Five Points of Christianity
You say, in your simplest, most honest moment that yes, there was a particular act that was ’sin’ and you regret it and are looking for a way to be pardoned and know that you are forgiven. You have doubted that Jesus Christ will forgive that particular act, so malicious and heinous it was and is in your own eyes.
Yet even this is cleverness, a sophistry constructed by the evil in you to conceal itself. For you would like to be persuaded that you are not evil in make-up and construction as one totally empty and bereft of good but that ’sin’ is the mere particular appearance of actions at certain times. That is, you would like to be persuaded that there is in you some good dwelling in you, some place not evil and that you have control over that place to any extent which hates the ’sin’ not in that place.
But God, speaking by means of the Holy Spirit, through Paul, (always called ‘Saint’ by those who espouse free will in order that the lies they attach to the words spoken through him by the Holy Spirit be given the facade of validity), has explicitly said as spirit and life for the benefit and building up of the elect and for the condemnation of the wicked,
“For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh) good does not dwell. Romans 7:18
If then the witness of God as life and spirit is that in a fallen sinner nothing good dwells and this includes ALL men before the salvation of Jesus Christ had come to them and God dwelled in them afterwards, with what are you feeling remorse about the particular act called sin except the fallen heart of the flesh? Therefore the mere emotion or bad feeling concerning the consequences of the evil in you is not despair or true repentance but a mere cleverness of the evil within.
Since nothing good in us dwells before we are in fact given the salvation in Christ Jesus, and we have the testimony of God to that effect, you are, outside of the salvation of Jesus Christ, “Totally depraved”. That is, you have a complete and total inability to even know, recognize or understand the true consequences of the evil within you if not a disciple of Jesus Christ. That is, in you no good dwells. Because no good in you dwells your use of speech, your mannerisms, your very flesh and actions and the physical space you occupy is evil leaving behind wicked sentences and vain scorning, unrighteous works and storing up for yourself the wrath of God no matter that others like yourself are just as deceived as you are and think to do a type of love or fellowship that is worthy of God but is no truth simply anti-Christ.
Yet in all this you do not know who you are. As concerning the children of God, the elect, our life is hidden with Jesus Christ.
“For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is our life appears, then you will appear with Him in glory.” Colossians 3:3,4
How is it then that you say, with the wickedness and evil pouring forth out of you and into you to your enjoyment in every sense in words and deeds most certainly not of Jesus Christ that you know who you are and are in control of that identity?! If indeed your life is hidden with Jesus Christ in God and God has not yet appeared in you, then what is it in you that is claiming the status of ‘me’?
“For sin deceived me and slew me.” Romans 7:11
So then, in you no good dwells, yet you are animated and move. If God does not dwell in you then what does? Who is being you?
How are you to know that God dwells in you–or some other? That is, how are you, that-which-in-which-no-good-dwells and therefore not-God, to know who is what within you?
“But sin, that it might appear sin..(that is, that it may be forced to appear before the light of the understanding of your soul and be identified to you by its reaction to the commandments of God which restrict choice in every way) …working death to me by that which is good (the ten commandments as Word of God ), in order that sin, by the commandment might become exceedingly sinful.” Romans 7:13.
So then, one aspect, one purpose among many of the ten commandments given to us by God is to force sin, the very thing claiming to be the ‘me’ in you, your fundamental identity, into the open that you may know that indeed, the good you had been deceived into thinking was dwelling in you was in fact evil capable of no good at all and that you are in desperate need of salvation–which God Himself subsequently provides through the person of Jesus Christ. “O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from this body of death?” God , again through the Holy Spirit speaking through and for Paul cries out in Romans 7:24. “I thank God, through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
So then, if you are indeed dead in trespass and sins, with what resources can you be ‘choosing’ Jesus Christ as is implied and even directly stated by most who are spoken through by the speech of sin the free will ‘gospel’ and a great many who have styled themselves ‘Calvinists’? Therefore you cannot choose Jesus Christ (because the only thing dwelling in you is evil and that evil will not and cannot act against its own existence and its own existence in you is at the expense of God in you)–even though you now know you are desperate need of Him and Him only. How then shall you be saved seeing that you have no ability to do anything other than be and do evil?
He has chosen those to whom He will show His salvation.
“Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you and have set you that ye should bear fruit and [that] your fruit should abide, that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in My name He may give you.” John 15:16
In addition to the truth that in you no good dwells and tus nothing in you would ever choose the truth, it is not the truth that identical creatures will be in heaven and the lake of fire. Not only, so but identical creatures will not be in those two different places at all, much less as a result of their supposed ‘choices’. Another speech than what you have got is necessary to make you a new creature –to non-metaphorically change your being into the likeness of Christ as His brother. The speech you have now is non-creating speech/anti-Christ.
If you haven’t noticed that your won speech can create anything, by all means, create something in front of anyone by a simple act of speech. Literally have something wink into existence that was never there before and you simply called it into being from nothing by your act of speech. You can’t do that because all men live in non-creating speech who is plainly identified as Belial/non-creating speech and anti-Christ. You have the common sense of anti-Christ and indeed see no need for you to be re-created and literally and non-metaphorically born again in Jesus Christ. You see only that no speech can create, think your being and will safe in that lack of power and indeed lie that you have free will because of the supposed inability of speech, as mere one part of your total environment to interfere BECAUSE of its powerlessness. You have been deceive into a supposed non-interference principle of speech that is not true based on the reality that non-creating speech can create nothing. It can indeed manipulate what already is created and it is a living spirit, not a mere will-neutral widget you get to use non-interferingly or any other way. You are evil because it has literally swallowed you up and works evil through you. Thus you are in need of a salvation not only must be found outside of it, but a salvation you cannot even understand the need for unless you are chosen by the Word of God to be a recipient of the grace of God as Word of God that is distinct in every way from non-creating speech. You must be born again as a being outside of non-creating speech to even understand where you had formerly been and in what condition you had been held. Thus, the complete inability to even know what you needed and thus the necessity for God to know in advance who you are to choose you for Himself and thus His revealed Word that He did indeed know all His elect for the specific purpose of saving us.
2Timothy 1:9 Who hath delivered us and called us by his holy calling, not according to our own works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the times of the world:
2Timothy 2:19 Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his. And, Let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.
This is the basis of the truth called by Calvinists “Unconditional Election”. We were chosen by God, without our knowledge or permission or say-so in the matter for His own purpose. Explicitly the elect have no say in the matter. (With what would we have known–or with what would we have given permission?–the evil in us? In what way were we to know before we heard God that any such thing as Creating Word/Jesus Christ even existed?) With what resources are those who interpret scripture to mean something other than what is directly stated choosing what to say or think? With what are they then ‘deciding’ to call these thoughts and sayings ‘beliefs’ seeing that belief is a supernatural gift of God and as a Word applied exclusively to Jesus Christ? Are they saying that they have the same power as God to apply the words of a vocabulary and the breath to speak it given by Him to men to whatever they please? Yet they have carefully taught you to be persuaded you are free to choose anything rather than a slave to choice and completely unable to stop choosing at any time and even that within non-creating speech that is no choice in reality only an emotional widget that seems real because it makes real feelings. Yet for all this you cannot choose the one thing you must have to live life eternal-Jesus Christ.
They have carefully taught you to exercise what they have deceived you into being persuaded is your own identity. The evil among men wishes to displace you–in you. Sin desires to be you and to despoil you of the gifts God has decreed to you–while you are you.( “For they have said, “Let us take to ourselves God’s dwelling-places in possession.” Psalm 83: 12 Are you not aware that all elect persons are the dwelling place, the temple of God?) Thus the wicked teach by implication that identity is demonstrated through emotional or choice history rather than being a direct gift of God, for how could they think to posses what belongs to God otherwise?
But there is only room for One in the chosen of God. We cannot choose God and it is of a necessity to admit this truth and to call the act of God choosing us, as regards our powers involved with it, ‘unconditional’ as we could in no way even have recognized our need for salvation, much less have been able to satisfy any condition concerning it and ‘election’–an action performed by what is outside of what is chosen, in short an action by God performed toward us as particular individuals proactively.
Who then is chosen and who is not? You can make no statement concerning another individual’s election beforehand ( before their new birth ) excepting very specifically as God has made plain, though it is your duty before God with Jesus Christ to expose lies, chief among them wolves in sheep’s clothing, calling themselves Christians and saying that you must satisfy certain conditions and make your own choices concerning Christ.
The very concept of ‘chosen’ makes necessary, while not pointing to particular individuals in such a way that those so designated know all the others, but as an obvious truth that some are not chosen. The very act of choosing makes plain a limited segment of a larger population. Therefore this has been called ‘limited atonement’. If Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior died for ‘everyone’ why was anyone said to be chosen by God and why are the very words ‘elect’, ‘election’ and ‘elected’ used over nineteen times in the New Testament alone? Therefore, He died for His own chosen children whom He even now knows by name and not for ‘everyone’.
But having chosen us–(who in their right mind would automatically assume they were NOT so chosen except a fallen sinner and active hater of God’s own authority over His own creation to so choose? Who would say ‘us’ is not us? Paul did–at a time when he was not a Christian, when he was actively persecuting those who used such words as ‘us’, ‘we’, ‘our’ savior concerning Jesus Christ and ‘me’ concerning the fact of being a sinner–all BEFORE the road to Damascus and God Himself told Paul he was persecuting God in His persecution of those who believed in Jesus Christ and so spoke their belief in such a peculiar manner as saying ‘we’ and ‘us’ concerning being saved by Him and being His children.)–What can we do about His choosing? With what resource or strength would we resist His calling us, seeing that we were unable to even know of it’s existence in reality before being saved? Very obviously–none. Therefore, the gift bestowed on us, this very calling of God as Creating Speech/Jesus Christ in apportioning us among the living in Jesus Christ has been entitled ‘Irresistible Grace’.
In having chosen us, that is you as one of us and given us favor and life eternal and that in a time when we knew nothing concerning any of it, even conceptually (an unknown is indeed something about which nothing is known, even it’s existence…) He did so knowing full and well the necessity of His completion of every detail, the revelation of which is spirit/life and truth and the demonstration of His having done it wisdom, which is itself nothing more than the detail of His love for us and the proof of His great devotion to our well being and care as His little ones. For speaking through the Holy Spirit He says through Job concerning Himself,
“For He will perform what is appointed for me, and many such things are with Him.” Job 23:14
So then, there is not one detail left for us to accomplish that He will not accomplish through us. Our new being is witness to this.
“Ye are My witnesses, saith Jehovah and My servant whom I have chosen (He speaks to the plurality of all whom He has chosen but to you in particular as a singular servant in the whole body of Jesus Christ) that ye may know and believe Me and understand that I [am] He; before Me there was no God formed neither shall there be after Me.. I [am] Jehovah and beside Me there is none savior. It is I that have declared and have saved and shewed when there was no strange god among you and ye are My witnesses, saith Jehovah, that I [am] God. Since the day was, I [am] He and there is none that delivered out of My hand: I will work it, who will hinder it?” Isaiah 43:10-13
Who will indeed hinder God in anything, even in themselves? No one. Therefore we will persevere and He will be in us, to persevere and help to us to the end, the Day of Judgment. We can in no way hinder Him, especially in the certainty that He is in fact in us and we know full and well that we are indeed chosen of Him for salvation and blessing. That is, we in no way have any ability to hinder our own God-given certainty that we are indeed saved and that permanently and without possibility of losing our salvation or certainty.
“They are indeed My people; children who will not lie, and He became their Savior.” Isaiah 63:8
Therefore Calvinists have called the truth of being unable to avoid certainty of our salvation and the inability to stand against God in any way ‘perseverance of the saints.’ We will indeed persevere and indeed are called by God the designation ‘My people’ because God continually sustains us. We are unable to lie concerning the certainty of our own salvation and joy because each having been saved from death and sin is their own physical on-going proof of these things and is a witness to the saving of their soul and new birth in Christ Jesus. The concept of perseverance is synonymous with that of true witness. For who must persevere but one who must speak the truth in the hearing and presence of those who hate truth and do not believe and who must be a witness but to those who are outside the certainty of disputed facts? Therefore we are witnesses of the identity of God in us, if we are chosen in Him.
These words-in-a-row that declare principles of truth are called the ‘Five Points of Calvinism’. They are a succinct statement built on the Holy Scriptures concerning the salvation of God through Jesus Christ His only begotten Son given to the Holy Spirit to declare in the world with the power and authority of the Father and as such are truth. They are one doctrine and one truth, not parts fitted together at the discretion of men.
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh.
These are the mere edges of what is in store, that is, safekeeping, for those who are called of God in Christ Jesus. May the name of Jesus Christ be magnified and praised forever and ever and may God loose our tongues to sing His praise and let us sing and dance before Him in fullness of joy. Let all the elect of God say Amen! and Hallelujah!
Ezek 36:25-27 And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your uncleannesses and from all your idols will I cleanse you. And I will give you a new heart, and I will put a new spirit within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and keep mine ordinances, and ye shall do them.
In the Name of Jesus Christ, Amen