A Point-by-Point Sermon on Reprobation and Damnation

This is for unconverted people who know they are "dead in sin" and cannot believe.  You may spend time under God's condemnation.  The Bible calls all sinners to "repent and believe the gospel" because the Day of Salvation is now.  I pray that this disputation brings an unconverted sinner to godly sorrow unto authentic repentance by God's Spirit and Word.  Grace and peace!

1. God chooses to damn sinners according to His good pleasure, and whatsoever seems right in His sight.

2. God hides the Gospel from sinners, and reveals the Gospel to sinners; according to His good pleasure.

3. The good counsel to reprobates is to live in light of right and wrong.

4. The moral counsel to reprobates is to live in light of civil righteousness.

5. The rational counsel to reprobates is to live rationally in light of the civil law’s of men.

6. The standard of holiness for the reprobate is to thank God for damnation; because, if God is God, He is all-wise.

7. The psychology of a damned mind should not be suicide but a self-pursuit of personal happiness devoid of submission to Satan.  Happiness is only found in Christ alone but reprobates should pursue a civil happiness.  There is a happiness born of this world, and a happiness born of God in Christ.  A worldly happiness is a sin before God, but a holy happiness in Christ is right.  However, common grace is for all sinners, and He blesses the reprobate in food, water and shelter all the time.  Any “blessing” from Satan is a curse, and should be abhorred by all persons whether elect or reprobate.  No one should go to a satanic man to get things in this life.  It will led to supreme judgment. 

8. Though by nature, we are self-destructive according to sin; people should not pursue self-destructive thinking, behavior or words in light of the image of God that all human beings posses.

9. Reprobates should not join formal religion of any sort or atheism or agnosticism; because, devotion to false religion or philosophy, with passion, angers God.  Reprobates should recognize the true existence of the God of the Bible in their daily lives in mental adherence and bare acknowledgement of their good Creator.

10. Reprobates have no reason or moral right to break the laws of man in terms of the civil government in crime.

11. Reprobates should not follow Satan because they are damned.  However, reprobates are under his tyranny, but should seek to always do the right thing. 

12. The reprobates are not subject to the law of God by nature, but they are still able in their unregenerate state to resist criminal affairs.  In this sense, man is to live rightly before God and man.

13. Civil righteousness is the uncommendable commendable before God.

14. Civil righteousness is not the sinless and perfect righteousness of the unified work of the Lord Jesus Christ.

15. The unified righteousness of Christ is alone acceptable before God the Father, but the civil righteousness of man does not avail before God.

16. Should reprobates engage in offenses if it means they can get something good out of it?  No, they should not engage in offenses.  This doctrine of Balaam is alien to God and Christ, and most offensive to Him.

17. Reprobates by nature hate and despise Christ and His people; however, the reprobate through civil righteousness should be at peace with his neighbor.  There is an unregenerate love that families have with each other, because we are human beings with feeling.  Such love and peace in an unregenerate state is possible but not in an availing perfection.

18. Some reprobates believe that by nature man is in a mission of compromise, corruption, familiarity and flattery; and it is easy to destroy men by sin, and gain men by sin.  Such activity should never be endorsed or done.

19. Reprobates should not be involved in cults that further crime.

20. Reprobates should not be involved in the occult.

21. Reprobates should not believe in the inherent deification of the human soul.

22. Reprobates should not give their souls to Satan for “good” or bad.  The good from Satan is bad, and the bad from Satan is worse.

23. The Bible speaks of the prayer of the wicked; however, this is not the same prayer of Christians.  It should be used by reprobates to ask for good things to the Trinity of the Bible.

24. Here is a good warning to reprobates and Christians: they should not ever ask for destructive things or wrathful things from God.  He may grant it to you, because by sin all men are under wrath.  You could tell Him that you deserve wrath as a reprobate, but by His bare providential hand (though you have no shield against sin through the Son) let you fulfill your personal life.  It is meant in this sense: it is meant for the public good of man and furtherance of human society and government.  He has let reprobate men and women fulfill their lives, because of general benevolence and common grace.

25. Reprobates do not have the gift of repentance, because they are not born again from above.  However, reprobates can respond to God like Balaam, “I have sinned.”  This acknowledgement of sin is not a statement of contrition or authentic repentance, because even reprobates can realize their own sin without the redemptive grace of God by holy conviction. If you realize your sin and cannot repent, express your unregenerate sorrow before God.  It is not acceptable in His sight in light of His perfect goodness, but it is also right in light of man’s civil righteousness.  If this kind of sorrow is not done, would man be so foolish as to argue for a lawless legal criminality that even violates man’s civil righteousness?  The unregenerate man has no grace of renewed obedience; however, the natural man can still make changes in his life in his own self-interest.

26. By nature, man is lawless in terms of a tainting of the will in sin; however, he has no authentic or divine goodness in him, and he is unrighteous.  However, that gives no one the right to sin more or commit wrongdoing.  If someone argues that just because someone sins, he or she should sin more; it is a violation of God’s law, and it may be a violation of man’s civil laws.

27. This new Christianity of lawless gracelessness is contrary to the law of faith, the law of grace, the law of God, the law of civil government, and the law of common sense, reason and redemption.

28. The irrational rationality of man-made religion should be avoided by the reprobate, because of greater judgment.  The spiritual rationality of authentic Reformed faith should be avoided by those who are damned finally and fully, because it would lead to the corruption of the church, and much manifold idolatry.  Those who are finally damned in the church should remain outside of the church.  If they participate in the church life, it will lead to a high judgment of God.  God does not want His church filled with reprobates.  The world would fail the church, and the church in return has failed the world.  If the church is filled with reprobates, it cannot change the world.  God has given the church over to unregenerate people: it is a judgment of God.  It is a lesson for us: can men convert men?  No.  God is telling us only the Holy Spirit can convert men; because, all the preaching in the world would never save a soul.  The reprobate must not involve himself in false religion; because, it sparks the fury of God.  The reprobate must not involve himself in true religion; because, he is an enemy of God.  The church must not be filled with reprobates.  Augustine’s view of the church as a mixed body is true; but if someone is a knowable reprobate, they should be excommunicated from the holy church of Christ.  To save the reprobate and the church pain they should remain outside the church. 

29. Reprobates should engage in the lesser graver sins of the world.  Fornication is a sin against your own body, but, you should pursue a lawful marriage instead.  Many unregenerate people engage in fornication; it does not mean you have to.  Just because there is an opportunity to sin does not mean you should do it.  You would do better if you had a high respect for your body in light of a pleasant view of saving your virginity for marriage.  It will lead to a greater fulfillment of satisfaction and maybe less troubles in the marriage bed. 

30. By the divine knowledge of God, there is coming a day when men and women will know about their eternal destinies in a divine sense: reprobate or elect.

31. Reprobates, though damned, have just as much dignity as those of the elect.

32. The final decider of eternal destinies is God alone; He decides who goes to heaven and who goes to hell. 

33. All people should thank God; whether in reprobation or election; because, he is all-wise and He never commits sin or wrongdoing.  Even Balaam consulted God regarding his sinful pursuits; he had a certain, unregenerate awareness of the divine trustworthiness of God.  He knew God was God, but he chose to reject it and pursue false religion.  He was an outright reprobate, but he spoke with God in a cursed relationship.  No mere man is all-wise except the intrinsic God-man: how much more then to trust the God of the Bible?

34. Reprobates will never inherit the kingdom of Christ in His heaven.

35. Reprobates will be sent to eternal hell.

36. Hell is a place of eternal torment for residents of damnation.

37. Heaven is a place of eternal delight and happiness in a glorified state of perfection under the Kingship of the Lord Jesus Christ.

38. Reprobates should not be elders, deacons or in any kind of ministry or church function.

39. Marriage is not only a Christian ceremony, but it is also lawful for a non-Christian ceremony in the pursuit of marriage.

40. Reprobates should not engage in homosexuality; because, the Bible says that sin in God’s sight is worthy of death.  It does not mean someone should kill someone else.  It means the gravity of homosexual sin is unacceptable before God. 

41. It is good for the reprobates to engage in heterosexual marriage for the furtherance of human society.  I think it is acceptable before God in a civil righteousness sense to pursue marriage between a man and a woman.  There are reprobates who are not like the devil Balaam or Judas; therefore, they should not commit themselves to the devilish way of a devil.  If there child is of the elect, they should not seek to corrupt them; however, they should seek to further them in church affairs, and by the training of the church.  It is possible to have an unregenerate parent and have an elect child.  The unregenerate, reprobate parent should remain outside the church in light of her respectful appreciation of her bare knowledge of the Bible’s God; and should seek the spiritual betterment of their child in the church of the Lord Jesus.

42. A reprobate that knows that he like Balaam or Judas should not have children or engage in the church life; but, they should engage in non-spiritual affairs, and submit to God’s personal, providential plan, not in the support of the prosperity of the Gospel movement, but for the good of society and the public good.

43. Those who hate Christ in His deity love the Sermon on the Mount.  It’s possible for people to be encouraged in civil righteousness in light of Christ’s teaching; however, though they may be encouraged, they do not possess Him.  For reprobates, it is okay to learn about Christ; however, my warning is, they will receive a greater judgment in reading of the divine knowledge and wisdom.  That does not mean they should reject wise counsel practical, civil righteousness before the human governments.

44. Human reprobates do not possess Christ spiritually.

45. Human reprobates do not possess redemptive grace.

46. Human reprobates are all under the providential hand of God.

47. A lack of knowledge of God’s divine spiritual truth by reprobates is judgment; and in another way, a pursuit of divine knowledge by reprobates is also divine judgment.  The greater judgment is in light of God’s holy mind.

48. The answer to knowledge by reprobates (though no answer is satisfying) is to do the best you can in your own private lives without any formal religion.

49. No reprobate should be a practicing atheist; that is, they should acknowledge the existence of God.  Everyone has an awareness of God, but the natural man suppresses it in ungodliness and unrighteousness. 

50. It is spiritually bad to be aware of God and not savingly believe; but no one can believe except by His supernatural intervention alone.

51. It is spiritually bad to be an atheist in non-participation in formal, true religion; however, it is also better for the reprobate to remain outside the church of Christ.

52. No reprobate should be a “practicing” Christian by appearance; because it is dishonoring to Christ and God.

53. No reprobate should be in the church of Christ, because it leads to the corruption of the sheep.

54. No leaders of the church should allow hidden or open reprobates in the church of Christ.

55. No “good” reprobate should take the example of lawless Christians who sin and sin so that grace-abounds in judgment.

56. Every reprobate is under the judgment of God and will be pay for their sins.

57. No reprobate has ever had his or her sins placed on Christ: He never suffered in their place.

58. Every reprobate will have to suffer in hell for his or her sins.

59. The fear of damnation is a great fear of dread.

60. Christians also may experience the fear of dread concerning God.

61. Christians have a different lasting-fear then reprobates: it is a fear of godly respect.

62. No reprobate has the regenerate characteristic of a divine fear that is native only to Christian people.

63. God could at any moment destroy the reprobates or even Christians if He chose to at His own timing and pleasure.

64. Reprobates should not criminally abuse democracy in light of open and manifest freedom.

65. Reprobates should not abuse children.

66. Reprobates should engage in a family pursuit of life without the devilish ways of Cain, Balaam, and the rebellion of Korah.

67. Reprobates should not corrupt church leaders, church-goers or ministry.

68. Reprobates should not engage in family violence, drug abuse or any injustices of the criminality of foolish man.

69. Reprobates are in a miserable condition in light of God’s holiness.

70. Reprobates are sinners before a righteous God.

71. Reprobates engage in unlawful lawfulness in terms of the standard and ways of God.

72. Every reprobate pursues a life of outright rebellion.

73. God will visit malice reprobates in the night if they pursue a life that yields His immediate presence because of peculiar rebellion.

74. If you have a bad habit, it is not the same as a Christian who struggles with sin; but, it would benefit you if you sought personal improvement.  However, this kind of “personal improvement” is not in conformity to the Bible’s teaching on sanctification, but it is an element of civil righteousness that is for the public good.

75. Monergistic regeneration only happens to the elect.

76. Justification is what happens to elect sinners who respond in faith.

77. Definite sanctification is done in a past tense for the elect only

78. Progressive sanctification is only what elect Christians do.

79. Glorification is only what elect Christians possess in heaven.

80. If there was a child in need, would the “Christians” argue that you shouldn’t engage in civil righteousness?  If they would argue that, it would be their sin.  However, there is a complexity: the civil righteousness is good in a gray area before God. All civil righteousness is good in light of man, and it has an element of unregenerate acceptance before God.  However, it is also not acceptable before God; because only Christ’s perfect righteousness is redemptively accepted before the Father of holiness.

81. Satan and demons are reprobates and not spiritually approved before God.

82. Satan and demons will enter eternal hell by the determination of God.

83. To be in the hand of God is the most terrible place to be and the safest place to be.

84. Reprobates should never make a covenant with Satan

85. Reprobates should avoid all mediums and fortune tellers: Saul, a reprobate king of Israel, went to a medium.  Before he did that, God condemned him.  You don’t want to anger the wrath of God by attending occultic practices.

86. Reprobates should not keep to harm Christian people.

87. Reprobates should not be terrorists, rapists, murders, kidnappers, tormenters or torturers.

88. Reprobates should pursue their work and labor as a way of honor, nobleness and respect in light of God-ordained endeavors. 

89. Reprobates should not take advantage of abusive power in any profession or harm to “innocent” people.

90. Reprobates should work for the excellence of all they do: God will bless their labors in a common grace sense.  Reprobate should be good stewards of their money. 

91. Reprobates should not be involved gangs or law corruption.  Reprobates who have committed criminal offenses must yield to the punishment of the law. 

92. Reprobates should take advantage of giving to charities: however, every reprobate should know that civil righteousness is not the perfect righteousness of Christ.  It does not avail in God’s sight as entrance into heaven. 

93. The best that civil righteousness will get someone, if left unchanged, is eternal hell.

94. Reprobates will despair of their condition.  Those who like the message of Christ as a reprobate will get a silent judgment like Herod. 

95. Sins of passion will yield a horror of God’s judgment.  Every sin will be judged by the God-man on the Last Day.  Think much on the all-knowingness of the God-man to restrain your sin.  Pray to God as a reprobate that He would retrain your sin by His providential hand.