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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.
- 01:09
- 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 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.
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- In Matthew chapter 7 Jesus' own words tell us that there will be people who come to him at the end of time and who say Lord Lord did we not do many mighty works in your name did we not cast out demons in your name and he will say depart from me I never knew you.
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- Therefore those people who were able to say Lord Lord identifying Jesus as who he is as Lord weren't actually saved and so when we come back to 1st Corinthians 12 and we read verse 3 when he says no one can say Jesus is Lord except in the spirit what are we supposed to understand from that passage and how are we to understand that passage well that's what I want to talk about today and again these lessons are short so I want to make this as short and succinct as I can.
- 02:39
- When Paul says no one can say that Jesus is Lord I do believe that there's a sense in which he is saying that no one can say this with the utmost sincerity no one can say this and truly mean it unless a person has been born again and here's a picture of what that might have looked like in the first century.
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- In the first century there was a demand made among people that they would that Caesar is Lord.
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- In fact there were times when if you did not say Caesar is Lord then that could cost you your life.
