I ask you, What is the very beginning or origin of salvation? God chose not to save them but to punish them in the way of their sins. God’s desire to save everybody has failed with the majority of people. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. This presents God like a little boy in the playground who desperately wants so and so to be his friend. E-mail: bookstore@cprc.co.uk, The CPRC Bookstore is now taking UK and international orders and accepting PayPal payments! They see the following invisible unspoken phrase in each of these verses, "except for the reprobate". 49). Let us move on to another point: spiritual illumination or enlightenment, the ability to see the kingdom of heaven by faith. Reformed Church R.L. N. Ireland BT42 3NR This is what the Son of God told them and tells us. Thank you! If God wants to save everybody, why is everybody not saved? God does not desire to save them. We have two ears. 9:17-18). BT43 5DR, Lord’s Day Worship Services: The answer is found in the context of the preceding verse: 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. 2:4); etc. According to the Bible, eternal life is much more than just the gift of God (Rom. From a Biblical perspective, there is no doubt the thing that makes someone reprobate is not whether they are a sinner, but whether they will accept the Word of God about their sin and turn from, and acknowledge that God is right and they are wrong. The free offer position says that God passionately wants to save them, yet He reprobates them before the foundation of the world. What a strange and useless doctrine! The free offer will not save anybody. Then they say, “We are the true Calvinists and people who do not hold to the free offer are hyper-Calvinists.” The definitions are changing; Scripture is being twisted; people are being deceived. These people were never saved. Please note there is a new rule regarding the posting of videos. By definition, the free offer is a resistible, impotent, changeable and temporal grace, whereas the true grace of God is irresistible, omnipotent, unchangeable and eternal. Such WERE some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God. This also needs to be stated: although God does not desire the salvation of all men head for head, the Christian’s calling—your calling and my calling—is to desire the salvation of our neighbours. To speak more accurately, the people who portray God as sincerely desiring to save the reprobate are lying about God, for His Word reveals that He does not do any of the things necessary to effect this alleged desire. One of the questions that has been going around for some time now is whether or not a person who is reprobate can be saved. I brought the same gospel to all, unconverted or converted, for there only is one gospel of God’s sovereign grace (Acts 20:24). But they said, We will not walk therein. God Himself puts enmity, hatred and opposition between the two parties, and that is obviously a reflection of God’s opposition to the seed of the serpent too. The point Paul is making in 1 Cor. Note the following verse where “reprobate” is used: 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 (Rom 1:28, KJV). (omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, immutable, eternal, holy). Instead of living holy and bringing forth good works, their lifestyle is manifestly different from the saint. The man who says he earnestly desires to go to church but goes to watch a rugby match is telling lies. Webster’s dictionary defines this word as “not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fitness; disallowed; rejected.”. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. 83 Clarence Street, Ballymena, N. Ireland BT43 5DR, (slightly modified from articles originally published in the British Reformed Journal). About what is he so heart-broken? We need to remember that those who love father or mother or friends or wife or anyone more than Christ are not worthy of Him (Matt. Great Falls, MT 59404 “No.” Does God then leave the future of the non-elect indeterminate? They make it clear that this is not just an apparent desire. Does this sound as if God wants to make the reprobate His friends? They see the following invisible unspoken phrase in each of these verses, "except for the reprobate". “Hear, O Israel”—God is telling us something very important. Why would God want Christ’s body, which He has decreed to be perfect, to have added to it other parts and members? They wanted to reject God and so He turned them over to their desires. The context of the immediate passage is the rejection of God. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. It shows that we have not the perfect wisdom to dispose and arrange everything in our lives; that we are lacking in some area. ). It ought to be pointed out too that the vast majority of “free offer Calvinists” have Arminians in their churches as members or even deacons, elders or ministers. Even so, Father: for so it seemed good in thy sight” (Matt. Rarely do I send out articles by others through Hope Biblical Counseling Center. Do we ignore such a warning to us, directly from the mouth of God? The Christian Reformed Church in North America embraced the free offer and made it binding doctrine in 1924. Why would God decree and purpose a glorious church with a perfectly formed body and then desire to add to it other body parts which would deform the body? Thus God pours out snares, fire, brimstone and an horrible tempest upon the wicked. God’s revealing the truth of salvation unto babes also takes place in time, in the illumination of the saints, according to God’s decree of election. The Spirit regenerates whom He wills or wants or desires. I remind you of the illustration I used above of the man who said that he really wanted to go to church, but he took none of the necessary steps and went to the rugby match instead. The shepherd died for the sheep and not for the goats. But the Scriptures teach that, according to God’s purpose, Jesus Christ died only for the elect. 136:1-26). In the 1960s Harold Dekker of the Christian Reformed Church argued, “Hold on a minute, if God really wants to save everybody, and the creeds say that Christ died for the elect only, we have a problem. Instead, He puts enmity between the seed of the woman (Christ and His church) and the reprobate seed of the serpent (Gen. 3:15). This is not, however, the way in which the issue is usually expressed. No wonder that the Reformed Canons of Dordt (1618-1619) contradict Arminianism’s and the well-meant offer’s foolish notion that God wishes or desires or wills or wants to regenerate or give the new birth to the reprobate. Saved people are new creatures (2 Corinthians 5:17 This is the passion of the apostle Paul. There is nothing that He wants to do, wills to do, is pleased to do and does not do, because “our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.”. 115:3; 135:6). Remember, the Apostle Judas Iscariot was a preacher, and he ended up going to HELL (Mk. It also seems the potential is very great when someone who professes to be saved falls away from the faith. Out of one blood God has made the whole of the human race, and they are, according to the flesh, all our brethren. 6:4-6), commit suicide (1 John 3:15b; Rev. The article below is by my friend, Dr. Rick Carter, and is being sent out with his permission. That is not the idea. Now is the time to search the Scriptures and try the free offer spirits (Act 17:11; I John 4:1)! I am not saying, of course, that we should be offensive in evangelism. First, he affirms three times that he is speaking the truth: “[1] I say the truth in Christ, [2] I lie not, [3] my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost” (v. 1). Calvin: “… the obedience we render to God’s providence does not prevent us from grieving at the destruction of lost men, though we know that they are thus doomed by the just judgment of God; for the same mind is capable of being influenced by these two feelings: that when it looks to God it can willingly bear the ruin of those whom he has decreed to destroy; and that when it turns its thoughts to men, it condoles with their evils. 10:37). “Hear, O church, the Lord our God is one Lord, with one mind and one will and not two minds or two wills (Job 23:13) as the free offer portrays Him, because He is God and God is one!”. It is at this point that we find the description of vile affections which we commonly call homosexuality today. 9:17), according to His eternal purpose in world history (Eph. X, I really want to ransom you. Moreover, these last two men of whom I have spoken, Esau and Pharaoh, are not one-off cases. God raised up these wicked rulers (cf. So God sent Christ to make atonement for the sins of those to whom He will give faith, those predestinated. No, there is a great gulf fixed between the reprobate and the child of God. To acknowledge God is to retain Him as our foremost concern and love, to respond to Him with thanksgiving and worship as He has revealed Himself in creation. The Bible says that God may turn a person over to a reprobate mind in order to save his soul. All things are delivered unto me of my Father: and no man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any man the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him” (Matt. Preachers, YOU get no spiritual “brownie points” just because you are a preacher, except you will be given a MORE STRICT JUDGMENT (James 3:1), and you have a chance for the “crown of glory,” if you qualify (1 Pet. God’s wisdom means that all His desires and wishes and wants for the entire universe are always perfectly fulfilled. Consider a professing Calvinist who holds the free offer. In the previous paragraph, we saw that this false doctrine is contrary to God’s sovereignty; Canons III/IV:R:8 state that it also opposes God’s omnipotence and irresistible grace: …. 2:7) and don't grow weary and give up sowing to please the Spirit (Gal. This is not a wonderful plan for them. The idea that God desires to save the reprobate conflicts with the wisdom of God because, although He desires to save the reprobate, He does not adapt all things for their salvation.
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