So, our first speaker this morning will be my very, very, very, very good friend. And I'm so happy he's able to be here. Last time I saw him, I wasn't sure he would be able to be here. But I'm so happy he is. He's Brother Medford Caldillo from Goshen, Indiana, preaching on election, a practical doctrine. That being here this morning, I appreciate all your prayers. Especially those of you that are on the praying ground. As Joe told Joe one time, I remember when Joe was in the hospital, Joe asked me, he said, Daddy, can I have my church pray for you? Joe told him, he said, Joe, there's a vinyl black Pentecostal somewhere. Who wants to pray? You gotta pray for me. You both pray for me. I appreciate it so much. I appreciate you very much. Your prayers, your help for the last year or so. I appreciate being able to be here today. I appreciate the pastor of this church very, very much. Dan said he's my good friend. Well, he's been a good friend for a long time. But I appreciate it right here. And if you guys have come for a number of years, I appreciate you all very, very much. On Earth, I try not to cry. I'll try not to. Thank you. We're reading this morning Romans 8 chapter 33rd verse. Romans chapter 8. And I guess we'll read verse 32 as well. Well, let's read verse 31 through verse 33. What shall we stand and say to these things? God, before us, who be against us? For He is not His own Son, but has delivered Him up for us all. He is not with Him, but is free to give us all things. Who shall anything in charge of God do like? God will justify it. He that condemns the disgrace of dying, he that has risen again, he that will lead us right into death, also make a thing of salvation for us. Lection in the Bible doctrine. As such, shall all who believe be preached. I also understand where that simply means teaching. We see elections by means of the election in the Bible, teaching constantly by election, actually referring to the fact that by itself, it's made by any condition, the unconditional election. I'm made because of anything that we've done. The world is what was made simply, and I'm motivated solely by the love of God. Our text says that God is justified. Salvation is up to the Lord in every aspect of it. When you talk about predestination, it's actually regeneration, conversion, atonement, justification, adoption. For in spirit and preservation, the Lord's peace is up to the Lord, and the Lord alone. God does not vote for you. Then the devil votes against you. And he said, well, no, the Lord votes, and that's it. That's what that number was. Now, if we're playing the Bible teaches this doctrine of election, then there are those who object to it. Some object to it by saying it is unworthy of God to make Scott Beard a vector person, a bi-leader in the free world media. Then what you don't want to say was the House of Paul and the Women of the Ninth. David O'Bannon, where are thy replies against God? Has the information in him that formed it by assaulting thee thus? In Vijaya-vairagya. Also, some objectives documents say they believe in it. Believe in it, but they don't preach it. Objection is because they say it's not a practical doctrine. It's a genie of merely abstract theology. It has nothing to do with lay life. I'm speaking today on the subject of the election of practical doctrines. I'm saying a few things about doctrine of practice. I'm going to show that the election of practical doctrines are both evangelism and righteousness is concerned. Whatever your doctrine may be, you can practice it. You have to give it an end. Whatever you believe, you're going to practice that doctrine eventually. If you believe in free will, for instance, you'll be earth-bended and changed and reminded about God, won't you? Every method you can think of, the only trickery you can get is change. I'll never forget the person that I knew one time. He said that he and his wife, everybody that she ever prayed for got saved. He said if you get her to pray for you, you get saved for sure, because everybody she ever prayed for got saved. Otherwise the client has a terrible burden. And if you have a terrible burden based on a person, then they need to pray for somebody to get saved. Because then whoever she hasn't prayed for, obviously not necessarily going to get saved, I think. So, she wanted to be saved by you, you got to get her to pray for you. Or put her to pray for anybody, you know. You use every method that you can think of, including trickery, to make them change. On the other hand, you've got to be able to say, again, no man arts over you. Affection is only due to eternal salvation. God controls only the ends, not the means of the end. You have a tendency to resist any and all efforts at the behest of the permission. Either way, your practice will be controlled by your doctrine. Your practice is always controlled by your doctrine, however you do it. I'm saying this also is doctrine always coming before practice. I mean by that statement, practice is a follower, not a leader. Understand that. Practice is a follower, not a leader. For instance, you practice what you genuinely believe. For your belief will not necessarily follow your practice. It's the other side of the Grace Church, as you know, which had long gone on invitations. So it's a primitive card show, primitive new mission work. It's just like the Philippines, Dan, you know, there's some folks over there. Primitive card shows, it's a new mission work in the Philippines right now. It's contrary to the document, but they do it anyway. So you practice in this circle of bodily doctrines. Doctrination, not the bodily practice. Practice both bodily doctrines. You practice what you believe in, what you believe on that circle of practice. What you believe in can be a universal truth. So practice bodily doctrine. As an individual in the church, you need to first of all determine what the Bible says concerning election. Make sure it expresses your personal life and your church life. Read out and practice that document. But you, you're going to have to face this doctrine of election some day, and when you're going to have to face it, you're going to have to understand what you believe about it. You're going to have to make a decision about it one way or another, aren't you? You're going to have to make a decision about what you believe about it. You have all that, but you're going to have to make sure that you're personalized and make sure that you practice that doctrine. Say then, first of all, that election is a person who is in practice of doctrine. Or the evangelism is concerned. In missionary practice, we're acting as evangelists together. The Lord has told us to learn all about the preached gospel of every creature. And we've done that here at this conference, haven't we? We've been preaching the gospel. We've heard the gospel preached at this conference. We've been encouraging these efforts by the doctrine of election. All we know is that God has people. We do not know who they are, but we know that they're there. Preach gospel to everyone, not knowing that the results are in God's hands. This removes terrible burden on us. We need to worry about the person giving the gospel, too. Many people worry about giving the gospel to the right person, don't they? And get a good prospect and all that business. We don't have to worry about that, do we? This means we have to give them the gospel. We don't need to worry about paying our taxes, prospector, buyer, dotee, or any dotee to present the gospel. We don't have to worry about them. We don't have to worry about us. Many are immediately worried about themselves, don't they? They worry about whether they have the right to dress in the right fashion, this and all that, this and this, this and what, door to door. They may be rightful, they don't, right? They may be offended, they may not get saved. A terrible burden to think that somebody's not going to get saved because of you isn't it? So you have to learn to find it. You have to be all things, all men. You have to get down with them. You have to do what they want you to do in order to get something saved. We don't have to do that, however. We don't need a system. We don't need to memorize Romans, Romans. We have some plan of salvation. We need the Scripture to show us God's sovereignty and to craft the Scripture to tell us that Christ was born and raised from the dead, that He died on Sunday and died upon the cross for all of us, that His people were buried and rose from the dead on the third day. And with all these symptoms of salvation, just give us the electric truth that we'll believe it. That's all you have to do. Give me the electric truth and I'll believe it. Well, you believed it, didn't you? One time or another, you didn't believe the truth. And they gave you the truth and you believed it, didn't you? Why do you believe? Because it was the truth. When I said that thing that Joe was telling you tonight, you let me have the truth, a lot of people said, why do you believe in church? You think it's wrong because it's true? That's the easy way to believe something, that it's true. Why do you believe those things? Because they're true. But you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't, you don't need a long gone out system or anything. All you need to do is believe the truth. I remember when I was first saved, I was in Horton, Michigan, at the little church there, and it gave, within a week time, uh, within a week after I started attending church here, after I was saved, I had time. A week after I started attending church here, I read, uh, the Church of Jesus Christ, I read Five Points of the Almanac by Frank Beck, Failed Blood by James Carroll, and so on. I was convinced it was in the Bible. It made sense. It was the truth. I knew it was the truth. The whole system of beliefs that I believed was the truth, so I accepted that belief. That's what we need to do. We need to get this accepted as truth. We need to believe election. Electors will believe the truth. If I can preach truth to somebody, they'll believe it. They know that it's the truth. I mean, if you're just preaching something now, if you don't know yourself, then you don't know it to be true. Nobody's going to believe that, are they? But if you give them the truth, they'll believe the truth. The election is very clear, Mr. Archangel. This is about it. Election is not only a practical doctrine as far as evangelism is concerned. It's also a practical doctrine as far as righteousness is concerned. And election is a practical doctrine in many different ways. It's a practical doctrine as far as religiousness is concerned. It's a practical doctrine as far as predestination is concerned. A lot of people hate it so much that they hate election. Election means you smack dad in predestination, doesn't it? So they hate election because election says that you predestinated in these things. You predestinated to be righteous. God has chosen people who have not lost their faith in their works. And now you people of two-eighths and two-tenths tell us, by grace that you see through faith, and have yourselves as the gifts of God, not works of the same nature. The way it is, work which you create in Christ Jesus, good works which God hath foreordained that we should do. Truly, we want to believe in God, the righteous and holy body. Amen. The Last Spirit dwells in us. When you see the election, that will be the destruction. If you're adopted, you don't want to. You don't want to. Your parents chose you, don't you? The thing that you usually do, if you're married, you want to please the spouse that chose you. If you're on a team, you don't want to. You don't want to. You don't want to please the coaches that chose you, don't you? All those things are elections, aren't they? You're elected to some offices, and I figure that's not your desire to serve the voters. If you're due to represent them, you may not. But if you want to, you want to please them, don't you? If you're elected again, don't you? We want God's affection. We're not going to do everything that He's given us to provide Him. He gives every means that He's given us to provide Him. If we want God's affection, we've been chosen by God. We want to please Him, don't we? That's why affection is a doctrine of righteousness. It's a practical doctrine. We have to please righteousness. If we want to really know if we're adopted by God, if we want to be related to Him, if we want to adopt His ways also, don't we? If a doctor adopts us, he'll adopt us his way. If he adopts his family, he'll do things his way, don't we? I'll never forget that George Goldman was a friend of mine. He worked for me for a long time. George was adopted. He was in his 40s. Search and search for biological parents, you want? I don't know who his biological parents were. I searched and searched for them. Finally, I found his mother, and he went to see her. She was drunk. She asked him for money. The first thing he did was go out and play out. He was drunk and so forth. So George said, well, he said, he said, he worked out too much. He said, no, he didn't, George. I said, think about that. He was after parents. They wanted you. They elected you. They did it to you and they gave you everything that they had. And you wanted somebody else to be your parent. You thought that they would be as good as your doctor, but they weren't really. Many doctors in that way don't think. Those in the searches for the biological parents might not think they're not, but they thought that they were. You know, your biological, you know who your biological parents were, and they weren't there, and felt the need, and thought we felt it weak, and thought we sinned often weak. They gave us sin for our inheritance, and God's given us righteousness, God's given us a true life. He's offered us into His family. wonderful thing to be adopted into a family and die, but after the election you see the righteousness in it, it's an election on the righteousness, it's an election on what's good and what's bad, it's an election on salvation, it's an election on what's good and what's bad. Also, if you're adopted you want to please your parents to chose you, if you're married you want to please your spouse to chose you, if you're stripped of your identity you want to please your coach to chose you, Lecture by Śrīla Prabhupāda on Kṛṣṇa Consciousness by Śrīla Prabhupāda. Really? Let's stand together and turn to page number 132 in your red hymnals. 132.