Sovereign Election: God’s Loving Choice - The Doctrines of Grace in John with Steven Lawson
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- Far from being a cold and unfeeling doctrine, the biblical truth of sovereign election displays the unfathomable grace of God. In this message, Steven Lawson unpacks this humbling and glorious reality, showing how the doctrine of election expresses the fullness of God’s love for sinful, undeserving people.
This message is from Dr. Lawson’s 12-part teaching series The Doctrines of Grace in John. Learn more: www.ligonier.org/learn/series...
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This made me cry with a thankful heart and exactly the thought of “why me, Lord?”
It was a very humbling lesson. I am so grateful to God to be one of Christ’s chosen. All honor and glory belong into Him. Hallelujah be His name!
Thank you Pastor Lawson for your excellent teaching of this very profound blessing.
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All that the father hath given me shall come to me. Amen
If you like Church History, Steve Lawson has some GREAT stuff on men of God through the ages! Grateful for this brother!
Are there any hidden, hard to find links you can steer us towards to view these?
@@dave.h4075 buy and read a book snowflake haha
@@dave.h4075 I know he has sermons/lectures out there about men of God through history, but his greatest contribution is probably his books. He has several character studies of historical figures and his foundations of grace- pillars of grace book series is quite good as well!
JohN Knox was a great 1 Tyndale also
Dr Steven Lawson is an excellent expositor of the Scripture. Praise God (Christ)
You can tell he was taught by R.C. Sproul 🙂
For sure. I was thinking the same thing. Lol 🙂
@@HearGodsWord because youve heard 2 of them ever haha
@@iacoponefurio1915 seems like that was only "haha" for you.
He really doesn’t believe the Bible to be honest. People regard him as a great expositor. But he really doesn’t fully believe the Bible. He regards certain doctrines, as greater than what the word is trying to tell us.
Not only that, but he has been polluting the minds of many . When you really listen to what he saying, in comparison, to what scripture is trying to say, they do not correlate.
HE IS SOVEREIGN!!! PRAISE HIM!
WHY DOES THE GOD OF THIS WORLD BLIND UNBELIEVERS IF THEY ARE ALREADY DEAD AND BLIND IN THERE TRESPASSES AND SIN 2nd corinthians 4:4
@@georgeluna9729 you incorrectly separate the two. They are dead. And they are blind. These events happened simultaneously.
@@douglasdelong1526 YHVH is the author of the veil isaiah 6
@@douglasdelong1526 Lazuras is not a depiction of spiritual death. He was a guy that died that Jesus brought back to life.
Prideful men reject this unquestionable truth..
This message is so full of love.
King Jesus reigns!
Amen. Faithful and true
Amen and praise God!
Praise god :)
His sheep know his voice, and another they will not follow !!!
Amen
Amazing how these offshoot cults demand they can call their puppet god imagination and try to call it Christianity
Amen, God builds his church and none the father gave the son will be lost 🙏✝️ blessed beyond measure Gods choosing of me enabled my choosing of him.
Praise God!
Amen! Praise God!
Steve Lawson I love you brother,
I can not wait to see you and the whole clan, Steve does not pull no punches, He puts it straight foward. and i love it, We need more of him, Thank you LORD..
I pray not for the world but for them that thou hast given me. The elect
So good to hear this teaching. The full force of this struck me over the past 16 months and how absolutely amazing and life transforming an experience this has been. I thank and praise God for His amazing grace and mercy which I now know thanks to His work of sovereign election in Christ whereby I can now all on Him as the Father of my spirit and know life eternally and life abundantly in Jesus Christ. Today with Steve Lawson I can only say ; For of Him, and through Him, and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever, Amen. Romans 11 verse 36.
I believe the Bible teaches election and understand why it’s important now, after 20 years.
If you mean election=salvation, i disagree my friend. I would listen to some debates to hear scholars from both sides
Election=service
@@edwinherrera6840 well said
@@edwinherrera6840what’s the difference? If God elected us to service is it because He knew we would chose Him? Why elect our works but not ourselves?
@@danielwarton5343 your missing what I’m saying when you read election in the Bible is for a service to bless others. Like Jesus was elect, he also elected his apostles, and elected Israel
I pray the room will be full of young people!! This is a doctrine especially important for youth.
Amen! Praise God (Christ) 😊
Great teaching, I am so thankful that I heard the Gospel of the grace of God and believed on "The Lord Jesus Christ".
absolutely fantastic preaching of the Truth Sir I thank the Lord for you . God bless
Necesitamos mas prédicas del pastor Lawson con subtítulos en español o traducidas.🙏🏻
Thank you Jesus 👼 Amen ! 👼
Amen.
Amen!
Thank you Doctor .Truth well spoken .🙏🌪️
Praise God for His mercy and your ministry. This was a tasty treat.
Amen. Praise be to our God. Because of God we are in Christ,.
A privileged indeed ❤
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But God... Amen to that.
Incredible, Incredible, Incredible.... Love it or loathe it, it is in the 'Word'. Why is this not preached on?
Johannes chapter 6 verse 44/ 45.
MY HOW MY FAVORITE DOCTRINE IS THE SILLY PREACHER BOYS WORST NIGHMARE.
Jesús repeated this sober message twice to make sure we don’t mess around with His warning of not repenting.
Luke 13:3; Luke 13:5
Repent or Perish
13 Now there were some present at that time who told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mixed with their sacrifices. 2 Jesus answered, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans because they suffered this way? 3 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish. 4 Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them-do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”
He chose us to be blameless and Holy See he doesn’t finish it
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, And to present you faultless Before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy, To God our Savior, Who alone is wise, Be glory and majesty, Dominion and power, Both now and forever. Jude 1:24-25..... God does it all in salvation.
@@MR.UNUSUAL30. yes God does provide salvation. For those that have ears to trust and receive his Son. we ask people have to respond into our part. After hearing the gospel of our salvation. That is why Paul tried to persuade people in the book of acts. Day and night, and some believed and some didn’t. So we have a role in this to except the cornerstone, that is Jesus.
When where we “ IN CHRIST” before the foundation of the world or what Ephesians 2:12 saids
If God is completely sovereign over every little thing that happens then none of us has ever made one decision in and of ourselves therefore there cannot be any self other than God. Only God exists.
That is the dumbest gibberish yet hahaa
Ability to choose things set before us is far different than freewill
Allen if your idea of sovereignty were true God would not be God. Your comment shows a misunderstanding of this doctrine. That’s not the Sovereignty taught by the doctrines of grace. Steve teaches the Sovereignty taught in Genesis 50:19-20. God works through our sinful freewill choices for his glory. If we had autonomous freewill, we would have power he didn’t and that sounds laughable even typing that.🤦♀️
Read the last chapters of Job and tell me that THAT God is at the mercy of our freewill choices. If so, he is waiting to see what our decision will be and that means he’s learning and that is a different God, not the Omniscient one taught in scripture.
@@Savedbygrace22 my point is that we don't have freewill that God is ultimately the only one that has ever did anything or made any decision in the ultimate sense. You got it backwards. We never made any decisions in and of ourselves it is all God's choice. Realizing God is ultimate reality is the truth that sets a person free because self is an illusion and doesn't actually exist. God/Christ is the truth itself and we don't exist in and of ourselves we are just dust and bones. Our life isn't our own.
Jes . A think Romeinen chapter 8 verse 28 / 34.
Wow, lots to digest there - what is the connection to Gal 5:22, faith is a fruit of the Holy Spirit?
will Soverign Laws Affect Rico Election Cases
Where In John does it said it proceeded faith
From where does the term 'doctrines of grace' come?
For 1 thing it separates the bottleneck of Calvinism and reformed theology from the gigantic work of the Institutes which is actual Calvinism
Luke 18:1-8
Complete Jewish Bible
"Then Yeshua told his talmidim a parable, in order to impress on them that they must always keep praying and not lose heart. “In a certain town, there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected other people. There was also in that town a widow who kept coming to him and saying, ‘Give me a judgment against the man who is trying to ruin me.’ For a long time he refused; but after awhile, he said to himself, ‘I don’t fear God, and I don’t respect other people; but because this widow is such a nudnik, I will see to it that she gets justice - otherwise, she’ll keep coming and pestering me till she wears me out!’”
Then the Lord commented, “Notice what this corrupt judge says. 7 Now won’t God grant justice to his chosen people who cry out to him day and night? Is he delaying long over them? I tell you that he will judge in their favor, and quickly! But when the Son of Man comes, will he find this trust on the earth at all?”
Perhaps I missed something. It sounds like he is saying no one has a choice regarding their salvation.
But what the Bible says about Christ dying for all?
He died for all….the elect
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WHY DOES THE GOD OF THIS WORLD BLIND THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY BLIND AND DEAD IN THERE TRESPASSES AND SIN
See Mark 4:12.
YOUR NOT ANSWERING THE QUESTION
THERE BLINDED DEAD. WHY DOES HE NEED TO BLIND THEM IF THERE ALREADY BLIND
Satan blinds men to God’s truth through the world system he has created. Without a godly influence, man left to himself will follow that system, which gratifies the totally depraved nature of unbelievers and deepens their moral darkness (cf. Matt. 13:19). Ultimately, it is God who ordains such blindness by passing by the non-elect in his eternal decree to save his people.
@@e.t.h.559 no wacko
Isaiah 6 YHVH God created the veil. He is the only law enforcer
Typical cupcake mickey mouse cultural fake religion
This made me cry, because instead of preaching Gods word he’s proliferating lies and mantras, and using scripture out context. This is full of damnable lies. Wake up.
“These things were written so you might BELIEVE”
To anyone who believes.. man can come.
How is the doctrine teaching some are elect and cannot be lost, while others are "passed over" due to a nature they have no control over, nor can they change it, be anything but cold and unfeeling?
Compare to all being sinner and God giving a gift to ALL if they repent.
God didn't throw a surprise party for himself when he created everything from nothing, foreknowledge of something can only mean it was predestined to happen when you're the only reason anything exists in the first place.
I just can't understand. Maybe I'm slow, or maybe I'm just not one of the elect. Beyond anything anyone can do, all are damned because of Adam's fall. If God is all sovereign, did He will Adam to fall? In other words, did God create Adam for the express purpose of damning all Adam's descendents? Did God create mankind with the will that all become totally depraved? Did God from before creation elect which of those totally depraved persons he would, without any condition, elect? So did God abritarily, capriciously, summarily decide through His Sovereignity before he created humans which wretches would live and which would go to the gas chmber and oven. And those hapless, hopeless automatons who survive the holocaust, are they then reqired by God through his irresistable power to praise Him for creating a world that He willed to fall even before he created it, in fact, created it specifically to fall and created humanity specifically to be damned, but also made provision to save those He elected over and against their total depravity? Is this the gospel?
You are self righteous and arrogant and dishonest
You cannot judge God you cant understand him.
You have to believe YOU are a broken helpless vile sinner or you cannot enter by faith into the kingdom of God. Until then its impossible
Typical blind to their own narcissism conditioned brainwashed entitled snowflakes sheesh
@@samniumspyder So God in His sovereignty calls us to obey Him without question? The all holy, all powerful, perfect and sinless God is no more then a jealous dictator who commands obedience without question? And when it is written in 1 Timothy 2:1-4 "I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people- 2 for kings and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. 3 This is good, and pleases God our Savior, 4 who wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth." It is a lie? How can God want all people to come to Him and learn the truth when He has already predestined who will and wont? Is the Bible contradicting itself?
Yes He did. Creation is not about you, or about us, it’s about Him and His Son. And putting his full glory on display at the cross, and redeeming a people for himself, that will be confirmed to His image. According to His good pleasure and for His glory.
TULIP is not scriptural. It depends on being read into scripture.
Does not understand the 'will'.
The only chosen, elected people of God in these last days is the tribe of the endtime prophet Elijah." Any soul who will not believe in this prophet will be destroyed.....acts 3:23. Find this man if you wanna be save.
See, I don’t understand why he doesn’t just finished the whole shepherd parable. He missed out this whole part and he didn’t explain it.
And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd. For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again. John 10:16-17
Regarding sheep that are not his Jesus says 10-5 “A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.
If the sheep of another fold will listen to his voice, they must be his sheep. 10-16 can’t refer to sheep that are not his. It might just be talking about different peoples here
So sad that this great man of God, can be so doctrinally incorrect on the teaching of predestination and election. He ignores the most important doctrine , whosoever will, which goes hand in hand with predestination and election.
No, you miss the, " no one can". So how do we reconcile " who ever will may come, with no one can come?
N o one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him, and I will raise him up on the last day.- John 6:44. So is everyone drawn to Jesus? No. Because this is a salvation passage and we know not everyone is saved. Let me also add 1 Corinthians 2:14, John 6:37.
Jesus also said I do not pray for the world, but for those you have given Me out of the world. Jesus also said for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that who ever believes in Him will not perish but have eternal life.
So , how do we reconcile all this?
Well those who ever will may come are the elect, those that have been drawn by the Father.
Also God so loved the world, with Jesus saying, I don't pray for the world.
Here we have God choosing a specific number of people ( I don't pray for the world, but those you have given Me out of the world).
With for God so loved the world ( the context of " world" is not every single person without exception, but mankind in general. ). Context is critical. Words have different meanings depending on the context they are used In.
@@mariosangermano5709 Thank you Mario, for making my point. Verses cannot be taken out of context, which is exactly what you did! Let me ask you these two questions: 1) When did God choose you as one of His elect? 2) Assuming God has chosen you, when did you know that you were one of His elect? I will also share these verses with you, and you tell me what is their meaning, in context. John 3:17, 2 Peter 3:9, 1John 2:2 Acts 2:21 Hebrews 2:9 and Rev. 22:17, spoken by Jesus Himself.
@@billmartinn9851 you dont have a clue i. The world. You have never had any idea what Christianity is. Yes the faithful will abandon sound teaching for some goofy unbeliever internet commenter fake expert dork who hates god hates Steve lawson and has no idea of anything about God or the bible just his own blind ego self righteousness yet is confined to whining about truth on the internet.
@@billmartinn9851 you need a life because you do not have any clue nor any actual real religion you hate everything to do with The real God and his grace
You are not fooling any real follower once they have the truth your garbage is unappealing
They will not follow another but will run from them.
@@billmartinn9851 repeat
You are dead. You need less time on youtubw and xbox and more time in the WORD. clueless charlatan internet expert fake lol
When you compare the two different I Will's in Isaiah 14 and Romans 9:14-17 you will see the first sin recorded is found in Isaiah 14 by Lucifer not Adam Lucifer said five times I Will be like the most High. This is largely the gospel of today I Will Accept the Lord Now! Then there is, another five I Will found by God Himself when He said I Will have mercy on whom I Will have mercy Romans 9:15-15.
Sad to say most churches teach the I Will of Lucifer in the corporate churches it is by man's own will not of God. This they have a man made gospel Satan has done his job well sad to say.
Damn, another Calvinist. Why do these people hide the fact they’re Calvinists?
Paul, He has lots of videos about this, check utube. Guess he’s been hiding in plain sight. Maybe he’s preaching it because it’s scriptural. Just sayin🤷♀️ I thought only God could damn something. I hear lots of unbelievers use language like that but none in my church or Christian friends would curse like that. Ephesians 5:4 brother.
@@Savedbygrace22 it’s not scriptural.
@@paulklenknycBut he is quoting nothing but scripture. Not biblical?
Paul is in hiding..
The Natural world living things are a catalyst, that the Creator of Life uses to interact with the human souls on the planet earth. Human beings, Created in the image of YHWH, have an intellect, conscience, imagination, will, memory and emotions. Healthy human beings have an autonomous free will, ability to sit down, to stand up, and to walk according to the schedule that they have set for their voluntary Q.T . To meditate on the Jewish Holy Scriptures, and the existence of YHWH in 2023. Did YHWH only exist in the days of Abraham, Josef, Moses and King David? Or is the transcendent YHWH of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob still alive and well in 2023?
That is the greatest mystery that human beings have encountered on the planet earth, and each individual person, needs to discover their own journey of faith, according to the instructions given in the Torah and the Yeshua Good News gospel.
God chose to save EVERYONE. Do not put GOD in Calvinist theology box.
That sounds like Universalism
If God chose to save everyone, everyone would be saved, and they’re not, therefor God didn’t choose to save everyone.
God’s Sovereign Election is conditioned by ELOHIM’s foreknowledge. The Lord Jesus Christ foreknew what a sinner’s voluntary choice whether that sinner will choose him or reject him. The Lord Jesus Christ respects every sinner’s voluntary decision. God’s election is not arbitrary. He is always merciful & just. (Acts 15:18). A sinner is elected because The Lord Jesus Christ has foreknown of that created humankind person’s voluntary decision/choice to believe into God the Son, Jesus Christ or to reject him. A sinner’s decision determines his/her final destiny/destination. (John 3:16; 3:3-8; 1:10-11,12-13). What is the effectiveness of God’s free gift if it’s not accepted? God the Father’s giving us to the Son to believe into Him is always through the intervention/ mediation or Mediatory-intervening functions of God the Son. (John 14:6; 1 Tim 2:3-4,5-6). He cannot give us directly to the Son because God the Father is always invisible to createdkinds, always in secret, unapproachable; indirectly audible & unknowable to the world. There’s no direct communication between God the Father & God the SON’s creation. It’s always from, on. In, through, with, to and for God the Son, Jesus Christ. (Col. 1:15; John 14:6,9-11; Heb. 1:3; Matt. 6:6-18; 1 Timothy 6:16; John 1:18; 5:37; 6:46).
Internet experts are the dumbest craziest wackos
No that is completely false a total lie
Lawson refuted that here obviously you didnt even listen or watch
You are lost
You think you can choose the God who hides himslef you choose your own imagination
Typical shortcut refusing to repent
You do not believe the bible
Esau i hated
Jacob i loved
Before either was born
Plain as day read the actual bible
Cheery picking verses out of context.
Election and predestination are biblical, but their Calvinistic interpretation is so disconnected and dishonoring to the character of Gad.
Please open the Bible
Those versus he read in john 1 do not say that God elects some to salvation and not others. Says they were born not of the will of man, but of God and then the next verse says and the word became flesh and dwelt among us. So that is obviosly talking about Jesus. So Its Gods plan to save through Jesus his son. To make that passage try to teach God choosing certain individuals for salvation is a strech to say the least. Please when you are listening to a hypercalvinist like this take the time to go read the entire chapter to get context. Lawson and others like him are constantly trying to force thier theory into the text.
I pray that you, as an Arminian, will come to understand the truth of God’s word.
FALSE FALSE FALSE TEACHING!!!!! WOW!! (MATTHEW 13:14-15)!!!!! UGH RELIGION!!! 😩
God forgot africans, Azians, etc. somebody call him.
Actually, there are many more Christians in Asia & Africa than in America, so HE forgot no one....HE does throw the sin of HIS loved ones into the "Sea of Forgetfulness" but, that is more like a pardon, but HE forgets nothing & every person "will account for every idle word" 😳.....even those that pretend HE is not real 🥴
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