Brother Rob, would you lead us in prayer please? Father, we thank you so much that you love us, and that each day you're willing to offer this in your spirit. I pray today for Jim and as he speaks, that you give him clarity of mind. I ask that you open up our hearts, Father, that we can receive your word and your history of your people. In Jesus' name. Amen. We're going to see, as we study down through here, that some of the things that our group teaches were not exactly right, down through all ages, nor even today. These things happen. We have to accept that. I mean, not all things gel like we want them to gel, a lot of times. OK? Now, here we come to these Christian crusades, we come to So Tyndale, if I can find Tyndale down here someplace, I thought I had him written down. Anyway, Tyndale was a great expounder of the scriptures. From 1484 to 1536 is when Tyndale lived. He was a great theologian, a great translator of the Bible. He was a vet at all European languages, all of them, in Greek and Hebrew. I talked to a friend of mine yesterday, and he is from Poland. His name's Louis, and he's a watchmaker, and actually I found out he was also a gunmaker. Marilyn's grandfather was a watchmaker and a gun maker. He had trained in Germany, in Berlin, Germany, in about 1868. That's when he went there and trained during a lot of these, you know, you can see a lot of this. History is very colored by different things. Little events here and there colored history so much. Last week I said something that I didn't finish on. I want to finish that. I talked about the first hitter, and who was that? Martin Luther. And I said that for a reason, that I didn't finish it, and I want to finish that so you know what I'm talking about. Many times people have a mindset, okay? Luther taught, he admonished all of Germany, basically, all the regions in Switzerland and wherever the Lutheran church reached. He encouraged all those people. to hate the Jewish people. Now, I mean, there was a hatred there that was very strong. But we'll see that also down through history in the writings of some of what they call the Church Fathers. Eusebius' writings and Augustine's writings. Many times they absolutely condemned the Jewish people. for the terrible things that they did to Christ and to the apostles. And they did. They were guilty of the blood of Jesus Christ, weren't they? But as a people, as a nation, don't forget, when your theology gets messed up like that, then you forget the promises of God that God made to Israel, too. The promises to the Lord's churches are that He would be with us through this age, that the church would be here absolute to the end of this age. And the church is going to be here, it would not die out during the Dark Ages, during anything, the Lord's churches would be here in the world. That's a promise of God. But also, He promised Israel, from the time He called her out in the Abrahamic promises, He promised Israel that He would be with them always. Now, God divorced Israel, didn't He? That's His wife. Didn't He? divorced Israel as his wife. And I mean, she was gallant. God set her aside. She would never, ever, ever again be in close relationship like she could have been at one time. The nucleus and one nuclei formed, they're married. Mary, the Virgin Mary, she wasn't a perpetual birth virgin either, by the way, she had other children. Alright? The Virgin Mary was the true wife of God in that she brought forth the Messiah child. So she was faithful in that. There had to be a faithful element there to bring forth the Messiah. Simple as that. For the Messiah to be born and brought into the world, for the Redeemer of the world to be born, Israel, to that extent, had to be fable, and that one girl in the eternalist fable, the greatest majority of the leaders in Christ's time were reprobates, weren't they? What is a reprobate? One who has denied faith. One who is without salvation, one who has become damned, and they were damned. a great number of them, or the spiritual leaders, they didn't want to hear. They closed their ears. What did they do to Stephen? Remember when they stoned Stephen? What else did they do to him? The original language is real emphatic. I hear many preachers preaching this, and they just don't get down to the meat of what happened there, because it's horrible. They illegally stoned Stephen to death. Not only did they stone him to death, but they were so angry with him, because they were cutting her heart, because the Spirit of God was convicting them of sin, that they ran upon him and literally chewed on him with their teeth bitting like wild animals. And they kept on doing it this way, even after he was dead. They kept on chewing, biting him. You see in some of these bars and brawls, somebody bites somebody's ear off or something. They get so mad, they bite somebody. Bite their nose off or something. Well, that's what they were doing to Stephen, I think. Evil, wicked things. Get back to Luther. Martin Luther taught that the national Israel, as a people, should be herded into work camps and work there Now, he had a pamphlet that he wrote, The Jews and Their Lives. He said, all the Jews are reprobates. There is no way they can be saved, no way that God can ever use them again. God will call Israel back together again. We know that He's done that now. They're back in their land. God's going to use them in the last days. He said they should all be herded into work camps, and the men neutered, and the women not allowed to have children, and let's get rid of this stench from humanity. Get rid of that. Do away with it. Completely work them to death. Now, Luther lived in the 1500s and the 1600s, didn't he? I mean, his movement went from the 1500s all the way on. Let's look back at his actual time. It was 1483 to 1546. That was the time that he lived. But all the way from the 1400s on this way to 1900, this philosophy was integrated in those German people. And what happened? God has always blessed the nation of Israel. We talked this morning in the Sunday School class of the three races of mankind. One out from Adam, I mean not from Adam, but from Noah. Got one into the world, we say we have Ham. That's the dark people. And if you'll study history and study machinery and mechanics and the Arthur's Customs papers, the Norway papers, that's a real good, it's ten volumes, he traces how all of mankind have have made things and built things, and every one of the inventors of a major invention was a Hamite. All right? The Japhethites, which is the white races, improved it. And I jokingly said, and the Shamites marketed it. And by the way, that is an absolute Bible truth. You go back and you chase her down. During all these years back there, during the dark ages for the Jews, by the way, of course they earned a lot of that pity thing. They said, let this curse, let this blood be upon us and our people, and guess what? The curse was upon them and their people, and they paid for it thousands of times over. They crucified the Messiah, and thousands of Jews were crucified by the Romans after that. But down through these dark periods of time in Europe were the Jews. They weren't allowed to, in some areas, they weren't allowed to have banks. So guess what they did? They couldn't own gold. Bullion, money, they couldn't print money because they would control the monetary systems. I don't want to tell you about Adam Chamberlain yet, but that's just really the way it is. So what did they do? They always figured out, they bought. They loaned money. Savings and loans called hot shops. And we still see them today. That's how Stardrunner It started back there. They couldn't, then they, some areas, they wouldn't even let them own gold and silver. So guess what they traded in? Diamonds and precious stones. God gave them the ability. It was just like they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth. The ability to make money because God was going to use them in the end times. Well, they got in trouble a lot all over Europe. They were heavily persecuted in different places. And by the way, during the Germany and that terrible time that all Hitler had to do was just repeat the words of Luther. Now, he wasn't a religious man, as we see. He was a superstitious man, but he wasn't religious. He was not religious in believing in God. He believed in demons and demon powers. He was always trying to get a hold of some demon good luck charm or something. He'll study, he was after all kinds of, well even the Ark of the Covenant, like you see in there. He wanted every, and a crystal skull, and I think the sword of Goliath. He wanted all kinds of these tremendous, what he felt were good luck charms. It was after, and all those paintings and everything that he sold out of the museums all over the world. He had them locked up over there. We've all known that stuff like a magnet. But when he started preaching about locking these cubes up, all he was doing was what their preachers had told them all these years. And there was an anti-Semitism type idea there that was just unbelievable. And guess what? They did it. They confiscated everything they had. But they also did that to the Polish people. as many Polish people died as Jews during that period of time. But that mindset was set from the Reformation. That answers that question. How did Mitlick get all those people to follow him? So he was already there. It was already there. All he had to do was repeat history. Repeat a few words. And you see this. How many of you knew this? That's how it happened. OK? If you study history and become a student of history, old blood and guts Pat, that's what they call him. One of my teachers, D.S. Madden, hated him. He hated that man. Because he was, well, he was a military man too. D.S. Madden was. He was different. He hated him because of his his reincarnation, Rosicrucianism. Haven't you ever got something in the paper that says, Welcome to the Order of Rosicrucianism? Or the Order of Rosicrucianism. That's his reincarnation thing. This is like Warren Bainey's sister, what's her name? What? Shirley MacLaine. That's what they're all, and even that young actor down there, can't even think he's so famous in that movement too. And all of these things, this I can't think of his name right now. He wrote all kinds of books about how people succeed and how to focus their karma into one thing. I can't think of his books, but he's tremendously influenced many movie stars. L. Ron Hubbard. L. Ron Hubbard. What's it called? Dianetics. All of this is reincarnation. Spirit travels through time, okay, where you die in one body and you go to the next and everything. So much, and this was Hitler, too. Do you see how it comes down through history and even affects us today so much? It will affect the Jews in Germany, but I'll tell you what. God's done for better or progress and eternal purpose. He used Hitler to make those Jews want to go home like they never wanted to go home before. He said, I'll put hooks in your jaws and I'll drag you home. And we can see that. We can look through the history. If you'd have been Adam, all you would have had was promises and not less facts. Their first son in the campaign, they thought he was the Messiah. He said, we have gotten the man, even the Lord. They couldn't see very, understandably, we can look back almost 6,000 years ago to this period of time, and we can look down through history and see how things, the tides have come in and gone out and come in and gone out in history. As you see this. Well, the Catholic Church has just literally become an absolute garbage pit. Says who? The priests were ungodly busters. That's all you can say. Just read the histories. Read about the popes. The popes, some of them, were just animals. There was even one woman pope that you don't hear about. What was her name? I can't even think of her name right now. I'm trying to cover. If I was teaching this class for two years, I'd have given you every name in the period of time and everything else. How did they have a woman pope? Well, she just, she posed as a man, and during one of the holy processions, she had a child, and stopped, she had a child. Surprise, surprise, surprise. But one of the things, the thing that caused the Reformation, was this, the audacity of this church to use people and control people, and to lie to them, and make them like it. went over to Rome to study and become more holy, and what he saw over there sunk. It's terrible. It sunk. In Germany, where Luther lived, the common man was calling for all the priests to be married, or at least have concubines, because their wives were turning up in children with priests. And this was terrible in those areas. I mean, this was study history. This happened. Happens today. But this was going on practically at that time. They were seducing and raping those women. And 350 years in the Church of Rome by Charles Pinnacle, they hated him. He left the Catholic Church. You ever hear about him? Anyway, I used to have that book, I don't think I've got it anymore, but that's quite a book. His years in the Church of Rome, he told about a lot of things, and the conflicts in the heart of a true man. He was finally saved later in his life, he called upon God for forgiveness, and his sins were lifted away, and he turned away from that mass, the chains of Rome, to the freedom that's in Christ. Luther saw this. He finally, he didn't want to leave it, because he believed in it. He believed in the authority of Rome. Brother Levy gave me a book here a while back, and I speed-read the thing in about ten minutes and went through it. And he said, tell me, take that home and tell me what it means. I said, I can tell you right now, I read it. You know, like this, I was going through it, reading it like this. I said, what it means. He said, that's the book they give to the people to keep them from becoming Catholic, or to keep them from leaving the Catholic Church or to get them back into the Catholic Church. This is their propaganda. I said, what it says in there is that nobody but Rome has the authority to preach the Gospel. That it was given to Rome and Peter was the first Pope. Of course, the first four or five classes I taught here, I put you on the right foundation for the law of God. That church was not found upon Peter. It's found upon Christ. And he said his church would not fail. It would go down through all ages. And how could Peter be the first pope if the apostasy didn't start until like 300 years later? 600. 600 years later. How do they jive that together? Well, if they traced it all the way back to Peter, they'd become Baptists. In practice. I had a guy here a while back, I talk on the ham radio a lot, and I said something on one thing about St. Patrick being a Baptist. And this Catholic guy, he liked to have it flipped. Came off the wall, he went, why? I said, well, I know what you believe, but study what Patrick believed. He believed the local New Testament church. No authority outside the local New Testament church. He established 365 churches. in Ireland without the Pope's consent, because it wasn't. Partially. He believed that the Lord's Supper was a local New Testament church ordinance, and baptism was to baptize, they only baptized adults by immersion. You get all of these things from what St. Patrick taught, and he becomes Patrick the Baptist, instead of St. Patrick. And that's just the way it is. study what these people wrote and what has been handed down by them. Well, the Catholic Church has become so corrupt. Of course, we always have the Baptist preaching the truth. Luther could have been a Baptist. He could have become a Baptist, too. He asked them to help him. Now, I want to tell you what the Reformation did. Among Baptist churches, it did more harm than anything in history. Because of so many Baptist churches, they are nothing more than Protestants. Simple as that. We're not Protestants. We didn't come out of the Catholic Church protesting the Catholic Church. We protested the Catholic Church all the way down through the ages from the very beginning. They're the ones that left, the truth, not us. You can prove that by history and by Bible. truths and practices of these people down through the ages. Luther came out of the Catholic Church. Luther never had any other moral authority to baptize anybody that he got from the Catholic Church. One thing that the Reformation did is it broke the back of the armed bands of Catholicism. Catholicism did not wield the sword to kill everybody that wanted to believe what they did. Luther asked the Anabaptists, please support me. He asked them, first of all, come and join us. They said, you join me? He said, no, you join us. But remember, Luther was a Catholic. He didn't like the horrible, sinful, corrupt life to the priests. He did not like the, you know what he got in trouble for? You know, we talked about the, his, his, him nailing the 99 pieces on the, on the wall there. He got in trouble because he wanted to, he wanted to, he wanted to discuss the indulgences. No discussion on the indulgences. That's what got him in trouble. It wasn't the other thing. Now, this was all written later, and then his colored history. And now, we have rewritten history about what happened, and what happened in Luther's life, because that really didn't happen. Luther and church wrote him, and colored him, and just made him such a saint. Flowered him up a little bit, put a little perfume on him and everything. What was Luther? Luther was a drunk Catholic. He wanted to start his own movement. And he didn't like the Pope and the corruption and the potpourri and things, so he cleaned up his church and reformed it. And it was a reformed Catholic church, as far as I'm concerned. Simple as that. He cleaned it up. He did believe in salvation by grace to a certain extent. You know, when he was reading Romans supposedly, he said, the just shall live by faith. That goes all the way back to the book of Habakkuk. that just to live by faith, yes, people are saved by grace, not by words. And he saw that, and he taught that. But he did not believe in the Lord's Supper as we practice the Lord's Supper today. He believed in consubstantiation, that the Lord was there in the broth, blood, and the wine, and that it was a means of grace, that he baptized babies, and he did all the same things that the Catholic Church did without all the extreme extreme power. They have power. It became a state church, didn't it? It had power, but not to the extreme killing power. Did he persecute Anabites? Yes. How about Mister? What was this Mister rebellion here? Peasant war? What? You said it was the peasant war? What? It was part of the peasant war? It was part of the peasant war that they talked about in Germany. The Minster Rebellion. By the way, it's not Munster, it's Minster. One thing about my good old German teacher, he knew how to pronounce German. The Minster Rebellion. It looks like Munster, but it's got two little things up there. And by the way, that is the same word, you know, since Greek and German, everything comes out of Greek. The epsilon here, a lot of people call it oops-a-long, but it's epsilon because it's pronounced just like that, like an I or a Y. Okay? Mr. Rebellion. The Mr. Rebellion. John, not John Calvin, but Martin Luther had a student. Can't even think of his name right now. But he had a student that he called his Absalom. Do you know who Absalom was? The son of David. He liked himself to David then. He liked himself to Absalom. He was liking himself to David, and this man was his Absalom. He took many of his people away. You know what Absalom did? He said, Oh, don't go to my father. Come to me, and I'll give you greater justice than my father David ever would. And he turned the people of Israel against him. It was a Lutheran affair. Some of Luther's, what we call, disgruntled people, left his movement along with this great leader of his, and they protested against the Lutheran control of Germany. And there was a real out-and-out blood war among these people. Well, the Anabaptists, this fella and some of these people that were in the Minster Rebellion, they had some Anabaptist ideas. But they really had, you might classify them as Anabaptists. But they were more Lutheran than they were Anabaptists. Was it Karlstadt? Karlstadt. Was it another neighborhood? It might have been. Does it have you down there? It talks about the progress of the Reformation. It's a place called Lutheran. Lutheran. Lutheran. Anyway, one of his Luther students, one of his best right-hand men, became his enemy, turned many people against him. Well, because of Luther's ideas, later on in Germany, during World War II, that's why Hitler was able to stand up and do what he did so quickly. He laid the foundation for that. We have John Huss, 1373 to 1415. And then we have Calvin from 1509 to 1564. Now, Calvin came out of the Catholic Church also. Calvin was a brilliant man. He was a writer. I'll tell you a little bit about his character. He was a violent man. He had violent fits. He didn't want to follow the rules of the Catholic Church. But when he made a rule, it better be followed. And if you didn't follow the rules, you died. Simple as that. He had fights with everybody. He was persecuted by the Catholic Church. He ran all over. He spent some time in Holland, Switzerland, and different places. While he was in Holland, he baptized some, or not baptized, but he had debates with some Baptists. And some of the Baptists started picking up some of these ideas. Do you remember when I talked about the doctrine of Tulip? Do you remember all of that? Do I need to go over that again? I know most of that. You know most of that, but Brother Rob, do you need for me to go over that again? No, sir. What? You can do it quickly. Okay. I want to tell you just a little bit. It's always good to go back over it. Calvin was a lawyer. He studied law, and of course, they do things logically. Logically, they sat down their arguments and everything, because what is truth is lies. They do it. They sat down their arguments, and they do it in a tossy way. Well, John Wycliffe taught all the stuff, basically, in Tulip, that John Calvin believed. And he lived long before him, and he was an Anabaptist. John Wycliffe, 1330-1384. Now, when is Calvin? 1509. He's a couple hundred years before. He believed in the sovereign grace of God, that people were saved by grace. He went a little bit too far. You'll see this in Baptist history. You're going to see people going too far to one side. When Calvin touched Holland, the Dutch Baptists, went into England. They were chasing back and forth because of persecution. They were going out throughout all the lands here, and they were carrying some of this doctrine with them. The first, the T in Tulum, is total hereditary depravity. That means that man is totally depraved. But now the five-point calculus will push that down to your throat, is that man doesn't even have a will at all. There is no will in man. and that he cannot believe. There's nothing in them that calls, that makes him want to go to God. Well, the Bible teaches us that no man can come to the Father except the Father, the Holy Spirit call him. Okay? There's some truth in that. But what is the right and the left side of this? The left side of the doctrines of grace are what? Armenia. We're going to cut down on Armenia over here, and then we're going to cut a little cow over here like Calvary, okay? The grace of God is not either one of these. God created man in his blood-swallowing likeness, his shadow-casting likeness, his physical likeness, as Christ would be. He created him in his mental likeness. he could think and reason like God, and he created him in his spiritual likeness, and there was one more. God is sovereign. What does sovereign mean? He can make no decisions. That's right, he can do what he wants to. You can study the Bible from Genesis to Revelation. And I'll eat all of it if God didn't make man sovereign also. That's the most dangerous thing that He ever gave to man, is His sovereign choice of choosing. God does a calling. Even faith is a gift of God, but there is a sovereignty there in man like He created. Man was created like God. And over in the extreme teaching of this is Arminius. That man is good. He's basically good. All God has to do is to stand in the back, the good part of him, and he'll get better, and then he can save himself. And basically, they teach that in Baptism, the Adamic guilt from sin is washed away, and then you have to keep your own salvation. The people that teach that today are Pentecostals, Free World Baptists. The Methodists groups like that, even some Lutherans. Lutheran is also an Armenian. Now we get over here to the right side, that's the extremist right side now, and we have hyper-Calvinism. Hyper-Calvinism that teach that man is totally depraved and totally incapable of choosing. And then we have this U, this unconditional Unconditional election. Unconditional call. That man has nothing to do with that call. Old man doesn't. God doesn't call. The Bible does teach that back in the eternity past, before God ever created anything, that God wrote down all those that would be saved in the Lamb's Book of Life. Let's divide and fight. It's plain we can't divide that. But He did that by foreknowledge. not so much predestination. Okay? Hell is for limited atonement. What does limited atonement mean? Brother Rob, do you remember that one? Limited atonement. He only saved those that... Jesus Christ only died for those that would be saved. Even Calvin's argument over God's doing to them says that he believed It says simply there that Christ died for not only the sins of the elect, but for the sins of all mankind and for the creed. John 3.16 says, "...for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son." Christ's blood was shed for all mankind. A five-point callous will get red in the face of man when you teach unlimited atonement and say that we don't preach and we're not preaching the grace of God. Grace is tough. Limited grace to them, but it's limited grace to us. It's limited to us. Irresistible grace, the eye, that you cannot resist the grace of God. If you are the elect, you cannot resist the grace of God. There's no way you cannot go. As we study down here, we're going to find people called primitive Baptists. And I'm going to tell you something. The biggest part of the Baptists that founded the colonies over here and cut churches here from England and Wales were primitive Baptists. But there were some real, plain, old-time Baptists. In Europe, there were primitive, or what they call particular, and general Baptists. There was a division over there. after the Reformation, gave freedom to disagree. I mean, really, in church history, this was the flower tower of the Revolution. OK? And it happened that way. And when one man would say something, and somebody would disagree with him, he'd run blunt to the other side of the pasture. It's going to hit him in the middle of the ground. If you've got Armenians, you know what that means? Before Arminius could ever have one foundational argument, there had to be something in scriptures that lent a little bit of truth to what he was saying. Sovereignty of man, God made man sovereign. Alright, Calvin over here, when you talk about grace, the grace of God, you talk about the all-sufficient, sovereign grace of God to save mankind forevermore. We got that over here, in Calvin. Well, for Calvin, before Calvin could get up and preach anything like that, there had to be some truth in it. Calvin was a much greater theologian than Luther was, by far. After Luther came and gone, Luther's problems never bothered Baptists. Okay? Luther was just a thing of the past. OK? He asked them to join him. He asked them to support him. He wouldn't join them. They wouldn't join him. But they got a few of Luther's bad little ideas, but not many. OK? State church. State supports were church. Some of that. Some of the Baptists gave in to that in different areas. OK? Irresistible grace. Now preservation of the saints. That's a real biblical, sound argument. Preservation of the Saints. Once you're saved, thank God, you're saved forever. That's a beautiful, beautiful Bible doctrine. This one here and this one here are pretty true. Alright? We are depraved of God. For God to get us to come to Him, He has to call us. The Bible tells us that. Okay? We're lost and depraved humanity. God has to call us out of that. But the Bible says that He calls a whole man. That every man has a choice to make. Every person that ever comes from the age of incalibility has a choice to make. Now, in this limited moment, the Calvinists will say that Christ did not die for all mankind. He only died for the elect, that He never did. One drop of His blood was ever wasted. Also in this doctrine, babies that are born. God knew every baby that would be born, and the ones that died before they came to the age of accountability, if they were saved in the mind of God, they were saved. But if they died before the age of accountability, and they weren't saved by grace, they had to go to hell. That's Calvinism. OK? believe in that. We don't preach that here in the church, do we, brother? Every idiot or retarded person is covered by the blood of Jesus Christ. Paul's saying that. He says that, when I was young, I was alive once. But when the wall came, I died. Because when he came to the age of accountability, he died. He became dead. That's the way it is. The cowards will say about a little child that they don't know whether they're saved or whether they'll be in heaven until you get there. Well, the blood of Jesus Christ, He died for all of those, especially those that believe. Hurt y'all too, too. Have any of you got a Bible here? Read that in the program again. If you can read it upside down, that'd be pretty good, wouldn't it? First John 2 and 2. And Calvin's comment on that was very wonderful. And he himself is the propitiation of our sins, not for ours only, but also for the whole world. What is the propitiation? The atonement. Christ's atonement was not limited, that's what that says. They try to get around that every way in the world. Calvin says simply that it opens the door to salvation to all men, no matter what, to the saved and to the lost. That the door has been opened in their life. This being a letter to the saints, to the churches, ours is a church he's talking about. Yeah. Not only ours, but also the whole world. Some place down there, I had Luther's comment. As a matter of fact, here it is. Or not completely, but Calvin's. How many of you have this? Do you want to take a couple of those? So how does Calvin, if that's the verse there, how does Calvin, how does he do that? Calvin later in life, now this is another, the next point is, once you have one of these, Calvin later in life, and early in his life, he was an extremist, a real extremist. But as he studied and got a little softer in his older age, this is what he wrote. I'm going to let you read this with me. Now, he wrote down in some of these earlier institutes, it says here, right in the middle of the page, see where it says Calvin on 1 John 2 and 2? And also on this same page here, it talks about Calvin calling for the death of an Anabaptist and calling for him to be killed, burned, and stoned. And he, he, in this book right here, you can find where he persecuted many Baptists. He was not a friend of Baptists. Some of them were influenced by him, but he was not a friend to them. He didn't have a real good system of teaching that, that absolutely has swept the world and, and cursed it, okay? But, brethren, you know what primitive Baptists taught? that you don't even send out missionaries. There's no reason to preach the gospel outside the church doors because God is going to get the elect there. You can bet your bottom dollar on it. There's no reason that any missionary was ever sent out in the world because God is going to drag everybody that is going to be saved into those church doors and they will be saved. They can't leave this world without it. Well, that's pretty much extremist, but I'm going to tell you what, if this doctrine is true, that's Christ! Well, isn't it? If this doctrine is true, all they're doing is teaching exactly what that doctrine there teaches, OK? And the Presbyterian and the Hyper-Calvinist churches, well, some Presbyterian churches are not as Hyper-Calvinist as others are. Dr. James Montgomery Boyce, back in Pennsylvania, he's dead now, but he would teach, but he was pretty much about a four-point calabash. That's what it looked like. And he believed in the futuristic view of the second coming of Christ. He wasn't stuck with Augustine's and Calvin's, that the church was done over, that Israel was done away with, and all things that pertained to Israel was the church. He wasn't bothered by that. He used to preach it. It says on down here, 1 John 2 and 2, it says here that he is the propitiation for our sins, and not only for ours, but also for the whole world. And he says the following, Christ suffered for the sins of the whole world. And in the goodness of God, he is offered unto all men without distinction, his blood being shed, not for a part of the world only, but for the whole human race. Now, is that limited at the moment? These are Calvin's own words. later in life. For although in the whole world, since without except, or in the whole world, nothing is found worthy of the favor of God, yet he holds out the propitiation. The propitiation means the atonement. That word is halosterion in Greek, and it's kaphar in Hebrew. Halosterion means the mercy seat. The kaphar, that is the mercy seat that covers the Ark of the Covenant, and it's also blood World and nothing found worthy of the favor of God, yet he holds out the propitiation to the whole world, since without exception he sows all to the faith of Christ, which is nothing else than a door unto hope." This is a song about all people. Calvin did a real good job of preaching unlimited songs of baptism. That was later in life. There have been many isms and schisms and things down to the ages, of all kinds of isms and whatever. People loved to preach this doctrine of Tulip so much that even though later in Talon's life he denied limited atonement and irresistible grace, to a certain extent. His students continued to teach that. Teach it like he taught it early in his life. Even though he softened and he became more wiser in his old age, they didn't preach to Calvin that night. They preached to Calvin the young, aggressive, firing Calvin when he was in his prime, and younger in life when he can kill anybody that got his way. Well, if limited atonement falls, then irresistible grace is not far behind. No, it's in hand. Yeah. All of this goes hand in hand if you believe it like they do. What we teach here in this church is that the call of grace goes out to all man. Okay? That any person can believe. Alright? We believe that God wrote the names of the elect in the eternity past. That's a vital truth. We're not going to say God didn't do that. Some people say, well, he only didn't really do that until time. He started writing back there, but it didn't appear until time. Malonius, you've done away with God. God knew in eternity past who would be saved and who wouldn't be. All right? But he also gave the sovereignty of man is in there. Like I've said so many times, this carpet is made up of many threads. In the Bible, those threads come through as the grace of God, and the few little threads of the sovereignty of mankind, the sovereignty of every created, thinking thing, even angels, were sovereign. They created them. They made a choice. Our Father Adam made a choice and made the rule. But we don't have to be subdued even to that. He said from there. We can believe. Can we? We can believe. Alright? You understand any of this better than the last time? Is this helping here now? I'm not losing you, I'm a young lady. It was hard the first time, I know. There's a lot, there's some coffee here too, and some donuts if you want something there. All right, and about this time, the Turks take back over the land of Palestine, and we have the Moslems take it over after the 600s, 500s and 600s. Who came up there that gave the Moslems such power at that time? little review. In the 600s? Yeah. The late 500s and 600s. Who came on the scene that gave the Muslims so much power? Mohammed. Mohammed. Mohammed was born, and he literally combined the ideas and the thoughts of the whole Arab world. Okay? And we see him pull them together. They took over the land of Palestine. The Christian crusades went back over there, started by King Louis, and succeeded on for two or three hundred years by other, what they call Christian crusades, which really, were they Christian crusades? They should have been called Catholic crusades. They were Catholic crusades. They were state-sponsored. They were state-sponsored, all this. But they did take over the land, and then again, the Turks took it back over. All right, and during this period of time we're talking about now, remember John Wycliffe is on the scene, William Tyndale is on the scene, Luther is on the scene, Calvin is on the scene. You have the Augsburg Confession of Faith. You have the beginning in 1541 of the Presbyterian Church. In 1530, you have the beginning of the Lutheran Church. You have the Congregational Church, you have also the Church of England that splits off from Catholicism. We have King Henry VIII. King Henry VIII was a staunch Catholic in his time. He was a learned man. And he didn't live very long. I think thirty-eight years is all he ever lived. I mean, let's turn around and say, oh, why? All the trusting calls? Only in thirty-eight years. Why not? He's fast. Anyway, King Henry VIII was forced to marry his then-brother's wife. His then-brother's wife. And Catherine of Aragon which was a princess of Spain. When he was 12 years old, he was forced to be engaged to her. As soon as he was 16 or 18, I can't remember, they forced him to marry her. They came together in marriage, and they had a child, a girl. And her name was Mary. And she later became Bloody Mary. All right? He wanted to marry Anne Boleyn. Now, he had also courted her sister and seduced her, and he was nuts about Pamela Lynn. He wanted to marry her. And one thing about King Henry VIII, now, he wanted to have a firstborn son to be heir. He did not want to have a firstborn daughter. Now, Catherine had a firstborn daughter, all right, married. He wanted a firstborn son to sit on the throne as king of Israel, not queen of Israel. I'm not Israel, but England. And remember, at that period of time, every king over the whole European world had to get permission from the Pope to marry. The Pope wielded the power of marriage. and everything in the Catholic Church. Remember how the Catholic Church gave him for old people's lives? Last week we studied, I was going to read to you John Wyclef's statements, the pinnacle statement, but it was just exactly like the one I read to you from the Paulitions. I mean, it sounded just exactly the same thing. And you can read it, too, in this book right here. And if you want to, it's on page 113. hundred and seventy, from a hundred and seventy-four, and you'll find all the way to about a hundred and eighty-something, with John Wycliffe and the Lord of Arts. And then here, in Chapter Fifteen, is Henry VIII. All right, that's where we are right now in this book. I can't stop. and give you too much history there, or I won't get where I want to go in 16 weeks. And this is number 13 tonight. I've only got three more weeks after this. And I say, why don't we divide church history into two parts? Because that second part is so interesting, because so much happened Well, next fall, we won't have history during the summer. They don't want me teaching during the summer. But next fall, I will probably teach a history class, but I'm going to teach a parable class first. I've got permission to teach a parable class. And also, I talked to John Shirley, and they're trying to get their accreditation here to have seminary classes so you can get credit. And hopefully, I'll be part of that too. And anyway, that'll be. Well, the president of Southern Missionary in Louisville is coming tonight. So maybe that's something they'll talk about. Yeah, I don't know. Anyway, I don't know what all they're going to talk about, but John told me that they were trying to do that. So maybe we'll be part of that and you can get credit for some of these, maybe even post-credit for some of these classes. All right? Especially the degree class. I don't know if you've been there two or three years. One year of all We don't skip any Wednesdays all year long. You're having as much Greek as there is one three-unit course of Greek all, you know, just for the seven months that they go to school, basically. Let's go on back here now. We're talking about the blueprints and everything. In England, people are beginning to want to come to America. There were whole groups of people getting on boats and sailing from England and different parts, Scotland, Wales, Denmark even, other places, sailing all the way over here and establishing churches in America. How many of you talk about the pilgrims that came over here? What does the Church, or what does the secular history tell you about the pilgrims? What did they want to do? They came over here for religious freedom. It's a little right, but a lot wrong. Because really, they didn't believe in religious freedom. They got kicked out of England, didn't they? Basically, they did. But what they wanted to do was reform the Church of England. But they believed in the Church of England. What they wanted to do was come over to America and establish a state church here, just like in England, but it would be a reformed state church of England. And Roger Williams was among those people, and he would tell you, if he was alive today and could, that they did not believe in religious liberty. How many of you, when you went to school—of course, I went to school so long ago that it was in stone age—but when we went to school, we studied about the pilgrims and how they built the You know, for potty splintin' and donkings? How many of you remember the donking stool? Where they would take people and put them on the end of the slum's wall? And they would donk up in the water. You know who they were donking? Baptists! They were drowning them! You want to baptize people to come from us? We'll teach you! Put them down so the bubbles don't come up! Baptize them good! Over and over and over again, they drowned a lot of people out in those hunky schools. That's what it was all about. It was a religious liberty. Finally, in 1638 and 1639, we're jumping way ahead now. There were Baptist colonies much before that. There were Baptist colonies over here, people that had Baptists that preached. There were people that came, whole churches that came over from Wales, but there wasn't religious freedom in America. There was no such thing. Over in Europe, the king ruled everything. They were in control of everything, and when they came over here, as far as they were concerned, the king was in control of everything over here. The mountain men became like Indians. They got out and got a taste of the freedom. They didn't even like those shoes they had to wear over there. You know that? You know about those shoes over there, brother? They didn't even like English shoes. At one time, everybody's shoe was just like that. Today, if you put your shoe up there, it would be like this. For a right shoe, and basically, like, something like, oh, that looks like a duck's foot or something. Not for a left shoe, but you've got an idea of what I mean. Okay? They were shaped and turned from left to right. Every pair of boots that was built over there, except if you were a king or something, your shoes were all built to fit either foot. You put them on there, and you conform the shoe and the foot to each other. And if you look back as far as even the Civil War, look at their boots in the movies, or in the pictures of those. Everybody's shoes are straight. The militant man that said, I don't want them boots. He was lost. Hey, there's your feet. And they had those, what they called squall boots and things. They pulled them up. The Apache boots. And they would wear these out there and they adapted to the Indian clothing and to the Indian culture of freedom and democracy. Were these the ones that made up the majority of the scouts? These were the mountain men that wanted the freedom. They wanted freedom, but they had to run out in the wilderness to get it. You couldn't go to any community in any town or any colony where freedom was. If you wanted freedom, you had to go out there in the backwoods someplace. Otherwise, it was just like England, just like Europe. All the colonies that were established. Well, finally, Roger Williams came over here and Dr. John Clark Dr. John Clark, he was a doctor and he was a preacher, and he came over from England. And in 1638, after many years of fighting over there for the right to establish a free colony, or freedom of religion, he went over there and he begged the king, he said, please, please, we'll pay your taxes, we'll do anything you want to, please let us establish one colony where there is a religious liberty. And they did. And of course, the next year, Roger Williams established the Lutheran Church in 1639. Congregationalist? Well, it was somewhat of almost a Baptist church. But really, he wasn't ever a Baptist. He didn't really know what he believed. He was just... They didn't have any authority to baptize it. The primitive, pardon me, not the primitive, but the particular Baptist that came to this country did not accept Roger Williams' baptism. What did Roger Williams do? How did he get authority to baptize? He believed in immersions for baptism. So he had some of these church members baptize him, and then he baptized the rest of the church. They, none of them, had any authority to baptize anybody. Well, a particular Baptist said, oh, no, no, no. We don't believe in that. We believe in Church authority to baptize. No man has any authority to baptize. You were sent out by Churches, and we baptize by Church authority. By the way, that's what the Baptist Church is taught now through all the ages. That's what the whole Anabaptist thing was about, back to the ages. Okay? Well, they never accepted Roger Wiggins Church, but Dr. John Clark Church. And by the way, I think the church is still in existence, even though there are some sections from it that came out of it. There was a well-tracked churches that were established. And basically, most of the churches that came here were Particular Baptists, and what do I mean by Particular and General Baptists? Remember, we wrote that up here. Particular, does the name have to do with the theology? It's not the tenets of, the level tenets of Baptists? The Particular Baptists believed in salvation by grace only, But they went so far as John Wycliffe's idea that only those that were written in the Lamb's Book of Life before the foundation of the world could be saved. They believed in a limited atonement and an irresistible grace. Total hereditary depravity. Much of John Calvin's teaching was rubbed off onto them. I'm not saying all of the Baptists that came over here were not. The Wellstratch Church was a regular Baptist church. Not a general Baptist church, but a regular Baptist church, okay? In America. Then there were general Baptists in Europe. Remember that term, alright? And these people are the ones that slid toward the Armenian idea. Some of them went so far as to teach salvation by grace and works, which, okay, they were fighting against the wrong ideas of the Hyper-Calvinists, and they became too much Arminian in a way. But there were many, many Baptist churches that were called regular Baptist churches that didn't believe too far the other way or too far this way. They were real Anabaptists. All right? It was a great Baptist preacher in England that preached for so many years and had over 10,000 members in that church over there. What was... I can't... Spurgeon's Tabernacle, over there. Spurgeon was a particular Baptist. Alright, he was a particular Baptist. He was not the hyper-Calvinist like many people that are followers of Calvin Christ teach that he was. He was a little lax on the irresistible grace and on the limited atonement business. He believed that Christ, like Calvin did, in the latter part of his life. But he was a, what was called, a hard-shelled Baptist. You ever heard that term? Hard-shelled Baptist. Hard-shelled Baptist. Hard-shelled Baptist got started in this country by Daniel Parker. All right? Daniel Parker. I'm doing all this ad lib. I hope you're learning something out of it. I've been covering it for so many years, because I do want to get into the cults, like I did last time, because I know you need that. We were facing these scoundrels today. Daniel Parker started the Baptist, what we call the hard-shell Baptist movement. And remember, this is also the primitive Baptist movement. In Kentucky and Tennessee, and through there, and the state of misery. All down through those areas there, these primitive and hard-shot Baptists went. Hard preachers. But they didn't believe in missions. They believed that That man was going to be saved, a man that was not in the world. If you were written in the Lamb's Book of Life, there was nothing in this world that you could do to resist the grace of God. That God someday was going to drag you into a church somewhere, and that you would accept Christ, and repent of your sins, and just accept what was coming to you. You were the elect. All right? As simple as that. Now, we're all in an area of this. Of course, there were real, true, whole-blind, regular Baptist churches all the time. Most of America was made up of regular and separate Baptists. OK? Regular and separate Baptists at one time. The regular Baptists, many of them were the particular Baptists. When they came to this country, they dropped the name particular. In Europe, it was particular in general. Don't get me started on that. When it came to America, it was regular and separate matters. Who has ever heard of that great fire-breathing preacher that came to America? George Whitfield. Preaching the awakening, the great awakening in this country. And George Whitfield was preaching Going from one end of America to the other preaching great revivals, thousands of people were being saved, and there were great emotional revivals going on throughout the country from that. But he was a Confrontationalist. He came out of the Church of England. Many of the Baptists said, the regular Baptists in this country said, We do not have pulpit affiliation with Herodotus. We're not going to let a heretic get up and preach in our church. He's a Protestant. Alright, he's a Protestant, and he was. We're not going to have it. And then the other one says, we're going to separate ourselves from you, from you regular Baptists, and we're going to be called separate Baptists. Whitefield went to and founded churches all over, Baptist churches called separate Baptist churches. So the separate people were the ones that accepted Whitfield's teaching. Now, these churches, the separate and the regular Baptists in America, many times, even though they didn't agree with George Whitfield, he died after a while, okay? But I'm going to tell you something. Some bad foundations came into Whitfield. He didn't have any foundation to preach from. He preached great revivals and stuff, but he had no church authority. He taught us from religion to religion to religion. He was just cross religious. He's almost like Joseph Smith. He was just crossing all religious boundaries and just preaching to the people. The gospel of Jesus Christ. I'll tell you something, there are doctrines. He was not what they call a doctrinal preacher, but a revivalist. emotional, great emotional revival in areas. Well, these churches fought over the years, but some of these separate Baptist churches would have regular Baptist pastors come and preach to them because they were sound teachers. And then they started coming back to the truth. See? See how things happen? They started coming back, and then after what feels been dead for a long time, then these regular Baptists kind of were given these separate Baptists for the bad things they did and finally this cultural affiliation you know interdenominational cultural affiliation and everything else so they started getting back together again so finally about 1700 boy I've kept you too long they finally got together and they said that we're separate and regular Baptists and it was just going to be united Baptists from then on That's where you got the United Baptist Movement. And that's where we are right now. I'm sorry I held you over. Did you tell them to bring Dakota here? Thank you for your attention. I hope you're learning something. I hope I'm not going through this thing so quickly that you're not capable of gathering information that will mean something to you. And as you study history, all history, maybe you can understand how we got to where we are today. Yeah. It makes so much more sense, because you figure everything that's happened in history has something to do with religion one way or another. That's right. So the only way you can really understand how secular history works, like World War II, It makes so much more sense now how they went along with it. That works for everything else you said. Father, thank you for your word tonight, the history of your people. Forgive us for it, Father. Guys, as we go out of here, help us be honorable and glorifying to you in all of our lives. Help us to work with our children. Thank you for all the ministers we have in this church working together to build such a great assembly as we have here to honor and glorify you. Forgive us for our failure, in Jesus' name we pray. Amen.