 Whatever the issue is, because of our so-called free will, our volition is so unreliable, well then God chooses to exercise his free will. Because we don't do what we want to do, God exercises election. Why not just deal with a really touchy subject? Why not deal with a subject that people fight over and battle over? I don't know for how long. Well, truth is, it actually does make a difference when we cover some of these topics because some people are swayed. There are many people who believe this, and then after studying it and hearing the different sides and so forth, end up moving. Election is one of those things where I can say I started off believing that it was not the case, and then end up believing that it is a case. And then as my studies have grown, I've only strengthened my resolve, my belief in how I see the Bible tells us about election. So that being the case, I want to go ahead and ask you guys this question because I want to try to make this as interactive. I want to see you all's feedback. I want to see what you guys are thinking right now as it stands. 68% of the people who have voted believe that God chooses us knowing that we won't choose him. Now, this issue of election predestination and so forth, all the same thing. Let's see if we can define it and figure out what the other side or other folks think. When we talk about election, it can mean this. It can mean that God chooses us or we choose him. Now, well, the issue is not whether we choose God or whether God chooses us because we all know that we choose God and we all know that God chooses us. The issue is when do we choose God and when does God choose us? That's the issue. And also, based on what does God choose? Now, there are some of us that believe that God chooses something. There are also those that believe that God has this corporate election. Neither one of those can possibly be true. We'll see that in just a little bit. But this issue that God chooses us corporately, we're going to see in a second. Now, I'd like to know what you all think. If you all think that God chooses based on his, and here's how we get into a little bit of trouble, I think, that God chooses us based on his fore knowledge that we are going to choose him. Is there anyone that believes that God looks throughout the lens of time and sees that we will choose him and then he chooses us? Because if you believe that, we've got a problem. Matter of fact, we have a huge problem. If you believe that, before I go to the passage that I wanted to go to, and I want to see you all type that in if you believe so. But before I go there, let me type this passage in because I think this would be the problem if you do believe that. If we choose him, him, God, throughout eternity sees that we are going to choose him, then he chooses us, he selects us, he elects us, he predestines us, then we would actually have an actual contradiction. Here's why. If we go to Romans 3, verse 10, starting off, says that there is none righteous, not even one. Righteous doesn't mean that you are righteous, but when he says righteous, those that are in right standing, any of yourself, you're not righteous. There is none who understands, and look what it says, there is none who seeks for God. So if you're going to say that he chooses you based on you seeking him, you going after him, you choosing him, well, what does that say about Romans 311 when he says that there are none who do so? Not one person go, there's none good, no, not one, nobody does so. So what do we do with that passage? That, to me, just to me, would seem to be a clear contradiction. Now, before we jump into it heavily, I want to go to the very beginning. Obviously, we know we've got a problem. The problem is we've got this sin that's in us that has dogged us. And I'm going to, matter of fact, I tell you what I'm going to do. I am going to be a barin. You and I, you're going to be the person that I'm going to look at a lot. I've noticed some of your comments, especially on one of the other videos, and we're going to go ahead and see if you are beholding to your beliefs or you're going to be beholding to the Bible. Because I believe that what you're doing is you're doing as much as you humanly possibly can hold to what you want to hold to. And that's fine. You might be right. You might be right, and I might be wrong. So we're going to see that. Is Romans 3 to be taken literal? Why would Romans 3 not be taken literal? Tell us. Why would we not take it? See, if you save this statement, why would it be taken literal? Well, then how should we take it? Should we take it figuratively? What is the basis for taking this figuratively? Let's go back to Romans 3, which is a fine question that you ask. Let's see if it makes any sense. Romans 3, put it back on stage. I mean, back on the screen. There is none righteous, not even one. There is none who understands. There is none who seeks for God. All have turned aside together. Now, by the way, where is he quoting this from? I'll put it on the screen. You can see this is an Old Testament passage. So he's making this statement in regards to Israel, but he means all. There is not one person who does so, not one. Now, are there those that might seek after him for the moment? Sure. But remember, this is in the present active participle. There are none that are continually seeking. Are you with me? And there are none that are in any right standing because of that. There's nobody that's righteous in and of themselves. And so, yes, we take this literally. You are assuming that they were seeking because God enabled them to do so. Okay, we're going to find this out that people don't seek after God continually, but you can seek after God for the moment. You can choose God for the moment. You can believe God for the moment, but you can't be a continual believer, a continual seeker. No, you cannot be a continual follower because that present active participle is only describing one type of person, those that are in Christ and those that have the Holy Spirit. That's the only time that is describing a person. Okay, that's the only time that's describing a believer. A believer is described as someone who is in the present active participle, the ING part. So now, here's my question, guys. Because we have this sin nature, this issue. God has noticed that Israel is going to keep messing up, keep messing up and keep messing up. Now, in Deuteronomy 10, he tells them to circumcise their heart. Get your heart right, fix your heart. Something's wrong with your heart, Israel. Wait a second, William says, you don't have to be righteous to seek after God. Even the Apostle Paul shows God. Well, if notice how he puts all of that together, though, when he talks about there's none righteous, there's no who seek after God, there's none good that's all put together. The only way to be right is to seek out after him. Okay, so yet you do have to be righteous to seek after him. If you seek after him, that makes you righteous. We're not talking about just looking for where's God, where's God? No, we're talking about coming to him and placing your faith in, following him, trusting him. That's what we're talking about. And so, they go together. But now, when the Bible talks about, and I said this before, guys, and maybe you guys, I want you guys to, I wish that more folks would have listened on the way, because I do a lot, quite a bit of going back and re-acclimating people to what I've said before. I don't mind doing it with the people who are brand new, but a lot of you guys have heard me say these things before, and sometimes you get in such a hurry or you dig in so deeply that you don't hear what I've said before. There are people, when I talked about this before, about can there be a person who can seek after God? The Bible is clear, it talks about people who sought after him even in the Old Testament, but they didn't do it consistently. That's the problem, guys. I want you guys to listen to this. There's always been somebody throughout history who sought after God, somebody who chose God, someone who believed God for the moment. That's always been throughout history. The problem has been, and God makes this point, you don't keep doing it because you're disobedient. You have this wayward heart. You do it today, and in the next week, you go over here. You seek today, and in the next week, you seek over there. Why do you think God, when you look at the children of Israel, even when you look at his prophets and the men of God in the Old Testament, when God, it seems like when they kind of forgot about God, including someone like Abraham, including someone like Moses, it seems though they weren't on their P's and Q's, but then when God shows up, there they are, the general spotter. So God had to keep his presence before them, and then he had these different offerings and so forth to kind of keep them in line to give them something where they can be right in right standing with him throughout the years and gave them this yearly day of atonement. But I don't want to get too much on that, but there are people that have done so, which is why Paul uses the present active partisan. There's no one who's continually seeking after him, all right? And those are the people who end up becoming, who are the actual believers, and notice what we call a believer, a Christian in the New Testament. A New Testament Christian is a believing one, not a person that believed like even the demons believe, but a believing one. That is so important. So now, the issue is their heart, and God tells Israel to circumcise their heart in Deuteronomy 10. He tells them to do so, but they don't. As a matter of fact, he tells them, since you won't, because you won't, I'm going to drive you out of this promised land that you're going into. They hadn't even gotten into the land. They hadn't even gotten into the land. And he says, because you're disobedient, I'm going to take you out of the land, put you in foreign lands, I'm going to bring you back. And then when I bring you back, notice what God says. Let me ask you guys this question. Deuteronomy 30 verse six, moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul that you may live. So, excuse me. So what is he saying? What is God saying, be a barin? What is he saying that he is going to do? What is God in verse six saying that he is going to do? He's going to circumcise their heart. What does that mean, ladies and gentlemen, to circumcise our heart? Where is my cursor number one? I can't, there it is. Dog on cursor. I'll get to you in a second, shiny moment. I mean, shiny, shiny moment, shiny meadows. But what does it mean to circumcise your heart? Well, we equate that to have the exact same meaning as to be regenerated, to have your heart born again. God tells them to do so, they never do. And then God says that he will. Do we think that God will circumcise their heart? Well, sure. Okay. See, here's the problem. Circumcise the heart is a change, but that doesn't mean our hearts couldn't seek him before. That's read into the text. Okay, so read this into the text. Where in the text does it say that we find people that have circumcised their heart? Find that text. Now, while we're waiting, we won't hold our breath because there's no such passage where they do so. There is no such passage where they do so. Now, God says that he will do it. Why would God say that I will do it if they do it? If the people that he's telling to circumcise their heart, if they ever do it, why does God say that he will do it? They won't. That's the point. Stop trying to hold on to your belief and just look at what's happening. And I'm not reading into the text. All I simply read was he's, God said that he will. My question is, be it a brilliant anyone else, why would God do that? Why would God turn around and say that I will circumcise your hearts? Okay, you're saying that an uncircumcised heart doesn't mean that we can't seek after God. Okay, the problem is though, if we can seek after God, then what do we do with Romans 3? You're going to keep running into these passages that are going to keep cutting your legs off, but you want to keep walking down that road with no legs. You want to keep, he clearly says Paul says there are none who, and by the way, it's not Paul says that Paul is quoting Psalms and Isaiah. There are none that are seeking after him, not one person that's going to keep seeking after him, be it Barin or anyone else. None of us. So even with your uncircumcised heart, you might seek him for, and again, pay attention, you might seek him for a moment for a minute, but you will not continually seek after him. And if you say differently, if you say differently, well then again, again, Paul is wrong. Paul is wrong. You are not going to keep seeking after him. Now, if you want to keep saying that you will, then fine. Why is God going to circumcise our heart? I want to address you right now because if I do, we'll stay here and we won't move forward. I'll come back to you later, but God has stated that he will circumcise his heart. The rest of you in the chat, answer me this question. Why do you think that God is going to circumcise their hearts? Would I be correct in assuming the reason why he's going to circumcise their heart is because they don't? Now, he doesn't just say, speak about their hearts being circumcised in Deuteronomy 30. That's not the only time. He brings this up later. He brings up this issue of a heart being circumcised in a little bit trionary risk. I thank you for the super chat. Child, young cat. Thank you also as well. And Michael LeMay. Thank you guys as well. I appreciate that, but he's going. This is not a one time issue that he brings up. He doesn't just bring up this issue with the heart just in Deuteronomy. Matter of fact, what does God say about our heart? What has God stated about the human heart? Does anyone know what he stated? Was it good or what he stated? Was it bad? You all helped me out. Does God tell us anywhere in scriptures that our heart is good or bad? Tell us. Biberian, just stay with us. Maybe, matter of fact, let me ask you a question, Biberian. Can I ask you a question? Thank you perfectly. It's desperately wicked or desperately sick. It's a sick thing. Heart is sick, by the way. Our heart is horrible. Our heart will devise some horrible things. Deceitfully wicked. It's wicked. Has anyone met a pure heart? Has anyone met a pure heart? I know you probably think you're maybe my grandson or my granddaughter, maybe my daughter, my grandmother's heart is pure. No, it's not. No, it's not. Just going your closest nursery. I don't care if they're one year old. If they're two years old, just watch them. Watch the kids in the nursery and you'll find out even at one or at two. Horrible. I mean horrible. The only reason they don't kill anybody, the only reason kids can't kill anybody, is because the gun's too heavy. The knives are up on the shelf. That's the only reason. But give them an opportunity. Give them an opportunity. Give us all an opportunity to do bad. If we can get away with sin and know that no one is going to fight, we'd do it all day. Matter of fact, here's how wicked the heart is. We'll sin even while God is watching us and act like God ain't watching us. That's how bad our heart is. That's how bad our heart is being. And guess what? How many years have... I'm going somewhere, guys. How many years have human beings been on the planet? I'm drinking. Now, guys, I went back to the Colts mug, to the Colts mug for my coffee, because I think we're going to be here for a while. But follow me, Barina. I'm coming back to you in a second, though. But how many years have human beings been on the planet? No, not you, Cameron. I don't... Cameron said at least 20 years. Not you, Cameron. How many years have people, like your mother, your mother's mother, your father, how many years have people been on the planet? Six thousand years. Give or take, right? Now, two things I want to ask you guys. Have we as human beings gotten smarter, meaning that we've learned from... Not wiser, but we've learned some things. We've figured out some more things, right? We've built on top of this and built on top of that, like the math and the engineering feats and knowledge that we had obtained way back when. We just built on top of that so much so that now we've got the internet and now we've got AI and stuff like that. So intellectually, we've gotten smarter. The longer we've been here, the more we've learned some things. That's one... That's a positive or negative, but here's definitely a negative. The longer we've been here, haven't we also increased in our level of sin, in our ability to sin? This learning and like Adam and Eve, eating of the tree and knowing good and evil, we know evil a lot better now, don't we? More so now than we did even then. You think it was bad. Remember, God has every right. If you wanted to be fair, if God wanted to be fair, he would do exactly what he did to Sodom and Gomorrah or the world when he flooded it because we're a lot worse than they were then. A lot worse. A lot worse. They weren't praying children around and changing their sex like we're doing. A lot worse. A lot worse now. So our sin has gotten worse, which is an indication of our heart. Our heart has gotten worse and worse and worse. What has God been talking about all this time, our heart? Now, be able to read them back to you and anyone else. Just assume if I were wrong, meaning IU, if you were wrong, if you were wrong, are you open to being wrong and seeing that? Because if not, well then there's no hope. Now, you can say, well, I can say the same thing about you too, Cory, but wait a second, I was there. I believe there's no such thing as election for destination. No. Half of the things that I believe now, I didn't believe then, but then I was dragged really kicking and screaming. I spent time like, don't go now. I'm reading this text. I don't have to go back out there and tell these people that I was wrong and I had to just out of pride. I had to let it go and just, all right, fine, I was wrong. Now, okay, church is going to start. Well, you can come back and watch this video later. But he says he's going to circumcise their hearts. When is he going to circumcise their hearts? Now, he doesn't just bring it up there in Deuteronomy 30. He brings it up all throughout the Old Testament, but there's a couple of passages that we always focus on because, because it's paramount. Notice this. Notice this. Would you say, does belief in faith have two different meanings? No, belief in faith are the exact same word, pistas. So, oops, Margaret J. Okay, cool. I was talking to her too then. Amen. I want you to look at this passage in Ezekiel. Now, Ezekiel is prophesying to the matter of fact, and I have it here. I have it here. Let's put it on the screen. Let's see who Ezekiel is prophesying to. Let's go to this timeline. I've shown you this timeline before. There it is. Ezekiel is prophesying during the exile. Y'all see that over there? Y'all see the timeline? Look in the bottom right corner. You see Ezekiel. He's prophesying during the exile. And even then, even then, they're all going to, these human beings still got a bad heart. What does God say he's going to do in Ezekiel chapter 11? Verse 19 says, and I will give them one heart. Now, I will give them, not that I have given them, but I will give them one heart and put a new spirit in them. And the same thing with put a new spirit is also future. I will put a new spirit within them, and I will take, I will take, notice guys, I will take the heart of stone, that heart they have in them right now, that bad heart, that wicked heart that we all said that we all have. I'll take that wicked heart, that heart of stone out of their flesh and give them a heart of flesh. Why will I do that? Why would, why would God do that? That they may walk in my statues or my teachings and keep my ordinances and do them. Then they will be my people and I shall be their God. So he is going to do it for a specific reason, so that we will walk in his teachings and we'll walk in him after him. We will follow after him. Okay? That's why. He's got to give us a heart so that we will follow after him. Otherwise, we just will not follow. And what does he say in doing that? Then we will be his people. Oh, by the way, he also says that I'm also going to call a people that are not my people to be my people and I shall be their God. So he's going to do the exact same thing, not just with Israel, but also with the Gentiles. And in case you're wondering, is that just Ezekiel 36? No. I mean, 11. Also in 36, he reiterates this because these folks are not righteous people. He says in 25, then I will sprinkle, by the way, let's back up because when will he do this? Verse 24, he says, for I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. Well, where did we hear that before? Well, if we go back to Deuteronomy 36, he says, moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants to love you the Lord. Well, if we go from verses one through five, this is after he brings them out of the land. Look what he says. He says, verse two, I'm sorry, verse one of Deuteronomy 30. So it shall be when all of these things have come upon you, the blessings and the curse, which I have set before you and called them to mind, I'm going to bring to your mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished. Wait a minute. The Lord your God is going to banish you. He's going to banish Israel somewhere. Well, why are you going to banish him because of their disobedience because they're wicked heart? So keep that in mind. He's going to banish them and then look what he says to do. And I'm sorry, and call these to your mind in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you and you return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and soul. According to all that I command you today, you and your sons, then the Lord your God will restore you from captivity and have compassion on you and will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. Now, so here he's saying that I'm going to scatter you and I'm going to bring you back. Well, now we get to Ezekiel. Ezekiel is prophesying what's happening as he's prophesying. They have been scattered this exile. So now he's going to bring them back. When he brings them back, that's step one. Step two is after something. Now, he didn't say when he brings them back, but sometime after he brings them back, then he's going to circumcise their heart. Then he's going to give them a new heart. Jesus, Jesus, level 122, pay attention. You're on something else. Don't do that. Stop calling folks a cult because it matter of fact, let's let's just do this now. Let's do Jesus lover. I believe you love Jesus. I believe you love Jesus. Let's just deal with something for a second. Jesus lover, I'm going to treat you like and expect you to be adult here. Okay. And here's, and I don't mean to be demeaning or anything like that or belittling, but when you make a statement like what you just made, Calvinists are a cult. How so? How so? Are there any Calvinists in the chats right now? Are there any Calvinists, I'd like to know, are there any, are there any Calvinists in the chats right now? And I see you, Jesus lover, you're saying that God is not willing that any should perish. We're going to look at that passage too, because you're not quoting that passage right. You're not quoting that passage right either, but just give me a moment. So, okay. So we've got quite a few people who are Calvinists. No, I'm not. I'm not a Calvinist, less, less we've forgotten. I'm not a Calvinist, but I do agree with this. Now, here's my question. Jesus lover, 122, can I ask my question to you? Just you, just you, or anyone else that also believes that Calvinists are a cult and they're wrong. Here's my question. Jesus lover, 122 cameras, I'd be a Calvinist. What does a person have to do to not be in a cult? If they place their faith in Christ and become a Christian, are they a cult? Are they part of a cult? Jesus lover, 122. And by the way, we've got time. We've got time to address this. So, Jesus lover, 122, just you, if a person places their faith in Christ, are they part of a cult? If they do what you did. If a person who calls themselves a Calvinist, if they do that. No, see, here's what's happening. You're over there. I'm asking you a question. Since you made the statement, we're highlighting you for the thousands of folks who watch and see, so I want you to answer yourself. If they do what you did, place their faith in Christ, if they, you say, whosoever will come, if they come and they place their faith in Christ, are they a part of a cult? Did you answer this question? While we're waiting, I want to go ahead and give thanks to Chao Young Cat again for the super chat. Thank you so much. And quoting Jeremy, 79 viewpoint. Thank you for the super chat as well as Clarice and the least of these. Thank you guys so much. I really do appreciate that. But now let's go back to and see if Jesus lover, 122 has answered me. Where are you at? All right, let's go ahead and remove anonymous Jesus lover. Where are you? See, maybe when we put it to you and you have to turn around and wait a second, wait a second, okay, okay, I think he's got a point. Stop. Don't be so quick to type hateful stuff. Don't be so quick to type hateful stuff. See, you're over here. We're not, we're not at 2nd Peter 390 yet. We'll get there. I promise you, we'll get there. And we're going to see if that, if that promise, I mean, if that statement means anything, if it means what you think it means. But my question is, so you're not going to answer Jesus lover, 122. Oh, by the way, I do like you. Marvin, you'll think for super chat as well. Guys, if a person places their faith in Christ, what must I do to be safe? Believe on the Lord Jesus and you shall be safe. Right? Place your faith in Christ. Then you're a Christian. That means you're not part of a cult. So for you to say that, Jesus lover, 122, that means it seems like it seems like you only have an interest in just saying hateful. And let me just be honest with you, brother, sister, I don't, are you a male or a female? I don't know. But that's a pretty silly thing to say. It's a pretty silly thing. I'm not calling you silly, but that's a silly thing to say that big. So all Calvinists do, it's not what they believe that makes them safe. I mean, that makes them Calvinists. It's how they feel that we've come to this salvation. That's all. That's all. That's the only thing. They believe that they were elected. And I believe that also. And I'm not. Listen, I believe that am I part of a cult? I don't think so. I don't think so. If I am, you're gonna have to help me. But that being the case, that being the case. Let's go back to it because we're going to have this people who people just say, don't don't listen to things. Let me just give you, let me give you some help. I'm going to go out and let me assume that you're younger to me. So let me help you out going forward in your life, whether you've got 40 years left, 50 years left, 70 years, I don't know. But do your best not to type silly, ignorant things and hateful things because those things live on. You can just sit and just, you can take that stuff back. I mean, you can't take it back. See, and Jesus you're typing everything else, but you haven't answered my question. You know why you haven't answered my question? Because you know you're wrong. So we'll take your silence as you admitting that was stupid what I just typed. Calling Calvinist a cult. Don't do that, please. You're bigger than that. The name that you bear in the front of your moniker, Jesus, is far greater than that. Stop doing that. Stop it. And if you type that again, we're just going to block it. Okay. Don't do that. Alrighty, let's keep moving. But now my question was, my question was, here we see, or my statement, I'm sorry, here we see that Deuteronomy, God is saying that he's going to do so. And when he's going to do so, he's going to do so after he brings them back out of, out of exile. Okay. Once he brings them back out of exile, when a day after a week, a month, a year, we don't know, but it'll be after. So it hadn't happened yet in Ezekiel. Ezekiel makes a statement in Ezekiel, chapter 36. Also to piggyback off of what he said in Ezekiel 11, look what he says. He says, for I will take you from the nations, which is what was prophesied in Deuteronomy 30, gather you from all the lands and bring you into your own land. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Who was going to do this to you? Who was going to sprinkle clean water and who is going to cleanse from filthiness? Not the people, but God. Verse 26. Moreover, I will give you a new heart. Who's giving who a new heart? The people giving themselves a new heart or God? God is. So though he's told them, hey, get your heart right, fix your heart, change your heart, circumcise your heart. They never do. They never do. He said, I like that. I'm going to highlight that. But you just said, I'll come back to it. He says, and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues. I, so people who might want to have a propensity to disagree, who is going to put their spirit in you? And we're going to see how this also not only applies to just Israel, but also Gentiles. So for you, who is going to put the spirit, the Holy Spirit in your heart? Who's going to do that? You or God? Well, God is saying, I, first person pronoun, I, I, I, I will do this. He says, and I will put my spirit within you and I will look, cause you to walk. Why is he putting the spirit in his heart? Why is he changing our heart? Because our heart is horrible. That's really wicked. Who could know it is? Can't be trusted and will cause you to walk in my statues or my teachings and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. Then if we also go and look at, let's go to Jeremiah. Let's type in Jeremiah. Oops, I don't know what I just did. I clicked on a bunch of stuff. Let's go to Jeremiah. Jeremiah 32, 39. Same thing. Same thing being stated here. And I will give them one heart and one way that they may fear me always for their own good and for the good of their children after them. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not turn away from them to do them good. And I will put the fear of me in their hearts so that they will not turn away from me. So this is God saying what he's going to do. Now there's a reason why I'm saying all of this guys, because I'm trying to get us to see why God is going to do what he's going to do. Why God is going to do what he is going to do. I want you all to understand this. When I say this, I'm going to make a case that we talk about choosing, electing, predestining, being born again. All of those entail the same thing. It's an act of Christ. It's an act of God. It's an act of the Holy Spirit. First, are you with me? It's an act of God. Jesus, love, you're not a good student. You're just not a good student. I'm trying to get you to see something and you're just jumping on Calvinists. You're just jumping on Calvinists because you don't want to learn. You've been in too many YouTube sites or too many websites or read too many articles where Calvinists are the devil. And it may, wouldn't it be sad, wouldn't it be sad if you miss heaven because you have a bad heart? Wouldn't that be the case? You run around with the moniker Jesus loves Jesus Lover 122. And then you, and then we find out or you find out that you have a bad heart that your heart hadn't been circumcised. You got this anger, this rage, this hatred because someone sees salvation differently. They all still believe that you must place your faith in, faith in Christ, but you, but they see it differently. What if you found out that you was wrong and you've been persecuting people for, you've been like Paul on differences God didn't have a plan for you like he does with Paul. You got to grow up, man. You got, and, and I hate to be doing this publicly, but you're not the only one. So the reason why I'm saying this to you publicly is because there are other people that are doing the exact same thing. It bothers me to no end to see Calvinist and non-Calvinist fighting over who's more the son of God, who is, who is the antichrist, who hates God, who is, who is unjust, who is ungodly. When I see this of it, it shows me who has not matured. You can disagree on the, on these things without saying that they're going to hell or they're out of the devil. Stop that. Stop that. And how I know that you're immature, you won't even answer the basic question. I asked this easy question, softball question, just why did I ask you? What does a person have to do to be safe? What did you do to become safe? You want to answer that question because if you answer the question, then you've got to let Calvinist in the room with you, but you don't want to do that because you're just mean, you're mean-spirited right now. Not necessarily the whole of your life, but right now you're pretty mean-spirited, which is fine, which is fine. The good news is you haven't died yet. You can still grow. Amen. Amen. So God is doing what I'm saying for you is to fix your heart, circumcise the heart, doing something that you wouldn't do on your own. There'd be no need for God to do this if you would do it on your own. There'd be no need for him to do anything to your heart if you would do it on your own. We should all be able to agree with that. There's a reason why God is going to circumcise someone's heart or give them a brand new heart or to regenerate their heart or to cause their heart to be born again. There's a reason why, because we needed it. We didn't do it on our own. There is a reason why, guys. Now, that being the case, what does he say he's going to do? So let's go to the book of John and let's start picking up. Jesus says, now we know the very famous passion in the beginning was the word, the word was God and the word was God and he became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld him as the only begotten Son. And then if we drop down, but to all who did receive him, al-Aban, that is to receive or to take him who believed in his name. By the way, this word believe, it is the pistu-ousen, which is a present active participle. So the believed is good English, but it betrays what the Greek is saying. This is still a present active participle. So all who are believing is really the better way to play it. The better all who have or started or are believing in him. That's this word. He gave the right to become chosen God. So whoever that is, who were born, here it is. And when Biberian comes back or anyone else, this is it, here it is. This is the Christian. These people who were born, not of your own will, not of blood, nor of the will of flesh, not of your own will, nor of the will of man. So it's not you that calls you to be born again, born of God, but born of God's will. Am I, am I reading this wrong? Am I reading into it? Tell me if you all disagree. But those who are born of God's will, born of God, God is the one that does this. Now this word right here is a plural heiress passive. Meaning passive means it was done to you. It was done to you. Stop talking. I don't mean to be mean, but stop talking. You say some silly, but all doesn't mean all. When does all mean all? Does all ever mean all? I would love, you know, I would love to have, I would love to have, have a class with you in it. And I would listen. My wife's a teacher. I do this. I'd get you in the chair and just sit you up at the front. Carol Lisa, y'all remember we used to have the rulers? They can't do it anymore. You go to jail. You, you certainly lose your job. You have the ruler and once the kid gets out of line, you're on his knuckles. Yes. Jesus lover. That's, that's, that's, and I love you. I do, but I'm trying to get you to see something. I really want you to see this to your point. All doesn't always mean all, but a lot of times all absolutely does mean all. So anyway, so who, and by the way, if we want to pull this up, this word right here is the word Jose, a Hussein, which is whoever though. So whoever happens to be, or as many, or in this case, all of the ones. So in this case, this all literally does mean all. So all of those who received them, or do you think that all of those who received them weren't, weren't saved? All of those who received them, not everybody that received them, our children of God, is that, is that what you're going to say? Who would, who would say, if you would say that, you don't know the gospel. Anyone who receives them, all of those who, every single person that's received them, your, your child of God. And how did you get that? How did you become a child of God? Not because you were born of your own will, nor of blood, but you were born of the will of God. You were born of the will of God. And this word right here, being born, it is a plural heiress passive. It was done to you. You didn't do it. It was done. That's what the word passive, that's the, the passive means it's happened to you. We look at verbs, there's a passive verb, there's an active verb. Active is when you do it, passive when it's done to you. So this was done to you. You're being born, was being done to you. We know that's the case as we go to John three. He brings this up in John three, that in order to see the kingdom of God or kingdom of heaven, the only way is that you must be first born again, first three. I said to you, unless one is born again, this, which is to be born from above. Now I'll stop there for a second. I want to point a passage out. I got a point of passage out. Let's go to, to, to first Peter. This is how you know, if you're born again, let me say it in my, in my Texas, Western way. Okay. If and you are born again, if you're born again, it happened to you. You did not cause yourself to be born again. God caused you to be born again. How do I know? Let's look at first, oh wrong chapter, first Peter, chapter one. And let's, let's start in, let's reverse three. That's all we don't have to read all this. Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy has, look what it says, caused us to be born again. So if you're saved, you're only saved because your heart has been born again. You have had your heart circumcised, regenerated, whatever you want to call it, born again. Who did that? You? Did you do that? Answer? No. God did it. God caused you according to first Peter three. He caused you, me, us, all of us, even those who are immature, who want to call Calvinist, cult members and wicked. If you're born again, the irony is you're getting on them while missing what the text says. He caused us. He caused you, if indeed you are, caused you to be born again. You didn't do it. We'll come back to first Peter and just a little bit. Let's go back to John. So you must be born again in order to be saved. How does it happen? It is done to you. Now we know that he used the terminology being born again, which is to be born from above, or born of water and spirit, or born of the spirit. The same thing, to be born of the spirit. The same two elements we saw in Ezekiel 36. He puts his spirit in us and causes us to walk. Why? Because our heart is jacked up. So he's got to do so. Otherwise, somebody might choose for a day. And I know who this person is. You changed your name. He's changed his name. I'll aim praise God. I'm not a Calvinist, but Calvinists are okay. Amen. Praise God. I like that. I like that. I'm not a Calvinist either. And I think Calvinists are okay. I think my best channel intro was the one with I'm not a Calvinist. Call me a Calvinist again. But that being stated, that being stated, you must be born again in order to be saved. Well, who does that? That's not you. As a matter of fact, to make the point even more so, Jesus says, verse seven, or chapter three, do not marvel that I've said to you that you must be born again. Look what he says. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound. But you don't know where it comes from or where it goes. So just like you don't know where the wind is coming from or where it's going, the same as it is for those who are born of the spirit, those of us who are born again. You don't know where the wind, where the Holy Spirit is coming from or where it's going to. This is an act of the Holy Spirit. By the way, we got to figure out why this is important. Why is this so important? Why is this so important? And as a Sparuzki lady, I think you're absolutely right that this is an insurance of salvation discussion issue. But why is this so important? Why is it important to even talk about this? Because certainly, tomorrow at 8, thank you for the super chat. Because if I go out sharing the gospel and witnessing, I don't talk about predestination or election, I don't do that. Matter of fact, nor should you. The purpose of this is to realize how great a salvation you have. You mean to tell me on my best day, I couldn't do it. And I felt like I was trying, but it really wasn't me. It was all him. And when you think back and look back on what you were saved from, have you all seen those videos? I have these videos on YouTube. So like these little close calls where a lady, she moves out the way and a brick falls down right where she was there, just barely misses her. Or here comes a tire, a big semi truck tire rolling this way and just right in front of the person. They stop the tire of their shoe, stand up and right in front of them. Just barely misses it. Have you seen those little close calls? They're all over YouTube or Facebook where someone has had an actual close call where an inch this way or that way, they would have been dead. They miss it. Nothing's wrong with them at the time, but the moment they look and see what happens, their heart starts beating fast. Like, whoa, are you serious? Wow. I'll never get this story. True story, by the way. True story. This was from 9-11. There was a lady, they was bringing down an older black lady that as they were trying, now you all know how fast they needed to get down out of those buildings, out of those towers. They were in the second tower, the first tower had already collapsed. They are frantically trying to get down these steps so that the building doesn't collapse. They saw, hey, if it happened over there, it's going to happen over here. And they, and God bless these firemen, they are rushing these people down. What happened? They have this older black lady. I want to say they called her an auntie or grandma or big mom or something like that. As they're, because it's taken a long time, they're knowing her. They're talking to her and they just, they bind it. They bind it, bound, bind it, bound, bind it. They bind with the woman, bound with the woman, bind it with the woman. And she's like, baby, just go ahead and go, you know, because I don't want to get you killed. I'm slowing you down because she can't keep up. She's like, I can't, I can't, even though we're going down, she can't, she can't, she can't do it. And the firemen are like, no, no, no. And there's some other guys with her too. I think it's been like five, six, seven, eight, 19. I can remember exactly the number. And what ends up happening is they get to a certain spot and they just, the shaking and the building comes down. The building comes down. The stairwell behind them or above them and the stairwell in front of them, below them, is destroyed. This little area where they are is intact. They don't know it yet until they make through the dust and the debris and look and see, wow, everything's gone, but this little stairwell, what does that make you do? How does that make you feel about God now? How does that make you feel about what he's done? Why does your portion still, because other folks that were inside in the upper levels of the stairwell and lower died, but you didn't. And really, because a big mama or grandma or whatever they called her, loving on her, making sure, hey, we're going to do this together. What it makes you do when you realize that your salvation wasn't you, you're so smart, you're so great, you decide. You know what? I thought it was a good idea to go and place my faith in Christ. I just, you know what it makes you do when you realize it's not you, it was him, makes you love him all the more, that he lavish his love on you and you don't deserve it. You filthy, rotten, horrible animal you. He did that to you. Yeah, I called you that, me too. He did that to you and to me. How do you not love? You love him even more so because you realize how undeserving you are. I've said before that here I am, I'm out of prison undeservingly so. Nothing I did, nothing special about me, but I'm out early. I got out five years early, still, still two years left on my dog on sentence. And here I am. Not because I'm nothing special. I wasn't so smart, wasn't so great, wasn't so cute. Although I did have an awesome haircut in prison. That part, we cannot take that away from you. I had a heck, had a heck of a haircut in prison. I mean, whoo. But that ain't why I'm here. Only because I told you guys that I had a legal case. One day I'll share with you the issues about the legal case, even though someone said that my legal case was all, I lied. No, no, no I didn't. And if you saw the legal case like, wait a second, this guy, other attorneys said you shouldn't be here. Now, am I ever saying that I'm not guilty, that I'm in it? No, I was never an innocent person. I deserve, I deserve punishment. I deserve some, I deserve a strict punishment. But factually speaking, in terms of the law, no. But what would have happened if I would have went through the procedures, got out of prison because I filed these cases and so forth and I won in the court. Who do I give the credit to? Me and my awesome haircut. That's who gets to glory that, right? But in this way, what happens? Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Are you with me? So this is the benefit of appreciating election. Now, we got some traveling to go, but I wanted to get this out ahead of time. This is why election is important. God favoring you. Why did I pick up the cup and put it down? I'll tell you why, because I got to highlight the cults. I actually meant, I actually meant to drink some of them out of it. I actually meant to drink some of it, but I got going and I forget it. That's why. So anyway, let's go back to John 3. So he's telling us that those of us that are born of the spirit, not because of me, not because of you, but because of the spirit, how he moves. Now, we're getting to the main point. I got to put up a passage that also deals with election. I've got to put this passage up. Let's scroll some more. No, go on it. Move. Let's move. Let's go to John 6.35. John 6.35 says, Jesus says, I am the bread of life. Whoever or the one who comes, the coming one, a commandant, which is the coming one, the ones that are coming to me shall not hunger. And whoever believes and the believes is the pistol on the hop is one, the ones that are believing in me shall never thirst. Won't lose your salvation. That's a topic though. You'll never thirst. Look what he says though. Oh, by the way, in this case, all pine literally means all every last one, every last single solitary person, all that the father gives me. Pon had the dosing. Those that the father are giving present active present active tense, all the ones the father is giving to me. What will they do? What will they do? Every last one of the father gives will come. But let's not make Mr. Bigger Point. The father gave him. If you come to him, it's because the father gave you. Well, that doesn't mean that all those that came as a result of the father giving. But wait a second. We got a problem there because what we're going to see is if you say that all the ones the father give came is different than all of the folks who actually came. In other words, saying that the some folks who came because the father gave them, made them come, caused them to come. And the some folks who came because they were just wonderful people, they decided to come on their own. First of all, as we finish reading the text, that won't be able to stand. That means we've got different tracks. So different folks are coming to Christ because he's doing something different in each one for each person's life. Not their journey is different. That part we know everybody's journey is different. Somebody placed their faith in Christ while they were in elementary school. Someone did it in prison. Someone did it on the death bed. Someone did it floating on a raffens in the middle of the sea. I'm not talking about that. But there are some folks who were regenerating, some who weren't. No, that makes no sense. Again, if you weren't regenerated, well, that means you weren't born again. If you're not born again, then you're not safe. But all the father gives to me will come. The father is the one that's giving them. And whoever comes or the one that's coming or coming on to me, I will never cast out. For I've come down to heaven, not to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him sent me that I should lose none or nothing. Here it is. Let's put it on screen. May Appalachos, I will not lose of them, not one of them that he has given me. So I won't lose all the ones that he's given me. I won't lose them. But raise them up in the last day for this is the will of my father, that everyone or all the ones in the past, all the ones that are seeing or looking on the sun and our hop or pistol on believing should have eternal life. And I will raise them up on the last day. So this is every single believer, every single believer in every single believer has been given by the father to the son, like the picture that we see in the wedding. Who gives this bride to the groom? Well, the father does. Who's the bride in this case? Us? Us sheep? Who's the father? Well, we know the father is and who's the groom? Jesus. Isn't that interesting? How cool is that? Someone gave you away. Some of you ladies waiting to get married. You already been married. You already been hitched. Whoever means elect, we'll see. We'll see. We'll see if whoever means elect. And we get used to using the words whoever or whosoever because of the tradition of, in many cases, the King James Version, where the whosoever or whoever is not actually there, like John 3.16. For God, so loved the world that whoever believes in him is not Paris. Well, there's a Greek word for whoever and it's not there in that passage. It's the Hennepas, that all those that are believing in him. So, but anyway, I don't want to belabor that point. So now we see that it is God that is doing so. Now, there are other people that we can also see that God has selectively chosen. John 15 is a case where some people are going to say, well, I don't think John 15 is speaking about Christians in general, but he's speaking about just the apostles. You choose. You choose. I think he's probably speaking of them and us. John 15, then he gets 16, that you didn't choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to bear fruit and to remain. And I'm sorry, to bear fruit and that your fruit should remain. And so we see that in John 15. And then also in John 17, where he's speaking about the disciples. Now, that specifically is a disciple, but he chose them. And so we see there's a pattern of God choosing people and choosing people who don't deserve it, like we did with Israel. I didn't choose Israel, God would say, because they were great, but he says I chose them because they were the least of. And you see that throughout throughout the scriptures. He keeps choosing the least of or not the oldest, the second born and so forth. He does that. He does that. As a matter of fact, when we get to Romans, we're going to see why he does that so that we'll see that he is sovereign. He'll see, we'll see that it is him who is sovereign. So now as we're making our way through, I want to, I want to alert you to a passage as we get to these other pastors and pastors. I want to get to, but look at this passage. We don't talk about it enough. Although I think we ought to act 1348. Here we see the founding of the church and the preachings happening. And we see him say this, when the Gentiles heard Luke says this, when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the Word of God, the Word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed. Now this word right here for appointed from the Greek word Tosso, in this case, it is to talk manoi, which is, it's a perfect tense, which means it happened in the past. It's a completed action from the past. It's a perfect tense. So those folks who were appointed, they were appointed in the past. What did those people who were appointed? What do they do? They began believing. They began believing. So even in Acts 13, we see, speaking of election, by the way, by the way, every single book in the New Testament, except for Philemon and I think third John are the only two books that don't speak, that don't have anything to do with election. Every other book brings up election. Every other book. You think it's important? It is because it's showing the power and the sovereignty and the love of God. But think about those folks who were appointed to eternal life, they believe. So those folks who believed in Acts 1348, they believe what was the, what printed that, them being appointed. We can't get around that. Okay. Now, let's continue. Let's work our way to Romans. Let's work our way to, go and read that. I don't want to read that. Let's work our way to Romans 8. Rough passage kind of causes some consternation in the body, but we're going to deal with it. Romans 8, let's start in verse 28. And we know that God causes, wait a minute, God does what? God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love God. So God calls them sooner gay, I'm sorry, sooner gay, which is, this is where we get this word synergist, sooner gay. This is God who does this and it's made of two words. It's sort of soon with and work. So God is bringing these things. He's the one that's doing it. God is bringing things together. Now this doesn't, this isn't how you define synergist, but I'm just saying this is kind of where the, where the word comes from. Okay. We're not, we're not saying that. Okay. But this word sooner gay is where folks get this word synergist from. If you think that you're working in, in concert with God, but it's made of two words. Sooner sin, which is the word with and then air gay, which is the word work. So I just want to point that out. But all things work together. God causes those things. God is the one that brings them together. God does so for the good of those who love him. And this word for love, it is the present active participle. So the ones who are loving, who causes us to be loving him, he does to those who are called according to his purpose. But what it says, here's the problem. For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to become conformed to the image of his son. This issue two words. People will say that this word foreknew means that he saw ahead of time. He knew what they were going to do ahead of time. How many of you all believe, or have you at least heard that this word foreknew is because of this? I mean, that it means that he looks and sees what they're going to do. That's not what that word means. We'll come back to Romans eight in just a second. But Romans eight, the word foreknew does not mean that he knows ahead of time what you're going to do. Principally, let me go back to Romans 28, I mean eight and 29, principally because that nullifies the need for this word right here, predestined. To predestine, you don't predestine someone if you know what they're going to do. I don't predestine someone based on me knowing what they are going to do. Now foreknew really is just a generic term, but it certainly doesn't mean that I know what you're going to do ahead of time. How do I know? Well, let's go to, let's go to 1 Peter 119. I said we're going back to 1 Peter. Let's go to 1 Peter 119. Put this passage on and you tell me if this means that he knows what he's going to do ahead of time. 1 Peter 119, let's start 19. Knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, but with precious blood as of, excuse me, as of a lamb unblinched and spotless, the blood of Christ. Am I in the right one? Wait a minute, am I in the right one? Oh wait, I'm sorry, verse 20. For he was foreknown, there's that word. Christ was foreknown before the foundation of the world. Now, a couple of things and we're going to come back to this foreknown and I'm sorry, before the foundation of the world. He was foreknown before the world was. Jesus existed before the world was. So this is the same that he knew of Jesus and what he was going to do before then. No, this is just his intimate relationship with him. And it could be also, and I think this is what it's saying, this ordaining because foreknow also can be taken as foreordaining. Now, you don't have to take that. You don't have to believe that foreknowledge means to foreordain. I won't fight that. I don't have to fight that point, but it clearly means though that it doesn't mean that he knows what you're going to do ahead of time. Let's go back to Romans 8. He says that he predestined them, predestined to become. So the word predestined for a resort means, uh-oh, this means to destined in advance to predetermine, to determine in advance. You don't determine something that's already doing something. I didn't say foreknowledge is the same as pre, you're not listening to Jesus love. I didn't say foreknowledge is the same as predetermined. I didn't say that. I said if foreknowledge means in this case that is to see what you're going to do. In other words, if God predestines us or chooses us based on him seeing what we're going to do, then you cannot use the word predestined. You cannot say that he chose me. He predetermined me before I did something. I'm sorry. He predetermined me because he saw me doing something. That's not him determining me. That's not him predetermining me. That's him seeing what I did and then basically paying me or giving me the wages of what him seeing I was going to do. That's not what he does. He predetermines, pre-selects, predetermines, predestines me to become conformed to the image of his son so that he would be the first born among many brothers. And those whom he predetermined or pre-selected or predestined, he also called. And those whom he also called, he also justified. And those whom he justified, he also glorified. Now, someone's going to want to bring up and we'll just go there also Romans 8, I mean not 8, 9, number 9. Now, Romans 9 is not about the point of Romans 9 to 11 really isn't about election and predestination, but it does bring up election and predestination. So, because what he brings up, he says verse 11, chapter 9, he says, for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so nothing about what they've done, so that God's purpose according to his choice, which is the word echelagane, which is what we get the word election, according to his election would stand not because of works, but because of him who calls. Because of him who calls. Who's the him who calls? God. God is the one who does the calling. God is the one who does the choosing. It's his decision. It's on him. Not on you. It's not on me. It's not on grandma. Not on our great church. Not on our great choir. No, it's on God. Now, that being said, and I don't I don't want to stay in Romans because again, Romans is still now there is election in Romans. As a matter of fact, he talks about how he's going to elect these Jews later on to be saved. That being the case, so I don't want to stick with that. I want to go ahead and go to the passages that we might want to spend some more time for. Never mind. I was going to answer your question. I'm going to answer your question. Ephesians one, I did a short video on this, and so I'm going to cover a lot of what I said in that video as well. Verse three of chapter one, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, even as or just as he chose us in him. Even as or just as he chose us in him, this word he chose us, exlexic time in him. And I used an example of just regular English. We've got the subject or the noun. We've got the verb. We've got the direct object and we've got the indirect object. If I say I'm going to throw this chapstick, I'm going to throw this other colts cup. I'm going to throw this other colts cup that's good. That's a good sentence. I, and I got my verb want to throw and then the direct object is this colts cup. If I say I'm going to throw it in the basket, then the basket becomes the indirect object. Are you with me? Now here's how that works. Paul says God, I shouldn't use that example. I knew someone was going to say that. Paul says God chose. The direct object tells us who he chose. Some people believe that he chose Jesus to be the mechanism whereby we're saved. God didn't choose himself to be the mechanism. Now he did say about faith in him, but what he's choosing here is us. The direct object is us, not Jesus. If Jesus were the direct object, then it would be that God chose Jesus. Here's what I mean. Let me break this down a little more, make it a little easier. Jesus is the bus, and then we are the people. If we're on the bus, then we're saved. What did God elect? Did he elect the bus or did he elect Jesus? I mean, did he elect us? Did he elect us or did he elect the bus? If he elected the bus, Jesus, then the bus or Jesus would be the direct object. But us, we, the believers are the direct object. Jesus is the indirect object, so he chose us. Now, some might even want to say, well, that's a corporate election. He's choosing all of us. Well, here's how silly that argument is. How do you choose all of us? Who's the all of us? Every single individual person that's on the bus or that he's chosen. This corporate, I've chosen that there, I've chosen that there would be some people. That doesn't make any sense now. I decided there will be some people. Okay, let's play that out. If he chose us corporately, I chose that there will, I, as God decided that there will be some people that will be saved. Okay, who are the people that are going to be saved? Don't I have to choose them too? I got to choose them too, don't I? Paul is clearly just according to grammatical rules, according to the grammar. He chose us. He chose us. Us here is the direct object. Exelositize. Hey, my, that's the direct object and auto. That is the indirect object. Now, the question is, when did he choose us? And I use this term, I said before this term, pra Catabales, which is before the foundation of the world. Does that mean that he chose us as the world started? No, this is him choosing us. Guys, listen, for all of you folks that believe that he did this based on seeing, and this is the point, this is the crux of it. If you believe that he did so based on him seeing that we were going to choose him, then this passage notifies that. Why? Because he says he chose us before the world was. There was nothing that we could have done because we didn't exist. He's not seeing what we're going to do. He chose us before the foundation of the world. So, when were we chosen? Before there was an earth. Before there was a let there be light. Before there was water on this rock. He chose us long before then. And he chose us to do what? To be holy and blameless. If anyone wants to come back and say, well, pra Catabales doesn't mean before the foundation of the world, well, then you need to explain to Jesus because in Jesus in John 17-24, he used that very same terminology where he says that Jesus and God, that God loved Jesus before the world was. And when he says in John 17-5, give me back the glory that I had before the world, he's the same thing. He's a prod Cosmo, which is the same terminology. So before it ever happened. So he chose us to be in Christ when? He chose us to be in Christ. That you cannot escape. The only way you get past that is because you don't want to see it. The Greek bears it out. He chose us to be in him before the world began. And he chose us to do what? To be what? He chose us that we would be holy and blameless before him in love, in love because of his love. What does he do? He predestined us. He predestined us that love for us. He predetermined us to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, according to not just some made up reason or some arbitrary fact. It might be arbitrary to you because you don't know. God doesn't have to share the reason why, but he tells us according to his own loving kindness, according to his own kind intentions. So what he did was he chose us why? Because he knows that not one of us, not one of us is ever going to choose him. There are none that seek after him. There are none that are righteous that are none that do good. Nobody, nobody, nobody. We're all wayward. We all go astray. There has to be something that compels us and causes us to keep coming. In the Old Testament, we'll see examples of God appearing and showing up. We'll see these miracles, these signs and wonders that would kind of compel the people to come. But today it's the Holy Spirit. Today it's the Holy Spirit in us that causes us because it's exactly what God said he's going to do. The reason why he put the Spirit in us, why our hearts were regenerated, was so that we would walk in his teaching, that we would keep walking, that we would keep staying with him. That's the reason why. And if not for that, if not for that, you would not be safe. Let's go to another passage. Let's go to, excuse me guys, 1st John 5. Excuse me. Look what he says. He says, everyone who believes this word, everyone is posth, all, every single solitary person who's believing, posth, epistle, and all that. There's that word again, guys. There it is, Jeff. There it is, Cameron, Dutch, posth, epistle, one, the believing ones, all the believing ones in him, all of the believing ones that, that believe that Jesus the Christ, all of us, here it is, Jesus' love, here it is, all of us have been born of God. We've been born again. How were we born? By the way, this is the perfect middle. What you didn't do it, it was done to you on behalf of, for God's benefit. We already read that God is the one that caused us to be born again. So those of us who've been born of God or born again, those of us who've been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves everyone who has been born of him. By this, by the way, if you've been born of God, this is why you don't mistreat someone else who's been born of God. This is how we know, because everyone who's been born of God loves everyone else who's been born of the Father. By this, we know that we love the children of God. When we love God and obey his commandments. So, wait a second, wait a second, wait a second, this word, appointment, which is what you're doing, that's President Acre participle, what's the point of having our hearts regenerated? What did God say? So that we would keep walking in his what? In his commandments, in his teachings. For this is the love of God that we keep his commandments, and his commandments are not burdensome. Look, he says, for everyone who's been born of God, overcomes all those who have been born, this word born is still, which is a present active participle. So we are being born. We have been born of God. We are Nika. We are overcoming the world, and this is a victory that has overcome the world, our faith. So who is that that overcomes the world except the one who believes, or the one who's believing? The one that's believing that Jesus is the Son of God. How do we get to become believers in Jesus? That he's the Son of God, that he died for our sins. How did that happen? Our hearts were regenerated. So everything that he described of a believer, that was a result of his regeneration of the Holy Spirit, and we don't cause the Holy Spirit to come into our hearts and regenerate us. That's not us. That's him. So predestination is not who gets saved. It is what's in store for those who are saved, and this is according to predestination is him predetermining who he's going to do this work in. That's what it is. Now, I think it was you. Someone raised this question. Second Peter three, does God, if that means that he predetermines, predestines, that he elects people for salvation? Does that also mean then he must also, as you would say, double predestination? Does he also determine who's going to hell? Does he elect those who go to hell? Does he predestine those who go to hell? No, he does not. He stretches out his hands all day long and bids people to come, come, come, come, come, come, come, come, and no one will. How do we know that he doesn't destined anyone to go to hell? The passage that we read in Second Peter three, nine, let's read it. The Lord is not slow or some verses may say slack about his promises as some count slowness, but his patient toward you. Look what he says. Not wishing for anyone to perish, but for all kinds of repentance. Well, wait a second. If he's not wishing for anyone to perish, then how do they perish? Because this word wishing is not the wishing that you think it is. There's a word phalo, which means I wish I wish you would. I hope you would. I really want you to. That's not what that word, the word that's used here is from this Greek word, bulamanos, or bulai, bulamai. I have not appointed you. I'm not caught. You're not going to help because I appointed you there. This passage proves that there is no double predestination. In other words, God did not appoint anyone to go to hell. Now he appointed hell for those folks who won't come to him, which is everybody, unless he does something. So what does God do? God does two things. God shows his justice and his mercy in one fell swoop. God is not saying you disobey and so you must, you're going to hell and then no one goes to hell. That means he's a guy that didn't keep his word. It's like saying, if you do this, if you do X, Y, and Z, child of mine, then you're going to get punished and then no one gets punished. But now he makes an offer and the opportunity for people to come is there. It's there. You just won't do it. No one will do it or at least won't continually do it, won't keep doing it. We saw in Luke 8, the parable of the soul is that people actually do choose but not continuously. They follow but not continuously. They believe but not continuously. So this is why the word has to fall on a good heart. As a matter of fact, let's go ahead and go to Luke 8. I think this is important as well. Luke 8, I believe it's 11. Now this is the parable of the seed. The seed is the word of God. So you hear the word, you receive the word. But what has to happen is, let's keep reading. Those beside the road are those who have heard, then the devil comes and takes away the word from their heart so that they will not believe. And this is the word, which is they won't keep believing and be saved. Those in the rocky soil are those who when they hear receive the word with joy and these have no form rule. It says they believe for a while, they believe temporarily. So folks can believe temporarily but they have no, I'm sorry, and in time of temptation they fall away. The seed though, here it is. I'm sorry, the seed which fell among the thorns, these are the ones who have heard and as they go on their way, they are choked with words and riches and pleasure of this life and bring no fruit. Now here it is. But the seed in the good soil, these are the ones who have heard the word in an honest and good, what's this word? In an honest and good cardio, an honest and good heart and hold it fast and bear fruit. What does the devil want to do? Take it from your heart. Those are the folks who don't have a good heart. They have a bad heart. But if the word of God falls on a good heart, if the word of God falls on a good heart, then what's going to happen? It takes root and it grows. So we got the word of God. The issue is how can I make sure my heart is good? Whose job is that? Who makes it so that I have a good heart in order for the word to fall on? Because everybody else's heart, it falls on and it didn't work out. Well, the good heart is the result of your heart being regenerated. That's God's work. That's the spirit work. So the spirit is the one that gives us this heart. I know you wish you could do it. Now here's the truth. If you think that you can do it fine, then do it. Do it. Someone said, well, we'll see all of this nullifies free will. Fine. Who cares about free will? I can promise you on your deathbed or on your way to heaven or hell, wherever you going, the last thing you worry about is free will. How many times throughout your day you're thinking about free will. Forget free will. Who cares about free will? But fine. Your free will means that you're going to do what you want to do and what you want to do is not come to Christ. If you think free will is you being able to do what you want to do when you want to do because you have that ability, here's my question. Don't you want to do good all the time? Raise your hands. Everybody in the chat. Let me know if you want to do good all the time. Is there a believer out there that wants to do good all the time? I'm going to wait for you guys to put it in the chat. Is there a believer out there who wants to do good? Is there a believer who wants to do, okay, everybody's got their hands up. Now, second question of all of you that want to do good all the time. How many of you all believe in free will? Because the next question, you want to do good all the time and then I also believe in free will. The next question is, since you have free will and you want to do good all the time, why don't you? You got free will. You want to do, you want to do good all the time. Free will. I want to do good, but I don't. Hmm. Maybe my will ain't so free after all. Maybe my will ain't so free. Maybe my will is influenced by something and because it's influenced by something, maybe I ought to thank God that he is the one that is doing something to my will, that he's infected. Your guy, Ty, thank you so much for the, for the super chat and thank you for the, thank you for the kind of words as well. I do appreciate the kind of words. Is being born again the same as being baptized in the spirit? No. Being born again is the first act. Your heart has changed and then what happens then is then you decide, you know what? Huh? This gospel makes sense. Let me go ahead and place my faith in it because remember even the faith that we have is a gift of God. Think about that. The very faith that you have is a gift of God. I won't cover this again, but just grammatically speaking from the Greek, the it that is referring to the to Ty in the neuter covers, the masculine and singular salvation and faith. And so it's clear just by just the grammar that, that even our faith is a gift of God. We've been given this measure of faith, as Paul says. So if you guys think that free will is so great, my question is, how can you keep sending? How can we keep messing up? Your free will ain't so great. But here in this corner at five foot, whatever, six foot, whatever, weighing however much you weigh, a hundred something pounds, two or something pounds with your free will. And then over in this corner is the spirit of God. And then you come and meet in the corner, whose will is going to win? Because let's be clear also, free will doesn't mean that your will can overcome everything because it can't. You can't. Soon as guys, gals, soon as something that draws your lust out, walks in front of you, what happens to your free will? Gone. Soon as, as soon as something bad happens, soon as something that a bill shows up, soon as something tragic shows up or some sort of problem shows up, what happens to your will? Melt. Now you're looking for anything, everything. You're looking to do things that you swore you would never do or never do again. So much for your little cheap little funky old will. Yeah, I said your will is funky. It is. It's a horrible. Your will is horrible. You don't have free will. You have weak will. You don't have free will. You have weak will. And you prove it every day. And the fact that you're denying it shows it's also a lying will because it's not true. You're dishonest. You have weak will, not free will. God ultimately is the one that has free will to do what he wishes to do according to his own good pleasure. Amen. Now I'm going to get bombarded with a lot of people who disagree. Yeah, mine is too. Lisa, I didn't listen. Listen, listen, Lisa, Lisa. I don't want you all to think that just because I had this wonderful hairdo that my will is strong. It's not. It's not. My will is not strong. It's not. But I was going to say something. I was going to say something. I don't have strong will either. I don't have strong will either. I've got weak will, just like you got weak will, just like we all got weak will. All God's children got weak will. But it's the Holy Spirit who leads us. And because of that, because of what he did, then we're safe. God is the one who's sovereign, not you. Yes, CG, my hair do. Yes. This is how I do my hair. Quit hating. Not only CG, do you have a weak will. You have a hating will. You have a jealous will. But you can join the club. Now, the funny thing is though, when someone is saved, you don't use that term saved because they did it themselves. Use that term because someone did it to them. And that's what we have. Our will is ill. I like that. Going back to the 80s was ill. Because a God has done what he's done, then guess what you can do? You can rejoice and thank him for what he has done for you that you couldn't do on your own. Hey, man. That's my grandbaby. Walk around here for a second. You can walk around here on camera. Well, I don't know what girl was happy with your hair. Come on, baby. Come on. My baby. Okay. And you got you some new glasses. Y'all look at my grandbaby eating. Hey, sweetie. All right. Now, yep. Are those new glasses? Okay. Are you going to keep them? Those glasses are a little too big for your face, sweetheart. You're going to grow in them glasses. But come here. Come here. Let me see. Let me see. I just want to see what you look like. You're still cute. You used to look like your granddaddy. Hey, you know what's funny, though? What was funny? I see these kids. These little girls, they get their hair done. And the next day, it's like, why'd you pay the money to get it done? Another reason. Not for girls, but for guys. Just, just what you do is what you do. If I would have known this, if I would have known the goodness of baldness a long time, I would have done before. I see what Michael Jordan was showing the way. Kojak was showing the way, but my will was weak. Not anymore. Not anymore. You want to know why all the presents are all bad. You want to know why we have never had a good present because they all got hair. First bald president we get, he's going to be wonderful. He's going to be wonderful. I will come. I'll do another one. I'll do another one. So I'll show, Sarah, I'll show you all one day a picture of me with hair. I'll show you a picture of me with hair. It just didn't compare. Anyway, guys, thank you so much. I look forward to seeing the people that are going to vehemently disagree with me. Going to vehemently disagree with what I just said, which is fine. Which is fine. We'll still yield and lean on to the scriptures. So in the meantime, guys, thank God for what he's done. Him lavishing, him lavishing his love on us to those who don't deserve it. Amen. Amen.