(Disclaimer: This transcript is auto-generated and may contain mistakes.) This is his favorite phrase to say he says there's no such thing as a backslider, you know, he says only false converts Oh Well, let me start off by saying that the term backslider and the varying forms of it is found in the Bible Okay, in fact, it's found at least 17 times in the Bible So it's a it's a it's a biblical concept. It is a biblical teaching you say well, why? Why are you going out of your way to even mention that obviously it's in the Bible Well simple for the fact that there is someone out there by the name of Ray Comfort Who teaches there is no such thing as a backslider, you know, he think he has all kinds of popular sermons that are called Hell's best-kept secret and all these other foolish sermons and heresies It says there is no such thing as a backslider Which is very parallel to what Paul washer would say that there's no such thing as a carnal Christian And I find it interesting to these Calvinists like to say there is no such thing of things that are actually found in the Bible Like a carnal Christian in the backslider, right? But the reason he has to say that is because he believes in what's called perseverance of the Saints What does that mean? Well perseverance of the Saints is a doctrine the Calvinists teach that say that if you are truly saved You will persevere until the end. In other words, you'll remain in church. You'll keep reading your Bible. You'll live a holy life You'll do that which is right on the side of the Lord and you'll persevere up until the end Okay, and it's and they basically say this if you don't you won't really saved in the first place You see if you ask a Calvinist, can you lose your salvation? They'll tell you no, you can't lose your salvation However, if you don't persevere until the end you were never really saved to begin with. Well, that's a false. That's false doctrine Okay, and so he says there's no this is his favorite phrase to say he says there's no such thing as a backslider You know, he says only false converts now go to 2nd Peter chapter 2 because I believe 2nd Peter chapter 2 is one of the greatest examples of someone who Backslid and the Bible I mean God on purpose Put a phrase before his name to let you know. Hey, he's a saved man I'm referring to the man named lot. Okay Now who is lot lot is Abraham's nephew in the book of Genesis now if you don't know anything about law Let me just give you a brief overview of who he is and what he did He's lost nephew and he's a man who the Bible says pitched his tent towards Sodom which eventually led him to live in Sodom You said what is Sodom? It's a city of homos is what it is. Okay Reprobates and sodomites. That's where the term sodomite comes from So this guy's so backslidden that he actually decides to live in San Francisco in the midst of it And he's living there among them, but he's the same thing He's I don't think he was saved, you know, if you say if you wouldn't do those things Well, look, let's look what the Bible says 2nd Peter chapter 2 verse 6 It says in turn in the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow Making them in samples into those that after should live ungodly and delivered just lot Now that doesn't mean he just delivered lot Okay, cuz his daughters got delivered to and his wife was delivered until she decided to turn back and was turned into a pillar of salt What is the same just lot means he saved he was justified and Delivered just lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man The Bible says dwelling among them in seeing and hearing vexed his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful Deeds, so no one can look at at lot and say oh, yeah. He was a righteous Christian No, but you know what? He was a righteous man in the sense that he was saved You know why he wasn't living righteously because he was living with a bunch of faggots And the Bible says there in seeing and hearing their unlawful deeds. He vexed his righteous soul You know why cuz a safe person that stuff is gonna bother them Okay, why you know it's gonna bet your righteous soul, you know that it's wrong, you know that it's filthy You know that it's not of God and it's gonna bother you. Okay, but here it says the I mean God Specifically refers to him as just lot and just in case you don't understand what just lot means He reiterates in verse 8 that righteous man. Well, we know based upon his life that he wasn't living righteously So that's not what it's referring to. It's referring to the fact that he was righteous in Christ It was a saved man