Pastor John has taught me more this year than in my 64 years of life. I found I had been under false teachers and prophets my whole life. Thank You Lord for finally learning the true Gospel of Jesus Christ through a true Christian Pastor. 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽✝️✋🏾‼️
I couldn't agree more!!! I started listening to BRN Bott Radio Network Nov. 2018: RC Sproul & Ligonier Ministries caught my attention . . . THEN, just happened to hear of a pastor in disagreement with RC & how they loved having Biblical debates, remained cherished friends, bound to not be in complete agreement . . . I had to know who was that pastor & what was it they would not agree on??? None other than John MacArthur, of course, RC was a- millennial, no rapture, & infant baptism - needless to say, even though RC has a way of teaching that gets through to me & sticks with me, I have been hooked on John MacArthur ever since. Alistair Begg was also near & dear to RC, he believes in the Rapture, I love listening to his voice & tender heart with powerful conviction ( also his use of song lyrics). I love Tony Evans, even though I'm not big on sports, that man can take any scripture & put you right into the middle of it as if you were there then or make the lesson from the past adapt to our lives today, amazing talent & ability!! However, in the midst of the stress & panic of 2020 & covid, I heard excitement of anticipation, anxiety, even giddiness at the impending "coming of our LORD & SAVIOR . . . now . . . ok . . . Now! . . . how about . . . NOW!!!" Just what I needed when I needed it most, from Jack Hibbs, I absolutely love that man, thank you LORD!!! It gives me tremendous encouragement, learning both John & Jack are in California with highly dedicated congregations accomplishing impossible strides in their areas, that Tony & his family are rock solidly entrenched in Texas, as is Chuck Swindoll, that Alistair is in Ohio, Irwin Lutzer in Chicago,Illinois, Ligonier in Florida & Pennsylvania, Wallbuilders with Dave & Tim Barton in South Carolina (?) . . . I am aware of terrific gospel bound & Biblical preachers in New Mexico, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota . . . all in all, I think we've got great preachers all over, right where God needs them to be. ALL GLORY TO GOD IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US SUCH A WONDERFUL SELECTION OF VERSE BY VERSE PREACHERS TO STRENGTHEN & ENCOURAGE US IN THIS FINAL HOUR OF YOUR RETURN, in the blessed name of our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Creator God! And all God's children say, "AMEN!!!"
Pastor John I ran into you on TH-cam and I cannot stop listening to you! You deliver the word so carefully and so Stern and bold and I really admire that you take everything from scripture there's not too many pastors who read and deliver the message like you from the Gospels. God bless you and I'm so thankful that I ran into you on TH-cam because I listen to you every night before I go to bed please don't stop thank you God bless. Yvonne
He has an app called "GraceTo You" and "The Study Bible". He has collections of sermons by topic or by scripture. It's very helpful in growing in the knowledge of Christ. Not too many who preaches like JM.
Yeah, I started watching and listening to him and it's going more than a week now. Almost 5 sermons everyday. It helps me to review my old, loosely understanding of the Christian doctrines. And here I am, kinda addicted to it.
❤❤❤This man of God always teaches word for word line by line Truth. I have sit under many preachers in my 71 years, I have never had such in-depth teaching of the Scriptures. I have grown so much listening to Brother John through many years. I marvel at his encouraging truth from Holy Scriptures. He is truly a wise man who has followed God’s principles through his ministry without hesitation and without apologies. Love the man for his boldness for Jesus Christ! I live for Christ and he gives me hope for an Eternity in Paradise!❤
Listening to this on my cell at full audio so that my young adult sons can catch any degree of this message. Please join me in prayer for my sons and this next generation that they will hear truth and not refute. All glory to His name!
I think you are right on. As parent one of our main concerns is the generation we will be leaving our children to. But through prayer we must by faith know that God is in control. Prayer for our children.
Please LOOK into Lordship salvation thats what John preaches ITS VERY DAMMING we are saved by grace threw faith please look into lordship salvation and run from John M and don't look back .God has warned you threw me ,Take care God bless you.
John MacArthur teaches us to study the Word of God, stop your vindictiveness towards him, ... no one worships Pastor Johnny MacA, but we love him like a brother. Ask RC & Piper, both his friends among many! Learn what they teach: study the Word of God and 🙏 🤲
I was a wretched sinner consumed by sin and lived for sin. I hated the thought of a restricted life . I was saved after going through a terrible time in my life I was drawn to Christ and I have been truly born again. I am a new person and changing everyday by Gods grace and mercy. I am being molded into an image of Christ. I can see the difference every day in the way God has changed me. I once hated the the law of God and loved sin and I now love Gods laws and hate sin. This is not something that is natural to man it is something that is truly God given. It is not something that can be taught or leaned it is something that only God can give by his compassion and grace. His work in everything is absolutely astonishing. There is no doubt that our very existence is proof enough for his presence. Every breath that is taken by man is a gift of life that we have existence at all by his wonderful act of love . To be born again is to be what we were made to be it is the foreshadowing of what is to come and what once was in the garden of Eden and what will be in the forever after. Praise God hallelujah Amen
One of my favorite of all time. I fashion John MacArthur to be the one who champions Calvinism more than anyone else on this planet yet here he is saying he doesn’t understand how Free will is involved, but somehow it must be. I love the humility of that. I have chased the answer for this for four years now and the greatest understanding I’ve gotten had been from this sermon and in a radio interview he did a few years ago. Thank you sir for being bold in your faith.
That's because we have freewill to make a choice to repent and believe God and put faith in him. The Bible shows both predestination and election and freewill. Therefore calvinism is found insufficient and contradictory to many many scriptures.
This was a beautiful sermon! I have been struggling with the idea of human will and God's perfect sovereignty and have been trying to get answers. There is still this war within me about understanding this fully but at the same time coming to a realization of how can I as a created being understand fully the mind of the Creator? How can I, a human being, who does not even know what will happen 5 minutes from now try to understand the One who calms the raging sea? As it says in His Word, in Psalm 46:10, "be still, and know that I am God." God, You are faithful and Your plans will come in place according to Your great sovereignty. To Him be the glory forever.
So if you admit that you cannot fully understand God as a human, then why do we try to put him in such finite boxes of Calvinism and Arminianism. To me, it seems the safest place to land would be right in the middle with that the bible makes clear, God sits in the heavens and does as he pleases psalm 115:3. This means he can create completely free willed beings and he gives us a free choice, but at the same time he has the right to interject and even force us to do whatever he pleases at any time and we cannot question it. We see both of these examples over and over in the bible. So to say God controls every minute detail, good and bad, or that he has no control at all...those are both anti-bibilical ideas. But humans are too prideful to take the middle road approach.
Praying for you brother, God is Sovereign but he does not condemn anyone to an ETERNAL HELL! Calvinism at its worst! Of Course God gave me the Faith. No question about it. The real problem you guys have - AND YOU TRY TO HIDE IT ALL THE TIME - Is that the ability to accept is given to ALL. God mentions this almost 1,000 times in Scripture - Why didn't you believe? Why didn't you follow me? 1 Peter 3:9 is very clear - just like Romans 1:18-23. God waits on all who accept him. Acceptance is a choice that God freely gives to man - and has ever since Adam and Eve were in the Garden. Did Adam Choose to eat the Fruit? Yes he did. The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent. Calvinist thinking is prideful thinking because you say "God chose me over others" and the ONLY conclusion that can be drawn in that statement is "I deserve it and you did not!" God did not MAKE man to be Robots. God gave man FREE WILL [Romans 1:18-23 God Clearly Showed himself to man - MAN HAS NO EXCUSE] because it was HIS CHOICE to remove his omnipotence from the choice. YES - God could have EASILY forced man to chose him! IF God forced man to love him - and to accept him - then God is not really loved. God KNEW when he made man that he was going to fall. God KNEW that his son was the only redemption man COULD EVER HAVE. What Calvinism does is paint God out as a monster - I know you have heard that - but it is true. God Creates a man - Forces him NOT to believe and in doing so CONDEMNS him to hell. That is by definition EVIL. God is not evil. Again Jesus said Those who DON NOT BELIEVE - THEY ARE CONDEMNED ALLREADY. What you do not understand is that Man is BORN CONDEMNED - Man's ONLY HOPE is for God to save them - not of works lest any man should boast. Read your bible and study because you just lost this argument. You lost not because I am so smart - but because the WORDS of Jesus Christ dooms Calvinism - The Words of GOD through the Apostle Paul DOMMS Calvinism.
@@malcolmscrivener8750 Simple If you confess with your mouth and Believe in your Heart that Jesus is LORD - YOU WILL BE SAVED! I confessed with my MOUTH and I Believed in my heart - I am Saved! I have a IF ONLY group of statements where God is putting the Choice with us. He is sovereign and this does not mean that HE COULD NOT MAKE the choice for us. It means that he WILLINGLY GAVE UP his sovereignty so that we would WILLINGLY chose to love him - Can LOVING GOD BE FORCED - and if it can is it really LOVE?? Ponder that my friend! 1 Corinthians 15:1-2 Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed as good news to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, IF YOU hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you as good news, unless you believed for nothing. Exodus 15:26 And He said, “If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, Yahweh, am your healer.” Exodus 18:23 “If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.” Zeceriah 3:7 “Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will keep the responsibility given by Me, then you will also render justice in My house and also keep My courts, and I will grant you access to walk among these who are standing here. Zeceriah 6:15 “And those who are far off will come and build the temple of Yahweh.” Then you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. And it will happen if you utterly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God. 1 John 2:24, 29 As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father. If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who does righteousness has been born of Him. Matthew 6:14-15 “If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins." - With Salvation you are a new Creature and as a new Creature you have a NEW HEART and you will have a NEW ABILITY to forgive sin! Jesus is saying the Mark of BEING A NEW CREATURE is the way you FORGIVE people who have wronged you - and have wronged you in the worst way! - Pre-Salvation this is not possible - AFTER Salvation it is impossible NOT to FORGIVE! Matthew 12:30-32 “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters. Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but IF the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whoever IF speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever IF speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come. Mark 3:28-30 “Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; but IF whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”- because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.” Matthew 16:24-26 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “IF INDEED anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. IF you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But IF you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul? Matthew 18:18-19 “Truly I say to you, whatever IF bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven." - THE WORDS OF JESUS!! IF you will believe you SHALL BE SAVED! IF you will put your trust in me you will not be disappointed.
Renew I love him, he has changed my life. His style of teaching and his way of being blunt and getting right to the point has caused me to take my salvation seriously and changed my life. I completely agree with you
God has given him a gift of explaining the scriptures in a way that's easy for all to understand. This is not something we do on our own, listen to some other teachers and then listen to him. God definitely has appointed him as a teacher
@Curt Christensen Read the New Testament at least twice this year and ask for discernment. I will do the same. Do you read your Bible everyday without fail? Might be a good idea. God bless you!
I pled and prayed that Jesus fill my heart with His love and guidance after learning that I could pray upon it and He did in fact fill my heart with His loving guidance directly after He crushed me flat. I was seeking His face for about two years before I began to pray Him into my heart and that's when my life changed, I've never been the same since praise be to God for the Holy Spirit was calling me all along I just wasn't answering the call. Hallelujah to the Lamb of God 👍
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times? Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE! Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!! God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him! To me that is the GREATEST ACKNWLEGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
@@markwills3602 you are assuming a lot that is not in scripture just to mention one verse (it Is not of your self less any one should boast .) So that one verse takes u out of it. There are a lot more .
Good point brother, I agree with you to a point. Those verses do say that, that if we confess we will be saved! Amen…. But one problem, Paul makes it clear in Romans 3 and Ephesians 1 (and other places but these hit me the hardest) that man is fallen and spiritually Dead. So how can someone who is dead choose God? I think of a Hospital bed and on it is a man and he’s dead like Ephesians says (the word is translated rotting flesh) and you ask Him do you want to be saved? What’s the answer? *crickets* there is no response because he’s dead. So something has to take place in order for him to say yes. That’s the Doctrine of Regeneration, the Holy Spirit regenerates so that he can say yes and when he is revived, he will say yes. So it’s God doing the work rather than man. For if God set aside His sovereignty and it’s left up to human choice then there is a possibility that no man will be in Heaven, and we have no reason to believe that Old Testament and end time prophecies will even come true, because God has left us to our choices and possibly we can mess everything up. God must intervene Sovereignly but if he intervenes Sovereignly He must infringe on free will but possibly in your view he can’t. Romans 9 helps answer this as well. Thanks my brother!
I love MacArthur, but on this topic, he speaks on both sides. but your statement is impossible. Read it ? You can humble yourself till God sovereignly degrees it ? And when he does, then I cannot resist it, i will be humble then, it is irresistible
@carboncopies706 No. That one verse does not outweigh the rest of scripture. He is right , the key is in the word " IF" being in so many verses. The problem is you are seeing having "faith" as a "work. " but faith is not a work and we get no merit or glory from believing in the work that God already completed.
Stunningly Powerful !!! ... WOW 😲 i was spiritually confused up until the very end ... then he gave that crystal clear explanation ... my heart will NEVER again think about even beginning to question or double think God’s Sovereignty and decision Making concerning who receives and doesn’t receive Salvation ... All Praise and honor and Worship to God the Father, Jesus my LORD and Their Holy Spirit my Helper ... Amen !!!
@@viviennebaptiste “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME” ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE Question: “What is the name which is above every name?” Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible. Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?” Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names. Question: What does this mean to me? Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation. Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth? Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation. Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua. Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation? The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us? Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15). Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name? Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA. Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?” Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved! This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew. “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
Don't be so blind - Read Romans 1:18-32 - GOD REVEALED HIMSELF TO ALL MEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME! - They have no EXCUSE BECAUSE THEY KNEW GOD - and then REJECTED HIM! Romans 10:8-10 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach): that IF YOU confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and IF YOU believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. From Dr. MacArthur's Legacy Standard Bible Romans 1:18-32: For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them. For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. FOR EVEN THOUGH THE KNEW GOD, THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIN AS GOD[***This is clearly a Choice that man makes***] or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the likeness of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures. Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them. For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the males abandoned the natural function of the female and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error. And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do those things which are not proper, having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, violent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the righteous requirement of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times? Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE! Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!!
Calvinism is not true. The "whosoever" in John 3:16 means whosoever believes which means whosoever believes. Get it? That means anyone can be saved if they believe. It's a decision made by man. Not a decision made by God for man. Calvinism is like Mormonism and Evolutionism (yes, evolution is a religion....it's definitely NOT science) in the sense that all these "experts" like MacArthur and Sproul seem to be required to understand it. True Christianity is simple: "Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." And we (Christians) know that "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast." Quit preaching lies.
@@lylemuegge5811 So John 3:1-8 where Jesus told Nicodemus you must be born from above to enter the kingdom is just thrown out? John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father draws him. Free will is choosing pizza over grilled cheese. We play no part in our salvation.
Pastor John, I have been bingeing on your sermons for weeks. Thank you for strengthening my understanding of the gospel of grace, and the sovereignty of God. I am a former Mormon. I was drawn out of Mormonism by the Holy Spirit to the true Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible. I am forever grateful to Father God for this blessing! 🙏❤
I just love hearing the truth, and I pray that I will not only hear but also put into practice God's truth. I enjoy learning about God, thank you Lord for using this man, as he is your instrument use for your glory, hallelujah!
Best sermon concerning the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man that I have ever heard! May God bless all who weep and praise at these truths!
Thank you for your firm stand for the sovereignty of God. We love you God and your child John McArthur. God we don't need to know everything as you have always given us the assured thing from, your son Jesus🙏✝️💖
This is such a wonderful message. Love it when John shows his character and sense of humor. When I was first saved, it was people like this professing the Word that helped me on my path and ultimately, that is what God is using them for. Amen.
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times? Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE! Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!! God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him! To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
@@markwills3602 yes but you won’t ever come to that point of belief unless God calls you. You don’t come just whenever you want. Therefore it’s not an act of your own will. John 6:44;65
@@michaelboleyn651 PLEASE STOP DISTORTING WHO GOD IS!! Rely only on Scripture. The Principle of First Mention is this. the First time God mentions something in the Bible that is truth. God says to Adam Do Not Eat of the Fruit of the Tree in the middle of the Garden. This is Clearly a CHOICE that he GAVE FREE WILL TO ADAM! This is truth - and God does not change his truth. John 1:7-13 John the Baptist came as a witness, to bear witness about the Light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light, but he came to bear witness about the Light. There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens everyone. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him. First Choice given to people: He came to what was His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him. Second Choice: But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God. The will of man is First of the Blood or of the Flesh. This means God Created us NOT OF OUR CHOICE but of HIS CHOICE. I had no choice about being created. BUT John is very clear her- The choice is made for those who chose to believe. And then John Talks about the CHOICE no one had, and that is the choice to exist. Adam and Eve did not have a Choice. God created them - and then placed in the Garden. I did not have a choice - I was created. Then I was pursued by GOD [No one can come to the Father unless they are drawn] AND HE showed to me CLEARLY who he was during his pursuit (Romans 1:18-23). This is not Rocket Science it is very Clear God Created ADAM To FREELY CHOOSE GOD! John the Baptist came as a witness, to bear witness about the Light, so that all might believe through him. - IT IS CLEAR that John the Baptist was brought in this world to give people a Choice. A CHOICE so that they could LOVE and follow God because of their LOVE. Just like John The Baptist did! It is clear that ALL [pas in the Greek Clearly meaning the Whole World] MIGHT believe. Don't Forget Romans 10:6-11 But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL GO UP INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘WHO WILL GO DOWN INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).” But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”-that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, leading to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, leading to salvation. For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES UPON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.”
@@markwills3602 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME” ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE Question: “What is the name which is above every name?” Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible. Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?” Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names. Question: What does this mean to me? Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation. Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth? Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation. Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua. Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation? The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us? Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15). Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name? Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA. Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?” Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved! This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew. “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
John is so awesome explaining things in a way we can understand, the little details I for one sometime read over and missed , he brings them into the text. This was so good
As i mature in my Christian walk.. i find myself coming to grips that i just need to have faith in God, not just for salvation, but that somehow through his wisdom he will be found fully just. What an impossible feat that only God can perform.
So very thankful for Dr. MacArthur! His ministry has changed my life and I thank God for him, as well as other great defenders of the faith, daily. JM is by far the best Bible teacher out there!
Thank you, Pastor John, for your willingness to teach me the Word of God. I've been Biblically illiterate all my life despite growing up in the church. Praise God for bold men like yourself.
from one Marcia to another - although I didn't have the privilege of growing up in the church (quite the opposite!) - to be taught Biblical literacy by such a uniquely packaged man of God as Pastor John MacArthur is indeed a cause for praise and gratitude. We should be on our faces praying for all Biblically orthodox clarion preachers. Long may he continue. God bless us Marcias
@@marciamcgrail5889 I too respect Pastor John but his interpretation of Isaiah 10 makes me think about a God using the Assyrian to be the Club of His anger ! The Assyrian whose whole purpose was to destroy and put an end to many nations and then in the end God punished the king of Assyria . But there is an undeniable contradiction here , if God used the Assyrian to express His anger to destroy nations and punish Mt Zion and Jerusalem why did He punish Assyria ! It is like getting a hit man to strike your enemy and then betraying the hit man after the dastardly deed was done. But God who is the judge of the earth must do the right thing (Genesis 18 verse 25 ) The Prophet Jonah had to be corrected by God ......When the Lord himself said to Jonah " but Nineveh (capital of Assyria ) has 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left , and many cattle as well . Should I not be concerned about that great city (Jonah 4 verse 11 ) The prophet Isaiah also needs to be corrected if he believed that God used an evil tyrant to represent His burning anger . As A Christian we must believe that God is love and sent His son to die for humanity but Pastor John does not preach that God is love and should not be blindly believed .
Thank you For this teaching! I think I am finally at peace with all this praise God🙏 I grew up with Armeniast preaching/teaching,.. Went to countless churches my whole life in CH, U.K. … then here for most of my adult life till finally, 15 years ago, someone finally changed the whole Bible study fir my sake when he realized how much I had missed! Needless to say, it turned into quite an adventure of discovery for more than just myself … praise God as He used it to save me in the ensuing years after a huge traumatic event in our family. This message has reminded me of my discoveries in the Word after all those years of being in the church but lost. I’m so ready for Resurrection Day. Praise God I no longer have to work my way to heaven!!🙏
I am so very thankful to God for John MacArthur. When you listen to John preach, you get spiritual meat, not fluff, jokes, stories or cotton candy. You get nourisment from the word of God for edification and enligtenment.
John McCarthur is one of the best pastors who ever preached. He adds "some humanity" to his sermons and does it without SHOUTING it loudly like some preachers do, but never sugar coats anything. I have learned much from him and he has been a blessing from God.
Works are part of your salivation .we are saved by grace threw faith only, John don't preach that. Look up lord ship salvation and saved by grace threw faith God opened my eyes to John Run from him if you dont you will be in total frailer
Amazing analysis once again by God's servant John MacArthur! I have known him since my first Ligonier Conference, early 2000s. Thank you Father God, Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit for the health of this wonderful teacher, may Pastor John inspire many young ones!
Thanks for your awesome and excellent comment... God bless you THROUGH His Lord Jesus. He died for our sins and raised up on the third day as prophesied!. No one goes unto Father but through Him!
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times? Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE! Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!! God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him! To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
@@markwills3602 John 6:44 New International Version 44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
@@mikemccormick9667 I have always said that. God Calls and man responds - isn't that what the Bible says? God said Don't eat the fruit of that one tree! God said “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life." The MacArthur Legacy Bible! You are correct - He who Responds BY FAITH Has eternal Life. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." - IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE! John 6:53-58 So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.” John 6:63-64 “The Spirit is the One who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him. - This is a great scripture because it not only speaks of FREE WILL but of FOREKNOWLEDGE!
@@alvinhickling901 Buzz off? Really, scripture says they will know us by our LOVE. Are you ignoring all the scriptures that point to God's will for ALL to be saved and that NONE should perish? 2 Peter 3:8-10 We all need to be drawn to God because we are born with a DEAD heart. BUT - and this is GREAT "God knows how to draw a DEAD HEART to him. And he did it by Dying on the cross!! Read the words in the bible. Go to the MacArthur Bible and look up If You and read. God is putting a choice out to MAN all the time - and HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP US MAKE THE RIGHT CHOCIE! But he still puts it in our court!
I love to hear the Gospel!❤ thankful that the Lord Jesus came to save us! When I the heard the gospel 44 years ago i remember being horrified at my sin and facing a Holy God. I begged the Lord to save me and put my faith in Jesus and His work on the cross. I prayed for Mercy! My life changed and I had peace! I haven't always done the right thing but God always let me know I was wrong. As a father chastised his child because he loves me!❤ it's hard but wonderful to be loved that much!❤ I found that I'm now allergic to sin and addicted to righteousness! People call me crazy but it is all so real to me!
Thank God for such wonderful ministry straight from God's word. Did not our hearts burn with in. It certainly does when the scripture speaks for itself. Thank you brother, may God continue to bless your ministry for his glory.
Again and again thank you and praise the name of Jesus for John MacArthur!!!!! Thank you John for the glorious Word of God ❤️ taught in a way that can be understood by the Holy Spirit indeed through John MacArthur!!!! GOD bless you John!!!!!
Wayne Dunavant, I mean this in all due respect. I love Jesus and I'm going to show the truth about Jesus from His word. John MacArthur teaches a false Gospel. He teaches that God chooses some for salvation and passes over some people not giving them salvation. John MacArthur teaches that we have total inability so that we can't choose to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. That doesn't teach the Gospel of Christ. The Gospel means Good News. If God doesn't offer His free gift of forgiveness to all people and just saves some and passes over others, God doesn't love all people, and God's love for all men is clearly taught in scripture. John MacArthur teaches that men have to be regenerated by God, which is no choice by those He regenerates. It is forced, not received willingly. Man cannot love God if it is forced, because when it is forced, it can't be love. Love is a choice, not forced. God offers salvation to all. He draws all men to Himself according to what Jesus teaches in scripture... John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die. Salvation is offered to all men. We are all drawn to Him. We need to receive His free gift of forgiveness freely, by free will, to show our love for Jesus for all He did and all He does for us. Anyone who preaches any other Gospel, than what ye have received, let him be accursed. It teaches in God's word... Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. John MacArthur isn't preaching this Gospel that is taught in God's word. When you listen to John MacArthur enough times, you will see this incorrect preaching of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wayne Dunavant, I mean this in all due respect. I love Jesus and I'm going to show the truth about Jesus from His word. John MacArthur teaches a false Gospel. He teaches that God chooses some for salvation and passes over some people not giving them salvation. John MacArthur teaches that we have total inability so that we can't choose to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. That doesn't teach the Gospel of Christ. The Gospel means Good News. If God doesn't offer His free gift of forgiveness to all people and just saves some and passes over others, God doesn't love all people, and God's love for all men is clearly taught in scripture. John MacArthur teaches that men have to be regenerated by God, which is no choice by those He regenerates. It is forced, not received willingly. Man cannot love God if it is forced, because when it is forced, it can't be love. Love is a choice, not forced. God offers salvation to all. He draws all men to Himself according to what Jesus teaches in scripture... John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die. Salvation is offered to all men. We are all drawn to Him. We need to receive His free gift of forgiveness freely, by free will, to show our love for Jesus for all He did and all He does for us. Anyone who preaches any other Gospel, than what ye have received, let him be accursed. It teaches in God's word... Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Galatians 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. John MacArthur isn't preaching this Gospel that is taught in God's word. When you listen to John MacArthur enough times, you will see this incorrect preaching of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wayne Dunavant, John MacArthur is teaching a false Gospel. He teaches that we are totally unable to choose to freely receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. It teaches in God's word... John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die. This teaches that Jesus is offering salvation to all men. Some of us listen to God's conviction to our hearts to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness, some men don't choose Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. And according to John MacArthur, regeneration is given to some men without their knowledge of it. If God chooses some of us by regeneration and He passes over those He doesn't choose how is this love? Love for Jesus can't be forced or it isn't love. Jesus wants us to freely love Him. It can't be love if it is forced on men by regeneration without being chosen by any one of us. It has to be freely received or it isn't love. It also teaches in God's word... Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Gal 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Wayne Dunavant, John MacArthur is teaching a false Gospel. He teaches that we are totally unable to choose to freely receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. It teaches in God's word... John 12:32 And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. John 12:33 This he said, signifying what death he should die. This teaches that Jesus is offering salvation to all men. Some of us listen to God's conviction to our hearts to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness, some men don't choose Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. And according to John MacArthur, regeneration is given to some men without their knowledge of it. If God chooses some of us by regeneration and He passes over those He doesn't choose how is this love? Love for Jesus can't be forced or it isn't love. Jesus wants us to freely love Him. It can't be love if it is forced on men by regeneration without being chosen by any one of us. It has to be freely received or it isn't love. It also teaches in God's word... Gal 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Gal 1:9 As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
@@PixieDizzie I'm sure you mean well but you should not be calling John a false teacher. He has taught faithfully from the Scriptures for years. Have you read the whole Bible for yourself or do you just trust the teaching of others? Do you read it every day without fail and prejudice? I know you are trying to get God off the hook for sending people to hell but it's impossible. He does what is just and we all deserve hell. Read through at least the New Testament 2-3 times this year and ask for discernment. I will do the same. If we seek truth no matter the cost we will find it. The faith we have is a gift of God so no one can boast.
For anyone who wants to dive deeper into this subject, I cannot recommend enough, A.W. Pink's book: "The Sovereignty of God," shortly followed by Sproul's book "The Holiness of God."
Thanks Lawrence, I will check those out. So cool you mention Arthur W. Pink cuz I am reading his "Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount" right now and it's fantastic... I highly recommend it.
Thank You Pastor John just received your Book Spiritual Boot Camp. I am a Military 🪖🎖️ Man been following you the last few years love your boldness and humility Praise God for you Sir.
This is the best exposition I have ever heard on this topic. Timely finding this, too, and without exactly looking for it, because some version of this question crossed my path recently.
This is the answer I was searching for. That GOD is who he is and is in complete control of everything. I’m so grateful that I don’t completely know Gods mind. He is doing everything for him and by him for his Glory and that is all I need.
@@MeekEarth700 keep reading your Bible. You have to use the entire Bible in context, not just choose one verse to justify what you want it to say. May God bless you in the understanding of his sovereignty.
@@sammartin4024 Absolutely true, but obviously space requires that one focuses. I always read up to a whole chapter and would advise anyone to do similarly. Added to that, even refer to several bible interpretations and even original Hebrew and Greek words. May God be with you. 🙏
I missed Dr. R.C. Sproul so much. Only Drs. John MacArthur, Steve Lawson, Albert Mohler, and Sinclair Ferguson who are still alive for Ligonier Ministries.
Wait check Derek Thomas with ligonier as well and also Robert Godfrey you don't want to miss these guys they're amazing with ligonier as teaching fellows and Dr sprouls protege Burk Parsons who took over St Andrew's Church when Pastor RC died because they were teaching there together when RC was still alive. These men are all incredible and yes I think everyone misses our seed so so very much
THANK YOU SO MUCH. It is a joy to be humbled by the Word. As a newborn in Christ, I hear my Master's voice. I know it. I love it. I am afraid to lose track of Him. The experience of knowing the glory of our Creator, as His creatures, is a miracle. I am clay. I need not, nor dare not ask for more than to know His hands are Love. Amen, Jesus is King. THank you for saving me, and giving me a new heart. My Lord, my Savior, my Father. Thank you, and please forgive me, a sinner!
Have you read the gospel of John which is the 4th book of the New Testament? I encourage you to prayerfully read it. And watch for all the I AM statements.
@@graftme3168 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME” ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE Question: “What is the name which is above every name?” Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible. Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?” Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names. Question: What does this mean to me? Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation. Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth? Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation. Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua. Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation? The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us? Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15). Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name? Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA. Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?” Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved! This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew. “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
@@graftme3168😂 bruh. That was ice cold ❄️. I too cannot come away with their systemic from the scriptures unless I come with presuppositions made by them and re-defining words either.
@@evolgenius1150 It wasn't meant to be cold. My point is more that God would allow the agony so that they might turn towards the truth. Truth is ALWAYS peaceable. Sometimes I think Calvinists glory in the agony as if it proves it is from God. Most of their understanding of what God is like is more like the character of Satan! This baffles me quite a bit. Satan is controlling and manipulating and purposely keeps the truth from us. These are character traits that Calvinists attribute to God! Struggling and agonizing to understand truth probably means they are going to the wrong source. God's ways are "FIRST peaceable." No peace = God is not in it.
Amazing,very patient & kind & divine deliverance of “The Holy Spirit Of God” of the gospel of Christ Jesus for all who struggle &/or suffer with doubt concerning their glorious gift of Salvation for which even the angels in heaven marvel at because they cannot obtain salvation but they see it as the most glorious gift because they know the high price that was payed for all who believe in Jesus Christ
The thing with Assyria and how they were clueless as to being in Gods hand as an instrument against rebelling Israel was very interesting to me ,they were being used of God and had no clue😄,now that’s the Lord in full control of the nations!
@@victoriacrowe5610 Because of the sin of adam and eve, we are all guilty. We are born in a state of sin and remain in it until, by Gods mercy and grace, we are redeemed. So, God can use a sinner as well as a saint to carry out His sovereign plans.
@@victoriacrowe5610 Culpable of what? All mankind is guilty of sin and deserves eternal death/separation from God in hell. God is not obligated to save everyone but those who, by His mercy, He chose to save.
God can do whatever He pleases. He has given us the ability to make decisions, but if He chooses to He will intervene and we will have no power over His will. What I know is He does not micromanage our lives the way some think. We have an amazing amount of freedom, and that is where our choice lies. We must choose Him.
Some tend to assume we are not robots and have what is referred to as FREE WILL. God is in TOTAL CONTROL of HIS creation. He is not LIMITED by having to look down the tunnel of time, check our decision, then make HIS plans. This seems to be a widely held view but is it biblical. Things we have HEARD and HEARD have a way of become perceived as TRUE, but are they. ALMIGHTY GOD makes plans as HE desires for things to happen. Because of HIS power things are DECREED or ORDAINED. The word FOREKNOWLEDGE is often misused as thinking GOD just how we will do then make his plans. Might sound good but do not think that dog will hunt. Take JUDAS for example. We are told “ahead of time” in Psalms that Jesus would get handed over for 30 pieces of silver. Suppose GOD told us this is how JESUS would be handed and Judas would be the one. What IF JUDAS and his FREE WILL decide at the last minute to repent of this terrible sin and took JESUS to a safe place hundreds of miles away. This shows how that if we did have FREE WILL that even GOD could never be sure things will unfold as he says. I have studied this for years and this helped me. It is like God has Level A and Level B. Level A is the things God has decreed and ordained to happen. They must happen as they do for future events to take place. If people use Free Will here things will go off course and HOLY GOD would not be all powerful and all knowing, but HE IS. Level B is the small things, I.e., do we want Vanilla or Strawberry ice cream, a hot dog or hamburger or turn right or left at the intersection. These things do not really alter the events of a. Level A. We are able to make certain calls but GOD intercedes many times behind the scenes and makes things happen as they should because HIS CHARACTER AND POTTER IS ON DISPLAY FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE. Thank you for allowing me to share this with you. 😃
@@dennisbryant4095 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME” ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE Question: “What is the name which is above every name?” Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible. Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?” Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names. Question: What does this mean to me? Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation. Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth? Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation. Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua. Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation? The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us? Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15). Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name? Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA. Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?” Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved! This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew. “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
@dennisbryant4095 Noticed how you mentioned the possibility of JUDAS changing his mind and we must see that he could have never changed since Jesus called him a devil and said also that it would have been better if he had never been born (Mark 14). God knew from the beginning that he would NEVER believe (I Pet 1:2) so he was never chosen ( Eph 1:4-5) Never think for a minute though that he didn't get (light) from God bc everyone will be drawn before they ultimately make their decision (See Josh 24:15, John 1:9, 6:44-45)
Evil technology used for the good of God. Thank you Lord. I am so thankful I can tap my thumb a few times and get your truth, delivered from John Macarthur. He is a gift to the body of Christ!
Another amazing teaching from a man of GOD. I PRAISE OUR LORD FOR HAVE SHAPING DR.MACARTHUR TO BE THE MSN HE IS✝️🛐🛐🛐 It is a pity that we receive these sermons so late in Norway 🇳🇴
John 3:15 says whoever believes is saved. It doesn't say everyone has a equal opportunity to choose to believe of there own free will. That verse seems to be used incorrectly that all can choose in there heart. So it fits find with what God is saying about the elect.
The word "whoever" doesn't mean anyone or everyone, it's literally a metorphose. God already knows who's going to be saved that's why we have the doctrine of election. John 6:44 justify that.
JM is my favorite Pastor. I listen to 15-20 messages at least a week. In the closing moments he advised his audience (other pastors), to let the things go that weren't crystal clear in scripture. I pray that some day he will take his own advise regarding "For whom did Christ die"...That is NOT clear Biblically either no matter how hard JM tries to make it so.
@Rodrick Evans // Yet God alone knows who is "predestined" correct? So to those whom are saved now, the issue is mute, unknown until a person is born again; therefore Christians need to treat all people as those whom Christ died for; not identifying who they are before the rapture since scripture tells us that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world: "and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; *and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world"* [1 John 2 v2/4 v14 John 1 v29/4 v42/12 v32]. JM's theology is only applicable/seen at the very end; why does it matter? It's a blessing to read scripture which speaks of predestination, yet it is merely an opportunity for Gods people to see, and be thankful for the predetermined, and undeserved grace which the Lord bestowed on us which was given according to Gods sovereign will. Sadly, instead of using predestination for an opportunity to do that which is clearly before us [praising/thanking God for choosing us], *its has divided those whom where still strong, and left standing regarding sound doctrine/theology which is what our enemy wants.*
Rodrick Evans; I ended up coming back here by accident, and I see that you have removed the comment you made to me which I responded to [above]. Fortunately, I still had a copy of it. To those who may be interested; this is what Rodrick originally said, and what I responded too: *"Dan Koning: It's actually CRYSTAL clear for whom Christ died...His elect who were predestined before the foundation of the world."*
It's crystal clear. I John 2:2: " He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world." It becomes unclear when you want to mold and shape a verse like that to fit a system.
@@ddr5138 // John 1 v29/4 v42, 1 John 4 v14, 1 Peter 3 v18 and more. Imo, this verse best reflects the truth with regards to this issue: "So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation *to all men,* even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life *to all men"* [Romans 5 v18]. Here the affects of both Adam's sin, and the propitiatory work of Christ are clearly seen; there are no mysteries contained in this verse(s) re: *to all men."* I'm certain JM has merely over thought this issue vs trying to fit "a system" with error.
Way to go ,,,, Johnie Mac!!! I’m borne again and again and once again’nmn Everytime I hear you preach,,,, You love to hear the Spirit Speaking and giving you the opportunity to speak the Truth and the Life of our beloved Savior and God. Hard to separate the two in one make three,,,,, But who cares …. If we are one ☝️ Jn 17 Amen Hallelujah
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times? Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE! Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!! God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him! To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
GOD'S sovereignty and man's responsibility are both taught in the Holy Scriptures therefore they are both true. How they work together is unsearchable but they do work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Salvation is the Triune God's work. The Holy Spirit takes the things of Christ (The Word) and applies it to your heart. Jesus redeems you when you repent and receive the gift of Grace. The Father is completely satisfied in Jesus' redemptive work and will fellowship with you as His child. Like a newborn, feed often on the Word. If you have questions, pray to your Heavenly Father. He will direct your steps. May all sinners come to know they need a Savior.
This has been such an amazing lesson I get it I think II understand every thing Pastor is saying & I agree with this 100 % but… right?!?!? As for me & my house I will serve the Kord I am praying for my family& it is a heavy burden
Rick Stanford. I realize that your admiration for Pastor John will probably hinder you from seeing this truth about what he just taught about salvation. He implied that the man seeking to be saved in this sermon could possibly have been an apostate or could have crossed the line of redemption and couldn't be saved period. I submit that to be absurb bc if one is sincerely seeking and calling on God for mercy then that shows us that he could definitely be saved with no equivocation bc one will NOT call out to God UNLESS they are being drawn by the Trinity (John 6:44, John 12:32, John 16:7) and so we know they have NOT crossed the line.
Proverbs 16:9 NASB "The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." Does this verse indicate how we are held responsible for our own motives, intentions, and actions while the Lord is at work to accomplish His will?
I wish I could always have this link at hand for those times when someone is agonizing over how much is God's sovereignty and how much is man's free will! This is the exact answer and conundrum. The mystery of our God is put on display in the scriptures John reads to show how the Bible explains what looks like a dichotomy to us and what we even sometimes argue over amongst ourselves - in scripture it is sometimes explained on both sides in the same sentence. A real keeper.
YHWH pardons whom He wills and no one can accuse Him of injustice because if we all received what was due we'd all perish. The just shall live ( have life ) by Faith. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Shalom and Maranatha!!
@@ejj1939 We already know this with YHWH choosing Jacob over Esau before they were born... As Jesus Himself is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world....
@@71superbee39 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME” ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE Question: “What is the name which is above every name?” Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible. Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?” Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names. Question: What does this mean to me? Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation. Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth? Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation. Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua. Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation? The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us? Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15). Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name? Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA. Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?” Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved! This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew. “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
R.C. Sproul, McArthur and Voodie are a pleasure to be heard....and 99 times on 100 their words hurt my unbelief and my weak faith. Praise the Lord they are a balm for hears and soul.
@@Akitorbenov “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME” ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE Question: “What is the name which is above every name?” Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible. Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?” Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names. Question: What does this mean to me? Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation. Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth? Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation. Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua. Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation? The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us? Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15). Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name? Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA. Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?” Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved! This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew. “But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
Thank you brother JC. I will listen to this again and again. God bless you. May He grant us all deeper and excellent understanding of the truth by Holy Spirit IJN Amen!
I dont disagree with brother Macarthur but then I dont necessarily always agree with his interpretations of some things. Regardless, this will always be a discussed topic. Thankful for his ministry and for the JM Study Bible. 👍✝
Beware of John McArthur. I just posted several messages on Lordship Salvation on here, which is what John McArthur teaches. Lordship Salvation is a false gospel and John McArthur is a false teacher
God is sovereign but He gives man the right to choose for himself. Now God has given the descendants of Adam another chance through the grace of his Son Jesus Christ.
Pastor John is a blessed to Christians. Without him my family and I would be lost. He teaches the full truth. There are so few good preachers out there...99% twist the truth. I feel like I'm getting food for my soul every time I listen to his sermons
Simply awesome, I struggled with this for many years trying to figure out Free Will and predestination and election thank you John for letting me be free of that. Ken
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times? Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE! Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!! God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him! To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
Insightful and breathtaking explanation of God's Word with crystal clarity. I am very grateful for this foundational teaching of the Word of God. Thank you Mr. MacArthur.
@37:58 he references Paul in Romans 9:1-5 Paul was soo grieved in the beginning of the chapter because his kinsmen were stumbling over this rock of offense which required them to BELIEVE in faith in Christ. ROMANS 9:32,33 32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by FAITH, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone; 33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH on him shall not be ashamed. He WASN’T grieved because he thought some were chosen for salvation and some were not. *HE WAS GRIEVED BECAUSE THOSE THAT SOUGHT SALVATION BY WORKS OF THE LAW DIDN’T GET IT!* They wouldn’t attain it! They were IGNORANT of God’s righteousness which was by FAITH and they were trying to establish their own righteousness: ROMANS 10:3 3 For they being IGNORANT of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their OWN righteousness, HAVE NOT SUBMITTED THEMSELVES unto the righteousness of God. They falsely ASSUMED they had salvation simply by being the elect chosen nation of God! That’s why Paul was so grieved because they sought it not by FAITH. ROMANS 9:1-5 1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh: 4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; 5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen. This has absolutely nothing to do with Paul being grieved that some weren’t chosen and some were predestined to hell for no apparent reason before the foundation of the world. Again we see in the very next chapter: ROMANS 10:1-4 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved. 2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For they being IGNORANT of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their OWN righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that BELIEVETH.
Thats. What. He. Was. Saying. Why is it when everytime I hear people arguing against Lordship, Predestination, and other Calvanist principles, the only image I can conjure is a dog chasing its own tail.
@@JerynToney The Calvinist principles of those doctrines are not the Biblical principles. That’s not what he said at all. Scripture is crystal clear Christ died for all of humanity without exception and GENUINELY offers salvation to WHOSOEVER. Why is it when everytime I hear Calvinists arguing against Lordship, Predestination, and other BIBLICAL principles, the only image I can conjure is a dog chasing its own tail? 🤔
John McArthur and I are almost on the same level of understanding here. We both affirm the truth that free will and sovereign direction are in scripture, but John misses a key point in explaining this supposed paradox. God's permissive will is the key to understanding how to bring these truths together. In the book of Job, we see the truth unfold. God and Satan are having a dialogue, in which they discuss Job. Satan asks for permission to afflict Job. At this point, God shows his absolute sovereignty by allowing Satan to afflict Job, but he could not kill him. See Job 1-2 God did not create evil, neither does he do evil, but he allows it for a perfect purpose. My biggest problem with the doctrine of divine decrees is that it leaves one with a false impression of God. When you read passages such as Isaiah 45:7, it is hard to fathom how God could be both good and evil. Thus you have the "dilemma" that John spoke of. Yet there is no dilemma when you understand that God did not create evil, but he created the devil, who in turn created evil. The skeptic would then ask; if God foreknows everything, then why create the devil if he knew he would do all this evil. The answer I always get when I study this out is simple, yet profound; God gives mankind a free will to choose. What good is free will if there is nothing to choose from? Think about it...if Adam had nothing to choose from, would he have loved God freely? If God forced us to love him, is that really love? Adam was given a choice, that he might exercise the free will that God gave him. So when John says that there is nothing that we can do at the point of salvation, he misses the crucial point that we play in the salvation process...we believe. We willfully surrender our plans and intentions, and ask the Lord to take complete control of our life. This is what surrendering to Christ is all about. This is what Romans 10 is about...saying yes when God calls. This is why I teach that we can understand scripture, and that it is not a paradox. Just because God knows what you will do, that does not imply that he made you do it. The Bible allows us to see things as God sees them. Did God make Pharaoh resist his will or did Pharaoh harden his own heart? The writers of scripture gave God all the glory by attributing certain decisions to God, when in fact it was man making said decisions under the permissive will of God. If God creates evil or divinely decreed every act of mankind before the foundation of the world, then you will have to conclude that God is evil. If you say this, you are guilty of the unpardonable sin. If on the other hand, you understand that it was not God doing the evil, but he is watching and allowing the devil to operate, this is the sovereignty of the Almighty. He allows everything to work together, for the purpose of fulfilling his will for his children (Rom. 8:28). There is so much more I can say to expound on this topic. Comments or questions are welcome. in Jesus love, Pastor Brett
"Look, I have appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 3 I have filled him with God’s Spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in every craft 4 to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze, 5 to cut gemstones for mounting, and to carve wood for work in every craft. 6 I have also selected Oholiab[a] son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to be with him. I have placed wisdom within every skilled craftsman" (Exduse 31:2-6). if there is free will why did God appoint them? did he not deprive them of free will? Why did God force Jonah to go to Nineveh?
Assigning the (apparently irreconcilable) tension between divine sovereignty (Rom 8&9) and ‘creaturely freedom’ (Rom 10) to the category of ‘mystery’, betrays a misapprehension of the SUBSTANCE of God’s sovereignty, the NATURE of ‘creaturely freedom’ and the ESSENCE of the ‘human will’… Paul answers this matter in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “The grace of God is made perfect in my weakness”… In other words… God commands, NOT BECAUSE WE CAN (of ourselves), BUT BECAUSE WE CAN’T (of ourselves)! And it is only because God enables us that His glory is magnified and we are denied any reason to boast (which only serves to rob God of His glory) The (apparent) ‘tension’ is finally defeated when we come understand that, while man indeed possesses a WILL, his will is NOT FREE but enslaved either to the god of this age or to the Spirit of Truth - Rom 6:15-18! Ultimately, God is God over all (ie He is ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN over ABSOLUTELY ALL THINGS - Eph 4:6), INCLUDING THE WILL OF MAN!
Listening to this sermon reminds me how precious my salvation is and to be unceasingly grateful. Praise God!
Pastor John has taught me more this year than in my 64 years of life. I found I had been under false teachers and prophets my whole life. Thank You Lord for finally learning the true Gospel of Jesus Christ through a true Christian Pastor.
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AMEN PRAISE GOD TO HIM BE ALL THE GLORY!!!
That is awesome. Johnny Mac is a great teacher. Bless you
I couldn't agree more!!!
I started listening to BRN Bott Radio Network Nov. 2018: RC Sproul & Ligonier Ministries caught my attention . . . THEN, just happened to hear of a pastor in disagreement with RC & how they loved having Biblical debates, remained cherished friends, bound to not be in complete agreement . . . I had to know who was that pastor & what was it they would not agree on??? None other than John MacArthur, of course, RC was a- millennial, no rapture, & infant baptism - needless to say, even though RC has a way of teaching that gets through to me & sticks with me, I have been hooked on John MacArthur ever since.
Alistair Begg was also near & dear to RC, he believes in the Rapture, I love listening to his voice & tender heart with powerful conviction ( also his use of song lyrics).
I love Tony Evans, even though I'm not big on sports, that man can take any scripture & put you right into the middle of it as if you were there then or make the lesson from the past adapt to our lives today, amazing talent & ability!!
However, in the midst of the stress & panic of 2020 & covid, I heard excitement of anticipation, anxiety, even giddiness at the impending "coming of our LORD & SAVIOR . . . now . . . ok . . . Now! . . . how about . . . NOW!!!" Just what I needed when I needed it most, from Jack Hibbs, I absolutely love that man, thank you LORD!!!
It gives me tremendous encouragement, learning both John & Jack are in California with highly dedicated congregations accomplishing impossible strides in their areas, that Tony & his family are rock solidly entrenched in Texas, as is Chuck Swindoll, that Alistair is in Ohio, Irwin Lutzer in Chicago,Illinois, Ligonier in Florida & Pennsylvania, Wallbuilders with Dave & Tim Barton in South Carolina (?) . . . I am aware of terrific gospel bound & Biblical preachers in New Mexico, Tennessee, Arkansas, Missouri, Michigan, Minnesota . . . all in all, I think we've got great preachers all over, right where God needs them to be.
ALL GLORY TO GOD IN HIS INFINITE WISDOM, THANK YOU FOR GIVING US SUCH A WONDERFUL SELECTION OF VERSE BY VERSE PREACHERS TO STRENGTHEN & ENCOURAGE US IN THIS FINAL HOUR OF YOUR RETURN, in the blessed name of our Lord & Savior, Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of the Creator God! And all God's children say, "AMEN!!!"
He is teaching gnostic heresy from saint augustine who was gnostic
@@patrickortiz2898 no he's not your ridiculous and don't know what you talking about. You clearly don't know what gnostics believe. Wow shameful
Pastor John I ran into you on TH-cam and I cannot stop listening to you! You deliver the word so carefully and so Stern and bold and I really admire that you take everything from scripture there's not too many pastors who read and deliver the message like you from the Gospels. God bless you and I'm so thankful that I ran into you on TH-cam because I listen to you every night before I go to bed please don't stop thank you God bless. Yvonne
Yvonne Bihon I totally agree with you about pastor John MacArthur. He's surely ordained Bible teacher by God. We need more teachers like him.
Me too! He is a treasure in God’s kingdom!
He has an app called "GraceTo You" and "The Study Bible". He has collections of sermons by topic or by scripture. It's very helpful in growing in the knowledge of Christ. Not too many who preaches like JM.
Yvonne Bihon - i will amen that sister in Christ!
Yeah, I started watching and listening to him and it's going more than a week now. Almost 5 sermons everyday. It helps me to review my old, loosely understanding of the Christian doctrines. And here I am, kinda addicted to it.
❤❤❤This man of God always teaches word for word line by line Truth. I have sit under many preachers in my 71 years, I have never had such in-depth teaching of the Scriptures. I have grown so much listening to Brother John through many years. I marvel at his encouraging truth from Holy Scriptures. He is truly a wise man who has followed God’s principles through his ministry without hesitation and without apologies. Love the man for his boldness for Jesus Christ! I live for Christ and he gives me hope for an Eternity in Paradise!❤
Listening to this on my cell at full audio so that my young adult sons can catch any degree of this message. Please join me in prayer for my sons and this next generation that they will hear truth and not refute. All glory to His name!
May the Lord continue to work in their lives!
I think you are right on. As parent one of our main concerns is the generation we will be leaving our children to. But through prayer we must by faith know that God is in control. Prayer for our children.
Please LOOK into Lordship salvation thats what John preaches ITS VERY DAMMING we are saved by grace threw faith please look into lordship salvation and run from John M and don't look back .God has warned you threw me ,Take care God bless you.
John MacArthur teaches us to study the Word of God, stop your vindictiveness towards him, ... no one worships Pastor Johnny MacA, but we love him like a brother. Ask RC & Piper, both his friends among many! Learn what they teach: study the Word of God and 🙏 🤲
@@theodoreritola7641 God hasn’t warned anyone through you. We don’t care about John, we care about what the Bible says
I was a wretched sinner consumed by sin and lived for sin. I hated the thought of a restricted life . I was saved after going through a terrible time in my life I was drawn to Christ and I have been truly born again. I am a new person and changing everyday by Gods grace and mercy. I am being molded into an image of Christ. I can see the difference every day in the way God has changed me. I once hated the the law of God and loved sin and I now love Gods laws and hate sin. This is not something that is natural to man it is something that is truly God given. It is not something that can be taught or leaned it is something that only God can give by his compassion and grace. His work in everything is absolutely astonishing. There is no doubt that our very existence is proof enough for his presence. Every breath that is taken by man is a gift of life that we have existence at all by his wonderful act of love . To be born again is to be what we were made to be it is the foreshadowing of what is to come and what once was in the garden of Eden and what will be in the forever after. Praise God hallelujah Amen
One of my favorite of all time. I fashion John MacArthur to be the one who champions Calvinism more than anyone else on this planet yet here he is saying he doesn’t understand how Free will is involved, but somehow it must be. I love the humility of that. I have chased the answer for this for four years now and the greatest understanding I’ve gotten had been from this sermon and in a radio interview he did a few years ago. Thank you sir for being bold in your faith.
That's because we have freewill to make a choice to repent and believe God and put faith in him. The Bible shows both predestination and election and freewill. Therefore calvinism is found insufficient and contradictory to many many scriptures.
I love how he defers to the Word of God for all explaining of God. This was a marvelous Bible study!
I love how he defers to the catholic st Thomas More Law center after his own kind wouldn't take his covid case to court.
@@hailholyqueenthat’s unrelated to scripture but good try
@@robbat1209 it's not unrelated to character though.
@@hailholyqueen that’s between him and God idc about him
@@robbat1209 what is Idc?
This was a beautiful sermon! I have been struggling with the idea of human will and God's perfect sovereignty and have been trying to get answers. There is still this war within me about understanding this fully but at the same time coming to a realization of how can I as a created being understand fully the mind of the Creator? How can I, a human being, who does not even know what will happen 5 minutes from now try to understand the One who calms the raging sea? As it says in His Word, in Psalm 46:10, "be still, and know that I am God." God, You are faithful and Your plans will come in place according to Your great sovereignty. To Him be the glory forever.
His word says it’s not HIS WILL THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH
So if you admit that you cannot fully understand God as a human, then why do we try to put him in such finite boxes of Calvinism and Arminianism. To me, it seems the safest place to land would be right in the middle with that the bible makes clear, God sits in the heavens and does as he pleases psalm 115:3. This means he can create completely free willed beings and he gives us a free choice, but at the same time he has the right to interject and even force us to do whatever he pleases at any time and we cannot question it. We see both of these examples over and over in the bible.
So to say God controls every minute detail, good and bad, or that he has no control at all...those are both anti-bibilical ideas. But humans are too prideful to take the middle road approach.
Praying for you brother, God is Sovereign but he does not condemn anyone to an ETERNAL HELL!
Calvinism at its worst!
Of Course God gave me the Faith. No question about it. The real problem you guys have - AND YOU TRY TO HIDE IT ALL THE TIME - Is that the ability to accept is given to ALL. God mentions this almost 1,000 times in Scripture - Why didn't you believe? Why didn't you follow me?
1 Peter 3:9 is very clear - just like Romans 1:18-23. God waits on all who accept him. Acceptance is a choice that God freely gives to man - and has ever since Adam and Eve were in the Garden. Did Adam Choose to eat the Fruit? Yes he did.
The Lord isn’t really being slow about his promise, as some people think. No, he is being patient for your sake. He does not want anyone to be destroyed, but wants everyone to repent.
Calvinist thinking is prideful thinking because you say "God chose me over others" and the ONLY conclusion that can be drawn in that statement is "I deserve it and you did not!"
God did not MAKE man to be Robots.
God gave man FREE WILL [Romans 1:18-23 God Clearly Showed himself to man - MAN HAS NO EXCUSE] because it was HIS CHOICE to remove his omnipotence from the choice.
YES - God could have EASILY forced man to chose him! IF God forced man to love him - and to accept him - then God is not really loved.
God KNEW when he made man that he was going to fall. God KNEW that his son was the only redemption man COULD EVER HAVE.
What Calvinism does is paint God out as a monster - I know you have heard that - but it is true. God Creates a man - Forces him NOT to believe and in doing so CONDEMNS him to hell. That is by definition EVIL. God is not evil.
Again Jesus said Those who DON NOT BELIEVE - THEY ARE CONDEMNED ALLREADY.
What you do not understand is that Man is BORN CONDEMNED - Man's ONLY HOPE is for God to save them - not of works lest any man should boast.
Read your bible and study because you just lost this argument. You lost not because I am so smart - but because the WORDS of Jesus Christ dooms Calvinism - The Words of GOD through the Apostle Paul DOMMS Calvinism.
@@markwills3602 Mark , why did you choose to be saved ?
@@malcolmscrivener8750 Simple If you confess with your mouth and Believe in your Heart that Jesus is LORD - YOU WILL BE SAVED! I confessed with my MOUTH and I Believed in my heart - I am Saved!
I have a IF ONLY group of statements where God is putting the Choice with us. He is sovereign and this does not mean that HE COULD NOT MAKE the choice for us. It means that he WILLINGLY GAVE UP his sovereignty so that we would WILLINGLY chose to love him - Can LOVING GOD BE FORCED - and if it can is it really LOVE?? Ponder that my friend!
1 Corinthians 15:1-2
Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed as good news to you, which also you received, in which also you stand, by which also you are saved, IF YOU hold fast the word which I proclaimed to you as good news, unless you believed for nothing.
Exodus 15:26
And He said, “If you will earnestly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God, and do what is right in His sight, and give ear to His commandments, and keep all His statutes, I will put none of the diseases on you which I have put on the Egyptians; for I, Yahweh, am your healer.”
Exodus 18:23
“If you do this thing and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people also will go to their place in peace.”
Zeceriah 3:7
“Thus says Yahweh of hosts, ‘If you will walk in My ways and if you will keep the responsibility given by Me, then you will also render justice in My house and also keep My courts, and I will grant you access to walk among these who are standing here.
Zeceriah 6:15
“And those who are far off will come and build the temple of Yahweh.” Then you will know that Yahweh of hosts has sent me to you. And it will happen if you utterly listen to the voice of Yahweh your God.
1 John 2:24, 29
As for you, let that which you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, you also will abide in the Son and in the Father.
If you know that He is righteous, you know that everyone also who does righteousness has been born of Him.
Matthew 6:14-15
“If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly Father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins."
- With Salvation you are a new Creature and as a new Creature you have a NEW HEART and you will have a NEW ABILITY to forgive sin! Jesus is saying the Mark of BEING A NEW CREATURE is the way you FORGIVE people who have wronged you - and have wronged you in the worst way!
- Pre-Salvation this is not possible - AFTER Salvation it is impossible NOT to FORGIVE!
Matthew 12:30-32
“He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters. Therefore I say to you, any sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven people, but IF the blasphemy against the Spirit shall not be forgiven. And whoever IF speaks a word against the Son of Man, it shall be forgiven him; but whoever IF speaks against the Holy Spirit, it shall not be forgiven him, either in this age or in the age to come.
Mark 3:28-30 “Truly I say to you, all sins shall be forgiven the sons of men, and whatever blasphemies they utter; but IF whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit never has forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin”- because they were saying, “He has an unclean spirit.”
Matthew 16:24-26
Then Jesus said to His disciples, “IF INDEED anyone wishes to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me. IF you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But IF you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?
Matthew 18:18-19
“Truly I say to you, whatever IF bind on earth shall have been bound in heaven; and whatever you loose on earth shall have been loosed in heaven. Again I say to you, that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by My Father who is in heaven." - THE WORDS OF JESUS!!
IF you will believe you SHALL BE SAVED!
IF you will put your trust in me you will not be disappointed.
God Bless John McArthur, there are few teachers who are so pure in sharing the word of God
Amen!!
Macarthur speaks the truth!!.....
Renew I love him, he has changed my life. His style of teaching and his way of being blunt and getting right to the point has caused me to take my salvation seriously and changed my life. I completely agree with you
God has given him a gift of explaining the scriptures in a way that's easy for all to understand. This is not something we do on our own, listen to some other teachers and then listen to him. God definitely has appointed him as a teacher
@Curt Christensen Read the New Testament at least twice this year and ask for discernment. I will do the same.
Do you read your Bible everyday without fail? Might be a good idea.
God bless you!
I pled and prayed that Jesus fill my heart with His love and guidance after learning that I could pray upon it and He did in fact fill my heart with His loving guidance directly after He crushed me flat.
I was seeking His face for about two years before I began to pray Him into my heart and that's when my life changed, I've never been the same since praise be to God for the Holy Spirit was calling me all along I just wasn't answering the call.
Hallelujah to the Lamb of God 👍
This is an amazing sermon, just truly humble yourself to a sovereign God.
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times?
Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE!
Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!!
God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him!
To me that is the GREATEST ACKNWLEGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
@@markwills3602 you are assuming a lot that is not in scripture just to mention one verse (it Is not of your self less any one should boast .) So that one verse takes u out of it. There are a lot more .
Good point brother, I agree with you to a point. Those verses do say that, that if we confess we will be saved! Amen…. But one problem, Paul makes it clear in Romans 3 and Ephesians 1 (and other places but these hit me the hardest) that man is fallen and spiritually Dead. So how can someone who is dead choose God? I think of a Hospital bed and on it is a man and he’s dead like Ephesians says (the word is translated rotting flesh) and you ask Him do you want to be saved? What’s the answer? *crickets* there is no response because he’s dead. So something has to take place in order for him to say yes. That’s the Doctrine of Regeneration, the Holy Spirit regenerates so that he can say yes and when he is revived, he will say yes. So it’s God doing the work rather than man. For if God set aside His sovereignty and it’s left up to human choice then there is a possibility that no man will be in Heaven, and we have no reason to believe that Old Testament and end time prophecies will even come true, because God has left us to our choices and possibly we can mess everything up. God must intervene Sovereignly but if he intervenes Sovereignly He must infringe on free will but possibly in your view he can’t. Romans 9 helps answer this as well. Thanks my brother!
I love MacArthur, but on this topic, he speaks on both sides. but your statement is impossible. Read it ? You can humble yourself till God sovereignly degrees it ? And when he does, then I cannot resist it, i will be humble then, it is irresistible
@carboncopies706 No. That one verse does not outweigh the rest of scripture. He is right , the key is in the word " IF" being in so many verses.
The problem is you are seeing having "faith" as a "work. " but faith is not a work and we get no merit or glory from believing in the work that God already completed.
Stunningly Powerful !!! ... WOW 😲
i was spiritually confused up until the very end ... then he gave that crystal clear explanation ... my heart will NEVER again think about even beginning to question or double think God’s Sovereignty and decision Making concerning who receives and doesn’t receive Salvation ... All Praise and honor and Worship to God the Father, Jesus my LORD and Their Holy Spirit my Helper ... Amen !!!
The trinity is a lie
@@viviennebaptiste the one triune God is the only one who can save you from your sin, repent and believe the gospel of Jesus Christ for salvation.
God, son, ans Holy spirit
@@viviennebaptiste “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME”
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
Question: “What is the name which is above every name?”
Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible.
Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?”
Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names.
Question: What does this mean to me?
Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation.
Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth?
Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation.
Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua.
Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation?
The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us?
Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH!
The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15).
Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name?
Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA.
Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?”
Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved!
This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew.
“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
God bless you!
Hopefully you are still in the Cross ✝️!
Never knew what true Gospel was until I heard it taught. Thank you ABBA Father GOD for the preachers who have fought to keep this Doctrine .
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Don't be so blind - Read Romans 1:18-32 - GOD REVEALED HIMSELF TO ALL MEN FROM THE BEGINNING OF TIME! - They have no EXCUSE BECAUSE THEY KNEW GOD - and then REJECTED HIM!
Romans 10:8-10 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the word of faith which we preach):
that IF YOU confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and IF YOU believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
From Dr. MacArthur's Legacy Standard Bible Romans 1:18-32:
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because that which is known about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, both His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what has been made, so that they are without excuse.
FOR EVEN THOUGH THE KNEW GOD, THEY DID NOT GLORIFY HIN AS GOD[***This is clearly a Choice that man makes***] or give thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Professing to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the likeness of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and crawling creatures.
Therefore God gave them over in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
For they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions; for their females exchanged the natural function for that which is unnatural, and in the same way also the males abandoned the natural function of the female and burned in their desire toward one another, males with males committing indecent acts and receiving in their own persons the due penalty of their error.
And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do those things which are not proper, having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, violent, arrogant, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, without understanding, untrustworthy, unloving, unmerciful; and although they know the righteous requirement of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also give hearty approval to those who practice them.
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times?
Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE!
Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!!
Calvinism is not true. The "whosoever" in John 3:16 means whosoever believes which means whosoever believes. Get it? That means anyone can be saved if they believe. It's a decision made by man. Not a decision made by God for man. Calvinism is like Mormonism and Evolutionism (yes, evolution is a religion....it's definitely NOT science) in the sense that all these "experts" like MacArthur and Sproul seem to be required to understand it. True Christianity is simple: "Whosoever believes in Him shall not perish but have everlasting life." And we (Christians) know that "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God. Not of works, lest any man should boast." Quit preaching lies.
@@lylemuegge5811 So John 3:1-8 where Jesus told Nicodemus you must be born from above to enter the kingdom is just thrown out? John 6:44 No one can come to Me unless the Father draws him. Free will is choosing pizza over grilled cheese. We play no part in our salvation.
Pastor John, I have been bingeing on your sermons for weeks. Thank you for strengthening my understanding of the gospel of grace, and the sovereignty of God. I am a former Mormon. I was drawn out of Mormonism by the Holy Spirit to the true Jesus Christ of the Holy Bible. I am forever grateful to Father God for this blessing! 🙏❤
I wish I could get to church but I am unable but I have found you and I am happy for that. I believe God sent me here.🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I just love hearing the truth, and I pray that I will not only hear but also put into practice God's truth. I enjoy learning about God, thank you Lord for using this man, as he is your instrument use for your glory, hallelujah!
Best sermon concerning the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man that I have ever heard! May God bless all who weep and praise at these truths!
Wow. Thank you Lord Jesus for those who teaches us the Word of God to see who you really are.
I love hearing this sermon again and again. Thank you sir..
God draws everyone period. GOD is NOT A respecter of persons John 3 16
@theodoreritola7641 Not everyone will Believe! Some go to Heaven and so e go to Hell.
Most go to hell
Thank you for your firm stand for the sovereignty of God. We love you God and your child John McArthur. God we don't need to know everything as you have always given us the assured thing from, your son Jesus🙏✝️💖
This is such a wonderful message. Love it when John shows his character and sense of humor. When I was first saved, it was people like this professing the Word that helped me on my path and ultimately, that is what God is using them for. Amen.
I’ve been listening to you for about almost 20 years. You are a true blessing to all of us. Thank you for teaching Only His Word
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times?
Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE!
Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!!
God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him!
To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
@@markwills3602 yes but you won’t ever come to that point of belief unless God calls you. You don’t come just whenever you want. Therefore it’s not an act of your own will. John 6:44;65
@@michaelboleyn651 PLEASE STOP DISTORTING WHO GOD IS!!
Rely only on Scripture. The Principle of First Mention is this. the First time God mentions something in the Bible that is truth.
God says to Adam Do Not Eat of the Fruit of the Tree in the middle of the Garden. This is Clearly a CHOICE that he GAVE FREE WILL TO ADAM! This is truth - and God does not change his truth.
John 1:7-13
John the Baptist came as a witness, to bear witness about the Light, so that all might believe through him. He was not the Light, but he came to bear witness about the Light. There was the true Light which, coming into the world, enlightens everyone. He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
First Choice given to people:
He came to what was His own, and those who were His own did not receive Him.
Second Choice:
But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.
The will of man is First of the Blood or of the Flesh.
This means God Created us NOT OF OUR CHOICE but of HIS CHOICE.
I had no choice about being created. BUT John is very clear her- The choice is made for those who chose to believe. And then John Talks about the CHOICE no one had, and that is the choice to exist.
Adam and Eve did not have a Choice. God created them - and then placed in the Garden.
I did not have a choice - I was created. Then I was pursued by GOD [No one can come to the Father unless they are drawn] AND HE showed to me CLEARLY who he was during his pursuit (Romans 1:18-23).
This is not Rocket Science it is very Clear God Created ADAM To FREELY CHOOSE GOD!
John the Baptist came as a witness, to bear witness about the Light, so that all might believe through him. - IT IS CLEAR that John the Baptist was brought in this world to give people a Choice. A CHOICE so that they could LOVE and follow God because of their LOVE. Just like John The Baptist did!
It is clear that ALL [pas in the Greek Clearly meaning the Whole World] MIGHT believe.
Don't Forget Romans 10:6-11
But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way: “DO NOT SAY IN YOUR HEART, ‘WHO WILL GO UP INTO HEAVEN?’ (that is, to bring Christ down), or ‘WHO WILL GO DOWN INTO THE ABYSS?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).”
But what does it say? “THE WORD IS NEAR YOU, IN YOUR MOUTH AND IN YOUR HEART”-that is, the word of faith which we are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved; for with the heart a person believes, leading to righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, leading to salvation.
For the Scripture says, “WHOEVER BELIEVES UPON HIM WILL NOT BE PUT TO SHAME.”
@@markwills3602 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME”
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
Question: “What is the name which is above every name?”
Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible.
Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?”
Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names.
Question: What does this mean to me?
Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation.
Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth?
Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation.
Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua.
Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation?
The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us?
Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH!
The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15).
Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name?
Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA.
Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?”
Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved!
This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew.
“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
God bless you!
John is so awesome explaining things in a way we can understand, the little details I for one sometime read over and missed , he brings them into the text. This was so good
As i mature in my Christian walk.. i find myself coming to grips that i just need to have faith in God, not just for salvation, but that somehow through his wisdom he will be found fully just. What an impossible feat that only God can perform.
So very thankful for Dr. MacArthur! His ministry has changed my life and I thank God for him, as well as other great defenders of the faith, daily. JM is by far the best Bible teacher out there!
Totally agree! 🙏
He is an excellent expositor bit he cannot break free of the ridiculous pre millennial tradition. Far from best, but good.
Look up Baucham Lawson Sproul Washer
Good to listen to God's pure truth being taught!!!...Thank you Father for men like MacArthur that teach sound Doctrine!
Thank you, Pastor John, for your willingness to teach me the Word of God. I've been Biblically illiterate all my life despite growing up in the church. Praise God for bold men like yourself.
from one Marcia to another - although I didn't have the privilege of growing up in the church (quite the opposite!) - to be taught Biblical literacy by such a uniquely packaged man of God as Pastor John MacArthur is indeed a cause for praise and gratitude. We should be on our faces praying for all Biblically orthodox clarion preachers. Long may he continue. God bless us Marcias
@@marciamcgrail5889 I too respect Pastor John but his interpretation of Isaiah 10 makes me think about a God using the Assyrian to be the Club of His anger !
The Assyrian whose whole purpose was to destroy and put an end to many nations and then in the end God punished the king of Assyria .
But there is an undeniable contradiction here , if God used the Assyrian to express His anger to destroy nations and punish Mt Zion and Jerusalem
why did He punish Assyria ! It is like getting a hit man to strike your enemy and then betraying the hit man after the dastardly deed was done.
But God who is the judge of the earth must do the right thing (Genesis 18 verse 25 )
The Prophet Jonah had to be corrected by God ......When the Lord himself said to Jonah " but Nineveh (capital of Assyria ) has 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left , and many cattle as well . Should I not be concerned about that great city (Jonah 4 verse 11 )
The prophet Isaiah also needs to be corrected if he believed that God used an evil tyrant to represent His burning anger .
As A Christian we must believe that God is love and sent His son to die for humanity but Pastor John does not preach that God is love and should not be blindly believed .
To tell the truth more blessings than to tell a lie. But most people in the whole world love to listen false gospel.
How can someone be, "Biblically illiterate all my life despite growing up in the church"? What on earth were they teaching you?
@@Yesica1993 prolly what you have been
99.9 percent of churches are totally fake
Thank you For this teaching! I think I am finally at peace with all this praise God🙏
I grew up with Armeniast preaching/teaching,.. Went to countless churches my whole life in CH, U.K. … then here for most of my adult life till finally, 15 years ago, someone finally changed the whole Bible study fir my sake when he realized how much I had missed! Needless to say, it turned into quite an adventure of discovery for more than just myself … praise God as He used it to save me in the ensuing years after a huge traumatic event in our family. This message has reminded me of my discoveries in the Word after all those years of being in the church but lost.
I’m so ready for Resurrection Day. Praise God I no longer have to work my way to heaven!!🙏
I am so very thankful to God for John MacArthur. When you listen to John preach, you get spiritual meat, not fluff, jokes, stories or cotton candy. You get nourisment from the word of God for edification and enligtenment.
John McCarthur is one of the best pastors who ever preached. He adds "some humanity" to his sermons and does it without SHOUTING it loudly like some preachers do, but never sugar coats anything. I have learned much from him and he has been a blessing from God.
Hès also a false teacher He peaches Lordship salvation. Sinners are saved by grace threw faith in Jesus Only
@theodoreritola7641 Sorry what is Lordship salvation?
Works are part of your salivation .we are saved by grace threw faith only, John don't preach that. Look up lord ship salvation and saved by grace threw faith God opened my eyes to John Run from him if you dont you will be in total frailer
He believes in Lordship salvation ITS VERY DANGURESS He does not believe we are saved by grace threw faith alone,
@@theodoreritola7641We are definitely saved by grace alone through faith alone. Works do not add to salvation they are proof of faith.
As we grow in Lord Jesus, we desire His Will.
Amazing analysis once again by God's servant John MacArthur! I have known him since my first Ligonier Conference, early 2000s. Thank you Father God, Jesus Christ and Holy Spirit for the health of this wonderful teacher, may Pastor John inspire many young ones!
Thanks for your awesome and excellent comment...
God bless you THROUGH His Lord Jesus.
He died for our sins and raised up on the third day as prophesied!.
No one goes unto Father but through Him!
Thankful to God for teachers like MacArthur
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times?
Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE!
Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!!
God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him!
To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
@@markwills3602 John 6:44
New International Version
44 “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day.
@@mikemccormick9667 I have always said that. God Calls and man responds - isn't that what the Bible says?
God said Don't eat the fruit of that one tree!
God said “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes has eternal life." The MacArthur Legacy Bible!
You are correct - He who Responds BY FAITH Has eternal Life. “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life." - IF YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE!
John 6:53-58
So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day. For My flesh is true food, and My blood is true drink. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who eats Me, he also will live because of Me. This is the bread which came down out of heaven, not as the fathers ate and died. He who eats this bread will live forever.”
John 6:63-64
“The Spirit is the One who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken to you are spirit and are life. But there are some of you who do not believe.” For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were who did not believe, and who it was that would betray Him.
- This is a great scripture because it not only speaks of FREE WILL but of FOREKNOWLEDGE!
@@markwills3602 buzz off Satan !
@@alvinhickling901 Buzz off? Really, scripture says they will know us by our LOVE. Are you ignoring all the scriptures that point to God's will for ALL to be saved and that NONE should perish? 2 Peter 3:8-10
We all need to be drawn to God because we are born with a DEAD heart. BUT - and this is GREAT "God knows how to draw a DEAD HEART to him. And he did it by Dying on the cross!!
Read the words in the bible. Go to the MacArthur Bible and look up If You and read. God is putting a choice out to MAN all the time - and HE IS THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP US MAKE THE RIGHT CHOCIE! But he still puts it in our court!
May God bless you Brother John
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I love to hear the Gospel!❤ thankful that the Lord Jesus came to save us! When I the heard the gospel 44 years ago i remember being horrified at my sin and facing a Holy God. I begged the Lord to save me and put my faith in Jesus and His work on the cross. I prayed for Mercy! My life changed and I had peace! I haven't always done the right thing but God always let me know I was wrong. As a father chastised his child because he loves me!❤ it's hard but wonderful to be loved that much!❤ I found that I'm now allergic to sin and addicted to righteousness! People call me crazy but it is all so real to me!
Thank God for such wonderful ministry straight from God's word. Did not our hearts burn with in. It certainly does when the scripture speaks for itself. Thank you brother, may God continue to bless your ministry for his glory.
Again and again thank you and praise the name of Jesus for John MacArthur!!!!! Thank you John for the glorious Word of God ❤️ taught in a way that can be understood by the Holy Spirit indeed through John MacArthur!!!! GOD bless you John!!!!!
Thumbs up.
God bless you Janet!
Have a great and blessed and beautiful day!
Nice comment!
One of the most dedicated, devoted, Christ loving pastors of our current time.
Wayne Dunavant, I mean this in all due respect. I love Jesus and I'm going to show the truth about Jesus from His word. John MacArthur teaches a false Gospel. He teaches that God chooses some for salvation and passes over some people not giving them salvation. John MacArthur teaches that we have total inability so that we can't choose to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. That doesn't teach the Gospel of Christ. The Gospel means Good News. If God doesn't offer His free gift of forgiveness to all people and just saves some and passes over others, God doesn't love all people, and God's love for all men is clearly taught in scripture. John MacArthur teaches that men have to be regenerated by God, which is no choice by those He regenerates. It is forced, not received willingly. Man cannot love God if it is forced, because when it is forced, it can't be love. Love is a choice, not forced. God offers salvation to all. He draws all men to Himself according to what Jesus teaches in scripture...
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:33
This he said, signifying what death he should die.
Salvation is offered to all men. We are all drawn to Him. We need to receive His free gift of forgiveness freely, by free will, to show our love for Jesus for all He did and all He does for us.
Anyone who preaches any other Gospel, than what ye have received, let him be accursed. It teaches in God's word...
Galatians 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:9
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
John MacArthur isn't preaching this Gospel that is taught in God's word. When you listen to John MacArthur enough times, you will see this incorrect preaching of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wayne Dunavant, I mean this in all due respect. I love Jesus and I'm going to show the truth about Jesus from His word. John MacArthur teaches a false Gospel. He teaches that God chooses some for salvation and passes over some people not giving them salvation. John MacArthur teaches that we have total inability so that we can't choose to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. That doesn't teach the Gospel of Christ. The Gospel means Good News. If God doesn't offer His free gift of forgiveness to all people and just saves some and passes over others, God doesn't love all people, and God's love for all men is clearly taught in scripture. John MacArthur teaches that men have to be regenerated by God, which is no choice by those He regenerates. It is forced, not received willingly. Man cannot love God if it is forced, because when it is forced, it can't be love. Love is a choice, not forced. God offers salvation to all. He draws all men to Himself according to what Jesus teaches in scripture...
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:33
This he said, signifying what death he should die.
Salvation is offered to all men. We are all drawn to Him. We need to receive His free gift of forgiveness freely, by free will, to show our love for Jesus for all He did and all He does for us.
Anyone who preaches any other Gospel, than what ye have received, let him be accursed. It teaches in God's word...
Galatians 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Galatians 1:9
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
John MacArthur isn't preaching this Gospel that is taught in God's word. When you listen to John MacArthur enough times, you will see this incorrect preaching of the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Wayne Dunavant, John MacArthur is teaching a false Gospel. He teaches that we are totally unable to choose to freely receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. It teaches in God's word...
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:33
This he said, signifying what death he should die.
This teaches that Jesus is offering salvation to all men. Some of us listen to God's conviction to our hearts to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness, some men don't choose Jesus's free gift of forgiveness.
And according to John MacArthur, regeneration is given to some men without their knowledge of it. If God chooses some of us by regeneration and He passes over those He doesn't choose how is this love? Love for Jesus can't be forced or it isn't love. Jesus wants us to freely love Him. It can't be love if it is forced on men by regeneration without being chosen by any one of us. It has to be freely received or it isn't love.
It also teaches in God's word...
Gal 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
Wayne Dunavant, John MacArthur is teaching a false Gospel. He teaches that we are totally unable to choose to freely receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness. It teaches in God's word...
John 12:32
And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me.
John 12:33
This he said, signifying what death he should die.
This teaches that Jesus is offering salvation to all men. Some of us listen to God's conviction to our hearts to receive Jesus's free gift of forgiveness, some men don't choose Jesus's free gift of forgiveness.
And according to John MacArthur, regeneration is given to some men without their knowledge of it. If God chooses some of us by regeneration and He passes over those He doesn't choose how is this love? Love for Jesus can't be forced or it isn't love. Jesus wants us to freely love Him. It can't be love if it is forced on men by regeneration without being chosen by any one of us. It has to be freely received or it isn't love.
It also teaches in God's word...
Gal 1:8
But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.
Gal 1:9
As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.
@@PixieDizzie I'm sure you mean well but you should not be calling John a false teacher. He has taught faithfully from the Scriptures for years.
Have you read the whole Bible for yourself or do you just trust the teaching of others?
Do you read it every day without fail and prejudice?
I know you are trying to get God off the hook for sending people to hell but it's impossible. He does what is just and we all deserve hell. Read through at least the New Testament 2-3 times this year and ask for discernment. I will do the same. If we seek truth no matter the cost we will find it.
The faith we have is a gift of God so no one can boast.
For anyone who wants to dive deeper into this subject, I cannot recommend enough, A.W. Pink's book: "The Sovereignty of God," shortly followed by Sproul's book "The Holiness of God."
Great books
Thanks Lawrence, I will check those out. So cool you mention Arthur W. Pink cuz I am reading his "Exposition of the Sermon on the Mount" right now and it's fantastic... I highly recommend it.
Yes. Great books!!
Thank You Pastor John just received your Book Spiritual Boot Camp. I am a Military 🪖🎖️ Man been following you the last few years love your boldness and humility Praise God for you Sir.
This is the best exposition I have ever heard on this topic. Timely finding this, too, and without exactly looking for it, because some version of this question crossed my path recently.
This man and just a small handful like him are the best Bible teachers and preachers in the world right now
This is the answer I was searching for. That GOD is who he is and is in complete control of everything. I’m so grateful that I don’t completely know Gods mind. He is doing everything for him and by him for his Glory and that is all I need.
“All you can do is plead with God to give you life.” 🙏 Amen
John 146 Jesus Christ is the way, the truth and the life. We can choose the way, we can choose Jesus as our Saviour. He died for all!
@@MeekEarth700 keep reading your Bible. You have to use the entire Bible in context, not just choose one verse to justify what you want it to say. May God bless you in the understanding of his sovereignty.
@@sammartin4024 Absolutely true, but obviously space requires that one focuses. I always read up to a whole chapter and would advise anyone to do similarly. Added to that, even refer to several bible interpretations and even original Hebrew and Greek words. May God be with you. 🙏
Amen, repent and pray for His grace and mercy, if it be His will for His glory!!!
You dont need to plead you need to believe.
Faith cometh by hearing and hearing the word of God the gospel.
I missed Dr. R.C. Sproul so much. Only Drs. John MacArthur, Steve Lawson, Albert Mohler, and Sinclair Ferguson who are still alive for Ligonier Ministries.
Don't forget Burk Parsons .....he took over the Church RC preached at and taught along side RC while he was alive
Wait check Derek Thomas with ligonier as well and also Robert Godfrey you don't want to miss these guys they're amazing with ligonier as teaching fellows and Dr sprouls protege Burk Parsons who took over St Andrew's Church when Pastor RC died because they were teaching there together when RC was still alive. These men are all incredible and yes I think everyone misses our seed so so very much
Rc lol not are seed😂
Ligonier will come and go
Paul Washer, Dr Jon Barnett too
THANK YOU SO MUCH. It is a joy to be humbled by the Word. As a newborn in Christ, I hear my Master's voice. I know it. I love it. I am afraid to lose track of Him. The experience of knowing the glory of our Creator, as His creatures, is a miracle. I am clay. I need not, nor dare not ask for more than to know His hands are Love. Amen, Jesus is King. THank you for saving me, and giving me a new heart. My Lord, my Savior, my Father. Thank you, and please forgive me, a sinner!
Pastor John, excellent teaching. Love the Word of God.
Have you read the gospel of John which is the 4th book of the New Testament? I encourage you to prayerfully read it. And watch for all the I AM statements.
Probably best sermon on Divine Election I've ever heard
I appreciate the agony that Dr. MacArthur teaches on this subject. It is a struggle and we all agonize over trying to understand this biblical truth!
The agonizing is deserved for having to manipulate scripture to justify a false gospel.
@@graftme3168 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME”
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
Question: “What is the name which is above every name?”
Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible.
Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?”
Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names.
Question: What does this mean to me?
Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation.
Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth?
Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation.
Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua.
Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation?
The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us?
Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH!
The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15).
Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name?
Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA.
Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?”
Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved!
This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew.
“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
@@graftme3168😂 bruh. That was ice cold ❄️. I too cannot come away with their systemic from the scriptures unless I come with presuppositions made by them and re-defining words either.
@@evolgenius1150 It wasn't meant to be cold. My point is more that God would allow the agony so that they might turn towards the truth. Truth is ALWAYS peaceable. Sometimes I think Calvinists glory in the agony as if it proves it is from God. Most of their understanding of what God is like is more like the character of Satan! This baffles me quite a bit. Satan is controlling and manipulating and purposely keeps the truth from us. These are character traits that Calvinists attribute to God! Struggling and agonizing to understand truth probably means they are going to the wrong source. God's ways are "FIRST peaceable." No peace = God is not in it.
Aman I’m pleading for God to give me life 🙏🏽🙏🏻👍🏻✝️✝️✝️❤️❤️❤️
I love to listen to you every day❣️
Amazing,very patient & kind & divine deliverance of “The Holy Spirit Of God” of the gospel of Christ Jesus for all who struggle &/or suffer with doubt concerning their glorious gift of Salvation for which even the angels in heaven marvel at because they cannot obtain salvation but they see it as the most glorious gift because they know the high price that was payed for all who believe in Jesus Christ
In a few more Generations we will loose many to the author of lies and evil. Find Jesus in your heart and get to know him. Thank You Pastor John.
Another great sermon by Pastor MacArthur 💯
The thing with Assyria and how they were clueless as to being in Gods hand as an instrument against rebelling Israel was very interesting to me ,they were being used of God and had no clue😄,now that’s the Lord in full control of the nations!
But if they are not chosen as believers how can they be culpable???
@@victoriacrowe5610 Because of the sin of adam and eve, we are all guilty. We are born in a state of sin and remain in it until, by Gods mercy and grace, we are redeemed. So, God can use a sinner as well as a saint to carry out His sovereign plans.
@@victoriacrowe5610 Culpable of what? All mankind is guilty of sin and deserves eternal death/separation from God in hell. God is not obligated to save everyone but those who, by His mercy, He chose to save.
Truly such a beautiful discussion, the depths of God are unsearchable indeed, and I couldn't be happier! All praise and glory given to God, amen!
God can do whatever He pleases. He has given us the ability to make decisions, but if He chooses to He will intervene and we will have no power over His will. What I know is He does not micromanage our lives the way some think. We have an amazing amount of freedom, and that is where our choice lies. We must choose Him.
Some tend to assume we are not robots and have what is referred to as FREE WILL. God is in TOTAL CONTROL of HIS creation. He is not LIMITED by having to look down the tunnel of time, check our decision, then make HIS plans. This seems to be a widely held view but is it biblical. Things we have HEARD and HEARD have a way of become perceived as TRUE, but are they. ALMIGHTY GOD makes plans as HE desires for things to happen. Because of HIS power things are DECREED or ORDAINED. The word FOREKNOWLEDGE is often misused as thinking GOD just how we will do then make his plans. Might sound good but do not think that dog will hunt. Take JUDAS for example. We are told “ahead of time” in Psalms that Jesus would get handed over for 30 pieces of silver. Suppose GOD told us this is how JESUS would be handed and Judas would be the one. What IF JUDAS and his FREE WILL decide at the last minute to repent of this terrible sin and took JESUS to a safe place hundreds of miles away. This shows how that if we did have FREE WILL that even GOD could never be sure things will unfold as he says. I have studied this for years and this helped me. It is like God has Level A and Level B. Level A is the things God has decreed and ordained to happen. They must happen as they do for future events to take place. If people use Free Will here things will go off course and HOLY GOD would not be all powerful and all knowing, but HE IS. Level B is the small things, I.e., do we want Vanilla or Strawberry ice cream, a hot dog or hamburger or turn right or left at the intersection. These things do not really alter the events of a. Level A. We are able to make certain calls but GOD intercedes many times behind the scenes and makes things happen as they should because HIS CHARACTER AND POTTER IS ON DISPLAY FOR EVERYBODY TO SEE. Thank you for allowing me to share this with you. 😃
The scripture say you did not choose Me-
but I chose you- said Jesus
@@dennisbryant4095 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME”
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
Question: “What is the name which is above every name?”
Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible.
Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?”
Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names.
Question: What does this mean to me?
Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation.
Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth?
Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation.
Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua.
Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation?
The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us?
Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH!
The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15).
Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name?
Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA.
Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?”
Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved!
This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew.
“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
@dennisbryant4095 Noticed how you mentioned the possibility of JUDAS changing his mind and we must see that he could have never changed since Jesus called him a devil and said also that it would have been better if he had never been born (Mark 14). God knew from the beginning that he would NEVER believe (I Pet 1:2) so he was never chosen ( Eph 1:4-5) Never think for a minute though that he didn't get (light) from God bc everyone will be drawn before they ultimately make their decision (See Josh 24:15, John 1:9, 6:44-45)
Evil technology used for the good of God. Thank you Lord. I am so thankful I can tap my thumb a few times and get your truth, delivered from John Macarthur. He is a gift to the body of Christ!
One of the best MacArthur vids ever! ''POTS DONT TALK'' _ALL GLORY_ goes to The KING of kings, and LORD of lords!
Thanks God for man like this in these times when preachers are not preaching the bible. God bless your family and your congregation.
It’s the magnetic love of the Father that draws me to Jesus.
Another amazing teaching from a man of GOD. I PRAISE OUR LORD FOR HAVE SHAPING DR.MACARTHUR TO BE THE MSN HE IS✝️🛐🛐🛐 It is a pity that we receive these sermons so late in Norway 🇳🇴
John 3:15 says whoever believes is saved. It doesn't say everyone has a equal opportunity to choose to believe of there own free will. That verse seems to be used incorrectly that all can choose in there heart. So it fits find with what God is saying about the elect.
The word "whoever" doesn't mean anyone or everyone, it's literally a metorphose. God already knows who's going to be saved that's why we have the doctrine of election. John 6:44 justify that.
I am overwhelmed by God's grace! A sinner all one's life and ask for HIS mercy and grace on one's death bed. God is always faithful in HIS promise.
JM is my favorite Pastor. I listen to 15-20 messages at least a week. In the closing moments he advised his audience (other pastors), to let the things go that weren't crystal clear in scripture. I pray that some day he will take his own advise regarding "For whom did Christ die"...That is NOT clear Biblically either no matter how hard JM tries to make it so.
@Rodrick Evans // Yet God alone knows who is "predestined" correct? So to those whom are saved now, the issue is mute, unknown until a person is born again; therefore Christians need to treat all people as those whom Christ died for; not identifying who they are before the rapture since scripture tells us that Jesus died for the sins of the whole world: "and He Himself is the propitiation for our sins; *and not for ours only, but also for those of the whole world"* [1 John 2 v2/4 v14 John 1 v29/4 v42/12 v32]. JM's theology is only applicable/seen at the very end; why does it matter?
It's a blessing to read scripture which speaks of predestination, yet it is merely an opportunity for Gods people to see, and be thankful for the predetermined, and undeserved grace which the Lord bestowed on us which was given according to Gods sovereign will.
Sadly, instead of using predestination for an opportunity to do that which is clearly before us [praising/thanking God for choosing us], *its has divided those whom where still strong, and left standing regarding sound doctrine/theology which is what our enemy wants.*
Rodrick Evans; I ended up coming back here by accident, and I see that you have removed the comment you made to me which I responded to [above]. Fortunately, I still had a copy of it. To those who may be interested; this is what Rodrick originally said, and what I responded too:
*"Dan Koning: It's actually CRYSTAL clear for whom Christ died...His elect who were predestined before the foundation of the world."*
It's crystal clear. I John 2:2:
" He is the propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world."
It becomes unclear when you want to mold and shape a verse like that to fit a system.
@@ddr5138 // John 1 v29/4 v42, 1 John 4 v14, 1 Peter 3 v18 and more. Imo, this verse best reflects the truth with regards to this issue:
"So then as through one transgression there resulted condemnation *to all men,* even so through one act of righteousness there resulted justification of life *to all men"* [Romans 5 v18]. Here the affects of both Adam's sin, and the propitiatory work of Christ are clearly seen; there are no mysteries contained in this verse(s) re: *to all men."* I'm certain JM has merely over thought this issue vs trying to fit "a system" with error.
I absolutely love you John MacArthur! *says I’m not going to preach a sermon-then delivers brilliant sermon** 😂😂❤
GOD BLESS JOHN MACARTHUR
Way to go ,,,, Johnie Mac!!!
I’m borne again and again and once again’nmn Everytime I hear you preach,,,, You love to hear the Spirit
Speaking and giving you the opportunity to speak the Truth and the Life of our beloved Savior and God. Hard to separate the two in one make three,,,,, But who cares ….
If we are one ☝️ Jn 17 Amen Hallelujah
John MacArthur's. Words are so profoundly for the glory of God.! He sticks to the Holy Word of God.
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times?
Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE!
Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!!
God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him!
To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
@@markwills3602 How does God put his character aside. How does God give fallen,blind, things of God re foolish to him any say so.
EXACTLY what I was thinking.
Some things about God are NOT going to be revealed. They will remain a mystery. This is where faith comes in.
GOD'S sovereignty and man's responsibility are both taught in the Holy Scriptures therefore they are both true. How they work together is unsearchable but they do work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
Salvation is the Triune God's work.
The Holy Spirit takes the things of Christ (The Word) and applies it to your heart.
Jesus redeems you when you repent and receive the gift of Grace. The Father is completely satisfied in Jesus' redemptive work and will fellowship with you as His child.
Like a newborn, feed often on the Word. If you have questions, pray to your Heavenly Father. He will direct your steps.
May all sinners come to know they need a Savior.
God doesn’t need us, we desperate need God in our lives. I love the way God allow pastor John teaching from God’s Word. It is a blessing
I never needed god in my life. I needed other people, though. Smart people, not theist fools.
This has been such an amazing lesson I get it I think II understand every thing Pastor is saying & I agree with this 100 % but… right?!?!? As for me & my house I will serve the Kord I am praying for my family& it is a heavy burden
Man when I tell you this is TRUTH y’all!!! Praise the Lord our God for the life of this man! Wow! Glory to God indeed!
Wonderful beyond words.
That was an awesome sermon thank you lord 🙏
One of the great messages of all-time!
Rick Stanford. I realize that your admiration for Pastor John will probably hinder you from seeing this truth about what he just taught about salvation. He implied that the man seeking to be saved in this sermon could possibly have been an apostate or could have crossed the line of redemption and couldn't be saved period. I submit that to be absurb bc if one is sincerely seeking and calling on God for mercy then that shows us that he could definitely be saved with no equivocation bc one will NOT call out to God UNLESS they are being drawn by the Trinity (John 6:44, John 12:32, John 16:7) and so we know they have NOT crossed the line.
@@lonniesatterfield1770that was pretty terrifying I admit. Thanks for possibly clarifying the issue.
@janevelyn-Thanks-Everyone WILL be TAUGHT of God and the ones that LEARN will come to Jesus and be saved (See John 6:44-45)
What a blessing this teaching has been to me. Praise God for it!!!! Thank you Lord for your word, for your appointed teachers of your word, thank you.
Proverbs 16:9 NASB "The mind of man plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps." Does this verse indicate how we are held responsible for our own motives, intentions, and actions while the Lord is at work to accomplish His will?
That is a good way of putting it...Amen.
I wish I could always have this link at hand for those times when someone is agonizing over how much is God's sovereignty and how much is man's free will! This is the exact answer and conundrum. The mystery of our God is put on display in the scriptures John reads to show how the Bible explains what looks like a dichotomy to us and what we even sometimes argue over amongst ourselves - in scripture it is sometimes explained on both sides in the same sentence. A real keeper.
YHWH pardons whom He wills and no one can accuse Him of injustice because if we all received what was due we'd all perish. The just shall live ( have life ) by Faith. Trust the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Shalom and Maranatha!!
@@ejj1939 We already know this with YHWH choosing Jacob over Esau before they were born... As Jesus Himself is the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world....
@@71superbee39 “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME”
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
Question: “What is the name which is above every name?”
Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible.
Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?”
Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names.
Question: What does this mean to me?
Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation.
Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth?
Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation.
Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua.
Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation?
The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us?
Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH!
The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15).
Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name?
Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA.
Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?”
Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved!
This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew.
“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
R.C. Sproul, McArthur and Voodie are a pleasure to be heard....and 99 times on 100 their words hurt my unbelief and my weak faith. Praise the Lord they are a balm for hears and soul.
Voddie is awesome
James Montgomery Boice also
@@iacoponefurio1915 un altro italiano che segue i massimi della teologia riformata? 😁😁😁😁
@@Akitorbenov “THE NAME WHICH IS ABOVE EVERY NAME”
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE
Question: “What is the name which is above every name?”
Answer: Then Moses said to God, “Indeed, when I come to the children of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they say to me, ‘What is His name?’ what shall I say to them?” And God said to Moses, “HaYAH Ashar HaYAH [“I AM WHO I AM.”] And He said, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel, ‘I AM {YAH} has sent me to you.’” Moreover, God said to Moses, “Thus you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you. This is My name forever, and this is My memorial to all generations” (Exodus 3:13-15). Halleluyah, Praise YAH! The LORD revealed His essential name “YAH,” and this name appears 48 times in the Bible.
Question: “Doesn’t the LORD have many names?”
Answer: And God spoke to Moses and said to him: “I the Lord. I appeared to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, as EL SHADDAI [God Almighty], but by My name Lord {YAH} I was not known to them (Exodus 6:2-3). The LORD only has one essential name YAH, and many descriptive names.
Question: What does this mean to me?
Answer: The prophet Isaiah makes this very clear: “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid; ‘For Yah, the Lord, is my strength and song; He also has become my salvation’” (Isaiah 12:2 NKJV, as compared to the Hebrew). “YAH” means “I AM” with “Shua” meaning salvation, and thus YAHSHUA is the exclusive name of our salvation.
Question: What name did Christ actually receive at His birth?
Before we answer, it is important that we know one crucial fact, that the name Jesus has only existed since the 17th century. So the real question is, “What name did the angel reveal to Joseph?” Obviously the name of salvation according to the Prophet is “YAH,” and “shua” means salvation.
Answer: In Matthew 1:21, “And she will bring forth a Son, and you shall call His name YAHSHUA, for He will save His people from their sins.” “You shall call” is a command from God through the angel. The name YAHSHUA is revealed and commanded to be given to our Savior. Most do not know of the transformations, or the linguistic evolution, of the only name by which we must be saved: Jesus changed from Iesus due to the late addition of the letter “J” into the English alphabet in the 17th century. Jesus comes from Iesus, and Iesus is found in the 1611 KJV English version of the Bible. Iesus (Latin) comes from the Greek name Iesous, which is a transliteration of the Aramaic name Yeshua, Yeshua was a common name in the 1st century, and most people who lived in the land of Israel would have heard YAHSHUA as Yeshua.
Question: Why is this one name YAHSHUA so important to our salvation?
The Apostle Peter made this very clear and emphatic: “Nor is there salvation in any other, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Question: How do we know that YAH was revealed to us?
Answer: The Savior Himself told us when He said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM” (John 8:58). “I AM” is YAH, as in Halleluyah, Praise YAH!
The Apostle Paul, who was called Saul, on the Road to Damascus heard the name which is above every name, He testified of this to King Agrippa, “While thus occupied, as I journeyed to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, at midday, O King, along the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining around me and those who journeyed with me. And when we all had fallen to the ground, I heard a voice speaking to me and saying in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’ So I said, ‘Who are You, Lord?’ And He said, ‘I am YAHSHUA, whom you are persecuting’” (Acts 26:12-15).
Question: Did the apostle Paul hear the name which is above every name?
Answer: The apostle Paul wrote, “Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him {YAH} the name which is above every name, that at the name of YAHSHUA every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that YAHSHUA the Christ is LORD, to the glory of God the Father” (Philippians 2:9-11). Every language is to know and confess this one name: YAHSHUA.
Question: “What does it mean if we reject the one name given under heaven by which we must be saved?”
Answer: “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God” (John 3:16-18). To reject the Savior’s revealed name is to stand condemned. Halleluyah, Praise YAH, Praise YAHSHUA! And be saved!
This יָה is “YAH” {I AM} in Hebrew.
“But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord YAHSHUA, giving thanks to God the Father through Him” (Colossians 3:14-17). Shalom in His name, YAHSHUA!
Amazing blessed man of God
Thank you brother JC. I will listen to this again and again. God bless you. May He grant us all deeper and excellent understanding of the truth by Holy Spirit IJN Amen!
I dont disagree with brother Macarthur but then I dont necessarily always agree with his interpretations of some things. Regardless, this will always be a discussed topic. Thankful for his ministry and for the JM Study Bible. 👍✝
I've been listening to pastor John continuesly now , and taking notes , he is amazing .
Beware of John McArthur. I just posted several messages on Lordship Salvation on here, which is what John McArthur teaches. Lordship Salvation is a false gospel and John McArthur is a false teacher
God is sovereign but He gives man the right to choose for himself. Now God has given the descendants of Adam another chance through the grace of his Son Jesus Christ.
Pastor John is a blessed to Christians. Without him my family and I would be lost. He teaches the full truth. There are so few good preachers out there...99% twist the truth. I feel like I'm getting food for my soul every time I listen to his sermons
Simply awesome, I struggled with this for many years trying to figure out Free Will and predestination and election thank you John for letting me be free of that.
Ken
So God does not give a Choice but in the Dr. MacArthur Legacy Bible we have "IF YOU" 699 times?
Then in regards to salvation we have this CLEAR CHOICE!
Romans 10:9 that IF YOU confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
This is an open and shut case. God says to Man IF YOU will believe in Jesus Christ You will be saved!!
God put his Sovereignty on the sidelines so man could CHOOSE to love him!
To me that is the GREATEST ACKNOWLEDGMENT of God and his Sovereignty!
Wonderful prayer at last. Thank You Lord.
Wonderful:)
I am always moved by the new perspective on the divine decree
Beautiful sermon from a great mentor in the faith! I love this presented with complete humility in relation to our incomprehensible Lord. Amen
Way to go Johnny Mac!
Insightful and breathtaking explanation of God's Word with crystal clarity. I am very grateful for this foundational teaching of the Word of God. Thank you Mr. MacArthur.
@37:58 he references Paul in Romans 9:1-5
Paul was soo grieved in the beginning of the chapter because his kinsmen were stumbling over this rock of offense which required them to BELIEVE in faith in Christ.
ROMANS 9:32,33
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by FAITH, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone;
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone and rock of offence: and WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH on him shall not be ashamed.
He WASN’T grieved because he thought some were chosen for salvation and some were not.
*HE WAS GRIEVED BECAUSE THOSE THAT SOUGHT SALVATION BY WORKS OF THE LAW DIDN’T GET IT!*
They wouldn’t attain it!
They were IGNORANT of God’s righteousness which was by FAITH and they were trying to establish their own righteousness:
ROMANS 10:3
3 For they being IGNORANT of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their OWN righteousness, HAVE NOT SUBMITTED THEMSELVES unto the righteousness of God.
They falsely ASSUMED they had salvation simply by being the elect chosen nation of God!
That’s why Paul was so grieved because they sought it not by FAITH.
ROMANS 9:1-5
1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
This has absolutely nothing to do with Paul being grieved that some weren’t chosen and some were predestined to hell for no apparent reason before the foundation of the world.
Again we see in the very next chapter:
ROMANS 10:1-4
1 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is, that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being IGNORANT of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their OWN righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
4 For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that BELIEVETH.
Thats. What. He. Was. Saying.
Why is it when everytime I hear people arguing against Lordship, Predestination, and other Calvanist principles, the only image I can conjure is a dog chasing its own tail.
@@JerynToney The Calvinist principles of those doctrines are not the Biblical principles.
That’s not what he said at all.
Scripture is crystal clear Christ died for all of humanity without exception and GENUINELY offers salvation to WHOSOEVER.
Why is it when everytime I hear Calvinists arguing against Lordship, Predestination, and other BIBLICAL principles, the only image I can conjure is a dog chasing its own tail? 🤔
Thank you Pastor for the words of God God bless you and continue preaching fruitily thank you Cornel muller
John McArthur and I are almost on the same level of understanding here. We both affirm the truth that free will and sovereign direction are in scripture, but John misses a key point in explaining this supposed paradox. God's permissive will is the key to understanding how to bring these truths together.
In the book of Job, we see the truth unfold. God and Satan are having a dialogue, in which they discuss Job. Satan asks for permission to afflict Job. At this point, God shows his absolute sovereignty by allowing Satan to afflict Job, but he could not kill him. See Job 1-2
God did not create evil, neither does he do evil, but he allows it for a perfect purpose. My biggest problem with the doctrine of divine decrees is that it leaves one with a false impression of God. When you read passages such as Isaiah 45:7, it is hard to fathom how God could be both good and evil. Thus you have the "dilemma" that John spoke of. Yet there is no dilemma when you understand that God did not create evil, but he created the devil, who in turn created evil.
The skeptic would then ask; if God foreknows everything, then why create the devil if he knew he would do all this evil. The answer I always get when I study this out is simple, yet profound; God gives mankind a free will to choose. What good is free will if there is nothing to choose from? Think about it...if Adam had nothing to choose from, would he have loved God freely? If God forced us to love him, is that really love? Adam was given a choice, that he might exercise the free will that God gave him. So when John says that there is nothing that we can do at the point of salvation, he misses the crucial point that we play in the salvation process...we believe. We willfully surrender our plans and intentions, and ask the Lord to take complete control of our life. This is what surrendering to Christ is all about. This is what Romans 10 is about...saying yes when God calls.
This is why I teach that we can understand scripture, and that it is not a paradox. Just because God knows what you will do, that does not imply that he made you do it. The Bible allows us to see things as God sees them. Did God make Pharaoh resist his will or did Pharaoh harden his own heart? The writers of scripture gave God all the glory by attributing certain decisions to God, when in fact it was man making said decisions under the permissive will of God.
If God creates evil or divinely decreed every act of mankind before the foundation of the world, then you will have to conclude that God is evil. If you say this, you are guilty of the unpardonable sin. If on the other hand, you understand that it was not God doing the evil, but he is watching and allowing the devil to operate, this is the sovereignty of the Almighty. He allows everything to work together, for the purpose of fulfilling his will for his children (Rom. 8:28). There is so much more I can say to expound on this topic. Comments or questions are welcome.
in Jesus love,
Pastor Brett
"Look, I have appointed by name Bezalel son of Uri, son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. 3 I have filled him with God’s Spirit, with wisdom, understanding, and ability in every craft 4 to design artistic works in gold, silver, and bronze, 5 to cut gemstones for mounting, and to carve wood for work in every craft. 6 I have also selected Oholiab[a] son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, to be with him. I have placed wisdom within every skilled craftsman" (Exduse 31:2-6). if there is free will why did God appoint them? did he not deprive them of free will? Why did God force Jonah to go to Nineveh?
Paster Brett,I agree w u is like this God forgives sin but the consequences of our sinns he don't take away.We pay for our wrong choices.
God did harden Pharaoh's heart
God hardened Pharaoh's heart to the point of no return.
Assigning the (apparently irreconcilable) tension between divine sovereignty (Rom 8&9) and ‘creaturely freedom’ (Rom 10) to the category of ‘mystery’, betrays a misapprehension of the SUBSTANCE of God’s sovereignty, the NATURE of ‘creaturely freedom’ and the ESSENCE of the ‘human will’…
Paul answers this matter in 2 Corinthians 12:9, “The grace of God is made perfect in my weakness”… In other words… God commands, NOT BECAUSE WE CAN (of ourselves), BUT BECAUSE WE CAN’T (of ourselves)! And it is only because God enables us that His glory is magnified and we are denied any reason to boast (which only serves to rob God of His glory)
The (apparent) ‘tension’ is finally defeated when we come understand that, while man indeed possesses a WILL, his will is NOT FREE but enslaved either to the god of this age or to the Spirit of Truth - Rom 6:15-18!
Ultimately, God is God over all (ie He is ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN over ABSOLUTELY ALL THINGS - Eph 4:6), INCLUDING THE WILL OF MAN!