"If you don't have this as your foundation, you will be scared by your own shadow and you will be filled with anxiety and sorrow that will plague you to the grave" Whenever I strayed away from God, I was filled with anxiety, stress and what not, it came to a point that I would question myself like why am I living... and a lot of weird thoughts surrounds me. I find joy in the my God Jehovah almighty and in his son, the messiah Jesus christ.
God is God. It is so helpful to listen to a faithful man who understands this . I thank the Lord for your faithfulness to His revelation of Himself found in the Bible Alone revealed in His creation.
If this isn't the God we serve, we are in huge trouble! and if He isn't God who is sovereign we are sorely to be, as his children, greatly to be pitied!
Calvinism is theology taken from scripture, re-injected back into the Word of God in a wicked way by wicked people. Take words like "Election, Pre-destination, determined" and give them your own definitions, then go back and apply them to God's Word and God's attributes and you will get Calvinism. I am not saying they aren't trying to be biblical, and I am not saying they aren't right about a LOT of stuff, and I am not saying it isn't Biblical, because it is but it's basically a theology that starts with God's Sovereignty and Power mixed with Man's wickedness. You can start anywhere, but what a weird place to start. Why not start with God's Love or God's Creativity? 1 Corinthians 13 also doesn't exist in Calvinism. It's removed from the Bible (lol) Calvinists also have the problem of putting the weakest portions of theology over the best of man's philosophy %100 of the time, since the Bible is better than the imagination of man. The Bible being authoritative is fine... but man's reading of the Bible being authoritative is a bit of a stretch I believe that the Bible is the Word of God, but it's not "perfect" because of the people reading it. It's also not Deity. I have a strict Christ>Bible theology. Sure it's perfect if it's translated perfectly, but a lot of verses are pretty mysterious and people smarter than me are really confused about a lot of stuff. R.C. Sproul used to talk about how stupid he was about EVERYTHING in the Bible, regardless of the fact he was smarter than everyone else reading it. If our smartest people are wrong about their interpretation of scripture, then it's safe to assume that the Bible is filled with "errors" or "half truths", and that's okay. In John 2 19 Jesus Christ talks about how he will "destroy this temple and build it up in 3 days". Contextually, it's clear to %99.9 of people reading it that he will destroy a temple (a building) and build it up in 3 days (he is a carpenter). However, I may take a "Minority" view on a passage like this and say "maybe he is being a smart-ass and is referring to himself, and it's an esoteric thing to say." Amazingly, the %0.1 view was correct in this passage, as the "theologian nerds" made a mistake; God literally died and rose again 3 days later! The Temple was himself, and the building back up was also himself. Interesting. I didn't see that coming. Oh wait, yes I did. This is also the case with the word "Pre-destination". In the Greek pre-destination just means to destinate something before hand. If I want to go to New York next week, I can pre-destine myself to go there today. God pre-destined everyone to Heaven, as it's clearly written in 2 Peter, but Calvinists get around it with word play. What if pre-destine was actually a 150 word definition in God's eyes, not what the original Greek says? What if by Pre-destine God actually loaded a lot of awesome entropy layers of love and creativity into it? Would the Calvinists care? Would the Calvinists think it's possible? An analogy God gave me weeks ago was this A letter comes down from the sky and it says from God "I want you 3 to run to the store and pick up some milk." They have 15 minutes to interpret it John interprets this to mean that we should all get into the car and go to SAFEWAY Amy says that we should drive to LUCKY's (another store) James (a Calvinist) is pissed. In the Greek the word "Run" means "to use one's legs to travel distance". James insists that we should run to the store, not drive. Let me guess, we should also pick up the milk too? Like literally, pick it up? I mean it doesn't say "buy" the milk does it? In reality, God is laughing, as the correct interpretation is this: I want you guys to LOVE each other... and LOVE me... God's interpretation of Scripture is so much better! Notice how God has a really loose view of HIS OWN WORD?? Wow... All of his verses should be viewed in the light of Love and Justice, and not just justice, and not just love. Hell is really bad, but it's not as bad as it should be because of God's mercy MIXED IN with his Justice. When Adam sinned, he should of went to hell, but he was given a promise, and when Lucifer sinned, he should of been immediately punished, but he was given a world to be god over through God's mercy and creativity. God is so merciful, and regardless of man's wicked theology injected into the Bible (Calvinism), God will stay like that. Sure God is anti-evil, but he isn't infinite in his anti-evil the way he is infinite in some of his other attributes. "Free Will" is an ongoing debate, and I take a hard stance that all sides are wrong, but I lean Free Will. Check this out: Right this second, we are in the presence of the Imagination of Jesus Christ. I hope that makes you feel better. Calvinism closes doors that shouldn't be closed in order to protect God's maximums while denying philosophical brilliancies that might be onto something. The God of Calvinism is very literal and very black and white. We know that God isn't that cool because the Bible says the Bible says the Bible says the Bible says John Calvin talked about singular pre-destination theories that will boggle the mind (in the worst ways). They aren't creative and makes this life out to be a Movie that God scripted and is watching and can't/won't change. Human Life is closer to a complex sporting event between God's Justice and God's Mercy where we are the Athletes and he is the coach, fan, referee, and Owner than it is a Calvinistic puppet show with "no maverick molecules". God is a loving, gracious, creative, infinitely awesome meticulous artist, but he isn't a psychotic power hungry egotistical control freak too. Not entirely.
@@EricSmyth4Christ Irrespective of mans freewill God is still sovereign over them in fulfilling His plans. Calvinism is not a doctrine it is just another philosophical way to understand the sovereignty of God, it's like seeing things from the eternal perspective. It's a challenge since human minds are finite.
@@renzelkamuro3815 I mentioned this Human Life is closer to a complex sporting event between God's Justice and God's Mercy where we are the Athletes and he is the coach, fan, referee, and Owner than it is a Calvinistic puppet show with "no maverick molecules It's basically God getting his way whether we are evil or good
@@EricSmyth4Christ God is God. God declares everything that comes to pass. It already declared. 👉 ““Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’” Isaiah 46:8-10 ESV Even those that will be saved by God choosing to save them. 👉 “though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad-in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls- For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.” Romans 9:11, 15-16 ESV God even planned and predestined the murder of Jesus to save His sheep. 👉 “this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.” Acts 2:23-24 ESV Predestined to take place 👉 “for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.” Acts 4:27-28 ESV
@@EricSmyth4Christ So........ did you even listen to the video? Take a deep breath and try this, what exactly was said that you would like to comment on and please don't give us dribble on Safeway or Lucky's?
All blessings be to all Children of God in, Jew and Gentile, through and by Yeshua, Jesus Christ. If we compile/collect all pertaining verses from Genesis to Revelation about the LORD's 100% Sovereignty in our obtaining of HIM our Salvation; and then compile all verses from Genesis to Revelation which tell us about the responsibility of the human being (to have biblical faith, repentance, believe, trust, coming unto HIM, etc); then it is like the spokes of the wheel: To be Born of God and all biblical faith, believing, trusting, coming to HIM (if you look at both sets of verses together at once) happens at the same time. At once. If we only look at the set of verses concerning our responsibility, then it seems as if we initiated our Salvation from our side first. Either all biblical (OT and NT) Salvation (God IS our Salvation) is 100% of/from HIM and every aspect and gift of it (HIM our Salvation) is of/from HIM only. Or it is not...well? Be blessed with all blessings all and everyone by the one and only Creator, maker and upholder and sustainer of the universe, of every atom, every living cell; and our bodies, souls and spirits.💖😃
I needed this as well. Thanks, brother Mark. I can't wait for us to fellowship with each other again much love to you in Christ Jesus
"If you don't have this as your foundation, you will be scared by your own shadow and you will be filled with anxiety and sorrow that will plague you to the grave"
Whenever I strayed away from God, I was filled with anxiety, stress and what not, it came to a point that I would question myself like why am I living... and a lot of weird thoughts surrounds me.
I find joy in the my God Jehovah almighty and in his son, the messiah Jesus christ.
That is the great need of this world: To know who God is!
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AMEN. OUR GOD REIGNS SUPREME!!!
Oh, this is really good! Praise God for His faithful saints proclaiming His sovereignty!
God is God. It is so helpful to listen to a faithful man who understands this . I thank the Lord for your faithfulness to His revelation of Himself found in the Bible Alone revealed in His creation.
Isaiah 59:1 Behold, the LORD'S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
EXCELLENT DEFINITION OF THE TRUTH, Steve Lawson !!!!!xxx
I badly needed this, thanks man!
God is sovereign. Glory to Him alone.
Thank you sooooooooo much.brother. For posting this
Hey, check out tomorrow’s new sermon jam on Christ alone.
Amen, I am blessed to listen to these words.
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Adonai 💞
If this isn't the God we serve, we are in huge trouble! and if He isn't God who is sovereign we are sorely to be, as his children, greatly to be pitied!
Thank you very much, brother.
I lay down my head at night on the sovereignty of God.
Wawww
Excellent!!
AMEN!
God is smaller than this! Repent and believe!
Calvinism is theology taken from scripture, re-injected back into the Word of God in a wicked way by wicked people.
Take words like "Election, Pre-destination, determined" and give them your own definitions, then go back and apply them to God's Word and God's attributes and you will get Calvinism.
I am not saying they aren't trying to be biblical, and I am not saying they aren't right about a LOT of stuff, and I am not saying it isn't Biblical, because it is
but it's basically a theology that starts with God's Sovereignty and Power mixed with Man's wickedness. You can start anywhere, but what a weird place to start.
Why not start with God's Love or God's Creativity?
1 Corinthians 13 also doesn't exist in Calvinism. It's removed from the Bible (lol)
Calvinists also have the problem of putting the weakest portions of theology over the best of man's philosophy %100 of the time, since the Bible is better than the imagination of man. The Bible being authoritative is fine... but man's reading of the Bible being authoritative is a bit of a stretch
I believe that the Bible is the Word of God, but it's not "perfect" because of the people reading it. It's also not Deity. I have a strict Christ>Bible theology. Sure it's perfect if it's translated perfectly, but a lot of verses are pretty mysterious and people smarter than me are really confused about a lot of stuff. R.C. Sproul used to talk about how stupid he was about EVERYTHING in the Bible, regardless of the fact he was smarter than everyone else reading it. If our smartest people are wrong about their interpretation of scripture, then it's safe to assume that the Bible is filled with "errors" or "half truths", and that's okay. In John 2 19 Jesus Christ talks about how he will "destroy this temple and build it up in 3 days". Contextually, it's clear to %99.9 of people reading it that he will destroy a temple (a building) and build it up in 3 days (he is a carpenter). However, I may take a "Minority" view on a passage like this and say "maybe he is being a smart-ass and is referring to himself, and it's an esoteric thing to say." Amazingly, the %0.1 view was correct in this passage, as the "theologian nerds" made a mistake; God literally died and rose again 3 days later! The Temple was himself, and the building back up was also himself. Interesting. I didn't see that coming. Oh wait, yes I did. This is also the case with the word "Pre-destination". In the Greek pre-destination just means to destinate something before hand. If I want to go to New York next week, I can pre-destine myself to go there today. God pre-destined everyone to Heaven, as it's clearly written in 2 Peter, but Calvinists get around it with word play. What if pre-destine was actually a 150 word definition in God's eyes, not what the original Greek says? What if by Pre-destine God actually loaded a lot of awesome entropy layers of love and creativity into it? Would the Calvinists care? Would the Calvinists think it's possible?
An analogy God gave me weeks ago was this
A letter comes down from the sky and it says from God "I want you 3 to run to the store and pick up some milk."
They have 15 minutes to interpret it
John interprets this to mean that we should all get into the car and go to SAFEWAY
Amy says that we should drive to LUCKY's (another store)
James (a Calvinist) is pissed. In the Greek the word "Run" means "to use one's legs to travel distance". James insists that we should run to the store, not drive.
Let me guess, we should also pick up the milk too? Like literally, pick it up? I mean it doesn't say "buy" the milk does it?
In reality, God is laughing, as the correct interpretation is this: I want you guys to LOVE each other... and LOVE me...
God's interpretation of Scripture is so much better! Notice how God has a really loose view of HIS OWN WORD?? Wow... All of his verses should be viewed in the light of Love and Justice, and not just justice, and not just love. Hell is really bad, but it's not as bad as it should be because of God's mercy MIXED IN with his Justice. When Adam sinned, he should of went to hell, but he was given a promise, and when Lucifer sinned, he should of been immediately punished, but he was given a world to be god over through God's mercy and creativity. God is so merciful, and regardless of man's wicked theology injected into the Bible (Calvinism), God will stay like that. Sure God is anti-evil, but he isn't infinite in his anti-evil the way he is infinite in some of his other attributes. "Free Will" is an ongoing debate, and I take a hard stance that all sides are wrong, but I lean Free Will. Check this out: Right this second, we are in the presence of the Imagination of Jesus Christ. I hope that makes you feel better.
Calvinism closes doors that shouldn't be closed in order to protect God's maximums while denying philosophical brilliancies that might be onto something. The God of Calvinism is very literal and very black and white. We know that God isn't that cool because the Bible says the Bible says the Bible says the Bible says
John Calvin talked about singular pre-destination theories that will boggle the mind (in the worst ways). They aren't creative and makes this life out to be a Movie that God scripted and is watching and can't/won't change.
Human Life is closer to a complex sporting event between God's Justice and God's Mercy where we are the Athletes and he is the coach, fan, referee, and Owner than it is a Calvinistic puppet show with "no maverick molecules".
God is a loving, gracious, creative, infinitely awesome meticulous artist, but he isn't a psychotic power hungry egotistical control freak too. Not entirely.
@@EricSmyth4Christ Irrespective of mans freewill God is still sovereign over them in fulfilling His plans. Calvinism is not a doctrine it is just another philosophical way to understand the sovereignty of God, it's like seeing things from the eternal perspective. It's a challenge since human minds are finite.
@@renzelkamuro3815 I mentioned this
Human Life is closer to a complex sporting event between God's Justice and God's Mercy where we are the Athletes and he is the coach, fan, referee, and Owner than it is a Calvinistic puppet show with "no maverick molecules
It's basically God getting his way whether we are evil or good
@@EricSmyth4Christ God is God. God declares everything that comes to pass. It already declared. 👉
““Remember this and stand firm, recall it to mind, you transgressors, remember the former things of old; for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’”
Isaiah 46:8-10 ESV
Even those that will be saved by God choosing to save them. 👉
“though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad-in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls- For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy.”
Romans 9:11, 15-16 ESV
God even planned and predestined the murder of Jesus to save His sheep. 👉
“this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men. God raised him up, loosing the pangs of death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it.”
Acts 2:23-24 ESV
Predestined to take place 👉
“for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.”
Acts 4:27-28 ESV
@@EricSmyth4Christ So........ did you even listen to the video? Take a deep breath and try this, what exactly was said that you would like to comment on and please don't give us dribble on Safeway or Lucky's?
All blessings be to all Children of God in, Jew and Gentile, through and by Yeshua, Jesus Christ. If we compile/collect all pertaining verses from Genesis to Revelation about the LORD's 100% Sovereignty in our obtaining of HIM our Salvation; and then compile all verses from Genesis to Revelation which tell us about the responsibility of the human being (to have biblical faith, repentance, believe, trust, coming unto HIM, etc); then it is like the spokes of the wheel: To be Born of God and all biblical faith, believing, trusting, coming to HIM (if you look at both sets of verses together at once) happens at the same time. At once. If we only look at the set of verses concerning our responsibility, then it seems as if we initiated our Salvation from our side first. Either all biblical (OT and NT) Salvation (God IS our Salvation) is 100% of/from HIM and every aspect and gift of it (HIM our Salvation) is of/from HIM only. Or it is not...well? Be blessed with all blessings all and everyone by the one and only Creator, maker and upholder and sustainer of the universe, of every atom, every living cell; and our bodies, souls and spirits.💖😃
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