Think Wink.

Here is the “him that pisseth against the wall” preacher again, this time trying to refute the reformed doctrines of grace.

A couple of points on this video. He references John 6:70 to disprove election being unto final salvation (cf. Ephesians 1:4-6). The pastor does not check the context of the statement. Up in John 6:64-65 we see, “‘But there are some of you who do not believe.’ (For Jesus knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.) 65 And he said, ‘This is why I told you that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.’” John 6:65 is the explanation as to why those who were with Jesus after the miracle of the feeding of the 5000 were only there for the food that Christ could make and not for Jesus himself. But John 6:64 tells us that John 6:65 also explains why the one who would betray Jesus would do so, God did not grant to Judas to follow after Christ. Thus Jesus could say in John 6:70, “Did I not choose you, the Twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”

This preacher also states that God did not want Judas to betray Jesus but to follow him. However, look at John 17:12, “While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.” Judas was lost so that the Scriptures might be fulfilled. It was God’s plan that this happen. Or consider also Acts 2:23, “this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.” Jesus was delivered over by the Jews to Pilate and crucified “according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God.” Hear also the prayer of that same church in Acts 4:27-28, “In this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, to do whatever your hand and your plan had predestined to take place.” Again what happened to Jesus–including his betrayal by Judas–was done according to “whatever your [Yahweh's] hand and your plan had predestined to take place.” God determined that Judas would betray Jesus. He revealed it in Scripture. The early church in Acts 4 saw that as part of the fulfillment of Psalm 2:1-2 (cf. Acts 4:25-26).

If you don’t want to hold to the Reformed doctrines of grace and Reformed soteriology, that is fine and I pray for you to see the truth of the Scriptures. But please when you try to refute the theology, do your homework better. Read the context of the passages that you site. The Gospel of John is the most “Reformed” book in all of the New Testament. I will give him this, at least he was trying to speak to doctrine in this video instead of the KJV being the only Word of God.

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