Overview of Calvinism
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- Опубліковано 22 гру 2024
- Rev. Danny Jones
January 13, 2021
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Best teacher of God’s word on UA-cam. I wish I could attend this church.
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You have if you watched this! God bless
One of the best.
I love & respect Pastor Danny... I am a Biblist. We believe in some points with Calvinism & some with Arminianism.
We believe in both the Sovereignty of God & the free will of man.
We cannot earn our salvation, it is completely in God's power to save us & to keep us. But we believe we have to FREELY choose to accept His Salvation. We also believe that once you are born again, then you can never loose your salvation b/c God keeps us saved by His power.
We also believe that some people pray the sinners prayer in order to escape punishment but not truly want a relationship with Christ. Therefore those who do not continue to walk with the Lord reveals that they truly had not wanted a relationship with Christ.
So just as it was both Pharoah & God who hardened Pharaoh's heart, we believe it takes both God & man entering into a covenant relationship with each other freely in order for someone to be saved. That is why we believe Jesus died for the sin of the World but Salvation is only applied to those who freely choose to accept His Salvation. God Bless!
Amen.
Our whole family is so happy to have you back !!!
Amen!!
Just an amazing person! You can’t fathom what you are doing to touch the untouchable.
Thank you that was a wonderful explanation on Calvinism. I'm glad to see you back Pastor Danny. You and your family and Northlake always in our prayers. God bless and keep you and your family safe.
Thank you for singing the classic hymns. I love them so much!
I pray daily for you and your family 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼. So happy to know y'all are doing well. God is good all the time!!!
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@@tonybasoni8443 you have stated no proof to back up anything you said. Also, where is your picture? Deception. . .
Again, I will pray for you. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 God is good all the time. ❤️✝️❤️
I am so glad you and laura are well :)
Very glad and happy to see you back and well. Praying for a full recovery for your wife as well.
May I humbly recommend a wonderful book on the subject?
"The Doctrines of Grace, Rediscovering the Evangelical Gospel" by James Montgomery Boice and Philip Graham Ryken
"What has replaced the gospel of grace is a message that is partially biblical but ultimately self-centered."
(Doctrines of Grace, pg. 23)
"The world should realize with increased clearness that Evangelicalism stands or falls with Calvinism."
Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield
Wonderful.
So happy you are back!!
So happy you are back.
Amen and Amen.
James 2:17-18
Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead.
18 But someone will say, “You have faith; I have deeds.”
Show me your faith without deeds, and I will show you my faith by my deeds. (NIV)
James 2: 24 A person is considered righteous by what they do and not by faith alone. (NIV)
Calvinists are very proud of saying they base their theology on Augustine. But the truth is that just like with Scripture, with Augustine they are very guilty of "selective citation". If they would read something other than his dogmatic works, such as his letters and sermons, they would know better. But I am not holding my breath waiting for that to happen!
Glad you explained this.
So so happy to see you are Calvinistic!!!
Calvinism is not Christian. It’s cultism.
At 11:05, here is how I have explained that passage before in my own church when that came up... First, we have to be VERY careful about how creaturely "free will" is defined. When it comes to the creature, we may say that his will is not coerced, but to say that his will is free in any autonomous or libertarian sense would be far too grandiose a term for him. To back up to Exodus 4:21, we see that it is God who maintains ultimate and absolute control over the hardening of Pharaoh's heart.
God never forces any moral agent to do evil, but by so ordering the facts and circumstances of their lives, and by only permitting them to do those wicked things that serve God’s purposes, (wicked things that they do willingly and wantonly for their own intentions) God ordains sin to exist, He maintains absolute control over it, but He does so without being its author.
Take a look at the following passage:
Isaiah 63:17 - Why, O Lord, do You cause us to stray from Your ways and harden our heart from fearing You? Return for the sake of Your servants, the tribes of Your heritage.
In this passage of Isaiah, the prophet ascribes to God the ultimate causality for Israel’s wandering into sin… The second part of the verse declares that it was not by God’s direct intervention though, somehow making them sin, but rather, since the prophet’s plea is for God to “return for the sake of Your servants,” we see that it was the absence of God that resulted in man’s sinfulness. God did not make them sin, but rather, by leaving them to their own devices, their own choices, void of the counsel and presence of God resulted in sin.
This idea is again seen in Isaiah 64:7 where the prophet declares: “There is no one who calls on Your name, who arouses himself to take hold of You; for You have hidden Your face from us and have delivered us into the power of our iniquities.”
I agree...the kicker is the term ‘free will’. Our will is enslaved to our lost condition before we are born again...we are able to make choices, but they are not free the way Adam’s choice was before the fall.
Well put!! We are all dead in our trespasses and sins. Apart from God intervention to quicken our dead soul, we can’t come to Him, or want to because we love darkness rather than light. Thank God that while were still sinners, Christ died for us!
I still respect Pastor Danny, but I disagree with his interpretation of Armenians. We do NOT believe that man does anything to earn his salvation. It is by faith, through Christ's death on the cross. There is no way to earn it. Free will comes in by accepting or rejecting that gift. Man is responsible for his choice. It is a gift that is freely given to ALL.
(I apologize for my lengthy response here, but I MUST be thorough...)
According to scripture, man does not have the ability to subject himself to God (Romans 8:7, and 9:16, 18); so for you to say that your salvation depends upon your accepting or rejecting God's gift is to go way beyond the teaching of scripture.
Faith is not the root of our salvation, otherwise it would be a meritorious work that we perform, but rather, it is the fruit of our salvation (Galatians 5:22, cf. Matthew 7:16-17); it is God’s work on man’s behalf (John 6:29), and is gifted to man (cf. Philippians 1:29, Ephesians 2:8-9) through justification; it is the believer’s connection with God, and it is the means through which God operates in his life for sanctification. Remember, faith in Jesus does not save anyone (cf. James 2:19), rather, Jesus saves individuals through faith; see the emphasis? Faith is not the impetus of salvation, Jesus is (John 6:37-44) - grace is the root of salvation, and faith is one of the fruits that it produces (Galatians 5:22).
Biblical, saving faith is not “believing IN God” (that is, merely believing in the existence of God, or, merely acquiescing to certain facts about God, cf. James 2:19), rather, saving faith is “believing God,” (“Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness” - Galatians 3:6) it is a sense of trust that is built upon an abundance of evidence. Since true faith is demonstrated by its works (James 2:14-26), the one who has a true, saving faith will have the conviction to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God (Deuteronomy 8:3, Matthew 4:4), being assured of the promises in His word because he knows Him, and he knows who He is; these good works are not a part of faith as if they were a requisite to salvation, but rather, they are the natural outflowing attitudes and actions that are the good and proper response to salvation; faith is the outward demonstration of an inward conviction.
To assert that an unbelieving individual could have believing faith would be to assert that an unbelieving person would have the inward conviction to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God before he has the conviction, assurance, and hope of God and of the truth of His promises (cf. Hebrews 11:1); this is a contradiction… Faith is a fruit of regeneration (Galatians 5:22) because it simply cannot precede it (Romans 8:7-8). The Holy Spirit must first convict the individual concerning sin, righteousness, and judgment (John 16:8, cf. Jude 1:14-15), regenerating him by giving him the ability to hear and to be taught of God (Ezekiel 11:19, 36:26, John 6:45, Mark 4:9, John 8:43, Titus 3:5), and this regeneration then produces faith (John 3:3, 5), that is, it produces in him the inward conviction to live by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God, and that desire is demonstrated in his works (James 2:14-26). But this process of conviction is entirely passive on man’s part - this is a work of God in man (John 6:29, Philippians 2:13). By definition, faith is something that is limited to those who belong to God as regenerated individuals who long to be pleasing in His sight; no godless individual can or would do this without God’s intervention (1 Corinthians 2:14). The only way to assert that an unbeliever can have Biblical faith is to redefine faith in an unbiblical manner.
If the unregenerate sinner sought salvation according to his own ability, it would be a work of the flesh and not of faith, “a bad tree cannot produce good fruit,” (Matthew 7:18) for Jesus said in John 3:6, “that which has been born of the flesh is flesh, and that which has been born of the Spirit is spirit.” Faith is a product of being born again (Galatians 5:22); anything that an individual does who is not born again is of the flesh.
Unregenerate man is incapable of initiating saving faith, however, once God has done a work of regeneration in him, he is able to exercise that faith initiated by God.
God knows those who will excepts his son as their Lord and savior, and those who will not. Those that deny Jesus, who call his sheep, commit the unforgivable sin.
@@lawrencestanley8989 I appreciate this explanation, thank you
I guess that makes me a Calvinist.
I know.😂I thought Calvinism was bad, but it looks like I am one, too.😂
the is the worst teacher ever. There are not only two camps, Arminias and Calvinist, there are more camps. I am not an Arminian, but what you are saying about Arminias is false. They do not believe they can save themselves. Also, the argument is not Calvin vs Jacob Arminious. The argument is 400 year church history where the church fathers taught that determinism and fate was gnostic teaching, opposite of determinism and fate is free will, because God made us in his own image, and we have the mind to use reason to know what is good and what is evil, the fall did not affect that. If all is determined as gnostic teaching said, then God is not just and also not good God, because He is the first cause of all evil, man can not do anything. but what God has already ordained for man to do, so God is the source or first cause of Evil. Augustine a gnostic manichean was the one who invented the philosophy of total depravity and double presdestination, and moved away from the teachings of the fathers. Determinism is incomparable with free will. This pastor is confused, if you are totally depraved you have no free will, you fate is already predestined to condemnation unless God elect you and regenerated you. Calvinist try to diminish the word world, because it shows Gods wants all to be saved, God so loved the world, Jesus the lamb who takes away the sins of the world, The Holy Spirit convicts the world. For them this is not all humankind, the funny thing is that even Calvin disagrees with that, Calvin himself says it world means all human kind, and whosoeve means also any, invitation to all. So Calvin himself was not a Calvinist when it comes to limited atonement. This gnostic philosophy created by Augustine. l