Sermon On Prayer That Will Challenge You 

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Doug Henrie hey u have a good day brother.

Prayer does work, just because God doesn't heal everyone doesn't heal everyone doesn't mean that he doesn't heal anyone.

Lol Hazel, Hazel. Eating doesn't 'work' either.............if what you're eating doesn't contain any sustenance. Taking a pill for an actual illness 'doesn't work' if the pill for a legitimate illness turns out to be a placebo. Prayer 'doesn't work' if the prayer is empty words said from an empty heart. I challenge you to listen to more of Jeff, and these others: JUSTIN PETERS, PAUL WASHER, JOHN MACARTHUR, RC SPROUL, MIKE WINGER, DR JAMES WHITE, VODDIE BAUCHAM, AW TOZER, CHARLES SPURGEON.......

I think it is easy for Calvinists and non-Calvinists alike to properly discern between doctrines like predestination and elections that are from God's perspective of eternity, seeing the end from the beginning, seeing all who are save with Him in the heavenlies, and commands that come to us from man's perspective, like when Jesus commanded to preach the gospel to every creature. Also, I don't know about you, but there is no message that blesses me more than hearing how I, in my natural state am a sinner, separated from God, but that God, in His mercy, grace, and love, sent His Son and my Savior to pay the price I could never pay and to bestow on me His eternal life. I have heard that message at least a hundred times in at least a hundred different ways, and it never gets old but is as much a blessing to me today as the time I first believed it. It still inspires awe in me like no other truth.

Shep Proudfoot Apart from the fact that your assertions are 100% wrong, there is a major problem with your world view. If nothing awaits us at the end of this life, there is no reason to live, all of life is pointless, and ultimately, hopeless. If there is no God, no ultimate authority or morality, than all there is to govern human behavior is personal behavior is personal opinion. If someone rapes and dismembers your wife, sister, or mother, all you can say is, "I think he's wrong", and he says back, "you have no right and no grounds to judge me." And this is the very best that man can offer.

We share the gospel and go on mission trips because we know that our brothers and sisters are out there and need to hear the Gospel and we are confident in Christ that he is sending us to reach the lost. Let me ask you this, Do you pray for the lost? If so, why? If salvation ultimately comes down to their choice and their free will that God can not interfere with, why pray for the lost? If our choice is what brings is to God, not Jesus who calls us. Doesn't that mean we are the sovereign? That we are the ones who dictate to God who's saved and who isn't? That ultimately we are in charge and God is secondary and only reactive to our freewill? We do have free will, we aren't denying that. It's that in our free will, we will always choose sin. This is why a person must be born again. We die to sin, God replaces our heart of stone with a heart of flesh and he is the one who gets 100% of the glory. Not 99% him, 1% us. He gets the full 100% for saving his children who do not deserve to be saved in the first place. This is what separates Christianity from all other religion. That our faith is monergistic, while theirs is synergistic.

Martin, without arguing Calvinism pro or con, because this has gone on for 500 years and we won't get anything meaningful done here, I have a sincere question. Have you ever noticed how somebody gets saved and then many people in their immediate family, as well as their close group of friends, get saved too? I have seen it and it is mentioned in scripture too. To me, it speaks to that person being a witness to others, who then accept the truth of the gospel. To you, is it just a coincidence that this group of people all were chosen and happen to be connected in some way? Again, sincere question. I have desire to debate your answer. I'd just like to hear it. On another note, I think 1 Timothy chapter 2 does a good job of addressing that we are told to pray for people, as God desires all to be saved.

Ricky Preston I struggled with that same great question before I became a Calvinist. My answer is another question: If people (creature) can choose to resist The Almighty God (Creator) when He "offers" them salvation by telling Him no - why bother to preach the gospel? Why offer people salvation if they can just turn it down? If that were true, it would mean God isn't All-powerful. That's why I'm a Calvinist. Because God decides who He saves. And He uses those whom He saves to preach the Gospel. The way I look at it is - Jesus knows His sheep. I don't. So I have to assume anyone could be a sheep and share the gospel whenever I can. So why share the Gospel if God is sovereign? Because it glorifies God. If you share it with someone and they turn to Christ, God's Mercy is glorified by their salvation. His sheep hear His voice in the evangelist's words. But if you share it with someone and they don't repent and believe, God's justice is glorified by their condemnation. Like goats fattened for the slaughter. In short: If you choose to be saved, then you worked for it and you get the glory. But if God chooses you first, He gets all the glory. Hope that helps and God bless!

super froakie logan, I, Zaphenath Paaeah a High Ranking Official of the KING CHRIST I, will accept Your Challenge for I, am well Versed in the Holy Writings ( 2 Ti 2:15 ) so I, ask You one Question, QUESTION: can You tell Me with Certainty who Salvation is for with Book & Verse if You have Insight of GOD?

super froakie logan - regardless of skin color - out savior died on the cross for all. Not for one gender, one ancestral origins and most of all not for one color or shade of skin. I will worship Jesus and express my gratitude to him. Regardless of skin color. I'm praying that your mention of race does not effect my love of you, a mere stranger, that disturbingly brought up race in a discussion on how to approach The Almighty God.

There are people out there who honestly believe that the true Israelites were the Anglo-Saxons, this is obviously ridiculous. It is however no more ridiculous than the fact that there are people who somehow think modern black Americans are somehow chosen people. Israel is the Christian religion, the Israelites are any who proclaim truly their faith in Christ (who was neither white nor black). Any who believe that they are greater than their brother on account of their ancestors are condemned to die in hell. Matthew 3:9 is the perfect response to Anglo-Israelism and Black-Israelism. Both make idols out of their blood and are heretics who must repent and accept that Christ ordered the baptism of all nations, lest Christ reject them when they die for their nationalistic/racialist idolatry.