“…that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth:) It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger, as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.”  (Romans 9)

 

Reader, My heart is grieved. Recently I have heard about a family that has left a church because of the pastor’s “Calvinism.”  Reader, there is no doctrine in Scripture called Calvinism. There is the doctrine of election.  Calvinism has been adopted as a term to describe the doctrine’s of election, foreknowledge, Free Choice, and Predestination. Reader, you may call it Calvinism, you may call it election, you may call it the one (1) part of the doctrine of grace. You may call it whatever you want to, but it is Holy Writ.  It is clearly spoken of in the Bible. It cannot be denied…maybe it can be twisted, hidden, or ignored, but it is there!!!  It may be explained away, it may be brushed under the carpet, one can laugh it off…BUT, MY GOD IN HEAVEN….IT IS THE WORD OF GOD!!!

Some may categorize this as a hobby horse, some may say it causes division, and some may say there is no need for this to be taught. Some will say it shows God to be hate-filled and angry.  Reader, God IS…is..IS filled with hate, anger, and fury for those that believe not in the Lord Jesus…”he that believeth not is CONDEMNED ALREADY.”  Christ said that if you do not believe in Him and believe He is the Great I am of the Old Testament, you will die in your sins…to those He was speaking, He was declaring that they were, indeed, going to die in their sins, for the Word of God and the Love of God was not in them. THIS READER, IS THE VERY WORD AND WORDS OF GOD.

Christ said in John 5 that He gives life to whom He wills…meaning wants to!!! Reader, put on your grown up pants and understand that if there are some God wills to raise, THERE ARE SOME HE WILLS NOT TO RAISE!!!  Reader, the bare-naked truth of Scripture tells us that God made evil just to destroy it in the end.  The bare-naked truth of Scripture tells us God makes vessels of mercy and vessels of wrath. The vessels of wrath are made to be destroyed…THIS IS GOD AND GOD’S WORD….THIS IS THE GOD OF THE WORD THAT IS PREACHED, or rather, not preached.  What will you say, preachers, when you stand before God and He looks upon you and says, “there is something I have against you….you had a problem with the doctrine of My free-will….this means, servant, that you have a problem with Me.  Did I not give YOU free choice? Why do you deny Me of Mine?….Can I not do with mine own what I will? (Christ asked that question)”. You that deny the doctrine of election answer, “NO!!!” to His question. HOW DARE YOU SPEAK OF FREE WILL AND THEN DENY GOD HIS!!! Understand this, with this position, you take the side of those that hate Christ!!! You allow them their free will, but deny Him His.

Reader, Do you have free choice?  Reader, do you have anger?  Reader, do you pick and choose who you will be-friend and who you won’t?  If you DARE TO SAY YES TO THESE QUESTIONS YOU ARE MORE OMNIPOTENT THAN GOD IS!!!…in your finite mind.

One question I have had for Christ-ians for a long time is this: WHY would you have a problem with God doing what He would do? IF the doctrine of election be true, what does that say about you?

In the beginning God chose to make man in His Image. He chose to name him Adam.  God Chose Abraham to be His chosen vessel. God chose Noah and his family to live and everyone else to die. God chose Moses to be His vessel of mercy (Exodus 3; Romans 9). God chose Joshua, God chose the judges, and God chose His prophets….GOD HAS FREE CHOICE.

The doctrine of election tells persons how much God loves them. The other doctrine of “asking Jesus into you heart,” says you choose to “allow Him to save you”…yeah, for Him, right? The doctrine of election begets a love, a confidence, a certainness, a comfort, A PURPOSE in the heart of those who have the courage to believe it.

Reader, if I sound angry…I am.  This is the doctrine that would change the face and the spirit of churches…if it were taught.  But churches today hide it, twist it, laugh it off, etc. Look into church history. All the great revivals were under believers in the doctrine of election and preached a great BIG GOD WHO is ALL-SOVEREIGN and reigns over EVERYTHING……AND HE CHOOSES TO LOVE YOU AND DIE FOR YOU!!!  Reader, My God!!! That is a message that will excite the spirit of persons.  IF God created you and chose you to be saved, then you must admit, He can do as He wills with you…right?  On the other hand, if you chose GOD then you can do as you will with Him!!!…see? That’s the corner the deniers of God’s free choice are in.

The doctrine of election says God loves you over those that hate Him.   Why is this such a problem?….you are on the side of the sinner…you give the sinner the right to choose God, but then deny God to choose what sinner He will save.

Reader, if you think I sound angry….what do you think God will sound like when you stand before Him and charges you with preaching a weak and impotent GOD Who is waiting and hoping someone might CHOOSE Him and ALLOW Him in their heart?  IT’S NOT THEIR HEART…IT’S HIS HEART…HE CREATED IT AND HE CAN DO WITH IT AS HE PLEASES and He can do with that heart what He wills…harden it, or bless it, or soften it by grace.

Reader, when you buy something you can use it as you will, right? If I purchased or even made a vase, I could set it on a shelf, I could use it for practical purposes, I could paint it anyway I chose. I could use that vase for a fish bowl or for flowers…or I could look at it, see an imperfection in it and then destroy it and make a new one….right?  I would have that right, right? READER!!! THAT IS TRUE OF GOD TOO, LEST YOU BE MIGHTIER THAN HE!!!

It is as simple as this….I can choose, you can choose, others can choose, BUT GOD CAN’T…YOUR GOD IS IMPOTENT AND WEAK and too small, AND SCRIPTURE KNOWS NOTHING…NOTHING ABOUT…him.

David said, we should never think God is like us.  YOU AGREE WITH HIM…GOD IS NOT LIKE US. HE HAS NO FREE CHOICE.

MY GOD, CHRIST-IAN, GET ON YOUR FACE AND REPENT AND BELIEVE IN THE GOD OF HOLY WRIT!!! TELL HIM YOU ARE SORRY FOR SEEING HIM AS SMALL AND WEAK AND HAVING LESS FREE CHOICE THAN YOU DO!!!

Godspeed.

P.S. I wd be glad to discuss this with anyone. I do not do debates, but in this case I would debate any preacher of any denomination on this topic.  I would not do this to prove myself right…God forbid. I would do this so GOD might be glorified in the minds of His people as He should be.