The best teacher on the doctrines of grace I have ever heard. I love RC Sproul

I can't believe how much I miss RC, he's like a family member.

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).

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.

I'm glad I found him in KZfaq 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,"

This message is wonderful it describes my miraculous conversion when I was Born Again, thank you Jesus so much!!!

Ephesians 2 is beautiful. We were dead in sin. What can dead people do? Nothing. So then Jesus Christ died and rose from the dead, raising us with Him. Then He ascended to heaven and sat down next to God the Father, seating us with Him. Then He works in us to do the works God ordained before the world was created. Christ alone ! Not I but the GRACE of God in me.

RC always spoke with such conviction and compassion. Truly a gift from God.

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.

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.

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"!

"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!"

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!

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 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!

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!

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!

But when God steps in personally, like he did with me...there is no possible way to refuse his amazing grace. How could you?

I hope to meet this dear servant one day soon, I hope ❤

I agree "Effectual Grace" is a better terminology.

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

Excelente serie de mensajes. Dios bendiga cada día más al Dr. Sproul y al ministerio Ligonier.

Dr Sproul is a beyond amazing teacher. Every time I have some doctrinal crisis … I search his sermon list and found the answer.

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.

I don't know how to respond to reformed theology but my conversion was totally aligned with what RC Sproul is teaching.

AMEN!!! Heavy duty stuff.

Thank you for this teaching it has blessed me.

Praise GOD for His salvific work! He alone is the author, sustainer, and perfecter of faith.

Wonderful pastor.

very well said

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😇🙏❤💖❣💝

Bravo!

Amen Brother

Thanks!

great teacher

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?

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!

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.

One of the great bible scholars!

Amen 🙏🏻

Also Matthew the Tax Collector is an amazing example in the Bible to prove Irresistible Grace to be biblical!

super Wonderfull explain. and Thats the truth!!!!!

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.

God the holy spirit The infallible guide and teacher Put trust in him He will never lead you astray!

amen

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

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!

Wonderful theologian. See He didn't use any note.

When were the original lectures given?

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.)

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.

THEREFORE WITH JOY SHALL YE DRAW WATER OUT OF THE WELLS OF SALVATION. ~ Isaiah 12:3

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?

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.

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.

Well yeah, the FATHER must draw us unto HIMSELF...

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)

Simple question: what did the early Church teach on this issue?

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 remember when God the Father drew me to Jesus. It was irresistible. Nothing to do with me deserving of it.

Ezekiel 36 verses 26 - 27

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.

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

**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.

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.

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.

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!!!

10:50

Gives a new dimension to the women at the well, does it not?

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.

Yeah, but liberated in a concious, willing way. Not unwillng unconcious, uninvited.

Seducing Spirit

Many words, few Scriptures.

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.

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.

After 10 minutes listening god was in a deep sleep.

Doesn’t God already know who would want to be His?

"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...

Again with the conflation of Semipelagianism and Arminianism... Let's hear what John Cassian (the founder of Semipelagianism) and Jacobus Arminius (the founder of Arminianism) have to say about human will and depravity: Cassian: “[E]ven of his own motion a man can be led to the quest of virtue, but always stands in need of the help of the Lord . . . through the excellence of nature which is granted by the goodness of the Creator, sometimes first beginnings of a good will arise, which however cannot attain to the complete performance of what is good unless it is guided by the Lord . . . And so these are somehow mixed up and indiscriminately confused, so that among many persons, which depends on the other is involved in great questionings, i.e., does God have compassion upon us because we have shown the beginning of a good will, or does the beginning of a good will follow because God has had compassion upon us? For many believing each of these and asserting them more widely than is right are entangled in all kinds of opposite errors. For if we say that the beginning of free will is in our own power, what about Paul the persecutor, what about Matthew the publican, of whom the one was drawn to salvation while eager for bloodshed and the punishment of the innocent, the other for violence and rapine? But if we say that the beginning of our free will is always due to the inspiration of the grace of God, what about the faith of Zaccheus, or what are we to say of the goodness of the thief on the cross, who by their own desires brought violence to bear on the kingdom of heaven and so prevented the special leadings of their vocation?” (Conference 13, chs. 9 &11). Arminius: “In this state, the free will of man towards the true good is not only wounded, maimed, infirm, bent, and weakened; but it is also imprisoned, destroyed, and lost. And its powers are not only debilitated and useless unless they be assisted by grace, but it has no powers whatever except such as are excited by Divine grace. For Christ has said, ‘Without me ye can do nothing.’ St. Augustine, after having diligently meditated upon each word in this passage, speaks thus: ‘Christ does not say, without me ye can do but Little; neither does He say, without me ye can do any Arduous Thing, nor without me ye can do it with difficulty. But he says, without me ye can do Nothing! Nor does he say, without me ye cannot complete any thing; but without me ye can do Nothing.’ . . . nothing can be spoken more truly concerning man in this state, than that he is altogether dead in sin . . . our will is not free from the first fall; that is, it is not free to good, unless it be made free by the Son through his Spirit . . . For when a new light and knowledge of God and Christ, and of the Divine will, have been kindled in his mind; and when new affections, inclinations and motions agreeing with the law of God, have been excited in his heart, and new powers have been produced in him; it comes to pass, that, being liberated from the kingdom of darkness, and being now made ‘light in the Lord,’ (Ephesians 5:8,) he understands the true and saving good; that, after the hardness of his stony heart has been changed into the softness of flesh, and the law of God according to the covenant of grace has been inscribed on it, (Jeremiah 31, 32-35,) he loves and embraces that which is good, just, and holy; and that, being made capable in Christ, co-operating now with God, he prosecutes the good which he knows and loves, and he begins himself to perform it in deed. But this, whatever it may be of knowledge, holiness and power, is all begotten within him by the Holy Spirit . . . to whom the acts of illumination, regeneration, renovation, and confirmation, are attributed in the Scriptures” (Disputations 11, sections 7, 11, & 12).

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).

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.

LMBO hey water water

misunderstanding of John 6:44

What if man seeks God for only selfish, thereby sinful intentions? An unusual thought, but worthy of thought. Then, no grace would be necessary.

We know we're elected because we believe. We know we believe because we show it & follow Christ's commands. Now I don't know if someone who believed 30 years ago and looked like what they said they believed and then lived a life of hedonism ever since then's status when they die. We don't know. There's no way for us to know. But we can know while we're alive because of what the NT says about how salvation looks to other people who also claim to believe. Are you producing fruit in abiding in repentance?

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...

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.

The wisdom of man is foolishness with God ...as far as the heavens are from the earth is as high as Gods thoughts are above RC SPROUL. He will use the foolish things to confound the wise

Did the Early Church Fathers teach "Calvinism"?: @

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!

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.

If this doctrine is true, why does God arbitrarily choose between sinners? Why does he choose some and reject sum? I disagree with Calvinism.

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?

Listening to this makes me so glad that I wasn’t predestined to be a Calvinist 🤦‍♂️

Total depravity? Total inability? Really? There are four types of soil, or hearts, according to Jesus. Only one was so hard the word was stolen out of it. The fourth was a good heart and received the word. The other two did receive the word, yet in the end bore no fruit for various reasons. So Scripture does not support such an idea.

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.

How can you draw a dead person? You need to made him alive for him/her to respond, is it not? So what you saying is that a person needs to be born again to be born-again. That is absurdity. When Jesus died all are born again the way we all die. No profession of faith or anything. Then by being born again we will be able to understand the call which is spiritual 1 Cor 2:13-15. We accept it or ignore it, it is up to us. But everyone is informed.