Out of Control In the Spirit?

"The truly spiritual person is not someone who sweeps away into trances, ecstasies, emotional frenzies or falls over in a dead faint. The true spiritual person isn't somebody who goes into a glory cloud for 15 minutes, can't speak English, comes back and doesn't know he's been gone. When a person is out of control, it is never the Holy Spirit. The fruit of the Spirit is self control, Galatians 5. Nowhere in Scripture do we see the real gifts of the Spirit operating when somebody's out of control or when somebody's under a supernatural seizure." - John MacArthur

On Election and John 3:16

http://the-highway.com/Jh3.16.html

Election

"The issue is not whether there is a cause or basis of God's choice of people, but whether that cause is some condition (such as faith) fulfilled by an individual acting from free will or the sovereign good pleasure of God. Does God elect a person because that person wants God, or does God elect a person because God wants that person in spite of the fact that the person does not want God?"

~ Sam Storms, Chosen for Life, A Case for Divine Election

From fivesolas.com

http://www.fivesolas.com/toplady.htm

Arminian Vs. Reformed Views

http://www.reformation21.org/blog/2015/05/arminian-versus-reformed-views.php

Chosen

"I want to emphasize, as did Jesus, that saving knowledge of the Son and Father is dependent on their will. If the knowledge of Jesus is hidden from some but revealed to others, it is because our sovereign God and Father, Lord of heaven and earth, found it pleasing to himself so to either hide or reveal it. Those from whom the truth was hidden cannot object, for God owes them nothing but judgment. Those to whom the truth was made known cannot boast of their knowledge, for they no more deserved to receive this gift than those from whom it was withheld."

~ Sam Storms, Chosen for Life, A Case for Divine Election

Total sufficiency of God's Word

"Those who seek fresh messages from God have in effect abandoned the absolute certainty and total sufficiency of the written Word of God. And they have set in its place their own fallen and fallible imaginations. If the church does not return to the principal of Sola Scriptura, the only revival we will see is a revival of the superstition and spiritual murkiness that characterized the Dark Ages of medieval religion. Does this mean God has stopped speaking? Certainly not, but He speaks today through His all-sufficient Word."
– John MacArthur

Experiential Calvinism and the Charismatic Gifts

http://www.mslick.com/gifts.htm

Humor

"A story was once told by the existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard about a clown that summarized this danger most succinctly. He wrote, "It happened that a fire broke out backstage at a theater. The clown came out to inform the public. They thought it was just a jest and applauded. He repeated his warning, they shouted even louder. So I think the world will come to an end amid general applause from all the wits, who believe that it is a joke" (Either/Or, 1:30)."
         -  Tom Patton from the Master's Seminary

Watch "John Mcarthur talks about Limited Atonement" on YouTube

https://youtu.be/5NVaOWJijik

Have your"accepted" Jesus?

"A person who's "accepted" Jesus, made a decision for Jesus, prayed a prayer, and goes on to live in a sinful pattern of life with no fear of hell because they think they're eternally secure is deluded. That's why we have to be careful when we talk about the doctrine of eternal security as if the one prayer makes you forever secure. And by the way, this is what is taught by many people."
                   -  John MacArthur

Calvinism misunderstood

"The doctrinal system known as Arminianism has totally or partially taken over most Protestant denominations. This is due not to a latent superiority in Arminianism but mainly to a misunderstanding of Calvinism. For instance, it is sometimes said that Calvinism denies man's responsibility, makes man God's puppet, or removes God's love from the Bible. These statements are not true."

~ Craig R. Brown, The Five Dilemmas of Calvinism

When God saves sinners

"When God wishes to save a sinner, He does not strike the individual with "divine lightning." Rather, He uses a godly man to witness to that individual. Man, the "secondary cause," appears to be the only cause, but in reality God is the "primary cause," for He works in the evangelist's heart to give him the desire to witness and in the recipient's heart to allow him to accept the truth he is receiving."

~ Craig R. Brown, The Five Dilemmas of Calvinism

Books

Presuppossitional Apologtics  Greg Bahnsen

Packer on Puritan View of Preaching

"If we do not preach about sin and God's judgment on it, we cannot present Christ as Saviour from sin and the wrath of God. And if we are silent about these things, and preach a Christ who saves only from self and the sorrows of this world, we are not preaching the Christ of the Bible.

We are, in effect bearing false witness and preaching a false Christ. Our message is 'another gospel, which is not another.' Such preaching may soothe some, but it will help nobody; for a Christ who is not seen and sought as a Saviour from sin will not be found to save from self or from anything else.

An imaginary Christ will not bring a real salvation; and a half-truth presented as the whole truth is a complete untruth."

–J.I. Packer, "The Puritan View of Preaching the Gospel," in Puritan Papers, Vol 1.

Pink Quote

"To argue that God is "trying His best" to save all mankind, but that the majority of men will not let Him save them, is to insist that the will of the Creator is impotent, and that the will of the creature is omnipotent."

― Arthur W. Pink, The Sovereignty of God