God Gave Up Reprobates

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[2] The title of the sermon: “GOD GAVE UP REPROBATES.”

• I want to talk about this in detail today because people get confused with reprobates.
• You must also think about reprobates physically and spiritually.
• There can be reprobates who are saved Christians and reprobates who are damned to hell.

The definition of reprobate is disallowed, abandoned, or rejected.

• You can be rejected by God for something but not for salvation.
• You can be rejected by God for salvation. This goes both ways.
• And I want to show you this in the Bible today.

[3] 1 Samuel 15:26-28 And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, and the LORD hath rejected thee from being king over Israel. 27 And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid hold upon the skirt of his mantle, and it rent. 28 And Samuel said unto him, The LORD hath rent the kingdom of Israel from thee this day, and hath given it to a neighbour of thine, that is better than thou.

• We all know that king Saul went to heaven because of 1 Samuel Chapter 28.
• God had chosen Saul to be king over Israel. He was the first king over Israel.
• We can read about Saul being saved. He then did some great things for the Lord.
• But then we see that he rejected the word of the Lord.

Verse 26 there says, “For thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.”

• Did God reject Saul from the salvation of his soul? No, he did not. He rejected Saul from being king.
• There is a huge difference. I want to make sure you see this difference.
• You can be a saved person who once followed Jesus Christ but now does nothing for God.
• You can be saved, reject the word of the Lord, and go to heaven. Do you want to do this, though?
• No, you don’t. Use Saul as your example. I want to show you this. Let’s go back a few verses.

[4] 1 Samuel 15:22-23 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

• Saul rebelled against the word of God and His commandments. “To obey is better than sacrifice.”
• “For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry.”
• “Because thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, He hath also rejected thee from being king.”

The Lord rejected Saul. From what? Not from salvation but from being king, a physical thing.

• Saul wasn’t rejected spiritually. He was already a saved man and a child of God. What happens next?
• Notice the attitude that Saul has as we read this. He doesn’t have a horrible attitude.

[5] 1 Samuel 15:24-25 And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the LORD, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice. 25 Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship the LORD.

• You can see that Saul repents of his sin right there. But it’s too late. “I pray thee, pardon my sin.”
• “And turn again with me, that I may worship the Lord.”
• Verse 26, that we read first, says: “And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee.”
• “The Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.” Saul is punished. And then he continues in sin.
• And we’ll see what happens to Saul.

[6] 1 Chronicles 10:13-14 So Saul died for his transgression which he committed against the LORD, even against the word of the LORD, which he kept not, and also for asking counsel of one that had a familiar spirit, to inquire of it; 14 And inquired not of the LORD: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

• So, remember, Saul was saved by God rejected Saul from being king over Israel.
• And then Saul died for his transgression against the Lord. God rejected Saul but he went to heaven.
• So, I want to make sure you understand that God rejects saved people but not from heaven.

If you’re saved, and you don’t do what God commands you to do, He can reject you from certain things.

• You will be much further away from Him because you aren’t being a good son or daughter to Him.
• Please listen to these next Scriptures carefully so you understand these things.
• This is Jesus speaking in John Chapter 15.

[7] John 15:1-4 I am the true vine, and my Father is the husbandman. 2 Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit. 3 Now ye are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. 4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.

• You will only bear good fruit if you abide in Jesus Christ. You must follow Jesus to bear good fruit.
• You are already saved from death and hell, but you should want others to be saved and to follow Jesus.
• You can only get people saved by abiding in Jesus Christ. You bring forth fruit this way.
• You are not an actual branch of wood, but Jesus uses these things as a picture of what happens.
• You, as a branch, cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine. Jesus is that vine. Abide in Him.

[8] John 15:5-7 I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. 7 If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.

• If you’re a saved man or woman and you don’t abide in Jesus Christ, what happens to you?
• The Bible tells you right there. This is a parable as you aren’t an actual branch of wood. You’re human.
• Don’t twist the parable. “If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered.”
• So, just as a gardener would clip a bad branch from a bush, Jesus will do the same.
• A bad branch is one that isn’t producing any fruit at all. So he cuts it off and casts it away.

And the branch withers up. And then men gather that branch and cast it into the fire and are burned.

• This is what happens to saved people who won’t live by the words of Jesus Christ.
• You will wither up like a branch that has been cut off of a good tree.
• Men will then gather you up and cast you into the fire and be burned. This is not hell fire.
• God is the only one who casts people into hell fire and this is not people who He has saved from hell.
• But Jesus is teaching us how important it is to abide in Him and follow His words and commandments.

But, I want you to see that saved men and women can be rejected by God. They can be cast away.

• When? When they won’t do what God says to do. He says, “if you love me, keep my commandments.”
• If you won’t, you can be rejected by God. When you ask for help, you might not get that help.
• When you pray, He might not hear you since you’ve been rejecting Him constantly.
• You know that He tells you to do this or that, but you won’t do it.
• So, you will find Scripture in the Bible that says these things. Don’t get confused.

[9] Isaiah 5:24 Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

[10] Isaiah 5:25 Therefore is the anger of the LORD kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

• Don’t let these Scriptures confuse you. God gets angry with His people and does cast them away.
• A reprobate is cast away from God. A reprobate is one that God rejects.
• Again, this can be someone like Saul who still went to heaven.

[11] 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you? 17 If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

• Him shall God destroy. Who? This speaks of a saved person who has the Spirit of God.
• God will destroy them just as He says. Saul is an example of this.
• Saul got the worst punishment because he was God’s king over Israel. He was their leader.
• And he was leading them away from God. So he received destruction. He killed himself.
• God brought the Philistines against him and didn’t help Saul.

[12] 1 Corinthians 5:1-2 It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.

[13] 1 Corinthians 5:3-5 For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, 4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, 5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

• These are saved people who are doing evil and wicked acts such as fornication.
• “To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
• Understand that God will give your flesh up so Satan can destroy you physically.
• But He doesn’t give up your soul. He already has you. But you don’t want to be destroyed.
• Notice the differences in the physical and the spiritual. You can be saved physically and spiritually.
• You can be rejected by God spiritually and physically.

[14] Psalm 81:10-12 I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me. 12 So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.

• God says right there, “So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust.
• Again there are saved people who God gives up. And there are people rejected by God spiritually.

[15] Acts 7:42-43 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness? 43 Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.

• “Then God turned, and GAVE THEM UP to worship the host of heaven.” God gives people up.
• He gives them over to their own lust. He is patient, but He gets sick of it. Do you understand?
• The worst of all rejection is the spiritual reprobates. These people are damned to hell.
• When does this happen? This happens in this life. But people will continue to tell me that I’m wrong.

Lesbians and homosexuals will tell me that I am wrong. They will tell me that God would never do that.

• But, God does reject people so that they cannot ever go to heaven. Their only destination is hell.
• People tell me, “That’s sad that you think God rejects people and sends them to hell.”

A fact in the Bible is that God sends people to hell. We all know that. If not, you don’t have the right God.

• Since people are going to hell, do you think God decides that they’re going to hell before they die?
• Or, do you think He waits until after they die to damn them to hell? Think about this.
• The only thing that determines heaven or hell for you is faith in Jesus Christ.
• You must have faith in Jesus Christ before you die to be saved and go to heaven. It’s not after you die.
• God doesn’t decide you’re going to hell after you die. It’s over before then.

False preachers will say that everyone has until their last breath to be saved. This is false too.

• Some people might have until their last breath to believe in Jesus Christ and be saved.
• I would take a guess that most people that go to hell are rejected by God at some point before they die.
• You don’t go up for judgement after you die to see if you’ve been good enough.
• The Bible tells us that there are none good. So, when does God decide if someone is going to hell?
• It’s going to happen before someone dies. And yes, God teaches us this in the Bible.

[16] Romans 1:24-25 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

• This is Romans Chapter 1.
• “Wherefore God gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts.”
• They dishonour their own bodies between themselves. God gave them up.

[17] Romans 1:26-27 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

• Verse 26 says that God gave them up. This is speaking of lesbians and homosexuals.
• They are called sodomites within the Bible. The women would burn in lust towards other women.
• The men would burn in lust towards other men. So God gave them up to these vile affections.
• The Bible calls these types of affections VILE. This is nasty to the Creator of all things. He says so.

[18] Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;

• These people do not like to retain the ACTUAL LIVING GOD in their knowledge.
• Many of them love to make up their own god.
• They tell me that God would never give someone up and over. “God would never damn someone to hell.”
• This is what they say. They do not like to retain the real God in their knowledge.
• They love to go to false churches who have created a fake Jesus Christ who loves everyone all the time.

You just saw that God calls the affections that lesbians and homosexuals have for each other are vile.

• Vile means vomit worthy or something that makes God sick. This is the truth taught in the Bible.
• If you don’t like it, I don’t care. GOD HATES HOMOSEXUALITY. Do you understand this?
• If you keep on, God may give you up and over. “God gave them over to a reprobate mind.”
• Reprobate means rejected. Their mind is a mind of a reprobate or a person rejected by God.

[19] Romans 1:29-31 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:

• If all of these things describe you, you would be a reprobate or headed to hell. You are rejected by God.
• If you’re a man who lusts after men, loves what you do, and you hate the real God, this is you.
• And don’t get mad at me. I didn’t do this. You should only be angry with yourself. You did it.
• Don’t hate me because I tell you the truth.

[20] Romans 1:32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.

• God Himself says that “they which commit such things are worthy of death.”
• They have pleasure doing all these things, but they also have pleasure when others do these things.
• They hate when people like me preach against these things. They think they do right. But they don’t.
• I can hate them for doing evil and this is righteous hate.
• They can hate me for preaching against them and this would be unrighteous hate.
• Spiritual reprobates are rejected by God and going to hell. People who hate God will go to hell.

Some of the homosexuals tell me that their god is against what I am saying.

• Again, they say that they don’t hate God but they reject His words and they keep on doing what they do.
• If you don’t hate God, then why don’t you show me? Stop doing the vile acts that you do.
• If you say that you have faith in God, show me. Stop the vile affections.
• So, I’ve been told over and over again that I am wrong about God rejecting people.

[21] Jeremiah 6:28-30 They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters. 29 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. 30 Reprobate silver shall men call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.

• We’ve already seen many Scriptures that tell us that God rejects people.
• We know there are Scriptures that say God hates people. Some people don’t know this. But we do.
• If you’re hearing this for the first time today, you’ve ignored the words of the Bible.

[22] Malachi 1:2-3 I have loved you, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob’s brother? saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, 3 And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

• This Scripture should end the argument on whether or not God hates people. He hates certain people.

[23] Romans 9:13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

• God hates reprobates. They are rejected by God. He gives them up and over to a reprobate mind.
• Esau, the person, was a reprobate. If you want an example, look at Esau.

[24] Hebrews 12:16-17 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright. 17 For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

• Esau was a fornicator and profane person. He sought repentance with tears but could not find it.
• Why? He was already rejected. He couldn’t change his mind and believe. He was a spiritual reprobate.
• The Bible uses the word abhor, which means to greatly hate. We know God hates the spiritual reprobates.

[25] Leviticus 20:23 And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

[26] Deuteronomy 32:19 And when the LORD saw it, he abhorred them, because of the provoking of his sons, and of his daughters.

• Scriptures such as this are throughout the Bible. Anyone that says God doesn’t hate is a liar.

[27] Psalm 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

• God hates the wicked and him that loveth violence.

[28] Psalm 78:58-61 For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images. 59 When God heard this, he was wroth, and greatly abhorred Israel: 60 So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent which he placed among men; 61 And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy’s hand.

• The Bible says that God greatly abhorred Israel. This is greatly, greatly hated them.
• He rejected them. He made them reprobates.

[29] Psalm 78:62 He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.

• The Bible says that He gave His people over. God gives up reprobates.
• And you can see this in the New Testament too.

[30] Matthew 13:38 The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked one;

• Reprobates are the children of the wicked one. There are children of God and children of Satan.
• Children of Satan have been turned over by God. God has given them up and over.

[31] John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

• Jesus is talking to the Pharisees who were physical children of Israel.
• He tells them that God is not their father. Their father is the devil. God has already given them up.
• Why? Because they have rejected God. They have hated God. So He gave them up and over.
• After everything that Jesus did, they wouldn’t believe Him. They killed Jesus Christ.
• That’s called hating Jesus Christ. So Jesus hates them, and they end up dead and in hell.

[32] Acts 13:8-10 But Elymas the sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation) withstood them, seeking to turn away the deputy from the faith. 9 Then Saul, (who also is called Paul,) filled with the Holy Ghost, set his eyes on him, 10 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

• There’s another example of a reprobate. “THOU CHILD OF THE DEVIL.”
• “Thou enemy of all righteousness.” This sorcerer is a reprobate child of the devil.

[33] 1 John 3:10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

• We know there are children of God and children of the devil. One goes to heaven and the other hell.
• It’s that simple. And the Bible calls these people who were alive “CHILDREN OF THE DEVIL.”
• They didn’t have any more chances left to be saved. They are condemned to hell already.

[34] Hebrews 6:8 But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected, and is nigh unto cursing; whose end is to be burned.

• This is someone who just had their last chance to be saved. They rejected God one final time in this life.
• They were alive. In order to reject God, you are alive. Do it one too many times, and He rejects you.
• And He gives you up and over. He says, “But that which beareth thorns and briers is rejected.”

“And is nigh into cursing.” They are almost in hell. Once they take their last breath, hell is their destination.

• “Whose end is to be burned.” I am not sure how much clearer these Scriptures can be.
• God gives up reprobates. They are still alive and living today but not for much longer.
• They are nigh or near unto cursing. Signs of a reprobate are given in Romans Chapter 1.
• I’m going to list them out here for you.

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1. They knew God but glorified Him not as God.
2. They were not thankful to God.
3. They became vain in their imaginations.
4. Their foolish heart was darkened.
5. They profess themselves to be wise but have become fools.
6. They changed the glory of God into an image like man, birds, beasts, and creeping things.
7. They dishonor their own bodies between themselves.
8. They change the truth of God into a lie.
9. They worship and serve the creature more than the Creator.
10. They have vile homosexual affections.
11. They lust after the same sex and go against nature.
12. They do not like to retain God in their knowledge.
13. They have a reprobate mind.
14. They do those things which are not convenient.

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They are filled with the following list that God gives us:

1. Unrighteousness
2. Fornication
3. Wickedness
4. Covetousness
5. Maliciousness
6. Envy
7. Murder
8. Debate
9. Deceit
10. Malignity or malice
11. Whispering
12. Backbiting
13. Hating of God and good things
14. Despiteful or violent hatred
15. Pride
16. Boasting
17. Inventing evil things
18. Disobedience to parents
19. No understanding
20. Covenant breaking
21. Without natural affection
22. Implacable or unable to please
23. No mercy

These reprobates know the judgement of God. But yet they still do all of these things.

• God says they are worthy of death. He says that men lying with men are worthy of death.
• He says that women who lay with women are worthy od death.
• He says that men and women who lay with beasts are worthy of death.
• And yes, there are other acts such as adultery that are worthy of death.

But a reprobate will exhibit all of these signs that God gives to us. And you need to stay away from them.

• If someone hates God, are we to help these people? No, we are to hate those people or reject them.
• Do you understand this?

[37] 2 Chronicles 19:2 And Jehu the son of Hanani the seer went out to meet him, and said to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldest thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the LORD? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the LORD.

• If you help those people who hate God, do you think God will be happy? See His words. Trust His words.

[38] Titus 1:14-16 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth. 15 Unto the pure all things are pure: but unto them that are defiled and unbelieving is nothing pure; but even their mind and conscience is defiled. 16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

• We know that God gives up reprobates to a defiled mind. Their conscience is defiled.
• This is not just flaming sodomites but it’s also false preachers. The Bible tells us this.
• They profess that they know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable.

Abominable is hated by God. They are disobedient to God in every way.

• And unto every good work reprobate.
• Joel Osteen, Kenneth Copeland, Joyce Meyer, and Paula White are reprobates.

[39] 2 Timothy 3:1-4 This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2 For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

• You see many of the same things in this list that we saw in Romans Chapter 1.

[40] 2 Timothy 3:5-8 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, 7 Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. 8 Now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith.

• They have no faith and they seek to turn you from the faith.
• For example, motor mouth Ben Shapiro, a so-called Jew, is a reprobate.
• He rejects Jesus Christ. He is antichrist. But so-called “Christians” love him and support him.
• They give him power and authority.

[41] 1 John 2:22 Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

• He laughs at the stories in the Bible. He thinks they are fairy tales.
• He says he is still waiting for the Messiah to come as a political figure.
• He says no one is going to live forever and all that crazy stuff.
• He even said that any man like us can become the Messiah. He says, “I could even be the Messiah.”
• He calls God a liar. He is a reprobate. He hates God. He hates Jesus Christ. And laughs about it.

So, listen, God gave up reprobates. There are saved reprobates who are rejected in this life for rejecting God.

• These are people who will go to heaven but won’t do the works of God.
• There are spiritual reprobates who are headed to hell. These are children of the devil.
• They will never be the children of God. They are children of Belial in the Bible.
• So, if you think I’m wrong about God rejecting reprobates, prove it. I already gave you may Scriptures.
• You can continue to ignore them or start having faith in God’s words.
• And this isn’t all of them. There’s more. Study to show thyself approved.

Let’s pray.