Sin and Conscience: Having Certainty of Being Forgiven - Tim Conway
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- "The eye of the conscience is now redirected. It doesn't focus on my sins and on my guilt and on my inward pollution. Where does it go, when I'm under the blood and my conscience is free and it's all liberated? Then where's my heart going? Well, it's going to the glories in Revelation four and five. And I'm thinking of Christ high and lifted up. And I'm thinking of all of his perfections and his blood and his glories, and the unsearchable riches of Christ and all of it. The deliverance by that blood, and the wonders of his righteousness of Christ sitting on that throne. And there he is, and he's the one who is worthy, worthy, worthy. And he can open the scroll. And I'm thinking of all those things, and I'm lifted up and I'm carried away. And yes, my conscience is well aware that I still sin, but my conscience is well aware that there's a courtroom of God. And because of the blood, none of these things can be laid to my account anymore. They're not accusing me anymore. And so I'm free." - Tim Conway
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0:00 Hebrews 9 and 10: A Theology of Sin, Part 2.
2:16 "Put yourselves in this verse... 'It is appointed for ME...'."
8:47 Why Are We There on Judgment Day?
13:38 Believe in Christ and You Won't Come into Judgment.
20:11 Beware of Your Calvinism.
21:16 My Main Question: How Do I Know My Sin Has Truly Been Dealt With?
26:23 Sin and Conscience...
28:10 What Does "Cannot Perfect the Conscience" Mean in Hebrews?
37:28 "God Cleanses the Conscience from Three Things."
45:05 Secondly, A Conscience Cleansed from a Consciousness of Sin.
49:08 Thirdly, A Conscience Cleansed from Dead Works.
56:39 Find That Your Life Is in Christ!
1:01:41 One Word from the Lord Speaking Peace to Your Conscience.
1:04:23 Don't Settle for a Christianity That Leaves Us at a Distance from God.
1:06:22 What Does Your Conscience Indicate?
1:08:48 Closing Prayer.
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0:00 Hebrews 9 and 10: A Theology of Sin, Part 2.
2:16 "Put yourselves in this verse... 'It is appointed for ME...'."
8:47 Why Are We There on Judgment Day?
13:38 Believe in Christ and You Won't Come into Judgment.
20:11 Beware of Your Calvinism.
21:16 My Main Question: How Do I Know My Sin Has Truly Been Dealt With?
26:23 Sin and Conscience...
28:10 What Does "Cannot Perfect the Conscience" Mean in Hebrews?
37:28 "God Cleanses the Conscience from Three Things."
45:05 Secondly, A Conscience Cleansed from a Consciousness of Sin.
49:08 Thirdly, A Conscience Cleansed from Dead Works.
56:39 Find That Your Life Is in Christ!
1:01:41 One Word from the Lord Speaking Peace to Your Conscience.
1:04:23 Don't Settle for a Christianity That Leaves Us at a Distance from God.
1:06:22 What Does Your Conscience Indicate?
1:08:48 Closing Prayer.
So what do I do? What do I pray???
Ive been struggling with this on and off, more on, for around 21 years. How do I get God to sprinkle my conscience?
@@Perktube1 First know that you don't GET to make God do absolutely anything. It's HIS will and HIS time, not yours. But what you CAN do is pray. So ask in prayer. You don't need perfect words, just talk to God, tell Him your weaknesses, find peace in His presence, but if you want better words, there's nothing better than the Word itself. Pray verses, pray psalms, believing His Word. Keep on asking.
I feel like I was saved about a year and a half ago. I was convicted of my wrong standing before God. After a few weeks of going to church and watching Christian videos online, I heard the Gospel. I believed what I was hearing to be true. I can't pinpoint an exact moment of surrender, but my life has been radically different than what it used to be. I was full of peace and joy believing with great assurance that I was saved. Recently, that has not been the case. I just seem to doubt if I am truly saved or not. I think I do look at my repentance more than I look at Christ and His work on the cross. Please pray for me.
Lord, thank you for Tim Conway and for all your faithful preachers.
Tim really loves people
This has been on my mind for the last 8 months
This has been in my thoughts for the last 3 years 😥🙏
Yes, me too!
This sermon really stands out to me. It allows me to reach new heights in my faith in The Lord Jesus. May God bless you and keep you in His perfect love sir.
Beautiful moving message, Tim. Thank you.
I love this teaching forever ❤
James could you pass my thanks to Tim for helping me refocus my conscious
Thank you Tim! Its definitely a personal conscience decision to choose to repent and believe in Christ and accept his hand in marriage! We cannot do it, but he can and has!
This is so helpful to understand! I was religous and very active in a church for a long time. I accepted Jesus as real. But I was not born again, I had no life. I never felt free of my sin. I always felt guilt and reproach. I did good things but I couldn't rest. It was awful. When I sin now in time I feel the need to repent and I do. It hurts to know you have sinned against Jesus. But its not the same burning of shame that never lets up.
@GraceAlone If you believe in Jesus then you are born again with the Holy Spirit and All of your sins are forgiven, past, present and future, FOREVER!
He that believeth on him (Jesus) is Not condemned: but he that believeth Not is condemned already, Because he hath Not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18 KJV
This Guy is a False Teacher Don't listen to him.
Go to Onorato Diamante on UA-cam and listen to every video he has he teaches scripture properly and Salvation Insurance.
@@ElizabethW70 There is NO way someone will be a genuine Christian n accuse pastor Tim to this extent ‼️
"Election doesn't eliminate choosing. Oh beware of your Calvinism. Beware. It twists and distorts the gospel so easily, and the devil is right there to try to persuade you of it. Listen, the "Doctrines of Grace," what we call Calvinism, this Bible doesn't support that." Correctly stated by Pastor Tim.
I am so glad this sermon was used by God to convict a lady of her false profession of faith, and save her soul. Praise God.
In this message he said “you have a chance , you have to choose, but why reformed preachers says there is no free will. And also how to connect the teaching that there is not possible to loose salvation. Like a thought in my mind. Everyone of us sooner or later think something sinful
That's why, God is our PRIMARY Preacher. Calvinism, freeism, anythingism is therefore rubbish‼️
♥️🕊🙏🏼🙌🏼🔥Amen Amen🙏🏼
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I have a question for you tim I would like to hear a sermon on I have been wondering whats the difference between sowing in the spirit which reaps eternal life and being religious according to the bible also with obedience what is the difference between obedience to God which in the end leads to righteousness and being legalistic which leads somewhere different?
I must’ve missed it. So how do we get our conscience to speak peace to us? Sounds to me like he’s saying we need to have a confirmation feeling type of thing that has to happen. Scripture don’t say we are saved by emotions or experiences. I’ve been seeking for ten years and still don’t have assurance of salvation. Well with some sort of experience backing it up. I only have assurance bc of the Lords promises.
God speaks to the conscience? When? How?
A newer Christian here, just had a question. Something I got from the sermon was that if I have a conscience that is not at peace all the time, that it most likely means that I am not saved. I’ve struggled with assurance since my conversion, so much so that I would have panic attacks about going to hell. But through prayer and biblically counseling I’ve had seasons of relief, but it is a constant battle to believe that Christ’s work is finished and that I have the forgiveness of sins through his blood. My conscience condemns me, I do struggle with sin but my hope is in Christ’s Cross. I think of Martin Luther, who even after his conversion had seasons of condemning thoughts, referred to as “Anfechtungen”. If I struggle with assurance, or my conscience at times condemns me, does Tim mean that I may not be saved? Or am I misinterpreting?
I think that wasn't Tim's point, since he spoke of our need to continue being pointed back to the blood in the face of lies. It's not that the Christian constantly has peace, but that is his normative experience. What happens when you look to Jesus when experiencing a guilty conscience? The non-Christian does not get a sense of peace from looking to the blood.
Hope this helps
@@joeh8130 That does help, thank you for your response!
Condemnation does not come from God! If your feeling condemned it's the Enemy! Christ came to give us salvation, not Condemnation but salvation thru repentance! I've suffered with Condemnation but am learning to combat it with repentance and the truth that is Jesus has redeemed me , it is finished he has done it! Our job is to turn to our Lord Jesus and trust him with ourselves and others. Thank you Jesus!
44:07 - the key, i think.
Another watcher kindly sent me the 'Statement of Faith' from Pastor Tim's church. He has since deleted it - but I did make a few comments that might be helpful to others.
QUOTE 1: "Though God sovereignly elects some to salvation, while passing over others, nevertheless, all men are responsible to repent of their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ."
REPLY: If God chooses some for salvation - then He automatically damns (for no good reason) some to hell. He doesn't just pass over them. Being sovereign He COULD save them all - if He wanted to - but chooses not to. To overcome this ugly view of God - Calvinism then states that men are still responsible to repent of their sins - so it is their fault.
[1] But how can they repent - if they are totally dead in sin and completely unable to respond to the gospel? If you say God has to regenerate them first (but no Scripture states this) then why could He not regenerate ALL men - because He "desires all men to be saved." What is stopping Him?
[2] How can those who have already been damned to hell before they were born have an opportunity to repent - if they are already on their way to hell? Their destiny has already been settled. How then (on Judgement Day) can God justly condemn them - for they are NOT "without excuse" (Rom.1). In fact, they have a jolly good excuse for not repenting, don't they? They can say that God had already decided on their destiny before they were born (before they could do anything good or evil).
[3] Also, this doctrine portrays God showing favouritism - which Scripture says it is impossible for Him to do.
QUOTE 2: "Election is God’s eternal choice of some persons unto everlasting life, not based on anything God foresaw in the sinner, but based entirely on His mercy to choose them."
REPLY: If His saving of the few shows His mercy - what does His damnation of the many show? Cruelty? Favouritism? I am sorry, but these doctrines do not portray the God I serve.
QUOTE 3: "While, on the other hand, those who refuse to repent of their sins and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ incur guilt in so doing and are personally responsible for their own willful rejection of the Gospel."
REPLY: But they CANNOT repent - if Calvinism is correct - so they are NOT responsible. Calvinism cannot say they "refuse to repent" if they [1] have no free will, [2] are totally dead in sin and unable to repent, and [3] God has chosen them for damnation before they were born!
If the "T" petal of the T.U.L.I.P. is correct - these sinners are too dead in sin to repent (they are TOTALLY depraved). And if they have not been regenerated they cannot believe and repent anyway. It is a catch-22 situation. If God doesn't like them for some reason they are just doomed. I have never been able to see how anyone can believe in all these contradictory statements.
QUOTE 4: "And all those who do repent and believe, will most certainly be saved."
REPLY: Yes, I agree with that. All mankind has been drawn and called by God to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and repent of their sins. I believe this because the Bible says we have free will and can choose to accept or reject Jesus on hearing the gospel (see John 1:9-13). However, the Calvinist doctrine says that some have already been appointed to salvation before they were born - so they will automatically believe and repent. The simplicity of the gospel is that the Almighty already knows those who WILL be saved (by His foreknowledge) - those who will later believe and repent - and He has already called the 'elect' or 'chosen.'
QUOTE 5: "Though all of God’s saints will certainly persevere to the end, many professing Christians do, however, fall away from the faith, which only serves to prove that such individuals were never truly saved by God and that something was defective with their faith."
REPLY: But our Lord Jesus says in John 15:1-11 that those Christians who fail to abide in the Vine and obey His commands will be eternally lost. Yes, this is a major blow to the doctrine of OSAS or the "Perseverance of the Saints" - but it cannot be refuted.
Also, if Pastor Tim believes those who "fall away" were never saved in the first place, why does he so often correctly warn (as Jesus did) and plead with His congregation to be careful to continue in the faith "because only those who endure to the end will be saved" (as stated in such messages as "Keep Going"). Why warn and plead so earnestly if it is impossible to be lost?
I have to say, that although I do not believe in any of this Calvinist nonsense - I admire and respect Pastor Tim. Therefore, I try and ignore his Calvinism. But every once in a while I get annoyed and make comments on his YT videos. Please forgive me.
Could I get some clarity on condemnation from our conscious at the very end there? Scripture does seem to indicate our conscious can condemn us (1 John 3:18-24). Was Tim saying this is an indication you're not saved? Not trying to misconstrue what he's saying here, it's just a subject I've struggled with for years.
I'll go back and watch it again but still open to more dialogue.
Good question. I'd like to hear clarification as well.
Bible faith is not simply a passive belief of the declarations and promises of God, but it is an active, living principle that permeates the whole being, rules the life, and incites its possessor to action. We know that Abraham's faith was of this character, for the Lord himself said to Isaac: "Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws." Gen. 26:5.
The apostle James says, "Faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone." Jas. 2:17.
In proof of this proposition he cites the case of Abraham, thus: "Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar? Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?"
The apostle does not teach that works can by any means take the place of faith, but that real faith will work.
Abraham obeyed God because he had faith; and in the very act of obedience, his faith was strengthened.
This is well explained by these words of the apostle John: "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward God. And whatsoever we ask, we receive of him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight." 1 John 3:21, 22.
It is thus that "by works was faith made perfect" in the case of "the father of the faithful." And it is thus that faith must be perfected in each one of our cases.
Faith is implicit trust in, or confidence towards, God; but if our hearts condemn us, as they certainly will if we are living in sin, we cannot have this confidence, and consequently no true faith, but, like the devils, we also will believe only to tremble.
@@watchmanofthenight2700 Thank you for your thorough response. I truly believe that faith produces works. I don't understand when condemnation is used. It sounds like if your heart condemns you, you aren't saved. I hear that as if your heart convicts you of sin, then you aren't saved. As an example, if I was impatient to someone and said unloving words and then felt convicted of that sin, then I'm not saved? Is conviction of sin different than condemnation? Thank you for your time and care.
There are very few people who do not misunderstand this text, because they read into it something that it does not say.
The thought is that if our heart condemns us, God, who is greater than our heart, and knows all things, must condemns us far wore than our heart does.
This is just what the text does not say. If it did, there could be no hope for us; but we read that in this very thing, namely, that God knows all things, we are to assure our heart before Him. Yea, in the very things wherein our heart condemns us, we are to assure our heart, because the great God knows.
Yes, God knows all the sins of our heart long before we do.
Our sins are no revelation to Him, He has known all along and has borne with the sin. He has had all the load upon Himself. It is His patience and forbearance and long-suffering that has kept us alive. But "the longsuffering of our God is salvation."
Condemnation means death; and if God, knowing all things, even the depths of the sinfulness of our heart, had condemned us for it, He would not have kept us alive during all the years of sin.
God does not delight in seeing people suffer, that He should treat men as a cat does a mouse. He does not condemn people to death, and then keep them alive just to prolong their agony. But it is only in Him that we live, and the knowledge of this should give us confidence when our awakened conscience begins to condemn us. Who is he that condemneth? It is God that justifieth.
God justifies, instead of condemning; and nobody, not even our own heart, has any right to condemn when God justifies.
And so in the very moment of self-condemnation we find joy and peace. The only condemnation is when sight comes and is deliberately and finally rejected because the darkness of sin is preferred to it.
The matter, in short, is this: Since God, who knows all things about us, does not condemn us, what right has our heart to condemn us, when it knows so little?
With this knowledge, we can assure our heart whenever it would condemn us.
Grace be with you, and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ.
@@watchmanofthenight2700 I thank you again for your reply. Your words from Scripture make me so thankful for my Lord and Savior. You have helped me understand these verses through the Holy Spirit. These verses show me how magnificent the Lord is and how merciful and gracious and loving He is. You have been so kind in giving of your time to help me. May the Lord bless you richly for His glory. All glory to Him!
Another Pastor that explains me this : Minute 20:06 ¿the election doesn’t eliminate the choosing???😮
But in order to make that decision, God first regenerated the person, first is regeneration, then is faith.
Only the chosen ones listen and will be able to repent because the Holy Spirit entered into them and convinces them daily of their sins.
So why should we preach the gospel if God has already chosen them? answer = because in any case we DO NOT know who they are, and we must go and obey the way in which God wants to save them, and this is by LISTENING to the Gospel.
Our freedom after hearing the Gospel is in deciding whether we obey the Law of God or decide to be weak to our tendency to sin.
A person who “decides” for Christ but has not been regenerated will not demonstrate faith in moments of trial.
TULIP is not a false doctrine. And R.C. Sproul explains it very well. Saludos
Sorry, but where does it say in Scripture that a person must be regenerated BEFORE he can believe? The Bible says, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you WILL be saved" (Acts 16:31)... is that not enough?
The Pastor said that the Bible doesn't support the doctrine of Grace so, here are Bible verses:
The Five Points Of Calvinism Proven Thru Scripture
TOTAL DEPRAVITY -
Genesis 6:5
Jeremiah 13:23; 17:9
Mark 7:21-23
Isaiah 64:6 Isaiah 65:12
John 14:17
Romans 3:9-18
Romans 3:23 Romans 8:7
Rom 5:12, 14-19
Psalms 14:2-3
Titus 1:15
Ephesians 2:1-5
1 John 1:8
UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
John 6:37
Mat 22:14
John 15:16
Rom 8:29-30 Rom 9:11-12
Acts 13:48
Rom 9:15-18
Isaiah 43:20-21
Rom 11:5-7
1 Cor 2:7
Ephesians 1:4-5, 11
Malachi 3:16-18
2 Thes 2:13
Titus 1:1-2
1 Peter 2:6-9
2 Pet 1:3-4
Psalms 65:4
Exodus 6:7
Deuteronomy 7:6
LIMITED ATONEMENT -
Mat 1:21 Mat 11:27
Psalms 85:2
Isaiah 53:8
John 3:16-18
John 5:21, 24
John 6:35-40
John 10:14-16
John 10:26-27
John 12:37-40
John 14:21-24
John 17:2, 9-10
Acts 10:40-41
Acts 13:48
Acts 15:14
Romans 11:7
Titus 2:14
Hebrews 7:25-26
Revelation 5:9
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE -
Psalms 65:4
Ezekiel 36:26-27
John 1:12-13
John 6:37-39, 44, 65
John 5:21 John 3:6
Rom 9:15-18
Rom 11:5-6
Rom 8:30
Galatians 1:15-16
Hebrews 9:15
Eph 2:8-10 Eph 2:1-5
Philippians 1:6, 29
Philippians 2:13
2 Timothy 1:9-10
Isaiah 55:11
Acts 13:48; 18:27
PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS -
John 5:24 John 6:35-37
Psalms 37:28
John 10:27-29
Rom 8:35-39
Rom 5:9
Romans 11:29
1 Cor 1:6-8; 15:10
Ephesians 2:4-6
Philippians 1:6
Hebrews 13:20-21
1 John 3:9, 5:4-5,11-13
John 17:2,12
Ephesians 1:13-14
Isaiah 46:3-4 & Rom. 9:6-8
Psalms 20:6; 121:1-8
1 Thes 5:23-24
1 Peter 1:3-5
Jeremiah 32:39-40
Hebrews 6:17-19
Thank you for your Scripture verses - I shall try and check them all out. But, of course, non-Calvinists can do the same …. I suppose it is just how we interpret those verses. It is easy to make a case for either side when you cherry-pick your favourite verses (and we all do it).
I too have many passages that support the other side ... but you may be too busy to read them. However, if you care to, I can list a FEW of the passages that refute - for instance - The Perseverance of the Saints:
These show that obedience to all God's commands is required from the child of God, and that they continue steadfast to the end in order not to forfeit their salvation. Here are a few verses:
Genesis 3:4
Exodus 32:33
Numbers 14:28-30; 15:30-33
Deuteronomy 28:1-68; 30:15-20;31:17-20; 32:5
Joshua 23:3-16
Psalm 5:4-6; 7:11-12; 11:5-7; 73:27; 125:5
Proverbs 8:17; 21:16; 28:13-14
Ecclesiastes 12:13-14
Isaiah 1:19-20,28; 58:1-2; 59:1-2; 63:10
Jeremiah 2:3-5,19; 7:3,8-10; 15:5-6; 16:5; 17:4,10; 21:14; 32:19
Ezekiel 3:20-21; 7:7-9; 18:2-26,30; 33;8-20
Hosea 11:6-7
Malachi 2:7
Matthew 3:10; 5:27-32; 6:15; 7:12-25; 10:22,37-39; 13:20-21; 16:24-27; 18:35;
24:10,13; 25:31-46
Mark 8:34-38
Luke 6:46-49; 8:13,21; 9:62; 13:1-5, 22-30; 14:26-35
John 6:66; 8:51; 14:21-24; 15:1-10
Acts 5:1-11,32
Romans 2:5-16; 6:1-23; 8:1-14; 11:17-22
1 Corinthians 6:9-11; 10:1-15; 15:1-2,34
2 Corinthians 2:15; 6:14-18
Galatians 5:4,7,13,16-24; 6:7-10
Ephesians 5:3-6
Philippians 2:12-13
Colossians 3:5-6
1 Thessalonians 3:3-8
1 Timothy 4:1,5:6,20,24
Hebrews 2:1-2; 3:13-15; 5:9; 6:4-6; 10:26-31, 35-39; 12:14-17
James 1:27; 2:14-16; 4:6-10; 5:19-20
1 Peter 1:17; 3:11-12
2 Peter 1:3-11; 2:1,15,17-22; 3:9-14,17
1 John 2:15-16; 5:2-3
Revelation 2:15-16, 25-26;3:3,5,11-12,19
By the way what Scripture did you have to prove regeneration comes BEFORE faith. I quoted Acts 16:31 where the jailer asked "What must I do to be saved? And they answered 'Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you WILL be saved" (Acts 16:31). That is the beginning of salvation.
I think where we differ is in an interpretation of the words "salvation" and "saved."
The OSAS doctrine - tends to look at the word “saved” only in the past
tense, assuming it to be a completed transaction.
Salvation, however, is a process. The verb “save” is in three tenses: past, present, and future. We have been saved (assuming we are truly born again); we are being saved today, and we will one day be saved, IF, of course, we continue in the faith.
Each time Jesus tells us of those who “believe” He is using the Greek ‘present continuous tense.’ Thus we are to “believe and go on believing.” It is not a foregone conclusion that those who started to believe - will continue to the end. Only those who continue faithfully to the end can be called “saved.” The Christian who has "fallen away from grace" and “shrinks back”; fails to “continue abiding and remaining in Christ”; departs from his first love; or strays from the truth” - will be "severed from Christ" and lost forever.
I know this is not a popular belief today - because it will not pander to the flesh. However, I do believe in eternal security - in the sense that we are kept by the power of God, and that no one can snatch us out of God's hand or break the seal of the Holy Spirit. God is always faithful to His side of the Covenant. We are secure in Christ.
However, it takes two to make a covenant agreement. I believe, God has sovereignly and graciously granted man the free will to choose to continue in the faith or abandon God - and that choice will determine his destiny. I see this throughout Scripture - especially where Israel was given the choice to obey God or reject God - and then to receive the Lord Jesus or reject Him (John 1:10-13).
That is how I see ... but I am always open to consider other viewpoints. God bless you.
@@Ancient-Paths I'm with you, in agreement with you, on what all you just stated, here. One thing I've found comfort & encouragement to keep keeping on, growing & maturing in the faith of Jesus Christ, in, is this saying, "None of us Christians are 'born again' 'MATURE'. " God bless you!
@@flashlitestriker4028 Thank you. I agree.
I like to think that we are working WITH the Lord in all the work He has asked to do - as in Ephesians 2:8-10. He starts the process of salvation - which is all of grace. Salvation is the gift of God. We cannot earn it by our 'good works.' YET we are called to 'good works.'
As we yield in faith to Him, trusting in Him to work in us - we will mature and grow. It is a process - and it must be a joyful process.
As long as we continue to "abide in the Vine" we will mature. Then the sap (the Holy Spirit) will rise up through the Vine (Jesus) and we (His branches) will then produce fruit. "Apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). It is only when we fail to abide in Him that we will fail to produce fruit - and if this continues at some point the branch will be "cut off" (John 15:2).
God bless you my friend.
Not all the blood of beasts on Jewish alters slain could give the guilty conscience peace nor wash away the stain.
Issac Whatts-
How true when Pastor Tim says "Beware of your Calvinism".
"The doctrines of Grace" say you are too far gone to "come" - too "dead in sin" to come. Yet, God says you MUST come.
Jesus spoke of "he who does not come into judgement". Sadly some who were once saved can come into judgement. Jesus demolishes "Perseverance of the Saints" when He tells us in John 15 that if we do not continue to "abide in the Vine" and so produce fruit - we will be eternally lost. That is an even more sobering thought.
This message might be a little confusing for the new Christian .... being told that committing sin and having a guilty conscience - is God leading you to repentance = true. But later we are told that - even Pastor Tim sins - and we mustn't condemn ourselves unduly because of our sin. Does that mean there are different levels of sin (like the mortal and venial sins of Catholicism)?
I would respond to you with two points.
1) How could there be? To God, everything is simple, black and white. There is that which is good, and that which is evil. And to God, good and evil are not decided by action, so much as they are decided by spirit, whether your spirit is good or evil. He does not judge things by the eyes or the appearance, but by the intent of the heart. There are only two states, at peace with God or against him. Even as Jesus says, he that is not with me scattereth. Now, to those that believe, there is always a well of forgiveness. But if you will not believe, there remains only condemnation, because there is no offering of Christ Jesus, who is blessed forevermore, for those who do not believe.
2) The doctrines of grace are true. No man comes to God of his own volition. At every instance, of every saint that has ever been named in all of scripture, not a single one comes before God calls them. Because except the Father draws them, no man comes to the Son. And it isn't simply because we are so sinful. It is because we don't see God nor do we know him or understand his nature or person without his Spirit in the first place.
@@xavierthomas5835 Sorry, I am answering your second question first - as it was the first to arrive.
Yes, indeed God calls and draws ALL men to Himself - that is true. But that is just biblical not Calvinism.
But Calvinism says that man is too "dead in sin" to respond. Why would God call - if man could not respond? Why does God command us to "choose" if we cannot choose? Why did God give commands if we cannot keep them.
Why did God command Adam not to eat of the tree and say to Cain "Sin crouches at your door, it's desire is for you, but you must master it" (Gen. 4:7). Cain (like you and me) had a conscience - so he did know right from wrong - and he could choose to obey God or not.
Romans 1:18-20 says "For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness SUPPRESS the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For His invisible attributes, namely, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse."
So, when you say "It is because we don't see God nor do we know him or understand his nature or person without his Spirit in the first place" that may be Calvinism - but it is unbiblical. Man will be judged according to what he can see in creation and by his conscience - and will be "without excuse."
@Ancient-Paths What I mean by calling isn't just am offer made by God to man. An offer can be refused. It is the actual choice of God, where God makes choices and decisions, that I speak of. God chooses, he doesn't offer. He chose Isaiah, and Isaiah went willingly, though he was chosen. He chose Jeremiah before he was ever born or could respond or choose anything of the sort. Jesus, born of the Spirit, was still a man who had choices to make. Do we lessen the impact of Jesus Christ choosing righteousness in this life for OUR sakes? And then to give his life away? What choices remain to us are even those decided by God. And he already knows which one we shall make.
As far as Romans 1:18-20 goes, we see in it that there is an offer yet again made to know God. Does that mean that every man knows God and rejects him? The Bible speaks clearly on this. Man hates God because he DOES NOT know him. As easily as they were deceived in the garden of Eden of his character, they have never known God. And man has believed the same lies since the beginning, falling into the same practice of doubt and self-will. Reality displays this well, that no matter how much information is given, it is received by those who want it. Noone can know anything without wanting it, as God says in proverbs.
Proverbs 17:16 KJV
Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
@Ancient-Paths to answer your first questions, all of scripture is a response to all that man will ever ask or need. Scripture isn't the full revelation of God, for, then, there would be no need of 1 Corinthians to speak of knowing beyond what we know now. So why would God expect us to respond when we cannot? He doesn't. For God's part, he already knows and has chosen who will come to him. But for the sake of those who will come, and for the sake of fairness, there must be a way for all men to draw near. What better way than to write down all that he has revealed to men and have it scrutinized by all? The call of the gospel is an offer without expectation for those who will not receive God. The passages depicting Jesus's understanding of Isaiah speak clearly of this exact point. Or how Hebrews says the same thing, that Isaiah knew full well that the ones to whom he reached would not believe. And for but the sake of God's power, there would be noone who believed.
There is no place in scripture for the choice of man to dictate to God who shall or shall not come. He has always chosen who he will an they have always come. There is noone in all of scripture who God truly called and they did not come.
Calvinism teaches those hidden words and thoughts were preordained by God?
God is not the author of sin. Sin comes from our own evil and rebellious hearts. If fact the very definition of sin and evil are anything outside of the will of God.
@@ehmd5197 100%, that’s why Calvinism is a lie. They say God ordains ALL things b4 the foundation m, every molecule.
Gods word teaches that god is sovereign, over all things and yet isn’t the author of sin.
This is something that every person who believes in the omnipotence, and omniscience of god must come to terms with.
If god is all powerful, why doesn’t he stop you from sinning so he in justice can keep you from hell? Be cause he did stop pharaoh.
And if he knew everything why did he create people he knew he would have to judge and send to hell.
Gen 20:6
God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
Romans 9:22
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory.
The answer is I don’t know how or why god has done this. But I do know as the judge of all the earth he will do right.
And he cannot sin.
And he showed his love for me in that he sent his son to die on the cross so my sin can be forgiven.
I am a great sinner, and he is a great savior.
@@morgandauteuil340 Calvinist proof texts out of context. Read all of Romans. The distinction is Israel and the gentiles. Tim would acknowledge that. God is sovereign doesn’t mean he does not let us decide if we want to choose him or not. Appealing to cognitive dissonance is not how God reveals himself in scripture. That would be utter confusion, God is not the author of confusion.
Only Calvinism could make God’s simple message in John 3:16 utterly confusing. “God doesn’t actually love everyone” we are called to love our enemies, making man more loving than God, who is himself love, that’s pretty man centered!
Whosever” only means some gnostic elect”. Doctrine of devils.
🛑Brother, u seem to be confused n confuse ppl simultaneously. U should denounce ur socalled "calvinism" all together. U canNOT put God in a box about judgment n whatnot❗️❗️
Friend, this sermon has nothing to do with "Calvinism" but everything to do with what the Scriptures teach.
So SAD that the Pastor is preaching something different from R. C. Sproul, Paul Washer, Jonathan Edwards, and Charles Spurgeon. 😢
Paul Washer is recovering and I listened to this today. Made me so sad.
The Five Points Of Calvinism Proven Thru Scripture
TOTAL DEPRAVITY -
Genesis 6:5
Jeremiah 13:23; 17:9
Mark 7:21-23
Isaiah 64:6 Isaiah 65:12
John 14:17
Romans 3:9-18
Romans 3:23 Romans 8:7
Rom 5:12, 14-19
Psalms 14:2-3
Titus 1:15
Ephesians 2:1-5
1 John 1:8
UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION
John 6:37
Mat 22:14
John 15:16
Rom 8:29-30 Rom 9:11-12
Acts 13:48
Rom 9:15-18
Isaiah 43:20-21
Rom 11:5-7
1 Cor 2:7
Ephesians 1:4-5, 11
Malachi 3:16-18
2 Thes 2:13
Titus 1:1-2
1 Peter 2:6-9
2 Pet 1:3-4
Psalms 65:4
Exodus 6:7
Deuteronomy 7:6
LIMITED ATONEMENT -
Mat 1:21 Mat 11:27
Psalms 85:2
Isaiah 53:8
John 3:16-18
John 5:21, 24
John 6:35-40
John 10:14-16
John 10:26-27
John 12:37-40
John 14:21-24
John 17:2, 9-10
Acts 10:40-41
Acts 13:48
Acts 15:14
Romans 11:7
Titus 2:14
Hebrews 7:25-26
Revelation 5:9
IRRESISTIBLE GRACE -
Psalms 65:4
Ezekiel 36:26-27
John 1:12-13
John 6:37-39, 44, 65
John 5:21 John 3:6
Rom 9:15-18
Rom 11:5-6
Rom 8:30
Galatians 1:15-16
Hebrews 9:15
Eph 2:8-10 Eph 2:1-5
Philippians 1:6, 29
Philippians 2:13
2 Timothy 1:9-10
Isaiah 55:11
Acts 13:48; 18:27
PERSEVERANCE OF THE SAINTS -
John 5:24 John 6:35-37
Psalms 37:28
John 10:27-29
Rom 8:35-39
Rom 5:9
Romans 11:29
1 Cor 1:6-8; 15:10
Ephesians 2:4-6
Philippians 1:6
Hebrews 13:20-21
1 John 3:9, 5:4-5,11-13
John 17:2,12
Ephesians 1:13-14
Isaiah 46:3-4 & Rom. 9:6-8
Psalms 20:6; 121:1-8
1 Thes 5:23-24
1 Peter 1:3-5
Jeremiah 32:39-40
Hebrews 6:17-19
Calvinism is false.
Baptism , which is necessary for salvation, erases the stain of original sin and any personal sins committed. After Baptism any sins committed have to be forgiven. Christ gave his apostles and their successors the authority to forgive sins. "Whose sins you forgive, they are forgiven. Whose sins you retain, they are retained."
Do you think the thief on the cross was saved?
Yes, that is what Catholicism teaches - but not Scripture. Only God can forgive sin. Why is that? Because He, and He alone is the offended party. We have sinned against God - and so God - and God alone - is the One who must forgive - if we are willing to repent..
A priest can say - that if you confess your sins (to God) and turn from them - forsaking them - then God will forgive you. But a mere man cannot know a person's heart - and whether he has truly repented and forsaken his sin.
We, of course, must forgive others who have sinned against us.
Much could be said, but please watch this study: Is Baptism Necessary for Salvation? ua-cam.com/video/i76TBH5NeDQ/v-deo.html
Can we pray for repentance? I know that I pray psalm 119:35, make me walk in the path of Your Commands, and also rescue me from my rebellion.
I want repentance, and a cleansed conscience, but not a seared conscience. My simple prayer right now is, Jesus, please forgive me of my sin and cause me to know it. I still have to deal with what you said. 😢
Sin shall not rule over me because iam under grace .