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Welcome back everyone, we'll be in the book of Acts, chapter 13, Acts 13, and the Bible reads Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers, and Barnabas and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius from Cyrene, and Menaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. And they ministered to the Lord and fasted. The Holy Ghost said, Separate me, Barnabas and Saul, for the work whereunto I have called them. And when they had fasted, and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away. So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John to their minister. And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus, which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man, who called for Barnabas and Saul in desire to hear the word of God. But Salamis, the sorcerer, for so is named by interpretation, withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. Then Saul, who also is called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, and said, O full of all subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season. And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand. Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Persia and Pamphylia, and John, departing from them, returned to Jerusalem. But when they departed from Persia, they came to Antioch and Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the Sabbath day, and sat down. And after the reading of the law and the prophets, the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on. Then Paul stood up, beckoning with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, give audience. The God of this people of Israel chose their fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with a high arm brought ye them out of it. And about the time of forty years suffered ye their manners in the wilderness, and when ye have destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan, he divided their land to them by lot. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet. And afterward they desired a king, and God gave unto them Saul, the son of Sis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years. And when he had removed him, he raised up unto them David to be their king. To him also he gave testimony, and said, I have found David the son of Jesse, a man after mine own heart, which shall fulfil all my will. Of this man's seed hath God, according to his promise, raised unto Israel a Saviour, Jesus. And when John at first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel, and as John fulfilled his course, he said, Whom think ye that I am? I am not he, but behold, there cometh one after me, whose shoes of his feet I am not worthy to loose, men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to use the word of this salvation sent. For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets, which are read every Sabbath day, they have fulfilled him in condemning him. And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they pilot that he should be slain. And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulcher. But God raised him from the dead, and he was seen many days of them, which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people. We declare unto you, glad tidings, how that the promise which was made unto the fathers, God hath fulfilled the same unto us their children, is that he hath raised up Jesus again, as it is also written in the second psalm, Thou art my son, this day have I begotten thee. And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption. He said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David. Wherefore he saith also in another psalm, Thou shalt not suffer thine holy one to see corruption. For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption. But he whom God raised again saw no corruption. Being known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins, and by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye cannot be justified by the law of Moses. Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets. Behold ye despisers, and wonder, and perish, write work of work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you. And when the Jews were gone out of the synagogue, the Gentiles besought that these words might be preached to them the next seventh. Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas, who, speaking of them, persuaded them to continue the grace of God. And the next Sabbath day came almost the whole city together to hear the word of God. But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which are spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming. Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you. But seeing you put it from you, and judge yourselves in unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn of the Gentiles! For so hath the Lord commanded us, saying, I have set thee to be a light of the Gentiles, that thou shouldst be for salvation unto the ends of the earth. And when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad, and glorified the word of the Lord, and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region. But the Jews stirred up the devout and honorable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts. But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium, and the disciples were filled with joy, and with the Holy Ghost. Let's pray. Thank you Lord for your word, thank you Lord for this day, and for bringing us all together here to worship your name, Lord. Lord, thank you for the souls that we brought to your name, Lord, today, and fill Brother Joe with your Holy Spirit as he preaches your word. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Long chapter. Alright, so Acts chapter 13, but before I get started, before I forget, I do have a copy of the Verity Baptist Church nine chapters a day challenge, if anybody wants, I'll just leave it up here. People will just set it right here, and you can take a picture of it, and get caught up. If you haven't started yet, you can still finish if you want. You can have a few long days of reading, but nonetheless, trust me, it's definitely worth it, but like I said, I'll leave that right there. Okay, so we're in Acts chapter 13, we're going to read from verses four to 12 again, because that's where we're going to start, and we're also going to end the sermon there. Look down at verse number four, it says, so they being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia, and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews, and they had also John to their minister. And when they had gone through the isle unto Paphos, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name is Bar-Jesus, which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus. So right now, you got the deputy of the country, he's hanging out with a false prophet, and you guys know how hard it is to get people saved that are hanging around false prophets, going to false churches. Now, look at the rest of the verse, they found a certain sorcerer, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name was Bar-Jesus, verse seven, which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man, and that word prudent there, somebody who's prudent is somebody who's wiser, somebody who cares about the future, somebody who actually, who looks into the future says, you know, they take care for that, like they care for whatever it be, like a banker, a prudent banker would be somebody who isn't just going to sign off on any kind of loan or, you know, be careless, somebody who takes thought for the future. And that's the kind of guy that this deputy was, it says, a prudent man who called for Barnabas and Saul and desired to hear the word of God. But Eilimus the sorcerer, for so is his name by interpretation, withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. I heard a kid say this one time and I thought it was funny, Eilimus the sorcerer is, the ESV Bible could stand for the Eilimus the sorcerer version, because it does withstand people from, you know, from getting saved and it does turn people away from the Bible. I thought that was funny. Anyways, look at verse nine, it says, then Saul, who was called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him. And now I want to focus your attention on verse 10 to get this sermon started. So look at verse 10, and said, O fool of all subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And there's no question there, a child of the devil is an enemy of all righteousness, an enemy of all things that apply to God. And it's no question, it's no wonder that they would not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord. And now there's a lot of people today, a lot of organizations, a lot of groups that want to pervert the right way of the Lord, but I want to focus on one of them today. And it's a certain sect known as Calvinism. I'm sure a lot of you have heard of Calvinism, you know, brother Adrian's heard of Calvinism several times since I've been here. And I told him I was going to do this, we were soloing like a month ago, maybe a couple months ago, and we knocked on the door of a guy who listens to Paul Washer, a Calvinist. But I've heard other folks in here knock on people's doors that are really into this Calvinist stuff. And so I thought, you know what, I'm going to preach a sermon about Calvinism. More specifically though, I'm going to preach about this thing called the New Calvinism Movement. So we consider ourselves part of the new IFB, the New Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement, or the Real Independent Fundamental Baptist Movement. Well, there's this thing out there, it's a real thing. It's really popular, especially amongst the evangelical Protestant types, and it's called the New Calvinism Movement. And we're going to cover that today. But before I do, I just want to give you an overview of what Calvinism is. So I am going to read quite a few things for you, so just try not to fall asleep, otherwise I'm going to have Kinley slap you. No, I'm just kidding. Okay, so what is Calvinism? Calvinism has five essential tenets or points. To explain this complex doctrine, theologians often make the use of the acronym TULIP. I'm sure everybody in here has probably heard of the acronym TULIP, which stands for Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, and Perseverance of the Saints. And so I just went online and I looked up on Wikipedia, or no, this is from the New Calvinist website, the definitions for all five points of Calvinism. You can see it's kind of, let me hold this up for you. It's a lot, right? There's a lot. I've just got some highlighted points. You don't need to know all this stuff, right? We don't have to study every little detail to know it's false. But I am going to give you a pretty good overview, make you familiar with it, so that when you're out there knocking on doors, you're going to have an answer ready for these people and you can be aware. Like, okay, this person respects a guy named Al Mohler. Okay, I heard that preached before. Okay, so he's probably got Calvinist tendencies or he's being taught that. And so you can know what to expect, what kind of questions to expect from them, what issues you may have to draw upon as you're preaching the gospel. So first off is total depravity, total depravity. It says, also called total inability. And I agree, it's their total inability to understand the word of God because these people that came up with this garbage are not saved. It says, thus all people by their own faculties are morally unable to choose to trust God for their salvation and be saved. The term total in this context refers to sin affecting every part of a person, not that every person is evil as they could be. Then it goes on to say this doctrine is derived from Augustine's explanation of original sin. While the phrase is total depraved and utterly perverse, used by Calvin, what was meant was the inability to save oneself from sin rather than being absent of goodness. And so this real quick, total depravity is basically what they teach and in different Calvinist will argue with you, but it's basically what they're saying is that your people are so totally depraved that they could never of their own accord call upon the name of the Lord. Basically what they're saying is that you're so depraved that God has to go in there and force you to be saved because God chose who's going to be saved and who's going to be damned. That's basically in a nutshell what total depravity is. It's total stupidity. Number two is unconditional election. Unconditional election. This asserts that God has chosen from eternity those whom he will bring to himself not based on foreseen virtue, merit, or faith in those people. Rather his choice is unconditionally grounded in his mercy alone. God has chosen from eternity to extend mercy to those he has chosen and to withhold mercy from those not chosen. Those chosen receive salvation through Christ alone. Those not chosen receive the just wrath that is warranted for their sins against God. Alright, that's what unconditional election means. I'm going to read that one more time because it's important that you understand what Calvinists believe. They aren't our friends. They are not on our side. They're not even close. So again, unconditional election. I'm just going to read part of this. God has chosen from eternity to extend mercy to those he has chosen and to withhold mercy from those not chosen. Those chosen receive salvation through Christ alone. Those not chosen receive the just wrath that is warranted for their sins against God. And that's only the second point in the tool of acronym, right? Total depravity, unconditional election. And most people, you know, they'll say, I'm a four point, I'm a five point Calvinist, or some point on there, right? Well, just point number two, that sounds pretty bad. That's horrible. Okay, number three, limited atonement, also called particular redemption or definite atonement. And it asserts that Jesus' substitutionary atonement was definite and certain in its purpose and in what it accomplished. This implies that only the sins of the elect were atoned for by Jesus' death. And then it says Calvinists do not believe, however, that the atonement is limited in its value or power, but rather that atonement is limited in the sense that it is intended for some and not all. Some Calvinists have summarized this as the atonement is sufficient for all and efficient for the elect. So basically they're saying it's not efficient. That's what they're saying. Saying that Jesus died on the cross is only for the people that God predestinated to be saved, but it was so powerful that, whatever, it's completely retarded. Turn to 2 Corinthians chapter three, keep your place there in Acts because we will come back to it for the end of the sermon. And we're going to flip to a couple other spots, but just really quickly, just turn to 2 Corinthians chapter three. I want to show you guys this before I continue on and before I put myself to sleep reading this. 2 Corinthians chapter three. You know, the Calvinists, they thrive, and so do dispensationalists. I hate dispensationalism, you know, but at least there are people that are saved that believe in dispensationalism, right? The leadership, I'm going to show you the leadership and the drive behind the New Calvinist movement are not saved at all. This is a damn noble heresy, but 2 Corinthians chapter three, look at verse 12. It says, seeing then that we have such hope, we use great plainness of speech. I just want you to see, notice that last phrase there, great plainness of speech, right? The gospel is not hard. The gospel is very easy to understand. I mean, we should use great plainness of speech when we're talking to people and when we're preaching the gospel. And I try to use plainness of speech, you know, when I'm preaching, whenever I can recall words when my mind's not gunked up by bad junk food. But anyways, you get the point, right? They love their long words. They love their robes and their Greek and their Hebrew. But anyways, so limited atonement, that's point number three. Point number four is called irresistible grace. And this is one that I've heard often in Baptist churches. I've been to several Baptist churches where they'll use this, they'll slip this term in here, this irresistible grace. Here's the definition. It's also called effectious grace, asserts that the saving grace of God is effectually applied to those whom he has determined to save, that is the elect, and overcomes their resistance to obeying the call of the gospel, bringing them to a saving faith. This means that when God sovereignly, see there's their favorite buzzword, sovereignly. This means that God sovereignly purposes to save someone, that individual certainly will not be saved. And I'm gonna go over some quotes of these people. You're gonna see this stuff ooze out of them. And then it goes on to say, the doctrine holds that this purposeful influence of God's Holy Spirit cannot be resisted. So there you go, irresistible grace. They teach that if you as a person are gonna get saved, that somewhere down the line you can't resist it, you're gonna maybe hear something on Christian television, Christian radio, or maybe you're gonna hear one of these idiot straight preachers out there say something and you're gonna be like, oh, of course, I believe now, I'm saved. I guess that's their whole point. Now point number five is called perseverance of the saint, also known as perseverance of God with the saints. Okay, and this asserts that since God is sovereign and his will cannot be frustrated by humans or anything else, those whom God has called into communion with himself will continue in faith until the end. Those who apparently fall away either never had true faith to begin with, or if they are saved but not presently walking in the Spirit, they will be divinely chastened. So there's your work salvation there. Let me read that for you again. Those whom God has called into communion with himself will continue in faith until the end. Those who apparently fall away never had true faith to begin with. So by their own definition, somebody goes to church for a while, they act like they're saved, and then they just get out of church and do something bad. Their excuse, their definition, their reasoning is, okay, well, he must have never been saved to begin with. And so that is Tulip. So hopefully that kind of clears that up for you. I got some other material here I want to cover real quick, some bonus material. Calvinism is named after John Calvin, but really much of it could be attributed to Augustine. And again, I took this off of their own website. You can just go to just about any Calvinism website and get the same information. It's pretty much universal. Yet Augustine said, I should not believe the Gospel unless I were moved to do so by the authority of the Catholic Church. That statement was quoted with great satisfaction by Pope John Paul II in his 1986 celebration of the 1600th anniversary of Augustine's conversion. The Pope went on to say, Augustine's legacy is a theological method to which he remained absolutely faithful, full adherence to the authority of the faith revealed through scripture, tradition, and the church. Likewise, the profound sense of mystery, for it is better, he exclaims, to have a faithful ignorance than a presumptuous knowledge. I express once again my fervent desire that the authoritative teaching of such a great doctor and pastor may flourish ever more happily in the church. Look, anytime the Pope's on your side, you're wrong. And that's along there. So here's the thing. I'm willing to bet that just about every mega church in this town has some level of Calvinism in their church. So that means if you support these guys like John MacArthur, who we're going to talk about later, Paul Washer, Todd Freo, Mark Driscoll, all these big John Piper, all the popular guys, then that means you're supporting Rome. That means you're supporting the Catholic Church. And we can see this gathering here. We're going to cover this in a minute, but like I said, their teachings are Catholic. They're universal. They're against God and his word. So I took this from Wikipedia. This is the history of the New Calvinism movement, which is what I'm preaching against this afternoon. So just listen. It says, let's see, New Calvinism, also known as the Young, Restless, and Reformed movement. It's often abbreviated the YRR movement. And you'll notice that a lot of times, if you listen to different Calvinist people, they'll refer to themselves as reform. We're reformers. We're Protestant. We're reformers. And it says, it is a movement within conservative evangelicalism that embraces the fundamentals of 16th century Calvinism while seeking to engage these historical doctrines with present day culture. So that's why they're bringing in the tattoos. That's why they're bringing in the booze. That's why they're bringing in all the vaping, all the garbage, and scenes of the world is because they're trying to merge this garbage with present day culture. The origins of the movement are associated with a conference held in Louisville, Kentucky in 2006, which was titled Together for the Gospel by American pastors. And those pastors are John Piper, Mark Driscoll, Matt Chandler, Al Mohler, Mark Denver, C.J. who's shrouded in controversy over having child molesters in his congregation. And then it says, in March 2009, Time Magazine ranked it as one of the 10th ideas changing the world right now. Strike two, any time Time Magazine is for your movement, you are wrong. You need to get a new set of beliefs. And I would recommend you start with the King James Bible. And it goes on to say, rooted in the historical tradition of Reformed theology, New Calvinists are united by their common doctrine. In a Christianity Today article, Colin Hands describes the speakers of a Christian conference. The New Calvinists looked to Puritans like Jonathan Edwards who taught that sanctification requires a vigorous and vigilant pursuit of holy living, not a passive attitude of mechanical progress. Basically, they're talking about lordship salvation there. However, as implied by the new designation, some differences have been observed between new and old schools of Calvinism. Mark Driscoll, for example, has identified what he considers to be the four main differences between the two. And here's what he lists. New Calvinism is missional and seeks to create and redeem culture. Right? That's why they're all getting drunk. That's why they're all inking themselves up. New Calvinism is flooding into cities. And this is true. That's why Time Magazine recognizes it as one of the 10 best ideas changing the world. This is a big deal. This is massive. Number three, old Calvinism was generally cessationist. Okay, so what that means, if you ever hear somebody say cessationist, that means that they believe that the gifts like speaking in tongues and the healings and things like that stopped. And that's what they're talking about there. New Calvinism is generally continuationist with regard to spiritual gifts. And I'm gonna show you that here in a second, but these new Calvinists are what's called, I always get these mixed up, but yeah, continuationist. So basically, they're bringing in Pentecostalism. Right? They are in favor of guys, maybe they won't say Benny Hinn, but that sort. They flop around, claim to speak in a heavenly prayer language that only God and you know and the devil can't hear with all this foolishness type garbage. That's what they teach. But that's strike three without even opening the Bible to debunk this stuff. And then number four, new Calvinism is open to dialogue with other Christian positions. And of course, because this is a demonic movement geared towards ecumenicalism, which means they're trying to bring all the denominations together. Why? To worship somebody in the future, right? The Antichrist. That's really what this boils down to. And then it says the fourth distinctive is what Mark Driscoll considers a vital component in being able to engage with contemporary society. And we could preach a whole sermon from that statement about worldliness, but we don't have time. What I wanna do right now is I just wanna give you an overview of some of the men. And I said some, some of the men behind the new Calvinist movement. So we're gonna start with Adrian's favorite, Paul Washer. Okay, Paul David Washer is an American Protestant Christian evangelist with a Calvinist theology affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention. He's also some big with an organization called HeartCry Ministries. I've heard of Paul Washer since I was, I don't know, started going to church again when I was older, so in my 20s. He does seem to cross, I've heard his name mentioned in Nazarene churches when we were very young. I've heard his name mentioned in non-denominational churches. I've heard his name mentioned in Baptist churches, King James only Baptist churches. I mean, pretty much, you know, you're gonna have to get closer to our style of, you know, biblical Christianity before you run into somebody that's gonna tell you the truth about this guy. Washer is sometimes identified as part of the new Calvinism movement, although he has expressed some concerns with the movement. Here's a quote from this guy. This ought to tell you the attitude, the heart, the mindset of a person that supports this movement. Here's a quote from Paul Washer. The question is not whether you would like to pray this prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart. After all, you know, the handle to your heart is on the inside, and if you do not open it, Jesus cannot come in. Okay, so then he says, my friend, Jesus is Lord of your heart, and if he wants to come in, he will kick the door down. Again, what did we just read? We read the tulip. We read the five points of Calvinism, right? That's that stuff oozing out of him. He's basically saying, if God wants you to get saved, he's gonna make you get saved. So then how can you ever have assurance of salvation, right? How are you ever gonna know if you're saved? You wanna be like, you can't. That's why when you knock on their doors, and you find out that these people are like, oh, I listen to Paul Washer, or I go to the Southern Baptist Church, or I go to this Calvinist Church, or whatever, and you ask them if they're 100% sure, they say, I think so, I hope so, or you know, something along those lines, and it's because they don't know if they're like, God didn't come down and physically say, hey, I saved you, but I put him in hell. Just to let you know. You feel good about that? All right, number two, here's another man that's behind this movement. His name is Mark Driscoll. Now, this guy used to be real popular because he's a pastor up in Seattle. He used to be the pastor of Mars Hill Church. Maybe some of you have heard about that. I've got quite a few quotes from this guy. This guy is a perverted devil. Don't get too wrapped up into this guy. I mean, if you do a lot of digging on this stuff, you're gonna learn real quick, this guy's a pervert. He's wrote in books on things you ought not to be writing books about. He says things in interviews that he ought not to be speaking about, about husbands and wives. Just don't even go there. It's not worth it. But I've got some quotes from him so that you can see what kind of person this guy is. Here's a quote. It says, religious people are not fun. So, Jesus shows up and kids run around him, want to be with him. You know why? He's fun. God's a father who likes his kids to have fun. So, when Jesus shows up, the religious people get jealous because Jesus gets invited to the parties and the religious people don't. Okay, well, that's just retarded because the Bible says that, you know, being religious is a good thing. Here, listen to this. Here's another thing it says. The Bible is not a book of principles to live by, but rather a person to live for. So, remember what we talked about today about the Bible being the word of God? It almost sounds like he's saying that, but he's really dissing the Bible. He's doing what all these false prophets love to do, and that is to remove the authority from the word of God and onto themselves. Here's another one. The problem with treadmill performance religion, and he's talking about us, by the way, is that it leads to either pride or despair. Well, we read this morning in Deuteronomy what can lead to pride for Christians, and that's not reading the word of God, when you're not getting enough of this. And that's why this guy's arrogant. It's because he's not, well, for one, he's not saved, and for two, he doesn't read the word of God. So, he just makes stuff up on the fly, and he's puffed up and arrogant. He says, if you keep the rules of your religious team, you become arrogant. Conversely, if you fail to keep the rules of your religious team, you will despair. Justifying grace gives us full assurance that God will love us no more if we perform well and love us no less if we perform poorly. So, it doesn't matter. Why even go to church if that's the kind of organization that you want to follow? It makes absolutely no sense. Then he goes on to say, by justifying grace, our acceptance before God and the grounds for our righteousness are solely Jesus' works of sinless living, substitutionary death, and bodily resurrection, and therefore are not in any way contingent upon what we do or do not do. So, basically, what he's saying there is, hey, what Jesus did on the cross, it's the only thing that matters. The amount of beer, wine, hard liquor, coke that you sniff as a Christian in church doesn't really matter. I mean, you want to do the heroin. I mean, yeah, it's going to mess up your life, but who cares? I mean, you're one of the elect, I guess, right? You coke sniffing fool. He's a pervert. You know, I hate that guy. Here's another thing. He says, in what ways has God changed you to become more holy because of Jesus' blessing? How is God inviting you to make further changes in your life to live at greater levels of obedience and holiness to reflect Christ more? So, basically, he's mocking us. He's mocking every verse in the Bible. You could preach a sermon off of every one of these quotes if you really wanted to. If you would, I'm going to read for you another quote. Turn to Deuteronomy chapter 27. He goes on to say this. If you're a Christian, then you're on God's predestined path to relationship with him. God has chosen to know you, love you, seek you, forgive you, embrace you, and befriend you. Now, this guy, like I said, he's got no respect for God's laws. He's got no respect for the Bible. And one thing that you're going to learn when you study these guys is they all have the same attitude. They undermine not only just the Old Testament. I mean, they go hardcore undermining the Old Testament, but they really don't like any of the law. Even though, what do you find when you read the New Testament? You find this phrase, as it is written, or it is written, right? Obviously, and we don't have time to go into it, but the New Testament confirms the Old Testament. It's just ridiculous. So, Deuteronomy chapter 27. Let's see here. Look at verse number 20. It says, Curse be he that lieth with his father's wife, because he uncovereth his father's skirt, and all people shall say, Amen. Curse be he that lieth with any man or beast, and all people shall say, Amen. Let me just stop right there. That's pretty disgusting, right? But it's in the Bible for a reason. Now, what I'm doing is I'm reading to you God's law. Okay, now let's keep going. This is God's law. This is God's law. Curse be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his mother, or the daughter of his mother, and all the people shall say, Amen. Curse be he that lieth with his mother-in-law, all the people shall say, Amen. Curse be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly, and all the people shall say, Amen. Curse be he that taketh reward to slay an innocent person, and all the people shall say, Amen. And then finally verse 26, Curse be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them, and all the people shall say amen. So what does that tell you? Look at verse 26. What's the first word? Cursed be he that confirmeth not all these words. And I've got a lot more quotes, but I don't have time to get into them now. But these guys, all of these men, and I'll pull the quotes up for you later on, they all say negative things about God's law. So I want you to really understand. Look, do we still live by these laws? I mean, look at verse 20. Cursed be he that lieth with his father's wife. Look at verse 21. Cursed be he that lieth with any man or beast. I mean, these are all things that all of us understand are wrong, right? So is God's law outdated? No, it isn't. But according to Mark Driscoll and his buddies, God's law is oppressive, it's negative, it's bad. It takes away from your life. It's not conducive to our culture today. I guess that's the way we're going. But I want you to notice that they are cursed. These people are cursed. They are on their way to hell. They're losers, I hate their guts, and we're gonna do everything that we can to fight them. And obviously the best way to fight them is like what we did this afternoon, is through soul winning, through hard preaching, and through calling these people out. All right, so person number three, I gotta move on here. John Piper. John Piper, who's ever heard of John Piper? I'm sure a lot of us have heard of John Piper. John Piper is a theologian. Johnny boy Steven Piper, born January 11th, 1946, is an American Reformed Baptist, continuation pastor, and author who is the founder and leader of desiringGod.org. What they don't tell you is the God that they desire is Satan, and is the chancellor of Bethlehem College and Seminary in Minneapolis, Minnesota. And again, he's a continuationist, meaning he's a Pentecostal sympathizer. That's what that means. And again, it's all part of the ecumenical agenda. So listen to this. In 2015, John Piper wrote a foreword to the book, Faith Alone, The Doctrine of Justification, What the Reformers Taught, and Why It Still Matters by Thomas Shriner. So this guy named Thomas Shriner wrote this book with a long title, and John Piper wrote the foreword, and here's what he said. An individual is made right with God by faith alone, but does not attain heaven by faith alone. There are other conditions for attaining heaven. That is very important for you to hear and for you to understand, because John Piper is very influential amongst evangelical Christians, the Southern Baptist community, and even what I would call just the old IFB. Not every old IFB, okay? But there's a lot of them, like these trendies that are out there. A lot of people coming out of West Coast we used to go to a church called Northwest Baptist Church. The pastor there, he was a West Coast graduate. He would read books by John Piper and talk about him. He'd be like, I just filled throughout the IFB, the ESV stuff that he uses. He would also read books by John MacArthur, and so I'm telling you, this stuff is creeping in, knocking on the door. All right, person number four, a guy that you probably may never have heard of. His name's Tim Keller. Dr. Timothy Keller, he's pastor of Redeemer, oh no, sorry, yeah, pastor of Redeemer Church, and he wrote this, he calls his a Presbyterian church, okay, and so there you go, Presbyterians are all Calvinists, and he's a pastor in New York. He's a fan of the Harry Potter series of books, and he was asked on Twitter if he had read Harry Potter. He wrote, yes, I love them, great examples of sacrificial love, conquering evil, reminds me of another story. And when asked about eternal destiny of people in other religions, Keller responds, people in other religions, unless they find Christ, I don't know any other way to heaven, but I also get information on a need-to-know basis. So now he's a CIA worker, right? Like God's got this top-secret clearance program that he just gives some people, and they're like, you're on a need-to-know basis. That's Calvinism for you. And he goes on to say, if there are some, if there's some trap door or something like that, I haven't been told about it, but I also don't know. So maybe he hangs out with Joel Osteen, I don't know. But basically, he has no clue who goes to heaven and who doesn't, and again, how could you if you were a Calvinist? Person number five is a Christian rapper. His name is Lecrae. Lecrae is a voice of Calvinism. Lecrae's musical genre is predominantly Southern gangster hip-hop. I added the word gangster, just says Southern hip-hop. And has been described as falling under the styles crunk, gangster rap, and hardcore hip-hop. Theologically, Lecrae follows the reformed tradition of theology and is considered a very influential figure in the New Calvinism movement. Now, that's why if you study this Lecrae guy, you'll see him on BET, probably MTV, Yoking Up With the World, and all these other rappers. Yet again, it's just bringing the world, and they're trying to mix the world with religion and just get everybody under one umbrella, one accord. Now, number six is a guy named Albert Mohler. Dr. Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, is one of the biggest names in the New Calvinist camp. He is a conservative theologian that is committed to the doctrines of Calvin. Time Magazine has called him the reigning intellectual of the Evangelical movement in the US. Dr. Mohler is on the council of the Gospel Coalition and a member of the Board of Directors of Focus on the Family, who I thought James Dobson, didn't James Dobson start that? Does anybody know James Dobson started Focus on the Family? And he's, at least at one point, he was a Nazarene. And that's another thing, too, I read that Calvinism is creeping into the Nazarene denomination right now at alarming rates, and so there's a schism, there's a fight there. And it's through the music. The Calvinists, they're the popular ones right now. They're the ones that dominate Christian music, whether it be rap, country, rock, crock, all that stuff. This crunk, what is it, yeah, crunk. So there's Christian crunk, right, Christian crunk. And you know, Christian gangster rap and hardcore hip hop, they're all Calvinists, so next time you hear the Christian crunk, just realize it's Christian crunk. It's Calvinists. I'm gonna, yeah, I was gonna start agitating all these things with Cs, but I better stop missing. Okay, Albert Mohler is a widely sought-out columnist and commentator, Dr. Mohler has been quoted by the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and the Washington Post, among others. He's appeared on many national news programs in the US. Until recently, he hosted the Albert Mohler program, a nationwide radio show devoted to engaging contemporary culture with Christian beliefs. You see him being here, they all have that same ecumenical world and goal, right? Then it goes on to say, as the head of the Southern Baptist Convention and president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Mohler has pursued a conservative version of the Christian faith. In most areas, he is doctrinally orthodox and faithful to scripture. That is a lie from hell, but what else could you expect from the Washington Post or the New York Times or all these other, USA Today? I mean, how many strikes is that on this guy? The world loves him, the world loves this guy. They love this kind of stuff. Al Mohler endorses the New Calvinist movement. Mohler is on record claiming to be a five-point Calvinist. In a discussion with other Gospel Coalition Council members, Kevin Day Young and Legion Duncan, Al Mohler said that no convictional thinking evangelical wants to embrace the apostolic faith will come to any other conclusion than reformed. So he's saying that the only, if you're serious about studying God and the Bible and religion, the only conclusion you can come to is reformed. Well, that's a lie. Al Mohler also says that if you're a theological-minded, deeply convicted person, a young evangelical, if you're committed to the gospel and want to see the nations rejoice in the name of Christ, if you want to see, I can't even read this without laughing, okay, if you wanna see the gospel built and structured with committed churches, your theology is just going to end up basically being reformed, basically something like this New Calvinism where you're gonna have to invent some label for what is basically going to be the same thing. According to Al Mohler, it's the New Calvinist movement or the highway in his mind. There's no other religion, there's no other denomination, there's no other thing out there. Now, what I just read for you basically sums up this piece of trash, garbage devil named Todd Friel. I call him Toady Boy or Toad, I know Toad Friel. He does this wretched radio program. It's on the internet, it was real popular. I've seen a lot of this Toad Boy, his material at other Baptist churches, non-denominational stuff too. He used to pile around with Ray Comfort. He goes to college campuses with a little microphone on his hip and he starts yelling at the crowd. He gets like maybe eight or nine people over and they get mad and yell at him and stuff. But anyways, he is the author of this very popular article called 10 reasons not to ask Jesus into your heart. 10 reasons not to ask Jesus into your heart. Remember, the reason why I'm giving you all this information is because I want you to see the severity and understand how demonic the people are that are driving the New Calvinism movement. So let's go through these. I'm not gonna go through these in great depth. I'm almost thinking about preaching a whole sermon about this. But I am gonna read all of 10 of his reasons. Okay, so 10 reasons not to ask Jesus into your heart. So turn to Acts chapter 22. All right, so reason number one. So this is Todd Friel's 10 reasons not to ask Jesus into your heart. Number one, it's not in the Bible. Okay, that's what he said. So that's why I told you earlier, he's probably reading the Limas the sorcerer version. And his goal is the same as the Limas to draw men away from the truth. Okay, so 10 reasons not to ask Jesus into your heart. Number one, it's not in the Bible. He says the Bible does not instruct us to ask Jesus into our heart. This alone should resolve the issue. Nevertheless, here are nine more reasons. But you're in Acts chapter 22. Look at verse 12. It says in one, Ananias, a devout man, according to the law, having a good report of all Jews which dwelt there. So let me just stop you right there. Acts chapter 22, Paul is on trial. He's retelling his salvation testimony. That's what he's doing. He's giving his testimony and he's recalling these events. And he says in one, Ananias, a devout man, according to the law, having a good report of all Jews which dwelt there. Look at verse 13. Came unto me and stood and said unto me, brother Saul received thy sight. And the same hour I looked upon him, and he said, the God of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldest have done thee. And I said unto him, the God of our fathers hath chosen thee that thou shouldest know his will. And then it says, and see that just one and shouldest hear the voice of his mouth. For thou shall be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard. And now, this is important here. Look at verse 16. And now why tarryest thou? So he's saying, why wait? Why lag? Why be slothful? It says, why tarryest thou? Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. So, this verse is very important. You should know how to get to this. Acts 22, 16 says, and now why tarryest thou? So this is an urgent matter, right? We see that this is an urgent thing. And Paul's telling this, right? He's like, he's, Ananias told me, hey, hurry up and do this. And he says, and be baptized. Now, I don't have time to get into it, but he's not talking about water baptism right here. He's saying, and be baptized. Cause see, here's what people will do. They'll say, see, you have to be baptized in water to be saved because that's how it washes away your sins. That's not what he's talking about here. Look, he says, and be baptized or be immersed, you know, be placed into, right? And wash away thy sins, calling on the name of the Lord. So I want you to notice that Ananias told Paul to call on the name of the Lord, right? Well, what do we do when we go soul-ending? We preach them the gospel, we make sure they understand it, but more importantly, we make sure that they believe it and of their own accord, we try to get them to call upon the name of the Lord, right? Here's an example of somebody in the Bible telling the most famous, the probably the best Christian to ever live, to pray a prayer, to call upon the name of the Lord. But yet, Todd Tode-Freel says that it's not in the Bible. And you know why he says that? Because it's not in his Bible, it's not in his heart. He's not saved, he is a devil, that's why. So again, this is very important. Anybody comes up to you with this calling on the name of the Lord stuff, well, that's not in the Bible. Yeah, okay, look, if somebody just says a prayer, but they don't believe the Bible, they don't believe what you told them, then he's correct, they are not saved. You do have to believe first. However, saying that calling upon the name of the Lord and asking Jesus into your heart, by saying that that's not in the Bible, that's not true, we just read it right here. Ananias told Paul, call upon the name of the Lord, right? Be baptized and wash away any sins. Well, how do you get your sins forgiven? By giving that divine righteousness in Romans chapter four, by receiving the free gift of salvation, that's what washes away your sins, and he tells you, calling upon the name of the Lord. So when you trust, when you call upon the name of the Lord, you get saved, your sins are washed away. So let's move on here. All right, number two, asking Jesus into your heart is saying, or is a saying that makes no sense. Well, here's why it makes no sense, because the Bible says, but the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness unto him, neither can they know them because they are spiritually discerned. Todd Field does not have the Spirit, so he can't know the Bible. That's why he makes this statement here, asking Jesus into your heart is a saying that makes no sense. Now, turn to Romans chapter 10, Romans chapter 10. All right. This guy here is a straight devil, Romans chapter 10. So what is he saying here? That it makes no sense, it's not in the Bible, it's wicked. And why would he say those things? He says those things because he believes that if God wants you to get saved, you're just gonna roll out of bed and get saved one day because you heard a street preacher yelling at your tires when you're at the stoplight. So, Romans chapter 10, easy way to refute this, Romans chapter 10, you're all familiar with these verses. Romans 10, nine to 10, that if, right? Why does he say that if? Look at verse nine. That if thou should confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus. You know why he says that if? Because it's your choice, that's why he says it. That if thou should confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. He didn't say, hey, if you have a feeling that God has pricked your heart and that you're one of the elect, you'll be saved. He says that if, because it's your choice, it is a personal choice. Why go through all the trouble of writing this in there if God just looks down and says, you're saved, you're not, you're a devil, you're not? It doesn't make any sense. The Bible says that if Todd Friel's a devil, he's a lying piece of garbage and he needs to go to hell. He just needs to die and get off this planet. And I know that's harsh, but look at the rest of the verse. That if thou should confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shall believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shall be saved. For with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth, confession is made unto salvation. So the Bible says with the heart, man believeth unto righteousness. So with your own heart, with your free will, you choose to believe and then you get saved, but not according to Todd Friel. Point number four, he says, in order to be saved, a man must trust in Jesus Christ. And then he cites Acts 16, 31. So let's go to Acts 16, 31. I mean, sure, you know, I agree with that. You know, I mean, don't we all, in order to be saved, a man must trust in Jesus Christ. And he quotes Acts chapter 16. Some of you probably use this verse in your soul-winning. Right? Verse 31, and they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house. Look at the verse before it said, they brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved? It's the only time that this question is asked in the Bible. What must I do to be saved? So let me put it to you like this. Let's say I'm the boss, you're working for me in, let's say landscaping, right? So let's say we got Mike, Rick, and Adrian. They're gonna do some landscaping. Yeah, they come over here and they say, hey, what must I do to get paid today? And I say, you have to mow the front yard and you have to mow the back yard. Right? What are they really asking? They're asking, telling me, they're wanting to know every detail of the job, right? So let's say I say, you have to mow the front yard and you gotta mow the back yard. If they mow the front yard, did they do everything? No, they didn't. You have to do both, right? So what this guy is saying is, what must I do to be saved? Tell me everything I need to know to be saved. And the answer is very simple. He said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved. Not pray for a burning in your bosom. I mean, this stuff kind of crosses over with Mormonism. This Todd for real guy, in order to be saved, he says, amen, must trust in Jesus Christ, amen. But that's not what he believes. What he believes is really far out there. And then he goes on to say, for point number four, it says, asking Jesus into your heart leaves out the requirement of faith. That's why we make sure they have the faith before they ask, right? Because look at, sorry, go back to Romans chapter 10. I should have told you to keep your place there. I don't have this in my notes, I'm just angry right now. So, Romans chapter 10. All right, Romans chapter 10, look at, let's see. Look at verse 11, it says, for the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed, for there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich and to all they call upon him. And then verse 13, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved, right? And then verse 14, look what it says, how then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed, right? And then you know the rest of the verse, so you do have to believe first. But Todd Friel makes it sound like we just go around praying prayers with people and that is what some Baptists do, that is what some people do. And that is wrong, in that aspect, he's right. We shouldn't do that, we shouldn't just go up, read a couple of verses to somebody, not even explain it to them, and then tell them to pray a prayer. Because you know what, that gives occasion to the enemy, to have her approach on us, that when we do that, we're causing shame on the name of Christ, we're preaching a shallow gospel. You wanna preach the gospel thoroughly, you want to read the verses to them and explain it and make sure they understand it by asking thorough questions, that's what we do. We don't do what he's talking about, but you know what, this guy doesn't like us, he thinks that everything that we do is garbage. Number five, I gotta move on. The person who wrongly believes they are saved will have a false sense of security. Millions of people who sincerely but wrongly ask Jesus into their hearts, think they're saved, but struggle to feel secure. Well that's funny, because I know Muslims who are 100% sure they're on their way to heaven or whatever they go to, and they don't have any reservations or doubts about it. Well obviously we know better, we know differently. Since they live in doubt and fear because they do not have the Holy Spirit giving them assurance of salvation. Well listen to this, 1 John 5 verse 13. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God. Now what doesn't he just say to, these things are written unto you, the elect, who I forced to believe, but anyways he says that ye may know that ye have eternal life and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. Keep that in your memories, keep that available, keep that verse available when you're out of soul and because you're gonna need it, right? How do we know that we're saved? Because we believe the things that are written and the Bible tells us that we can know for sure. So Todd Friel here, he's more ate up than a soup sandwich. He's more ate up than we have time to deal with. Point number six, the person who asks Jesus into his heart will likely end up inoculated, bitter, and backslidden because he did not get saved by reciting a formulated prayer. He will grow disillusioned with Jesus, the Bible, church, and fellow believers. His latter end will be worse than the first. So is that why we have the Apology of Beer Church? Is that why we have tattoo churches? Is that why they're going around teaching that you can't trust the Bible and that we oughta bring the world, or bring Christianity on par with the world? It makes no sense here. Number seven, it presents God as a beggar just hoping you will let him into your busy life. This presentation of God robs him of his sovereignty. And just listen to this. First Timothy chapter two, for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and come unto the knowledge of the truth. So it's God's will that all men would be saved. That's why Jesus said go out and preach unto every single creature. That's why he said that, because his will is that all men would be saved, not just the elect. Point number eight, the cause of Christ is ridiculed. He says people ask Jesus into their hearts and Jesus gets mocked when false converts give him a bad name. Okay, great. Number nine, the cause of evangelicalism is hindered while it is certainly easier to get church members by telling them to ask Jesus into their hearts. Well, that's not true. I mean, it's hard to get people into church. You know what gets people into church? Wine, strong drinks, beer, coke, weed, and you know, whatever else that these guys are promoting, that's what gets people into church. That's why their numbers grow real fast, okay? And gambling and all this other stuff that they do. I lost my spot here. Oh yeah, yeah. He says while it's certainly easier to get people into church by telling them to ask Jesus into their hearts, try pleading with someone to make today the day for their salvation. Then he says get ready for a painful response. Why should I become a Christian when I've seen so many Christians act worse than a pagan? People who ask Jesus into their hearts give pagans an excuse for not repenting. And again, I don't have time to go into it. They believe you have to repent of all your sins, being turned from all your sins, to be saved, and that God basically forces you to do that. And we've already covered that. Number 10, last one. Here's the crazy one, or here's the scary one. People who ask Jesus into their hearts are not saved, and they will perish on the day of judgment. And he goes on to say how tragic that millions of people think they are right with God when they are not. How many people will cry out, Lord, Lord, on Judgment Day? And then he goes on to say they're all gonna be Christians who ask Jesus into their hearts. And he's talking about Matthew chapter seven. But the problem is, in Matthew chapter seven, Jesus says, depart from me, I never knew you. Why would he say that if he chooses who gets saved and who doesn't? It makes no sense. All right, let's see here. Why don't you guys go back to Acts chapter 13 where we started? I know this is a lot of information, and I am gonna make some applications for you quickly, and I'm almost done. So while you're turning back to Acts 13, let me just read to you a little bit about John MacArthur. John MacArthur, he says this. He's a big supporter of the YRR, also known as the Young, Restless, and Reformed movement. He says, but the YRR students still seem to be multiplying and gaining influence. I'm very glad for most of what this movement represents. It seems to be a morbidly-oriented, gospel-centered, theologically-grounded approach to Christian discipleship than this generation's parents typically favored, and that is most certainly to be applauded. So the booze, the gambling, the tattoos, the forsaking of God's law is what he's saying is a blessing and should be applauded. That's a devil, my friend, that is a devil. He says YRRs have by and large eschewed the selfishness and shallowness, though not all the pragmatism, he says, of seeker-sensitive religion. They are generally aware of the dangers posed by post-modernty, political correctness, and moral relativism. And while they sometimes seem to struggle to show discernment, they do seem to understand that truth is different from falsehood, sound doctrine is opposed to heresy, and true faith is staying from mere religious pretense. So there you go, there's a long look, hopefully I didn't bore you too bad, but there is a long look of the men behind the New Calvinism movement. And I would submit to you, it is satanic, it is demonic, and it needs to be shunned. We need to have somewhat of an understanding about this so that we can refute it, so we can push hard. So you there in Acts chapter 13, look down again at verse number 10, and said, oh, full of all subtlety and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness. Isn't that what we just saw? Isn't that what we just read about these men? Will thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? And I'm telling you, they won't, they will not cease. And so what does that mean for us? That means that we can't cease what we're doing, we can't stop reading the Bible, we can't stop preaching the gospel, we can't stop any of this stuff. Turn to Matthew chapter 16, but keep your place there, because we're gonna come right back to Acts 13. So go to Matthew chapter 16. So Matthew chapter 16. Matthew 16, look at verse number 21. He says, from that time forth began Jesus to show unto his disciples how that he must go into Jerusalem and suffer many things of the elders and sheep, priests, and scribes, and be killed and be raised again the third day. In verse 22, then Peter took him and began to rebuke him, saying, Be afar from thee, Lord, this shall not be unto thee. But he turned and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan, thou are an offense unto me. Now notice this phrase here. For thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men. So what did we just read in Acts chapter 15, verse 10? What the children of the devil are like. They cease not to pervert the right ways of the Lord, right? And what does Jesus teach us here about the devil? He says, for thou savourest not the things that be of God. So we know that the devil doesn't like, doesn't enjoy, doesn't find any kind of pleasure in the things of God. We know that. We know that he promotes the things of men. But what does it mean for thou savourest? Because that's what it says. It says for thou savourest the things that be, or thou savourest not the things that be of God. What does it mean to savor? It means to give flavor to, right? If you savor a steak, maybe you pour seasoning on it, or salt, make it taste better, right? So what does the devil make taste good? The things of men. That's what Jesus is telling us. That's a characteristic of the devil. The devil gives flavor to the things that are not approved by God. That's what he's saying here. So I've got just three quick things here. Satan's savor on the New Calvinism Movement. Number one, Calvinism is savor to people because it provides them an excuse not to go soul winning, right? That's why you can go out on the streets and see these street preachers out there with their megaphones just yelling at cars. Because in their mind they think if God's elected that person, they're gonna hear something that was said and it's gonna create that spark and get that ball rolling so that they'll be like, okay, now I'm saved and I'll go to church and I'll be fine. So Calvinism is savor to people because it provides them an excuse not to go soul winning. Calvinists don't go soul winning. Heck, a lot of churches don't go soul winning. But what's the, I mean, and hey, why not? If you're a Calvinist, why would you go soul winning? What's the point? Number two, Calvinism is savory because it removes God's authority from their lives. And basically what it puts in place is the new versions and the doctrine of original manuscript only-ism. And basically it's lawlessness, it's lawlessness. The idea is, like I've been saying from the beginning, is take the authority out of your hands. It's Catholic, it's from the pope, right? They want nothing more to do than to take the authority away from you, away from us, and place it on them. And how many of you know who James White is, right? James White, you know why he uses all these big words and he claims to read from the Greek Bible and then just translates it on the fly? It's because without saying it, what he's telling you is you need me, you need me. You can't trust this. Isn't that what the Catholics have done throughout the century? It's the same thing, it's the same program here. And so that's what Satan's objective is, that's what his goal is, that's how he makes it savory. It is a savory thing because now you got all these buildings that call themselves churches, they're full of Calvinists and they just go to church and they drink all the booze, they're having all this fun. It's just like going to Chuck E. Cheese or any of these theme parks out there. It's fun, it's worldly, it's appealing, it's savory to them. That's what they're doing. They're trying to make the things of God savory but they're really not. They're basically taking the world and making it fun. That's why people are attracted to it and that's what the devil's doing. Here's a couple more things to consider. Satan's savory objective of the New Calvinist movement is contemporary consolidation. When basically what I mean by that is to cause an uncertain sound by questioning the Bible, by questioning the final authority. And I already mentioned this but the Nazarenes are having to fight, and I don't support them, I'm just saying that they're having to fight Calvinism now too, right? So you're having all these powerful, influential musicians and preachers and people that are on the internet and TV and they write these books and they're just flooding the Christian stores and the internet with their doctrine, they're all Calvinists. And so what they're doing is they're blurring the lines between all these denominations and they're basically creating and gathering everything back to Rome. So they're working for the pope. And another thing here is to insert Pentecostal theology into churches that typically didn't believe it in the past. And they're doing a great job and they're succeeding in that area. And it's to carry out an assault against fundamental Christians or what they call recovering Baptists. They call, so anytime somebody leaves one of our church and they go to one of theirs, they call them recovering Baptists and that's an issue for another day. So let's go back to Acts chapter 13. I'm almost done, I've just got three points that I wanna leave you with to apply this passage that we originally read to your life, okay? So go back to Acts chapter 13 and look down at verse number eight. Acts 13, verse number eight. It says, but a line was the sorcerer, for so as the name by interpretation withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. And look, we need to understand there's always gonna be people out there trying to turn folks away from the faith. Then Saul, who was called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost set his eyes on him. So I want you to notice that. So point number one, how you can apply this to your life is to have a righteous response. We need a righteous response and that's what you see here in verse nine. Then Saul, who was called Paul, filled with the Holy Ghost set his eyes upon him. We need to have that same righteous response. We need to set our eyes on the people that are condemning what we do, that are condemning the Bible, that are speaking false things about God's word. We need to set our eyes on them, refute them, have an answer for them, and fight them wherever we can. Verse 10, and said, "'O fool of all subtlety and all mischief, "'thou child of the devil, "'thou enemy of all righteousness, "'wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord? "'And now behold, the hand of the Lord is upon thee, "'and thou shalt be blind, not seeing the sun for a season.' "'And immediately there fell on him a mist and a darkness, "'and he went about seeking some to lead him by the hand.'" So we can see now how this man of God, Paul, how he responds when filled with the Holy Ghost. He's not afraid to tell the truth, right? He's like, okay, now you're gonna be blind. He's not afraid to speak the truth. So a righteous response includes truths from God's word without compromise. So point number one is we need to have a righteous response, and that includes consequences, just like Paul shows us in verse 11. Point number two is a righteous response produces radical results. So again, I mentioned this earlier. We see here that the deputy is starting out, and he wants to hear the word of God, right? But the problem is he's hanging out with a false prophet, and we all know how hard it is to sometimes get somebody saved when they've been under the influence of a false prophet, false teacher, false church, all that. Acts 13, look at verse number six. "'And when they had gone through the island to Paphos, "'they found a certain sorcery, false prophet, a Jew "'whose name was Bar Jesus, "'which was with the deputy of the country, "'Sergio's policy, a prudent man, "'who called for Barnabas and Saul "'and desired to hear the word of God.'" So you're gonna knock on people's doors sometimes, and they're gonna desire to hear the word of God, but the problem is they have a false prophet in their life. They have a false prophet that they're hanging out with, right, and we want that radical result. We still wanna get them saved. Don't just think because they go to this church or that church out there that they can't be saved because they, you know, you oughta try anyways because you never know. Paul didn't give up here, right? He said, oh, you're hanging out with a false prophet? No problem, I'm still gonna preach the gospel to you, and look at the result in verse 12. Look at the result. "'Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, "'believed," look at this, "'being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord.'" And obviously we don't have the full dialogue written down here of what happened, but Paul rebukes this false prophet, says you're gonna go blind, and then he begins to do what he's been doing, preaching doctrine, preaching the righteous truth, and then, you know, the guy believes, right? So point number two is a righteous response produces radical results. That's what makes the difference. That's what separates us from, you know, other people that are more lackadaisical and there's so many, is that we study, we learn these things, and we apply them, and we go out there believing, having that faith that you know what, I'm gonna get somebody saved today. We will get people saved. I don't care if this area's 2 3rd Mormon. I don't care if it's 2 3rd Jehovah Witness. It doesn't matter. If we have a righteous response, we can produce righteous results. It doesn't matter. That's what the Bible's teaching us here. And then final point, number three. Righteous results like this come from righteous study. Look at verse 12 again. Then the deputy, when he saw what was done, believed, being astonished at the doctrine of the Lord. Not being astonished at the mighty words and all the long, you know, poetical terms that Paul used, but at the doctrine of the Lord. So Paul, in the course of this, obviously preached the doctrine of the Lord to him. If we want those radical, righteous results, we've gotta have righteous study. We gotta, first of all, obviously, you gotta be saved. But we wanna become a worker approved unto God. You don't have to turn there. I'm just gonna leave this with you. 2 Timothy 2, verse 14, which says, of these things, put them in remembrance, charging them before the Lord, that they strive not about words to no profit, but to the subverting of the hearers. Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly, dividing the word of truth. But shun profane and vain babblings, for they will increase into more ungodliness. That's why we preach these things. We wanna shun them before it gets out of control. And he says, and their word will eat, as doth a canker, of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus. You know who else is a canker? Lecrae. He's a crunk canker, a crunk canker Calvinist. Look at verse 18, who concerning the truth of Herod, saying that the resurrection has passed already and overthrow the faith of some. So just as Paul was telling Timothy, hey, we gotta stop these things, we gotta nip them, we gotta fight hard, you know, against the false doctrine of his time, we oughta be the same way. So three points again. We gotta have that righteous response, just like Paul did. We wanna have the righteous response, or understand that righteous responses produce radical results. And number three, righteous results come from righteous study. So let's bow our heads and have a word for it. Lord, thank you for this opportunity to preach. Let's pray for all these folks, Lord. Pray that it's edified, and I just pray that you'll bless our travels as we go to and from, Lord, and please strengthen this church and bring us back safely next week. In Jesus' name I pray, amen. Amen.