Predestination and the Total Depravity of Humanity

this Sunday morning I am teaching on the doctrine of predestination probably the most controversial subject of Scripture and well maybe I shouldn't say that baptism crackers and grape juice Christmas is also controversial because we don't believe in any of that and I've given you some notes what I'm doing I'm passing out my these are notes that I've had for years and I sit around at night and I'm just sitting on the couch and I'm sitting making notes to myself and I'm scratching along and I've been hesitant to give them to you because then all it all typed out and get it in pretty well I'm not gonna do that I'm not gonna take the time to do that you want to type them you type them I'm just gonna start giving you my notes I'm gonna give my notes away to anybody that wants them and what we're doing I'm wanting you to see how I'm thinking how I'm studying I've given you several others I've given you over the last couple of weeks I've given you Jim's notes 22:23 jim's notes 2224 and Jim's notes 20 to 30 these are notes that I and 29 and 30 and these are some of my personal notes that I'll switch from one case to the other for years and of course I'm thinking more than just what you've got on the paper I've just got them down here so I I can just remind myself of where I'm going now we're talking about predestination I've written something on the board that I want you to understand predestination is simple the reason people it's not simple to some people is because they don't like the idea of predestination if you don't like algebra you're going to think it's hard but if I set and show you some practical way to think about it you'll say oh that's interesting predestination is basically simple because the way men think you got to quit thinking I'm talking about you have to think but you can't think when I say you have to think you have to cogitate and mold things over and evaluate thinking but don't think your opinion you got to get rid of that Isaiah the 55th chapter says your ways aren't my ways my ways aren't your ways and your thoughts are not my thoughts you can't think like I think God said so if we will look at what you have to do to understand anything in scripture is lean not to your own understanding in proverbs 3:5 trust in the Lord and not yourself go with the scripture don't say well that doesn't sound like it doesn't sound fair that God would choose one and in ordained another to go to hell everyone right where you sit every person in this room you every person that hears this tape you are either a vessel of Wrath or a vessel of mercy if you're a vessel of Wrath and you're fitted for destruction then you're going to die in your sin and go to hell and there's nothing you can do about it and there's nothing you will want to do about it and you'll think that my message is boring and you don't you're not even going to want to hear this you're gonna say let me out of here let me go do my thing if you want to go do your thing and this means nothing to you you're going to die in your sin and go to hell and people don't believe that they in people joke about Hell when you see it in the movie but I'll see it in your hell they don't mean that they don't mean I'm gonna jump in a volcano any minute yeah I like it no you won't hell is a terrible horrible place that lasts forever and if you really actually believe you're gonna die and go to hell any minute if you actually believed that you'd repent people don't believe they're going to hell they don't believe that anybody says oh yeah I'm gonna live the way I walk now I'll go to hell and I'll get with my friends and we'll go to the movies no no they know movies down there no bars no booze don't you think that you've done you sin and go to hell with no hope of any eternal life but everyone is right where they said either a vessel of mercy or a vessel of Wrath God willing to show his wrath and make his power known he endured with much long-suffering the vessels of Wrath fitted cat or tezo as the Greek word ka ta r TI zero it means to be fully accomplished for destruction now and there's nut in people say but what if one of those vessels arrests wants to go to heaven they're dead and they're said where are they going to get to want to the want to has to come from God and he has to ride it in a man's heart and he only writes his word in the hearts of his elect predestinated family that's the only one that you get to go to heaven nobody else now we're gonna talk about that about predestination but it's really basically simple it's really a family thing that's all it is it's a family thing if you are in God's family and he's chosen you before the world began you're going to want Christ before this is over with now you may be in your sin right now and you may be dealing drugs and getting drunk and you might be cussing and carrying on and carousing but if you belong to God somewhere God's gonna deal with you if you belong to him and you're going to want to repent and you're going to want to seek God and you're going to want his word now men do not know just how wicked they are they don't really believe it oh you know evil and wicked and godless and totally depraved they're their wicked hearts have not been revealed to them only the elect will God reveal their wickedness to and make you know how corrupt you are that is why they do not believe in the necessity of predestination they don't know how wicked they are they think they've got enough goodness in them to bring themselves to truth and you don't there's no such thing as walking the island accepting Christ there's no such thing as praying in a sinner's God must cut into the heart of every one of his family and make them new creations and make them new in Christ and cause them to desire truth there is no other way people say what must I do to be saved you can't do anything to be saved except believe and you can't do that if he doesn't write it in your heart you can't even believe God unless he writes it in your heart you have no hope of eternal life if you never want truth and you're never hungry for the Word of God well it'd be good if you could look into the future and see that then you could then you could just leave right now and not waste your time here because it's a waste of time if God never deals with you you just being miserable aren't you I wouldn't sit and listen to somebody like me if I had no interest in it if a man is to go to heaven he must be ordained by God he cannot ordain or will himself into heaven he's dead that's it you're dead how you gonna will yourself into heaven when you're dead in your seat I'm gonna raise that this is a family thing God knew his family before the world began the scripture says that he has chosen us the believers in him before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and without blame now that holy and without blame is going to be here on earth but God might have to take you through some years of sin and self and depravity and debauchery and you might have to just go down to the bottom of the pit before God deals with your heart we've got some real winners in this room when it comes to sin I mean some absolute winners when it comes to sin now some people will come here and say well y'all seem to be a bunch of wonderful sweetheart a kind Christian people we would be killing each other out there in the world the way we used to be wouldn't we I mean we got three guys here that's been in prison right look some of you been in jail two of them been in prison and I know they won't mind me saying this but God's turned their world upside down literally turn them around dealing drugs if you think you've got a life full of sin you don't have any more sin than greg's had in his life and that Fred's had in his life these are guys they had the worst of the worst and I've been as bad as you can get I was in music had a pop show group singing in hundreds of clubs across America living like a haven and if God don't deal with you he has to do with you and pull you out of that now we're talking about predestination there's no such thing as good nice middle-class white people in America you don't know that you know the black people don't know that bankers are corrupt doctors are corrupt real estate agents are corrupt lawyers are corrupt the the politicians are corrupt and you know other corrupt because the preachers are corrupt they haven't given him anything to live by now the scripture says for whom he did foreknow for know whom God foreknew as his he also did predestinate to be conformed to be conformed to the image of his son that he'd be the firstborn among many brethren now here's what predestination is about it's about God knowing someone intimately Praga knows co-produce co is the word for know it comes from pro meaning before and the word Gunnoe co means to know intimately it means to know intimately as a relative it has the idea of being a brother or a sister or a son or a daughter the sons and daughters that God knew before the world began those are the homes Romans 8:29 Romans 8:29 the people the family the sheep the church that God foreknew he births them by his will Romans John 1:13 John 1:13 says we were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor the will of man but of God were born by the will of God not by I will James 1 18 of his own will begat he us John 5:21 that we were quickened Jesus quickens who He wills quickened Zuppa l0p Ohio means to make alive he makes alive who he wants to make alive not who you want to make alive when you sit around worrying about a son or a daughter or wife or a brother or a sister a mother or father you're wasting your time worrying God's got it said our job the only thing that we are we're nothing but a conduit you know what's that a water hose that's all we are we're just the hose God turns on the faucet and out of our mouth comes the Word of God and God will make to grow through he wants to grow and he will water the ground where he wants it to water and we just throw the seed if it falls on good ground God prepares the ground and it comes alive by the will of God we're nothing but the water hose that's all we're nothing but the little wrapping around the wiring where you wired you send the wire through the house and we're just the the insulation that's all we are we're nothing but a way to conduct the current of God we're nothing else but that all we do is open our mouths give out the truth and he quickens who he wills he don't quicken who we will now the people that God foreknew he's Pro horrid so is the word predestinate Provo reads Oh Pro meaning before and horrid so is our word it's a word horizon and the horizon is where the light shines light is equated with truth God has predetermined a certain family for the truth the horizon is the boundary between light and darkness the boundary and God has pre bound his family for the light and he's predestined us to something to be conformed to the image now why is it he has to conform us because we don't have anything good in us we're all worthless everybody is worthless if God doesn't birth a seed in you the most respectable men in town are worthless now a lot of young folks will go into a bank and they see this respectable banker back there and he's dealing and wheeling and dealing and and when I go in there I see some kid back there behind the desk and I know he's doing deals under the table he's got a nice little innocent boy face but I don't trust him because what am i trusting I know what he is how do I what he is because I have admitted what's in my heart and the Bible says there's no temptation taken you but such as is common to every man that lives upon the face of the earth so I know how corrupt my heart is I know I've lived like the devil and I know my capabilities so I know what's that then that face of that little boy banker there I know that he's putting on a front I know that the preachers are putting on floods I know that the real estate agent I work to real estate for years that's a crooked as much of people I've ever been around in my life but they look respectable that don't mean a thing man has a tendency to look at the outward appearance but God looks at the heart and if God doesn't birth himself in your heart you have no hope of eternal life you can't say I'm a good man I'll go I'll just think God will like me no he won't no he won't now the reason we have to be conformed to the image to the icon or the likeness of Christ is because we have no likeness in us that's like him when we first come to the knowledge of Christ I always like to draw it in the form of a circle because Christ is birthed in us he's like a little dot in us that's little Jesus or what Jesus himself called little faith oh ye of little faith where did that faith come from it is the gift of God God put it there he birthed it there he picked you out for no reason none as far as what you can understand or see arbitrarily he said this one's mine and this one's going to hell people say God wouldn't do that well he said he would he said he's got vessels of Wrath fitted to destruction and vessels of Mercy which he had therefore prepared to glory and if you ever know God it will be because he knew you before the world began and he put Christ in you and then he starts working on you the whole purpose of conform sooo MorphOS sumo folks comes from soom which means with our to mess with or to blend with and the word morph a mor phe that means to be shaped in fellowship with our fitly joined together in one body and we're not talking about a Baptist Church or Church of Christ or Pentecostal we're talking about the people who believe God coming together and being blended together that's what we're talking about we're not talking about going fellowshiping with somebody who claims to be a Christian and they don't believe the truth of the word of god they hate predestination they hate the data cross they hate death to self the head self-denial the hate Christmas is pagan they hate Easter is pagan they hate baptism is blood and not h2o they hate there's no crackers in grape juice that there's a spiritual Passover they hate all this yet they say I got saved they can't go to heaven that way nobody's going that way so you start off Christ just birthed in you Paul says you have an outer man and you have an inner man the inner man is Christ in you inner man but the inner man is more powerful than the outer man the inner man is God the Living God living inside his people that's when you begin to believe God but it's not by your will that you believe most of what you've got in you that needs to be conformed most of what you've got in you is self I want I want my way I want my stuff I want to do what I want to do I want me look I think I have a right to live my life the way I won't do if you do have a right to live your life to where you want to and God never makes you live it right you're going to hell that's what it is you have self in you and now we've been talking about the outer man is self it's the flesh it is it is the Sookie cos the sensual man the sensual man P su CH I Kos this man has five senses he can see he can smell he can touch he can taste he has all these senses and that man has to die but it takes years that man is filled with envy strife he wants to fight over his rights in his ways he's filled with with tale-bearing he's filled with self desires he's filled with with every kind of physical sinful desire a man can have and when God births himself in you you've still got a whole lot of this old man way I mean we've got some guys here that's come out of the depths of sin their temper starts to flare once in a while I said whoa I'm just looking around so you ain't even gonna look at me Fred's going it's really hard to get it rid of that old man it's extremely difficult because we won't our way don't we we want our way and we demand we demand that we have our way and we bring in all out of the world and off the streets a lot of our own nature into the church and but when God is really working in you I've seen some of you just lose it you're going I need to learn better than that don't I I say yeah Gerald's done that to me say I need to learn to quit doing that I see you have it so did I so do we all don't we we're learning so what God is doing is conforming us to the likeness of Jesus and he's what is it's it's going to conform us it's the fire it's the trials it's going through tribulation it's it's God whipping us and beating us and getting rid of self now here's the whole idea of giving you a paper here to show you how evil a man is the reason men don't believe in predestination if God ever reveals to a man just how wicked he is just how corrupt his heart is if God lets you see that you'll drop your head in shame and say I'm so ashamed of myself now I want us to look over here at some of these verses man doesn't know how evil his heart is look over here I've got at the top of this page man it's a one joke 25 let's go over that joke 25 let's go look at that no that's not it job Psalms proverbs let's go to job 25 you can get me a drank water here and I wants to read some of these because I want you to see just how wicked your heart is if you want to sit and make excuse this is by but what you're doing is arguing with God here in joke 25 then answered bildad the shuhite and said dominion and fear are with him he maketh peace in his high places is there any number of God's armies upon whom his light does not his light arise how then can man be justified with God can you justify yourself or how can he that is how that can he be clean that is born of a woman how can any man be clean regardless of color how can you be clean behold even to the moon and it's shine it's not the moon is just faking it that light's not coming from the moon the moon is a hypocrite it's pretending to have light that's a reflection from the Sun isn't it yeah the stars are not pure in his sight when Satan was cast into this great sphere called the universe he corrupted everything in it the moon the Stars the dust of the ground Adam was made of the dust of the ground and there was no question as to whether he's going to sin or not that's why we're all worthless we all sin we all don't have anything any good in us it was all corrupted by Satan between the first and second verses of Genesis and I'm not gonna go there so the stars are not clean behold even to the moon in China thought yeah the stars are not pure it is in his sight how much less man that is a worm yeah that's good and the Son of Man which is a 1 and some will say white pride white pride I'm proud I am a proud black worm I'm a proud white worm huh what are you talking about we need to be proud about race what this flesh it's worthless it's filled with sin yeah if you ever find out who you are are you going to get out on your face and crawl around and say I'm not worthy of anything nobody's better than anybody else it's not the color your skin that makes you worthless it's sin in your heart that makes you worthless and God made us all that way and if he doesn't make you alive and put righteousness in you you have no hope of eternal life none look over here look over here in job 15 let's go to job 15 back up to job 15 and this is all men this is all men job 15 this is how worthless all of us are if Christ doesn't birth himself in us we have no hope of eternal life verse 14 what is man that he should be clean and he which is born of a woman that he should be righteous what is a man that he should be righteous behold God put us no trust in his saints now Saints are those who are set aside to be children of God and God's not going to trust you to come to him he's not gonna put he trusts in you to repent it's the goodness of God that leads you to repentance you're worthless you're good for nothing you don't have Christ's birth in you you're not anything you can be a bank or a lawyer your president or premier king or a star you're not worth anything stars ain't worth nothing rich people ain't worth nothing how hardly shall a rich man enter the kingdom of heaven not many mighty not many wise in this world not many noble to call not many stars are going to heaven when they die most of them are going to hell I got a t-shirt and I was in a BP station the other day and has on the back of it warned you that a rich on the front of it it's got the with the ungodly prosper in the world they increase in riches and Psalm 73 and 12 the guy said well look at my shirt he said well don't God wants to be happy I said look those are the verses don't you read them he had the idea that he was a pretty nice guy in his heart nobody is at all what they appear to be if God will pull his restraining hand off of every one of us you will do any sin you've ever seen in your life you say I wouldn't do that don't you say that yes you will I was a nice sweet little young preacher when I was 25 24 25 26 27 28 traveling all over America preaching in churches never would have believed that I had done anything that I will never forsake God in a few years later as I was singing in nightclubs all across America they would say what you'll do if God will reach pull his restraining hand from his people you will do anything that you've ever heard I wouldn't kill anybody yes you would if gotta pull his restraining hand everybody here will do that yeah you think you wouldn't grass is your will behold he putteth no trust in his saints yeah the heavens are not clean in his sight nothing is clean in the sight of God don't go around saying I'm clean I'm a nice guy there's no such thing how much more abominable and filthy is man-witch drinketh iniquity like water he guzzles it that's all of us and without God putting himself in us because he knew us and without him conforming us to the likeness of Jesus I don't care how good you live you worthless you're filth but that includes all of us then now look over here in Romans three go to Romans three you've got it on your paper I'm not gonna give you all of these but that's down here to Romans 3 I just want you to see some of these things I want you to know how worthless we are the only reason people don't believe in predestination if you ever find out that you're worthless you got nothing good in you then you'll come to the realization if God will reveal that to you you'll fill yourself from the mercy of God say god I can't save myself I am worthless I'm a piece of sludge and you cry out to God but you won't cry out to God until he makes you alive he has to reveal to you how no count you are now I can look out here and see all kinds of lives well we've been something you know and if you come to grace and truth ministries we're a bunch of old slug centers that Jesus has redeemed what did Jesus say in Matthew 9 13 I did not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance and boy we got some full footage 100% bonafide sinners here including me I mean Greg spit what three years in prison dealing drugs in Agra and in Fred back that road with the foothills angels and and spent two years in prison and I don't know what all he did I know that one night he called me on the phone and said man you're you're killing me with that message on TV he said this is he said I got to come to church and when he came in he was like in a body cast from here down to here and he'd had a bad car wreck and he was sitting on the back row like that he's just been able to what he had been his bones had been crushed all over his body he can tell you about it I can't tell you but he just in Fred was a just he was in biker bars every night beating people up or getting beat up at his face bashed in cost of how many thousand dollars a whole bunch I don't even know if he paid it off he just he said I was getting beat up or beating somebody up and that was his life every night losing and I've seen God take these two guys and just flip them upside down that's the miracle of God when he birds himself in you when somebody says well I'm just have too much sin in my life we're probably not more than these two guys probably not more than me my wife was married to a homosexual for years I mean the guy was running around and and she got a gun up to his head and was just beside herself ready to pull the trigger and blow his brains out you know that huh but she was just screaming yeah but I'll tell you what if it had had bullet said it marry my if it had bullets in it Mary might be in prison today and he ended up in Los Angeles in San Francisco living with his boyfriend and died of AIDS and Eric was so ashamed that say I've raised Eric he's my son I've raised him and he just didn't want Charles coming around it was just say we got all these embarrassing stories in our life and I said tell you stories about my life and Jerome has been in music and in drugs and dealing and we got a bunch of sinners here people and in Jesus over here about what Messiah he's got a brother named King Solomon and daebak went to prison so didn't you Mart back there and they were stealing cars and selling drugs and said all their friends are are dead or in jail and I mean hey you know what sinners you don't want to come to grace and truth because we are the worst of the worst we don't have a bunch of fancy people here that's what we brought June Juliet hey you're just like guys come on up you always pulled us out of the depth of our sin and got us out of the pit and I'll tell you one thing when God pulls people out of the pit like what we've been in and we'll say something I don't mean it split emails now we love God more we got Mary Magdalene right here seven husbands she said I had to come to hiddenville I had to sell everything I I had to cash I raised I did cashed out everything I had to come over here and be with my family she's been seven and she you want some stories she'll tell you some horror stories about life from the time she's a little girl she stood at my sink the other night and she's crying she said how God could save that little girl have you ever thought about how God could save that little boy she said what I been through molested from the time she's a little girl just bend down to hell and back James has been in drugs and all kinds of stuff and shaking his head back there we are a bunch of sinners that's who Jesus came to save not write self-righteous people I'm so thankful for my brothers and sisters here that have been in sin that God's pulled you out of it and fill up these boy he's got he's got a story that was just tell you her now drugs about to lose his family everything and he had to move here from from Des Moines that's the guy in the red shirt on the end they've got it they got horror stories you want to come and exchange stories we got him but God has redeemed us and pulled us out of a pit he's conforming us to the likeness of Jesus that's what this message is about Paul was a serial killer did you know that he killed Christians for a living David was a liar a murderer an adulterer kill Uriah the Hittite molested his wife the king of Israel wrote the Psalms and then God had to put him in the fire and he never had a peaceful day the rest of his life but he was the friend of God do you understand that in order to be conformed you can't come here and say well you just don't know the sin I've been in hey you want to hear some stories just go around thoughts of the people here and I don't even know the rest of your lives of what a lot you've done but we don't really care that is naked Baptists Diggins legion Burton don't they well we've got we've got we got a whole bunch of sinners here and God is conforming you and it's not like it's not like the sinners that we have are not wrestling with sin because you are are you Greg wrestles every day I know Fred wrestles I know Gerald wrestles these Darrell was a gambler jealous did I'd go out and drop $3,000 on a weekend or gambling tag was done in Louisiana these say do these people mind you saying this they know what kind of sinners they are I'll tell you all the stories about me Jeff sighs getting drunk and carousing chasing women all the way up into his 50s and God started taking drugs and just doing everything under the Sun and living like hell on earth and God started dealing with his heart one day and he said I gotta find the truth I gotta find the truth one night was over at the house and Jamar and massage started telling us their lives and all the cars that stealin Jamar said he went to he went up before a judge and he'd been stealing cars and he'd been dealing drugs and he said the two guys before me they got 120 years or something like that he said in the judge gave me the probation he said I knew I was going to prison for 20 years or something you see that's how Jesus came to save the sinners so if you think you're different here you got more sin all you got to do it starting to talk to the guy next to you and I don't know what the rest of y'all being in but I know most of you have been bar hopping and clubbing and dancing and drinking and hey what we are we are people we are God's family that he has dealt with but if you are a self-righteous person you're as capable of anything is we've ever done God just has a dealt with you anything ever deals with you you you are a vessel of Wrath fitted to destruction now I want us to continue reading some of these things where was I look over here Romans three I want you to know what slugs you are I think most of you know don't you I just want some of you that have been down into the pit of hail and down into your sin I want you to know you're in good company here grace and truth if you're out there and you're watching this on TV don't say hey I can't come there y'all a bunch of righteous people boy we the most unrighteous people in God his God is making us righteous and he's turning our world upside down look here in Romans the third chapter Romans three in verse nine what then are we better than they know in those four we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin as it is written there is none righteous no not one there is none that understandeth there is none that seeketh after God how you going to come to God on your own when you don't seek God nobody comes there's no such thing as a sinner's prayer and walk the Outland except Christ there's none that seeks after God if you don't make you alive you're not coming doing him he has to make you love and you start crying out oh lord save me our perish but you don't cry that out until he does their throat is an open Sepulchre all Jews and Gentiles throats an open Sepulchre with their tongues they have deceit they have used deceit the poison of ASPs is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness their feet are Swift to shed blood destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace they have not known he's talking about us until he bursts himself into us we're just slug worm sinners worthless we have no hope of eternal life if you're young and you think well I've got it together um get together come talk to some of these old people first they bet they've already been down that long hard road it's a dead-end street without going you say but what about all these successful people they're on a dead end without the Lord aren't they now let's continue reading here huh 18 okay there is no fear of God before their eyes they have no fear of God verse 19 now we know that what things soever the law saith it said them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world become guilty before God everyone is guilty and God hasn't revealed it to certain men you know what's wrong with Charles Stanley he hasn't been in the sin I've been in he hasn't been in the corruption I've been in God had to pull me out of the depth I could be dead many times I had to felt out here at Riverbend said Jim you've committed sin I've committed crime I said look at me Gary I've committed felony more than once but so has most people in this room haven't we you say you know preaching will stand up and tell you that he's been a felon he just didn't get caught therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight for by the law is the knowledge of sin nobody's going to be justified by doing good it has to be God birthing himself in us look him down here look at increased e720 that's the next one on the list go to Ecclesiastes what is it 23 okay hold on I can't get to everything 23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God being justified freely by His grace only by the grace of God through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God now let's go to class t7 Psalms proverbs Ecclesiastes I just kind of give you that so you know where it is job Psalms proverbs Ecclesiastes 7 the reason men don't believe in predestination for if God doesn't predestinate us we're not going our way because if you have if you're this bad and you are and I am we don't have a chance of eternal life do we maybe y'all will get together and start a support group in fact we don't even have to dismiss anybody we can just say after church ok let's start talking you see and I know that people here don't mind me saying this we're do you know that God's elect family or sinners did you know that and they can hear the truth that's who they are they're sinners that can hear ya they'll tell you that you want to get out here and I mean three of the worst guys here I'm talking about when there's out in the world and I was with Greg and Fred and Jerry would you go with him you'll have to get out you'll have to fight to be able to preach to somebody before they do because they go after the world I mean they got there in front because God's dealt with their hearts and turn their world's upside down until God turns your world upside down and makes you really love him and the law your forgiving of the more you love God they say can you prove that yawn a minute please yes t7 I'm sitting here not painting teaching alone please yeah ste 727 and verse 24 there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not there's not one that's pretty hard words it God just hasn't let you see who you really are if you ever let you see who you are you'll throw yourself on the mercy you've got look at psalms 39 the next one down the line Psalms 39 and five go back to Psalms 39 I love this I love this here so I'm 39 in verse 5 behold thou has made my days as a handbreadth David said my days are very short in mine age is nothing before thee verily every man not a few men but every man at his best state the best you can be is all together vanity he bow is the word the best thing you can become worthless the best you can do you can get you a job as a banker and you are worthless you can become a superstar and you are nothing you are worthless you can get you a lot of money and be a millionaire and you could be have as much money as Bill Gates and he is worthless he gets to keep that money 48 billion dollars for another 25 years 30 and then he has to die and believe it what if you only had a billion what if you had 48 billion dollars and you only got to keep another 25 years and you knew that was going to happen well you'd sure get frustrated effuse a worldly man you didn't have any Jesus and you wouldn't you I wouldn't trade my understanding of Scripture for all of his money no I wouldn't right now where was I look over here in jesus said in matthew 19 and 17 britain you see that there the rich young ruler came to jesus said good master good master what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life and Jesus said why call us thou me good there is none good but God that's it nobody's good well if that don't register on you you're in trouble with God there's no such thing as a good person the only good thing in you will be Christ in you the hope of glory and if that don't grow the only thing I can love in you is Christ in you as it takes over this old outer man there's none good and look here in looking at Romans 7:18 look at Romans seven we're just gonna kind of go down the list Romans seven now Paul won't tell you how much time to have mine what oh we're good I thought you said 15 I thought no wait a minute now look at Romans 7 now Paul is talking to the Roman Church telling the Roman Church what kind of a person he is and what kind of a person he was now this applies to every one of us these when you talk some Church Christ or some body who believes you can get lost after you've been saved first of all you don't get saved saved is the word Sozo it means to be taken from one point to another point and to be preserved and protected through all of the dangers and fire through the entire deliverance that's what the word means now where'd I say we're gonna go Romans seven all right Romans seven well let's let's start a little before that four we know verse 14 for we know that the law is spiritual but I am carnal this is the Apostle Paul the murderer of Christians he was a killer he said I made havoc of the church the word haven't means to murder or slaughter or kill that's why when Barnabas took him down to Jerusalem to introduce him to the apostles the Apostle said hey you've got that killer in here he'll kill us and God in Barnabas said God's worked on this man Gus dealt with him there's no body here has been as mean as the Apostle Paul he killed Christians by the hundreds nobody's been that bad as he not even friend I don't know of anybody here that has had a dear dear friend like David had and Uriah the Hittite so faithful to David and he sees this woman from the palace since she's down and she's naked on the top of her house and he said I want her and the man he's speaking to says that you ride the hittite your faithful servant that's his wife bring her to me we're talking about David the psalmist the man who wrote the Psalms a man after God's own heart and David knew her her grandfather a hipa fell was David's chief counselor and David counseled with a hill every day you know that she came to the palace to see her grandfather and David's are naked that day and said I want her and she came over and he had a little sexual affair and she got pregnant David said I got to do something Joey I bring you out of hittite in how you ride how're you doing it's good to see you I'm just thinking about how hard you work in the army I know y'all been up here fighting the ammonites but I want to bring you home so you can go home and sleep with your wife tonight David was trying to get around his sin and you can't get around it in the next morning David got up and went out on the palace steps and there was your rather you thought and laying on the palace steps David said didn't you not go home with your wife and enjoy the comfort of her that this last night your I said I cannot go home and have my wife with my King David and my nation Israel is at war with the ammonites David's gone only oh man I can't you didn't go home when that baby's born they think it looks like me oh goodness what am I gonna do I know what I'll do you're I come here take this message to your commander my nephew Joab so he takes a note enjoy opens it up and in the note Uriah took his death warrant to Joab and it said put you right in the heat of battle David's got to have him killed because he's got your eyes wife pregnant have you ever done anything that bad took a dear dear faithful friend one of his most faithful soldiers lust after his wife get her pregnant and then have her husband killed you ever done anything that bad David was one of those devious men that ever lived we did that but thank God for His grace because when Nathan said thou art the man David David said I have sinned and he repented you know God that shows you grace because under the Jewish law David was supposed to die wasn't he God tempered grace he tempered his mercy with his law and then Paul says I am carnal the word is Sookie kospi su CH i kos it means I'm sensual that's what I am you see that little verb am present tense I am right now a sensual carnal man as the Apostle Paul writing to the Roman Church for that which I do I don't allow it in my life and what I don't want to do that which I would do I want to do righteousness I don't allow for sin but I do it and what I would what I want to do I want to do righteousness that do I not and what I hate sin that's what I do we're talking about Paul present tense when he's writing this book if then I do that which I would not I don't want to sin but that's what I do I consent unto the law that it is good now then it is no more I that do it because the real me is Christ in me it's sin or self that dwells in me for I know that it that in me that is in my flesh Paul is talking present-tense writing to the Romans I know that in me the old Paul this murderer here dwelleth no good thing nothing good in me for to will is present with me I constantly want to will to do wrong is anybody have any problem with that here don't come when you come to me say Jim I'm always willing to sin I know that so do i but God has to deal with this invade us and crushes over the years in through time he starts conforming us to the likes of Jesus every one of us as a believer will do the most corrupt things the most evil men that ever ruled Israel was a man named Manasseh the son of Hezekiah and he was the wickedest king that lived and he was a believer in God converted him how to perform look here but how to perform that which is good I can't find in me the Apostle Paul says so not how to perform he's not talking about his past he's saying how to perform right now I don't know how and if god don't do you you won't for the good that I would I want to do righteousness I don't do it but the evil which I would not sin that's what I do now if I do that but I don't want to do sin it is no more I that do it but sin our self that lives in me it's yourself that's all that's the only problem that we all have we want our way I find in the law that when I would do good evil is present with me for I delight in the law of God after the inward man which is Christ in me but I see another law in my members warring against the law of my mind and bringing me into the kept into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members o wretched man that I am not that I was that I am right now who shall deliver me from the body of this death I am in a living death I got a dead man I'm carrying around made me itself god I'm so tired of me how could he get over me that's our problem it is just me your problem is you and mine's me your problem is not the guy down the street that cheated you problems you your problems you because you think you have a right to get him back and God said no evil men are a sword in my hand that I used to cut down my left family I'm baiting you with them yes they're cheating you but I'm in charge they're supposed to until you wake up one day and say Lord I'm so sorry for being the food that I've been until he puts it in your heart to recognize that I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord so then with the mind I myself serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin I got two men in me one won't behave itself and God said I know you won't married and I'm going to conform you to my likeness and I'm gonna put you through years of fire in trials and troubles and tribulation I'm gonna deal with you you're my lek you can't have your way you're not your own you're bought with a price you can't do what you won't you understand me have you ever told your kids that you're not gonna do that I'm your mother I'm your father you will not do that you can't do what you want to do with God can you we think we can't let's go down to the next one here go down here to Psalms 62 notice I love this I love this this is great Psalm 62 men don't know how wicked their hearts are that's why they don't believe in predestination you will definitely believe in it if God reveals to you that you're worse than the worst your slug Center you're a maggot that's right Psalms what this would this would clear out most of it I'll tell you want this would fix this message could fix these churches big financial problems if they let me preach a month like this in their church and then they could then after they start with about five thousand then having about twenty five people left and they sell their building they wouldn't have all that overhead get rid get rid of they could get rid of all those wolves and goats and have the fellowship of truth together yeah but the preacher it'd have to get him a job selling furniture somewhere and have to give up that big salary wouldn't he that's it now look here at Psalm 62 verse 8 trust in him at all times G people pull out your heart before the Lord before him God is a refuge for us sela way this and think on this that's what the word Selah means surely look at verse 9 surely men of low degree or vanity the street sweeper the guide sacks groceries the guy who works down at the mill the guy who's a carpenter the low degree the working man he's just his vanity he is he beau he's worthless morning ain't it glad to know what you're worth nothing nothing but look at the next phrase and men of high degree are a lie now even what I said about bankers want to go maybe it's like what do you say these bad things about us well you will repent if I say these about you and you're a banker you if you're really truly elected god you're so you're exactly right I need to get on my face and repent and they didn't clean up my act at the bank I need to clean up my act as a doctor I need to clean up my act as a as a high-roller as a star as a big basketball player as a football player the Bible says not many of those people are going to heaven there's not many superstars going to heaven not many mighty not many wise in this world not many noble are called I think the wise in this world are the scientists in the and the presidents in the in the premiers and the kings and the scientist and not many of those people belong to God that's what the Bible says they're men of high degree aren't they yeah most of them going to hell most of them are wicked to the core not been in business I know how they are and you know what they live in gray areas all the time and they justify the gray they just sit there and live in gray you know oh well I'm not really hurting this man I really yeah you are you got to either get on or get off there's no middle ground with God he said you're either for me or you're against me you cannot serve God and money at the same time you can't say serve God Himself at the same time he won't put up with it he says I like this last sentence talking about men of low degree which or vanity worthless and men of high degree who are a lie well I think it includes everybody doesn't it includes all the bankers all the stars all them all the singers all the sportsmen all the everybody that's it bankers presidents grocery suckers everybody well the same they he said to be laid in the balance both of these men of low degree and high degree they are all together like then vanity what he's saying is nothing outweighs them zero out reason like Mary says they are zero without the ring what they are that's what the Bible says doesn't it just zero without the ring you can't even tell where they are in a hundred years from now who cares who the richest man in the world was does anybody here know who the richest man in the world in 1925 was I don't know and I don't even care that could have been could have been somebody else who knows but who cares he's dead he's in hell so we don't matter does it and when they die I read Jay Paul Gettys biography he was the richest man in the world of mid-sixties the guy was a heathen he had payphones in his London mansion so his servants couldn't bum off of him nickel payphones in ha and his granddaughter said she saw her uncle's drug heads just whacked out of their minds trying to commit suicide and she said when I get to be 18 and I inherit my part of my grandfather's fortune which was billions she said I'm going to commit suicide I've seen what it did to my family I don't know if she did or not but she said that's what I'm going to do their family was a disaster that guy was a just daddy was a lowlife but he was very dignified looking and very always come out and bought Preston to the just come out looking like mr. somebody he died and went to hell I don't doubt that had it all he got no money in Ellie got a whole lot of molten lava maybe he can sell at somebody yeah yeah now look that look here at let's go down here two men cannot clean himself up he is not good now we realize how worthless we are don't weigh one bunch of slugs if God doesn't make us alive in him by his will this is the necessity of predestination you can't do it yourself you're a pile of dung out here in the field they woke up to a cow pilot say come on now make yourself alive I know you got the will to do it I'm gonna sing just as I am and I know you're a cow pal but you can turn yourself into this righteous thing just come on cap I'll come alive Paul said we are all dung all of our accomplishments in the third chapter Philippians is dung skubalon is Lord SKU be alo n it means refuse dung has a meeting of all of the above he said Paul said I am a he said I'm a Pharisee of the Pharisees circumcised the eighth day of Israel I'm of the tribe of Benjamin I have accomplished everything a man can accomplish in life and he said I counted all but dung that I might gain Christ he said throw it away I got it all in the world it was educated and well when he started preaching they chased him every day he ran for his life until they finally caught him and they cut his head off but I like it when he said in Philippians 4:11 he's in a Roman jail waiting to be beheaded and he said I've learned in whatsoever state I am therewith to be content I'm happy they're fixing to kill me in a minute here praise God I get to go be with the Lord where was I look here in proverbs 20 here's why you can't make clean yourself up proverbs twist Psalms proverbs 20 the only reason men think the only reason men think that there they were hate predestination because they think I had they have enough goodness in them to bring themselves to life that's what they think don't they well I can walk y'all and I can accept Christ the Bible says there's none good you don't have a will to accept Christ or to come to god nobody seeks God your will people have got it in their heads I've said this so many times but they've got it in their heads that they come up to a why in the road and they can go right or left and and here's good and here's evil no that's not what it is the Bible says you're headed straight down into hell and if God has not chosen you before the world begin and he doesn't intercept you and cause you to turn around and to come to him and birth you by his will you're going to hell and it won't be a thing you can do about it you can't will yourself in your worthless you've got to let us see who we are that's all it takes but do you know that these people that don't know God they have no idea who they are they don't know there is evil and wicked as they are in the Nasser they are the worst they are the Bible says whosoever will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God in friendship with the world is enmity against God enmity is the word extra echch ra if you get along with the world and you think you're a nice guy you're gods you're hostile to God you're God's enemy that's what the scripture says well that's hard to reason with a 21st century way of thinking in it you can't reason that out what you do is you read the Bible you accept you say God forgive me for my sin and for being the slug that I am and I know that most people here have got in your past that you know nobody knowing about because you're so embarrassed well guess what embarrassment is being ashamed and that's a sign of repentance if you're not embarrassed for your sin you have no repentance you have no eternal life I've told the story I was selling real estate back in the mid 80s and I was rushing through the house and I was trying to live for God now for some reason it was a sunny afternoon I sat down on the couch for a minute and all of a sudden my mind started wondering about my sin in the past and I did the craziest thing I couldn't I wouldn't I was just thinking about my sin and I put my hand over my face and I started humming maybe I could hide it and I did it without even thinking about it I just like that till you're ashamed of yourself it's embarrassing sins embarrassing it's supposed to be but it's not while you're doing it is it no you like it what are you doing it it's after God starts dealing with the heart and Jeremiah said over there in Jeremiah 31 18 he said I was unaccustomed to the oak as a young bullet the yoke of the kingdom was the laws of him he said I could not walk in the righteousness of God he said but Lord turned out me and I shall be turned only if you turn me will I be turned and after I've was turned I was instructed by God you listen to God's instruction you won't say I've got my pains I think I can live my life the way I won't you'll quit doing that you may wrestle with in a while and then he said I was ashamed he said I was confounded it means to blush he said I took the reset I bore the reproach him out of youth I took the blame you drop your head and you facing turn red you see oh god I've been so foolish and it'll register in your heart is anybody had any problem with that won't we have shamed of ourselves if you can't be ashamed for your sin don't be embarrassed for being ashamed shame is a necessity for repentance without it there's no eternal life there's no true repentance without shame and you will come to the place where you'll take the blame I remember I've told the story so many times but God nearly killed me for all of my pride my arrogance my years of wanting to be a star and rich and God nearly I mean he put me in a hospital and I got so I got I got right at death now if God will put you right at death and your elect he will get your attention I promise you and I said on the side of that hospital bed and I had blamed everybody but myself I was in big gospel singer I had a big gospel group I had a show group in pop music world and I blamed all the big gospel singers all the big gospel promoters and they were cheating me and they were lying and they were putting me down and they were trying to stop me and they were evil me and doing me wrong but they were sword in the hand of the Lord God wasn't gonna let me be a star and then I moved off and I got mad at preachers because they condemned me things I'd gone through and divorce I've been through and and and I just was mad at the world I was blaming real estate brokers and blaming everybody and what these guys yes they were evil that they cheated me yes and they done me wrong yes what it's supposed to yes was they were sorted in the hand of God in the first time I really came to a place sitting up on the side of that hospital bed names me lost but I said up there with IVs and my arms nearly dying driving my head sing god the fault is mine first time I'd ever really said everything that they did the fault is mine god you're gonna kill me if I don't behave myself and stop what I'm doing and cease all this pride in this arrogance God let me see that if God don't let you see that about you too you don't truly have repentance you have to see you have to look at all the people that did you wrong and say ain't nothing but Seward gods holding it David said deliver me from the wicked which is thy sword and I am God you've hit me so many times don't hit me again god I don't think I can stand it another day that's God spiking us haven't we come to that realization you've beat us half to death until we get on our face and say god I'll live for you and it does not matter from now on I'll get down on my face and I will serve you I don't care if I have to live in a tent and when that registers on you you're not gonna try to keep up with the Joneses you're not gonna try to outdo somebody down the street you're not gonna they got a new car I gotta get a new car that guy cut me off in traffic I'll get him you'll stop that boy it takes a long time to get over that part don't it yeah you're gonna go down the road and scream at the guy in the car and get mad in traffic well once you get once you get Nashville traffic straightened out you we need to sing you to Washington DC get that straight then we'll send you to Dallas you get that straight and it's either Denver and we'll just make you have just an ambassador to straighten out traffic you're not gonna straighten out people in the world haven't you figured that out yet they are what they are they're sinners they're in a hurry they want their way when they cut you off they got a whole lot of self in them don't sit there and save that guy just picturing going there you know if God don't deal with that maniac if it never deals with him he thinks it's okay to have his way and fight for his rights from now on he is going to hell where was I proverbs proverbs 29 now look at verse 9 what this says here is you cannot clean yourself up you can't make yourself clean you can't make yourself pure why can't you do that because you're this man that we've been talking about you don't have anything good and you you're worthless if God doesn't come inside of you and both himself in you how could a man that's dead in his sin worthless just to slug a worm a sinner debaucherous just sin how can he make himself clean you can't do that who can say I have made my heart clean I am pure from my sin who can say that well I thought that's predestination isn't it all right in that predestination but people say but this doesn't seem right it just doesn't seem to me that God has a right to do this you know what man is doing he's talking back to God look down here look down here huh I've won 11 and 12 of this but this chapter okay even a child is known by his doings whether his work be pure whether it be right if you're a child if your child of God you'll be known by the doing of God in you and it will be God that works in you too willing to do of his good pleasure we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them we are God's pooey workmanship py EMA it comes from Pope EOI EO which means to make or do we are God's tapestry God's weaving his polymer and he's going to weave us into the likeness of Jesus because we don't have anything good in us to do right he births Christ in us and he causes Christ to grow and the old man begins to bleed out of us over the years through lots of fiery trials he gets our attention doesn't he he's got mine people say Jim burn your awful hard I was awful leaning 30 I was honoring you getting my way I may not be very big I would run over you in life if you hurt me I'll get you does anybody you're been like wait that's wicked evil godless man that does that I keep saying I'd like to go back in my past to find me and just slap me silly say you stupid dumb kid that's what I want to do to me but we had to go through all this to become who we are is anybody else been as dumb as I was or you want to lie we've all been slugs haven't we look here it and then he says if you can hear God in the next verse the hearing ear and the see I the LORD hath made even both of them if you can see truth and hear it and understand it God's got to put it in your heart you don't do that to yourself did you right after you were born you said I need some eyes okay I'll make me some and put them in and put some ears on you did you do that no your father and mother gave you their eyes and ears when you were conceived in the womb and our Heavenly Father gives us our eyes and our ears to hear and see spiritual things if you can't hear and see spiritual things you're wasting your time listening to me if this bores you out of your mind wouldn't listen to it I'd get out of here because you're gonna be hell more accountable for what you know I hate let's cut it off right now God's gonna coddle Dibley what is spiritual hearing because here is the word Shama on that verse Shama is that word hearing ear it's also the word obey every time you find the word obey in the Greek text it is this word Shama the obeying ear you have to obey God in order to belong to him that's conforming to his likeness it's also the word Harken every time i Jeremih would say israel you hearken not to the voice of the Lord God's destroying you for it it's always that word Shama here obey ya can't you hear me it's like you don't mean when you're little kid runs out in the street and you go out there and spank them back in the yard you say you didn't hear me did you you don't mean they didn't hear physically you don't mean the hammer didn't bounce against the anvil of the inside of the year and there's a vibration that went to the brain you didn't mean that you mean you wouldn't pay any attention and you don't believe that I'm gonna do what I told you I was going to do and people really don't believe God's gonna do to them what he says he's gonna do and you hear these goofy preachers say God it's not some cosmic policeman up there trying to beat up the world no he's up there beating up his children do you think he won't spike it if you don't spank your kids are something wrong with you if you don't make them behave what you do is you hate your kids the Bible says if you don't make him behave huh that's right if you don't spike you you don't belong to him look over here look over here in I missed one here look over here in Micah was it Michael yeah Micah seven no - Micah seven Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Hosea those air comes right after Daniel Daniel Hosea Joel Amos Obadiah Jonah Micah Micah seven look at verse 1 woe is me for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits as the great gleanings of the vineyard there is no cluster to eat my soul decide the first ripe fruit the good man is perished out of the earth and there is none upright among men they all lie in wait for blood they hunt every man his brother when his net that's what men are trying to get each other I'll get him he did me wrong that's not their property line your trees going over in my yard I'm gonna cut that limb off and then you stole to court with each other you fight over a tree limb that's stupid I'll have my way you're probably right ain't gonna eat it go get on my property line you want to stick your fence on my property line I don't care it's like you're gonna use that back there and I bet you somebody's here that family that did that my Mary's mother she was an old country woman and her and she had her stake back here on a it was way back there by Creek and the woman over next door she'd go and get that stake move it over and marry smother go back and put it over and nobody's even in use it nobody even cared except then huh yeah it was the silliest stupidest thing I've ever seen not terrible we ain't using they didn't know mattered still yours he put your steak over it doesn't matter I like the old guy I was at the store one day this old guys sacking groceries an old man that there's giving him a job driving he'd have nothing to do and I had a teacher who said something I said this is the truth and I don't argue about and the old man said he said I don't argue about nothing it is what it is I said thank you arguing ain't going to change it is what it is in God's Word is what it is and you're arguing where they might go changing we need that attitude don't we and he says they hunt every man his brother with a net that they may do evil with both hands earnestly the prints asketh and the judge asked us for a reward and the great man he he uttered his mischievous desire so they wrap it up the best of them is as a briar the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge this is the righteous man in the world they're worthless the day of thy Watchmen and thy visitation cometh now shall be their perplexity God's gonna perplex men without any answers he says that repeatedly doesn't he now look over here job and people say well why would God just just why would God do this when you start arguing with God you're talking back to God hath not the Potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor Jacob and another to dishonor Esau if that's what he wants to do God would make an honorable man and make another dishonorable send the man to hell on purpose you know say I do what I please this is my good pleasure they men don't know you know what they don't know who they are and they don't know who God is that's what's wrong with America they don't know either one look here job 33 joke 33 you got it right there on your paper we're just going down the list here I've had these and I'll read from some up once in a while now job job had one problem he thought he was innocent and Elihu is reprimanding job here job 33 let's read here job's talking about this is Elihu speaking in verse 10 behold he findeth occasion against me this was joke here he counted me for his enemy he putteth my feet in stocks he mock us all my paths behold in this thou art not just job this is lau scuse me this is where Elihu is correcting job saying you're not just you said you're innocent we're all guilty I will answer thee that God is greater than man and then he says these great words job why does thou strive against God for he giveth not account of any of his matters to mankind he don't answer to you and me you say why does he send the mail in L on purpose God says that's my business I do it according to my good pleasure he does everything according to the pleasure of his will in Ephesians 4 and 5 having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will people say why would God do that he wants to why would he send men to hell on purpose he wants to it's like I keep saying if you don't have bitter sweet has no meaning does it you have no wrath there is no such thing as mercy you can't say God is merciful to all man and saves all man you have to measure it against something if you have something sweet you have to measure it against bitter a lemon oh yeah I got a measure to get something sour don't you why do you put salt in a pie to bring out the sweetness its thief it's the antithesis of it like mayor said it brings the sweetness of the sweet out if everything in the world was sweet there was no bitter no sour god never created bitter or sour what would you call sweet you know you call it it would have no definition would it you couldn't call it sweet something is only sweet because there's something that's not sweet that's the only reason that's why you put something about yeah you have to have bad to have good so if God sends men to hell in order to have mercy on the vessels of Mercy he's got to have men in hell let no get in your mercy doesn't he he has to have that to measure the way he measures you can't have up without having down that is that's grace that's what it is people say that's not fair God shouldn't sitting in hell on purpose oh he shouldn't what's fair you weren't fair huh would you like to have fair God's gonna be fair to everybody said everybody now that's fair he's unfair to the vessels of Mercy when he saves us he's not fair to me in you he's showing us grace instead of what's fair fair is that men would go to hell unfair is grace he keeps us out of hell you see they thank God for His mercy and grace thank God for predestination and preordained a family to eternal life because without predestination nobody's going to heaven no one and that amazing predestination is the only way to heaven but we're predestined to conformed to the likeness of Jesus are we huh and look over here concerning concerning Ella Hughes answer God give is not account of any ins matters look over here Romans nine look at Romans nine I'm about out of time but I'll give you how much time lying okay Romans nine when he said he loved Jacob and hated Esau before they were born before either one had done any good or evil in verse 11 Jacob have I loved Esau have I hated in verse 13 it he says to Moses I'll have mercy on whom I will have mercy and verse 15 I'll have compassion on whom I'll have compassion don't you talk back to me I'm God I do what I want that's what he says doesn't he and he hardened Pharaoh's heart Pharaoh did not harden his own heart God said they said Moses tell Pharaoh let my son go for Israel as my son even my firstborn and tell him if he doesn't let him go I'm gonna kill his son Oh Moses one other thing I'm gonna harden his heart he won't let the people go now you tell me what kind of a chance Pharaoh's son had ain't no chess you don't sit around and reason God out you throw yourself on the mercy of God don't we and he says in verse 16 it's not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that shows mercy verse 18 therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy what that means is I do as I please I'm God you're a piece of sand out there on the ground don't talk back to me that will save it unto me verse whom he will he hardeneth God hardens who he whales in verse 18 that would say then unto me what if he yet find fault for his resisted the will of God neighbor told man who are you to reply against God shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me thus does the vase look up at the Potter and say wait a minute I don't want to be a chamber pot I want to be a shut up I'll break you we don't talk back to God do we the problem with this men who want to talk back to God don't know what kind of a sinner they are they just don't know if they ever find out they won't talk back when you find out that God chose you you wake up one day and you'll one night in your bedroom you're going oh oh god you chose me and you could have chosen that person instead of me Oh God and you'll get down on your face and say oh God thank you I don't know if you had a reason but I thank you for choosing me it'll register on you that's grace and that you really deserve to go to hell with all the vessels of Wrath that are fitted to destruction and I like that next verse hath not the Potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour if that's what he wants to do does the Potter have that that's the Potter have the authority over the clay you know what he wants Gani one other verse before I stop here look at Isaiah 40 Isaiah 64 as is 64 take these home and study them I didn't even finish him Isaiah 64 I love this as in 64 verse six but we are all are as an unclean thing for all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags I'm not trying to be crude but the word in the Hebrew is a minstrel cloth that is our righteousnesses and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away there is none that calleth upon thy name that stir up himself to take hold of the nobody or is the word stirreth up it means to wake yourself from the dead nobody wakes themself up from the dead to call upon God no one and got to read the rest of this for thou hast hid my face from us and we can't find you God unless you find us and has consumed us because of our iniquities the believer he's going to consume that out of man and now O Lord thou art our Father we are the clay and thou a potter and we all are the work of thy hands he does what he wants to do the reason men don't believe in predestination it's never been revealed to them how evil and godless and wicked their hardy is let's pray father thank you for this message Lord we pray you bury this into our hearts it calls us to fall down on our faces before you and realize except for grace we're such a bunch slugs Lord we're just worthless God deal with our hearts under the hand of these evil men and causes to continue to bow to you and God will praise you and glorify you can give you honor for all things because you're doing everything we Lord teach us to be thankful for

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Keywords: grace and truth, jim brown, Calvinism, Pentecostal, Apostolic, reformed, joel osteen, kenneth copeland, TBN, creflo dollar, total depravity, tulip, predestination, false prophet, false teacher

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Length: 97min 9sec (5829 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 24 2011