Total depravity

doctrine · 12 episodes

186The Worldview that Shaped Western Civilization 25 Mar 2024 48:54¶ 165 “Thou shalt not covet.” You know what that says? It says the human heart does some bad things. Wow! There goes Romanticism in a…” 49:21¶ 166 “The Bible says, “You know what? That stuff in your heart, that’s bad. You fundamentally at heart are a sinner. Every imagination of the…” 50:14¶ 169 “So here is a worldview that will not let you blame your environment for who and what you are. It insists on personal responsibility.…”

154Dry Bones 23 Jan 2023 14:49¶ 55 “We’re talking here about a doctrine that is as old as the gospel, as old in fact as the world, which received renewed attention…” 15:28¶ 56 “They do not love God. They have no faith in God. They do not fear God. They do not seek God. There is none…” 15:53¶ 57 “There is nothing in there. There’s nothing to grab onto. There’s nothing to appeal to. There’s nothing to improve. We have in our whole…”

153A New Law (Part 2) 16 Jan 2023 2:52¶ 10 “The problem is the other side of the thing. The man so depraved in his sin touches everything – his thoughts, his instincts, his…” 3:14¶ 11 “So as we look at the man who does not know Christ, but may be in many respects a good, honorable, and admirable sort…” 4:06¶ 13 “Yes, and whatsoever is not of faith is sin. We are created for the glory of God, and when we do the things that…”

151A New Heart 2 Jan 2023 28:47¶ 115 “We’re all criminals, and that’s our next step. We call this doctrine total depravity. That does not mean that everyone is as bad as…” 29:03¶ 117 “But the biblical doctrine is that since sin is innate in man’s heart since the fall, it touches everything. It touches how we feel,…” 29:46¶ 118 “I’ve heard an illustration of a cake pan that is dented, so every cake that comes out of that cake pan is going to…”

150Doing the Right Thing 26 Dec 2022 10:29¶ 36 “First of all is this idea that man has a fixed or given nature which he did not himself create, and therefore in Finney’s…” 6:53¶ 25 “Yes? No? Huh? Could you explain yourself, Pelagius? I’m not quite sure what you’re laying down here, Pelagius. If you mean that man is…” 7:27¶ 26 “Just as a judge is guided by a book of law” – is he not familiar with the possibility of an unjust judge who…”

144Broken Cisterns 14 Nov 2022 30:59¶ 104 “When we talk about total depravity it does not mean that unbelievers cannot say two things. They can say, “My sin sure stinks.” Yes,…” 31:24¶ 105 “Now, that’s not the same thing as saying, “Christianity is better,” or “Boy, I want to be a Christian,” but the unbeliever in his…” 5:51¶ 17 “Man in rebellion against God is in rebellion against God. He doesn’t want God. He doesn’t want God telling him what to do. He…”

134The Virgin Shall Conceive 5 Sep 2022 47:48¶ 158 “Christianity reckons with the God who is distinct from creation, who has commanded creation, and creation – particularly creation’s representative, man – has rebelled…” 48:14¶ 159 “This is what circumcision said. By cutting the male genital organ it said, “There’s no hope here. You’re not going to produce the next…” 49:15¶ 164 “Yeah, that. That’s Christianity. We stand still and see the salvation of our God, and then God will move us to do things. But…”

132You'll Know It When you See It 22 Aug 2022 26:33¶ 104 “The margin says “a mind void of judgement.” They were no longer capable of making rational judgments about reality, so they followed their immorality…” 27:35¶ 105 “Again, this is not God making them evil. This is God simply withdrawing his grace that kept them from their evil. In other words,…” 28:55¶ 108 “And the answer is, if that’s the extent of your question, the answer’s got to be no, and we’re going to see that a…”

120When the Fire Falls 30 May 2022 16:44¶ 57 “This is the doctrine of total depravity and it’s the thing that most apologetic systems and most evangelistic systems stumble over. Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism…” 12:28¶ 43 “Man is fallen in sin. He’s dead in trespasses and sin. His heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked. Every imagination or…” 15:09¶ 53 “God is not obligated to prove anything, and here’s the thing. If God were to merely limit himself to externals, even God couldn’t prove…”

114Divided Kingdom 18 Apr 2022 38:21¶ 125 “This is something of course we keep coming back to again and again. If depravity is indeed total, if there is absolutely nothing man…” 38:54¶ 126 “If man is totally depraved, then only God can save him, and the only ordinances God will use are those that God has promised…”

93Jephthah 22 Nov 2021 42:47¶ 169 “That’s also something I love too about the Reformed tradition, is that the major Reformed confessions begin with who God actually is, and then…” 38:24¶ 153 “Yeah, you’re totally depraved. That doesn’t make you garbage.” 37:58¶ 151 “I think we all are to some extent inherent perfectionists that can never get it right. It all weighs down on our shoulders and…”

81Choice and Children 30 Aug 2021 3:12¶ 8 “I think most Christians would say, “Oh, well, they come from the heart.” Yes, they come from the heart, so what’s the nature of…” 3:39¶ 9 “The Calvinist with scripture would say no. Every imagination and thought of the human heart is only evil continually until we are born again.…” 2:36¶ 7 “Yeah. Now, if you’re an Arminian or just a broad evangelical you might not have a problem with that. There are those of us…”