Pre-recorded Message by James about Attacks by Dan Corner (Once Saved, Always Saved)

Peter commanded all Christians to be ready to give a defense for the hope that is within us yet to give that answer with gentleness and reverence. Your host is dr. James white director of Alpha Omega ministries and an elder at the Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church.

This is a live program and we invite your participation and now with today's topic. Here is James white and good afternoon. Ladies and gentlemen. My name is Rich Pierce sitting in for dr. White today.

And well, hey, you know, I'm Getting a little bit more settled in than I was last time around it had been a while before I'd sat in the big chair and Boy, I tell you I gotta tell you, you know, you sit in this chair and this man has got so many gadgets on his computer.

It's incredible. I'm sitting here looking the the weather report today in Phoenix is that it's currently 98 degrees humidity is 14 We're looking at a high of a hundred and four today with a low of 68 degrees.

Can you believe all this, you know, we even go as weathermen for Phoenix and everything. It's it's incredible. But Anyway, we've had a little bit of a change of plan today. The idea originally was that I was going to be interviewing. Dr Rick Walston whom we unfortunately haven't had Opportunity or ability to get a hold of yet, and we're gonna have to delay that and maybe Have a chat with him next week.

I was originally of the impression that dr. White's response to mr Dan corner was about a half an hour long and that dr. Walston and I would have Another hour to work with after that and then this morning I came in started setting up open up the file that dr White left for me and it's an hour long and I really don't feel that I can give dr Walston justice to be able to put all of his comments in there and be able to talk about all the things that we wanted to talk about in in a half an hour, so what we're gonna do is hopefully be able to reschedule that program and and and give that the kind of time that it deserves and Today, we're going to go through and listen to a pre-recorded program that dr. White did for us before he left for Indianapolis, which is where he is today and Speaking at a cults conference, and we're going to Address an issue the latest if you will Shot from Dan corner now if you're not familiar with Dan corner You may want to take a look at a guy or a website at a omen dot or web page at our website.

A omen org forward slash and this is all caps. Oh s a s stands for once saved always saved Dot and then lowercase html and that will give you an introduction to mr. Corners Silliness in the meantime. I want to before we get started with this This tape that dr. White made for us.

I want to read an email that I got recently from a gentleman apparently mr corner in his latest shot across our bow has also decided to Email a bunch of folks regarding a a Real audio tape that he's done.

An audio file that he's done and you're going to hear a portion of that today in dr. White's commentary. And I want to just read this for you real quick dear James. I recently received an email from Dan corners ministry I'm not sure how or why but I did of course he's still challenging you to a debate.

Here it is for your perusal. Greetings in Jesus name. We must we just put a new audio file up which gives solid clear evidence Regarding who is not willing to debate the subject of eternal security. Is it Dan corner or Jim white?

Please see the following link and click on it and it gives the link the almost debate with James white on eternal security. According to true grace teaching eternal life is also a hope Titus 3 7 yet to be reaped to Galatians 6 8 and 9.

In the age to come mark 10 through 30 to 10 30. For only the ones who persist in doing good Romans 2 7 and do not grow weary and give up Galatians 6 9. And then the gentleman comments after receiving this my advice.

And I think the exasperation that he's about to express is shared by a lot of folks. Simply debate him if you have the time and run the other issues God sovereignty, etc in through the back door. Well, I don't think that would fly and I think dr. White's explanation of the matter would give clear and convincing evidence of that so Warren if you're ready in the other room, let's go ahead and start.

Dr. White's comments. I.

Your character and I'm faced with such a dilemma even now as I respond to a recording Made known to me recently by a friend of mine, Florida by mr. Dan corner. Mr. Corner runs Evangelical outreach and for some reason since about 1998 at least mr. Corner has decided that I'm a good target to shoot at and And for some strange reason he feels that it's In his best interest to attack me and others, but especially me these days seemingly on the subject of My belief in the perseverance of the Saints or what he calls once saved Always saved back in 1998.

I had received a note from him Says again my original offer stands I will gladly debate the subject of my new book with you Maury Hunt Ankerberg or Hanegraaff. Please do not tell anyone I'm unwilling or misrepresent me in some other way and Then in August of that year I got a note from him that said I'm having a radio interview out of California in about a week and a half.

I plan to expose you and others as Some who have refused to publicly debate me on the subject of once saved always saved in an equally timed Fair exchange of ideas, of course, if you change your mind by then I won't include you along with the others.

But I sincerely doubt that you will since you apparently are afraid to debate this particular issue with me signed contending for the faith Jude 3 4. Dan corner. Well my response to him even though it is on our website if you'd like to read it I think is relevant because it really nothing has changed.

It's just a mr. Corner has now by the use of digital editing and very unfairly Misrepresenting events of June of last year 2000 He has again launched an attack upon me. That is simply deceptive and I believe the facts as they'll be presented to you will Demonstrate that and I will then allow you to decide what that means in regards to the honesty integrity And credibility of mr. Corner.

This is my response to mr Corner back in 98 and it's us remains just as valid today. Hi again, Dan been a while since I've gotten a note from you. You need to realize Dan that the number of folks talking about exposing me for this or that is Legion.

Just do a good web search on my name sometime. You've got your Roman Catholics and your Mormons and your Jehovah's Witnesses and your atheists and especially your King James only type folks. The list is long and distinguished.

So someone threatening to expose me is almost humorous. However, what is not humorous is the fact that you know, the statement is untrue while you claim your book is irrefutable. You know that I have invited you to debate.

I invite you to debate on the fundamental issues that give rise to the one topic you have made your life's work or so. It seems I have explained logically and biblically that the issue of the perseverance of the Saints or the perfection of Christ work as Savior is based upon more fundamental questions specifically the sovereignty of God in election and Predestination and the nature of man is sinner specifically his deadness and sin.

You have refused to debate those issues against me insisting that I skip past the fundamental issues of disagreement and Debate an issue that can never be resolved unless the basics are covered first.

I would like in your position Dan to that of a person who insists that I debate him on the subject of the procession of The Holy Spirit without first addressing the issue of the Trinity itself. In fact, I recently got a series of emails from a fellow who denies the deity of Christ and the person of the Holy Spirit.

Now wouldn't you agree that it'd be very silly of me to debate this person on whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son without first discussing the more fundamental issues of the deity of Christ and of the holy personality of the Holy Spirit and the Trinity itself.

Such seems obvious in the same way as I have explained to you. The perseverance of the Saints is a divine truth plainly presented in passages such as John 6 37 through 40. But any meaningful discussion requires that the foundation of the truth be debated that being the ability and willingness of God to save perfectly in Christ Jesus said that it was the Father's will that he lose none of those given to him by the Father if You deny the Father is even able to give any to the Son so as to entrust their salvation to his hands.

You are obviously not going to see or accept the teaching of such passages. So Dan, let's be honest I do radio programs all across the United States on a weekly basis if I want to threaten folks with Exposure as you have done to me I could do it with far more regularity than you could ever hope to do but I refuse to behave in such a manner.

I know I've invited you to debate the real issue and you have declined preferring to stay with the one issue. You have made your crusade in life. If I wanted to go on nationwide radio and expose Dan I could do it.

But I have no interest in such things. I know and you know and most importantly God knows that I've responded to your challenge in a biblical and logical manner. If you were an honest man, you will say on that radio interview James White being the Reformed theologian He is has insisted that we debate election Predestination and the deadness of man in sin before addressing the issue of the perseverance of the Saints and I have declined his invitation.

If you are not an honest man, you won't bother being accurate in what you say in either case Dan God knows the truth. I hope you will do what is right? So that was sent to mr. Corner in 1998 and Really the situation pretty much stayed exactly like that.

Until June of the year 2000 when I went to st Louis and what I would like to do is just give you a brief background and Then I am going to play a little less than a half hour segment of the program. That I appeared on the Tim and Al program that is on I believe KJ SL in st. Louis and Let's you hear for yourself.

What took place now. The problem is you're not going to hear Dan corner on that program and Here's why what happened was? The people who were bringing me out Arranged to have me on the program to talk about the potter's freedom which had just come out a few weeks before that and I said that would be fine.

I had been on with Tim and Al on the phone a number of times and so being in studio Since I was right there in st. Louis. Anyways would be fine a Few days before I headed out to st. Louis. I was told by the folks who are arranging it Hey, they're looking at possibly having an Armenian to debate you.

Well, okay, whatever. I'm used to that too then the day before I left as I was packing we were in our chat room and One of the fellows who was involved in bringing me out said hey, they've they've gotten someone to debate you.

I said, okay. Who's that? Well a guy named Dan corner. And I said Dan corner. He's not gonna debate me on the issue of my book. Well, he wants to debate you on One saved always saved and I said, ah, don't you realize?

Dan corner has been invited to debate me before and he will not debate anything. But just his narrow view of the evangelical view of one saved all was saved. He will not deal with the real issues. He will not deal with the sovereignty of God divine election.

He will not deal with unconditional election. He won't deal with the atonement he won't deal with any of those things and This this isn't gonna happen. I can just guarantee it's not gonna happen. So I flew out to st. Louis and we went into the radio station next morning and I walk in and sit down in the studio and It's a little bit different at KJSL that the two hosts are in a different studio.

You're actually in a separate so you can see them through a window, but you're not in the studio with them a little bit unusual and The first thing I'm given is a fax of a contract. That mr. Corner has faxed the station.

I've never seen anything like this before I've This first time anyone who was good to be doing a radio discussion that I've ever seen a faxed contract. I have done more radio debates than than I can possibly imagine.

Just did debates on homosexuality and abortion on the radio and it never crossed my mind to send a contract. That I'd be asking the other person to sign. That would say things that would they would say what they could and could not discuss it just I don't know I just don't think like that and So I started reading through this contract and and Tim and Al weren't happy about it.

I started reading through this contract and I get to the point that says that the subject will be once saved always saved and the Discussion will not go into any of the other points of Calvinism. So immediately what you've got here is Mr. Corner saying I won't debate a Calvinist on this subject.

Instead I will tell the Calvinist what he must believe and I will force him to debate what I'm comfortable debating. Because I'm not comfortable debating what he believes I want him to debate what I'm comfortable to believing so I'm gonna try to get him to sign a contract That says that he will not Present his own position because that's what it is.

Any logical or rational person can recognize that to tell someone you will not discuss any other element of this is Absolutely positively absurd. It makes no sense. And so I said to him guys Look, I I was asked to talk about the Potter's freedom.

This contract says I can't This contract says I can't address those issues at all. I Signed this contract. This is absurd and no person in their right mind would sign this. This is this is a joke and So they tried talking to mr Corner and the producer tried talking to mr Corner and then Tim and Al for some reason wanted me to talk with mr Corn.

I think I spoke with him twice and What I'd like to do by the way, it's very obvious as we will hear a little bit later on Mr. Corner recorded all of this on the phone. I Don't remember him telling me he was doing that.

Maybe you did I don't remember but if he has the whole tape I would like to challenge. Mr Corner right now and I would like to ask anyone who's actually interested in this to contact. Mr Corner and to challenge him his website's evangelical outreach one word org.

There's an email thing down at the bottom. Just click on it and Send him an email and say mr. Corner make available The tape of all of the conversation because see, you know, what's really sad. Is it in this?

Audio file has been placed on the internet by mr. Corner. He only plays one little section and he stops it. He I mean you can hear it. It's it'll it's very plain. We hear he stops it in the middle of what I'm saying.

He is making the statement why I know that you you would not to debate this subject without discussing the other issues of Calvinism and I say of course and then I went on and explained that it has been explained to him more than once.

All he does is just quote the words, of course then stops it cold in the middle of a sentence I Want to challenge Dan corner play the whole thing. Let your listeners let your followers know you had to stop it right there because the simple fact matter is folks What you'd hear after that and what you'd hear and everything that I said to mr Corner and what you're gonna hear on the radio program is Exactly what I had said to mr. Corner in the letter that's been posted on our website since 1998.

I Didn't change anything and my debate challenge to mr. Corner still stands if he will actually debate the whole issue, which he absolutely positively refuses to do and So this conversation took place.

Mr. Corn said, okay, I'm not gonna do it. I If you won't sign the contract if you won't say that you won't discuss any other elements of Calvinism. Then I'm not gonna do it. And so he wasn't on the program.

And so we just had an interview on the subject of the Potter's freedom. What's fascinating then is that a lady called in you'll hear the call and She and her husband I believe have a radio program on the same station and they're big fans of Dan corner and She wanted to call in and say I had ducked the debate.

Now you'll hear what happens, but the fast Absolutely fascinating thing is mr. Corner in his audio file, which we're gonna play for you as well play the whole thing for you Faults me. Because I have never responded the invitation That took place on that radio program the the radio program hosted by these other folks To be on there to debate.

Mr. Corner on once saved always saved. He does sort of mention that it did play hours later. What he doesn't mention is it comes on at midnight? So in other words, I guess this is so important that even though I'm traveling I'm ministering at a church I'm staying in a hotel.

That I was supposed to take time to go buy a radio and stay up to midnight and beyond. To listen to Dan corner on a Great a call-in talk program that airs at midnight. That's what I was supposed to do.

Well, you know what? I was doing the midnight folks. I was I was sleeping. That's that's generally what I tried to do at midnight. I think it's good thing to be doing is sleeping. So it was it's it's amazing.

What mr. Corner is saying? But I think that the the facts will will show that. Well, there's there's just a little bit of desperation here. So what I'm gonna do first is I would like to play for you the 26 minutes 55 seconds of the Tim and Al show and With the issue with mr. Corner will come up but notice what the actual subject of The discussion is it's Calvinism because that's what they asked me to do.

So let's listen in Jane White has put together the the new book the Potter's freedom a defense of the Reformation and a rebuttal of Norm Geisler's chosen but free and You know, it kind of surprises me.

Although I haven't read Norm Geisler's book, but I have I have With only one exception and that is just an answer that he gave in in one of his question-answer books. I have not been disappointed by Norm Geisler's work.

Good research. Good, man. Well, yes and and Norman and I have been very friendly with one another we've had more than one dinner and lunch together and I hope that that a Friendliness can continue but there needs to be a discussion of important issues.

I knew that chosen but free is coming out. In fact, ironically chosen but free is published by my own publisher Bethany house publishers, you know, I have many books The Forgotten Trinity the King James only controversy all of that stuff.

But Norman and I are on opposite sides this issue and I think it is a healthy thing. When people can disagree in a way that is respectful. You will not discover any ad hominem attacks upon Norman Geisler as an individual in this book.

It is focused upon the issue and the issue is the issue of the Reformation and that is does God? Save by his grace alone, or does God attempt to save? Making grace one of two forces involved in salvation and the great issue of the Reformation was between the Technological or theological terms or monergism and synergism.

Monergism the idea that God's grace actually accomplishes what he intended to do in the saving of his elect people and Synergism being the idea that God's grace cooperates with and works with man's will to bring about salvation at some times.

But in other times not to bring out salvation so that grace can try to save but at times fail to do so. Okay. The one thing that confuses me on.

On irresistible grace. Explain that for folks who are not familiar with that.

Well, I think you need to go back a little bit because just as you can't immediately jump into discussion of the perseverance of the Saints for example Irresistible grace is a is a point down the line of argumentation the the position that I espouse and defend as being the Consistent biblical presentation is that you have a sovereign God who is the potter who creates?

Mankind that you have man who has fallen into sin who is as a result enslaved to sin and spiritually dead. You have the decree of God that is Unconditional to save and elect people for his own grace in his own glory not for anything that they have done in fact.

And not any person who has ever saved deserves it earned it bought or did anything else that God is glorifying himself and himself Alone in bringing about that salvation that Christ dies perfectly in their place bearing their sins in his body on the tree.

And then the phrase irresistible grace simply means that when the time comes in God's sovereign decree That the dead sinner is going to be raised to spiritual life that that grace that accomplishes that Cannot be resisted by the dead sinner in the same way that when Christ comes to the grave in John 11 and says Lazarus Come forth.

There's no argument on Lazarus's part. When Jesus Christ says Lazarus come forth Lazarus comes forth well Here's here's where I get confused on this because I'll give you my testimony readers digest condensed version.

I was a religious teenager. I I would read my mom would read me Bible stories. No, it was not read in a Christian home about Daniel and all these people who stood up for their faith, and I thought I could do that and so I was a good sinner.

I tried hard I thought God graded on the curve, and I had a girlfriend and I compromised there. But I thought that my good works would certainly outweigh my bad Points and then when I heard the gospel August 16th 1971 I was first of all mad because I've been doing good works for nothing and I was Thinking of all the fun.

I was missing and the second thing that was going on in my head is I know I need and and I need to acknowledge this. But I don't want to do that right now and John Gregory kept saying today is the day of salvation today.

They call and so I I finally Received Christ to get rid of the guy because he was he was irritating me. So I didn't we talked about irresistible grace. I I did not want to get saved. Okay, and it is a thing I Maybe I'm proving my own point.

I think my mind I'm I am resisting and I'm resisting and I'm resisting and and finally Not a genuine conversion mind you it's to get rid of the guy, but it's stuck and I don't know if that makes sense.

Well, I think you need to remember that the most fundamental issue here that that unfortunately is not discussed a whole lot in our modern Text is what the Bible teaches about what sin does to man. The scriptures say in Romans 3 11 There is none who seeks after God.

Now talk about going against the grain of our modern culture where we build entire churches on the idea. There's all sorts of people who are doing exactly that. But the scriptures teach us that man outside of regeneration man who is dead in sin.

Man who is as Jesus taught in John chapter 8 enslaved to sin is the enemy of God he does not have anything within him that would present to his will godly desires and therefore any type of desire that a person has any type of of Desire the person has to read the Bible or to go listen to.

I didn't catch the name of the person you mentioned but to go hear a person preach or whatever it might be he came to me comes from God. And When God raises a person to spiritual life He gives them a new nature.

That new nature is one that loves Jesus Christ. That new nature is not one that is is that does it not mean that a person has immediate full understanding of everything there is. No in the Bible. We're not born in the family of God with a with a THD in theology to where we we understand everything there is to know.

But we know who Christ is we know what our need is. We know what sin is and the desire of our heart is to be obedient to Christ and to follow him as best. We understand that and that's why we go to the word.

That's why God has given us the church. That's why God has given us people to teach us and to mentor us and so on so forth. So when we're talking about irresistible grace. What we're saying is is that if God chooses an individual to bring them into salvation that at a point in time and I don't know I can't look at you and you can't look at me and know when that point in time was.

But that God is going to do a work in your heart and he's going to raise you to spiritual life. He's going to give you the gifts and this is another area of Controversy the gifts of faith and repentance.

That faith is something that is done by a person who is spiritually alive not by this person who's spiritually dead and That as a result this individual is going to be saved Infallibly by the work of Christ in his place.

And everything that I do as a Christian is a response to What God has done for me. What you were doing was response to what the Spirit of God was doing in your heart and When that took place I cannot tell you I've counseled many a person said you know as a young person I had strong religious experiences.

Then during my teenage years and this was my experience during my teenage years for about three or four years. You wouldn't have recognized me as a Christian. And yet God drew me back to himself. And I do not believe that I was saved and lost and saved and lost and all the rest of this stuff.

I believe God has been faithful to me since of since you mentioned a specific date March 15th 1967 I believe that God has been faithful to me. I have not necessarily lived a life at all those times that has been honoring to him.

But he kept me from doing anything that would be greatly dishonoring to him during that period of time. He's been faithful to me and the testimony of Scripture is God is faithful. I'm so glad that when Paul writes to the Philippians or when he writes these others He says my confidence is in what.

Is it in you. Is it in the Philippians? No my confidence is in the God Who has begun a good work within you. And I think that really goes back to the primary and fundamental issue. And that is does God save perfectly or does God attempt and try to save.

Does the triune God? We've all done my book the Forgotten Trinity last week. We did a debate on oneness. Here we have God the eternal Father Decreeing the salvation of an individual the Son dying to assure it the Holy Spirit coming to bring spiritual life.

Are we going to say that the work of the triune God can be frustrated and stopped. Mighty will of the creature? That is the fundamental issue, and I do not believe that the scriptures teach us that the will of the creature Overrides the will of the Creator.

I believe God is the Potter. We are the pots and that's why Ephesians 1 Romans 8 and 9 John 6 they're all right there in Scripture. In fact if we have a few moments I'd like to make sure that we at least get an opportunity to look at one of those passages John 6 37 through 39.

I think is why don't you do that now go ahead? Well? You know I?

Remember once sitting down with a fellow and he wanted to talk about these things and I turned to Ephesians 1 he said no She if you don't show it to me in red. It is isn't there and he had hit a disease of hyper red letterism.

And but it is there in the red and in John chapter 6 the words of Jesus exactly the red the red letters of the Bible. Which no one ever actually dreamed of doing until about a hundred years ago, but anyways Jesus taught very clearly in the synagogue in Capernaum and he had 5 ,000 people who had just watched him do a miracle and I mean talk about flunking a church growth class.

Jesus has 5 ,000 people chasing around and by the end of his sermon he has 12. I mean he's driven them all away because he directs them to himself. And he says you people need to come to me to have freedom and they're offended by that.

And in John chapter 6 Jesus says these words all that the father gives me Will come to me and the one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out for I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of him who?

Sent me and this is the will of him who sent me that of all that he has given me I lose nothing, but raise it up on the last day. We've got to hear those words gentlemen. These are the words the Lord Jesus Christ.

And he says to us first of all all that the father gives him will come to me not some. Not a major portion of all that the father gives me will come to me and the giving of the father in the language must precede the coming of the person to Christ.

All who are given by the father to the son as a Result of that being given come to the son and as a result of that the one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out. That's why I said a number of minutes ago I cannot discuss the perfection of the work of Christ's salvation why it lasts without dealing first with the foundation of why that is.

Eternal security is the last phrase of verse 37. But you never ever discuss a sentence by cutting it in half. And so it is one whole all the father gives me will come to me and the one who comes to me I will certainly not cast out and then in verses 38 and 39.

This is beautiful. We have the incarnate Lord Jesus who is eternally existed. Telling us what the father's will for him is we are given an insight here into the very internal workings of the Godhead itself.

And the son tells us that it's the father's will for him that of all that he's been given. He not lose anything, but raise it up on the last day now. Let me ask you something guys. If the Lord Jesus says the will the father of him is that he lose none that are given to him here.

My questions does Jesus always do the will of the father? Yeah, is Jesus able always to do whatever the father would do if I said to you guys. Hey, I I'm teaching Hebrew for Golden Gate Seminary this fall.

I teach Greek one year Hebrew the next year and if I said, you know what? I need you guys to fly out to Phoenix on a particular night when I'm teaching Hebrew and fill in for me and teach the Verb forms in the Hebrew language.

Would that be wise for me to ask you to to team teach that well. We'd love to go out to Phoenix. But would I be much of a wise professor to ask you to to fill in for me and teach Hebrew.

We probably wouldn't say anything until we got.

Obviously that would not show a lot of wisdom on my part, but we recognize in John chapter 6 This is the all-wise God Expressing his will for the son. So obviously if the son always does the will of the father and the father is not going to ask anything of the son that the Son cannot do.

Therefore as a result I as I I insist that the words of the Lord Jesus are that all that the father gives him Have absolutely positively no possibility of not being saved for one simple reason not because of anything in them.

But because Jesus Christ is Capable and will always do the will of the father and that must mean that his work on the cross Actually accomplishes the means by which he can save all those that are given to him.

Now would you agree with DL Moody the the whosoever wills are the elect and the whosoever won't so the non-elect?

Yes from our perspective. I would agree that that is how we perceive things. But remember when we talk about whosoever will the scripture tells us in the very same passage in John 6 44 No one can come to me unless the father who sent me draws him and I will raise him up on the last day.

So there is an inability because of as Jesus said he who commits sin is the slave of sin. Jesus has to liberate us. He has to free us from that slavery. And so when we talk about the whosoever wills I Will to come to Christ but I will to come to Christ because Christ has first freed me from the slavery of sin and Drawn me to himself by his sovereign grace.

And that that really I think Gentleman is the reason why you're looking at the only person who since 1984 has been standing outside the gates of the LDS temple in Salt Lake City during every single general conference the Mormon Church.

There's nobody who doesn't believe this. It's been standing out there passing out tracts and sharing the gospel. You know why. Because they say oh those are the hard cases. Those are the tough folks guys.

My god is not stopped by any power in heaven earth when he decides By his sovereign grace to save one of his elect people. Mormonism can't stop him and the Watchtower Society can't stop him and the New Age can't stop him.

Nothing can stop him when the spirit comes to bring spiritual life to that person. He's gonna do it and that's why we're the only ones that are up there.

But haven't you found that many of our friends who take the Calvinist position say well I don't know I might be leading somebody the Lord who doesn't belong to the Lord.

No, I've never heard that from a from a person who understands that because I can't do that.

I can elect is and you know. Yeah.

I don't know who the elect is and that's why I can proclaim the gospel to everyone and leave and see. I don't have to Shave off the rough corners of the gospel because since Christ has his elect He has his sheep.

His sheep hear his voice. They will not be offended by his truth. So I don't have to shave off the corners of the gospel and try to make it more palatable to modern man. I can preach the entirety of the gospel knowing that Christ's sheep hear his voice and they'll follow.