Man CAN and DOES and MUST respond to God's appeal to be reconciled. Indeed man cannot save himself, but responding to the one who saves him is not something that he gets credit or glory for. And this is why mankind will be righteously judged according to their belief and according to what they do with Jesus. God has not left man on his own, for if God had not intersected into this fallen world, man would indeed be without hope. And to say that mankind cannot respond to God because he is unable is just ridiculous. Why do all you hyper Calvinists think that man contributes anything at all to his salvation by responding to the God, who is drawing all men unto Himself after the son of man be lifted up, and this via the inherent power of the Gospel of Jesus Christ of which I am not ashamed, that is the power of God unto salvation? So how does faith come you hyper Calvinists? Does it come because God regenerates you before you have faith in order that you can come to Faith? Or does faith come by hearing and hearing by the Word of God? Dead in sins and trespasses is a metaphor not a literal statement suggesting corpse-like dead. A truly just and righteous God judges mankind according to his belief or unbelief, and to judge unbelief righteously suggests that the unbeliever could have done otherwise.
@jaytkadv24293 сағат бұрын
This is the truth. People hate it though. God is HOLY HOLY HOLY. We are not. There was a nothing good that dwells in our flesh. Nothing. Read the first few verses of Leviticus 16. Shows you how holy god is !
@tubeklw45338 сағат бұрын
You're all so very special.
@johnkuykendall697113 сағат бұрын
I love this sermon!! Thank you Lord for giving us your son Jesus Christ and a great pastor in John MacArthur to get the message to all the world!!
@rodneynewby761115 сағат бұрын
John 3:3-8 “ I am telling you the truth replied JESUS, that NO ONE CAN ENTER THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNLESS he IS BORN OF WATER AND THE SPIRIT. A PERSON IS BORN PHYSICALLY OF HUMAN PARENTS,BUT HE IS BORN SPIRITUALLY OF THE SPIRIT. Do NOT be surprised when I tell you that you MUST ALL BE BORN AGAIN. The wind blows wherever it wishes, YOU HEAR THE SOUND IT MAKES BUT YOU DO NOT KNOW WHERE IT COMES FROM OR WHERE IT IS GOING. It IS like that with EVERY ONE who is BORN OF THE SPIRIT. 🙏 Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by GOD’s GRACE that you are saved through FAITH. IT IS NOT THE RESULT OF YOUR OWN EFFORTS, But GOD’s GIFT, so that no man can boast about it. 🙏 Ephesians 1:11 ALL THINGS ARE DONE ACCORDING TO GOD’s PLAN AND DECISION; AND GOD CHOSE US TO BE HIS OWN PEOPLE IN UNION WITH CHRIST BECAUSE OF HIS OWN PURPOSE, BASED ON WHAT HE DECIDED FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.🙏 Scripture is the foundation of my belief. “ May GOD through CHRIST continue to be Glorified in its Truth!”🙏
@FrankFriedrich-lc6ie23 сағат бұрын
It's Calvinism
@peggyburch9242Күн бұрын
Dear Pastor 11:25 John , I believe absolutely that you are only responsible to obey our Lord by sharing the Gospel! Our Lord is responsible for the results! I pray that our Lord will heal you, so that you can return to the marvelous work for which our Lord has equipped you-preaching His Word!!!❤❤❤
@mochaloca9741Күн бұрын
Im not making fun of Christianity, It can be a very scary time ( although they feel safe from physical harm) just people might stop them and say you cant make fun of my GOD WHEN SWITCHING out of Islam
@mochaloca9741Күн бұрын
food drive??
@mochaloca9741Күн бұрын
Happy Monday everyone, does anyone know how I can spread acts of kindness?
@wendyguymer53278 сағат бұрын
Share the true Gospel! LIVE IT !!
@kenamesthewatcherchronicle67462 күн бұрын
That letter is just a cheap shot. I myself agree with the late Dr. R. C. Sproul who stated something like, "in the battle to preserve scriptural integrity, I want someone like John McArthur in my foxhole". As I witnessed John's stand against the COVID tyranny, as thousands of Pastors willfully complied with their tails between their legs, I began to wholly understand Sproul's statement. Ken Ames Producer The Watcher Chronicles
@loriobrien79572 күн бұрын
I think those who have negative things to say about John don't want to hear the truth.Once saved always saved.We may slip away from time to time but if we are truly saved the Lord will draw us back into the fold.
@rodneynewby76112 күн бұрын
Romans 3:10-12 There is no one righteous, NOT ONE, There is NO ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS AND NO ONE WHO SEEKS GOD, ALL HAVE TURNED AWAY, THEY HAVE BECOME WORTHLESS, THERE IS NO ONE WHO DOES GOOD NOT EVEN ONE.🙏 Romans 9:16-18 So then, everything depends, NOT ON WHAT MAN WANTS OR DOES, BUT ONLY ON GOD’s MERCY. For the Scripture says to the king of Egypt. “I made you king in order to USE YOU TO SHOW MY POWER AND SPREAD MY OVER THE WHOLE WORLD.” So then , GOD HAS MERCY ON ANYONE HE WISHES AND MAKES STUBBORN ANYONE HE WISHES.🙏 No one of his own free will chooses THIS GOD. John 15:16 YOU DID NOT CHOOSE ME ; I CHOSE YOU AND APPOINTED YOU TO GO AND BEAR MUCH FRUIT, THE KIND OF FRUIT THAT ENDURES.🙏 We all deserve hell because of free will. The good news is GOD The FATHER has sent us HIS SON to save us in spite of our own free will. “ May GOD continue to use us as vessels for HIS eternal glory forever and ever!”🙏
@rodneynewby76112 күн бұрын
In accordance with free will. Romans 8:6-7 To be controlled by human nature RESULTS IN DEATH; TO BE CONTROLLED BY THE SPIRIT RESULTS IN LIFE AND PEACE. And so a person becomes an ENEMY OF GOD WHEN he is CONTROLLED BY Human nature ; FOR he DOES NOT OBEY GOD’s , LAW and in FACT he CANNOT OBEY IT. THOSE WHO OBEY THERE HUMAN NATURE CANNOT PLEASE GOD. 🙏
@toddarcand60022 күн бұрын
The Bible is clear that we SLEEP until the resurrection at His coming. "For we shall not all SLEEP, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye...".
@loriobrien79572 күн бұрын
Are you talking about soul sleep? If so that is not biblical.When as believers die our spirit goes immediately into the presence of Jesus.Sleep means death in the Bible.
@toddarcand60022 күн бұрын
@loriobrien7957 yes it 100% biblical. The spirit which is our BREATH returns to God who gave it to us, just as when Genesis tells us, the BREATH + dust of earth = living soul. We did not receive one. Body returns to ashes and breath returns to the Lord. It is in Christ we have eternal life, and He will restore it again IN THE RESURRECTION. Otherwise, what need there be of a resurrection if we are already in heaven? It doesn't make sense.
@kattaajabaa5073 күн бұрын
Amen❤ Help me God help me Jesus Help me Holy Sprit!
@MLiving4Jesus3 күн бұрын
Christians have free will God calls everyone the Holy Spirit convicts man of their sin our part is to believe in the finished work of Jesus on the cross , just like it says in John 3:16
@rodneynewby76113 күн бұрын
John 3:16 For GOD so loved the world that HE gave his only begotten Son ,so that whosoever believes in HIM will not perish but have everlasting life. World in the scripture is in reference to there being no difference between Jew and Gentile. But only the choice of GOD. Matthew 11:27 “ MY FATHER HAS GIVEN ME ALL THINGS. NO ONE KNOWS THE SON EXCEPT THE FATHER AND NO ONE KNOWS THE FATHER EXCEPT THE SON AND THOSE WHOM THE SON CHOOSES TO REVEAL HIM.”🙏 The words elect and GOD’s chosen people are all through out the Bible. Scripture says we as individuals don’t choose GOD. If and when a person is chosen it is because ( Ephesians 1:11)GOD had planned it from the beginning. GOD Loves all people. But for HIS own we become family. John 3:3 JESUS answered “NO ONE CAN SEE THE KINGDOM OF GOD UNLESS he IS BORN AGAIN.”🙏
@michelerivera23303 күн бұрын
I absolutely despise when people say nasty comments about MacArthur. And about people who lean more calvinistic . It's a very nasty spirit they carry. I do not agree with Arminaninsm, but I don't have a nasty, ugly view towards them. I do believe there will be a judgment against them.
@rodneynewby76113 күн бұрын
John 17:6 “ I have made YOU know to those YOU gave me out of the world. They belong to you and gave them to me.” John 17:8 I GAVE THEM THE MESSAGE YOU GAVE ME AND THEY RECEIVED IT.🙏 John 17:9 “I PRAY FOR THEM. I DO NOT PRAY FOR THE WORLD BUT THOSE YOU GAVE ME. FOR THEY BELONG TO YOU. “🙏 John 17:20 “ I pray not only for them, but also for those who believe in ME because of their message.🙏 Acts 13:48 When the Gentiles heard this, THEY WERE GLAD AND PRAISED THE LORD’S MESSAGE ; AND THOSE WHO HAD BEEN CHOSEN FOR ETERNAL LIFE BECAME BELIEVERS.🙏 CHRIST SAID THIS ABOUT THE FATHER AND HIMSELF… John 5:21 “ Just as The FATHER raises the dead and GIVES THEM LIFE, in the same way THE SON GIVES LIFE TO THOSE HE WANTS TO.”🙏 The invitation to come to come to CHRIST is misunderstood by those on the broad road. For the Church, we know the WAY IS NARROW AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT. Ephesians 2:8-9 For it is by GRACE that you have been saved through Faith. It is NOT the result of your own efforts, but GOD’s gift so that no one can boast about it.🙏 “ Thanks Be to GOD through CHRIST.!”🙏
@bloodmooncomix4573 күн бұрын
4:45 WOW! And I've been a MacArthur fanboy over a decade.... So does that mean my God is gonna throw me into hell as well?! 😰😬🫢🥺
@123456stronzo3 күн бұрын
we will all have a very long sleep,forever ,when we croak
@nwangwuchukwuemekachijioke42624 күн бұрын
John, I love the way you explain the Bible. You present it clearly and thoughtfully, always careful to stay true to its message. "Carefully dissecting the word of God"
@jimmymccosker43115 күн бұрын
JUST LISTENED TO BROTHER JOHN IN A Q&A AT THE CHAPEL,THEY REPALACED HIS HEART VALVE,TRYING TO KEEPVTHE FLUID FROM AROUND HIS LUNGS.HE SAID THEY HAVE REMOVED A LITER AND A QUARTER AT A TIME.PLEASE PRAY FOR JOHN MACARTHUR❤
@jeffsimard8846Күн бұрын
A mighty man of God!
@jesuswarrior81915 күн бұрын
In the first couple of minutes MacArthur reads a terrible comment that someone wrote about him. That he plays no role in the salvation of anyone because of his teaching. I will prove that person wrong right now. Because 6 years ago when I was 56 years old I was laying on my living room floor for 16 weeks unable to walk because of a back injury. The pain was so incredible that I crawled around on my hands and knees to get my lunch in the afternoon while my husband worked. I'm diabetic so without realizing it I had rubbed sores on the tops of my toes from dragging them behind me and almost lost three toes by amputation. I was going to the hospital every 8 or 9 days for pain medication waiting for surgery or that spinal shot of which neither I wanted. Then covid hit and it kept canceling both of my appointments numerous times. Then I came across one of the darkest days of my life where I kept singing the song place in this world by Michael w. And I kept screaming to the lord, where is my place in this world why are you letting me lay here and suffer? Of course I wasn't a Believer by repenting I just knew that God existed! Then I ran across John MacArthur, I started listening to his sermons and they soothed me. My mom was a Christian but I don't remember her ever talking about repentance and the true belief that is saving faith. Then eventually I started talking to the Lord, telling him to please fix my back I just want to go to church. One day I just realized I couldn't take it anymore and I wasn't going to lay on the floor anymore and all of a sudden I was able to get up and walk to my kitchen with no pain at all. Completely pain-free. The Lord not only saved me but he healed me. I never heard the gospel told so well that I believed everything about it and I heard it all from John MacArthur. He played the largest role in my life of being saved other than the Lord saving me through my faith with his grace. The belief I gained was from what John MacArthur told me about God. I've never questioned any of it ever since. I praise God for saving me at the age of 56 praise God for putting John MacArthur in my life! I have been a long lasting fan ever since!
@Rareprune3 күн бұрын
What a beautiful testimony. Thank you for sharing ❤
@PatrickSalisMEDIA5 күн бұрын
My Teacher.
@bible1st6 күн бұрын
1 John 2:2 He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world. 1 Timothy 4:10, “For it is for this we labor and strive, because we have fixed our hope on the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of believers.” 1 Timothy 2:6 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time. John 6:51 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh.”
@rodneynewby76118 күн бұрын
The apostles did not argue about doctrine being right or wrong because their Faith was in the person of CHRIST. Matthew 16:15-17 “ Who do you say I am?” HE asked them? Simon Peter answered, You are the MESSIAH, the SON of THE LIVING GOD. “ “ Good for you Simon son of John!” For this TRUTH did not come from any human being, but it was given to you directly by MY FATHER in Heaven. 🙏 John 15:3-4 “ YOU HAVE BEEN MADE CLEAN ALREADY BY THE TEACHING I HAVE GIVEN YOU.🙏 The apostles were living in the day of The birth of the CHURCH of CHRIST. They weren’t theologians or scholars. They were witnesses to divine Truth 😊. Luke 24:44-49 Then HE said to them, There are the very things I told you about while I was still with you: everything written about ME in the Law of Moses, the writings of the prophets and the psalms had to come True.” THEN HE OPENED THEIR MINDS TO UNDERSTAND THE SCRIPTURE, “ and said to them, “ This is what is written: The Messiah must suffer and must rise from death in 3 days later, and in HIS name the message about repentance and forgiveness of sins must be preached to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem. YOU ARE WITNESSES OF THESE THINGS. And I MYSELF will send upon what the FATHER has promised. But you must wait in the city until the power from above comes down upon you.” 🙏 One Hope one Faith one Baptism. “ Thanks be to GOD our FATHER who through CHRIST we have all we need!”🙏
@nereida1168 күн бұрын
Powerful totally Biblical message!😮
@joserios4088 күн бұрын
Come to think about it.non of the apostles argue. what doctrine was Right or wrong among themselves.because the were all taught by the same spirit. so my beloved brothers and sisters .let GOD be true and every man a liar.peace be unto all that are call be his name
@joserios4088 күн бұрын
The goodness of God the leads you to repentance.
@rodneynewby76119 күн бұрын
It seems that whenever full scripture is spoken. People with a broad minded view of Truth claim Calvinism . I don’t know what that is or who he is? His name does not appear in my Bible. As it is written John 9:25 “ One thing I do know is that I was blind, and now I see.” 🙏 Paul under the power of the Holy Spirit (who is in my Bible) said ,in 1 Corinthians 1:7 “The wisdom I proclaim is GOD’s secret wisdom, which is hidden from mankind, but which HE had chosen for our glory even before the world was made”.🙏 GOD determined this for HIS Church. Apart from Grace we are cut off from true understanding. 1 Corinthians 1:21 For GOD in HIS wisdom made it IMPOSSIBLE for people to know HIM by means of their own wisdom. Instead, by means of the so called “ foolish “ message we preach, GOD decided to save those who believe. 🙏 . I don’t know the road Calvinism takes you. But I do know that the Grace I receive through the teachings of CHRIST through scripture is sufficient to take me all the way to HIM. For me scripture is the final authority. “ May GOD be Glorified!” 🙏
@joserios4088 күн бұрын
Amen brother.i my self don't see John Calvin in my Bible. I see the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ. Testifying of this truth.non of the apostles had any problem with God's election or predestination. but many of us call believers seem to have a problem with it. May God grant us to die daily to self .
@helloearth119 күн бұрын
The pride of evil men is why they cannot draw near to God. We underestimate how depraving sin can infiltrate and bring our mortal bodies to sheer distruction, how much more our souls.
@helloearth119 күн бұрын
When unbelievers masquerading as Christians in the comment section throw stones at the gospel, you know you are preaching the gospel of Jesus. It is no different from the trial of Stephen, the excommunication of John and the rejection of Jeremiah. The gospel is an offense to unbelievers.
@helloearth119 күн бұрын
I want you to observe a lesson from the book of Job. The man who received the most hate for speaking of / about God was indeed right all along and commended by for not trying to make God is his own image. Any view that does not present God as he is presentef in the Bible are mere men trying to create God in their own image. Do not try to rescue God from what He says about Himself. He made it clear in Matthew 7:21-23, that He will not save all people. People do not deserve salvation, it is given by the grace of God.
@Tommythecat0075 күн бұрын
It seems like you have some condition on salvation with a very narrow interpretation of Matthew 7:21-23.. you would have to deny multiple scripture and the finished work of Christ on the cross to hold that position, just not possible
@Andy-m8b10 күн бұрын
Retire Mac Author. Another false calvinist doctrine being taught by you twisting scripture.
@mattschannel28610 күн бұрын
I believe that a Corinthian could stay the same never coming to knowledge of truth. Drinking milk staying a servant never coming to be a son. Works are evidence but if a doctrine of devils creep in…Apostasy! Lest by any means some one creep in
@Andy-m8b10 күн бұрын
False teacher Mac Author needs to retire.
@anthonygray25412 күн бұрын
Who are you ? 😂
@rodneynewby761110 күн бұрын
I am a new Christian, I was brought to FAITH in Our Lord and Savior JESUS CHRIST in 2017. I can tell you for sure that I was not saved on no terms that I agreed to or even knew about. I was not a Christian nor did I know what GOD expected from those who called themselves Christians. I injured myself at work and had no way of dealing with the suffering. I knew I was dying 😢. I looked everywhere where I could for help. No one could. At the highest point of my suffering the mental rejection from the world became worse than my physical pain. All the doors closed. I was at my end. 11/9/2017 I was rejected for the last. I walked to the end of the street and looked at the sky through some trees and was prompted by THE SPIRIT OF GOD. The words came to mind. “Please GOD don’t let me die like this?” The weight of my sins had caught up to me. HE heard my cry 😭. HIS LOVE came at that moment ,repentance and true faith began. We have been together ever since. I know that I know HIM but more importantly I know that HE knows me. I say this because I know that where I was in life was exactly where I was supposed to be 😊. The meeting that day was planned. I had nothing to do with what GOD through CHRIST in the activity of the SPIRIT had planned. ( Predestination is in the Bible) whether you like or not GOD has a plan for all of us. 2 Corinthian 6:2 Hear what GOD says. “ WHEN THE TIME CAME FOR ME TO SHOW YOU FAVOR, I HEARD YOU, WHEN THE DAY ARRIVED FOR ME TO SAVE YOU I HELPED YOU.” Listen this is the hour to receive GOD’S favor; TODAY is the day to be saved!”🙏
@larrybedouin292113 күн бұрын
Twisting the scriptures to your own destruction. 😢
@carlorivera303513 күн бұрын
"Godly sorrow brings REPENTANCE that LEADS to SALVATION and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death." (2 Corinthians 7:10)
@karenhartman607515 күн бұрын
That person must need regeneration 🙏🏻
@Tessa-dc5ib18 күн бұрын
Thankyou CJ as I'm struggling with loss
@reinab816822 күн бұрын
AMEN AND AMEN!
@ParkerRRea25 күн бұрын
Good conversation, but there is a problem with using Gen. 3:1 (“did God really say…”) as a rallying cry for biblical inspiration or inerrancy. It appears to be utilized this way because of a perceived parallel between the serpent’s questioning of God’s word and the modern unbeliever questioning whether Scripture is God’s word (or whether he has spoken at all). The parallel dissolves in light of the direct objects of the two questions. For the serpent’s question, the direct object is a faulty quote (“you can’t eat from any tree in the garden”) whereas for the unbeliever, the direct object is Scripture itself. One is a twisted, inaccurate version of what God said, the other is God’s very speech. These should not be confused. The problem ultimately is that the correct answer to each question is different. To answer the serpent correctly, one would say “no, God has not said that” whereas to the unbeliever you would answer “yes, God has indeed spoken through Scripture.”
@jackiemaxwell1545Ай бұрын
I love Pastor John Macarthur's preaching/ teaching. I'm in Perth Western Australia, I know alot of people watch his messages. His teaching makes sense, is alive. I learn something every time I listen to him. Bless you, keep going.
@LetsgoBАй бұрын
Did God create some people to send them to hell?
@user-xn7tq1qh5rАй бұрын
MacArthur denies the words of Jesus Christ Himself in Rev. 22:17, when our Lord states very clearly, " and whosoever will."
@ginosko_Ай бұрын
No he doesn’t not. Whoever will are those destined to
@user-xn7tq1qh5rАй бұрын
@ginosko_ But that's not what Jesus said. You and MacArthur cannot change the meaning of a word so it fits your theology.
@cbl332924 күн бұрын
@@user-xn7tq1qh5ronly the chosen ones who have that “will”.
@jeffgerst3619Ай бұрын
The entire Bible is Gods word to us
@davidelias7439Ай бұрын
Great sermon
@franciscoavila8724Ай бұрын
Arminians have no idea the depth of depravity, mankind is so wretched and hate GOD that apart from regeneration will never come to GOD we are in a time where the gospel is anthropocentric not theocentric, i😢used to be an arminian and had to twist scripture to justify my beliefs, thanks be to God who opened my eyes to see the truth