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Whosoever Will

September 21, 2020

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Pastor Robert begins his new series; Eternity: Your Choice; with a message about how anyone can have everlasting life by choosing to follow Jesus.

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Whosoever Will

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ROBERT MORRIS: Here'swhat it's saying.
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God is not depositing theworld's sins into their account.
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Through Christ, He hastaken care of everyone's sin.
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Please hear me.
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Everyone in the world, Jesushas already paid for their sins.
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ROBERT: So, we're beginninga new series called,
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“Eternity: Your Choice.”
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So, the titleof today's message is,
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“Whosoever Will.”
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Now, I'm going to do something
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a little differently,and I'm going to go through
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a teaching to show you whyI believe that the Bible
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teaches “Whosoever Will”,but there are other people
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that don't believe this way.
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And, I'm not tryingto pick a fight.
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I'm not trying to set us apartfrom other churches,
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I want us to come together.
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So, it's okayif someone believes
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a different way than us.
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That's okay in thebody of Christ.
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So, I just want to say that.
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The reason I haveto say that is ‘cause
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I'm gonna talk aboutCalvinism and Arminianism,
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and I don't want to be branded.
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Just let me justsay that, all right?
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John Calvin lived fromin the early 1500s.
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Jacob Arminius livedin the late 1500s.
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And, what people do todayis they say, well,
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you're a Calvinistor you're an Arminianist.
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I'd rather be a Christian,if that's all right.
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So, I follow Christ, okay?
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But I am gonna have to talkabout some things, and I want
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to talk about actuallythe five points of Calvinism
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to show you why I believein “Whosoever Will”,
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but I'm not tryingto start a fight. Okay?
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I'm not trying toget more e-mails.
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[Laughter]
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The very fact thatit makes us angry
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and we argue about thingsshould show us that there
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could be something wrong.
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So, I'm not trying to argue,and I think that there
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are certain beliefs that couldhinder us from sharing
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the gospel with everyone,so I'm going to talk about that.
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Now, before I getinto the first point,
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I've got to explainthe difference
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between doctrine and dogma.
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The word “doctrine” comesfrom two Greek words.
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It comes from the Greekword “didasko”,
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which means teaching,but it's “didaskein”,
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which is it addsanother element --
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it's the Master's teaching.Doctrine means
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the Master's teaching,and the Master's teaching
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never changes,but our understanding
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of the Master'steaching changes.
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So see, when I teach this,some people might say,
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“Oh, you attacked doctrine,”but your doctrine
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and my doctrine changes;our understanding of doctrine.
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Are you following me?
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So, actually what we'retalking about is dogma,
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which is belief.
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By the way, dogma is wherewe get our word “dogmatic,”
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which a lot of peoplewho have strong dogma
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are dogmatic about it.
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Have you ever metsomeone like that? Okay.
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So, we're talking aboutthe Master's teaching,
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and I'm telling you whatI believe about it, okay?
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You follow me?
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So, don't say, “Well,if you're not a Calvinist,
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you're an Arminianist.”Again, those are students
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of the Master, and I'm notthe student of any student,
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I'm a student of the Masteras well, even though I respect
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men and women of Godthat God's used through
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the ages through churches.All right.
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So, when you talkabout Calvinism,
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there are fivepoints to Calvinism,
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and you use the acronym“TULIP”, T-U-L-I-P.
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So, those will be myfive points, all right?
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And I'll show youwhat I believe
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and what I believethe Bible teaches.
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The first one is, numberone, total depravity.
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So, the T in “TULIP”stands for total depravity.
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Now, what manybelieve this means
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is that we are so depraved, wehave such a fallen sin nature,
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that we can't evenchoose Christ,
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that God just kind of zaps usand we get saved one day,
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but that we don't even havethe ability to choose Christ.
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I disagree with that.
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I believe that what itmeans that we're depraved
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is that we're bornwith a sin nature,
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that we all havea sin nature, and yet,
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God still gives usthe ability to choose.
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I really believe you determinewhere you spend eternity,
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and that God is a justand merciful God,
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and gives every person a chanceto accept Jesus Christ.
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Whatever belief you have hasto be consistent with the nature
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and character of God,and a God that would love
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the world so much that Hewould give His own Son
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for the world, I believe,gives everyone an opportunity.
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So, but I do believe that we'reall born with a sin nature.
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Romans 3:23 says, “For allhave sinned and fall short
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of the glory of God.”It's very simple.
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I've asked you this before.
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If you want to knowif we have a sin nature,
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simple question:did you have to teach
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your children to be bad?
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Or, did it comenaturally to them?
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I actually saw a thing onthe internet a while back
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that said, “Funny Signs”,and I thought,
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this is a perfect signto represent a sin nature.
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Let me show you the sign.
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“Caution, this signhas sharp edges.
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Do not touch the edgesof this sign.”
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Also, “The bridge is outahead.”
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[Laughter]
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How many people do you think,and how many of you
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are actually thinking, “I wonderhow sharp those edges are?”
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[Laughter]
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So, the first point of Calvinismis total depravity,
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and some believe that meansthat we can't even choose God.
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I don't believe it takesaway our choice,
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but I believe we're all bornwith a sin nature.
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Everyone understand?
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Okay, the second,the U in “TULIP”
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is unconditional election.
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Unconditional election,and what this belief is,
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is that God chose some peopleto go to heaven and God
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chose some people to go to hell.
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Again, did you all hear me sayI'm not trying to pick a fight?
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I just don't believethat about God.
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I believe that Godwants everyone
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to come to Jesus Christ,and God is not willing
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that any should perish, butwants all to come to repentance.
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So, I don't believeGod chose some.
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There are too manyScriptures to take the gospel
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to the whole world.Now, let me read you some.
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Matthew 24:14, “And thisgospel of the kingdom
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will be preachedin all the world,
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as a witness to all the nations,and then the end will come.”
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What kind of God wouldhave the gospel preached,
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but not allow peopleto receive the gospel?
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Mark 16:15,“And He said to them,
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“Go into all the worldand preach the gospel
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to every creature.”
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John 1:21, “The next day,John saw Jesus
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coming toward him and said,“Behold the Lamb of God,
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who takes awaythe sin of the world.”
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John 3:17, “Goddid not send His Son
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into the worldto condemn the world,
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but that the world,through Him, might be saved.”
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2 Corinthians 5:19-20,watch this carefully.
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“That is, that Godwas in Christ reconciling
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the world to Himself, notimputing their sins to them.”
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We're gonna come backto this word, “imputing”.
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“And has committed to usthe word of reconciliation.
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Now then, we areambassadors for Christ,
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as though God werepleading through us;
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we implore you on Christ'sbehalf, be reconciled to God.”
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God's pleading with us,to the whole world,
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be reconciled to God.
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God was in Christreconciling the world -
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not the elect,the world to Himself,
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and now we are ambassadors.
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But here's what it saysabout the world,
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“not imputingtheir sins to them.”
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This word, “imputing”,in the Greek
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is an accounting termthat literally means depositing
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in an account, to makea deposit into an account.
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Here's what it's saying.
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God is not depositing theworld's sins into their account.
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Through Christ, He has takencare of everyone's sin.
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Please hear me.
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Everyone in the world, Jesushas already paid for their sins.
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If He hasn't already paidfor their sins,
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He'll have to die again.
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He's already paid forthe whole world to be saved.
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This is whyit's so easy to witness,
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because we can tell them, “Yoursins have already been paid for.
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God's alreadyreconciled you.
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It's up to you whether youreceive Jesus or not.”
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Now, I'm goingto make a bold statement,
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and there's a lot of theology,and there's no way to cover all
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of the theology that you shouldcover in a 32-minute message.
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There's just no way to do it,so I just have to kind
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of hit tidbits here.
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So, I'm going to saysomething' pretty strong.
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People don't go to hellfor sin, because of sin.
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They go to hellbecause of unbelief.
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Jesus did not say the onesthat don't sin go to heaven,
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and the ones thatsin go to hell.
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Let me read youexactly what He said.
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John 3:36, “He who believesin the Son has everlasting life;
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he who does not believein the Son shall not see life.”
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See, people go to hellbecause they don't believe,
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but Jesus had alreadypaid for their sins.
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That again is why it'sso easy to witness,
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because there's a check.
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Jesus has already writtenthe check for all of your sins.
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It's just up to you whetheryou endorse it and deposit it.
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And when you deposit itinto your account by faith,
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then all of yoursins are paid for,
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your debt is paid in full,and the righteousness of God
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is deposited in your account.
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That's what happenswhen we get saved.
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[Applause]
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But, it's up to you.You have a choice.
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God created you in Hisimage with a choice.
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Here's the third.
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This is the Lin the word “TULIP”.
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If you want to rememberthese five and you know,
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for some reason, the thirdis limited atonement.
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Again, I don't believe this.
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It basically means that Jesusdied only for the elect,
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for those that God chose,and so some He didn't choose,
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but He didn't die for the world.
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I think there's just waytoo many Scriptures
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that said He diedfor the whole world.
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I've shown you some Scriptures,but let me show you
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a couple that have a phrase,“once for all.”
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I love this and I only chosetwo of them, but watch this.
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Hebrews 7:27, this istalking about Jesus.
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“Who does not need daily,as those high priests,
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to offer up sacrifices,first for His own sins
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and then for the people's,for this He did once”,
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now watch thesewords, “for all.”
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He did it for all, everyone,“when He offered up Himself.”
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Hebrews 9:12, “Not withthe blood of goats and calves,
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but with His own blood,He entered the Most Holy Place
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once for all”, for all, “havingobtained eternal redemption.”
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The reason that I'm sharingthis is because I'm not trying
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to again separate from peoplewho have a different belief
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in the body of Christthan we do.
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I'm not trying todo that at all.
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I have a desire,as the pastor of this church,
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for you to have a desireto win people to Christ.
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And I think if we wereto believe something like this,
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that God chose somepeople to be saved
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and others not to be saved,and we'll see in a moment
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that part of this belief is theywill be saved no matter what --
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whether they even accept Christor not, they'll just be saved.
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That's the extent, that'sthe far extent of this belief,
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and you'll see iton the next point.
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They just willaccept the Lord.
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If that's the case,why witness?
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Why tell anyoneabout Christ?
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Why pray for the lost?Why pray for people?
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When you look atthe whole of Scripture,
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that's what we're to do.
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Jesus says, “Go,and go now!”
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You can hear anurgency in His voice.
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“Go out into the highwaysand the hedges
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and compel them to come in,that My house may be full.”
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Please go tell them.
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My desire is thatwe at Gateway Church,
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every time we meet someone,
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we're thinking about how to talkto that person about Jesus,
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every time.
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My wife will tell you, I talk topeople everywhere we go,
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and I have anulterior motive.
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I am trying to getthat person saved.
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Everywhere, I'm trying tostrike up a conversation.
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I'm trying totalk to people.
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We went down to Austinand spent our family vacation,
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and it's where Joshhas moved, and Hannah,
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and he'll be plantingthe church, you know,
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in January down there.
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And so, everywhere I go,they say, “Are you visiting?”
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“Yes, visiting from Dallas.I pastor a church there.
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My son moved down here,and to plant a church.”
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Okay, so I'm telling'everyone that,
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because I want them to say, “Oh,really, what kind of church,
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when's it gonna start?”
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You know, I'm trying to get ‘em.
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Okay, so we go downfor family vacation
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and we've been down there, likethree days, and my son, James,
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said, “Dad, I have proofpositive that we need
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to plant a church in Austin,‘cause we've been here
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three days and no onehas recognized you yet.”
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[Laughter]
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So, I'm not sayinganything bad about Austin,
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but just between us, thereare a lot of heathens, okay?
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[Laughter]
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Just between us.
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Don't tell anyone I saidthat, just between us.
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It's okay.
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They don't read my Twitteraccounts either anyway,
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so it's okay.It was amazing.
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I would tell people,“Hey, you know,
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my son's planting a church,”
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and they would go like, “Oh,”and that'd kind of be
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the end of the conversation.
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[Laughter]
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We need to tell people.
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Everywhere we go, there needs tobe a driving force in you
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to win people to Christ,and that's the only reason
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I'm preaching this message.I felt very strongly.
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Okay, here's the fourth point,and it's the I in “TULIP”,
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irresistible grace.
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What this means inthe Calvinism teaching
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is that those who are chosencannot resist the grace of God.
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They will accept Christbecause it's just irresistible.
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I disagree with that.
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I believe that youcan resist God.
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I believe Godgave you a will.
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See, I think that thisteaching basically means
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that God created robots,and He created us
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without a will and a choice,and I think you have a will.
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Let me say it this way.
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Your belief,and I may share on this
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the next few weeks some -your belief determines
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where you will spend eternity,
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and your behavior determineshow you will spend eternity.
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So, it's very important.You have a choice.
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Acts 7:51, “You stiff-neckedand uncircumcised
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in your heart and ears!
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You always resistthe Holy Spirit;
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as your fathers did, so doyou.”
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He's saying you resist, you'reresisting the Holy Spirit.
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Okay, now watch how again,Jesus tells us we have a choice.
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Matthew 7:24, “Therefore whoever hears
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these sayings of Mine,and does them,
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I will liken him to a wise man
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who built his houseon the rock.”
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Then, go down to Verse 26.
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“Everyone who hearsthese sayings of Mine,
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and does not do them,will be like a foolish man
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who builds hishouse on the sand.”
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Doesn't it sound likeyou have a choice?
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When you hear My sayings,you can do ‘em or not do ‘em.
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If you do ‘em, you're wise,if you don't, you're foolish.
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Here's another verse showingJesus saying you have a choice.
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Matthew 10:32-33, “Thereforewhoever confesses Me before men,
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him I will also confess beforeMy Father who is in heaven.
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But whoever deniesMe before men,
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him I will also deny before MyFather who is in heaven.”
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Look at that!Jesus is saying this.
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He's not saying,“We got it all worked out,
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and We got some We choseto live with Us
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and some that are gonnajust be tormented forever,
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no matter what they do on earth,
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even if they were to cry outto Us and asked to be saved.”
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He's saying, “If you confess Me,I'll confess you;
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if you deny Me,I will deny you.”
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In other words, He's sayingit's up to you.
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It's up to you.
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Well, after I got saved,I remember going back
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to nearly all of my drugfriends and sharing
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the gospel with them.
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And one of those,I just kept sharing with him
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and he kept sayingto me something like,”
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I just want Godto prove Himself to me.”
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I said, “What do youmean, prove Himself?”
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He said, “I just want Himto prove that He's alive,
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prove that He's real,prove that He knows me,”
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you know, stuff like this.
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And, I guess it was probably30 minutes or so and He said,
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“I just want Him to dosomething spectacular.”
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I said, “He didsomething spectacular.
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He sent His son for you.”
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He said, “No, I just want Himto do something spectacular,
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like right now, today,and show me that He's real.”
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And I was justa young Christian.
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I just kind of got,I guess fed up, you know,
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so I just put my handon him and I said,
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“God, I just praythat You'll show him
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that You could kill him,but You're not going to.”
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[Laughter]
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I don't know howtheological that was, but.
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But the next night,he got drunk,
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went off the road in his truck.
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Somehow his door came open.
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He fell out,he rolled in a ditch.
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He didn't get hurtbecause, drunk, probably
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just rolling around.
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His truck went into a treeand did catch on fire,
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and burned up.
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And the policeofficer said to him,
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which he told me this later.
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The police officersaid to him, “Son,
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God was looking out for you.
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God is trying to tell youto get your life straight.”
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[Applause]
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Here's the sad part.
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He still didn't get saved,because you can resist.
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It's what the Bible even says.
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Even if someone didsomething amazing,
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they wouldn't believe.
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Even if someonerose from the dead,
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which Jesus did risefrom the grave.
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So, irresistible grace.
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Here's the fifth point,perseverance of the saints.
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This means that if you'reone of the chosen,
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you're going to persevereto the end, no matter what.
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I think this takes personalresponsibility out of it.
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Again, I thinkit takes our choice,
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even after we getsaved, out of it.
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And I'm not saying whether wecan lose our salvation or not,
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but the wayI believe this
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is a little differently.
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“Perseverance”starts with P-E-R.
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I'm gonna change those firstthree letters to P-R-E.
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I believe in the preservationof the saints.
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In other words, I believethat God preserves
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those whom He lovesand who call on His name.
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Psalm 31:23, “Oh, love the Lord,all you His saints,
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for the Lordpreserves the faithful.”
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Think about how youwould preserve something.
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Psalm 37:28,“For the Lord loves justice
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that does notforsake His saints;
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they are preserved forever.”
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Psalm 97:10, “You wholove the Lord hate evil;
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he preserves the soulsof His saints.”
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And then, this isthe way Paul said it
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in the New Testament,2 Timothy 1:12.
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“For this reason I alsosuffer these things;
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nevertheless I am not ashamed,
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for I know whom I have believedand am persuaded
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that He is able to keepwhat I have committed
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to Him until that Day.”
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See, this doesn'tfocus on my strength,
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it focuses on His strength,
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that God is able to keep thatwhich I have committed to Him.
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Here's what I'vecommitted to Him.
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I've committed my faith inthe substitutionary death
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of the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I've committedmy faith to Him.
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He's able to keepthat until the Day.
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If you notice in that verse,“Day” is capitalized.
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It means the Judgment Day.
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Now, here's the reasonthat I named this message,
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“Whosoever Will”, okay?
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I want to show yousome Scriptures,
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but I'm going to read themin the Old King James.
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The reason is,in the New King James
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and all the other versions,which I use the New King James,
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it says “whoever”, because wedon't use the word “whosoever”,
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but I remember hearing the wordsgrowing up, “whosoever”.
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So, it just came to meas I was praying about
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which message to start thisseries with, whosoever will,
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whosoever will.
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So, I'm gonna read ‘emin Old King James
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so we can see the “whosoevers”in the Bible, all right?
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Matthew 16:25,“For whosoever will save
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his life shall lose it,
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and whosoever will lose his lifefor My sake shall find it.”
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Notice again,the onus is on you.
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You have a choice.
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Mark 8:34, “And whenHe had called the people
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unto Him withHis disciples also,
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He said unto them,“Whosoever will come after Me,
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let him deny himself, take uphis cross, and follow Me.”
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Acts 2:21, “And itshall come to pass
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that whosoever shall callon the name of the Lord
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shall be saved.”
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Acts 10:43, “To him giveall the prophets witness,
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that through His namewhosoever believeth in Him
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shall receiveremission of sins.”
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Romans 10:13,“For whosoever shall call
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upon the name ofthe Lord shall be saved.”
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Revelation 22:17, and thisis just...Verse 21,
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it's the last verseof the Bible,
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just four verses herebefore the end of the Bible.
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“And the Spirit andthe Bride say, “Come.”
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And let him thatheareth say, “Come.”
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And let him thatis athirst come.
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And whosoever will”...thisis how the Bible ends,
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“let him take the waterof life freely.”
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And the most famousverse of the Bible,
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John 3:16, “For Godso loved the world
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that He gave Hisonly begotten Son,
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that whosoever believethin Him should not perish,
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but shall haveeverlasting life.”
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Whosoever will.
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Here's what I'm telling you.
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I'm telling everyone that'shearing me right now
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or looking at me.
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You determine whereyou go for eternity.
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You can't blame God.
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You're going to determine it.
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You give your lifeto Jesus Christ,
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put your faith and trustin Him, you go to heaven.
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If you don't,you go to hell.
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It's up to you.
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ROBERT: “Whosoever will,”some of the greatest words
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in the Bible,and here's what it means.
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You have a choice about whereyou're going to spend eternity.
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You have a choice about howyou're going to live your life.
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And I remember whenI made that choice.
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I was 19 years old,I was in a motel room,
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and I had grown up in church.
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I knew about God, but I'dnever really given Him
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control of my life,
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and I want to ask youto do that right now --
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right now.Right now.
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You are not watchingtoday by accident.
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You're watching today becauseGod loves you, God knows you.
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He knows you specificallyand you're watching today
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because God wants to changeyour life for the better.
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Obviously, He's not going tochange your life for the worse,
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and you know that,and you're feeling
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that conviction in your heart.
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Even though you believe in Godand maybe you've made
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a commitment in the past,
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I'm asking you to makea total commitment
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of your life toJesus Christ today.
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So right now, just asI'm here talking to you,
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will you justsimply say, “Jesus,
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I give You my life today?”
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Just tell Him that,“I give You my life.”
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Receive Jesusas your Lord and Savior,
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and we would love to help youany way that we can.
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You can call the numberon the screen,
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you can go to the website.
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Somehow, let us know, “I'mmaking a commitment to Christ,”
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and I want to send you somematerial to help you
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in your new life with Christ,and I want to tell you,
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I am so proud of youfor giving your life
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to Jesus today.
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And, thanks for watching,and I'm going to continue
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this series next time.
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I'll see you then.
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We'd also love to hear aboutwhat God is doing in your life
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as a result of applyingthese truths from His Word.
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Be sure to visit us onlineat PastorRobert.com
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to share your stories with us
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and to let us know about prayerneeds you may have.
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We look forward to hearingfrom you, and as always,
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thank you foryour generous support
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of Pastor RobertMorris Ministries.
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♪ ♪
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ANNOUNCER: Living your best lifeisn't about having a dream home,
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wonderful kids,or the ideal job.
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It's about changesin your family, health,
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and relationships.
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When God changes your heart,you'll discover
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that there is so muchmore to life.
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With humor, passion,and clarity,
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Pastor Robert presents,
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"The Secretsof Living Your Best Life."
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♪ ♪
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