Just recently discovered this channel and am really enjoying it. I am a new convert, as of a few years ago, to Reformed Covenantal theology and am constantly studying it and learning more and more, and every bit I learn sits well with my spirit and makes total sense scripturally. All I can say is thank God I didn’t have to contribute to my salvation because I had nothing but my sin to contribute. I love the phrase and description of this as the “The Great Exchange”. And knowing what Christ did in accordance with Gods eternal plan makes me even more grateful and want to do good works. Not because my salvation is based on works but out of love and honor I want to do all I can to serve him and further the great gospel message that saved me. To God be ALL the glory.
Thank you pastor Matthew for this excellent summary of the TULIP! I’m currently in conversation with an Arminian who is willing to engage with the text and Calvinism in a charitable way and need to refresh my memory , your video has provided a great place to start . I’m in the 1689 camp but very much indebted to my Presbyterian brothers .
““I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.” John 10:11 “But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.” John 10:26
Great teaching. I had never heard of the T.U.L.I.P. acronym before. I will be transferring all of the verses you shared to my Bible while reading them again. God bless you.
Pastor, great video. Im not Reformed nor do I view myself as Calvinist. I atleast wanted to say thank you for the info and the way it was presented. If nothing else it gave me a lot to ponder and think about on my end. Have a Merry Christmas
Travis Poppell : I find that most True Christian people are Reformed & Calvinistic than they care to admit. A lot of folks that claim not to be R & C until you start asking questions then they, kicking & screaming, confess they are but did not really understand what that is what it was. I think several of the True Church just let this teaching take a back row seat and it was forgotten by many. When it did resurface they were taken by surprise. Catholics do not share this view as they were in almost complete control for hundreds of years. Thank you Father that you came through during The Reformation to allow your children to enjoy radical, infectious & joyful Grace, while finding the Freedom in Christ to live a victorious life while serving you!!!!!🎯🎯🎯🎯
I’m so thankful for this video! Calvinism has always been unclear to me, but you’ve made it understandable. Maybe it was my lack of understanding, or who was teaching. But, I finally get it! (Since I agree with all that you taught, I may be a Calvinist. I must read more as you mentioned) Thanks again Pastor Matt!!
It took 30 years to exit the cults, but just 10 years to go from open-theistic ideas to a Reformed view. Monergism simply cannot be dismissed and retain any real Biblical Faith. If G-d had to wait for me to get it right, good thing He is eternal!
39:36, "if we could fall away... we would have already done it." I prefer to say, we would. Or we surely will. Lest we give false assurance to false converts who are, in fact, in danger of falling away.
I think the biggest reason why some Christians don’t like predestination isn’t because of pride, but because it seems unjust that some people were created by God to suffer for all eternity.
I agree, that's a big reason, maybe the main reason. But even if that's the case, it still has it's roots in their pride... Because people who struggle with that idea of predestination, think that their view of "justice" is better than gods truth of his sovereign election. Paul anticipates the assumption of non-calvinists that God's election is unjust (Rom 9,14). He also refutes it: It's prideful to believe such a thing (Rom 9,20). And Jesus taught that men have an other view of "justice" then god and refutes them also (Mt 20,10-16). Therefore: If calvinism is true, we shouldn't be surprised that many people struggle and don't want to believe in this doctrine. Indeed: We should even expect that they do! I believe that the Bible teaches the Doctrines of grace (aka TULIP), especially in John 1+6+10+17; Romans 3+8+9; Ephesians 1+2. There are many, many other verses in scripture that imply sovereign election, but I think John, Romans and Ephesians are the books that teach it the most obvious. So I believe we should humble ourselves and embrace the doctrines of grace. God's word is the standard, not our depraved thinking! What do you think?
Dr. Everhard, in regards to predestination, I think people don't like it because God chooses some and not others seemingly arbitrarily. It's like God has a banquet and enough food to give to everyone he chooses, but feeds some and tells others to starve. Some would say that is a conflict of God's love.
Hey pastor Matthew! I came to know Christ in my addiction about 4yrs ago. I am 2yrs sober, newly married and have a newborn baby Gracie Rae! Life is great! Praise God! But i am in the midst of a doctrinal war in my spirit on what is truth. I am NOT Arminian. I believe calvinism doctrines to be most biblically solid. But i bave stumbled upon Dr. Leighton Flowers and pastor mike winger on youtube who speak of something in between the two which dr flowers is calling provisionism. My pastor also teaches something like this traditionalism/provisionism. Have you seen dr dlowers teachings on soteriology 101? I just want to follow truth! I’m told to focus on Jesus and who cares about doctrine. I understand that, but i am hungry for the truth! PLEASE HELP
Maybe the "Clay" is not complaining about what God has made him to be...(ie ...a sinner content to dwell in his sins...) but rather that God then judges and condemns him for being what God Himself has predetermined,or simply made him, to be. A simple question is this: If many (through no fault of their own since they were not EVEN BORN YET...)WERE MADE SINNERS... then why does God get wrathful when they go about the business of sinning ( esp. when God Himself has denied them (again through no fault of their own) any capability for repentance? NOTE: These are concerns/ questions not directed at the Bible but at the Calvinist' fatalistic interpretation of the Bible
@MatthewEverhard 1. Can you we truly separate salvation and sanctification? 2. Isn’t sanctification part of our ongoing salvation? 3. Is TULIP only applied to that very initial moment of salvation? Thank you Totus tuus
Excellent Video . Have ya given any thought to doing one on the reformed understanding of the Lord’s Supper? How it differs from the Catholic, Lutheran, and memorial views . It’s something that’s reformed and many folks don’t understand the difference between them. Blessings
Hi Pastor Everhard, this was a great video. I’ve embraced Reformed theology over the past year, and I am still figuring out a lot of things. This would be my question. You mentioned that being Truly Reformed (TR) would require more than Calvinistic doctrine, but also embracing Covenantal theology for example. Along with this, you mentioned that Reformed also means a certain form of ecclesiology which I take to mean Presbyterian polity. For myself I view myself as Reformed Baptist, which means I am committed to elder-led congregational church (Baptistic model, but with dual offices of Elders and Deacons.) as well as Credo-baptism. Are Reformed Baptists like myself really Reformed then, or are we Calvinistic, but still unreformed?
"Reformed Baptist" is actually a oxymoronic misnomer. The better and more historic term would be "Particular Baptist" or "Confessional Baptist" or even "Calvinistic Baptist".
Thanks for the clear presentation, I’d like to just fit in to reformed theology but I just have some things I can’t reconcile. Hebrews 10 makes me doubt PotS, and some other things to do with Gods character in relation to his decrees. I’m doing my Masters in theology atm so I’m in my twenties and I don’t have enough experience, or time in the scriptures to be sure of these doctrines. I do think it’s a bit of a misnomer to say Arminianism is synergistic, even in that system it’s Gods grace that enables everything, I agree it’s not monergistic but it doesn’t give man any of the glory. At least that’s what Arminius himself thought, perhaps arminians after him went wrong.
Arminians say that it doesn't give human beings any of the glory, but unfortunately that isn't consistent with their view of election, in which God merely chooses those who he foresees will choose him. If that's true, God's grace doesn't determine their choice. It is determined purely by their own initiative. That's the only way prescience logically works. But what that boils down to is that better people who make the right choice go to heaven, and worse people who make the immoral choice go to hell. At the end of the day, the real answer to the question, "why are you in heaven?" will be, "because I was better than those who made the wrong choice."
Hi Matt, this is a great video! Can I ask, What is the ‘Pressiant’ view of foreknowledge? I tried looking it up but couldn’t find anything about it. :)
Prescient, coming from "pre and science/knowledge." The view suggests that God merely knows ahead of time what will happen, but is not the determinant in ordaining the future in many way.
Excellent video, thank you for the knowledge and insight. Glad I stumbled onto your channel...or rather that God brought me to it! Heheh. After watching, I immediately thought of Frank Turek's videos, and all of the students who always ask him more or less the same question- why would a loving God send people to hell? It's an oversimplified question of course, but how do we reconcile that question with regard to the theology of TULIP? Do we have any insight as to why God would choose some of us and not others? If he forknew and predestined us...why would he purposefully create souls and individuals he knew would not conform to faith in Christ? Hoping Matthew answers the question before someone else in this community does. Thanks!
to the Calvinist : God predetermines an individual so that he is only capable of sinning. The individual then commits a SPECIFIC group or category of sins in his life. QUESTION: Does such a senerio exempt God from ALL culpability??
❓ I come from a Charismatic type of background and have been learning more and more of reformed theology.. One thing I've noticed is that most churches that teach this doctrine are also very blah. Like old looking buildings, dead praise and worship, etc... What is the purpose for this?
The problem is that when you have been fed sugar and only have experienced a sugar high it takes time for the body to truly enjoy the raw greens and rich proteins that truly sustain.
The problem is that when you have been fed sugar and only have experienced a sugar high it takes time for the body to truly enjoy the raw greens and rich proteins that truly sustain.
Small correction that was probably a mishap: you referenced utter depravity as a synonym for total depravity around 16:00. However, utter depravity speaks toward man as being as evil as he could possibly be, which you made clear is not a reform view. R.C. Sproul makes this distinction in terminology fairly often. Hope this helps. Love your channel! 😊
I am onboard with reformed theology except for Unconditional Election - in light of 2 Peter 3:9 among many others. I don't find it Biblical that God would pre-ordain some to Hell when it is written that He wishes that none should perish, but all come to repentance.
Romans 9:19-23 also Romans 11:1-6 and 2 Peter 3:9 is talking about the church. Notice how peter fears all the terms towards “you” even in that very verse
Just recently discovered this channel and am really enjoying it. I am a new convert, as of a few years ago, to Reformed Covenantal theology and am constantly studying it and learning more and more, and every bit I learn sits well with my spirit and makes total sense scripturally. All I can say is thank God I didn’t have to contribute to my salvation because I had nothing but my sin to contribute. I love the phrase and description of this as the “The Great Exchange”. And knowing what Christ did in accordance with Gods eternal plan makes me even more grateful and want to do good works. Not because my salvation is based on works but out of love and honor I want to do all I can to serve him and further the great gospel message that saved me. To God be ALL the glory.
Thank you pastor Matthew for this excellent summary of the TULIP!
I’m currently in conversation with an Arminian who is willing to engage with the text and Calvinism in a charitable way and need to refresh my memory , your video has provided a great place to start . I’m in the 1689 camp but very much indebted to my Presbyterian brothers .
This is one of your best Matthew - Very articulate and concise and done with love. Thank you so much.
Wow- awesome summary
Amen, thank you so much!! May God bless you!
"All Glory to God Alone!!!"
Thank you! You are helping me to imprint these truths in my heart and in my thinking. Listening in Uvalde, Texas.
Thank you for such clear teaching on TULIP.
Thank you for this
Well done. I want to encourage you to continue to teach the people of God.
““I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.”
John 10:11
“But you do not believe because you are not of My sheep.”
John 10:26
Amen , Soli Deo Gloria
Thanks for your video. Good job
Thank you so much for this teaching! I sometimes struggle with these concepts. This helped a lot.
Sent this video to my Lutheran brother!
definitely will listen to this many times, thank you
Totally excellent.
Great teaching. I had never heard of the T.U.L.I.P. acronym before. I will be transferring all of the verses you shared to my Bible while reading them again. God bless you.
Pastor, great video. Im not Reformed nor do I view myself as Calvinist. I atleast wanted to say thank you for the info and the way it was presented. If nothing else it gave me a lot to ponder and think about on my end. Have a Merry Christmas
Travis Poppell : I find that most True Christian people are Reformed & Calvinistic than they care to admit. A lot of folks that claim not to be R & C until you start asking questions then they, kicking & screaming, confess they are but did not really understand what that is what it was. I think several of the True Church just let this teaching take a back row seat and it was forgotten by many. When it did resurface they were taken by surprise. Catholics do not share this view as they were in almost complete control for hundreds of years. Thank you Father that you came through during The Reformation to allow your children to enjoy radical, infectious & joyful Grace, while finding the Freedom in Christ to live a victorious life while serving you!!!!!🎯🎯🎯🎯
Total depravity Unconditional election Limited atonement Irresistible grace Perseverance of the saints.
I’m so thankful for this video! Calvinism has always been unclear to me, but you’ve made it understandable. Maybe it was my lack of understanding, or who was teaching. But, I finally get it! (Since I agree with all that you taught, I may be a Calvinist. I must read more as you mentioned) Thanks again Pastor Matt!!
Beautiful message!! Praise be to God... Listen on my drive back home ended just as I was driving up to my driveway. Blessings!!
Thanks for making this video. You’re right on the money!
It took 30 years to exit the cults, but just 10 years to go from open-theistic ideas to a Reformed view. Monergism simply cannot be dismissed and retain any real Biblical Faith. If G-d had to wait for me to get it right, good thing He is eternal!
Don't worry whether you are elect ----- just come to Jesus and He will NOT cast you out. However. IF you do come --- God chose you. Amen
39:36, "if we could fall away... we would have already done it."
I prefer to say, we would. Or we surely will. Lest we give false assurance to false converts who are, in fact, in danger of falling away.
According to the Calvinist, it's all been decided before the foundation if the world.So why bother speculate?
@@davidallin6909 the desire is to be faithful to Scripture, not to speculate.
I think the biggest reason why some Christians don’t like predestination isn’t because of pride, but because it seems unjust that some people were created by God to suffer for all eternity.
I agree, that's a big reason, maybe the main reason. But even if that's the case, it still has it's roots in their pride...
Because people who struggle with that idea of predestination, think that their view of "justice" is better than gods truth of his sovereign election. Paul anticipates the assumption of non-calvinists that God's election is unjust (Rom 9,14). He also refutes it: It's prideful to believe such a thing (Rom 9,20). And Jesus taught that men have an other view of "justice" then god and refutes them also (Mt 20,10-16).
Therefore: If calvinism is true, we shouldn't be surprised that many people struggle and don't want to believe in this doctrine. Indeed: We should even expect that they do!
I believe that the Bible teaches the Doctrines of grace (aka TULIP), especially in John 1+6+10+17; Romans 3+8+9; Ephesians 1+2. There are many, many other verses in scripture that imply sovereign election, but I think John, Romans and Ephesians are the books that teach it the most obvious.
So I believe we should humble ourselves and embrace the doctrines of grace. God's word is the standard, not our depraved thinking!
What do you think?
Dr. Everhard, in regards to predestination, I think people don't like it because God chooses some and not others seemingly arbitrarily. It's like God has a banquet and enough food to give to everyone he chooses, but feeds some and tells others to starve. Some would say that is a conflict of God's love.
We always have to keep in mind that he doesn’t have to save anyone but still chooses to save a lot of people.
Hey pastor Matthew! I came to know Christ in my addiction about 4yrs ago. I am 2yrs sober, newly married and have a newborn baby Gracie Rae! Life is great! Praise God! But i am in the midst of a doctrinal war in my spirit on what is truth. I am NOT Arminian. I believe calvinism doctrines to be most biblically solid. But i bave stumbled upon Dr. Leighton Flowers and pastor mike winger on youtube who speak of something in between the two which dr flowers is calling provisionism. My pastor also teaches something like this traditionalism/provisionism. Have you seen dr dlowers teachings on soteriology 101? I just want to follow truth! I’m told to focus on Jesus and who cares about doctrine. I understand that, but i am hungry for the truth! PLEASE HELP
Are there more texts which you could briefly list off here that go toward the foundation of the U?
When He gives us a new heart does that mean that the heart that is desperately wicked has been replaced?
Maybe the "Clay" is not complaining about what God has made him to be...(ie ...a sinner content to dwell in his sins...) but rather that God then judges and condemns him for being what God Himself has predetermined,or simply made him, to be. A simple question is this: If many (through no fault of their own since they were not EVEN BORN YET...)WERE MADE SINNERS... then why does God get wrathful when they go about the business of sinning ( esp. when God Himself has denied them (again through no fault of their own) any capability for repentance? NOTE: These are concerns/ questions not directed at the Bible but at the Calvinist' fatalistic interpretation of the Bible
@MatthewEverhard 1. Can you we truly separate salvation and sanctification? 2. Isn’t sanctification part of our ongoing salvation? 3. Is TULIP only applied to that very initial moment of salvation?
Thank you
Totus tuus
Excellent Video . Have ya given any thought to doing one on the reformed understanding of the Lord’s Supper? How it differs from the Catholic, Lutheran, and memorial views . It’s something that’s reformed and many folks don’t understand the difference between them.
Blessings
Love it. Will do.
Hi Pastor Everhard, this was a great video. I’ve embraced Reformed theology over the past year, and I am still figuring out a lot of things.
This would be my question. You mentioned that being Truly Reformed (TR) would require more than Calvinistic doctrine, but also embracing Covenantal theology for example. Along with this, you mentioned that Reformed also means a certain form of ecclesiology which I take to mean Presbyterian polity.
For myself I view myself as Reformed Baptist, which means I am committed to elder-led congregational church (Baptistic model, but with dual offices of Elders and Deacons.) as well as Credo-baptism. Are Reformed Baptists like myself really Reformed then, or are we Calvinistic, but still unreformed?
"Reformed Baptist" is actually a oxymoronic misnomer. The better and more historic term would be "Particular Baptist" or "Confessional Baptist" or even "Calvinistic Baptist".
Is that an MG TD?
Thanks for the clear presentation, I’d like to just fit in to reformed theology but I just have some things I can’t reconcile. Hebrews 10 makes me doubt PotS, and some other things to do with Gods character in relation to his decrees. I’m doing my Masters in theology atm so I’m in my twenties and I don’t have enough experience, or time in the scriptures to be sure of these doctrines. I do think it’s a bit of a misnomer to say Arminianism is synergistic, even in that system it’s Gods grace that enables everything, I agree it’s not monergistic but it doesn’t give man any of the glory. At least that’s what Arminius himself thought, perhaps arminians after him went wrong.
Arminians say that it doesn't give human beings any of the glory, but unfortunately that isn't consistent with their view of election, in which God merely chooses those who he foresees will choose him. If that's true, God's grace doesn't determine their choice. It is determined purely by their own initiative. That's the only way prescience logically works. But what that boils down to is that better people who make the right choice go to heaven, and worse people who make the immoral choice go to hell. At the end of the day, the real answer to the question, "why are you in heaven?" will be, "because I was better than those who made the wrong choice."
Hi Matt, this is a great video!
Can I ask, What is the ‘Pressiant’ view of foreknowledge? I tried looking it up but couldn’t find anything about it. :)
Prescient, coming from "pre and science/knowledge." The view suggests that God merely knows ahead of time what will happen, but is not the determinant in ordaining the future in many way.
What up are Supralapsarian or infralapsarian
Excellent video, thank you for the knowledge and insight. Glad I stumbled onto your channel...or rather that God brought me to it! Heheh. After watching, I immediately thought of Frank Turek's videos, and all of the students who always ask him more or less the same question- why would a loving God send people to hell? It's an oversimplified question of course, but how do we reconcile that question with regard to the theology of TULIP? Do we have any insight as to why God would choose some of us and not others? If he forknew and predestined us...why would he purposefully create souls and individuals he knew would not conform to faith in Christ? Hoping Matthew answers the question before someone else in this community does. Thanks!
So we have no choice, Matt 22:14? 1 John 3
to the Calvinist : God predetermines an individual so that he is only capable of sinning. The individual then commits a SPECIFIC group or category of sins in his life. QUESTION: Does such a senerio exempt God from ALL culpability??
❓ I come from a Charismatic type of background and have been learning more and more of reformed theology.. One thing I've noticed is that most churches that teach this doctrine are also very blah. Like old looking buildings, dead praise and worship, etc... What is the purpose for this?
The problem is that when you have been fed sugar and only have experienced a sugar high it takes time for the body to truly enjoy the raw greens and rich proteins that truly sustain.
The problem is that when you have been fed sugar and only have experienced a sugar high it takes time for the body to truly enjoy the raw greens and rich proteins that truly sustain.
And since you refer to _Lord of the Flies_, that is of course merely the English translation of Beelzebub.
Small correction that was probably a mishap: you referenced utter depravity as a synonym for total depravity around 16:00. However, utter depravity speaks toward man as being as evil as he could possibly be, which you made clear is not a reform view. R.C. Sproul makes this distinction in terminology fairly often. Hope this helps. Love your channel! 😊
You are a tea drinker! What is your favorite tea?
Why is there so much obsession with calvin? Stay with God's absolute sovereignty ---its a wonderful truth
I don't care about the reformed view what's the scriputal view without man denominationalizing it.
Reformed Theology, is the Scriptural way of looking to Salvation and the Christian life. Watch the video again.
I am onboard with reformed theology except for Unconditional Election - in light of 2 Peter 3:9 among many others. I don't find it Biblical that God would pre-ordain some to Hell when it is written that He wishes that none should perish, but all come to repentance.
Romans 9:19-23 also Romans 11:1-6 and 2 Peter 3:9 is talking about the church. Notice how peter fears all the terms towards “you” even in that very verse
Nonsense …