John MacArthur: The Myth of Influence (Part 2) 

Kevin Rogers

🙏 Amen

Kevin M. Ryan I got all caught up into it too...including Christian life coaching where psychology was the core rather than God’s Holy Word...our leader sprinkled it in when necessary and when a point or concept needed to be emphasized....

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right just ask PAUL ......

Mkenya Kabisa ...Amen...that’s why mainstream christianity is so appealing...people are drawn in by the music first...then the volunteering and community outreaches...yet not knowing what they’re saved from...

Yup..reality of a fallen creation

celyn aradanas-hanson that’s exactly how it works, well said! Where The music is good the preaching is usually bad, and vice versa🤷‍♀️

His yoke is light and bearable.

ƏĐÛÅŘĎØ Æ the truth is hard to hear. Like he said, the Gospel is harsh, it points out our sin and makes us VERY uncomfortable. A gospel that makes you comfortable is no gospel at all...it is not good news it is terrible news that has no redeeming qualities and only leads to destruction. The True Gospel is the Good News of Jesus Christ who lived sinlessly, died to satisfy God’s hot anger and delivered eternal life to those he calls to repentance and belief!! Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved!

It’s the Holy Spirit steering you away from his false doctrine of Calvinism. Run my friend, run.

@@evanu6579 bro I've been hearing a lot about Calvinism lately 🤔

ƏĐÛÅŘĎØ Æ Be sure to listen to people on the other side. Calvinism falls apart pretty quick when context is pointed out. I recommend Steve Gregg and Leighton Flowers to help balance the argument that Calvinists give. God bless.

This man speaks the very truth please keep listening he is leading people to Jesus in a heartfelt way Pray about your feelings of doubt and God will help you see what u need to

It is a choice for the person still but God chooses people because he knows the true intent of their hearts, and he has divine knowledge which we cannot fully understand.

Lol..the point exactly.. your agreement matters not

@@jokelechi7589 Can't guilt trip me about your heresy.

The King - Sad for you. It is all about God’s divine grace. Did you hear the part where John said that we are the scum that has to be scraped off the bottom of the pot? No human can take any credit for his salvation. God gets all the credit for saving us.

@@bobhawkins2997 You think free will means we save ourselves? We aren't the ones who died on the cross. We are the ones of whom it was written "that whosoever believeth on Him shall not perish". That belief is not a man saving himself. That belief is a man asking to be saved.

The King - No, of course not, my understanding if free will is that man has the capability in himself to respond to the offer of salvation. But, if men had the free will to respond to grace, they would respond without the saving intrusion of The Holy Spirit. No one responds favorably to grace unless God moves in them to die to themselves. From man’s POV, it looks like a free will choice. From God’s POV, He had mercy on whom he had mercy. No one in hell can say “I would be in heaven if God chose me”. No one in heaven will say, “I did not want to be here, but God chose me. Here’s a prayer for you that God will enlarge your vision of Him and diminish your vision of man.

You do not like the doctrine of election ? … All the way through the Word, God CHOOSES … His holy nation Israel, His prophets, His apostles … much as it may be distasteful to you, it is solidly biblical

Belinda Mostert God chose Israel because they were descendants of Abraham to whom He made promises concerning Jesus. God would fulfill those promises through his children. This chosen people were mostly unsaved. Election is in the bible but Calvinism redefines many words to prove their doctrine.

That's weird you feel that way. It shows you choose what parts of the Bible you want to believe. He preached consistently through the Scriptures UNTIL THE END explaining every passage he read and putting it in its context. There are things in the Bible I had a hard time believing because it didn't fit with my thinking or belief. But after examining and studying things faithfully I had to accept what the Bible says. Jesus said He's the only way to the Father. That means every other religion and belief that's not according to Christ is false and damned. Is that hard to believe? Yes. But is it true? I'm convinced it is. Do many evangelicals feel the same way? No, unfortunately. Some parts of the Bible are easy to accept while others are hard but if the Bible is the word of God then what it says is true. I used to deny Reformed Theology but once I understood them by the Spirit I fell in love with God like never before. The doctrine of Election and Predestination made me want to sanctify myself and live for the Lord more than ever. My witnessing to people grew and I became more compassionate and broken over the lost. Understanding the Preservation of the Saints made me want to separate myself more from the world and the things in it. But when I believed I could lose my salvation I can't explain the fear I used to live in whereas now I see God's love and it makes want to grow in holiness for what He's done for us in Christ. I can speak more. But bottom line: we can argue over doctrine all day but if we're not living holy, it means nothing. If these doctrines are heresy or false then why did it boost my love for God and made me want to grow in holiness more and where I actually rejoice in denying myself, carrying my cross and following Christ? Heresy doesn't sanctify. The truth of God does (John 17:17). God bless you :)

Franklin Genao Many Mormons live sanctified lives and are fervent in sharing their gospel as well. Same with some JWs, Hebrew roots, Catholics, etc. Your feelings doesn’t determine truth, God’s Word does. Perseverance of the saints shouldn’t give you any more assurance than the idea that you must persevere until the end in faith. In the former, if you don’t persevere, it means you were never really saved and are damned. In the latter, it means you may have been saved but you didn’t persevere so you end up being damned. The results and requirements for both are the same. Heb 3:6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end. 7 ¶ Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, 8 Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: 9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. 10 Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways. 11 So I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest.) 12 ¶ Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God. 13 But exhort one another daily, while it is called To day; lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin. 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end; God bless.

@@evanu6579 Hey Evan. First of all I never said "my feelings" determine truth but that these truths made me love God more and made desire holiness in a much more glorious way. I don't see the evil in that considering that Hebrews 12:14 says without it no one will see the Lord, the same Epistle you're quoting against me. Second, I hate sin and want nothing to do it and as Romans 6:11 says "consider yourselves