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The Jason DeMars Podcast
The Jason DeMars Podcast
The Sovereignty of God in Salvation
What if the key to understanding salvation lies not in our choices, but in the divine orchestration of God's sovereign will? In this episode, we unravel the profound theological concepts of election, predestination, and the intriguing interplay between God's sovereignty and human free will. Guided by the teachings of Brother William Marion Branham, we reflect on how these doctrines affirm that salvation is a gift of grace, meticulously planned and executed by a higher power, beyond human effort or decision. We explore the scriptural basis for these beliefs, underscoring their importance in building a solid faith foundation and enhancing gospel preaching. You’ll discover how God's unchanging decrees shape every aspect of existence, prevailing over human and satanic schemes.
Join us as we dissect the intricate relationship between divine sovereignty and free will, examining how personal choices intersect with God's eternal decrees. We delve into the nuances of God's perfect and permissive will, illustrating how even acts of disobedience align with divine purposes. Through an examination of scripture, we clarify how belief and salvation fit into God's ordained plans, using verses like John 3:16 and Acts 13:48 as touchstones. Finally, we turn to Romans 3:9-23 to highlight the universal nature of sin and the shared need for redemption among Jews and Gentiles. Through these discussions, we aim to offer a comprehensive understanding of human nature's fallen state within the grand design of God's sovereign plan.
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God bless you all. Thank you for tuning into the podcast today and I'm going to be going into the sovereignty of God and salvation. We'll be looking at election and predestination, free will, the bondage of the will, looking at how God works out that salvation within us and comparing that back with His sovereign decrees and how this goes back and forth between our will and His will and tying it back through the scripture and through the message. Greetings Bible believers and followers of the End Time Message. Welcome to another episode of the Jason DeMars Podcast, the place where we explore the incredible mysteries hidden within the pages of the Bible. I'm your host, jason DeMars. It's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word. If your host, jason DeMars, it's time to get started on another journey into the heart of God's Word, if it's your desire to grow in Revelation and see the message in the light of the Bible, you're in the right place. Today, brothers and sisters, we delve into the Scripture, guided by the extraordinary revelations that God chose to unveil through Brother William Marion Branham, a messenger with a unique calling to fulfill Malachi 4 and Revelation 10-7 and unlock the secrets of the end time message. Our purpose isn't to have another basic Bible study. We're going to dig deep and peel back the layers of prophecy, decoding the signs and perhaps discovering how the Bible resonates within the very fabric of our present day and time. In this podcast, my purpose is to help you grow in your faith through solid Bible teaching through the lens of the message of Malachi 4. So grab your Bible, a cup of coffee and let's get started. And remember that your feedback, testimonies, questions and prayer requests are always welcome. Please send them on social media or at jasondemarscom. Before we go into today's episode, I want to share something with you. Head over to jasondemarscom, where I'm giving away free books. These books have been ordered by believers around the world and many testimonies have been given about the great blessing they have been. I also want you to know that, by God's grace and provision, we are also covering the shipping costs. Free books and free shipping. My purpose is not to sell books, but to proclaim the message of the hour free of charge. I've written these books to build your faith, increase your spiritual revelation and be a witness for God's message in the end time. Here's a list of a few of them A summary of the revelation of the seven seals, the end time message handbook, the mystery of the Malachi for Elijah, holiness to the Lord and foundations, head over to jasondemarscom right now and claim your free books. With that said, let's get into today's podcast Free books. With that said, let's get into today's podcast.
Speaker 1:Psalm 115, verse 3. But our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever, he hath pleased. And Psalm 33, 11 the counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations, amen.
Speaker 1:So the biblical doctrine of election, when it's rightly understood, is the only one that actually, and also the application of the original sin. Without that you don't have a proper understanding of the Word of God, truly understanding election and predestination is what gives confidence to gospel preaching, and predestination is what gives confidence to gospel preaching and it's the reality that gives us confidence to move forward in, and it shows us that our only hope of ever making it to the new heaven and the new earth is by the grace of God alone, not by our own choice, not by our own works, not by our own doing, but by the choosing and the plan of God. Without this as a foundation, you actually do not have the gospel being preached, but rather man-centered, man-focused Christianity and this is the majority of modern day Christianity man-focused, man-centered, his choosing, his efforts, his ability exalted over the grace of God. Certainly, they wouldn't admit to exalting that over the grace of God. But when you teach that our salvation is based upon our own personal choosing, then in fact you are exalting and making it a man-centered Christianity which is no Christianity at all.
Speaker 1:So the first thing to address when you look at election and predestination is the sovereignty of God. Who's in charge of the universe, god or Satan, or man, whose ultimate authority, whose will and purpose cannot be thwarted by anyone? People talk about God put man on free moral agency. He gave us free will. He gave us free will to choose. That is true. However, god does not exalt man's free will above his own sovereign purpose and decree.
Speaker 1:So understand this when I'm starting. God has sovereignly decreed everything that has happened and that will happen. Nothing is outside of his control and nothing catches him off guard. He planned it all that way. When did God plan it?
Speaker 1:Let's look at what Brother Branham said in Things that Are To Be. Your birth here was pre -planned. I guess you believe that Every one of us knows that our birth was pre-planned. Did you know that your being here never originated just at a myth or a thought. Everything was all pre-planned by God before the foundation of the world, that you would be here, that you would be here. So before the foundation of the world, everything was planned. Everything, brother Branham even says, down to how many times a flea would bat his eyes or would blink his eyes. So this is down to the very nth degree, the very end.
Speaker 1:So, as our two scriptures we read, god does whatever pleases him. No man hinders God from doing what he wants to do. No devil hinders God from doing what he wants to do. He does what pleases his heart and he answers to no one. He certainly doesn't answer to finite man. The other scripture we read the counsel of the Lord stands forever. Counsel means advice or it implies the word plan. So God's thoughts, god's plan continues forever, goes to all generations, goes to all the generations since Adam and all the generations future, if there are any. And it stands. Nothing can conquer the plan of God. You say what happened in the garden in the fall? This was pre-planned by God for a purpose.
Speaker 1:Isaiah 46, verse 10, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times, the things that are not yet done, saying my counsel shall stand and I will do all my pleasure. Now I've heard people say, well, god merely knows what will happen. But as we see here, he uses the word counsel. It means his advice and by implication, it means his plan. So God declaring the ending from the beginning is based on the fact that it is his plan. He can declare what's going to happen based upon the fact that it is his plan. He can declare what's going to happen based upon the fact that God planned it that way, not because he just merely knows what's going to happen as a detached observer. He's not a detached observer. He works all things after the counsel of his own will. He does the work in the midst of it. It's not as some of the early fathers of America thought about their deistic doctrine, that God created everything, like the master watch builder and sat back and watch what happens. No, he's working intimately within his creation on every level. Working intimately within his creation on every level.
Speaker 1:Daniel 5.21,. And he was driven from the speaking of Nebuchadnezzar. And I always read this, and you hear about the different ones, that people becoming a werewolf, or there's shapeshifters, or these different things. I think Nebuchadnezzar was the original shapeshifter, and he was driven from the sons of men and his heart was made like the beasts and his dwelling was with the wild asses. They fed him with grass like oxen and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he knew that the most high God ruled in the kingdom of man and the appoints over it whomsoever he will. So, in every situation, god appoints the leader. If he wants to judge a country, he gives it evil leaders right. If he wants to direct a country in a nationalistic spirit to conquer other nations, he gives them that type of leader and then through that, god accomplishes his plan and purpose through those leaders, whether it be a good leader or a wicked leader.
Speaker 1:Jonah 2, verse 9,. But I will sacrifice unto thee, with the voice of thanksgiving, I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord. Salvation is not of our own choices, lord. Salvation is not of our own choices. Salvation is not of our own doing. Salvation only comes from Almighty God.
Speaker 1:Isaiah 45.7,. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things. Satan doesn't create anything. Satan can only take what God has created and perverts it. God created all things for his purposes. He even created the devil to accomplish an eternal purpose. Romans 9, 18-21. Who art thou that replyest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor and another unto dishonor? So God will have mercy on the ones that he has preplanned to have mercy. On Whom he will? He hardens. So this is one thing that people will often ask, especially when I teach predestination for the very first time overseas.
Speaker 1:If God chooses some people to salvation, then how is that fair to those that he doesn't choose? This is a fundamental misunderstanding of what mercy is. If your desire is for things to be fair, then everyone would be lost and go to hell. We would get what we deserve, which is death and destruction. So how can we look to God and say it's not fair that you have mercy on some. Would you rather that he condemned all? So God has mercy on some to accomplish his eternal purpose. And then again, this is a philosopher's statement. Why does God hold us morally accountable if he himself has mercy? On whom he has mercy. Then Paul's answer is who are you to reply against God? God is able to choose what he does with his creatures that he has created. So God himself has power to take from the same lump of humanity and have mercy on some and give others, the ones what they deserve. And it says he hardens their heart. So their heart was already evil. Their heart was already in the condition born in sin, shapen in iniquity. So the ones, the rest of them? He simply leaves them in the condition that they're in and as they choose to sin more, that further hardens their heart. So God ultimately hardens them because it's his purpose to have vessels of dishonor made to be taken and destroyed.
Speaker 1:In the sermon, wyatt had to be shepherds, but the word of God has no beginning. God has no. And when you're born of God, you're born of the word that you become a son of God. And your name was put on the Lamb's book of life before the foundation of the world. And you then? The color of hair, you have the color eyes, you have the statue that you're in. God's seen you before the foundation of the world and he's seen you a human being like you are. And though there come a million years, yet there's nothing to keep you from coming back to that perfect image that God ordained for you in the beginning. My sheep hear my voice, a stranger, they will not follow. So God saw us all individually, not just as a lump of humanity, but rather he saw us individually, even by name, before the foundation of the world, put our very name in the Lamb's book of life, and that very Lamb was slain for us as individuals before the foundation of the world. And it's not even just your name, it's the stature that you're in, the color of eyes, the color of your hair. God wrote that in his book before the foundation of the world.
Speaker 1:So again we mentioned freedom of the will and certainly we are on free moral agency In things that are to be. Brother Branham says you're on free moral agency. You can act the way you wish to. So when we look at this, those who reject God do so voluntarily. They're not forced to come to him to have life. John 5.40 says and you will not come to me that you might have life. So it was their will to turn away from and reject Almighty God and reject the offer of mercy. God offers mercy by the gospel being preached by his revelation, being put in the stars of the heavens and in the creation of the earth. He puts his mercy there that if people would turn to him he would reveal himself unto them. But they will not come to him that they would have life Revelation 22, verse 17,. And the spirit and the bride say Come and let him that hears say Come and let him that is athirst come and whosoever will let and take the water of life freely, all are welcome to come for salvation.
Speaker 1:Now, when we look at this and understand this, when we look at free will, we have to understand it in context of God's sovereignty. Our free will does not override God's sovereignty and this is not a contradiction If you think about it. There's not with man, as there is with God, a past that he is bound by. Everything is now with God, a past that he is bound by. Everything is now with God. The past is never the past and the future is ever present. So the unchangeableness of God's sovereign decrees is not in disunity with his ability to answer our prayers and for us to make choices. So, looking at it from another direction, our personal choices are not forced upon us. We choose what we desire. But even our choices are dictated by the nature in us which we received, based on our genetics and based upon the type of home and area and culture that we grew up in. Even those things limit how we choose what we're surrounded by.
Speaker 1:And I want to also back up when we look at our free will and what people talk about God's perfect will and permissive will. Now, scripture doesn't talk quite like this permissive and perfect will. If we can understand, on one hand, it's not God's will that any should perish, so that's like one layer. But really, if you look at the Scripture closely, it's not God's will that any of the elect should perish, but he is patient, waiting for the hour that each one of the elect will come to faith in him. So again, if we look at perfect will and permissive will, you can look at it this way God's sovereign decrees are what happens. What happens on the earth happens because God has willed it to happen. So what is the permissive will? Permissive will is when people do not.
Speaker 1:On another level and on a sort of on a different subject, is when God decrees something in the Bible that we're supposed to do and we don't do it. Then we're going from the perfect will, which is what the Bible says obedience to the Word we're going into the permissive will. So God, then, has permitted you to violate the Word. And even the violations of the Word, he will use them to bring His sovereign decrees to pass. So think of it this way it was not God's ordained purpose for Satan to rebel against God. God's purpose was this angel of light should obey him, this son of the morning should obey him. And when he disobeyed him, he became the adversary, he became the devil, he became Satan. When he became Satan, this was God's permissive will. This is not what God wanted and demanded of this angel. This angel rejected the perfect will of God and entered into the permissive will. Nevertheless, on the other layer, god's sovereign decree. Well, nothing can stop that, nothing can change that. Well, nothing can stop that, nothing can change that. So the perfect will and permissive will is on a different layer than actually god's sovereign decree. God's sovereign decree always happens. No one can change it, no one can violate it, no one can go against it. And again, on the other level of free will is our free will doesn't trump God's sovereign purpose. Our free will cannot override God. We, as creatures. Our will can't overpower the will and plan of God. However, we do have choices. We make choices. Our personal choices are not forced upon us, but we make those choices because of the environment we're surrounded by and the genetics that we have.
Speaker 1:All right Scripture that people use and often seem to be misinterpreting a lot is John 3.16,. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life. So people take that and say anyone can believe. This isn't talking about the bride, it's talking about anyone who believes. Well, I think that's an error. The ones that are saved are the ones that believe. Acts 13.48 says and when the Gentiles heard this, they were glad and glorified the word of the Lord and as many as were ordained to eternal life believed. So who is the whosoever that believes? The ones who are ordained to eternal life? They believe, they hear the word, the light strikes the seed and they come to life All right. So this ties free will actually ties into the next subject, which is our fallen nature. And when we actually understand the degree of our fallen nature, then we'll begin to understand why it actually isn't based on salvation, isn't based on our choice.
Speaker 1:Romans 3, 9 through 23,. Very important, and as we read this, we should understand. The book of Romans is going through in chapter 1, it's going through the power of the gospel for the first 16 verses. Then the last half of Romans 1 is dealing with the sinfulness of the Gentiles, the depths of the sin and wickedness of the Gentiles. Then chapter 2 is covering the depth of the sin of the Jews, and then chapter 3 is bringing a conclusion about what do we conclude?
Speaker 1:Based upon the depths of this sin, and this is where Paul is bringing this Verse 9 through 23,. We're going to read what then? Are we better than they? No, and no wise, for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles that they are all under sin. As it is written, there is none righteous no, not one. So here he's coming to his conclusion about Jews and Gentiles being equally sinful. There is none righteous? No, not one. So here he's coming to his conclusion about Jews and Gentiles being equally sinful. There's none righteous? No, not one. There is none that understands. There's none that seeks after God. They're all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There's none that does good? No, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher. With their tongues they have used deceit, the poison of asps under their lips, whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Their feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace have they not known? There's no fear of God before their eyes. Now we know that. What things. Whoever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe. So when we look at this, we have to understand this as a foundation. I do believe that what I'm about to talk about here is such an important foundation of understanding the rest of the Bible that without understanding this properly, you will pervert absolutely everything that goes after it. You will misunderstand and you will be misguided on every doctrine. After this and it's critical I don't know how to say this strongly enough is, without connecting these dots, the sovereignty of God, the proper placement of free will, the proper placement of understanding that actually free will is in bondage to sin. Without understanding that correctly, you will misinterpret everything else in the Bible. You will begin to think you will begin to preach a gospel that exalts the will of man, becomes a man-centered gospel and comes to this place where man can fulfill the righteousness of God. And it's sick and disgusting what modern Christianity has done to these things. What we just read here shows that we're in bondage to sin. Jews and Gentiles, it does not matter who, it doesn't matter if you live under the authority of the Ten Commandments or if you lived under paganism. You were born in such a way that, as Paul said, you're dead in sins and trespasses. You might be a good kid, you might be nice, you might be sweet to people, but nevertheless the condition and the state of your heart in the sight of God is evil, evil. The Scripture says that the condition of our heart is deceptive and wicked. The depths of wickedness of our heart. Who can even know the depth of our wickedness? And so what is this wickedness? There's none righteous. There's none that understands the truth and there's none that seeks after God. People say that I sought God. You'd never seek God until you first have God seek you. We love him because we chose to love him. Is that what the scripture says? Or we love him because he first loved us? Right? You can't love God out of your own human will and the condition that you're born in. You won't seek after God. In fact, you will run away from God. You'll be. God will be abhorrent to you. The true God Now the made-up gods of modern denominationalism, that's another thing, but the true and living God will terrify you in your own human state. Not only that, your mouth, what you speak with your mouth, is like an open grave with a rotting corpse inside of it. That's what it's saying their tongues. They have used deceit. The poison of asps is under their lips. It's a horrible. It's a horrible expression. This is the condition of the heart of man. Their mouth is full of cursing and bitterness. Without the grace of God, their feet are quick to run and shed blood. They choose destruction Instead of choosing God. Their automatic choice is destruction and misery. Right, there's no fear of God before their eyes. You say well, it's different in a Christian home, absolutely it is different in a Christian home because these principles are being established and taught and nevertheless that child can never fulfill the righteousness of God without the new birth, without receiving the new covenant, baptism of the Holy Ghost. And as Paul says, whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth will be shut up and the whole world will be shown to be guilty in the sight of God. So, through the law is condemnation, not because the law is bad. The law is holy and just and good. It's perfect. The ones seeking to do it, seeking to fulfill the law, are totally sold under sin and dead in sin and trespasses. There's nothing we could do and in fact, when God is presented to us, we turn and run from him and we would hate God. This is the condition of man, this is where our heart is at. Until God opens our heart, until he draws us to saving faith, god is abhorrent to us, the true, living God. Now, of course, those who live under a Christian household have a special grace, as the Bible said, even if just one of the parents in the relationship is a true Holy Ghost believer, it says, the child, the children from this relationship are set apart for God. But that doesn't mean they're saved. It means that they're living in a home where the grace of God is present daily to draw them to the reality of Christ. But they can never do it on their own. They'll only do it partway until the Holy Ghost comes into their heart and changes them and gives them a new nature and circumcises away the evil heart, the hard heart, to give them a heart of flesh In. You Must Be Born Again, 1961,. Brother Branham says first, we reckon ourselves sinners and worthy of condemnation, and we are all born in sin and shaped in iniquity. There's not a sound parcel of us. Our minds are bad, our soul is corruptible, our constant thinking is evil, every imaginary thought of a man's mind is evil, a sinner, and also that our body is weak, our spirit is no good and we're just full of corruption. And how could one corruptible thing bring another good thing out of a corruptible? And let me say this that in Job, 14th chapter, he said Seeing that a man is born of a woman is full of sorrow and trouble, yet he comes forth like a flower, he fades away. Woman is full of sorrow and trouble. Yet he comes forth like a flower, he fades away and on as the prophet goes on speaking. He said who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? Not one. You stick your bucket down into the well and pull out a bucket of water and it's stagnant, it stinks. You look in it and it's muddy and little worms is in that water and there's no way at all to put your bucket back and get a clean bucket. The whole well is contaminated and the whole soul, mind and body of man is contaminated with sin and born in sin, physically shaped in iniquity, and come to the world speaking lies so that his own soul is contaminated. Nothing good One cannot redeem the other because it's all wrong. And you can't take a bucket full of water here that's contaminated and another bucket full that's contaminated and mix them together. You've got more contamination. There's no purification to it. This is our condition. We are broken, we are dirty, we are filthy, we are evil. Every imagination of our thought is evil, continually, continually full of corruption. As the prophet said, our whole soul, mind and body is contaminated with sin. This is our state and you're going to say that we're in this state. The gospel is preached and by our own free will we are going to choose God. Jesus says, blows this to smithereens when he says no man can come to me except the Father draws him first Right. He also says you have not chosen me, I have chosen you and ordained you that you would bring forth much fruit. So it's not our choosing. Our choosing is sin, because that's the nature that we're born in. Until God draws us by his sovereign grace and opens our heart to the gospel, we will never make that choice for him. We don't make the choice on our own. In Jehovah Jireh 1964, brother Branham says they probably he was a farmer, lived in the valley of the Shinar there and lived an ordinary life. He probably went out in the daytime and got his meat from the bush and picked berries and lived that sort of a life, just an ordinary man. There's nothing special about him. But one day God called him. That's what made the difference when God made the call. And that's the way it is to any life. It takes God. It isn't what you do, it's what God does. See, you say I sought God, I sought God. You're mistaken. No man seeks God, god seeks the man. See, it's not you seeking God, it's God seeking you. Jesus said you haven't chosen me, but I chose you, see. So you're chose before the foundation of the world and he wasn't, or you wasn't, chose at all. He just come to redeem that name, and all whose names are not on the Lamb's book of life Before the foundation of the world is the only ones going to be there anyhow. See, you were chosen him before the foundation of the world, when the Lamb was chosen. Then you were chosen in him, with him, before the foundation of the world, and you are, as I said last night, an attribute of God's thinking. See, that's the only way you can be eternal, an only form of eternal life. There's only one form of eternal life and that's God. So that's all. He's the only one eternal, eternal. So there's one means and one way unto salvation, and paul is telling us the reason why god is he. God is just in condemning sinners and making the only me the gospel, the only means unto salvation. So he's proving first that if man could recognize God in creation and follow his conscience, which shows this is talking about the end of Romans 1, and follow his conscience, which shows the work of the lawgiver creator in it, then he could receive glory and honor and ultimate salvation, because he would be just. But in fact he is showing the complete and total impossibility of that fact. Our will is in bondage to sin. We're unable to choose Christ. No man could come to me unless the Father draws him. It's not of him that wills, nor of him that runs, but of God that shows mercy. No one seeks after God. There's none that does good, no, not one. All have sinned, fallen short of the glory of God, and the gospel itself is the power of God unto salvation for all who believe. There's no other way, there's no other means. God does not force men to sin. Men sin because of their own choice. Men choose sin because that is their nature. God has placed a conscience within men that gives them the knowledge between good and evil, but they still choose evil. That is their own choosing and their own choice. And we have this nature because the Bible says first corinthians 15, 22 for as in adam all die, even so in christ shall all be made alive. Romans 5, 12. Wherefore, as by one man, sin entered into the world and death by sin, and so death passed upon all men. For that, all have sinned. Romans 5, 16 through 19, and not, as it was, by one. That sin so is the gift, for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses under justification, for by one man's offense, death reigned, by one much more. They which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, jesus Christ. Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation, even so, by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. So Adam was the federal head of the human race. Everyone descended from him of the elected right. So you have Eve being the mother of all living, adam being the father of all living, but also understanding that actually there was a deception and the devil came in and sowed a false seed. Now, the devil never raised Cain, but Cain came in the nature of the devil, into a family of whom his father was not a part of it, and so Adam was not the father of all living. Adam was the father of Abel and then of Seth and all that came there from him, but nevertheless, even so, even the injection of the serpent seed, adam was the head of the human race. Because of Adam's sin, death came upon. All creatures, all living creatures that had the breath of life in it were made subject to death because of Adam's sin, and so everyone born then, from Adam on, would have death built into their genetics, and so then, not only death was built into their genetics, but then the imputation of Adam's sin was there. So Adam being a sinner means everyone else had Adam's sin. Whether we sin or not, which of course, we're born with the nature to sin, so we do sin. We're born even when we're innocent at birth. We're not innocent because we have the imputed sin of Adam placed upon us. And so because of that, then actually if I could just very briefly, because I need to close here soon but the sinful nature came in from the injection of the serpent seed into the human race and that hybriding that took place in Genesis, chapter 6, between the righteous sons of God and the wicked daughters of men. Those two seed lines of Seth and Cain mixed together. So then, all of us that are born after this are born with the sinful nature. So that is why we come to condemnation. That's why we need a new birth, because our first birth was with the corrupted serpentine nature in us. But those two things being separate is regardless of that. Even the sons of God, the righteous sons of God, though they didn't have the serpentine, many of them did but originally didn't have the serpentine nature within them. Even so, they had death and they had sin imputed and they needed a sacrifice. So they had death and they had sin imputed and they needed a sacrifice. So, with that being said, from the serpentine nature injection into all of the human race, we're born in such a condition that we turn away and run away from God. And that's why we need a new birth, because that new birth gives us a new nature and that new nature sets us heavenward All right. So Paul is showing in Romans 1, 2, and 3 that in Romans 1, 2, and 3, just the sinfulness of sin and the bondage of our will to evil. So these are some of the fundamental things to understand leading into predestination. Without understanding these things we can't fully understand the application of predestination. So I guess I'm about a third of the way done with my topic, so the next time I teach I will continue on this. Thank you so much everyone for listening in today. We sure appreciate that. As a reminder, we have a number of resources available at jasondemarscom that you can order there. We also have a new tract available called what Does the Bible Say About Modesty. You can order that there. We also have a new tract available called what Does the Bible Say About Modesty. You can order that there. Also. The tract on water, baptism and serpent seed is back in stock as well. Again, thank you. 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