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Basic Bible Doctrine
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| Bob, why is it important for believers to have an understanding of basic Bible doctrine? | |
| This is what I'm talking about: redemption. | |
| That's basic Bible doctrine right there. | |
| That's right. | |
| Well, the Bible says that my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. | |
| And we have so much lack of knowledge today that Christians don't even know the elementary things. | |
| They got saved and thought that's it. | |
| And the purpose of being saved is to grow up and become a disciple and lead others to Jesus. | |
| If all God's purpose was is just leaving us here or not leaving us here just to save us, then we'd get taken out of here immediately. | |
| But he left us here. | |
| I heard this said one time that a convert is one that gets to go to heaven, but a disciple is one that takes people with him. | |
| And that's why God has left us here. | |
| But you have to have some understanding, and the best place to get it is under a pastor who studies this because he has a gift for it. | |
| Everyone of us can understand the word of God, but not like it's explained by somebody called, anointed by the Holy Spirit, to open it up. | |
| And you go, I never saw that before. | |
| It's right in front of my eyes, but I never saw it before. | |
| So that's why we need to change it. | |
| We need the church. | |
| We need good gospel preaching. | |
| And you have about seven, eight points of theology there. | |
| You start with predestination. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Could you give me the headlines of each one? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Okay. | |
| Well, the headlines on each one is you just stole my book. | |
| So I got to look at it. | |
| He does that often. | |
| He does that too. | |
| He does. | |
| Yes. | |
| I'm constantly watching. | |
| Predestination. | |
| There's reconciliation, sanctification, glorification, justification. | |
| Sanctification. | |
| Yes. | |
| I won't go to all these because I don't want to just go ahead and get the book. | |
| Anyway, but haven't we heard about sanctification? | |
| Oh, yes. | |
| Any Pentecostals here? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost. | |
| Sanctified, Satan, filled with the Holy Ghost. | |
| I think a lot of them still don't even know what sanctification means. | |
| Sanctification is really the changing of your lifestyle to where now you become righteous and act like it. | |
| It's more than just being righteous, it's where people can see it. | |
| And there's three different types of sanctification. | |
| The first one is before God. | |
| And the next one is walking in sanctification. | |
| Some people say, well, I don't need to live it. | |
| I've got it. | |
| Well, yes, but if you've got it, the world needs to see it. | |
| Right. | |
| And so, but the third type of sanctification is when you actually get a resurrection body and get to go with be with Jesus. | |
| Now, then you talked about glorification. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Justification. | |
| Uh-huh. | |
| Redemption. | |
| What else? | |
| Well, my favorite, honestly, is propitiation. | |
| These are names that usually, when you mention them to Christians, their eyes roll back in. | |
| Exactly. | |
| And they just go off over. | |
| Right. | |
| So, what does that mean? | |
| Propitiation is the word for satisfaction. | |
| The Rolling Stones saying about I can't get no propitiation. | |
| That's right. | |
| The word simply meant is that, in fact, the word propitiation means mercy seat. | |
| Mercy seat is the correct translation. | |
| And mercy seat was the last place the blood was. | |
| Wow. | |
| It was shed. | |
| It was put into bowls. | |
| And then the last thing was it was sprinkled on the mercy seat. | |
| And the mercy seat is where God looked at it and was satisfied. | |
| In the Old Testament, he was not really totally satisfied. | |
| He was momentarily appeased. | |
| And he had to wait for the next one. | |
| And the next one, when Jesus went to the cross and God saw the blood of Jesus, he said, no more sacrifices. | |
| This is what I've been waiting for. | |
| Every sacrifice kept pointing to the one. | |
| And when Jesus died, God was eternally propitiated, eternally satisfied. | |
| When I grew up in Pentecost, we used to sing a song, I am satisfied, I am satisfied. | |
| Satisfied to know that my Savior loves me so. | |
| Well, you may be satisfied, but tomorrow you may not. | |
| The best thing is not whether you're satisfied. | |
| The best thing is God was satisfied with the work of Jesus on the cross. | |
| The last one is election. | |
| Election. | |
| Well, that goes right with back here with predestination. | |
| The first one, the last one go together. | |
| And the reason why is they've been so distorted today. | |
| And when people talk about predestination, they usually say, well, that just means God chose you to get saved, and he may not choose you to get saved. | |
| And that's the full extent of where this thing has gone to. | |
| It's actually an over-dramatization of the sovereignty of God. | |
| And there are some places where God is sovereign, but the Bible usually tells us he is. | |
| But in this case, predestination, both predestination and election have a key word attached to it. | |
| It's like this. | |
| We often say, well, I'm going to study predestination. | |
| No, predestination is a brick built on a foundation. | |
| And the foundation is foreknowledge. | |
| Whom the Lord did foreknow. | |
| Them he did predestine. | |
| Why did God predestinate me to get saved? | |
| Because he knew I would. | |
| He saw me at five years old in vacation Bible school, kneeling at the altar, and the pastor's wife leading me to Jesus. | |
| You think that took God by surprise? | |
| You think he turned to Jesus and said, We weren't planning on this. | |
| No, he knew exactly what was going to happen, but when did he have a plan for my life? | |
| Before the foundation of the world. | |
| Yes, amen. | |
| Because he saw me all the way down there do that. | |
| Let's take it to the other extent, like with prophecy. | |
| Is there an Antichrist? | |
| Yes. | |
| Well, I don't know if he's alive right now or not, but you know, people, he's in the Bible. | |
| Well, the point of it is God wrote about him thousands of years ago. | |
| Did that mean that God created Antichrist? | |
| No, Satan did. | |
| But God knows what Satan's going to do. | |
| He knows what his plans are, and he makes plans around it before the problem ever exists. | |
| Amen. | |
| You can't walk into a problem today that God didn't know before the foundation of the world and have a plan out of it. | |
| Amen. | |
| But the point of it was predestination is whom the Lord did foreknow, them he did predestinate. | |
| So he knew I would get saved. | |
| But he also said in John 6, he knew who would save him or who would get saved and who wouldn't. | |
| He knows that ahead of time. | |
| But God didn't make you get saved. | |
| He knew you would accept him. | |
| So it comes back to this. | |
| I like to think of it this way. | |
| I ask women in congregations, how do you have a serving heart? | |
| You love to have meals at your house to invite people over. | |
| And a lot of women raised their hand. | |
| I said, how do you know how he's going to come? | |
| They said, well, I said, you send out invitations, but how do you know they're going to accept the invitation? | |
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Exact Number Seats
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| Four little letters at the bottom, RSVP. | |
| And that means, will you come or will you not? | |
| And if they say, I'm coming, we have a place for you at the table. | |
| If you don't say you're coming, you're falling back on your own plans. | |
| You're not going to take up my plans. | |
| I'm here to let you know that Jesus will have the exact number of seats at the table at the Marriage Supper of the Lamb. | |
| And when He does, it's because He knew ahead of time. | |
| He doesn't need an RSVP. | |