it's sunday morning and we are coupling the study of predestination with the traditions of the pharisees were in fact were throwing him in complete opposition to one another and without predestination you can't go to heaven people hate the doctrine of predestination and the reason men had it is because they think god would be unfair to choose someone to go to heaven and not allow people chances to go to heaven god has not laid out men and their minds the way the world our way men in the world thankee has they think that god they believe that god has made mankind independently of him and say ok now i'm going to throw this this blanket out here of choice to you whether you want to be my child or me my son or believe in me and it's up to you to do it or that's not what the bible teaches the bible does not teach that were saved by choice the bible teaches that  received by new birth and the birth is not by the will of man the birth is by the will of god that's what john one thirteen say is that we were born again and that's what he's talking about the new birth we were born not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man but of god and then in james one eighteen the bible says of his own will  begat he us it was by his will and then over there in john five twenty one the scripture says jesus quickens whom he will in quicken z o it people think that they have a choice the reason they think they have a choice is because men have told them they have a choice but you don't have a choice you either here or you don't hear the truth it says you say why do they say that they don't study they don't know the bible that's the whole point you don't you are you saying that these  you don't have to boast to say this if you study all the time and you studied for years which i've spent fifty four years studying bible i can tell you when a man knows something about the bible and when he does it i shut my mouth and listen to him talk whatever is in his heart comes out his smile that's what a man believes the bible says of the bundle of the heart the mouth space x what comes out of a mouth is a man's belief if you listen to him in talk in the market place and they speak of things and stuff and money and self that's what they believe in the whole point is god has not laid this out the way men think he's laid it add up what he is done he's made all men with the central nature who are they when they come to the crossroads and there's not actually a crossroads they come to the tree of the knowledge of good navel just like they come to the tree of the knowledge of good navel and and when they come to this tree of the knowledge when they come to this tree of the knowledge of good navel and they see the fruit on the tree that's all that's in the world the lust of the place the us the eyes in the proud of live and that's what he saw in the tree then they go straight to the tree because they have nothing good in them nothing is good in a man i want to remind you we were talking at the house friday night it's so easily to be a believer and look at someone who looks real not and actually think that these people are that naive it's there's nobody first of all nice is a terrible word isn't it it's an awful word kind is a good word kind word to be be knowledge so to be nice to be nice means to have no knowledge of something whenever you go into a classroom and you've never taken calculus and you look and you're real nice you're looking to the teacher like i don't know nothing and you don't are the only people that it's lawful for them to be nice or people who are mentally handicapped it's ok to have down syndrome and be nice to everybody because they don't know that's all right but to act nice that's really bad to act nice means to act like you have no knowledge of actually what's going on you have no knowledge of sand you don't actually know what's happening with mankind and you acting like you're naive and you're playing dumb the bible says that there is none good nobody none good that means the nicest people you know and when i say nicest you know what i'm talking about the sweetest looking people you know they're not good the bible says all man drink a nick with it like water that means everybody that means he was the nicest guys in in history and hollywood in the world well roy rogers all rogers was my hero when i was a little boy roy rogers was a sinner an out and out senator now i know nobody believes that people don't believe it or raj is that way but he was i was on two of the gospel group out in california one and neither is anybody else opie taylor is not ny izzy robert duvall who is a world famous oscar winning actor said opie or ron howard was the nicest man in hollywood now how would you like for a pagan to say about you that you were just the most wonderful nice guy that means ron howard never takes to stay and for anything moral that's what it means these people are not what you think they are and andy griffith who he worked for as a little boy he can't be that my him an aunt baby we're fighting all the time off the set because she said she was a christian from north carolina and she wouldn't do some of the things he wanted her to do and andy's son didn't talk to him for eleven years he's not what you think and i ask you son charles stanley has been divorced for the last ten years he's one of the most famous so than vibes preachers in america as kids ex wives if he thinks he is the picture of purity that comes across on the t v screen ask our people are not what you think the bible says there's none that do it's good the only reason we think people are that way it's because of what they look like and how they present themselves the bible says all men are evolved that's their very nature i was a real good little boy i grew up in a preacher's home but my prick my father being a preacher wasn't a very good guy he would run people off the road with his car and pull hammers and get ball bats after him and i mean he was a character but i was raised in ny and i've had this great abiding conviction about jesus ever since i was seven a nineteen and i wanted to l jesus all my heart i never ran around with people that because i never cursed i didn't do bad things i was the best of the boy you ever run across and then i grew up and we all know that i had this voice to sing and i ended up with a gospel singing group out of fort worth and i traveled around and i was asked to some nameless gospel singer heard me and asked to sing with the blackwoods i'm in for this and i went up there and i got into this hornet's nest of heathenism and then i ended up in gospel music and then i ended up at in a pop music world in it cus and i ended up singing in bars and clubs and i would have never and nobody would have ever believed i would have done that but god had to open up my heart and had to open up my eyes and let me see who i was if god never let choose see who you are if he never reveals himself to you you cannot repay can't you well want to turn away from self the reason you turn away from self and repeat it is you get tired of yourself now that's the truth that's didn't the video didn't come out good so i preached it again because it was one of the most convicting message javert did and the title was it predestined it was predestination the reason men don't believe in predestination is that they don't know how wicked they are if you ever it's ever revealed to you how wicked you are then you'll know you can't well down and out and accept prised you know you can't pray a prayer and let jesus come in your heart you'll know that if god doesn't birth you by his will and change your life and change your heart and it will be one hundred percent of the end that you can't do anything to have eternal live he has to put faith in your heart he has to cause you to be willing to repent it's god that works in you to women to do of his good pleasure we are his workmanship created in christ jesus and do good works which god had before doubting that we should walk and then it's god that does one hundred percent of all of it without predestination nobody's going to heaven it is the only truth and whenever i say predestination is the only truth people say what do you mean i've got a t shirt that says predestination the only truth it's the only truth that is truth there's no other truth if you don't believe in predestination you don't believe the truth the bible says for whom he did for no god has a what would happen it doesn't say what what is in it is a person but the four new those are the ones that are predestined for no needs to know and timidly if god had not of four known anyone nobody's going to heaven if god leaves man to himself hell will be fool heaven will be in t he leaves the man to himself say that's the point unless god ever opens up if he ever reveals himself to you and his light shines into your heart you will see what a slug an face you are blah heard that ever since i was a kid but nobody ever told me that god had to reveal himself that you could not reveal him to yourself you could reveal god to you so the people that god knew intimately before hand he'd chosen us in him before the foundation of the world but he didn't just choose this he choses to be holy and without bl has anybody ever told you that it's such a confusing doctrine we don't talk about that here is confusing i suppose you're an idiot god is pretty determined his family for the light for the horizon and the light is the truth and jesus said i am they way the truth they lie i am the lie they is what you call a definite article whenever you were used the word the it excludes every other lie every other way every other truth you have are indefinite articles that means they're not definite in specific jesus did not say i am a lot of the world did he know if he said i am a right that may never is another one of maybe two or three or four or five more he said i am a truth he said i am very truth didn't it if he said i am very truth that means i am very right there is no other light there is one light it's isn't every man it is best state is to gather vanity every man is he worth less every is no such thing as a good person i know people in hendersonville i'm a good person i knew people in real estate i know a builder these say i'm a good person i do everybody right god will like me and me and have no he won't he'll send you to hell for that kind of pride right there because he never has revealed himself to you and that's the truth now we're talking about how predestination is related to the doctrine of the fair sees before get started to further a guy wrote a letter this morning and i've said a little bit about it but he wants he wants me to tell  why god doesn't love everybody and everybody god doesn't love everybody let me just say quickly why god doesn't love everybody because mainly the reason god doesn't love everybody it's because he said he didn't didn't he say is then romans nine eleven when rebecca had conceived rebecca was isaac's why eyes it was abraham s and rebecca is pregnant with twin boys one is going to be born first born is going to be the second born is going to be jacob later on jacob's name is going to be changed to israel in the thirty second yet born neither having done any good or evil now why is he saying this neither having done any good evil he wants to put you in mind before their birth before they have done any good or evil god has set the boundary and he's determine the destiny for both of these children before they are born before they've done any good or evil before they have done any good or evil it was said and i heard the elder shall serve the younger esau shall serve jacob before they're born as it is written jacob have i loved it so have i hate it every time you find as it is written it's talking about old testament burst this is talking particularly about malakhov one one into where god said i live jacob and i hate it he saw before they were born god does not live every body in that word love is a god in a gap a you got two words for laon i got by a those that come here all the time know the difference in these words these two words have been translated l o v now i have people will call me from time to time and say and they'll be listening to grace and truth i got a couple in new york and they'd call me after having listened to me for seven or eight years and say gee i'm who do you go and talk about the love of god when you go talk about ale and i just get tough with them fast what do you mean i got here for i owe these are the two words that have been translated l o v what are you talking about when i'm not going to talk about the love of god that's ridiculous i talk about it nearly every message don't i for they all means to have affection what they mean is when you can talk about the affection of god well jesus said you are my friends fully  it's condition know you will know when i'm going to talk about the niceness of god and how much god likes you it's when you walk after his commandments there's no such thing as unconditional love my name is jim brown i'm your bible teacher here at grace in truth ministries in henderson built in the sea we'd like to give you a free tape all you have to do is call one eight hundred six two five five four zero nine zero our call us locally in niceville or is six one five eight two four eight five zero two let me repeat that one eight hundred six two five five four zero nine that still free or six one five eight two four eight five zero two people who ask us what do you believe that grace and truth where we believe predestination is true we believe god creates evil he said he does all things he's declared the end from the beginning from  they cannot possibly believe god or even won't that god's got vessels of mercy which he had to forbear to glory and he'll call every one of those to him jesus said all that the father giveth me shall come to me and we believe that  we believe that christmas is paganism it's the old feast of saturn in the ancient world that constantine brought in the church in three twenty five a day and compromised paganism and christianity we believe that jesus is god in the flesh he died to save sinners we do not believe in easter or ishtar that's one of the old pagan fertility festivals of the ancient world we certainly believe jesus rose from the dead but the early church celebrated his resurrection every first day of the week and we believe in repentance day to cross self denial death to sail and all of this is conforming us to the likeness of christ that's what romans eight twenty nine says for whom we did for now he also did predestine night to be conformed to the image of his son and that brings in accountability responsibility we're going to be accountable to god because he's determined the likeness of christ in us by the fiery trials daily in our lives if you like more on 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