Can You Say "Jesus is Lord"? (1 Corinthians 12)

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Welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.

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My name is Keith Foskey and I am a Calvinist.

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Can you say Jesus is Lord? Well if you go to 1st Corinthians chapter 12 you will find a passage that says that you cannot say Jesus is Lord unless you have the Holy Spirit.

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I want you to look today with me at 1st Corinthians chapter 12 and you'll notice that that is what is said in verse 3.

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Paul says, therefore I want you to understand that no one speaking in the Spirit of God ever says Jesus is accursed and no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the Holy Spirit.

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Several years ago there was a famous television preacher who walked through the audience with a microphone and as he was walking through his audience with a microphone he would reach down and say can you say Jesus is Lord? The person would take the microphone and say yes Jesus is Lord and he would say well then you my friend are saved because you couldn't say that unless it was by the Holy Spirit.

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Then he would walk to another person and we'd say can you say Jesus is Lord and of course that person would repeat Jesus is Lord and he went around the studio several times asking people and of course everyone had the ability and power to say Jesus is Lord and therefore he confirmed upon each of them salvation.

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You're saved because you can say Jesus is Lord.

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I want to encourage you today that that is not what the Apostle Paul meant when he wrote this in 1st Corinthians chapter 12.

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In fact we know this for certain if we compare this to Matthew chapter 7.