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you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you The refrigerator door here has been not being shut properly. Everyone just kind of keep an eye on it. I don't know what to do about that. Just if you see it, open, close it for us. If there's probably like one child that's a repeat offender, I would imagine. If you see a child doing that, try to teach them how to close it. But other than that, I don't know what else we can do. My goal at the end of the week was to get in contact with electrician to run more lines so I could get power to that new refrigerator that we got, as well as be able to power up more of the stuff here. So that's my goal for this week is to try to get that scheduled. And then it won't be as big of an issue. We've been getting kind of filling up on some of the refrigeration here, so I'm looking to get all of that in place. But I'm going to stop rambling now on the housekeeping stuff and we're going to continue on with the service. So let us turn to our next song. We're going to say, oh, good night. What is that? Song number 162 should be to God be the glory. Hopefully don't lose power like last week. I think the kids loved it. The kids love when they lose the power, but not as much fun for the adults. Song number 162, to God be the glory. Song 162. Sing it out on that first verse. To God be the glory. Great days he hath done. So loved he the world that he gave us his son. Who yield in his life an atonement for sin? Hang up in the light, think that all may go in. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, I believe you'll rejoice. O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son. And give him the glory, great things he hath done. O perfect redemption, the purchase of blood. To every believer, the promise of God. The vilest offender who truly believes. That moment from Jesus a pardon receives. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the keeper rejoice. O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son. And give him the glory, great things he hath done. Great things he hath taught us, great things he hath done. Make great our rejoicing, through Jesus the Son. The purer and higher and greater will be. Our wonder, our transform, when Jesus we see. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the earth hear his voice. Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, let the people rejoice. O come to the Father, through Jesus the Son. And give him the glory, great things he hath done. And this time we're going to pass the offering plate around. And while those plates are going up and down the aisles, I'm going to ask you if you'd please turn in your Bibles to the book of Romans and chapter number one. Romans chapter one. And as we do customary here at Strong Old Baptist Church, we're going to read the entire chapter out loud. You can follow along silently. I'm going to ask brother Michael if he could come up and read for us Romans chapter number one. Amen. That is Romans chapter one. Romans chapter one. The Bible reads, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, which he hath promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures, concerning his son Jesus Christ, our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power, our Lord. According to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead, by whom we have received grace and apostleship, for obedience to the faith among all nations for his name, among whom are ye also called of Jesus Christ, to all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints. Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. For God is my witness, who I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers. Let me request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you, for I long to see you, that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift, to the end ye may be established. That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the neutral faith both of you and me. Now I will not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purpose to come unto you, but was led hitherto, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles. I am dead of both to the Greeks and to the barbarians, both to the wise and to the unwise. So, as much as is in me is, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are at Rome also. For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth, to the Jew first and also to the Greek. For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith, as it is written, the just shall live by faith. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth of unrighteousness, because their which may be known of God is manifest in them, for God hath showed it unto them. For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse. Because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, and changed the glory of the uncorruptible God unto an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and for for the beast, and creeping things. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lust of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves, who changed the truth of God unto a lie and worship and serve the creature more than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections, for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature. And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the women, burning them in their lust one toward another, men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, maliciousness. Deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. Let's pray. Father God, we praise you and thank you for your word, and God, we thank you for all that you show us. Thank you for manifesting yourself and thank you for giving your son Jesus Christ to die on the cross, for all of our sins, his sin in the right hand of you, God. Give Pastor Burns a bonus to preach your word, allow for us to be open to hear your word and take your word in with us. We just praise you and thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. That's a good start. So this evening, I decided to just do the part two from this morning. So if you were here this morning, I started teaching on the, well, basically debunking Calvinism, and we're starting with, we're doing, I'm going to do a series here where I'm going to attack each letter of their acronym, TULIP. And I started off this morning with total depravity. It's one of the doctrines that they believe. And I really what I ended up doing, and I should have in hindsight probably done an entire sermon just introductory to Calvinism and then gotten into the points. But I didn't do that. So we had to make a part two, and that's where we're at tonight. So if you missed this morning's sermon, I encourage you to go back and check it out online, go on YouTube or Facebook or wherever we have that content up. And check it out. It's going to bring you a little bit more up to speed to where we're at. Now, as we get into this, I want to point out a couple of things. I was talking to someone before the service, in between the services today, and, you know, some of the things I brought up, I just hadn't had a chance to get in everything yet. But I do feel it's appropriate to kind of bring this up now. While I do try to be fair in representing the position that other people might take on a doctrine, it's also important to note that just because someone might, I don't know, say they believe something. But if they end up speaking out of both sides of their mouth, you have to call it out for what it is. And here's a perfect example that I say, what are you talking about, Pastor Rosens? Well, there's almost every single Christian, if anyone calls themselves a Christian, almost every single one will tell you, well, I believe salvation is by grace through faith. I mean, literally, there's almost no one that's going to tell you, except for maybe some of the fringe cults that will literally just come out and say, no, you got to work for your salvation. Right? If you try to say to anyone, oh, that's a workspace salvation, everyone's going to deny that. Right? They will deny it. But does that mean that they don't actually believe in a workspace salvation just because they say they don't? No. Right? So when you call out a false doctrine, for example, especially with salvation, and you try to say, well, no, that's a workspace salvation. So when someone says, well, no, you have to, for example, here's a really easy one. Someone says, well, it's not enough to believe, you also have to be baptized. Well, that's a work. Right? Well, if you don't get baptized, you're not actually saved. And look, there are people out there that believe that, and those same people will tell you salvation is grace, it's a free gift. But if you're not baptized, you know, so it's like, well, look, no, we're going to call that out and say that's a work, and that is a workspace salvation. And no, you do not need to be baptized, and I don't care if they don't think it's workspace because it actually is. In truth, it is. Right? So it's similar now with Calvinism, you know, with total depravity. They tell you, well, it's not like we're talking about people who are just really bad with, like, all these sins and everything else, and I explained that this morning. But what you notice, and maybe you started to notice this already, the verses that they use to support their doctrine are the verses that are going to imply that somebody is just extremely, really bad, really wicked. Right? Now, I'm going to get to this a little bit, but we started off in Romans chapter 1 partially for this very reason. Because what the Calvinists, and even other people who are non-Calvinists, I've heard this taught before, is they'll try to tell you that if you look down at verse number 20, right near the end, like verses 29 through 31 or 32 there to the end of the passage, this is, look at this, it says, there's certain people from this chapter, it says they're being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity, whispers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. They'll say, yeah, that's every unbeliever. That just applies to every unbeliever, and that's the condition they're in until they get saved. That's nonsense. But this is a verse, and this is part of my list here, it's actually in here, Romans 1, 28 through 31, is on my list of defending or supporting, I should say, their concept of our heart, mind, and nature are corrupt. And if you remember from this morning, I made reference to one of the passages that they referenced in Psalms, in Psalm 5, where they were talking about, you know, David's wishing to death upon these people that were really wicked. They're using passages that, in the context, are not applicable to every unbeliever, but they're trying to use that to support the doctrine that would apply to every unbeliever. So while they're saying, oh, well, I mean, when we say we're dealing with poverty, we don't really mean it's someone that's just, like, I mean, kind of the worst person out there, but what is Romans 1 describing here? I mean, seriously, look at verse 28, we didn't read 28, I mean, we read the whole passage, but look at verse 28, it's talking about these people, and we'll get this even further in context, I don't know how much time I really want to invest in this, but verse 28 says, and even as they did not like to retain God and their knowledge, this is, first of all, talking about a group of people that already knew about God. So first of all, you could, right off the bat, just say, this isn't every person in the world, because not everybody even has the knowledge of God. Just every unbeliever does not necessarily start off with the knowledge of God. These people had the knowledge of God, it says, even as they did not like to retain God and their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind to do those things which are not convenient, and then it says, being filled with all unrighteousness, and it lists off all these sins. I mean, it's just saying, look, they have this and this and this and this and this, it's describing, like, the worst of the worst. Someone that you and I would say, yeah, totally depraved. I mean, that person is just depraved. And that's the common understanding of the word depraved anyways. When people talk about depravity, it's like, you're talking about someone who's really, really bad. Like, that person is just depraved. You know, John Wayne Gacy, yeah, that guy is depraved. Ted Bundy, that guy is depraved. Right? These are the people that would earn the title of depraved in the common usage in the English language. Yet, you get the theologians, oh, well, when we say they're depraved, we don't actually mean it's, you know, no. But here's the problem is because when the Bible is describing these people, this is not applicable to just every single unbeliever out there. But they're building their doctrine as if it is. And they have to do this to suggest that it is completely beyond our capability to trust Christ when you're in that condition. And there's a hint of truth in that because the people who are in this condition in Romans chapter 1 are in that condition of not being able to put their trust in Christ. But what they're doing is they're confusing the reprobate doctrine with every unbeliever. And for those of you unfamiliar with the reprobate doctrine, this is not my favorite subject to talk about. But it's important, and especially when it comes to things like this, to understand what this is, and you're like, what's the reprobate doctrine? In Romans 1.28, where we just read, it says God gave me a reprobate mind. The word reprobate means rejected. These are people that get into this condition to where their conscience gets seared with a hot iron. It is what we would call today commonly a psychopath. As the worldly definition, or the worldly example, a clinical person might say, oh, this person is psychopathic. And one of the characteristics of a psychopath, they have no empathy. They have no emotion. They're able to do things without feeling anything, and that's why they're able to commit such atrocities because they literally, it's just like, it doesn't even matter to them. And to learn more on this subject, we have a documentary in the back called Psychopath Reprobates. It's actually a very great, I love the documentary, it does a great job of illustrating the truth from the Bible and comparing that truth with what we see in reality, because the Bible is truth, so everything we see in the Bible we should see out in reality because it is truth, it's real. And when we see people that do such abominable things that no moral person would ever dream up, like someone lying with a man, lying with boys, and then chopping them up and eating them, I mean, and then to say, well, yeah, I mean, that's just like every unbeliever. No, no, no, it's not. That is not just your average unbeliever. But that is the person being described here in Romans chapter 1. It's someone who has gotten to that point to where they have lost their conscience. And God has given them over to this reprobate mind to just sink down that downward spiral of sin. And I don't want to preach all night about the reprobate doctrine because I want to really focus on this, but it is important to understand that the reprobate doctrine exists. The easiest way to understand this, and I talked about this in between services again, for those of you who are not very familiar with it, I will challenge you to look at this. If you think it's impossible for people to get to the point beyond salvation, which is what a reprobate is, they're rejected. I'll challenge you to look at one, the blasphemy of the Holy Ghost. The Bible teaches that if someone blasphemes the Holy Ghost, they have no forgiveness. Not in this world, not in the world to come. Verify that for yourself. Blaspheming the Holy Ghost. Number two, tampering with the Word of God. Changing the Word of God. You can look at Revelation chapter 22, that if anyone adds to the Word of God, God's going to add the plagues unto them. And if anyone removes from the Word of God, God is going to remove their name out of the Holy City, out of the Book of Life, and they won't have salvation. That's just something that's just said like, you don't have this. That's it. You've crossed the line. No more opportunity for you to be saved. And then the third would be anyone who receives the mark of the beast. Everybody, the Bible says in Revelation chapter 14, everybody that receives the mark of the beast. Is cast in the lake of fire. All of them. So people who receive the antichrist and worship him and take the mark of the beast, they are all going to hell when they die. Those are three instances of people who once you've gotten to that point, can no longer be saved, otherwise you're introducing contradictions in Scripture. Where two things can't be true. Someone can't have eternal life and eternal damnation simultaneously. It just doesn't work. Right? So you have to reconcile those things. But anyways, that's why I would say, okay, if these things exist, then you do believe in the reprobate doctrine in one way or another. You have to. There's people who have just, they can't be saved. Those are three examples of them. There are others where we see like in Romans 1, where people say here, that in verse number 21, you're still in Romans 1, the Bible says, because that when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful, but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. So, the people in Romans 1, in context, are people who, they knew God. They heard about God. They heard the Gospel. They understood it. They knew it. But you know what they did? They rejected it. And instead, they became vain in their own imaginations. They said, no, no, no. I'm going to make up my own God. I'm going to make up my own idol. I'm going to do whatever. And it says here, they changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like a corruptible man of birds, full-footed bees, and creeping things. Idolatry. They set up their own God. And this is consistent, even with all the times in the Old Testament, thinking about all the sins that children of Israel have gotten into, but when is it that God finally is just rejecting even the children of Israel and making them go into bondage and everything, when they turn to idols? With all the different sins that they had, God has brought punishment upon them and different things, but when is it when he actually just cast them out of the land? It's when they turn to idols. It's the same thing when a person, they understand God, they know God, and then they just say, nope, I know that that's the truth, but I'm not going to accept that. I don't. I don't want anything to do with that. I think I'm going to make up my own God. Okay, well, watch out, because that's when God, like it says in verse 24, wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness. So you're going to give me up? Well, I'm going to give you up. This is serious doctrine. Not everyone receives this or accepts this, but it's right here. You have to answer what does Romans 1 even talk about. Like I said, I'm not going to go through. You could find other sermons where I preached about the reprobate doctrine if you're interested in that subject. But it is tied in very closely with this total depravity, because someone that I would consider to be totally depraved is someone that the Bible talks about being a reprobate. Because they are unhinged when it comes to the limits that they would go to in their sin. Because everybody has a conscience when they're born into this world. You start off with that. There is a range. There is a limit. God sets a bound on the things that the natural man will do and won't do. But once you've been given all that reprobate mind, that barrier is gone. That conscience is seared with a hot iron, which is also what the Bible says. And then they get to this point of total depravity. It's folly to think that every unsaved person, every human being, starts off totally depraved. It's just plain, flat out wrong. I mean, I don't know about you, but I wouldn't consider even myself. Yes. Was I a sinner? Absolutely. Did I deserve to go to hell? Absolutely. But I was not some totally depraved psychopath that was out to just hurt me. Like, no. No. I've stolen. I've committed fornication. I've done things that were wrong. Absolutely. Yes. Yes. Sinner. Big time. But you can't just say, oh, you were just depraved. No. Because I also did seek God. I did want to know the truth. How do you explain that? Like, well, no, you're just lying. I mean, who wasn't here had a desire to just know the truth before you got saved? Anyone? No, you're all wrong. You couldn't have. You couldn't have. I did. People go through this life, and you want to know what's the truth. I mean, I remember for me personally, before I got saved, I was trying to think about it rashly and go, look, I was raised as a Christian. But I don't know if that's true or not just because I was raised that way. So I had my own journey to figure out, okay, well, I mean, maybe it's Islam. Maybe it's Buddhism. I had to figure it out. And I wanted to know what's the truth. And not just make an assumption because, well, this is where you were raised, and this is who your family was, and this is what you were taught. No, I needed to know it for myself. And I cared about the truth. You know what? God revealed the truth unto me and gave me the opportunity to put my trust in Him. And I did put my trust in the Lord Jesus Christ. And God did not make me do that. I had the will to do that. Now, can I brag, oh, I'm so great because I trusted you? No. No. I don't get any glory for that. But I had the will to choose. If I didn't have the will to choose, Rome and Rome doesn't even make any sense. None of the Bible makes sense. If at the end of the day you don't really have a choice, why is God going to punish you? What a weird God. What a bizarre God to make up to say, well, you don't really have a choice in this anyways, but since you didn't choose me, I'm going to punish you and make a fire. This is Calvinism. And the comments are going to light up on this video. Oh, no, that's not what we believe. You don't like the way it sounds. But that is the truth of what that doctrine teaches. You don't have to like it. You shouldn't like it. But accept it and say, look, that's true. That's true. At the end of the day, just because you might word it differently, it doesn't change. It's just like the people do in workspace salvation. Look, just call it out for works. You believe you're not wrong, you've got to repent of all your sins. I've got to turn from my evil way. Turn to what? Obeying the commandments? Because that's what sin is. Sin is breaking the commandments. No, you've got to turn from sin to the Savior. Hold on a second. Because if I turn from sin, what does that mean? I'm keeping the law. If I'm turning from my sins, which is breaking the law, then not sinning means I'm keeping the law. How is that not works based? It's not complicated. Not sinning means obeying the law. But you don't have to obey the law to be saved. Then what do I have to do? It's faith. Like the Bible says. Alright. Let's dig into this a little bit more. I really wanted to start off strongly with that Roman chapter 1. Because they list that as one of their evidences. And as we go through this, you'll see there are some passages where it's like, okay, yeah. It teaches that we have a sinful nature. But it does not teach that every person does not have the capability to put their trust in Jesus. Because that's what their premise is. That's what their argument is. But let's look at some of these passages and you decide for yourself, do any of these passages state that it's impossible for every unsaved person to put their faith in Jesus Christ? In the context, because there are a few people, a very small percentage of people that can't put their faith in Jesus Christ because of the reprobate, that they may try to use that passage to support their whole doctrine, but it doesn't apply to everyone. The context dictates who does it apply to. Specific people. There's a specific group of people. It's not broad to every unbeliever. So let's get started here. I'm going to continue through my list of debunking what they're supporting their passages. So let's go ahead and turn, if you would, to Matthew chapter 15. A couple, you know, these verses. Oh, I have to turn all these because they don't use the KJV and I have, I just copied it directly off the website. Unfortunately, I didn't want to take the time to put all the references down on paper. I'm going to read one of these for you, very famous passage, Jeremiah 17 verse number nine, just illustrating that our heart is wicked. The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked, who can know it? Right? You know what? The heart of man is wicked. Wicked does not equate to totally depraved, but the heart of man is wicked, right? The natural man, the flesh is going to lead us into sin. But does this really support, just because the heart of man is wicked, does that support that every unbeliever is totally depraved? I would say not. Matthew chapter 15 verse number 19, very similar to basically supporting the same teaching. For all of the hearts precede evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, theft, false witness, blasphemies. These are the things which defile a man, but to eat with unwashing hands defile not a man. So, you know, Jesus is teaching here because they're trying to say, oh, your disciples, they're not washing their hands before they eat, so like they're in sin. Like, no, just because they're not washing their hands before they eat, they're not being defiled by the dirt. Right? It's not a big deal. But what would defile them are other things that come out of the heart of man. The lusts of your flesh, right? Where you're saying, oh, yeah, I mean, the murders and adulteries, fornications, that does come out of your heart. That does come from your flesh. That is wicked. And we all have to live with that flesh. It's just like what Jeremiah 17 is saying. They have Mark 7, 21, 23. Don't turn there. It's just a reiteration of Matthew. Same exact passage. Same thing. There's another gospel. One over Romans 1. Let's turn to Ephesians chapter 4. And again, I'm doing this with trying to be as thorough as possible, looking at their passages that they're trying to say supports their doctrine. And we're seeing if it really does. First, number 17, Ephesians 4, 17. They say 17 and 18 will support their argument that we have, I'll get the exact verbiage, our heart, mind and nature are corrupt. They're corrupt. Ephesians 4, 17, the Bible reads, This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them because of the blindness of their heart. Now, again, I'm trying to look and see what they're, so they're saying, having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, I'm trying to understand how they're even using this sport. I guess they're saying the blindness because their heart is blind, the natural man. But I want you to notice something else, too. So they're going to this passage, right? Their understanding is darkened, okay. They're alienated or separated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them. So that is keeping them separate from God because of the blindness of their heart. But then look at verse number 19, who being past feeling, have given themselves over unto lasciviousness to work all uncleanness with greediness. Is every unbeliever past feeling? No. And just given over to lasciviousness? Every unbeliever, you're just given over unto lasciviousness. A 12-year-old boy, sorry, you're given over unto lasciviousness. Because you're an unbeliever. I mean, you're totally depraved. So this applies to you. No, it does not. I'm sorry, it doesn't. Now, are we alienated from God as an unbeliever? Yeah. We need to be reconciled to God. We have a sin nature which will drive us into these various lusts of the flesh. Absolutely. But you take it too far trying to say that every unbeliever this applies to. You can't do that because it clearly doesn't based on the context. Titus 1, last reference for this subtitle. Titus 1, verse 15 and 16. The Bible says unto the pure, all things are pure, but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure, but even their mind and conscience is defiled. True statement. If you're not saved, your mind and conscience is defiled, it is spotted, it is corrupted. They profess that they know God, but in works they deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and unto every good work, reprobate. Reprobate. Well, isn't that interesting that they're bringing up this concept again of people who are reprobate, and they're applying that to everybody. The context matters. Watch out for the people. I mean, every doctor, I don't care who it is and what it is. If people want to preach, especially those that preach out of their own heart, preach what they just want to preach, they're going to find anything in Scripture that they think is just going to help them and support them regardless of what the context says. And I've warned you about this before, and I warn everyone, even those that are well-intentioned, okay, if you want to go out and preach the gospel to people, don't use verses that just sound good, and you want to teach the truth out of it, but in the context it's not saying that at all. You are going to cause yourself to have a bad testimony if you rip verses out of context. Don't do that. I don't care how good it sounds and what things you can say about it if it doesn't fit the context of the Scripture, you don't use it that way. Stay true and faithful to the Word of God, because if something's true, you won't need that verse to teach it. If it's not what it's saying in the context, but what you're saying is true, go to something that actually says what you want to say in the context. If it's true, it'll be there. If it's not true, it won't. And if it's not true, what you're trying to say, then change it to be in line with the Scripture, right? Pretty easy. Alright, let's turn to John chapter 8. So illustrating that our heart, mind, and nature are corrupt, you know, I would agree with that statement, our heart, mind, and nature are corrupt, but applying that, the verses that they use do not all support that context to just apply to everybody. They use many passages that are talking about specific groups of people. The next point is saying that we are slaves to sin. And again, the reason why they say we're slaves to sin is to illustrate that, well, you have no say in being able to overcome sin by putting your faith in Christ because you're just a slave. Therefore, still eliminating the free will because if you're a slave and in bondage, yeah, you may not be able to work your way out of that, but if just putting your trust in someone who can free you from that bondage is going to save you, is going to free you, why couldn't you do that? I mean, think about it, even just as a physical slave, if someone was just a physical slave, and no, they're under lock and key, and they've got people, and there's security cameras, and there's, you know, like you can't escape, you can't get out of that bondage on your own, there's no way you're going to be able to free yourself. But you knew about somebody that if you just called out to them, hey man, can you come save me? And then he comes and clears the whole way for you, and you know, why wouldn't you be able to do that? That's not you saving yourself, that's someone else saving you. And that's what salvation is. John 8, verse number 34, by which Jesus answered them, verily, verily, I say unto you, whosoever committed sin is the servant of sin, and the servant abideth not in the house forever, but the son abideth forever. Yes, amen. You're not, you're a servant of sin if you, if you commit sin. Sin brings you into bondage. Is it a slave in the sense that there's absolutely no way out of that? No, but it does bring you into bondage. Romans, chapter 6. Actually, turn here to Romans, chapter 7, and we can flip back to Romans 6. Romans 6 is big on this, and I don't know if, actually, I mean, I like doing, I like being real thorough, but at the same time, some of these things are just really repetitive. Romans 7, they want to use verse 14 to prove that we are slaves to sin. The Bible says, for we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. So the fact that it says I'm sold under sin means that you're a slave to sin, but hold on a second here. Total depravity, according to Calvinism, is supposed to be describing an unsaved person. Isn't Romans 7, the apostle Paul, talking about himself? Who's saved while he's writing Romans chapter 7? So what is it? You're going to use a passage of a saved man saying that I'm sold under sin to describe an unbeliever. I don't think this means what you think it means. I don't think you can apply this the way you want to apply this. And this is where, you see, this is where false doctrine gets real confusing, too. Because people go, wait a minute. Because they could suck you in by saying, well, yeah, we're servants to sin, and we could go on and on with the verses that say, hey, we're servants to sin. And we are servants, like Jesus said, but that doesn't just apply to unbelievers, that applies to everybody. So anybody, whether you're saved or not, you're going to be a servant to sin. If you just allow sin in your life and you're indulging in sin, it's going to bring you into bondage. Whether you're saved or not. This isn't a salvation thing. This is just a sin thing bringing you into bondage. So how can you try to isolate and say, well, see, because you're a slave to sin, that's why you can't believe on Jesus. That doesn't make any sense. If people who are already saved can become under bondage to sin. We have to think critically about it. And this is the folly of just trusting what you read. Oh, wow, look at all those references. Well, that must be true then. Look at the references. Read them and think critically. Good night. If I could teach anything, I want everyone, and I strive to do this even at home, think critically. That is something our future generations are completely losing as they're being totally indoctrinated by the public's fool system, trying to make them just, this is what you're going to do. It's just like, obey, repeat after me, and that's how you're going to get through your education. We've lost the education of teaching people, teaching children to think critically. I do try to challenge my children at home. Sometimes they like repeating things that they hear. Whether I say it or they hear it in a sermon or something, they hear something and they just want to repeat it. Here's a good example. I've heard them sometimes try to mock, like I'll mock flat earthers. Guilty. I mock them because I think it's worthy of ridicule. If someone believes that the earth is flat, it's ridiculous. But when I hear my children do that, I go, well, wait a minute, why are you mocking? Why? Just because you heard me say that? No, can you explain to me why it's a foolish thing? They need to think for themselves. Don't just repeat what you've heard. No, if you think it's a foolish thing, explain to me why it's foolish. Otherwise, why are you mocking? It's easy to jump on the bandwagon, and it's not that what I'm saying is false, but they need to think for themselves. You need to think for yourselves. Everybody needs to think for themselves. Challenge, be critical. Don't be afraid of people that want to challenge your belief. Embrace it. I have no problems going to the atheist's website or reading people's, oh, how can you say this is true or these are contradictions in the Bible. No, I'll look at it. Be open to challenge what you believe. How else are you going to know if what you believe is false if you're not willing to be challenged anyways? We don't just need echo chambers of everybody saying the same thing. Be willing to branch out a little bit and hear, well, wait, someone else believes this. Okay, well, let's think about that. Let's look at it and determine what's true and what's not. You have to be able to challenge and think critically. You have to. Especially with doctrine and things of God. So Romans 7 is where we look at that passage. This is a believer. Yes, sin will bring you into bondage. Absolutely. Why are you bringing us up to support your doctrine of total depravity? Is a saved person totally depraved? I mean, that's literally what they're doing. Don't miss that. They are bringing up a passage that a saved person says he's sold under sin to prove that an unsaved person is totally depraved. Do you even understand what you believe? I don't think you do. It makes no sense. Romans 6 is what they're going to point you to again. There's plenty of passages that describe being into bondage of sin without thinking, well, who does this apply to? It applies to way more than unsaved people. Look at verse number 6. It would just say Romans 6, 6, and then 16, 17. And this is funny. 16, 17, 19, 20. Why don't you just put 16 through 20? Just leave out verse 18. We don't want to read that. Romans 6, 6 says, knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Hey, amen. We shouldn't serve sin. But does that mean we won't? No, of course not. We still do sometimes. But we shouldn't. And we will become a servant to sin when we sin. Verses 16 through 20. Let's read that. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to... Now, here we go again. Wait, do I have the choice to yield myself to something? Because it sounds like I've got a will there if I'm allowing to yield myself to something. Like I'm giving up control. I'm giving in to this. Or do I not really have that? I'm confused. I'm a Calvinist. Can I do this or not? Or is God making me yield myself? It's bizarre. Know ye not that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness. Now, in this passage, who's he speaking to? Believers. So is this talking about heaven and hell? No. If you're a believer and you choose to just become this servant to sin and just allow a bunch of sin, you know what it's going to lead to? Death. It's going to be a physical death. At the end of the day, that's what's going to happen. But God be thanked, verse 17, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered unto you, being then made free from sin. Oh, maybe that's why they didn't want verse 18 in there. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak because you're free. But then why is he still warning people about the dangers of sin? Verse 19, I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as ye have yielded your member of servants to uncleanness and to iniquity and to iniquity, even so now yield your member of servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. Oh, let's fast forward here a little bit. Let's see what else they've got. And by the way, I didn't add anything because these are so easy just to see what the surface explanation, like what the Bible's just saying when we're reading it together. So let's look and see what this is talking about. Does this support what they are saying? Man, I hate these false versions. They're so hard to read sometimes, like what are you even saying? Let's go to Titus 3. I think that could be a solid one in their favor, maybe. Titus 3, 3. Let's start reading verse number one just so we get the context. Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, to speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers but gentle, showing all meekness unto all men. For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers, lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another. Oh, I see why they use that now. False versions, man. I'm like, where is that talking about being a slave to sin, but when it says serving divers, lusts and pleasures? Here's a version, this is another side step, this is on Why We're King James Only, part of it. I don't even know what version this is from. This version says, for we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures. I don't think that's exactly the same thing, serving divers, lusts and pleasures. Okay, that's why they had that in there. But the point is, it says, but after that, the kindness and love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration, renewing of the Holy Ghost, which he shed out abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. So, he's saying, look, we used to just be these people that were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers, lusts and pleasures. Now look, that is describing an unsaved person. We're in some special group of people, but that's kind of how the world lives. Okay, yeah, you could have these various sins, but this isn't, there's not a problem with that, so just to say that like, okay, yeah, well, we served sin. Sure. But it's a logical leap to say anything more than just, just that, right? Let's, oh, here, that's a good one. Let's move to this one. Turn here to Proverbs 21. So, here's our next point, because I don't have, I don't have a problem with saying that sin brings bondage, right? We're slaves to sin. We could go through all these verses, are going to back up, that sin's going to bring you into bondage, or that you were in bondage at best, fine, right? I don't think we need to spend too much time investing in that, because I agree with that statement. It does, I don't think it supports their conclusion, but I think that statement alone is fine. But I immediately saw this passage here, and again, I think you can prove this, but when you start using these verses to make this proof, you run into problems. So, here's the next claim. The claim is that we desire sin. Now, the word we is kind of weird, because it's like, well, wait, we, who's we? We desire sin. I assume it's talking about we being the unregenerate man, which is what your whole point is supposed to defend here, total depravity. Proverbs 21, verse 10, this is what they're using to say we desire sin. The soul of the wicked desireth evil. His neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes. You start, and I've preached on this in the past, it's too much to unravel here. Start looking at who the Bible calls the wicked. What you'll probably find out is that there's a group of people being defined as the wicked. Again, it's not just talking about your average unbeliever. The wicked are described as the people that they can't rest unless they've done evil. These are the people that are seeking out mischief and laying snares and traps for other people. Again, it's too much to unpack, I've done it in the past, but when you start using verses like that, okay, yeah, I wouldn't use that to support that people desire sin. Even though it looks like, hey, the soul of the wicked desireth evil. Yeah, true statement, and that's a great verse. All you have to see is the desire, they desire evil. Yeah, but who are the wicked? Who does that apply to? John 3, 19. I look through these passages just ripe with not, okay, John 3, 19, this is a good one. This actually would support their argument. Let's start with John 3, 16, very familiar, right? For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish without everlasting life. For God sent not His Son in the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. He that believeth on Him is not condemned, but He that believeth not is condemned already, because He hath not believed the name of the begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation that light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. So they were highlighting here that people love darkness rather than light. And, yeah, there were people that loved darkness instead of light and didn't choose to put their trust in Jesus Christ. True statement. Like I said, that's not, to me, that's not some, that's people who did desire sin over salvation. Does everyone desire sin over salvation? The ones that want to come to the light, they don't. But let's turn to John 8, because this, again, is continuing to illustrate who are the people we're talking about here. John chapter 8, just so you understand, it's a long chapter, the context here, Jesus Christ is rebuking the Pharisees. He's having this back and forth with the Pharisees. Okay? With false prophets. Verse number 44, he makes this statement. Well, let's jump up to verse number 42, because they were trying to claim that, like, oh, no, God's our Father and all this other stuff. Jesus said in verse 42, Jesus said to them, if God were your Father, you would love me. And look, just like the Bible says, if you have the Son, you have the Father. Right? You can't have one without the other. If you are saved, if you really believed in the Father, you would believe in me. You'd believe in the Son. Anyone who says that they believe in the Lord, they believe in God the Father, they also believe in the Son, if what they're saying is true. They have to. You can't divide them to only believe in one and not the other. It's impossible to do. He says, if God were your Father, you would love me. For I proceeded forth and came from God. Neither came I of myself, but He sent me. Why do you not understand my speech, even because ye cannot hear my word? Ye are of your Father the devil, and the lusts of your Father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in Him. He's speaking a lie. He's speaking of His own, for He's a liar and the Father of it. He's talking to reprobates again. Jesus Christ is talking to someone, saying, you are a child of the devil. Now, this isn't that hard to understand. If you are born again, what have you given the power to become? A son of God, according to John chapter 1, right? But as many as received Him, to them gave you power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on His name. You become a son of God when you're born again. Can you ever be unborn? No. Are you secured? Are you sealed? Yes. Forever. You are a son of God, you're a child of God. Permanent! Once you're born into a family, you're always a member of that family. Well, people who are children of the devil, who are born into the devil's family, guess what? They're always going to be a child of the devil. Oh, again, study that out for yourself, verify that for yourself. It's very specific when people are labeled a son of Belial or a child of the devil. Look at the different words for the devil. Satan, Beelzebub, Belial. And find out the people who are referenced as not every unbeliever is a child of the devil. False doctrine. But those that are given over to reprobate mind, as Jesus is saying here, why do you not understand my speech? Verse 43, even because ye cannot hear my word. They can't hear His word. This is Jesus Christ talking to these people and saying, you can't hear me. You can't. It's impossible for them to hear His word. Now, your average unbeliever could hear the word, but someone who's already given over a reprobate mind, they can't hear it. It's already done. It's too late. They're a child of the devil. It's done. This is what they keep going back to. This is the main confusion for this point of total depravity in Calvinism. They keep going. These passages are talking about reprobates and trying to apply that to everybody. Every unbeliever is not a reprobate. And then, of course, they go back to Romans 1, which I already covered that, so I'm not going to cover that again, trying to defend their point of people who desire sin. And then, and then, let's see, let's move on to our next point because I don't, oh, good night. I'm not making a part three. Alright, let's, they have another point. Our nature is completely corrupt. I hate to skip it, but we are going to skip it because the next one I can't skip, where they say we do not and cannot choose God or please God. Now, I'll say this. An unsaved person cannot please God, but an unsaved person can choose God. And they have, let's see. Sorry. When I look at their, this is their supporting arguments. They keep on using that phrase, we, we, we, we. We do not and cannot choose God, like, I think that's talking about the Calvinists. We do not and cannot choose God or please God. We are hopeless. We are corrupt from birth. We cannot understand the truth. Yeah, that is describing you. I'm joking, obviously, but it's, it's just kind of funny, like, even just using the, the pronouns that way. It's like, you're, you're, you're talking about unbelievers and then you, you include yourself in the claim. Like, if I, if I'm making, if I'm talking about a doctrine about unbelievers, I am not going to include myself when I'm, when I'm creating this and saying, yeah, we, none of us believe. Wait, what? We're all hopeless. No, I'm not hopeless. We have the hope of Christ. They are hopeless. I would say they, they, they, they, they, not we. And here we are again at Genesis chapter 6. We do not and cannot choose good or please God. And remember, Genesis chapter 6 was the, the flood. I mean, they're just reusing this to, to apply it to something else. Some of these things are just stupid. It's all pretty stupid, but Genesis 6.5, And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil. Now, because their imagination of their hearts was only evil continually, does that mean they couldn't think differently? That they're incapable of it? Does that really prove that point, that you, you cannot choose God? Because they didn't, does that imply that you can't? Just because someone, I mean, think about that. If someone doesn't choose God, does that mean that they could never have chosen God? Like they just can't do it. It doesn't imply that. If you're going to make a claim that says people cannot choose God, I want to see the verse that says you can't choose Him. You don't have the choice. Because you know what? They're all verses that talk about the person that seeks God will be found of Him. Seek God while He may be found. That's what the Bible says, seek Him. To unbelievers. Why would you say that? And then it's just, you just can't though, but you can't. Seek Him, but you really can't anyways. I'm just going to tell you to seek Him. I'm going to tell you to do something you can't do. Show me that. Show me all the scripture. They have this passage from, I'm not even going to turn there. They're trying to say, they have this quoted, out of the wicked comes wickedness. Okay, how does that say you can't choose God? Okay, and then they go to Psalm 10 and they say that the wicked does not seek Him. All his thoughts are there is no God. But again, it's talking about the wicked. Remember I mentioned that? We talked about the group of people called the wicked. Yeah, there is a group of people out there that want to have nothing to do with God. And God is not in their thoughts and they don't want to retain God in their knowledge like Romans 1 says. Other parts of the Bible talk about that same group of people. That's who they're talking about there. There is that small section of people that can't choose God. But applying that to every unbeliever is the folly. They have even, you know, how does this say you can't choose God? This is ridiculous. Proverbs 28, this is why you got to think critically because they're trying to give all these reasons why you can't choose God. Proverbs 28, 9 says, He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, even his prayer, shall be abomination. But that's conditional. If you turn away your ear from hearing God, then God doesn't want to hear you. But does that mean that you can't turn your ear to hearing God? You see what I'm saying? This doesn't make any sense. You can throw a verse out there and pretend like it supports your doctrine, but it doesn't. They mention Isaiah 64 about all our righteousness is like filthy rags. Well, it is. Our righteousness is like filthy rags because we're not holy. We're not perfect. Right. So the things that we do right aren't that great. Right. Which is what that passage teaches. But again, how does that say that you can't turn to God like you can't choose God? That's not what that passage says at all. It's just saying that our righteousness doesn't add up. It doesn't stack up because we all fall short of the glory of God. They bring up Isaiah 65, which is quoted in Romans chapter 10 about Isaiah that was sought by those that did not ask for me. I'll just turn there. I love this passage anyways. But again, it's a logical error. I am sought of them that asked not for me. I am found of them that sought me not. I said behold me, behold me unto a nation that was not called by my name. There are people out there that aren't actively seeking God, but will still be confronted with the word of God. How does that say a person can't choose God? I mean, this is what people who preach the gospel are literally doing. I mean, every door that we knock today, they didn't call up Strong Old Baptist Church and say, Hey, can you send one of your people over? I want to talk to them about being saved. We were found of them that didn't seek us. And we're bringing the gospel of Jesus Christ to a lost world. How does that prove? Well, you can't choose God then. Actually, five people today chose God. And they were found that they weren't seeking us. But then they heard it, and they chose God. They chose Jesus. Ah, they bring up Matthew 7 about a good tree can't bring forth bad fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Well, if you don't understand the context, again, and a lot of people have a hard time with this one. Actually, it's kind of interesting. Let's just look at this anyways. Oh, man, I'm over time. All right. But let's, let's, I think we could, maybe we'll close. Yeah, let's close. Yeah, they bring up Romans 10, and they already have Isaiah in there. It's like the same passage. I have an entire sermon where I preach on Original Sin. You could find that. I'm not going to go into that this evening. Where they say we're corrupt from birth. That's a whole sermon in itself. I'm just, I just have to, I have to cut this somewhere. I'm not going to end it here. Sorry, there is one I have to cover. I have to cover the last point. All right. But let's look at Matthew 7. I'm sorry for taking so long tonight. Matthew chapter 7. In context, when he's talking about knowing a tree by their fruits. Is this talking about every believer, whether or not they have good works or bad works to see if they're saved or not? No. In the context, what is Jesus saying in verse 15? Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. So, in this context, we see Jesus warning about false prophets. On the outward appearance, they look like a sheep. They look like you and me. They look like a believer. They're putting on a mask. They're trying to hide themselves and disguise themselves. Because where are they? On the inside? A ravening wolf. They're trying to devour and destroy. That's who they really are. They're wicked people. They're reprobate people who don't care about the things of God. They only care about themselves. And they're willing to make merchandise of you. But they're going to put on the facade like, oh, I'm a real holy man of God. These people exist. They're out there. And the Bible warns us about them. And this is what Jesus is warning about. Hey, beware of false prophets. Verse 16 says, you shall know them by their fruits. So who are we going to know by their fruits? The false prophet. Does this say you're going to know an unbeliever or a believer based on their fruit? No. Because not every unbeliever is a false prophet. Not every unbeliever is a wolf. That's who they really are. Just a wolf who's trying to pretend they're a Christian. That's not every unbeliever. Sorry. Try again. You shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes and thorns and go on and on? You can read the rest of that passage in context, but that's who he's warning about. Last point. I can't let this one go. Because they claim that repentance and faith come from God. That, like, you can't even do this unless... And this is the, you know, by faith we're saved, but they're saying, well, no, God has to give you that before you can even believe. God has to give you that faith. They use... How do you get... They use John chapter 3, and this should show how blind they are. I mean, people who believe in Calvinism, I don't believe, are saved. Because they have a different God. They're going to tell you they believe in salvation by grace through faith, but this illustrates how blind you have to be. Now, some people may be confused. Some people might just hear whatever and have been kind of swept up in some things. I'm not saying just, like, if anyone ever said that they're a Calvinist, at some point, especially people who just don't even know any better, you know, is just damnable or unsafe, you know, like, no. But the people who are teaching this stuff and trying to explain all this stuff, like, come on, man, this is pretty bad. This shows zero understanding of the Word of God. So they use John 3, verse 6, to say that repentance and faith come from God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. I don't see repentance and I don't see faith in that passage. I see a statement that says that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Does anyone else see repentance, faith? Because I don't. Great point. Yeah, you really proved it there. I mean, that's what they have. You can look at this later if you don't believe me. It says John 3, 6, and then they have John 6, 63, which is, it is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth nothing. The words that I speak unto you, they are spirit and they are life. The Spirit brings alive. Yeah, God's Spirit is what makes people born again and again comes to life. Where's the repentance and the faith in that passage? It's just saying that that's how God saves someone or brings someone to life, is with his Spirit. That's the mechanism by which someone is brought to life, by the Spirit of God. Okay? You're not convincing me. Acts 5, 31. Is it? Ah, I see. So let's start reading verse number 29. Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men. The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree. Him hath God exalted with his right hand to be a prince and a savior, for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. And we are his witnesses of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath given to them that obey him. Well, first of all, what has God given to them? So this is what they're highlighting, verse 31, right? God has given, in order to give, he's given Jesus Christ, he's exalted, excuse me, exalted, with his right hand to be a prince and a savior, Jesus Christ, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. So Jesus Christ had to die on the cross for people to turn to him as their savior. Repentance is a turning, right? It's a choosing of Christ. It's a putting your faith in Christ. It's what it means to repent. Just by itself, you're turning from something, or you're turning to something. They're turning to Christ to save them. From whatever their belief was in the past that they were not trusting in, well, yeah, you're giving people the opportunity to repent because Jesus came and died on the cross. Like, that doesn't say that what they're trying to claim, that, oh, this repentance, the only reason you repent is because God gave that repentance, God changed your mind in that regard of you just had to do it. This is where it gets, I don't want to say confusing, but they'll use these passages and it's like, well, yeah, God gave repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins through Jesus Christ, but it's not saying that He's forcing it. It's not how you read that, but knowing what they already believe, it's like, that's weird. It's hard to read these in light of what they're going to try to claim. They use verses like, I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. Yeah, of course, ultimately at the end of the day, God's the one that saves, but He doesn't save if you don't believe. Okay, conditional, right, but they believe in unconditional elections, so that's when we get to the you part. They all intertwine. All right, I'm just going to have to stick a fork in this one because I just don't have the time to go into everything. Sorry for not completing the thoroughness here, but hopefully we've seen enough to poke enough holes in their total depravity doctrine that you realize it's a farce. It's not what they say. The scripture that they try to go to defend it doesn't say what they're trying to claim it says. Read in context what these passages are saying and what they apply to. Context is everything. Every doctrine, read it in context and get the understanding from the context. Don't let people deceive you. Trying to say everybody's depraved that's not saved is ridiculous. It's not true. It's a doctrine of devils. And we're going to come back next week and we'll go, I promise you this much, I will be more prepared to not take as much time debunking everything in the next series to come. Let's probably have a word of prayer. Dear Heavenly Father, Lord, we thank you so much for your word, for not allowing every single person just to be depraved and not making it that way, that everyone is so utterly depraved, Lord, but that's only certain people that become that way by their own choosing, dear Lord, by their own will. Thank you for giving us a free will. I pray that you please help us to be correct and accurate in our doctrine, help us to be able to think critically and logically on the things that your words state, help us to come to the right conclusions, lead us through the Holy Ghost, dear Lord, and help us to be able to teach others. Lord, I know that I'm not always very eloquent in the way that I speak, but I pray that you please help me to teach things that are only true from your word and help us all to receive and to learn the things that you'd have us to learn and God just increase our wisdom and our understanding. It's in Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Alright, we're going to sing one more song before we're dismissed for the evening. We're going to sing song number 191. And if anyone is, wants to see every, like I literally copied everything. If you're interested in the claims that are made from the source that I went to, you can have this. If more people want it, I can make copies for you. Just to show, like, I'm not trying to cherry pick specific passages or anything that people say. I literally was trying to do the best of my job to be as thorough as possible. But if you want to see it for yourself, these are the claims made by Reformed people on Calvinism. They're trying to say that it's true. So let us leave this over here. Have fun. Hopefully you have more fun than I had reading through that. Alright, song number 191, In My Heart There Rings a Melody. Song 191. Singing out on that first verse. I have a song that Jesus gave me. It was said from then above. That ever was a sweeter melody. Tis a melody of love. In my heart there rings a melody. There drinks a melody with Heaven's harmony. In my heart there rings a melody. There drinks a melody of love. I love the Christ who died on Calvary. For He washed my sins away. He put within my heart a melody. And I know what's there to say. In my heart there rings a melody. There drinks a melody with Heaven's harmony. In my heart there drinks a melody. There drinks a melody of love. To be my endless demon glory. With the angels I will sing. To be a song with glorious harmony. With the ports of heaven ring. In my heart there drinks a melody. There drinks a melody with Heaven's harmony. In my heart there drinks a melody. There drinks a melody of love. Amen. Great singing this evening. Church, we are dismissed. . .