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“Jesus Christ, if that’s who you believe in – Jesus Christ, admittedly, was not perfect when he was here on Earth. So, why are we deifying the founders of this country, many of whom owned slaves?”

Don Lemon
CNN Talk Show Sodomite
On Air Conversation w/ Roman Catholic Fredo Cuomo

Don Lemon, probably quite without realizing it, in his statement above attacked that doctrine, which without, Christianity is not Christianity. The Holy Scriptures, whom Lemon didn’t bother to consult in his statement, articulate repeatedly that Jesus Christ was in point of fact perfect. Here are but three,

“God made Him (Jesus Christ) who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21

“He (Jesus) committed no sin,
    and no deceit was found in his mouth.” I Peter 2:22

¹⁵ For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Hebrews 4:15

It is difficult to imagine how the Scriptures could more directly say that Jesus Christ was without sin.

Further orthodox Protestant Christianity understands that the conception of Christ by the Holy Spirit and being born of the virgin Mary are both doctrines necessary to safeguard the sinless perfection of Jesus Christ. These realities mean that Jesus, while having a human nature had a human nature because of His holy conception and virgin birth that was absent man’s sin nature. Jesus was born sinless, had no inclination to sin, and never did sin and so contra CNN’s theologian Don Lemon, was perfect.

Jesus time spent in the wilderness resisting the temptation brought by the serpent as recorded in the Gospels is recorded in the Gospels for the very purpose of demonstrating that Jesus was perfect. Subsequent to His triumph in the wilderness Jesus’ Baptism wherein we see the Spirit descending is recorded having as one of its purposes that the reader may be assured that Jesus was a set apart as the sinless one to carry the sins of His people.

The hoisting of Jesus Christ in the narrative of the Gospels is supposed to strike the reader as shocking because here we find God’s anointed perfect one receiving the treatment of the criminal sinner.

All this to say that Don Lemon knows no more about the Bible or theology than he manifestly does not know about politics and current events. Let’s just say, unlike Jesus, that Don isn’t perfect.

Having established that Jesus was indeed perfect let us spend just a little cyber-ink explaining why.

The orthodox Protestant Christian faith has always confessed that the perfection of Jesus had a purpose beyond Jesus merely having boasting rights that He alone was prefect and without sin. No, the perfection of Jesus was to a greater and grander end. In the Christian faith the perfection of Jesus has the teleological purpose of providing the perfection necessary for a human to be named, accepted, and stand in the presence of God.

The idea of Jesus Christ’s perfection is thus substitutionary. That perfection’s intent was so that those who did not have the requisite perfection required by God in order to have audience with Him, could find a way to have the perfection required by God of all mortals in order to be in relationship with Him.

The Heidelberg catechism points us in this direction,

Q. What benefit do you receive
from the holy conception and birth of Christ?

A. He is our Mediator,1
and with his innocence and perfect holiness
covers, in the sight of God,
my sin, in which I was conceived and born.2

Notice that phrase, “with His innocence and perfect holiness.” The perfection of Jesus Christ that Don Lemon denied is the only hope that any man, woman, or child, has to be owned by God.

The assumption in all this is that Don Lemon, Fredo Cuomo, the founding fathers, Bret L. McAtee and all of us are not perfect but instead are imperfect sinners through and through and that if Lemon, Cuomo, the founding fathers, and McAtee don’t find an alien perfection from somebody else standing in as our substitute our imperfection will separate us from God forever resulting in eternal torment.

So, this “Jesus being perfect” truth is a bigger deal even than being a talking head on CNN, and correspondingly the denial of it constitutes fighting words. Fighting words because first and foremost Don is calling God a liar. Fighting words because secondly, without the perfection of Jesus not only is Don Lemon definitely lost forever (yes even Don can yet be saved) but so is every human who has ever lived. Without Jesus being perfect we — each of us and all of us — are without hope and without God.

And frankly, if we are all going to be eternally damned then who cares who once owned slaves or who yet might own Don and his family in the future?

Jesus being perfect was alone able to pay the price required by a ineffably Holy God for the sins committed by those assigned for eternal life. Jesus being perfect paid that penalty — the penalty of imperfect people — by His time on the Cross. There on the cross the perfect was the substitute for the imperfect; the just for the unjust. Without the perfection of Jesus Christ being placed to the account of the Church all men within or without the church remain imperfect, having God dead set against them.

Of course, for the thinking man, what is anticipated already is the understanding of why Christians have always said that if men desire to have life beyond this life they must have Jesus’ perfection on their side of the ledger. Without the perfection only found in Jesus all men everywhere will die eternally after this life. Muslim men, Jew men, Sikh men, Hindu men, Marxist men, Taoist men, Shinto men, etc. who die without knowing Jesus die in their imperfection and sins and so are separated from God for eternity.

And now the thinking man understands why Christians have always been so earnest in telling men they must repent of their imperfection and sin and trust Christ alone in order to know God’s smile and hear the applause of heaven. Christians, loving imperfect sinners, desire them to know Christ and so at God’s behest, command all men everywhere to repent.

Even Don Lemon.

Baa Baa little sheep do you wear a mask?
Yes I do, Yes I do, and why is it you ask?

OK little sheep now listen since I’m gonna tell ya
Masks lowers O2 levels and leads to hypoxia
Masks increases CO2 leading to hypercapnia
Masks increases cortisol that eventually kill ya

OK little sheep now listen if you have ability
Masks lowers your immunity, and increases susceptibility
Masks are bad for blood pressure and any comorbidity
Masks are bad for your lungs and hard on your heart
There’s lots of other stuff but that’s a good start.

Baa Baa little sheep will you now still wear a mask?
Yes we will, Yes we will, as sheep that is our task.

Mark Chambers
Bret L. McAtee

Over here,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPR6ViV70ac

New St. Andrew’s College shows its Cultural Marxist slip though completely covered with the attempt of clever triangulation.

I don’t know if Doug Wilson supported the release of this propaganda piece but regardless it is the devil’s propaganda. The ironic thing about it all is it sells itself with the appeal that at New St. Andrews the student is taught how to think. Well, if this video is an example we would say that is definitely a case of false advertising because the only thing this video proves is that at New St. Andrews the student is taught how to propagandize.

The hilarity begins right out of the gate of this video as the video shows a photo of Martin Luther King Jr. back to back with a photo of a black baby in the womb. The voice over says as we see King,

“This Black life mattered,”

And then the voice over says as we see the baby,

“Doesn’t this one?”

Note the irony here is that Martin Luther King Jr. was a huge supporter of Planned Parenthood, the very organization, that excels as ending black lives in the womb. So, one might legitimately argue that if the black life in the womb matters than MLK’s live should not have mattered.

In 1966, Martin Luther King Jr. made clear that he agreed that Sanger’s life’s work was anything but inhumane and agreed that black baby lives did not matter. In 1966, when King received Planned Parenthood’s Margaret Sanger Award in Human Rights, MLK praised her contributions to the black community writing, “There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts.” And, “…Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision.”

In fuller context we read how MLK praised Margaret Sanger for the torture and murder of black babies. Keep this in mind as Doug Wilson and New St. Andrews uses MLK as an example of a Black Life that Mattered.

“There is a striking kinship between our movement and Margaret Sanger’s early efforts. She, like we, saw the horrifying conditions of ghetto life. Like we, she knew that all of society is poisoned by cancerous slums. Like we, she was a direct actionist – a nonviolent resister. She was willing to accept scorn and abuse until the truth she saw was revealed to the millions. At the turn of the century she went into the slums and set up a birth control clinic, and for this deed she went to jail because she was violating an unjust law. Yet the years have justified her actions. She launched a movement which is obeying a higher law to preserve human life under humane conditions. Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her. Negroes have no mere academic nor ordinary interest in family planning. They have a special and urgent concern.

“The Negro constitutes half the poor of the nation. Like all poor, Negro and white, they have many unwanted children. This is a cruel evil they urgently need to control. There is scarcely anything more tragic in human life than a child who is not wanted….For these reasons we are natural allies of those who seek to inject any form of planning in our society that enriches life and guarantees the right to exist in freedom and dignity. For these constructive movements we are prepared to give our energies and consistent support.”

Pressing on with the video, New St. Andrew’s feeds into the lie that it is the fault of racists white people alone who are responsible for the death toll of tens of millions of black babies. We grieve, along with New St. Andrews that these lives have been snuffed out. However, to make White progressive racists the alone sinners in the death of black lives that mattered is akin to Adam blaming Eve for His sin.

It is true that countless Whites and Jews (Doug doesn’t bother to mention Jewish contribution to the scourge of the institutionalization of Abortion in the Black community) bear their own culpability for the advance of Abortion, however that reality doesn’t diminish that the Black community itself must alone share its own responsibility for Abortion. Doug’s video conveniently deletes any mention of that. Because of that convenient memory lapse the video takes on the appearance of “virtue signaling” on the part of New St. Andrews. It’s as if the sub-text is,

“See, we here at New St. Andrews understand how evil White People are and we likewise lament the evil of white people and proclaim the inherent victim-hood of Black people.”

New St. Andrew’s College gets points for subtlety. This video is downright as clever treason against one’s own people group that one will ever come across. Why, even Slick Willie would be proud of this kind of Triangulation.

As another friend said upon viewing the above video,

“But he (Doug Wilson) effectively makes an argument that the destruction of Black lives and Black families is the fault of….Whitey. By laying the problems of the “Black community” at the feet of (naturally) White “Progressives,” (clearly these are the “Real Racists”), Wilson undermines the moral agency of Blacks and reinforces the lie of White perfidy.”

New St. Andrews College might have noted that our current policy of abortion is completely consistent with the Talmudic religion. The Talmud considers the unborn child a “rodef” and so a “pursuer” and that as such it (the unborn child) is considered a threat and so can be aborted. It seems to me that our abortion law is thus an outgrowth of the Jewish Talmudic religion. But not a word on that in the video above. Just evil white progressives going all White Supremacist by oppressing the innocent black population.

Ironies abound in this video as another friend noted.

“A guy who wrote a book defending antebellum slavery and who named his school St. Andrew’s (whose cross is deemed a hate crime) is trying to convince Blacks that he’s really more progressive on the race question than they are. Doug has gone full retard.”

The whole video is supposed to be an example of New St. Andrews College’ “clear thinking and clear teaching.” One would get more clear thinking from a inebriated mole.

With Michigan Governor Wretched Witless handing down from on high new draconian diktats regarding the masking of Michigan I though I would take the opportunity to note the updated potpourri of Orwellian-isms that has now been foisted upon the only people who have escaped the zombieification process.

First there is the quaint word “Quarantine.” Historically, this word referred to action taken against a ship coming into port that was suspected of carrying goods and / or crew that was infected with disease. To quarantine then was an action taken where those diseased would be locked away so as to prevent the spreading of their disease.

Quarantine now, however, has taken an additional meaning and that is “to lock away a state or nation’s citizenry from activity because a contrived danger, that has been exposed numerous times as not particularly dangerous, might give someone the sniffles in hopes that such action will swing an election in the Democrats favor.” So, “Quarantine” is now a political term alongside other colorful political terms like “gerrymander,” “hanging chads,” and “Yellow Dog Democrat.”

Enter Orwell. The term quarantine, once stripped of its Orwellian Newspeak quotient now means “house arrest.” An example of our new Orwellianism in a sentence is, “I wanted to go to the store to purchase some goods but the FEDS have me under quarantine so I can’t go out.”

Second there is the ubiquitous Orwellian mask. Until recently, going to the bank with a mask on meant that you were intended to relieve said bank of excessive funds. Masks, historically, have been used to hide behind. The ancient world used masks for their actors to hide behind in order to play a role. In the occult world mask were used to hide identity of the practitioners involved in demonic worship. A peek at Stanley Kubrick’s film, “Eyes Wide Shut” reveals that masks are still used for occultist orgy outings. Suffice it to say that historically masks have not been the stuff that a honest public minded person wanted to be associated with.

Enter Orwell. Masks now are a de rigueur fashion statement. Being without a mask in public now is worse than being without pants. “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Mask — No service.” And all this despite the fact that the medical community is telling us that masks are harmful and have absolutely no impact whatsoever on the transmission of virus. We might as well be required to go around wearing grills from 1965 Ford Mercury Comets for all the good that masks are doing us.

But, in Orwell’s world masks are serving a purpose. They serve the purpose of keeping the fear level fever pitched. As the lemmings are out wearing their 1965 Ford Mercury Comet grills what they are communicating to one another is how fearful we all are and must remain until the God State comes up with a vaccine that can deliver us from our masks. Orwell’s masks are a bridge to Orwell’s vaccines. Keep the fear porn up, by way of masks, and the lemmings will all be begging to be filled anew with formaldehyde, baby parts, monkey genes, and God only knows what else as found in the witches’ brew that we call “vaccine.”

Orwell baby, you were a piker compared to our ability today.

Next up in our Orwellianification is the slogan, “United we will get through this together.” The clever bit in this piece of propaganda is the assumption that those of us who don’t think of ourselves as “zombies” have any interest in being united with those leading the zombie parade. With the entry of Orwell what this propaganda has done has made it clear that if one disagrees with the Orwellian transmogrification of language, culture, and reality then that one is the violator of the promised success of all of us getting through this fecal narrative together. Like Jenny Geddes’ tossing her stool at Papists heads, so we, the non-zombies of the world, fling with relish our double bird helix at the idea of “United we get through this together.” We have no more interest in being united to the Karen’s of the world then we would have interest in being chained to Medusa for all eternity. Bugger your unity.

Finally, for our purposes of this essay we mention the Orwellian idea of “social distancing.” Best kept secret ever that one could be social and distant at the same time. Enter Orwell. The whole idea here is to keep people apart and so make them distrustful of one another. It is another aspect of the fear porn factor. People being distrustful of one another strengthens the State as a separated people are less able to stand together against the machinations of the tyrant state.

Who knows where Orwell will enter next with his doublespeak? We do know that those who are not suspicious of anything that comes out of the vile, disingenuous, and serpent-tongued mouth of the elite Corporate-Media complex is not to be trusted. Believing the FEDS, or their Corporate-Media lapdogs is a sure recipe to become a zombie who can’t get enough of Orwell’s doublespeak.

As we pick up from last week, you may recall that we began to pick up the theme of why does the Reformed Church need to continue to exist and tied up with that is that answering the question “what is the reason for our being,” or if we wanted to say it with a flourish what is our raison d’etre.

We noted last week that there must be reasons for our existence. If there is not we may as well just submerge ourselves in some other denomination. But we can’t do that because of our conviction that we alone have the purest and clearest essence of Biblical Christianity and as such all men everywhere should come and join the Reformed faith.

Of all other expressions of Christianity as Reformed Christians we say that they may well be good and original, but then we would be quick to add that where they are good they are not original, and where they are original, they are not good.

We agree with 20^th century Reformed Theologian B. B. Warfield here,

“The chief dangers to Christianity do not come from anti-Christian systems … It is corrupt forms of Christianity itself which menace from time to time Christianity itself.” B. B. Warfield

So, if we were to say overall what is our raison d’etre the answer would be we exist to offer the answer to the other corrupt forms of Christianity.

Now, note we have not said that Christians occupying other forms of Christianity are not Christian. What we insist upon however is that they are part of denominations which are offering corrupted forms of Christianity.

We noted last week that one reason for the need of our continued existence is our championing the Biblical doctrine of predestination. We noted that we alone champion this doctrine. Even where we might find people using the same word and speaking well of it, more often than not they have re-defined Predestination to mean “not Predestination.”

Indeed other expressions of Christianity have so hostile to predestination that they have been willing to demote our God into a demigod or a well intended benevolent bystander.

And to that the Reformed person says, “A thousand times ‘no.'” If we cannot have Predestination we will not open our doors. If embracing a muscular doctrine of Predestination means we must be a collected handful of families in the face of the swarming hives of Mega-Church evangelicalism then so be it.

And to this Doctrine we turn to again this week.

Acts 13:48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

“As many as were ordained to eternal life believed.”

Before we get to the obvious teaching of Predestination here note that it was the simple preaching of the Word as traveled along by the Holy Spirit that was the means by which men were saved. This is important to observe.

What we don’t see here is the techniques and tools of the non-Reformed in order to shoe horn people into the Kingdom of God. Just the simple word simply preached by simple men.

Consider, quite to the contrary of the simple Word simply preached by simple men that the appeal the Non-Reformed have always used. The non-Calvinist’s appeal in Evangelism has chiefly been to the sentiments of their adherents. It is the emotive part of man that the Arminian evangelists is typically going after. This explains the revivalism of Arminianism. It explains the early anxious seat. It explains the long drawn out hymns during the altar call. It explains the dimming of the lights. It explains the praise bands and the smoke machines. It explains the light shows, special effects, and the celebrity attendees.

The whole environment is organized so as to play to man’s emotions. This was evident first with the early Methodists who were known as “Holy Rollers.” It was then ratcheted up by the Pentecostals (who are likewise Arminian when they are anything) who discovered that more emotion led to greater attendance and so they gave us Holy laughter, barking in the Spirit and all kinds of unique phenomena as part of their Evangelism..

All of this is keeping with the appeal of the Arminian system with its doctrine of libertarian free will. In the Arminian doctrine man has complete free moral control of himself. He is the Captain of his own fate as he responds or doesn’t respond to prevenient grace. In the Arminian system man is in free moral control of himself, and is able to, at any moment, determine his own eternal state. As this is true it only stands to reason given this anthropological conviction of Libertarian free-will in the Arminian system that what needs done in appealing to fallen Arminian man is to arouse, stimulate, and manipulate man’s emotions.

If winning a lost soul for the Kingdom of God can be accomplished by the simple arousing of the emotions then why take the long laborious route of feeding a man’s mind with the truth? Whatever can lawfully awaken the feelings is considered expedient for the purpose of winning souls. As such Arminian evangelism, theology, and continued sanctification works on men’s senses. The typical Arminian then (and remember we are talking about the lion’s share of the Protestant world) is religiously speaking, a man of feeling, emotion and sentiment and consequently is, by way of disposition, given to that which catches the eye and tickles the ear. Further, we expect to find in Arminians (Methodists, Pentecostals, Wesleyans, Nazarenes, Free-Methodist, Church of God, Many varieties of Baptists, etc.) a tendency to sporadic fluctuations in action depending at any given moment on the wave of sensation that is currently breaking upon their emotions.

Not so the Reformed. And here we are turning again to one of our raison d’etre… one of our reasons for existence...

The Reformed are simple men, simply preaching the simple word. Not pyrotechnics, no glitz, and no glamour. And any drama we have is merely the drama that comes from the Word preached.

The Reformed stand in stark contradiction to those who desire to make worship a Rock concert or Evangelism a dog and pony show. In attending a genuinely Reformed Church you will not find us “treeing the devil,” like one found at the Cane Ridge Revivals in the 1801. You will not find people making animal sounds being overcome by the Spirit. You will not find anxious seats to put you under pressure and on the spot. What you will find is Word and Sacrament. What you will find is what you find here in Acts 13 … the simple Word, simply preached, by simple men.

This is one reason for our continued existence. The Church needs someone left standing who isn’t turning Worship and Evangelism into a Broadway performance and who instead of appealing to man’s emotions and sentiments appeals to man’s mind, via the Word preached and then who relies on the Spirit of the living God to convict and convert or to harden as He determines.

Before we get to the obvious Predestination in this passage we must mention another Calvinist doctrine that rubs up against Predestination that we find in this passage.

That is the doctrine of the general vs. effectual call.

You of course have noticed that St. Paul is preaching to a host of people here and yet they are not all saved? Why is that?

Well, the non-Reformed insists it is due to the fact that those who rejected the General call to come to Christ and leaves it at that. Not so the Reformed. The Reformed admit with the Arminian that many are those who reject the general call but unlike the non-Reformed they see more. The Biblical Christian looks and sees that while all heard the general call of the Gospel to come to Christ only those who were predestined to eternal life received the effectual call.

The distinction is found in the idea that the general call of the Gospel that lands on all the people who hear the Gospel can be and is resisted while the effectual call that lands on the ears of the predestined is irresistible and it is irresistible because those that hear are elect from the foundation of the world for Salvation.

Now, here we have done it, haven’t we? We have implicitly officially linked Predestination with Total Depravity, and explicitly linked Predestination to irresistible grace and unconditional election. If we were to burn a few more sentences we would easily arrive at Limited Atonement and perseverance of the Saints.

But one thing at a time. Let’s us stay with Predestination.

Predestination explains why some receive merely the general call and so do not respond to the command to repent and why some receive the effectual call and so bow the knee to Christ. They receive the effectual call because they were predestined and set apart from eternity to own Christ. God owned them as His people before they were conceived and owned by their parents. From all eternity, God’s favor was and is upon those who receive the effectual call.

This predestination (also called election at this point) accounts for why some men are folded into Christ and why some are left to gnaw at the old ends of their reprobation and so never come to Christ.

If we were to say it bluntly, we would say that many don’t come to Christ because God doesn’t and never did want them… He rejected them from the foundation of the world.

This is predestination. God from all eternity loves all His Jacobs and Hates all His Esaus. God from all eternity has set aside not just Judas as a son of perdition but all those who would hate Christ with their own free will with every inch of their being and so show themselves like Judas, sons of Perdition.

We see that just here in Acts 13:48.

48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

Those that believed, believed because they were appointed to believe. And when did that appointment take place? That appointment took place from eternity past as St. Paul writes elsewhere,

 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 

Here is one of the reasons for the Reformed Church’s existence. We believe that our only recommendation to God in Christ was and is God’s work of Predestination. We find ourselves rescued and in Christ not because we are made of better dirt, not because there was something more noble in us that wasn’t in those not chosen, not because we obey the precepts of the law better after conversion, not because God knew what potential we had. No … a thousand times no. As Reformed one reason we exist is to keep thumping the truth that the only reason that we are in Christ is because of God’s unfathomable and inexplicable predestinating grace. A predestinating grace that not only set us apart, but also a predestinating grace that made provision in Christ as the demonstration of the only way to gain access with the Father and a predestinating grace that was assured in the work of the Holy Spirit as certainly applying to the elect that which was accomplished by Christ.

Again Warfield,

“As supernaturalism is the mark of Christianity at large, and evangelicalism the mark of Protestantism, so particularism is the mark of Calvinism.” Warfield

And so we champion predestination here as it pertains to our salvation. If we did not we would be like all other denominations who implicitly or explicitly suggest that the explanation for our interest in Christ is accounted for by some level of our own good-doobie-ness. Without Predestination, to us be the glory, great things we have done. Without predestination snobbery and self-righteousness should abound because without predestination some of us really would be inherently better than others and by all rights should turn their noses up at others.

The world wants Equality. Well, for the Calvinist here is the equality we offer the World and it is wrapped up in our doctrine of Predestination. You all, inside and outside the Church were Predestined to be all the same as dead in your trespasses and sins. You were all Predestined to be all the same as in your vile reproach of the God of the Bible and His Christ. You were all Predestined to be all the same in your hatred for God’s people. This is the equality that the Reformed church teaches and the only escape to that ugly egalitarianism is the hope found in the Predestined Christ for those predestined to no longer be equal in this manner. When we command men to repent we command them to give up their equality.

Now … we have opened up some matters here that we do not have time to close and so we will continue on this march next week seeking to sew those matters up and in doing so we will find other reasons for the Reformed Church’s existence. Reasons we have hinted at this morning. Reasons like our embrace of Total Depravity, Unconditional election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible grace and perseverance of the Saints.

But let us end here this morning by saying that it is our embrace and championing of Predestination that allows us to say that all other expressions of Christianity are corrupt and so those who attend those other expressions, if they no longer are interested in knowing Christ in a strange way, should leave those denominations and find a Reformed Church to attend … if they can find one.

Acts 13:48

48 Now when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord. And as many as had been appointed to eternal life believed.

1.) Note that it is God’s ordaining of men that leads to men believing not men’s believing that results in their being ordained. No one believes who wasn’t first ordained to do so from the counsels of eternity.

2.) In the phrase, “as many as were ordained,” is the absolute proof of limited atonement. If Christ died a death for all men then there would be no sense in the “as many as were ordained” being penned. That phrase implies there were those who were not ordained to eternal life. Those not ordained to eternal life were those Christ did not atone for.

3.) Though God ordains all things, this ordination is specifically tied to eternal life. God not only ordains the differences between natural men but ordains who be bequeathed with redemption and who will not.

4.) Irresistible grace is implied in the definitive character of the statement. If one has been ordained to eternal life one will believe. For the ordained there is no escaping believing unto eternal life.