The Sovereignty of God Over Salvation

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  • @ApologiaStudios
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  • @ShamelesslyRed
    @ShamelesslyRed Рік тому +27

    Truly, I love this pastor. I love this channel. I love Dr. White. I grow and grow and grow some more each time I come to hear the sermons and debates. Thank you for that gift. And I signed up for Bahnsen U! Lol, praise God, I feel growth.

  • @Mrs.C-6721
    @Mrs.C-6721 Рік тому +8

    Thank you Pastor Jeff! Praying for the brethren daily!
    Maranatha 🙌

  • @Lonesoul9791
    @Lonesoul9791 11 місяців тому

    What a great teaching…and what a GREAT GOD!

  • @rlrieth
    @rlrieth 11 місяців тому +1

    The people that are blessed to hear Jeff’s sermons regularly are so fortunate. I looked at the title and thought, hmm, I’m not really sure this will be great but no. Jeff makes every sermon epic.

  • @joepepevaldez1683
    @joepepevaldez1683 10 місяців тому

    Wow! What a Wonderful message!
    A Powerful sermon!
    Sure to share this to many!!

  • @raven32011
    @raven32011 Рік тому +9

    Please pray for me to have wisdom and knowledge and discernment in his God word's and my daily life, and God would work for my life for his glory and honor to him and financial blessings and strength..Thank You

    • @DjSostre7
      @DjSostre7 Рік тому +3

      I'll be in prayer for you.

    • @DjSostre7
      @DjSostre7 Рік тому +4

      And let me just encourage as well. The simple fact, that you're DESIRING these things, tells me Gods hand is already on you and YOUR prayers. So KEEP asking. No natural man/lost man wants Gods wisdom and understanding in the word of God, nor does a lost man want to glorify Him. So I encourage. Keep asking, Gods hand is there.

    • @raven32011
      @raven32011 Рік тому +2

      Thank you

  • @faithannbasore8422
    @faithannbasore8422 Рік тому +2

    Amen! 100% from beginning to end. Praise the Lord

  • @anthonycarbonaro7890
    @anthonycarbonaro7890 7 місяців тому

    Very excellent presentation!!
    Blessings 🙏

  • @tonya1802
    @tonya1802 Рік тому +2

    Another amazing sermon, thanks again Pastor Jeff.

  • @danthoreson4062
    @danthoreson4062 Рік тому

    Thank You

  • @raven32011
    @raven32011 Рік тому +8

    Please pray for Melanie cherifi for salvation and her family as well. Thank you

  • @dimitriabailey9087
    @dimitriabailey9087 Рік тому

    I love this, particularly the last part, about sharing the Gospel 🎉❤🎉❤

  • @martinbuck4129
    @martinbuck4129 Рік тому +3

    God has predestined his people. The world won’t end until all of Jesus a sheep have heard his voice and follow him into salvation. We must preach the gospel of the kingdom, so they here and follow Christ when all have come He(Jesus) will present them to the Father.

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +3

      @martinbuck4129 if God has predestined who will be saved then your preaching will not do anything.
      Or are you claiming that by preaching you can change who God has predestined?

    • @enriquemoure7212
      @enriquemoure7212 Рік тому +1

      @@apilkey good question which a Calvinist can't answer because it goes against his 5 point TULIP theology. they believe all events in human history, good and evil, have been predestined by their god. when a Calvinist asks for prayer or prays he is contradicting himself. his god can't alter what he predestined to happen in eternity's past. this would be funny if it wasn't so sad and tragic.

    • @enriquemoure7212
      @enriquemoure7212 Рік тому

      @martinbuck4129 Calvin's words: “The first man fell because the Lord deemed it meet that he should.” Book 3, Chapter 23, s. 8
      "I admit that in this miserable condition wherein men are now bound, all of Adam's children have fallen by God's will." Book 3, Ch 23, s. 4
      "Again I ask: whence does it happen that Adam's fall irremediably involved so many peoples, together with their infant offspring, in eternal death unless because it so pleased God? ... The decree is dreadful indeed, I confess. Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree." Book 3, Ch 23, s. 7
      BIBLE SAYS: "The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart." Gen. 6:5, 6
      QUESTION. if God predestined Adam to sin because it was His will for this event to happen, HOW could God have genuine disappointment and failed expectation about what He had predestined to happen? WHY did He regret creating man if God wanted Adam to sin so that he would corrupt humanity? atheists have asked this question many times. WHAT SAYEST THOU?

    • @rlrieth
      @rlrieth 11 місяців тому

      @@apilkey. Who died and made you God? What difference does it make if God predestined those He has as His from the beginning of time? YOU don’t know. YOU are just a humble person who is tasked with the Great Commission. Who are you to question God? I find this type of comment arrogant and prideful

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey 11 місяців тому +1

      @@rlrieth No one died and made me God.
      The difference it makes if God predestined those He has as His from the beginning of time is that thats UNBIBLICAL and found nowhere in scripture.
      So yes I DO know because He’s revealed in His Word that Biblical predestination has absolutely nothing to do with unconditionally predestining unbelievers to salvation from before the foundation of the world.
      You’re the only one questioning God here.

  • @TonyMartinez-wr7ck
    @TonyMartinez-wr7ck Рік тому

    Amen ! it’s all about God and His Glory

  • @elizabethhartley8987
    @elizabethhartley8987 Рік тому

    Brilliant

  • @groundedfitness2685
    @groundedfitness2685 Рік тому +1

    Amen 🙏

  • @douglasmcnay644
    @douglasmcnay644 Рік тому +11

    Jeff brought up a point that I have also noticed constantly when people bring up the question of "What about free will?", which is "Where are you getting this concept of 'free will' in the first place?" Many simply assume that such a thing even exists and then when Scripture directly contradicts that belief, they go on a crusade to try and subjugate God's Word to fit their sensibilities.
    Instead, as believers, we are to go to God's word with the idea that "If what I believe is wrong according to Scripture, then let God be right and every man a liar." But sadly many dig in their heels and double down, even going so far as making God into the big cosmic cleanup maid or simply the biggest fortune teller or even worse, stripping from Him His omniscience and sovereignty.
    A perfect example of having our natural ideas/intuitions corrected by Scripture has to do with something that at one point or another practically EVERYONE genuinely believes in: the concepts of luck and chance. Many people have lived and died truly believing that luck/chance are real things and live according to that belief, that sometimes you just have good luck and sometimes bad luck. But when you read:
    “The lot is cast into the lap, But its every decision is from the Lord.”
    Proverbs 16:33
    you must face the reality that your intuition has been wrong and you should discard a closely held belief and instead believe what God's Word says so clearly. Such is the case with "free will", which Luther and others recognized is not only foreign to Scripture, but in direct opposition to it. When you get right down to it, "free will" is another way of saying "autonomy", which in a very literal sense means "self rule". Doesn't that sound EXACTLY like what the serpent promised in the garden of Eden? If the adversary himself is enticing our first parents with such a belief, perhaps we should take serious pause before affirming it.
    ‭‭

    • @caseycockerham3925
      @caseycockerham3925 Рік тому +2

      Excellent explanation 👏👏👏

    • @wishuhadmyname
      @wishuhadmyname Рік тому

      Many people have been almost offended when I point out that "free will" comes from pagan philosophy (and even many pagans throughout the ages have denied it) and not Scripture, yet no one has been able to prove me wrong

    • @TheGenAsis09
      @TheGenAsis09 Рік тому

      Amen!

    • @ter8330
      @ter8330 Рік тому

      I am free to wear green shoes
      i chose to wear those green shoes
      God however knew I was going to choose them
      THAT is free will
      No one has free will over salvation. You can't you are completely utterly totally dead.

    • @ter8330
      @ter8330 Рік тому

      I am free to wear green shoes
      i chose to wear those green shoes
      God however knew I was going to choose them
      THAT is free will
      No one has free will over salvation. You can't you are completely utterly totally dead.

  • @michaelsowerby8198
    @michaelsowerby8198 Рік тому

    Short for Jeff!

  • @AllSven
    @AllSven Рік тому +2

    This is a hard truth but it must be heard. You can want to be saved - and it may never happen. Esau sought it with tears.

    • @wishuhadmyname
      @wishuhadmyname Рік тому +7

      No one who is of the non-elect wants to be saved. In our slavery to sin, we love it and hate God. The only way to even want to be saved is if God first begins regeneration in us

    • @ter8330
      @ter8330 Рік тому +4

      i don't know if you can argue that esau wanted salvation per se. he was seeking acceptance for the offering he gave God

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +1

      @AllSven Esau didn’t seek salvation with tears, he sought his birthright with tears 🤦‍♂️.
      You might want to dust your Bible off and re-read it .

    • @AllSven
      @AllSven Рік тому

      @@apilkey so - smug postmillennial - you think that the verse in reference - Hebrews 12:17 - isn’t a lesson about it being too late for God’s grace?? How ignorant you are. Time will run out for certain people while they are here on earth - the door may already be shut and they don’t even know it - haven’t you ever heard of SEEK THE LORD WHILE HE MAY BE FOUND!?!? Of course - you’re an ignorant postmillennial - so you are probably believe in heretical Arminianism and also believe most people will be saved via deathbed conversions.

  • @raven32011
    @raven32011 Рік тому +1

    Hi everyone

  • @oliverjamito9902
    @oliverjamito9902 Рік тому

    Royal Bloods is not resting upon colors! For all colors are my COLOR. Who among will say i am this colors? Indeed as ye all say 1ST. As a little "i" a Child with the AM. From here = existence and yet to come...knows belongs? COMES with Honor and Gratitude unto thee my HIER Jeff! Who is worth respecting, honoring, loving, and as the "AM" giving my life for a friend kind of love. For many have made God of the Living of life unapproachable! My FRIEND JEFF! A FRIEND

  • @lawrencestanley8989
    @lawrencestanley8989 Рік тому +1

    At around 43:30 when he mentions Ephesians 1:11, I'm so glad he brought this up because this is a HUGE stumbling block for traditionalists who adhere to traditions rather than scripture such as this Stoic philosophy of free will.
    In Ephesians 1:11, we see that God “works all things according to the counsel of His will.” This “all things,” according to verse 10 includes all things in the heavens and all things on the earth. And according to Colossians 1:16, this “all things” both in the heavens and on earth includes all things “visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities,” so it isn't just physical things, but also actions, circumstances, and even the thoughts and wills of men (Cf. Psalm 105:25). The word translated into English as “work” is the transitive verb “ἐνεργέω," which, as a transitive verb, it has a direct object (“all things”) and it means “to effect” that direct object. Since all “effects” must have a sufficient cause, this passage quite literally makes God the ultimate cause of all things in heaven and on earth.
    The same transitive verb construction is seen in Ephesians 1:19, 1 Corinthians 12:6, 11, Galatians 3:5, Philippians 2:13; see Thayer’s, pg. 215.

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +1

      @lawrencestanley8989 you’ve been called out before on twisting this passage so it says something it doesn’t.
      And yet here you are again doing it.
      All this verse says is that God “works all things” and does NOT say He “determines all things.”
      QUESTION: If God has decreed everything or determined everything, the what exactly is He “working”?
      Is God “working together His OWN decree???”
      The only way this passage can make any logical and rational sense is if mankind does in fact have freewill.
      Otherwise God is just working His own determinations 🤦‍♂️.

    • @lawrencestanley8989
      @lawrencestanley8989 Рік тому

      @@apilkey
      You make at least two fatal errors:
      1) You let an English word drive the meaning of the text and ignore the Greek - the Greek completely dismantles your position.
      2) You have as your presupposition the Stoic philosophy of "free will" and you attempt to import it into the text.
      As long as you do these things, the Bible will remain a mystery to you. You must be broken free from this Stoicism.

    • @elizabethhartley8987
      @elizabethhartley8987 Рік тому

      @@apilkeyif Gods not in control of everything God is not God palm 115 -3.

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +1

      @@elizabethhartley8987 You said, “if God is not in control of everything God is not God”??
      Ummm ok, who’s saying God’s not in control of everything?
      Haven’t heard anyone say that and I don’t know anyone who believes He’s not do not quite sure who you’re addressing here with your comment.

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +1

      @@lawrencestanley8989 Didn’t make any errors and definitely not any fatal ones.
      1) The Greek doesn’t change anything.
      2) You have as your presupposition fatalism and you attempt to import that into the text.
      I don’t import freewill into the text at all.
      You’re importing fatalism and ASSUMING things this passage does not say.
      I’ll ask you a second time let’s see if you can answer me:
      👉QUESTION: If God has decreed everything or determined everything, the what exactly is He “working”?
      Is God “working together His OWN decree???”

  • @vwr32jeep
    @vwr32jeep 11 місяців тому

    I continue to struggle with the free will part. He is wrong that it does not appear in scripture. Jesus himself said in John 7:17
    “Anyone who chooses to do the will of God will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.”
    There are numerous other scriptures pointing to free will, as well as scriptures detailing predestination. I’ve heard it explained as the rails on a train track that parallel each other. In the distance they look like they meet, but never do.
    Apologia is by far my favorite church though. It’s too bad it’s not in Louisville. I might not be a 5 point Calvinist “yet”, but maybe it’ll make sense to me one day. I’ll keep tuning in.

  • @leonardopagels5927
    @leonardopagels5927 2 місяці тому

    Fer, ficou 9h orando?
    Nos estamos na igreja reformada e no Instituto também

  • @frogpaste
    @frogpaste 11 місяців тому +1

    So who are those that the Father gives to the Son? It seems assumed that it's the Elect but I don't see that in John 6. Rather, isn't it all who hear and believe the words of Jesus that the Father gives to the Son?

  • @Guy-xr8lj
    @Guy-xr8lj Рік тому +2

    They call reformed people prideful when they talk like this. Pual said he boasted in christ. I bet the polytheistic Roman's thought he was prideful as well. You mean your God is the only true God and the only one who exists?

  • @oliverjamito9902
    @oliverjamito9902 Рік тому

    Many will say HE IS A DRAGON, BEAST...To blasphemy thy FRIEND JEFF! A FRIEND yes, will removed the scales from their EYES! What is beyond the eyes can see? But to be given New Eyes to see! Beyond the eyes can see? The eyes of thy Flesh is the light of thy body. Likewise can be DECIEVE! But these New Eyes it's a privilege INDEED! Students, Hosts, and my Beautiful= reason all these exist and yet to come! Now ye all know? What is silent? Heard.

  • @alexbowers3404
    @alexbowers3404 Рік тому

    The bible is a spell-binding talisman. The actual records touched on in this book came from the 500,000 cuneiform clay texts of Sumer-Ur that archived the 1/4 million year history of their peoples (Anunnaki) 12,000 years before King James was even born.

  • @MattyD315apologetics
    @MattyD315apologetics Рік тому

    What translation yall reckon he's reading from, ESV perhaps? He seems to like the ESV based on conversations I've heard him have.

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +1

      Yes all Calvinists do.
      The ESV twists words and phrases in order to support Calvinism.

    • @thomasberar4311
      @thomasberar4311 Рік тому

      @@apilkey “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
      ‭‭John‬ ‭6‬:‭44‬ ‭KJV‬‬
      What translation would tickle your fancy?

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +1

      @@thomasberar4311Thank you for proving my above point.
      John 6:44 doesn’t say some people aren’t drawn but that’s what it would need to say if Calvinism were true.
      Please show me 1 passage of scripture that states not all men are drawn?
      ...because I can provide a passage that clearly and explicitly states all men are drawn:
      JOHN 12:32
      32 32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw ALL men unto me.
      I’ll wait for a passage of scripture that explicitly states not all men are drawn or only some people are drawn.
      If you can’t provide one then that means your religion is not based on scripture but is man-centred.

    • @YeshuaIsLord135
      @YeshuaIsLord135 Рік тому

      @@apilkeyJohn 12:32 Greek to English And I, If I am lifted up from the earth, all will draw to myself. That’s talking about Jesus sheep or merely everyone in the entire world ? You wouldn’t call yourself a universalist would you ? Meaning you think everyone in the world will go to heaven ? That’s heresy. Is Jesus merely talking about the whole entire world ? Or is he speaking about his sheep which he called, justified, and redeemed. I would reckon he’s speaking about his sheep because that call is EFFECTUAL not merely him trying to save and it not happening. What you are saying my friend with all due respect is that God has failed to effectively call his sheep which isn’t the case he has effectively called and justified his sheep who he died for. John 10:11 Greek to English I am the Shepard Good. The Shepard good, the life of him lays down for the sheep

    • @YeshuaIsLord135
      @YeshuaIsLord135 Рік тому

      @@apilkeyshow me where Christ says he lays his down life for the whole entire world cause I don’t see it I think John forgot to add that part

  • @richardcarthorn6408
    @richardcarthorn6408 Рік тому +1

    I like when you say you don't understand certain things.. but , I don't want to darken council by words without knowledge, ,answer me this? so God so loved the chosen, that he gave his only begotten son, ,that the chosen that believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life .,,or God is not willing that (any) ,,I mean that the chosen shall not perish, ,but come to repentance, or go preach the gospel to the chosen because we don't know who they are ,,or,, Adam and Satan was predestine to sin,,,, or God's sovereignty means he has to orchestrate in order to know everything. was Satan's will free?? was adam 's will free?? I believe that God's allowance, and his wisdom of his omniscient ,and his sovereignty are truths that worked together, you know,, like three in one, one in three. if this is not the case, God let (choose) some to perish, . yes,, who am I ,oh man to question the potter, as in romans 9:20-21 I truly don't understand. please explain ,If you can. yours truly ,two sides{truths) of the same coin. GOD Bless.

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +1

      @richardcarthorn6408 Calvinism is unbiblical flee this doctrine and don’t listen to a word these men preach.
      They are fools professing themselves to be wise and leading thousands astray.
      God died for all of humanity without exception and the genuine offer of salvation is to whosoever.
      God is no respecter of persons.

  • @enriquemoure7212
    @enriquemoure7212 Рік тому

    Calvin's words: “The first man fell because the Lord deemed it meet that he should.” Book 3, Chapter 23, s. 8
    "I admit that in this miserable condition wherein men are now bound, all of Adam's children have fallen by God's will." Book 3, Ch 23, s. 4
    "Again I ask: whence does it happen that Adam's fall irremediably involved so many peoples, together with their infant offspring, in eternal death unless because it so pleased God? ... The decree is dreadful indeed, I confess. Yet no one can deny that God foreknew what end man was to have before he created him, and consequently foreknew because he so ordained by his decree." Book 3, Ch 23, s. 7
    BIBLE SAYS: "The Lord saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And the Lord regretted that He had made man on the earth, and it grieved Him to His heart."
    Gen. 6:5, 6
    QUESTION for Calvies. if God predestined Adam to sin because it was His will for this event to happen, WHY was He shocked when He saw how corrupted mankind became? WHY did He regret creating man if God knew this would be the outcome of Adam's sin? atheists have asked this question to many Christians. WHAT SAYEST THOU?

  • @alanhales6369
    @alanhales6369 Рік тому +4

    There's no such Biblical thing as the sovereignty of God as the Calvinist's teach. Calvinist's must believe that God contradicts Himself.
    Calvinist's must believe that God is an unjust sinful dictator who is the author of every bad and evil thing.
    God, in His sovereignty, has put His will in His word, the problem with calvinist's, is they don't know the Bible, either that or they don't believe it.

    • @apilkey
      @apilkey Рік тому +2

      @alanhales6369 amen exactly.
      Sovereignty does not equal exhaustive divine determinism.
      Never has and never will.
      God is not sovereign in Calvinism because He’s not free to do what He wants.
      Calvinists confine God to a tiny little man made box and tell Him who He can or can’t save.
      God’s revealed to us in His Word that He’s pleaded to save anyone who believes.
      The free and genuine gift of salvation is to whosoever and not just a select group of elitists.

  • @tree777tree3
    @tree777tree3 Рік тому

    Doesn't God having control over everything, every detail mean we have no free will. And he's likes some of us and condemns some of us because of his will?

    • @douglasmcnay644
      @douglasmcnay644 Рік тому +1

      God is indeed in control of all facets of life. However, your second statement could use some clarification. In His sovereignty He has decided to show mercy to some undeserving sinners and has decided to not show mercy to other undeserving sinners. The reprobate are not condemned because God didn't give them mercy; they are condemned because they have sinned and hate God.

    • @tree777tree3
      @tree777tree3 Рік тому +1

      @@douglasmcnay644 yea but they sinned and hated God because it was his will. They had no choice

    • @douglasmcnay644
      @douglasmcnay644 Рік тому +2

      You are making it sound like God is coercing/forcing people into sinning, which is not at all the case. You seem to imply that people don't want to sin and God comes along and makes them do evil and then punishes for doing so. Is it not true (if you are brutally honest with yourself) that every time you have committed sin, it is because deep down you wanted to? People make these kinds of choices all the time, but in the unregenerate state their decisions will always be sinful and wicked because that is their nature. They are more than happen to be enslaved to their sin. It is only when God steps in and gives a new heart that the desires change from wanting sin to wanting righteousness and holiness.

    • @tricord2939
      @tricord2939 Рік тому +2

      @@tree777tree3I see you didn’t view the video.

    • @tree777tree3
      @tree777tree3 Рік тому +1

      @@douglasmcnay644 if he has written the story from the beginning how is that not what he's doing. For there to be true free will he would have to not no the outcome of the story. It's like saying a character in a book has free will

  • @raygsbrelcik5578
    @raygsbrelcik5578 Рік тому +1

    GOD IS ONE-----NOT THREE!!

    • @thavith
      @thavith Рік тому +9

      You are spot on, GOD IS ONE. One being with 3 persons...

    • @Yesica1993
      @Yesica1993 Рік тому +3

      Bingo!@@thavith

    • @Kingofkings559
      @Kingofkings559 Рік тому +4

      You're right. The triune God is One.

    • @QuakerTaker
      @QuakerTaker 9 місяців тому

      Father Spirit Son
      you have no Bible and no savior you are headed for your doom, repent

    • @betocastro8910
      @betocastro8910 6 місяців тому +1

      Dear @raygsbrelcik5578 Jesus is the only God 🙏