the Tree of the Knowledge using their God given freewill.
Sproul believes that God has freewill and when God decided to create man in His image and likeness, suddenly an atheist has freewill to disbelieve God but has no freewill to believe in God.
A muslim has freewill to ask for forgiveness from anyone but has no frewill to believe in God upon hearing His Word. He has freewill to believe in Islam or allah but has no freewill to believe in God.
Calvinism has to remove freewill in their “irresistible grace” doctrine to fit their philosophical cunundrum they have created. You will never ever find a passage that says “irresistible grace” in the entirety of the Scripture.
This Calvinism is based from John Calvin’s created doctrine that God Himself “reprobated” many to damnation along with predestining others to being chosen. Calvin chose to damn God’s holy character, defaming and profaning His Name by saying that He Himself created and authored evil in Calvin’s difficulty with understanding foreknowledge, election, predestination passages in Romans, Ephesians, and elsewhere. Calvinism is the exact description of Colossians 2 about being a deceptive empty philosophy, man made religion according to tradition of men and basic principles that have an appearance of wisdom and humility “yet none are of any value for stopping the indulgence of the flesh (v 23).”
John Calvin, the Calvinists’ super hero, when he was ruler of Geneva, had Michael Servetus, a Spanish theologian and physician, seized and burned alive in Oct. 27, 1533. He in fact wanted him beheaded. And for what...for disagreeing Calvin in some doctrine. So, Calvinists are so deluded that they think they are honoring God and yet call Him evil as well.
If you were the father or brother or mother or sister of Michael Servetus, would you embrace Calvinism?
What a freak show
Get medicated
@@iacoponefurio1915 Michael Servetus Oct 27, 1533 burned alive by John Calvin, reformed theologians’ and calvinists’ super idol.
Every parent can understand electing and damning their kids, right? Of my 4, it is easy to select 2 for election to show my grace and select two for damnation to show my justice
Yeah, but liberated in a concious, willing way. Not unwillng unconcious, uninvited.
Gives a new dimension to the women at the well, does it not?
Yea
Why doesn't God regenerate everyone?
1 Timothy 2:3-6 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;
Who will have all men to be saved, and to come unto the knowledge of the truth.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;
Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.
7:25 that thing God did, was give us all a conscience and offer a mediator for our sins (Jesus). Everyone can be justified thru faith. please stop changing the Biblical definition of the elect with your calv version
D Prince said in several of his teachings, he received Baptism in the Holy Spirit in the middle of the night before even having any knowledge of the Bible. That this experience radically changed his life.
In this respect I have experienced the same situation without having started studied the Bible and heard about him. I experienced an intense and supernatural manifestation at 03:00 am that woke me up, without understanding the real meaning of it. But I was already personally convinced of the existence of God as Creator. Later, I realized I was deist somehow, but not able to relate Him (God) with the Bible.
Anyhow, this manifestation dragged me forwards to really start reading the Bible and follow teachings of the Scripture on Internet.
Sometime later I was born again by listening to the sermon "The Holy Spirit as Guide" by D Prince ; by receiving the revelation and understanding the message, meanings and implications of Christ's blood sacrifice on the Cross.
Then I changed and really engaged a forgiving step into my life. I became thoroughly dissociated from the world.
And sometime later I stepped into a true repentance process by being reminded about teachings from the Bible and being able to apply them into my own life.
I also asked my self about the need to get baptised in water ; but I was reminding my Catholic background (from which I had no understanding at all and turned away at the age of 11), I assumed I had already been baptized short after my birth.
At the light of the Scripture and lectures, my individual process to the Lord looks really chaotic & atypical, now.
All this took place in a period of 3 to 4 years but was preceded by a strong desire of knowledge of truth and equity, and by trying to understand what was really going on on earth...
But now, I'm deeply granting God in Thanksgivings for His infinite love and mercy. Since I really understood I lived in complete darkness by being spiritually a dead person by not realising I was a creature of God.
Thank you God for your Work of redemption through your Son Jesus Christ.
Jesus answered Matthew, and said to 17.11 of them. Likewise the son of man is also about to suffer @ their hands.
Then The Disciples understood that He spoke to Them of
" John the Baptist"!
Peter said to him and so 26.35 disciples :
" even if I have to die with you, I will not deny You!" And Jesus came and spoke to them all 28:18 authority.
Now Luke' 3:15 all reasoned in their hearts about John, whether He was the Christ !! And woe to you 11:46 Lawyers !!
(( For 22:28 have continued with Me in My trials ..24.33 rose up that very hour and returned to Jerusalem and found The Eleven , and Those who were with Them gathered together saying :" the Lord is risen indeed and has appeared to Simon !"))
John, who believes in Him, 3.18 is not condemned..., However, other 6.23 boats came from Tiberias, near the place were they ate bread, after the Lord had given thanks ( Translate the Sea of Galilee and Tarsus )
Now, Acts 5:24 - the High Priest ; The Captain of the Temple and The chief priests wondered what the outcome would be !!!( Agrippians)
Now about that time Herod the king stretched out His hand to harass 12, some Acts from the church. And now indeed 13:11 Acts of Sergius Paulius are all Paul's 2 LIPS with The Proconsul of 14 Romans, where to His Own Master He stands or falls. Indeed He will be made to stand for God !!!
But now after 4:9 Galatians have known God, how is it that You turn again to the weak and beggarly elements ? Peter ? Or James ... that the Gentiles should be fellow heirs of 3.6 Ephesians & partakers of His Promise in Christ ?... Through the gospel??
Of which I became minister ? - "irresistible grace " ?
Is not the words of wind have an end ??
According to the gift of grace of God given to me by the effective working of His power, you are all retarded beyond limitations...
Don't chop up the Gospel, don't attack God's people.
Wonderful preaching RC Sproul, You are indeed a brilliant theologian, However there is still one revelation of Jesus that you lack knowledge of, because if you do know what Jesus revealed then you will know that those totally depraved people are not the fallen descendants of Adam, The descendants of Adam are not totally depraved, but they are born sinner brcause they inherited the sinful nsture of Adam after the Fall, they still have the desire to do good, they still have the desire to be with God but they cannot make it, and they still need to be regenerated to overcome the sin that grip them..
The totally depraved people are the children of the devil, they are not the descendants of Adam, Example of them can be found in John 8:44...
WHAT IS THE INTERPRETATION
of the
PARABLE of WHEAT and TARES?
In this parable, Jesus revealed
the doctrine of election and pre
destination..and who are those
people who are predestined to
be saved, and predestined to be
burned in the lake of fire..
Jesus revealed in this parable
that those who are predestined
to be saved are the children of
God literally..
And those those who are pre
predestined to be cast to the
Lake of fire are the children of
the devil literally..
Adam and his descendants are
the children of God because
Adam is a true son of God as
revealed in Luke 3:38...
Cain and his descendants are
the children of the devil
because Cain is the seed of the
serpent(devil) as mentioned in
Genesis 3:15...
Cain is not the son of Adam, he
is not included in the Genealogy
of Adam in Genesis 5...
Cain has his own Genealogy in
Genesis 4.. all the descendants
of Cain are very evil people like
him...
GOD BLESS YOU ALL WHO
BELIEVES IN THIS REVELATION
OF JESUS IN THIS PARABLE
.
@@HaroldZwingley, Please use your common sense, How can Abel be included in the Genealogy of Adam when he is already dead and cannot reproduce a son.. The Genealogy of Adam cannot continue if you put Abel next to Adam...
Another thing, why is Cain very evil? he even was very angry with God, of his own sin, God said to him, if you do well will you not be accepted? John 8:44, Jesus was talking to the sons of the devil and told them, you are like your father who is a murderer, He was refering to Cain their great grandfather..
If Cain is not the son of the serpent, who is the seed of the serpent mentioned in Genesis 3:15?
There is not even one verse in the entire bible that says Cain is the son of Adam, you just misinterpret Genesis 4...
Sorry bro, your knowledge of the bible is just the wrong interpretation of the evil Catholic church...
It’s not a caricature. It’s absolutely the reality of this false doctrine taken to its logical conclusion. At no point in the history of Christianity was this doctrine EVER in line with the Gospel and the true teachings of the Church…until one arrogant murderer from the 16th century took it upon himself to make it so. TULIP makes a mockery of God at all levels. Lord have mercy!
I pray God will heal the hate in your heart for fellow believers
If you view this comment as hate, then you are no believer at all. You lack discernment and feel the need to virtue signal to someone calling out your erroneous beliefs in love. “Woe to them call good evil and evil good.”
Would you like a new Bible version to support these teachings?
"For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever [He elected and compelled to believe in Him] should not perish, but have everlasting life." John 3:16
"The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to [His chosen ones], not willing that any [He elected and compelled to believe in Him] should perish, but that all [He chose] should come to repentance, [while those He preordained to damnation shall never have such opportunity]."
2 Peter 3:9
"...and they were judged every man according to [God's preordained decision whether or not they'd be a recipient of His divine grace]."
Revelation 20:13
I would not do such, as the warning is given in Revelation 22:18-19 "For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book: And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book."
Ezekiel 36 verses 26 - 27
Many words, few Scriptures.
What if man seeks God for only selfish, thereby sinful intentions? An unusual thought, but worthy of thought. Then, no grace would be necessary.
+Kevin C The quick answer is in Rom. 3:11. There is none who seeks for God. An unsaved person may believe there is a God and seek His blessings for selfish reasons, but he does not seek God Himself. After Adam and Eve sinned, when God came down to the garden, they ran away. They wanted nothing to do with God.
+Jay Smith does a person get under " Holy Ghost conviction" but never come to Christ for salvation. I get this question a lot. I believe in the doctrines of grace. I would love to hear a good response to this, a sermon, etc.
Jay Smith
You're taking Rom 3 out of context.
God is not a liar.
Isa 45:19 I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I the LORD speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
EW Ross
The bible records people resisting the Holy Spirit.
Acts 13:51 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
Luk 7:29 And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.
30 But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.
Faith comes before regeneration.....
Rom 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Eph 1:13 In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,
I don't understand how people can believe in this doctrine.
God bless
Then it's because he's not regenerated.
I'm certain Jesus must be grieved when He hears people say he only died for the "elect".
Calvinism was first articulated by Augustine (a Roman Catholic) in the 4th century.
So, the Church did quite well for 300 years without this doctrine.
The Biblical doctrine of salvation is best described by the “Corporate View of Election”
or the “Provisionalist Salvation Doctrine”. Don’t look to be right; look to find truth.
So lets assume that Christ died for every person ever born. Will every person ever born then have eternal life after death because they can say "Christ died for me" or will only those that were born again by God and drawn to Christ by God (John 3:3 & John 6:44) have eternal life?
Grace is resistible, 1 Cor 215 The person with the Spirit makes judgments about all things, but such a person is not subject to merely human judgments, 16 for, “Who has known the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?”[d] But we have the mind of Christ. You can only resistance to the things you know. RC said that those who resist are not born again (quicken). To say that reprobate resist is illogical because they don't know what are they resisting. We can only resist something that we very well known. That is why everybody is born again. For you cannot believed unless you're born again. There is no way. Some just ignore what was revealed to them. They chose to be independent of God. John 6:44,65 are time lined, this was before the cross, when all are dead in sins. But after the cross all became alive (spiritual), there's no need for God to qualify anyone.
If a lost soul has absolutely no ability to respond to the gospel of God's grace, then why does the God of the Bible command ALL MEN everywhere to REPENT and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ???
Is God insincere, full of guile, and a vile deciever???
Does the holy and just God of the Bible condemn and decree billions of souls to an eternal Hell for not responding to the gospel??? Is this lack of response not exactly
what CALVINISMS false god has PREDESTINED these dammed (before birth) souls to do???
BEWARE of the deadly flower of TULIP CALVINISM. It is doctrines of devils.
You have been warned in love and concern for your souls.
That’s not a misconception. In Calvinism a person will go to heaven because God forces them. RC was a great man and he explains things in a nice way but it doesn’t change the doctrine. In Calvinism you are going to Heaven if he says so and you are going to Hell if he says so. This decreed before you were ever conceived. Nothing in the New Testament teaches that God makes you born again before you call on the Name of Jesus. Nonsense, nicely explained with eloquence but nonsense anyway.
Ephesians 1:4 For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world.
Before there was a world, a choice was made and that choice precedes anything any human being did.
KTTGHMTJWYCBLAC Jesus said “if I be lifted up I will join ALL men unto me”
@@pastordavidberman2091 So no women and children? Just men?
Choice Meat Randy men means mankind. Don’t be silly
@@pastordavidberman2091 Alright so "men" when used in context in the Bible usually means all mankind and not biological males. Could it be possible that you're also misinterpreting what "all" means in the context of the verse you just quoted?
Seducing Spirit
You do not want to repent
*Irresistible grace is only one of the nonsenses embedded in calvinism.* The Word is very very clear when says we can resist the Holy Spirit. Grace is by definition a gift. A gift is always something we can decline. If not, it's not a gift.
*CALVINISM my friends, is an heressy.*
@@HaroldZwingley if you are forced to receive the gift, then it's not a gift. Bible said clearly you can resist the Holy Spirit, so... your problem is with the Bible.
misunderstanding of John 6:44