“ Are you Elect? ” First off the audio is tedious. It sounds like Todd is at the beach. But the sermon is tolerable.
Now, the subject is very necessary. I have listened to & watched this sermon several times & it doesn't get old.
Todd begins by defining election in several ways. One of which is God's ancient choice of His people before time began & the other is in Ephesians 1:4.
He points out that those who are elect practice 3 things - the work of FAITH, patience of HOPE & labor of LOVE. He also mentions that the elect have the JOY & PEACE of believing.
The 7 evidences are listed in 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10. Todd enumerates each one & they are as follows: 1-Gospel (not in word only), 2-Following Christ, the Lord, 3-Having received the word, 4-Being an example/form/pattern, 5-Sounding out the word of God (not ashamed of the gospel), 6-Turning to God from idols, 7-waiting for the Son.
If you want to check yourself, this would be a good place to start. Are you elect? Or are you delusional? One way of finding out is when you wake up in the end & see where you land. Do you want to wait until then? I wouldn't recommend it.
Scripture references are 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10/2:13, Exodus 33:18, 1 Corinthians 13:13, Luke 10:16, 1 John 4:6, Acts 17/22:6, Romans 8:26/14:17/15:3, Hebrews 9:24-25
“ Loss of Video ” I was watching this video and enjoying the sermon and learning. Then the video went black. It happened at the 25:01 mark and stayed that way until the end of the video. The sound was fine, it was just the video.
I have quite a few of Todd's audio sermons. But I find that I enjoy watching the sermons more because it gives me a sense of being there. It's bad enough when they cut the video off right before or in the middle of the prayers, but to lose video altogether it's sad indeed. I wish that the folks that are in charge of recording these sermons would take more care in what they are doing considering there are those of us out here who look forward AND benefit from these video sermons.
“ Duplicate Sermon ” This sermon is an exact duplicate of the one dated 10-31-10. Why does TRGC post duplicate sermons? Not only that, but the length of the video sermon is only 28 mins 27 secs long.
10/25/18 5:15 PM
