 I am not a Calvinist. People call me a Calvinist a lot and I don't mind being associated with my brothers. I believe they are brothers in the Lord. I am not a Calvinist though. And so what I want to do was, before we start, I just want to just give a little reminder before I tell you why or what it is about Calvinism that I do agree with and I think they have right. I also want to give those who want to call me a Calvinist. That's a bad thing. I want to give them a reminder that I am not a Calvinist. Corey doesn't want to be called a Calvinist, so that's okay. He doesn't really tell us a label that he wants to be called. And out of curiosity, just to be clear, would you identify as a five-point Calvinist just so I have kind of an idea of where you're coming from? Do you line up with two lips of Calvinism? And if so, four or five? Inconsistent Calvinist, I would say, philosophically speaking. You know who I am? But Corey is willing to adopt the fact that he is a theistic determinist or not. I'm just saying, even if you don't want to call yourself a theistic determinist, for all practical purposes, I can't see logically how you can deny being a determinist if you hold to the five-point tulip system. It's not really a nice word to call a person, is it? Yes, I hear a lot of Calvinistic interpretations. Yeah, because I could make someone very angry and maybe hurt their feelings. My brother Corey said he's not a Calvinist, but my brother smells Calvinist-y. All right. Don't know who you want to identify as Calvinist. Why not just say you're a Calvinist? Well, I just want to ask you to lay off a little bit. That's Calvinism! Corey, that's Calvinism! I think man can choose, but he won't choose. Therefore, God chooses. That's literally reformed Calvinism. You're going to stop calling me that. Every Calvinist I know... That's not my name. Find a mini Calvinist. Call me one more time. Calvinist. Calvinists get attacked an awful lot. As a matter of fact, it's gone to the point to where some people, some people will even say that Calvinists are not Christians, that their doctrine is a doctrine from hell, that it's demonic, it's heresy. Let me just say this, and I don't like to hold throwing the names around or whatever, but if you think, if you have studied it, and you still believe that Calvinists are heretics, that it's heresy, that they are ungodly, that it's of the devil, you are not that right. You are acting like a moron. I'm calling you a moron. You're acting like one. You are childish. You're immature. Now, I'm not a Calvinist, but to call other brothers in the faith who don't differ on what it takes to be saved but may differ in how that happens, you need to stop talking. You need to lay off of whatever it is you've been taking a hold of, whatever it is you've been drinking, whatever you've been inhaling and jesting. Stop it please. And the problem is, I think too often people talk so much about Calvinists that you demonize them, whether you mean to or not, you end up demonizing these people. These are our brothers. Now, that being the case, there are a couple of things that I agree with Calvinists. And let me just say this up front. The things that I agree with on Calvinists, it's not a Calvinist doctrine. This is straight out of the Bible. Obviously, you guys know the two that I, the two that I definitely agree with, which is eternal security and election. Those are not strictly reserved for Calvinists. So anyone that says if you believe internal security, you're a Calvinist, you just don't understand doctrine. You don't understand very much of anything. If you think that that's what, they're the only ones that can believe that. Same thing if you believe that people who believe in election must be Calvinists. Calvinists aren't the only people that believe in election. By the way, guys, it's literally in the Bible. It's in the Bible. There are some things that I disagree with Calvinists on. And sometimes it's not clear for some people because they might think that, some people might think that, you know what, Cory? I think you are Calvinist. I think you are. No, I'm not a Calvinist. I do not agree. Let me just say the two things up front that I disagree with Calvinists on. So much so, and truth be told, it's not to the point to where I'm going to fight and fight and fight and fight and fight and no, but I disagree with total depravity, how I see total depravity. I also disagree with limited atonement. Now, I won't go into that today. I've covered that before. Maybe I'll cover it again, but I see someone already in the chat saying, it's a false gospel. No, it's not a false gospel. What makes it a false gospel? This is the thing that I want to know about people. Why would anyone call it a false gospel? You do realize that all Calvinism is doing, an independent point, what are you, 5-point, 4-point? All Calvinism is. All it teaches. First of all, I think this is the lunacy with people not knowing what the gospel is. I think there's too many people with the opportunity to get on camera or to type or say something and not even know what the gospel is. Ladies and gentlemen, even if you don't understand when you lift a hood up and understand how the engine works, you understand how to work it if you follow what I'm saying. Here is the gospel. Let me just be clear. The gospel stipulates around us being undeserved for salvation. We are wretched people. We are destined for hell apart from anything that God does. So we deserve hell because of our sin. And what the gospel teaches, what the good news is, what the preached word is that we're supposed to take, is that salvation has come in the form of Jesus Christ dying on the cross to pay a debt that we could not pay a debt that the Father required to be paid, that is blood, and that he accepted that payment. Jesus got up and to show a visible sign that his payment was approved of and he ascended to the right hand of the Father. And if anyone places their faith in that, they shall be saved. Is there anyone in the chat that disagrees with my assessment of the gospel? That's it. That's it. That's it. Now, question, is there anyone... Let's just take some time on this. Is there anyone that disagrees with what I just said? As a matter of fact, where's my dog on comment section? Let me put my comments up so I can see, or you all can also see, is there anyone that disagrees with that? That's the question. And let's just call it what it is. If you guys don't... Sometimes you just want to have a conversation with people that actually understand the Bible, but then even also understand English. Now, so far, here's what I just said. Is there anyone that disagrees? We got one person says he disagrees. What about what I just said that you disagree with? What is not the gospel? What about what I just said that's not the gospel? What about what I just said that... See, listen, more English, he says their interpretation of predestination is not correct. I'm talking about the gospel right now. So guys, follow me. Follow me. I don't want to be too harsh, but I'm going to be a little bit straightforward today. What about what they say? What about what I just said is not the gospel? Because that needs to be the starting point. Ladies and gentlemen, I want to see... I want to see you put yourself out there and say what I just said is not the gospel. Tell me how. Please, hurry up. You were quick to type in. No, it's not. So we'll get to what Calvinism is. But what is wrong with what I just said? I'll say it again. I'll repeat it. The gospel centers around us being so messed up, we deserve hell. Our sin has bought us a ticket to hell. We go to hell because we deserve it. We do not deserve salvation. God has to do something. That is, a debt is required, the debt that he determines to be blood. Jesus pays that debt on the cross. The debt is satisfactory to the point to where we know God approves of because Jesus got up. He defeated death himself. And a few days later, he ascended to the right hand of the Father. Anyone who places their faith in what Christ did, that person is saved. That's the good news. So anyone who believes that, they can be saved. Have I misrepresented the gospel? Okay. North Memphis 48, North Memphis 48, with all due respect, either you don't have a clue or you want to play like you don't have a clue. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Salvation is not determined by the Bible. Salvation is not determined by the Bible. Let's have fun. And if it means having fun at your expense, so be it. Salvation is not determined by the Bible. How do you know what salvation is if not but the Bible? Please somebody help him. Help him, not me. Help him. If you don't know what the Bible says, you don't know what the Bible says about salvation. So how do we know about salvation? Because of the Bible. Now my question is, I'll give you a second chance. Anyone else did what I say, is what I said the gospel? So ladies and gentlemen, yes, what I said was the gospel. No, what I said was not the gospel. You said it's not what you're meant with and stop typing if that's not what you meant. Answer my question. Answer my question. Now I'm going to leave you alone because apparently you're not following directions. You're not understanding what I said. I asked one simple question. Was that the gospel that I preached? One person says no. Edwin says no. Okay, fine. Edwin, what did I say that was wrong? What did I say that was wrong? Other than nothing. What did I say that was wrong? Now the reason why I bring that up is before I get into what Calvinists get right, I want you guys to understand those you're saying no, tell me what I said that was wrong. If you place your faith in Christ, are you not a Christian? Are you not saved? Yes. If you disagree, then you're not a Christian probably or you're just not a very smart one. That's the tint of the faith. If you place your faith in Christ, you shall be saved. I'm not talking about... Lord Jesus. Y'all, y'all, I thought this was going to be a short night. This is going to be a long night. It's going to be a long night I can see because people do not... Guys, can we... Hey Alton, how you doing brother? How are you doing brother? Are you doing wonderful today? December, I was... I don't know, did you change your mind about sending me that? Everyone else, how are you guys doing? I hope you're all doing wonderful. I know some of you guys have been out of school for a while. I do. I know. I know you've been gone out of school for a while. I get that sitting in the desk waiting for the teacher to say something. Fall instructions, I get that. But you guys have a job. You guys have a job, right? You have a job. The boss, even if you are the boss, there's someone over you. You have to do certain things. Paying attention and follow instructions is one of the things. Now I just ask a simple question. Did what I say was a gospel? Well, there's more to that. Oh Lord Jesus. This is, let me drink my coffee. But I love you. I really do. It's the only reason why I take time. Because I really do love you. I really do love you. If you go to some child or if you go to someone that has never heard of the gospel or you go to some... I'm sorry. Let's put the word gospel aside. Who wants to know how to become saved. You're telling them that you place your faith in Jesus Christ. Now some of you guys are going to have a whole laundry list of stuff to go through. That's fine. You've missed the boat. You have literally missed the boat. Maybe even spiritually. Maybe even spiritually, you have missed the boat. Now, where I agree and disagree with Calvinism, and I think I have strong points, not so much, not so strong to the point that it's going to make everyone that disagrees, that wants to hear it, hey, he said it so well, I can't help but agree. No, because there are some people that I don't care what you tell them, what you show them. They're going to disagree no matter what. They are so entrenched in either that person being wrong or me being right. Nothing's going to budge them. Which is fine. Which is fine. And see, you've got people that make little goofy, blanket statements or whatever, but they can't defend their points. But so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go to the reasons why I believe the two beliefs in internal security and also what I believe about election. Now, election is simply this. By the way, I'll give it real briefly what Calvinism is. And I'll just deal with the five points of, or the five, yeah, the five points of Calvinism, the five points of Tulip. T-U-L-I-P. The T stands for total depravity. A five point Calvinist will believe that man is so totally depraved. Now, I believe the man is totally depraved, but they believe that they're so totally depraved. And by the way, my Calvinistic brothers, you all tell me if I'm representing you correctly, but man is so totally depraved that he is utterly and completely lost and incapable of placing faith in God. And I say placing faith in God because even the Old Testament saints still had to place their faith in God. So that's what the T is. They are totally, completely, utterly lost, dead, so much so they cannot make a decision if they wanted to. They don't want to. The U. Here's where I agree. Unconditional election. By the way, election as God is concerned has to always pretty much be unconditional. That is that God is going to show merit or base anything off of our merit where we don't have any merit. So if God steps in and does a work, he does it, not based off of the persons doing their merit, not of their works, not of their deservingness, but on his good kindness. Unconditional election means that he elects some unconditionally, not based on what they do. Now I think that's correct and we're going to look at some scriptures that say so. Then the L, the limited atonement that is that he died his atonement. He died, and real out, I'll put it this way, intentionally for some, for those whom he elected. That's the limited atonement. This is where I disagree with. I agree that he died and it's effective for some, but I believe that his death was put for others mirroring what he did, what God did in atonement under the old covenant system. I in tulip is irresistible grace. Those whom he has elected, whom he has regenerated their heart, they are irresistibly predisposed to come to him. Irresistible grace. If you have been elected, you are going to come. There are some people that differ on what they mean by that and so find that definition that I give, that I agree with that. I agree with that I. And then the P. It's not to be confused with preservation of the saints. This is the perseverance of the saints, but either way, I agree with perseverance of the saints and preservation of saints. Perseverance of the saints in that the saints will persevere. Why? Because they have the Holy Spirit giving them who God gave them unconditionally and then preservation that the Lord is going to keep us through his Holy Spirit. I think they both actually end up, when you take the two preservation and perseverance, it's like two rows that end up coming back together anyway. So that is what my little rough definition of tulips. Someone, please do not come at me and say, Corey, that's not true. You missed this, you missed that, you missed this little nuance. You know what I meant. Now that being the case, where do I agree? As I said, I agree with unconditional election and perseverance of the saints and preservation of the saints. I think they both go hand in hand. There is no perseverance on our part without preservation on his part. I also deal with the, I agree with the irresistible grace, but I won't talk about that today. So why do I believe? Thank you, Chaplain Pastor Trey. He says I did well. I deserve a drink of coffee because of that. Thank you. Because all you ever want is just for someone to acknowledge when you've done something right. Like puppies, just pat us on the head. If I did right, pat me on the head. Rub me on my tummy. I feel good. Amen, amen. So why do I believe in starting off with election? Well, here's how I see election and we'll look at some passages, but here's how I see election. I won't cover all of the reasons because there's not time for it. Each letter or just the unconditional election is enough. There's enough material to cover two, three hours worth. Same thing for internal security. God, I believe, wants everybody to come. Now there's a passage in 2nd Peter 3.9 where people think, well, if God's not willing that anyone should die, then why do people die? Because the word willing there is not the word it's not the word Thaleo, which is he desires his will. It's Bolema, which is me. He's not appointed anyone to die in Grehill. So if anyone brings that up and I'm pretty sure someone may join late and I'm after answer that question again, which is fine. God sees that man is going to always fail. God makes an offer for man to follow him. Man does not. Man is going to choose to do wrong. You think that our kids are going to do wrong every time we give them opportunity. We do too. How do I know the very first man and woman that had an opportunity to show themselves not to sin? A couple of things. One, they got to see God. There was no need to veil himself for them because why? They hadn't sinned. They got to be around God at the very beginning and they were in the most pristine place possible. They were in the best environment possible, ever known to man. And with those two things, they still sinned. What is going to happen to us? The exact same thing. You disagree? Watch yourself. I'll tell you what. If you don't think that you're going to sin, you need a little camera out and record yourself. You don't have enough. The iPhone or Lord help you guys if you guys are Android people. But you don't have enough storage capacity to record all the sins that you're going to commit. And help us if we can record the sinful thoughts that we're going to have. Now, Adam and Eve did so. Well, that's just Adam and Eve. The devil showed up. Well, where did the devil go? Is he still around? Does he have some help? He does. So the devil is still here. He's got some help that's still here. And guess what? They're still doing the exact same thing. Did God say it? That's not what God meant. And so we'll go to this in just a little bit. Now, God is going to look and see that no one is going to choose him. Now, I believe that a man can choose, but a man won't consistently choose. The Bible says, and we look and look at one cover today, but even Jesus gives a parable of the sowers, the seed and the soil, and that there are those that believe temporarily. But the issue with them is that they didn't have the seed, which was the word, fell on, did not fall on good soil. The soil, as he tells us, is our heart. The question is, who controls the condition of our heart? In other words, who makes our heart ready for the seed? Who makes this soil to be good soil so that we can continuously believe? It's not enough to believe for the moment. Do I believe that there's ever been anybody, especially in Old Testament, that believed and was sincere for one day and stopped? Sure I do. I really do. I really do. But the problem was this right here, because while I can sincerely believe something right now, you know what I can also do? I can sincerely, because this heart goes somewhere else. I can do what I want to, and I prove it all the time. Leave one of you guys, but matter of fact, you know what would be cool? We shouldn't do it though, because we would destroy the Internet. We would destroy YouTube if we could just pick somebody to watch you and record you, and then have that person make a YouTube video out of it. That video would probably do a million. That video would go viral. Look at this foolish person. Look at this Christian. The atheists would have a field day. The Muslims will eat it up. Other Christians are like, wow, look at this guy. This guy's a Christian. She's a Christian? That's not her husband. Hey, that's not his wife. Who is that? What is he doing? Thank God we don't have that. However, unfortunately, we do have a God that actually looks out after us and sees us. But I believe he looks to the lens of time and sees that no one is going to choose him. So what is God going to do? He's going to do two things simultaneously, show his wrath and his righteousness, while at the same time show his love. Now, where do I get all this from? And let's go ahead and jump into the passages that cause me to believe. So first of all, let's go to one that I just think is just pretty easy to get. And I think you have to be, you have to say the word doesn't mean what the word means. Let's go to Romans 8. Romans 8 to 28. Let's start in verse 28. I think Romans 8 to 28 is a pretty good verse to start in. And we know that God causes, sooner or gay, God causes. By the way, ladies and gentlemen, forgive me, there will be some Greek. So some of you folks had had a hard time following my little, my simple English instructions in the beginning. Apologies to you, but there will be some Greek. So he says, and we know that God causes, and the reason for the word causes is the word sooner gay. God is working. That's him doing the working. All things. That's what he says. All things. Fan pantas sooner gay. So God all, he's working into good. Ice agathon, which is he's working to good. What does that mean? Well, it's the English. For God causes all things to work together for the good to those who love God. Here's my question. Ladies and gentlemen, do you love God? In order to be a believer, you have to love God. Okay. So if you're saved, you're Christian, you love God. What does that mean for you? That passage says, God causes those things to work for the good. Thank you, brother Alton with the tongues. Go ahead and speak. Listen, you are released guys. Prophet Corey, Apostle Corey, releases you to, I give you permission in the spirit to speak in tongues. Shando. It came by that guy. I better stop. My wife does not like when I do that. She says, stop it Corey. And so underneath my breath, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But go ahead and type in tongues if you want to. God causes all things. Really, we can stop right there. What does that mean that God causes all things to work for the good of those who love him? Who are called according to his purpose? What does that mean? That means he causes all of that. He's going to cause all of that to work for your good. When you sin and it's time to get a weapon to get a beat down, he'll make the beat down work for your good. He'll beat you so well. Apostle, I'm not, no, I'm not Apostle Corey. I'm not, no, Mike M. I'm just joking. I'm not Apostle Corey. Not yet. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. But he can beat you in such a way to make you get right. He can discipline you in such a way to make you get right. He can cause these things. Because again, if you think that, and someone's like, well, this violates our free will. No, it doesn't. And if it does so, I've always wondered, okay, fine. God gave us free will. Okay, fine. If you think your free will is so free, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine, fine. God does too. And he's not concerned about your feelings or your free will. So now there you go. Just cause you got free will and he violates it. What is that going? Who are you telling them? Somebody gonna do something to God? If God wants to violate your free will, well, God wouldn't do that. Well, ask Nebuchadnezzar when he was eating the grass. Ask Pharaoh. Well, Pharaoh had already hardened his heart. Yeah, Pharaoh wouldn't let him go and then God hardened his heart again to go after them. He can have mercy on whom he wants to and harden whom he wants to. He can cause someone to be born a certain way just to heal them or born such a way to keep them that way to show that I'm still God. Amen, December. Above all else, God is sovereign. You're not. You're not. Your mother's not. Your father's not. Your country's not. God is sovereign. Now, does that mean that he takes away all of your ability to do anything? No, that's not what I'm saying. I don't believe that you don't have the ability to move around and do what you want to do. You can. You do. And there are consequences for that. Lord knows. I know that. But he says he caused all those things to work for those who love him and called according to his purpose. Here it is. For those who he foreknew, we'll leave the foreknew along. We'll leave this pro-reson along. Okay, we're going to leave that along because there's just too much debate. Well, foreknew means that he knew what you're going to do ahead of time. That's not what it means at all because he says that about Israel as well so defined sovereign. Someone says defined sovereign. Sovereign is that you have the ability to do what you want when you want just because you want. My little rough way of doing it. You are to be sovereign means you are totally and completely independent of people and things. You need no one and you need nothing meaning you need nothing to cause to sustain you to make you feel better. You are not lacking. You are not incomplete. You are you are complete all by yourself. And if there was nothing else you'd still be good. That's being sovereign. Thoroughly and completely independent. You know of no one or nothing that is that. So now he says for those who be foreknew, now some will say it's because he knew what you were going to do. Well, first of all, he does know what you're going to do. Secondly, does it mean that he knew what he was going to do? Let's just leave that along. There's enough debate about that but I think the next part kind of settles it. He says he also predestined. Now this word, I'm sorry, I said proegno. I mean prorescent, I should have said proegno. Proegno is the foreknew to know before. Now the word in and of itself does not connote or convey what he knew or how he knew. But this word prorescent does, he predested. That means he determines beforehand. He decides beforehand. It cannot be not in Hebrew, not in Greek or in English when you use that word that it means anything other. Only you have to be a Christian to determine that that word does not mean that he determines before you determine. To mean that well, he saw what you were going to do, then he predestined. Well, then why would you use the word predestined? You could use the word destined but the pro, the pre, you cannot use that. He determined beforehand. He decided beforehand. Beforehand of what? Beforehand of what you do anything, one before you lived. It cannot be that he saw you what you were going to do, and then chose you based on what that goes against all the scriptures that we can think of of him chooses. He chose us before we chose him. John 15. Well, that's only about the disciples. Okay, fine. Well, he loved us before we loved him. Well, look at some other passage that says what he's going to do as far as him choosing and that it's not on us. But he predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son. Why would he predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son? If he saw we were already going to choose to follow him to the image of his son so that he would be the now here it is so that he would be excuse me, the first born among many brother. This is the reason why he did so. Now, recall we've come this before in Deuteronomy 10 God tells the children I want you to fix your heart. He says, circumcise your heart. Then he proceeds to tell them you need to fix your heart. You need to fix your heart. You need to fix your heart. You need to fix your heart. Then he proceeds to tell them you're not going to circumcise your heart. God tells them Deuteronomy 10 circumcise your heart. You're getting ready to go into the land. I'm taking you into the land. Now, God makes choices on his own all the time without consulting us. How do I know? Well, who did God consult when he came to creating the world? Who did God consult when he came to creating man? Who did God consult when he decided he was going to flood the earth? Who did God consult when he told Abraham that the word predestined doesn't communicate the reason for his choice? No, but the following sentence does. The following sentence says he determined beforehand, and then it says so that he would be the first born. So his reasoning for predestining is also there in the passage so that he would be the first born. So the sum will be the first born among many. And also that's also backed up in famous passage Ephesians 1. He says, Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us in the spiritual blessings in the heavenly places in Christ. Some folks focus on what you've got to be in Christ because look at this, and Christo in Christ. Okay, well fine. Who's putting you in Christ? He says, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world that we would be holy and blameless. Notice what he says. Let's follow this. Cappos exalacti hemis and out to, which is even as he chose. Now this is this is the middle voice, Aristotle. He did so to us. We didn't do so. All right. You guys follow that? He chose us. We didn't choose him. This nullifies a whole lot of the arguments. He chose us or for some of you folks in the South, ussuses. He chose us. Since he chose us, that nullifies you saying that you chose yourself first. You did not. He chose you. When he chose us. Now, look at it. The Hamas, this is in the accusative. That is, we are the direct object, so he chose us. You cannot come back and say that he chose Christ to be the vessel, or salvation to be the vessel. No, that would mean that the, let's go back to it, that would mean that the Alto, which is of the dative, it should be in the accusative. It should be that he chose him for us to be in. Because you could have easily said that, but he didn't. He said, hey, Mass, which is the dative, the direct object. So if I throw, I choose you to be in. Now, I could have chosen, I could switch that around. I could make the direct object what they're going to be in. I could, you can easily make Jesus the direct object, but he did not. This is why sometimes it helps the grammar. The Greek does help. And this word, pra katabales. Pra katabales means before the foundation of the world, before the world was. When did God do the choosing? Before there was a rock. Before this thing was a rock, before there was water on it, before it was spinning, all that stuff. That's when he chose who. Well, how would he know such a thing? Because he's God, and he's seen the end, just like he saw the middle, just like he sees the beginning. He was there. He is what we say, I'm the present, and I'm the present in our time, like he's everywhere all the time, but he's, you're right. He's in Canada, America, the Fiji's. He's everywhere all over at the same time, but guess where else he is? He's everywhere in the past. He's everywhere right now, and he's everywhere in the future. You cannot get away from him. He's like, like Michael Jackson, too high to get over, too low to get under. Amen. That's my one of these starting something, album clip for today. So he says, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, what does he say? That we would be, so that we would be him choosing us, so that we would be holy. Aina, which is to be. Hey, my Haggills, which is to be holy. Blame us before him. In love, in love he predestines us. There's that word again. So in love, he did so. So to go back to that, to say that what he predestined and didn't show what he chose us for, he reiterates it again, and he says exactly what he chose us for. He chose us to his adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to himself. So through Jesus, how he's doing the predestining too, according, and people say, well, he did so. You mean tell me he just arbitrarily chooses so? Well, no, the Bible tells us the reason, according to the kind of intention of his will. Well, I don't know what that means. Well, you don't have to know what it means. You don't have to know what his will is. You won't get, you don't get an insight on God's thinking. In other words, his ways are not our ways, his thoughts are not our thoughts. He's too high, too lofty for us to even fathom. And the problem is he's told us earthly things and we still don't get it. So then how can he tell us heavenly things? God, tell me what you're thinking. No, you can't, you can't. I've given you something in writing and you still fumbling with that. You still having trouble. So this is him saying what he's gonna do. Oh, by the way, if we drop down verse seven in him, we have redemption in who? In Christ through his blood. We'll come back to this whole point in a second because this is the other reason why I believe the two main things that Calvin's belief. Through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, the forgiveness of our trespasses, dog owner, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished on us. By the way, this word lavish, just fully and abundantly given. It's past tense. So what he gave us, he gave us in the past so it's over with. Not that he's lavishing, but he lavished upon us. In all wisdom and insight, he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his kind intention, which he purposed in him with a view to an administration. There's that dispensational word right there. There's that dispensational word right there. Or kind of me up. With a view to a dispensation or a economy or kind of me on, or an administration suitable to the fullness of times that is summing up all, I'm sorry, summing up of all things in Christ. Now, drop down what he said. I don't want, I'd be remiss if I don't cover this part before we leave. In him, you also after listening to the message of truth of the gospel of your salvation, having also believed. Notice what he, notice the tense here. This is the heiress act of participle. Remember I said before that how does God refer to us guys? He refers to us. Say it with me, ladies and gentlemen. He refers to us as the pistuan, the believing ones, though the ones that are believing. That's how he refers to us. And so what does he use right here? The same pistuan, but in this case, it is the plural heiress active participle. So those of us who also having believing, I'm from the believing it's not good English, but I want you to understand those of us who have been believing. You were sealed, excuse me, you were sealed. You were sealed heiress tense, which is past tense. You were sealed in him. You were sealed in him, when? Well, I don't know, past tense. You were sealed in him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance. This word pledge is the Greek word for out of bond, which means it's a earnest money down payment. You know, sometimes you go and you want to rent a car, you want to get a hotel, what have you, book a flight, you put down a deposit to secure your place. But yes, Corey, yes, Corey, yes, Corey, I can put your money down, but you can forfeit it. Yeah, but God doesn't. Don't equate what we do to what he does. And notice what, or should I say who the down payment that God gave, who was given as a pledge? He says the Holy Spirit was given as a pledge of our inheritance. Look what he says with a view to the redemption of God's own possession to the praises of the Lord. So a view looking towards what we're going to get. Some people are just ignorantly, let me just be rude, let me be mean, let me be harsh, let me be tough, ignorantly typing and not listening. Because I see certain people that are just spamming the comments, fine. You're going to have no excuse when lessons take place in life, because you want to contribute something meaningful, contribute a passage, contribute a scripture, refute that. What we're going over, you can say, hey, Corey, I got a question. Doesn't this mean this? Doesn't this mean that? I disagree with your assessment of this passage. Earlier, a brother said he gave an objection or just maybe not just a word towards what he see for destination meaning that was in keeping with what we're talking about. Meanwhile, we got somebody over here talking about Carlton Pearson. You got to grow up. You got to grow up. Sometimes you got to step into the big leagues. Sometimes you got to stay on point so that you can learn, so that you can grow. I know it's tough. I know it's hard, but please, for the sake of your grandma, for the sake of your grandpa, for the sake of all your ancestors to see that they didn't die, they didn't come to this country only to have some son, some grandson, some niece, some grand niece to act ignorantly in public on YouTube. I'm being harsh, aren't I? Yes, I am. Because these are easy things to follow. Follow where we are. We're not over there. We're right here. Amen. Amen. Cory, I'm unsubscribing because I don't like how you said that. I'm sorry. At some point in time, the nice things go stick with where we are. Stick with where we are. So now, that being the case, he says in him, you also, after listening to, what does he say? You had this deposit, this earnest money deposit, and what was the deposit? What was the Arabon? The Holy Spirit. Is the Holy Spirit going to be forfeited? No. Well, God, you're taking an awful risk. You're taking an awful risk, God, to use the Holy Spirit as a pledge for these rotten, no good people. So God, how can you be sure of what you, because Paul makes a statement. He says in Philippians 1.6, he says, for I am confident of this very thing, that he, who began a good work in you, will perfect it. The word perfected is the word epitelesi, which is he is perfecting it. The epi, the epi kind of adds a little extra to it. He is really, really seriously perfecting. He is going to be the one that's going to perfect it. When? How long? Okay. Christu Yesu, which is until the day of Christ. He's going to keep working in us, keep perfecting us until we see Christ. Do we take that to the bank? Sure. How he can have this confidence because he's working in us. This goes back to what I was saying before, in Deuteronomy 30. See if you guys are still tracking with me. In, I'm sorry, Deuteronomy 10. God tells the Jews, as they're getting ready to go into the land, get your heart right. Circumcise your heart, okay? You can go look up Deuteronomy 10, 16, I believe. They're getting ready to go to the land. He's already told them, you're going to mess up. You're going to mess up. But fix your heart right. I'm going to give you this land. You're going to go in and oh, by the way, I'm going to take you out of the land. Well, why are you going to take us out of the land, God? Because you're going to mess up because that's just who you are. You like the guy in the movie life, can't get right, you just can't get right. Apart from me, you can do nothing and you just can't get right. So what does he say? 20 chapters later, same book. God promises after he's going to take them out of the land and discipline them. Now, obviously it won't be the same people, but the people, these Jews, he's going to discipline them and he's going to end up bringing them back and after he brings them back, how soon after, he doesn't say, but after he brings them back to their land, finally, he is going to circumcise their heart. Deuteronomy 30, 16, let's put it on the screen. Where is it at? I've got on here somewhere. I know I thought, well, I thought I did. There it is. There it is. Deuteronomy 30. This verse one is him talking about there'll be blessings and curses and the curse which I have said before you and call them to mine in all the nations where the Lord your God has banished you. So God is going to banish his own people. Why? Because they're disobedient. But look what he says in verse six. Moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart. Ladies and gentlemen, can I ask you guys a question? Here's my question. God says he will circumcise your heart. Here's my question. Do you think God will circumcise their heart? This is my question. Pretty easy question. I'm only asking simple questions today. The test is given, but it's open book. Will God circumcise their heart? Well, you can't get past, yes, because he says he will. Excuse me. He says moreover, the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your descendants. Yeah, of course, he's only speaking about Israel. We'll get to there in a second. But this is what he said he's going to do. He is going to do so. If he says he will, dog on it, he will. I read a passage earlier today that God will not nullify his covenants nor, ladies and gentlemen, and this is where I kind of miss my Calvinist friends, nor will he alter his lips. He's not going to change what he says. He's not going to alter his intended group. So if he says certain things for Israel, it's for them, he's not going to alter that because some shmo here in America who is a five or six or seven point Calvinist, who believes, no, that's not Israel, it's us. No, I'm not going to alter my words, my utterances. The reason why that's important because this issue of election and the issue of eternal security also goes in line with that. I will not alter what I'm going to do. Remember the guy that's saying this is the guy that's been where he's saying, he's going to take you too. And if he says I'm going to save you and if he says I'm going to do this for Israel, it's done. It is done. Now who, because he didn't put names on it. The only name that we know that God has put a name on of what he is going to do. The only name that was mentioned was Jesus, the son. Now, in terms of who's being elected, in terms of who in Israel, don't know. So behoove you, whoever you are, even if you disagree, place your faith in Christ. If you disagree that God didn't elect anyone, God's not causing anyone to be born again. If you disagree with that, fine, then get saved. Place your faith in Christ. Work real hard to keep yourself safe too while you're at it. By the way, do you agree with this statement? Do you have to be, in order to be a Christian, you must be born again? Is there anyone that agrees with that? I agree with that. Give me a yes. If you believe you must be born again in order to be a Christian. I'm going somewhere with this. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, do you believe that you must be born again to be saved? I think everyone's gonna say yes. But now, listen, it never seems to amazing. Somebody is probably going to say no, either in the live chat or in the comments, no, you don't have to be born, you know, all right. Okay, so here's the next question. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, since you have to be born again in order to be saved, I think there's chronology to it. We'll deal with that some other time, but do you have to be, do you cause yourself to be born again or does God cause you to be born again? I say that God causes you to be born again. Is there anyone, well, put this way, do you agree that God causes you to be born again or do you believe it's you? Yes, if you believe God causes you to be born again, no, if you don't believe that. Pretty easy question. Do you believe that God causes you to be born again? Ken Griffin, would you please, would you please? Get rid of that cowboy helmet. Now, I'm just kidding, how you doing, brother? Okay, I see yeses, I see yeses. Let me see, I'm just looking to see if I see a no. Cause there's always one, there's always one. He causes us to be born again. No. Is there anyone, I think faith is saying blasphemy to that cowboy helmet, I think that's what he's saying. Yeah, and then listen, then we've got Darryl for the win, Darryl for the three point, first Peter 1-3. So what, so darling, what are we going to do? We're going to go to first Peter 1-3 just in case someone believes that God does not cause you to be born again. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. By the way, where have we heard that it sounds like kind of what Paul said in the feasts, but let's be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy, not arbitrarily, if someone wants to say, but according to his great mercy has caused us to be born again. He has caused us to be born again. Onaganesis, that is him doing so. This is the heiress active participle, this is him doing so, this is him doing so. Him causing us. I like the way Trump represented. Who else can do it? Wait a second, Barry Bull, hold on, Barry Bull. Wait a second, I got a question, Barry. I see here from time to time, brother, you don't believe that God causes us to be born again? Maybe you were typing something else, or maybe you're answering it differently. That's a good question, Mike M. He says, though, hold on, let's put it back on the screen, he causes us to be born again to a living hope. Now, Mike M. asks a good question. Corey, when does he cause it? Well, let's just, for the sake of argument, we've got two ways to look at it. He caused it to happen long before we were born, before there was a us, before there was a world, like I believe Ephesians is teaching, or he can cause us to be born again sometime around the time that we make the decision. Ultimately, either way, still works that God does a choosing because when did God decide to cause you to be born again? It's not based on you doing so. It says he causes you to be born again. By the way, how do I know so? Because where do we first hear, and being born again, let me just say this, being born again is a work of the Holy Spirit. The word literally means be born from above, born of the Spirit. Well, where do we get that from? Well, I'm glad jazz. To be born of the Spirit, to be born above, we see that in John 3. Remember John 3? Pharisee named Nicodemus comes up to Jesus and says, hey, Jesus, we, me, and the other Pharisees, we know that you're from God because nobody can do what you do unless they come from God. Which goes to show you how people can be so hateful, have so much hate and ill intent in their heart to know that he's from God and we still wanna kill him. What kind of idiot are you? What kind of idiot are you to know that he is from God, of God, or maybe even you got a point where you think that he is God and you still wanna kill him? If they will do that, what does that tell us about mankind even today? What does that tell us about the people that some might be in the chat? Some might come on later on. Some might work with you. Some might, some might be in your house. Some might be your neighbor. There are a lot of awfully rotten people in the world. Let's just not sugarcoat that. There are some bad people, some awful people. There are some horrible people. There are some, listen guys, this is gonna sound mean, but it's the truth. There are some people that if they did not exist on this planet, the world would be better off, but God still has them here. There are some bad people, some low people. I know some of them. I may have been one of them before in my life, but these people know Jesus is of God and they still go against him. They still wanna kill him. Nicodemus spills the bean. And Jesus makes a statement that seems to go, Nicodemus didn't even talk about this, but Jesus says, truly, truly I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Here it is, verse three. Jesus said to him, and may unless, tease certain person, someone, and here's this word. I want you to focus on this word right here that I just highlighted. This word, Genefe, this is to be born. And in this other word that's beside it is from above. Now, this word, anothin, Genefe, anothin, can mean one of two things. It can possibly mean one or two things, be born a second time or it can mean being born from above. Well, Nicodemus thought it was gonna be born from a second time, but Jesus quickly corrects him. No, it's not that, born from above. It means born again or born from above or born of warden spirit. What does Jesus introduce here? He introduces three ways to say this. One, Genefe and anothin, which is to be born again, okay, or born from above to help him out. He says in verse three, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, that person then can't receive the kingdom of heaven. He can't see it. How can this be Nicodemus? Because Nicodemus is confused. Jesus says, truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born, he didn't say again this time, he says born of water and spirit. That's vitally important. Why is that important? Because we're gonna see God introduce this earlier. So, born again, born of water and spirit. And then the third way is gonna say it, born of spirit. That which is born of flesh is flesh. That which is born of spirit is spirit. So he says, born of spirit. Do not be amazed or marveled that I said to you that you must be, here it is, Genefe and anothin again. The wind blows where it wishes and you hear the sound, but you do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the spirit. Now, this word right here, this is important. Everyone who is born of the spirit. So is everyone who is born of the spirit. So, everyone who is born of the spirit, that's how it works. If you are born again, Jesus just described the pattern of your salvation. What happens first? You must first be born again. If you are a believer, you must be born again, born of the spirit. Everyone who is, is everyone who's born of God or born again or believer, you are born of the spirit and he says how it goes. You don't know where it comes from or where he's going to, which necessarily means you didn't have anything to do with because if you knew that it was your decision making that was gonna cause it to happen, well, then Jesus' statement could not be true because you do know where the spirit is going to or where it's coming from. You do know if it's based on your decision. It is not. It's based on his. Now, the reason why I brought this part up about remembering those two elements, being born of water and spirit, going back to Deuteronomy 30, God says that you must, that he will circumcise your heart. Speaking of Israel, make sure you guys are following. I know some of you guys are having a hard time. One or two I see in the chat already, just not following. But he says I will circumcise your heart, guys that's God doing something to your heart. Not you. God is doing something to your heart. Do you all agree? When he says circumcise your heart, do you all agree that's not you? So now, next question. Pretty easy. We're taking final exams right now, they're open book. Do you all believe? When God says he will circumcise your heart, do you believe you have any say so in it? Do you believe you play a part in circumcising your heart? So in other words, is it God that's doing it by himself or is it you and God circumcising your heart? Let me know in the chat. Is it God alone circumcising your heart or is it you and God? I probably should have added that a little bit differently. So in the chat, say God alone or me and God? The correct answer, ladies and gentlemen, while people are still typing, it's God alone. There's no indication here where he says me and you gonna, listen, I'm gonna circumcise your heart with you. I'm gonna help you circumcise it. No, he says I will circumcise your heart. You can't do it, you won't do it. God alone, God alone. Now we've seen those songs, God alone, but we act like it's not God alone. So it's God alone that will do so. Now, why did I bring up the issue of John 3 and the other parts? Well, because then we also see, I didn't put them on the board because I didn't really wanna go there, but God, go on, let me go there. Let me go ahead and put on the board. And there will be those that say, well, God on the court, you're always going to Ezekiel 36. Well, it's in the Bible. Is there a limit on how many times I go off his passage? Because his passage is just right there. It's right there. If I've got four or five or six pastors that I go to to prove that what God is gonna do, he's doing it on his own accord, irrespective of us. Matter of fact, in spite of us, well, then fine. He says, I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statues and I will be careful to do. I'm sorry, let me go up further, 25. Then I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. And I will cleanse you from all your filthiness, from all your idols. So that's one element, water. Second element, moreover, I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you. So now he's the same thing, but he's using two elements or two words to describe water and spirit, which is exactly what Jesus brought up in John 3. Born of the spirit, born of water and spirit, born again, which should be born from above. So, and it's God that's doing it to you, not you to yourself. He says, I noticed the pronouns, I will. God is the active party. Those that haven't happened, ultimately we'll find out that it's us also. We are the passive party. I will sprinkle clean water on you and you will be clean. Not you are cleaning yourself, you will be clean. I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols. Moreover, I will give you a new heart. And by the way, this word put a new spirit. This is also I in the Hebrew. I will put a new spirit within you and I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh. I, these are all God, and it's all God, I will put my spirit within you and what will it do? Cause you to walk in my statutes and you will be careful to observe my ordinances. So now, those that will come back and say, well yeah, but you can turn around and then lose your salvation after that because you can sin, walk away, what have you, pay attention to the text. That God just said what he will do. I will put my spirit in you and cause you to walk in my teachings. You cannot get around that. There's no Hebrew. Even if we're gonna look at the LXX, which is a Septuagint, look in the Greek, there's no way to get around it. Not in the Greek, not in the Hebrew, not in the English. There is no way. He says, I will cause you to walk. Stop acting like you're so big and bad that you're so smart that you can get past that. And we got someone that comes in who is a, listen, let me just do this before I, I'm not gonna block you. I'm not gonna block you. Calvinism is a false gospel because it makes God the author of sin. Please pay attention. Please pay attention to what we're talking about, okay? Or, or, or, or, or. Now I'm not a Calvinist, but next time be on time. We covered this. We covered what the gospel is. Calvinism is just simply trying to explain how it came about. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong. Now on this issue of election, they're right. Cause that's not Calvin. Calvinism did not invent election. Nor did Calvinism invent or come up with this idea of eternal security. So now, Spartan 300, I want you to be, I'm gonna assume that you're over 18, so I'm gonna want everyone, everyone in the chat, act accordingly. All the little goofy, hurling ad hominems and this and that, just save it for somebody else. Save it to somebody else. I'm beginning to sound like Sam, Sam Simone, okay, fine. Save that for later. Because you guys have delivery. This is where, this is, all right, dog gone in. This is where I'm gonna drink my coffee. You ever felt like you were a grandpa or grandma? Some of you guys don't, me, I feel it all the time. And I, and I, I take it as far as I can. I act like it as much as I possibly can. I'm gonna be grandpa Corey. I don't look like a grandpa, but I want you guys, because I believe in you. I've got faith in you. I've got faith that you can accord yourself in an adult fashion. That's all. I just want you to be adult. I want you to be mature. We're having a conversation. And I believe in you, baby. I believe, baby girl, baby boy. I believe in you. I believe that you can port yourself like an adult. And not do the ad hominems and the tight this and the this and that and go to spamming. So what we're gonna do is, moderators, if someone is spamming, monkey moves, Rashaan, did I see Tyra? Who else is here? Go ahead and start timing people out if they are distracting other people. I mean, they can watch it on the other side without the commenting. Matter of fact, they probably need to watch without the commenting. I want your commenting. I want you guys to be involved. Daryl, I want you guys to be involved, but I want you to be adults. It's like when you go to college. Anybody ever been to college? You go to college. And the professor is gonna give you some paper. You are responsible for this paper. You're responsible for this paper. You can show up in class if you want to or not. You can come to class and go to sleep. You can't come to class and disrupt or you can stay in your dorm. You wanna test you over this. I'm not gonna come to your classroom. I'm gonna go to your dorm and pick you up. I'm not gonna do all that stuff. Nope, but you're responsible to know this stuff. Now, when we have a conversation and you cannot meet the standard of the conversation, you're gonna get rolled over. So when we have this conversation, I want you to be able to handle yourself like a learned person, an adult. Amen, amen. So now, what does the Bible say? God says, I will put my spirit in you. This isn't Calvinism, this is the Bible. I will put my spirit in you. What does that mean? The problem is when you ask folks, what does that mean? Well, what about this verse over here? What does this verse mean? I'm saying why I agree with Calvinism. Why I think they got this part right. I will put my spirit within you. This is God saying so and the people are in sin. They haven't done anything to warrant this. As a matter of fact, he's bringing judgment on them, but telling them what he is going to do. In the midst of their foolishness and their sin, just like here, just like in Jeremiah, I will do this and I will cause them to walk in my statutes. The question is, not the question is, can God cause you to do something? Obviously he can. Will he? Well, he just said he will. I will put my spirit within you. We already found out that he says, I will circumcise your heart. Not you and me, but I, just I alone, just God alone. I will put my spirit within you and cause you to walk in my statutes. Now, that's Israel. Same thing with Jeremiah 32-39. Let's go ahead and go to Jeremiah 32-39. So others can see this as well. He says, and I will give them one heart. Same thing. So we keep saying throughout scripture, God is doing something through the heart. Who is going to give them one heart? The people or God? God is. I will give them one heart and one way. That they may fear me always for their good. And for the good of their children after them. Notice what he says in verse 40. And I will make an everlasting covenant. He didn't ask anyone, this is unconditional. I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will not, what God says, I will not turn away from them. I will not turn away from them. God says, I will not turn away from them. But God, what if they turn away from you? Then he says, and I will put the fear of me in their hearts. Why? So that they will not turn away from me. As a matter of fact, let me see something real quick. Let me, let me check something out really, really quickly. Wow, would you, what dog on it? Would you look at that here? Let me move something over. I just noticed something guys. I just noticed something. I never thought, I'd never really thought to look at this, but I'm gonna look at something. Remember we talked about this whole issue in the Greek about the emphatic negation. Well, what do you know we have here? Guess what, guess what we have here. Guess what we have here. We have in Greek and emphatic negation. Now the Septuagint is the Greek translation of the Hebrew text. And so he says, I will make an everlasting covenant to them that I will not turn away from them. Here we have, apostratus, strike, psi or c, apostratus, so, which is, I will never, this is where we get the word apostacy, that he will never turn away. And he'll put the fear of them. He will give into the hearts of theirs so that they also will not turn away. So God gives an emphatic negation that He will never, ever, ever under any circumstances turn away. And how He can make that stick is that He makes sure that they won't turn away either. How cool is that? God can emphatically say, I'm never, ever, ever going to turn under no circumstance. That's what the Oomei, the delegation is. And the only way He can do so is to make sure that they don't turn away. Well, God, how can you make sure that people who have free will never turn away? Never on their own accord, never through their own will turn away. Well, I'm going to fix it. I'm going to put my spirit in them and cause them to walk in mighty. Are you guys feeling it? So Jesus comes back and makes this same statement. Now, when does God, this is how these two come together, the election and internal security, because when does God determine to do so? Well, we already read that He determined to do so before the foundation of the world, pra kattabalesh, before the foundation of the world. Before God, before we see it, God determined to do so. And so in John 3, He makes a statement that the wind blows where it wishes, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it's coming from. So it is. Hutos. This is the same way that's what the word Hutos is. In this way, this is the way that all of the ones, pas, ha, gege, nemenaz, those who have been born, that word I'm talking about, genomai, that's the same word that Jesus was born again. All of those who have been born of the spirit. All of those who have been born of the spirit, all of us, this applies to not just the Jews, but also to us. How do we know so? Because again, I said before in John 1, John 1 brings us up again. He states, but as many, first of all, he talks about the Jews and he kind of compares or contrasts the Jews in the Greeks or Jews and Gentiles. He came to his own, the Jews, and the Jews did not. I didn't time you out, Spartan, but I'm about to right now. He came to his own, the Jews, and they didn't see him. They didn't receive him. Then he contrasts that with the Gentiles, but as many received him, but as many received him. So who's the as many? Haasoi, that's whoever, anybody. All of those who happened to have received him, then he gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in his name. And what's the word here? It's from that same word, pistuan, pistuusen, pistuusen. And so all of us, he's speaking of, and what does he say? Those who were born not of blood, not of your lineage, not of the will of flesh, not because you're not born again. Let's perish the thought of you thinking that you became born again because you wanted to. He literally says, not born of the will of flesh or not born of your own will, not because you wanted to, nor the will of man, somebody else, but you're born of the will of God. That's why Peter makes a statement. Born God caused us to be born again. Are you guys with me? So it's God that's doing the working in us. And so God makes these statements. This is why I believe in, excuse me, I got to fix this. This is why I believe in eternal security, and this is why I believe in election in this regard, because God is the one that's ultimately doing it. When we go to John 10, what is he saying? He calls himself the shepherd and we are the sheep. And he says he puts forth all his own, his own what? His own sheep. He goes ahead of them and what are the sheep going to do? If you are a sheep, if you are a sheep today, that's just a question. Another question. Are you guys a sheep? If you are a sheep, if you are a sheep, what does God say? He says, you are going to follow him if you are a sheep. He says, and the sheep follow him. Why will the sheep follow him? Hati Oedasin, because they know Tain phoneme out too, because they know the voice of his. They know his voice. Why will she follow? Because he says, this is Jesus speaking, his sheep will follow him because we know his voice. But we have to receive him, correct? Are we going to receive him, Katrina? Here's the question. He said he is going to put his spirit in us. Now, assuming my point is correct Katrina and anyone else, if God says he's going to put his spirit in our hearts, are we going to receive him? Well, yeah. He's going to put his spirit in us and cause us to walk in his teaching. He's the one that caused us to be born again. I understand that there's a thought that, okay, well, I need to keep doing what I'm supposed to do. I need to keep walking. I need to keep this, keep that. Yes, you do. You need to keep believing. You need to keep following. You need to keep having faith. You need to stay, you need to keep abiding in him. Yes, you do. But he's going to cause that to happen. You will keep abiding. You will keep following. You will keep listening. You will never follow anyone else. Matter of fact, it's not me saying that. Look what Jesus says. He says, a stranger, they simply will not follow. And look how he says it. He says, who may Aka Luthesus in, which is this emphatic negation. He makes it in the most emphatic way possible to say that you will never, ever, ever under any circumstance, ever follow a strange voice. You are not going to follow Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, atheism. You're not going to follow anything satanic ungodly. He says, they simply his sheep. If you're a sheep of his, you simply will not. You ever wonder why you're saved now? Why you have been saved? Have you ever wondered why you have still been saved this long? Have you, how you've gone through all those things you've gone through? You've gone through people talking about you. We're doing something physically to you, mentally to you, emotionally to you, financially to you, all these things. All this stuff has happened to you and you're still here. Is that you or him? He said he's going to cause you to do so. And you simply will not turn away. What is it that God has done? To cause you to keep following him. You ought to thank him for it. You ought to praise him for him doing so, to cause you to keep following through all the mess that you've ever gone through. Are you still following? Matter of fact, the guy kept bringing up Carlton Pearson. Well, fine. Here's a Carlton Pearson quote. Are you yet holding on? You yet holding on? Why are you yet holding on? Carlton Pearson wasn't because Carlton Pearson was never one of his. Why are you yet holding on? Because he said so. He caused it to be so. You are his. He says you will never ever follow anyone else. You look what he says. A stranger, they simply will not follow, but will flee. God says, God says you will flee. Why have you been fleeing from all those things? You have been resisting. Maybe some voices have been telling. Maybe someone's saying, put that church stuff away. You don't need no Bible. You need no people have been trying to move you away from it. Why have you not? Because you have something in you. God loved you enough to put it in you. And you want to think that is you. Let me just tell you something, my foolish friend. I'm not calling you a fool. But if you think it's you, you are my foolish friend. Love you to death. But if it were up to you, you would have left a long time ago because you felt like you could have done better. I know so because that's the history of your life. You have been trying to do what you thought was better. And in most cases, it didn't work well. This is why God steps in. This is why he puts the fix in. Yeah, you got a will. You have volition. But your volition ain't no good. Again, $5 worth of dirt. That's with inflation. The economy gets right. Then you're probably worth $2 worth of dirt. And because of that, he wants to show his love. He lavishes his love on you. You no good worthless dirt airs sucking up people. Me too. I'm the same way. Me too. Let's tell the truth. Shame of the devil. Nothing good about you. Like Paul said, there's nothing good that dwells in me except for the Holy Spirit. Well, who put the Holy Spirit in? Question, ladies and gentlemen, on the class. Question on the floor. Who gave you the Holy Spirit? God did. Why did he give you the Holy Spirit? Because I deserved it. No, because he decided to do so when? Before the foundation of the world. He says, I will give you that spirit and cause you to walk. Why don't you stop giving yourself credit and give him all the credit? And while you're there, give him all the glory. Let's go back to him. He says, a stranger they simply will not follow, but will flee from him. Why? Because they do not know the voice of a stranger. But Corey, he's talking to Jews. Is this only for Jews? Well, no, because what does he say? He says, verse 14, I am the good shepherd and I know my own and my own know me. That's us. Even as the father knows me and I know the father and I lay down my life for the sheep. But what he says, I have other sheep. That's us Gentiles. She or she persists. We haven't said that in a while, which are not of this fold. And I must bring them here also. And look what he says about us. And they will hear. They will hear. Not no doubt about it. They will hear my voice and they will become one flock with one shepherd. For this reason, the father loves me because I lay down my life so that I may take it again. Jesus says, no one takes my life, but I pick it up on my own because guess who I am also? I am God, by the way. This is God making this point to us. And he says, because we are sheep, he said, now you guys don't believe. Why? Because you're not my sheep. I'll leave that for another argument. Verse 26, 27. He says, my sheep, are you a believer in Christ? And that means you're a sheep. He says, my sheep, that's you. All of his sheep hear my voice. They are hearing my voice and I know them. He just told us what sheep do and what sheep will do, what he'll do with his sheep and what she will do. He says, I give them eternal life and they will never ever perish and no one will snatch my hand. My father is great. My father has given them to me is greater than all and no one is able to snatch my hand. So we know that no one can snatch us out of his hand. He will never turn away from us and we will never turn away from him. My father who gave them to me, why is that important? Because John 6 says that all that the father gives will come. To answer the question earlier, if our hearts have been changed, will we come? Sure. That's the irresistible grace part. All that the father has given to me will come. No ambiguity about that. And all the ones that he's that he's been given, he will not lose one. What is so difficult about that? Well, Cory, I was taught by Grandma that you can still lose your salvation. I don't care if Grandma was wrong. Grandpa was wrong. If your church teaches that you can lose your salvation, your church is wrong. But Cory, who are you to say so? Not me, the Bible. Get past the text. Don't go to 40 other texts. Go to this. This is why I believe this is why I know for a fact the Calvinists have this right. Again, say what you want to say. But when you go to their people, they're the so-called scholars. They don't answer this question. We did it. We covered this before. You have to imply a condition. Well, if you keep following Jesus, if you keep listening, if you keep abiding, the if is not there. He just tells you that you will. He just tells you that you will. Fernando says, amen. Amen again in the English and the Greek. Amen. You will follow. You will abide. You will keep listening. You will keep. You'll keep being his. That's why we don't have one example of a sheep doing so. Well, what about Judas? John, and this was, it's like folks don't listen sometimes. John 1310, Jesus says that Judas was never cleansed. But the other 11, they were. Judas was never cleansed. He was never his. Never thought to be his. He was chosen to do what he did because the Old Testament prophesied to that. Why you guys can't get past that? I don't know. Maybe because you're, you're not just $5 worth of dirt. You're $5 worth of hardheaded dirt. You just want to go get fine. Keep saving yourself. Keep giving yourself the glory and the credit for being saved. Because if you say, I'm giving God the glory. No, you're not. Not when you're saying you're keeping yourself saved. Now, notice what he says here in John 5. And we're almost through. Dog going in Calvinist. You know what? I may go ahead and sign up for my Calvinist membership. I'm not a Calvinist though. But they're right on this. Truly, truly, I say to you, he who hears my voice, well, who's the one that's hearing? By the way, there's Achaon, that's the president active part of the hearing and the Pistuon. There it is again. Daryl said, come on. The one that's hearing and believing, all of you guys are doing that. He says, he that's hearing my words and believes him who has sent me, he has. Now, notice what it says here. Sorry for the Greek guys. But he says, ek, that is what? That is what? That is present tense. I don't go on it. Don't go on it. Mike M, I got to address you. I got it. Mike M says, Cory, you are drinking the Calvinist Kool-Aid. Why? I'm not a Calvinist. Are you telling me, Mike, do you? Let me ask you a question, Mike. It's just me and you. It's just me and you. Now, a few thousand are going to see this video. So it's me, you and a few thousand folks. Let me ask you a question, Mike. Do I have to be a Calvinist to believe this? Let me just ask you a question. Do you think a person has to be a Calvinist to believe in eternal security? Do you have to be a Calvinist to believe in election? Are Calvinists the only ones that believe in election? And are Calvinists the only ones that believe in internal security? I just want to know. Y'all let me know when Mike says so. What are my answers? The answer to help you out when you type in it is no. Calvinists aren't the only ones that believe in internal security. Calvinists aren't the only ones that believe in election. I've told you if you wanted to call me something that you... I wouldn't fight you too much on. I wouldn't fight you too much on if I have a dispensational hermeneutic. So if you call me, hey, Corey's dispensationalist, okay, fine. What is my definition of election? Oh, go ahead, Mike. I told you. I mean, I got to go back to the very beginning and tell you again. My definition of election is what the Bible says. God chose us before the foundation of the world. He did so not based on merit. Okay. Now I went all through that and you wait until he asked me to go to the beginning. I'm just messing with you. But notice what he says. He says, the one who believes in him who sent me has... Okay. What does okay mean, ladies and gentlemen? Okay means... Okay means has right now. President, as a matter of fact, I'm going to answer Mike's question. Just look because this is a good question. Okay means you have it right now. President tense. Okay, okay. That person has Zoane Ionian. He has life right now. He is living into the ages. Zoane life, Ionian into the ages or life eternal. He has it right now, meaning he's going to keep living. Notice what it also says. Kaes Christen and this one is a judgment. Uk Ekatai, not will go into. This person will not go into judgment. Will not come into judgment. He will not be... He will not go into judgment. Notice what he says. Will not go into judgment. But Medeba Bekan, Ek Tu, Thana Tu, Ace Thane, Zoe. But he has passed out of death into life. He has passed from death, meaning he will never die. He just says that you can't get around that, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, but you got to keep that... You don't have to keep anything. You don't... That's not what the text says. This text, John 5-24 does not say you have to keep doing anything. He says it's already been done, meaning that you have already passed from death and you will never go into judgment. That's literally what he just says. Now I want to answer this question. This is a good question. Mike M says the Jews were God's elect. Were they all saved? Individual Jews were not elect. Somewhere. Israel was elect as a nation. That nation was elected. And he stated what he's going to do. He's made a promise to Israel. And then what does he say? This is why you might have to go back and look at the part of the video in Deuteronomy, in Jeremiah, in Ezekiel. Matter of fact, even in Ezekiel 11-19, he says what he's going to do with some Jews. He's going to put his spirit in their heart. Which Jews? Well, only he knows. So he's elected them already. He's not waiting to see what's going to happen. He's not sitting there chewing gum, watching TV, waiting to see which one of these Jews and which one of these Gentiles are going to get it right. No, he's already knows. He already knows. So this is what he says. This is where the Calvinists have it right. Election is not a Calvinist doctrine, ladies and gentlemen. Stop with that. If it were, then I'd be a Calvinist. I guess I'd be a three-point Calvinist, two-and-a-half-point Calvinist, three-point Calvinist, three-point-seven-five Calvinist. Nor is eternal security a Calvinist doctrine. Do Calvinists believe the same thing? Sure. Calvinists believe that Jesus Christ is out on the cross. Does that mean that all of you guys are also Calvinists? Because you believe that Jesus Christ is out on the cross? There are some things they believe that I agree with and you agree with as well. But here's the point. And this is the main point. And this is why, what, Corey, why are you even addressing some of these people in the chats? Here's the reason why. There's a whole point of this video. Because there are people that act foolish. There are people that act like children. 20-year-old, 30-year-old, 40-year-old, 50-60-year-old children. What do I mean? Because when you start to tie it, fine, fine. We can, we can say I disagree with the text. But as some of you guys even saw that there were those who didn't disagree with the text, they just disagreed with the notion. Well, I can abide that kind of person. I can't, you can't talk to a person that can't be talked to. Have you ever done it before? This person is bound in terms of just to spew off whatever and you can't talk to a person. Here's the person you can talk to. And I know Katrina disagrees with me on some things. She says, question, where does repentance come from? The Bible says that God grants repentance. So it comes from God. It's him who changes the heart. The heart is where repentance comes from. Well, who changes the heart? It's God who does so. And I think if, if we just sit back, man, how long have I been saved? I've been saved 20 years. I've been saved 15 years through all that I've gone through. You mean tell me it's just me? It's been me that did so that kept me safe? No, it's been God. Just like he said, he would, like he said, I will not lose one. But, but Frankie, Frankie was saved. Was he? Frank was saved. And he backslid, which by the way is the Old Testament term for Israel. He backslid. Oh, maybe he wasn't, he's never saved. Then we'll say something like this. Frankie was saved. He backslid and came back. Well, then maybe he didn't backslide. Maybe he was just doing like Peter. He just did it for longer. Peter went out fishing naked. Maybe Frankie went out fishing naked, not for three days, but for three months. Struggling. Trying to figure things out. It happens and God preserved him. So guys, all I know is what his word says. I'm not going to interpret scripture in light of someone else's experience. I'm going to interpret someone's experience in light of scriptures. God said what he will do. Why doesn't that finish it? Why are you guys? Some of you guys will be the worst kind of parents or hypocritical parents. You tell your kids, do what you say and believe what I say, but you won't believe what God says. God says he will do those things. There's no ambiguity about it. There's no if and what's about it. Well, maybe he won't do it, but he said, I will. It calls into question your faith. This is where we have to be serious. It calls into question your faith. Oh, God, we got a Virgin Walker sighted. By the way, Virgin Walker, I was trying to figure this out. Virgil, who had the best haircut, mirror you. Now, listen, ladies and gentlemen, Virgin Walker has a pretty snazzy haircut. It's just it's top flight, top notch. It's it's wonderful. No messed up hairline. Nothing. It's just just just wonderful. Anywhere's glasses. A bald-headed brother with glasses. I'm sorry. You just it's sorry. Virgil says mine. I don't know. Let me ask my wife and let I'll let my wife decide about that. I'll let my grandkids figure it out. But um, they're going to the bald head talk and got me off top. Oh, but guys, at some point in time, you're going to have to give credit to God and stop trying to bash Calvus. They have a belief. You should have a belief. Here's how I know some of you guys don't have a belief. Your your your only goal is to thwart what someone else says. So much so you get so offended. Maybe because you're not secure in your belief. We know what an insecure person looks like. Some of you guys are insecure at theologians. You're not really firmly rooted in what you believe. You just know that you don't want to be wrong. And so you're just grasping and fighting not to be wrong. Put a dog on it. At least on those two things, really the three things I agree with Calvus. But even if even if Calvinist were wrong, even if all five points of tulip was wrong, shame on you for some of the things that some of you guys say that come out of your mouth. And that's bothersome. That is bothersome. And I wish I could have you in the room with me for a second. I just want to just hug you. Hug your rough, but hug you. Because the way you treat other people who place their faith in Christ and claim that, you just don't like how they got to it. You believe that placing your faith in Christ, what he's on the cross is enough. But if someone thinks that God caused that versus someone thinks, well, I caused it myself or I did it. The main point is whether you believe that you believe in election or you believe in, let's say, this new thing, provisionism or your Armenian, did you place your faith in Christ? If you have the Son, you are saved. Do you have Christ? That's the issue. That's the main point. But then how you deal with someone also determines if you're right or wrong. Stop that. Now I defend the Calvinist on a lot of times. Sometimes why maybe you think that I am a Calvinist because maybe sometimes I do sound like a Calvinist. I just know what God has done. And I'm reading the scriptures. I tell you what you do. Refute those scriptures. If you want to, this is my promise to you guys. If you want to go through the passages that we went through, 1 Peter 1, 3, what does that mean? What does Deuteronomy 30 mean? What does Jeremiah 32, Ezekiel 11, Ezekiel 36 mean? What do they mean? What does John 3 mean? What does John 10 mean? Listen, I have no problem. We're going to do this from now to the day we die. We can go over all those passages. We can deal with the core year wrong because of 1 John 5, what you say is wrong. Oh, by the way, I'm sorry. That's where I want to leave off them. 1 John 5, 9 and John. 1 John 1, 5. He says, whoever, and by the way, the word is pos, so there's going to be some Greek, pos, epistewan, hati, asus, eston, high crystal, which is all those that are believing in, that are believing because or that Christ, that Jesus is the Christ, act to fail, which of God, they have been born, giganeitai, they have been born. There's a word again. There's that word again. They have been born of God and pos, ha, aga, aga upon all those that are believing. They love the Father, they have also been born of him. And that's what he says in verse 4. And then we'll go ahead and conclude. Whoever or whatever, ha, tipan, those that have been born of God, they overcome the world. You are going to overcome the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world, our faith, our faith. And so because of that, consequently, what God can say as a result of that, in John, or I'm sorry, John, in Revelation 3, 5, he says the overcomer was, that's what it says. It doesn't say if you overcome. Revelation 3, 5, there's no condition if you overcome. It is ha, nikon, the overcoming ones, the ones overcoming. Hutos, will thus be clothed. You will be clothed in white. And look what he says. I will not erase. Now this is the most emphatic way you can say it. Ume, exalipso, which is, or sorry, exalipso, which is, I will never, ever, ever, under any circumstances erase your name. And then someone's gonna come back and say, well, but you can't be blotted out. Why? Because if you overcome, if you don't overcome, you will be blotted. That's not what the passage says. The passage does not say if you overcome. The passage says he's naming you. He's stating a fact that you are the overcoming ones. And why is that important? Because those of us who are born again are the overcoming ones. As 1 John 5 says, and we covered 1 Peter, that God calls you to be born again. So God calls you to be born again, which means you will stay born again, which means you will see him. That's why I believe in election and eternal security. And on that, I'll fight biblically with the Calvinists, my loving brothers and sisters, that they are right on that. Amen.