This message is from Dr. Lawson’s 16-part teaching series The Attributes of God. Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/attributes-god

Great theological teachings by Dr. Steven Lawson. Praise Christ. 😊

Love this message. Yet it is so hated by many. I don't know how those who hate it cannot understand the immense love of our God.

I have to listen to this after hearing those who deny the absolute sovereignty of God

Watching you affirms my belief total depravity. Thanks Steven.

One of the sweetest sermons I've heard in a long time. Deeply touched my heart. God is so much greater and wonderful in Calvinism. If only the rest of the church knew.

Acts 2:39. For the promise is for you and for your children and for all who are far off, everyone whom the Lord our God calls to himself.” John 17:9. I am praying for them. I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours. John 6:39. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 2 Timothy 2:10. Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.

What a great teaching! Thank you Dr. Lawson!

An absolutely OUTSTANDING teaching on a topic rarely discussed, and usually when it is mentioned is ascribed the shallowest and most surface level of understanding. How wonderful to be brought closer to understanding the love of GOD and the nature of His salvation for we who have received Jesus Christ the LORD!

Absolutely stunning exposition of scripture! God bless all who get the message here.

I've read AW Pink's "The Atrributes of God" specifically the chapter on the Foreknowledge of God and this sermon is quite on point with what I've read.

Doctor Lawson so clearly loves the LORD and preaches the truth with gusto. Just a massive blessing to listen to him. ❤🙏🇿🇦

Hallelujah! Amen! (Thank you Dr Lawson) Clear teaching: what a huge privilege, and to share the Gospel as a consequence of His finished work. I cannot understand the charge sometimes brought against Reformed evangelical Christians that we are hyper-Calvinists who consider evangelism unnecessary. I'm so grateful to have been brought from an Arminian position to the comfort of what I understand many of the Puritans called the "full-orbed faith" . I'm a work - in-progress yet I have assurance. I am weak but He is strong... the Bible tells me so. The passages used in your lecture are immensely helpful to refer to. What you said concerning believing and therefore obeying will, I pray , strike a chord with anyone confused. I'm thankful to the Lord for Ligonier Ministries.

To say that this was an excellent, outstanding, magnificent message would be the greatest understatement since Noah said, "It looks like it might rain."

Wow! What an answer to my prayer! Thanks Steven! All glory to God!

he is 1000 percent correct

It is difficult for some to come to understand the truth.But the truth of God's word is resounding. If anyone thinks that he or she has anything to say or do to gain God's acceptance and enter into everlasting life with Him. Then the lamb of God would never had to come. Our covenantal relationship to God is only acceptable thru His Only begotten Son The Lord Jesus Christ through Christ alone by faith alone. Thank you LORD for Your saving grace. Amen

“ I and my Father are one…” John10:30

I'm so thankful that God brought this up for me. What a helpful explanation of foreknowledge!

We have a relationship with God because God chose to pursue a relationship with us and win us over. Some object that God does this with everyone. But, if that were the case, then the reason some people believe and others don’t is that some were more genuine, spiritually attuned, or morally sensitive. That would mean that some measure of innate human goodness enables some people to believe. If people contribute of their own goodness to salvation, we have a logical problem. More importantly, we have a biblical problem. Scripture teaches that God has chosen to save some people, and He chose them based on His own purposes, not some innate goodness on the part of the people being saved. Nor was His choice based on His advance knowledge of what decisions they would make. Paul describes God as the One who “chose us in [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will-to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves” (Ephesians 1:4-6).

2 Corinthians 2:14 "But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere...."🙏.. Let God’s Peace and Grace be with you (To The Reader)... Praise God always. Amen🙏🙌

Romans 8:29-30 tells us, “For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.” Ephesians 1:5 and 11 declare, “He predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will…In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will.” Many people have a strong hostility to the doctrine of predestination. However, predestination is a biblical doctrine. The key is understanding what predestination means, biblically.

Praise God!

Hallelujah!

Wonderful teaching.

Praise The Lord.

What a beautiful sermon I love you guys

PTL!

Way ahead of you. Already made the Mt. 7:23 connection.

There's one Gospel message, laid out in order, in Ephesians 1:13 revealing how one is saved. God brings us to salvation using a myriad of people and experiences. It only matters where we end up (at the foot of the Cross), not how we got there.

Romans 8:29-30. For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified. Romans 8:33. Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. Matthew 24:31. And he will send out his angels with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. John 6:37. All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. Ephesians 2:8-9. For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. Romans 9:11. 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. John 15:19. If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Mark 13:20. And if the Lord had not cut short the days, no human being would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom he chose, he shortened the days. Romans 9:15. For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” Exodus 33:19. And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The Lord.’ And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy. Romans 9:13. As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” John 17:2. Since you have given him authority over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him.

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Matthew 10 amos 5:3 christ spoke to me through them may christ speak to you also through this video

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Matthew 14 - romans 10:13-17 , heb 11

Romans 5:1 , Matthew 5 , 27-28 Matthew 23 , romans 2-3 ,1 Samuel 15-17 , proverbs 27:17-21

Acts 17-19 phil 4:13 , acts 4-6 , Matthew 7:21-29 , 2 cor 3:17 acts 2 - acts 1 - 1 Samuel 15

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John 14:21 , proverbs 1:10 , hosea 4 1 cor 13 , romans 5:5

So in Rev. 3:15 when Jesus says “I know your deeds” is He saying “I love your deeds like no other”?

I would like some thoughts on Matthew 6:3: "But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing..." The original greek word for "know" in this verse is also ginosko. This is just one of many examples that would seem to prove that ginosko/to know may have more contextual implications than simply having intimate relationship.

Why would God need to ordain or choose if they are going to choose Him anyway? Ive never understood the logic. Clearly a belief made simply because the truth is not palatable.

We are all sinners, and, left to ourselves, we would never choose God. Our initial response to God is to rebel against His love and sovereignty. We do not seek Him (Romans 3:11). We do not want Him to tell us what to do. If we are ever to turn from our sin in repentance and faith, He must initiate the process. Jesus told the crowds who were grumbling at His teaching, “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them” (John 6:44). In other words, no one can be saved unless they are elect. Paul describes God as the One who “chose us in [Christ] before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will-to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves”

The KJV has the proper "know" and "known" in the passages noted at the start. Just sayin'. Love you brother 😁 Wonderful sermon.

Calvinists think the only way God can know everything that will happen is if He is the author of it all. AS IF a calvinist or anyone else can know what God knows and how He knows it! The bible says there is no limit to His understanding. If you say the only way He can know is if He is the author you just placed a limit on God.

God did not foresee us; He foreknew (prognosko in Greek, yada in Hebrew) us!. We cannot find the word 'foresee' in the Bible pertaining to salvation/election. The original text Paul used was 'prognosko,' which also means 'decided in advance' (Romans 8:29) and 'predestined' (Ephesians 1:4). The word 'gnosko' was the counterpart of 'yada' in Hebrew, meaning 'to know’ or ‘to have an intimate relationship,' e.g., 'Adam knew his wife.' Therefore, before the foundation of the world, God foreknew us. He did not see us in advance to see whether we would accept Him at some point in time; rather, He ‘chose us in advance’ and determined the time and means when we would 'receive' Him. 🩵

4:20. Brother Steve. Why to you equate fore-know to fore-chose. It is truth GOD knew before creation those whom would come to HIM. Certainly GOD “chose” those who would believe, as well as those who would not, in that HE, knowing their end (embracing or rejecting the truth of the Gospel), “chooses” to create them anyway. Further, from the original language, there is no equivocating of the words fore-knew and fore-chose or their meanings. Just seeking clarity.

My bible says "knew her not". Why do you keep using bible versions that are produced by those who make merchandise of God's people? We already had a faithful translation before Westcott and Hort got there grubby little mits on it.

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How about getting rid of all those who belive in jesus? For if it is God's "choice" then, None can eather ecape , or jion God's plan. But wait a miute. Does God love these more than those? Or did Jesus die for these, but not fr those? Foreknowledge means having a plan, in which the result is foreseen. Like when people trying to join college have to go through aselection process. Before the process is concluded, the designers of the plan know who will be accepted and who won't. Those arrogant pastors only try to cool-aid their followers in order to convince and manipulate them.

Sadly, and humbly, I have to say that Dr. Larson is not being honest in explaining God's foreknowledge. His Calvinist theology leads him to twist the biblical truth on His Absolute foreknowledge. As John Wesley said: “Strictly speaking, there is no foreknowledge, no more than afterknowledge, with God: but all things are known to Him as present from eternity to eternity.” Nevertheless, that does not imply that God disregards people’s faith, and actions. If God did not consider our faith and actions, He needed not to send His Son to die for us. God needed not to see in the future, for He knows everything in the present, and based on that foreknowledge of our faith in Christ, He predestined us unto salvation.

if he ordains it how are they cupable? how is that fair? if he is truly sovereign then they really had no choice? did they have a free choice or not? yeah, they were free but were not? God is sovereign but they are free? is this a cognitive dissonance? you can talk about it forever with words but still not have it make sense and be fair. can you?

My only question is why someone go to hell? According to the calvinist in this vid, is because god had ordain everything before the foundation of the world,, including someone who would go to hell! Nonsense!

Poor Steven - his four points shows a complete misunderstanding of the implications of prevenient grace.

Without the unbelievers hearing the gospel of God, and expressing their love of God, God cannot elect anyone. It must be by our love to him first that he foreknows a believer.

Wow what a misrepresentation of foreknowledge! Foreknowledge is not God “learning” about those who would be saved! It’s simply the truth that God already knows, fore-knowledge, everything! Then it’s corrupted more to say that foreknowledge is “those whom God previously chose to love with a distinguishing love like he loves no other” by defining the word KNOW! Absolutely dishonest!

9:42 Reformed theology is great but those translations they use, my goodness!!! They are bad... the only good translation in English are KJV AND NKJV Then Joseph, being aroused from sleep, did as the angel of the Lord commanded him and took to him his wife, and did not know her till she had brought forth her firstborn Son. And he called His name JESUS. (Matt.1:24-25)

You are jumping all over There is one God that was the first, then after that there are another two and I supposed the first one died already. So now it's two separate ones that's it. Both also got many kids (3-4 kids) but separate upbringing and different groups of family. But we are both the same surnames but different family names.. so actually not so messy if we look at it from this angle. 😄

Steven is the only one in the room that gets excited by his speel. Everyone else has learned to stay calm not matter how excited the presentation is. Steven asks them if you know the Lord and none of them can even answer. So, the answer is no, they don't know the Lord.

This man strives so hard to get everyone to agree with him. What kind of pride is that? Since we are created in the image of God, we have “FREE WILL”. The idea that God created some souls for Hell and others for Heaven is a condition on so much Scripture that proclaims that God loves the “WORLD OF HUMANITY”. No one goes to Hell or Heaven because he is predetermined by God to do so. NO!! God is not willing that any should perish but that ALL should come to repentance” (11 Peter, 3:9). Who did God “foreknow”? Everyone! We are challenged to preach the Gospel; so that “WHOSOEVER” believes may be saved. What does WHOSOEVER mean? And why preach the Gospel if the “SAVED” are already predetermined. Ok, you believed you are saved because you are predestined. Pity the poor devils who go to hell and had nothing to do with their creation. The GOOD NEWS is that all may be saved by the Grace of God through Faith. See what “ELECTION” says about the nature of God. It says that He created some to anguish in Hell for eternity. God have mercy- this is Hersey; and this man claims that all who disagree with him are heretics.

Total depraved teaching. "For whom he did foreknow", is those who love God by reading their hearts, whose believing becomes known to God first, and afterwards are chosen. He chooses only those he knows love him before choosing, and those are destined to be sanctified. That is the meaning of Romans 8:28. I have a Ytube video series 'Myths in so-called Christianity', exposing Myths by bringing the truth.

No another Biblically Illiterate Pastor 😨 See : Eagle 🦅 Wings Ministries Any lesson you like. Because the false Christ comes first. " Many will come in my name" See : The Latter Rain Part 1 -2 Arnold Murray Masters degree, Master Sargeant, USMC, Scholar.