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The Sovereignty of God, by Al Martin (17 Free MP3s)

God's Absolute Sovereignty (Predestination) and Man's Full Responsibility and Free Agency (In the Bible) - Free Reformation Resources (MP3s, Videos, Books, etc.)

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God's Absolute Sovereignty (Predestination) and Man's Full Responsibility and Free Agency (In the Bible) - Free Reformation Resources (MP3s, Videos, Books, etc.)

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Best sermon we have heard harmonizing God's absolute sovereignty with man's complete responsibility, as it is revealed in the Bible.

• "Regarded by many as Jonathan Edwards' greatest work, The Freedom of the Will examines the nature and state of man's will, explaining that man's will is fallen and in need of God's grace for salvation. In 1754 Edwards published The Freedom of the Will, which although it was written long before the modern debate over Open Theism, thoroughly answers and demolishes the errors of this view. The full title of Edwards' great philosophical work is, "An Inquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of the Freedom of the Will which is Supposed to be Essential to Moral Agency, Virtue and Vice, Reward and Punishment, Praise and Blame." His text was Romans 9:16, "It is not of him that willeth." One of the authors that he was refuting was Daniel Whitby, an Arminian minister in the Church of England. Whitby was known for being strongly anti-Calvinistic, and later gave evidence of strong Arian and Unitarian tendencies. In 1710 he had written his Discourse on the Five Points [of Calvinism]. What Edwards interacted with most was the fourth discourse on "The Liberty of the Will of Man in a State of Trial and Probation." Whitby's statement, "It is better to deny prescience [foreknowledge] than liberty." Is from that section. He also said that it is better to say that God does not know the future, or that God both does and doesn't know the future. One can see the "Openness of God" theology in these statements three hundred years ago. Edwards responded in The Freedom of the Will that man freely chooses whatever seems good to him, but that what seems good to him is always based on an inherent predisposition. That inherent predisposition has been foreordained and predestined by a sovereign God who does not inhibit man's ability to freely choose from a limited menu. For Edwards the issue regarding a totally free will is a simple one: either contingency and the liberty of self-determination must be run out of this world, or God will be shut out." (from Monergism Books)

• "Pelagianism has a death grip on the modern church. Perhaps the most important refutation of this distinctive is Edwards' Freedom of the Will. I believe this is the most important theological book ever published in America." - Dr. R.C. Sproul

• "In this book, Edwards annihilated false views of the will that prevailed in his century and in ours, in order that men may know how to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved. This profoundest of all Edwards' works is essentially and intentionally an evangelistic tract." - John H. Gerstner

FREE SWRB MP3: Harmonizing Predestination & Human Freedom - & Jonathan Edwards' Freedom of the Will, by Dr. Steven Dilday

The Sovereignty of God in the Trials, Tears, Pain, Suffering, Sickness, Afflictions and Calamities of Life

Decree of God by Dr. Steven Dilday, A.W. Pink, Stephen Charnock, Greg Price, Loraine Boettner, et al. (14 Free Calvinist MP3s)

Does Not God Count My Steps? (Absolute Predestination in the Bible and How This Affects Your Life) by John Calvin

Double Predestination, Reprobation, God's Sovereignty, Human Responsibility, the Will, Calvinism, Arminianism, Sanctification (Holiness) and How Election Encourages Evangelism, by Dr. Joel Beeke (Free MP3s)

The Infinity of God, and the Beauty and Depth of Reformed Theology, by Stephen Charnock, Dr. R.C. Sproul, Charles Hodge, Joseph Pipa, Arthur Pink, Greg Price, John Gill, Dr. Curt Daniel, and Others (Free MP3s, Books, Etc.)

A Jesuit: "Now we have planted the Sovereign Drug Arminianism, OUR FOUNDATION IS ARMINIANISM." - Arminianism Another Gospel (Free MP3 & PDF)

UNCONDITIONAL ELECTION (12 FREE MP3s) BY DR. FERRELL GRISWOLD (Best free audio series about unconditional election!)

John Calvin, Election and Evangelism (Free MP3s)

There Can Be No Compromise Between Calvinism & Arminianism, Refuting the Arminian Heresy, by Dr. Steven Dilday, A.W. Pink, Calvin, McMahon, Boston, Flavel, Martin, Charnock, Price, Schwertley, et al. (Free Reformed MP3s, Books, etc.)

What Is A Christian Nation? Christ's Kingship And Lordship Over the Nations by Greg Price (17 Free MP3s)

How Christians Are To Resist Tyrants, God Is Opposed To Beastly (Anti-Christian) Civil Governments, and the Law of The Most High Is the Most High Law By William Roberts (Free MP3s)

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Calvinism, or the Sovereignty of God, in Worship (Free Online Books Against Arminianism In Worship)

• John Calvin wrote, "If it be asked, then, by what things chiefly the Christian religion has a standing amongst us, and maintains its truth, it will be found that the following two not only occupy the principal place, but comprehend under them all the other parts, and consequently the whole substance of Christianity, viz., a knowledge first, of the right way to worship God; and secondly of the source from which salvation is to be sought. When these are kept out of view, though we may glory in the name of Christians, our profession is empty and vain." - Cited in, Carlos, Eire, War Against the Idols: The Reformation of Worship, p. 198, citing from Calvin's On the Necessity of Reforming the Church (free book online).

The Sovereignty of God Over Worship & The Beauty of Classic Reformed Worship (Free MP3s)

• "The Regulative Principle of Worship declares that God alone is sovereign in worship. The Regulative Principle of Worship simply applies the principles of Calvinism (i.e. God's sovereign Lordship) to worship, whereas the view that what God doesn't forbid in worship is permitted is applying the principles of Arminianism (i.e. man's sovereign lordship) to worship. Just as fallen man naturally seeks to impose his will in salvation (e.g. "I can cooperate with God in salvation", or "I have a natural freedom to choose Christ"), so fallen man naturally seeks to impose his will in worship ("I can cooperate with God in worship by adding what I desire so long as God doesn't specifically forbid it"). But just as God condemns a man-centered salvation, so God condemns a man-centered worship (Col. 2:23 specifically condemns all will-worship, i.e. all worship instituted by man)." - Greg Price, Foundation for Reformation: The Regulative Principle of Worship, p. 10, free online or on the Puritan Hard Drive

The Lord Jesus Christ's Mediatorial Reign, He Is King Of Kings and Lord Of Lords

Civil Government: An Exposition of Romans 13:1-7 by James M. Willson and Other Books and MP3s Defending the Classic Reformation Position on Civil Government (Free MP3 Audio Books, Free Online Books and Other Formats)

Messiah, Governor of the Nations of the Earth (1803) by Alexander M'Leod, and Christ's Kingship Over the Nations Maintained and Defended in the Establishment Principle, by C.J. Brown

• The establishmentarianism of the Reformation was not limited to just individual divines, "Dr. M'Crie in his STATEMENT OF THE DIFFERENCE (which is on the Puritan Hard Drive), shows that all the Confessions of the Protestant and Presbyterian Churches of the Reformation, both in Britain and on the Continent of Europe, held and maintained the Establishment Principle." M'Crie goes on give extracts from THE CONFESSION OF HELVETIA; THE CONFESSION OF BOHEMIA, called the CONFESSION OF THE WALDENSES; THE CONFESSION OF SAXONY; THE FRENCH CONFESSION; THE BELGIC OR DUTCH CONFESSION; THE CONFESSION OF THE ENGLISH CONGREGATION IN GENEVA; THE SCOTS CONFESSION and THE WESTMINSTER CONFESSION, all proving that "these confessions harmoniously agree in declaring as with one mouth that civil authority is not limited to the secular affairs of men, and the public care and advancement of religion is a principle part of the official duty of magistrates." See our publication of Theodore Beza's (Calvin's successor in Geneva) HARMONY OF THE PROTESTANT CONFESSIONS (section 19, "Of the Civil Magistrate" [on the Puritan Hard Drive]) and the Westminster Confession of Faith (chapter 23) to confirm M'Crie's findings. M'Crie, in opposition to Tangelder, then rightly concludes, "Such is the harmony of doctrine in the Protestant churches on this head, expressed in their confessions and public formularies drawn from the word of God; a harmony which deserves great attention, and from which none should rashly depart." The only so-called Protestant group that generally opposed establishments was the anti-covenantal, anabaptists. (Dr. Reg Barrow,Reg Barrow's Reply to Christian Renewal Regarding Their Review of Mike Wagner's Presbyterian Political Manifesto, on the Puritan Hard Drive

A PRESBYTERIAN POLITICAL MANIFESTO: PRESBYTERIANISM AND CIVIL GOVERNMENT, by Dr. Michael Wagner (Free Online Book)

The Lord Jesus Christ's Mediatorial Reign, He Is King Of Kings and Lord Of Lords

Biblical Civil Government Versus Satanic Civil Government, by Jim Dodson, Greg Price and John Knox (Free Christian MP3s, Books and Quotations)

• There is no other head of the Church but the Lord Jesus Christ: nor can the Pope of Rome in any sense be head thereof; but is that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God. - Westminster Confession of Faith 25:6 (Original Edition), "Of the Church" -- beware of later editions of the Westminster Confession of Faith (WCF) where you will see that unfaithful churchmen have edited out the last portion of this biblical testimony against the Papacy as "that Antichrist, that man of sin and son of perdition, that exalteth himself in the Church against Christ, and all that is called God."

Is Popery the Antichrist? or The Tendency of Prophecy to Describe Things According to the Reality, Rather that the Appearance or Profession by Patrick Fairbairn

The Church Of The Apostles Was Hijacked By Rome (A History Of Apostasy And The Growth Of Antichrist) by William J. Mencarow

The Corruption of Worship, and the Rise of Antichrist In History, Prophesied In Revelation by Dr. Steven Dilday, John Calvin, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, George Gillespie, et al. (Free Reformation MP3s & Much More)

How Reformed Churches Imitate Antichrist (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos and Books) The pertinent sections starts part way into this message.

Best Free Reformed Audio Commentaries On Revelation and Eschatology By Contemporary Reformed Ministers Dr. Steven Dilday, W.J. Mencarow and Greg Price (Free MP3s, PDFs, Videos, Etc.)

• And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the LORD's house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it. - Isa. 2:2, KJV

Biblical Prophecy, by Pastor Jim Dodson (44 Free MP3s, one the best audio series about classic Reformation eschatology!)

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Who Is the Beast of Revelation & 666?, By Greg Price (5 Free MP3s About Godless Civil Government)

King Jesus! The Lord Jesus Christ Rules the Nations and the Church for His Greater Declarative Glory and the Benefit of His Church (17 Free SWRB MP3s and PDFs)

Biblical Civil Government Versus the Beast; and, The Basis For Civil Resistance by Greg Price (Free Online Book)

Unlawful Taxation & Wicked Civil Governments That Disobey God & His Law, Free Reformation MP3s, Books & Videos

• I lay down this maxime of Divinitie; Tyranny being a worke of Sathan, is not from God, because sinne either habituall or actuall, is not from God; the power that is, must be from God; the Magistrate as Magistrate, is good, in nature of office, and the intrinsecall end of his office, Rom. 13:4. for he is the Minister of God for thy good; and therefore a power ethicall, politick, or morall, to oppresse, is not from God, and is not a power, but a licentious deviation of a power, and is no more from God, but from sinfull nature, and the old serpent, then a license to sinne. - Samuel Rutherford, Lex Rex (1644, emphases added) on the Puritan Hard Drive

• "The nations are bound to recognize the Bible as the supreme law of the land; as the standard of civil legislation. God's law as recorded in the Bible, reaches all the possible relations of humanity; extends to every duty that can be performed, and fastens its claims on associated bodies of men, as well as upon individual persons. Were this not true, we should have this monstrous anomaly in Jehovah's government, that while men, as individuals, are bound by the laws recorded in the Bible, in their congregated capacities, they may set these laws at defiance, and even contemn as citizens, what as Christians they are bound to honor and obey. ... The nations are bound to evince their subjection to the Son of God, by filling all their official stations with upright, godly and able men. ... In all their political institutions the nations are bound to subserve the interests of the church of God, and promote, truth and godliness. ... In all their civil, criminal, and international concerns, the kingdoms should have a supreme regard to the glory of God." - The Subjection of Kings and Nations to Messiah (1820, emphases added) by James R. Willson on the Puritan Hard Drive

What Is A Christian Nation? Christ's Kingship And Lordship Over the Nations by Greg Price (17 Free MP3s)

This may very well be the best series of sermons ever preached on this topic!

• The following quote speaks of John Calvin's mature thinking about resistance to illegitimate civil rulers. "One factor behind this rising tension was that Huguenot political rhetoric had required a decidedly anti-royalist tone during the second and third civil wars. While Calvin's Institution of the Christian Religion seemed to suggest that private citizens owed their obedience even to an ungodly king -- only lesser magistrates could legally oppose the authority of a wicked king -- his biblical commentaries published late in his life offered more intriguing possibilities. In his Readings on the Prophet Daniel first published in 1561, Calvin argued that when Daniel refused to obey King Darius, 'he committed no sin', since whenever rulers disobeyed God, 'they automatically abdicate their worldly power'. Calvin went even further in his Sermons on the Last Eight Chapters of the Book of Daniel published posthumously in 1565. Describing the same biblical incident, Calvin argued that when Kings defy God, 'they are no longer worthy to be counted as princes ... [And] when they raise themselves up against God ... it is necessary that they should in turn be laid low'." - Mack P. Holt, The French Wars of Religion 1562-1629, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2005), p. 78, emphases added.

Godless Civil Rulers Exposed and Rebuked From Scripture by Greg Price (Free MP3)

In The Beginning Was Information, A Scientist Explains the Incredible Design in Nature by Dr. Werner Gitt (Free Videos, Free Books, Free MP3s)

• "The idea of millions of years came from the belief that the fossil record was built up over a long time. As soon as people allow for millions of years, they allow for the fossil record to be millions of years old. This creates an insurmountable problem regarding the gospel. The fossil record consists of the death of billions of creatures. In fact, it is a record of death, disease, suffering, cruelty, and brutality. It is a very ugly record. The Bible is adamant though, that death, disease, and suffering came into the world as a result of sin. God instituted death and bloodshed because of sin so man could be redeemed. As soon as Christians allow for death, suffering, and disease before sin, then the whole foundations of the message of the Cross and the Atonement have been destroyed. The doctrine of original sin, then, is totally undermined. If there were death, disease, and suffering before Adam rebelled-then what did sin do to the world? What does Paul mean in Romans 8 when he says the whole of creation groans in pain because of the Curse? How can all things be restored in the future to no more death and suffering, unless the beginning was also free of death and suffering? The whole message of the gospel falls apart if one allows millions of years for the creation of the world." - The Necessity for Believing in Six Literal Days, by Ken Ham (Free MP3), emphases added above https://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/cm/v18/n1/six-days (Free Online Article). Also hear Six Day Creation & The Eisegesis Problem by Ken Ham (Free MP3) and "The Doctrine Of Original Sin (26 Free MP3s) by Jonathan Edwards

The 10 Best Evidences From Science That Confirm A Young Earth (Free Online Articles From Answers In Genesis' Answers Magazine & Other Free Creationist MP3s, Videos, Books, etc.)

Evolution Demolished By Astonishing DNA Complexity, Evidence for Biblical Creation (Creationism) by Alex Williams, Dr. Jonathan Sarfati, Dr. Jason Lisle, Dr. A.E. Wilder-Smith, Dr. John MacArthur, Mike Riddle & Others (Free Videos, MP3s, etc.)

• "Another instance in which posterity is recognized in covenant obligation is found in Joshua 9:15. This covenant was made between the children of Israel and the Gibeonites. Between four and five hundred years after that time, the children of Israel are visited with a very severe famine, in the days of David. 2 Sam. 21:1. And it is expressly declared by the Lord that, 'It is for Saul, and for his bloody house, because he slew the Gibeonites.' And at the same time, v. 2, that very covenant is recognized, and the breach of it is stated, as being the formal reason of the divine displeasure. Now, had it not been for this covenant, the extirpation of the Gibeonites would not have been imputed to Israel as a thing criminal; for they were comprehended in Canaanitish nations, which God had commanded them to root out." - William L. Roberts, The Reformed Presbyterian Catechism (1853, emphases added), pp. 139-140, on the Puritan Hard Drive.

Covenants and Covenanting (Introduction) by Greg Price (7 Free MP3s)

A Defense of Covenanting & the Solemn League & Covenant by Greg Price (21 FREE MP3s)

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COVENANTING QUOTES AND LINKS, by Herman Witsius, Gillespie, Henderson, Hertherington, Dodson, Price, Willson, Barrow, Wagner and Others

What Are Terms of Communion? What is Close Communion? What is Occasional Hearing? What Is Biblical Separation? By Pastor Greg Price and Dr. Michael Wagner (Free Covenanter MP3s)

Covenanter Terms of Communion (19 FREE MP3s) by Greg Price.

George Gillespie, Reformation's Refining Fire

Covenanters, Suffering, Martyrs & God's Truth