we cannot appreciate the Good news without the Bad news.. 🙏

I love preaching like this,it causes me to continue to look to Jesus,to strive to live an obedient life onto God.Thank you Pastor for allowing the lord to use you🙏🏿

No one can preach it like Pastor Lawson!

This is the most powerful message on human depravity I have ever heard.

His preaching is spot on and incredibly clear. May God continue to bless his ministry

Christians need to hear this amazing Gospel message every day, to be reminded of where we came from! Beautifully taught.

Being reminded of my sin and the death I once walked in, also reminds me to give all honor and glory to God thank you Pastor Lawson🙏

One of my favorite preachers. Praise God for His Divine Word!

Amen....Praise and Glory to God....He saved a wretch like me....📜💕🌷

Dear Pastor this is a sermon that I will never forget Praise that there are still Pastor wh0 are brave enough to teach enough the Truth. May God truly bless your teaching and preaching to a world that is in dire need of such messages. God Bless you PAstor Steven

Thank you Dr. Lawson for reminding us of God's glorious holiness. How desperately we need Christ and, moment by moment, his atoning sacrifice for our redemption.

Powerful sermon, thanks for posting. GK Chesterton famously held that original sin is empirically verifiable. More and more I get the impression that the same is true of total depravity.

I haven’t heard such a hard message in years, everything he said is absolutely truth! We are guilty of abominations.Thanks be to God for he sent Jesus into the world to give us hope! To give us life! To give us forgiveness!

Just love Steve Lawson and his preaching ❤

One of my favorite contemporary pastors/theologians.

First time listening to this man of God, and I will subscribe and listen to learn every chance I get.

What a great message!!! Amen!!! I thank God for saving me. I am totally unworthy but He is gracious.

Thank you Lord for Ligonier ministry. Thank you Lord for Pst. Steven Lawson.👐🙌

Praise God for this kind of preacher'd, his kind is seldom in our day's 🕊️📖🔨⚓

Wao! The backdrop of total depravity makes me fall to my knees at the cross. Thank you Jesus 🙏🏾 - God bless you Dr. Lawson, such a wonderful teacher. 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

“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.” John 3:36✝️ Amen Preacher Total depravity We have nothing and we are in serious debt Thank you Jesus for the Cross Where you died for our sins and paid the debt we could not pay

GLORY TO GOD!!!!

Wow. Great truths exposited in this sermon.

A Great man of God

Thank you Dr. Lawson for your excellent exposition. So thankful for your ministry

Thank God for this man. Great sermon!

Wow! Thank you Lord for Dr Lawson, your vessel of honour to make known, through the Holy Spirit, the truths of our God about our collective, our universal depravity!

Great message, wonderfully delivered.

He is an amazing teacher ❤️

Amen thank you Lord Jesus for saving us from our sins

Wow that’s packed!

"God is not a stoic sovereign" says Lawson. 👍

Amen, and AMEN!

wow, how come I never heard of this pastor before?! He speaks guided by the Spirit, opened my eyes, and answered some questions was wrestling with for months.

That’s a real preacher! Tell it like it is.

Amen! Now this is a BIBLICALLY SOUND message. 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

One of the most important things to know and keep in mind throughout our life on earth. I love Steve

Yes! The Holiness of God

Great message

This to me was by far the most impressive message of the week when I was there. Then again I’m bias bc I love talking about that topic but it was by far the greatest total depravity sermon I’ve heard ever. Even better than Paul washer and John MacArthur sermons on it. It was terrific

So in love with the doctrines of Grace and the Westminster confession of faith! I adore them so so much.

The Best sermon I've ever heard!!!!

Thanks allot!

I have the best Lawson story .when I was first saved God showed me so much love I was melting .I WENT TO HEAR THE WORD AND LAWSON WAS THEIR I SAID HI IN THE FIRST SERVICE AND HE COULD TELL I WAS A FANBOY HE ASKED IF I I WAS COMING BACK FOR THE EVENING FOR THE GREAT WHITE THROWN SERMON AND I DID .I tried saying hi again but he saw me made me wait till the end and when he saw me he says what do u need son u just saying hi again lolllllll..I was a babe in Christ and found out so quick not to idolize the preacher ..THIS GUY LIves it God is Jesus loll yes lord

Great preaching!

Amazing grace!

Glory to God🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Amen!

49:25 But there is no good news until you know what the bad news is. The Lord has made you a great mouthpiece for the church. God bless Steven Lawson!!

Powerful 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

Powerful!!❤ 🙏

Wow that was power 🙏🙏🙏

Best pure preacher today. Period.

AMEN.

Brilliant

Sometimes I wonder what it was like before sin entered through Adam. To know perfect peace and love. It must have been awesome. Satan really hates truth.

Amen.

Very profound

Amen

So true..that many are ignoring or don't care

Only God saved me.

Good job 👍

'ALL we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us ALL. (Isaiah 53:6, KJV) Salvation is available for ALL. 'For this is the will of My Father, that everyone who beholds the Son and BELIEVES in Him will have eternal life, and I Myself will raise him up on the last day.” (John 6:40, NASB)

PTL!

When speaking of total depravity, it is always important for me to remember that it is a moral category, not an ontological one. Humanity is good being made in the image of God (ontic) but fallen in the moral sense (total depravity).

The diamond “literally” exploded before my eyes 😂

The Good News: the Father can circumcise our wicked and deceitful hearts AND the hearts of our offspring. Only He, with His gift of redeeming faith, can draw us to His Son for salvation.

Dr lawson, sin is not inputed to the Child due to the parents sin. *Deuteronomy 24:16 (NIV): "Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin." This verse emphasizes personal responsibility for sin, suggesting that individuals are not held accountable for the sins of their parents or ancestors*

Imagine you live in a world where God wants all men to be saved and you lived in such a way.

When a newpaper editor ask "what is wrong with the world" G. K. Chesterton (not exactly Reformed) wrote a letter: "I am, sincerely yours G. K. Chesterton".

Autonomy Obedience Exclusivity - Rebellion Disobedience Rejection

Amazing Grace well preached Sir

Isaiah 45: 7 __ "I form the light, and create darkness; I make peace, and "Create Evil" [I Created the Devil, and I Created Adam] I the Lord do all these things."

This is true of everyone who has ever lived. Mankind is insane because of sin

This message is what the Bible preaches and if you don’t understand it you are spiritually dead because God hardened your heart so you cannot understand it and blinded your eyes so you cannot see it!

Which church in Surprise, AZ, was this Godly message preached. I need to tell my brother about this church, his own town, so he can truly hear the word of God. Thank you.

Reformed doctrines are the most dependable and 100% correct.

Paul said in his flesh dwelt no good thing. Yet in his mind he wanted to serve the Lord. The context is his life under the Mosaic Law (see logical flow of Romans 7). So man is not totally depraved. He just is drawn to sin and the Law makes it worse.

They can't have a depraved mind because the Lord asks him if he doesn't want to be accepted

I love the fact that Paul cites to two psalms in Romans 3 which TULIPs depend upon to support total depravity. If David wrote the psalms, he is seeking God and he is thereby necessarly excluded from the statement as he is actually and really seeking God and we have written proof of the same. So Paul is using a generalist and not a grounds for proof text. Here is another: Proverb 30:2 Oh by the way, I believe TULIP should stand for The Uppity Lilliputians Of Protestantism.

The Church Fathers who were closely connected to the Apostles who wrote much of the Scripture in question, spoke out in DEFENSE of free will and against total depravity/inability. St. Gregory of Nyssa - "For He who holds sovereignty over the universe permitted something to be subject to our own control, over which each of us alone is master. Now this is the will: a thing that cannot be enslaved, being the power of self-determination." (Gregory of Nyssa, The Great Catechism, MPG 47, 77A; in Gabriel 2000:27). Ignatius of Antioch - "Seeing, then, all things have an end, and there is set before us life upon our observance [of God’s precepts], but death as the result of disobedience, and every one, according to the choice he makes, shall go to his own place, let us flee from death, and make choice of life. For I remark, that two different characters are found among men - the one true coin, the other spurious. The truly devout man is the right kind of coin, stamped by God Himself. The ungodly man, again, is false coin, unlawful, spurious, counterfeit, wrought not by God, but by the devil. I do not mean to say that there are two different human natures, but that there is one humanity, sometimes belonging to God, and sometimes to the devil. If any one is truly religious, he is a man of God; but if he is irreligious, he is a man of the devil, made such, not by nature, but by his own choice. (Letter to the Magnesians - long version, Chapter 5; ANF Vol. I p. 61; emphasis added.) Justin Martyr - "For the coming into being at first was not in our own power; and in order that we may follow those things which please Him, choosing them by means of the rational faculties He has Himself endowed us with, He both persuades us and leads us to faith (First Apology 10; ANF Vol. I, p. 165; emphasis added). Athenagorus- Just as with men, who have freedom of choice as to both virtue and vice (for you would not either honour the good or punish the bad, unless vice and virtue were in their own power . . . . (Athenagoras’ Plea 24, ANF Vol. II p. 142; emphasis added). Ireneaus of Lyon (closely connected to the Apostle John) "Now all such expressions demonstrate that man is in his own power with respect to faith" (Against Heresies 4.37.2; ANF Vol. I, p. 520). Athanasius -Wherefore virtue hath need at our hands of willingness alone, since it is in us and is formed from us (NPNF Vol. IV p. 201). Methodius - Now those who decide that man is not possessed of free-will and affirm that he is governed by the unavoidable necessities of fate, and her unwritten commands, are guilty of impiety towards God Himself, making Him out to be the cause and author of human evils (Chapter 16, ANF Vol. VI p. 342; emphasis added). St. John Chrysostom - Having thus enlarged upon the love of God which, not content with showing mercy to a blasphemer and persecutor, conferred upon him other blessings in abundance, he has guarded against that error of the unbelievers which takes away free will, by adding, “with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.” (NPNF First Series Vol. XIII p. 418) St. John of the Ladder - Of the rational beings created by Him and honoured with the dignity of free-will, some are His friends, others are His true servants, some are worthless, some are completely estranged from God, and others, though feeble creatures, are His opponents (Step 1.1; emphasis added). John Calvin himself was more than aware of the fact that the early church disagreed with his teachings on free will. In the Institutes he wrote, "Further, even though the Greeks above the rest-and Chrysostom especially among them-extol the ability of the human will, yet all the ancients, save Augustine, so differ, waver, or speak confusedly on this subject, that almost nothing certain can be derived from their writings." If your teachings do not stem from what was passed down by the Apostles to the early church and the martyrs for the faith, then you are not teaching the faith of the Apostolic authors.

Nobody proves total depravity more than Steve the stud.

If everyone is declared guilty of sin, through the rebellion of Adam, from conception and on, then a new born baby is also guilty and on the way to hell unless God saves them. There is only one way to get to heaven, and that is through the saving grace of Jesus.

I'm going to die because I haven't dug deep in my heart.

God cannot make a mistake. God creates man with free will. Man is totally depraved. Why would God do this?

Do we really inherit the guilt of Adam's sin, or only the sin nature? We're not guilty of anything until we ourselves sin. Maybe splitting hairs. Other than that one point, very good.

excellent video. now listen to r.c. sproul's "all christians believe in predestination" giving heed to what is the problem in believing in semi-pelagism or prescience.

Beautiful church. Where is it?

If we were born unable to understand the gospel: So why does "the god of this age" need to blind us? are we not already blind from birth? [20:40] How can sin make us fools if we are already dead? [32:08] Why is God going to say that it is "moral insanity" to sin against him, to someone who never has the capacity to hear him, because he is already dead from birth? [32:18] In this comparison of Isaiah, is it the same to say that we are completely sick as to say that we are spiritually dead? [32:55] Normally a Calvinist says that we are not sick, but dead. We don't need a "cure" but a "resurrection". All These arguments mentioned by Pastor Lawson, unintentionally, seem to be based on the fact that man can hear and understand the gospel. Because he can sees and can understands the god of this age has blinds him, because he can understand God tells him that sin makes him a fool. Because he can understands, God tells him that what he does is morally insane. Because he can understand Jesus uses parables "so that hearing they may not understand, and seeing they may not see". Because he can understands God tells him to "Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as woo" Please understand me, I do not deny that man is unable to approach God by himself. But I do not believe that the word teaches the impossibility of man to respond positively to God's call. That is why God holds us accountable and tells him that he "has no excuses" and that is why Jesus says "He that believeth on him is not judged: he that believeth not hath been judged already, because he hath not believed on the name of the only begotten Son of God"

Ezekiel 18:20 (author: Ezekiel) 2 Kings 14:6 (author: Jeremiah) Romans (author: Paul) Paul's doctrine in Romans is incoherent with that of Ezekiel and Jeremiah, who were both Prophets of God and thus appointed by God to give his message and instructions to his people. Keep in mind that Paul was not a disciple of Jesus and only claimed that Jesus appeared to him on the road to Damascus long after Jesus went away. Also, the current composition choice of books that we call the Bible was a result of a political event called the Council of Nicaea and was overseen by a heathen (relative to the Biblical doctrine) by the name of Constantinople.

It is worth observing that Paul is not preaching total depravity in Romans 3. If he is, where? He uses the hyperbole in the Psalm to point out that all have sinned, all are sinners. That is the point, right? Where is his point in Romans 3 to show total depravity and that man must be regenerated before believing?

In the sense that Calvinism claims, human beings are not totally depraved.

I agree with the TULIP acronym, I disagree with the hyper Calvinism.

If you believe that the wages for sin is eternal suffering in a place called hell, and you also believe that Christ took your punishment upon himself. Doesn’t this mean that Christ would be required to suffer in a place called hell for as long as you were required to do so? If the punishment for the unsaved was conscious eternal suffering in a place called hell, then why does the Bible tell us that Christ’s soul was not left in hell? Psalm 16:10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption. If therefore Christ was not left in hell, then his punishment had an end. This of course, presents a big problem if you believe that the penalty for our sins is suffering without end in a place called hell. But if you understand that the wages of sin is death and not eternal conscious suffering in a place called hell, then harmony with the scriptures begins to take place. Romans 6:23 For the wages (the payment) of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Death is the payment for sins that the law of God has always required. Therefore, death is the payment that Christ had to pay on behalf of the sins of his elect. And death is the payment all of the non-elect have to pay for their own sins. Upon death, an unsaved individual ceases to exist because his soul was dead already at the moment of conception, therefore, upon the death of the body, that individual is dead forever and has ceased to exist, or as the Bible puts it, that individual has perished. This is why John 3:16 gives us the contrast of either living foerver or perishing, which means that they cease to exist. John 3:16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. Christ indeed took upon himself the punishment required by the law of God and died for the sins of his chosen people, but unlike the non-elect which have no power over death, Christ (who is Almighty God) could satisfy the demands of His own law by dying and then raising himself from the dead. Thus, God righteous demand for the sins of the elect was satisfied and so, Christ did indeed take our punishment upon himself, but it wasn’t conscious suffering for an eternity in a place called hell, else He would still have to be there, but rather, it was death. The doctrine of death being the payment for sins and not eternal suffering, teaches us that God’s punishment for sin does indeed have an end, it ends when the unsaved individual dies. It ended when Christ died for the sins of his elect, and His resurrection provided the means of eternal life for all those whose sins were laid upon Christ. And the doctrine of limited punishment, as opposed to eternal conscious punishment, is indeed taught in the scriptures. Deuteronomy 25:1-3 If there be a controversy between men, and they come unto judgment, that the judges may judge them; then they shall justify the righteous and condemn the wicked. 2 And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his fault, by a certain number. 3 Forty stripes he may give him, and NOT EXCEED: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem VILE unto thee. One thing that the Bible assures us of, is that God, who has laid down the law for mankind, has bound himself to his own law. This law therefore would be no exception in that God cannot command that the punishment for the wicked is not to exceed a certain number of stripes, and then turn around and Himself punish the wicked without end. This type of doctrine does not harmoize with the scriptures. But when we realize that the same laws that apply to mankind also apply to God himself, then we can see that there is harmony when we also realize that death is the penalty for sin rather than eternal conscious suffering in a place called hell. Death is the end of the punishment of the unsaved. Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 For the living know that they shall die but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten. 6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun. Ezekiel 18:4 Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, It shall die. James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.

I understand the doctrine of total depravity but my question is, what about babies? Obviously, they're born without the ability to understand their own depravity but that doesn't negate their depravity. Since they lack the capacity to understand their fallen nature and their need for salvation, does that mean they go directly to heaven despite their depravity? What is the means of their salvation?

34:59 what does he mean by ‘innocent lives’? Aren’t all guilty in the eyes of God?

🚨🔥🐍🔥🚨 Revelation 19:10. King James Version 10 And I fell at his feet to worship him. And he said unto me, See thou do it not: I am thy fellowservant, and of thy brethren that have the 🗣🌐 *testimony of Jesus:* 🔥🐍🔥 *worship God:* 🔥🐍🔥 for the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.

Just wondering: If man was punished with death, why wasn't Satan and his Angels punished with death? I apologie as it's just a whims

Amen 🙏🏼 The Book of Roman’s is my Fav book in the Bible and my Fav verse of all is Romans 8:28 Even though it’s so hard to even pick a favorite book because they’re all so great but yes Romans is my Fav

I like much of what he teaches. However, the Augustinian concept of total depravity removes our will and as a result removes culpability for obedience. Total deprevaty and the concept of unconditional election, "once saved always saved" are not a biblically dependable positions..