Dear Fellow Believers,

Last week was an intense week of shows; thank you so much for your positive comments, I've needed them.

Rodney has taken one of the last ZenderTalks from 2002 on the topic of Free Will and tagged, at the end, an MZTV from 2019 to create a potent Sovereignty of God cocktail that will make you drunk with happiness as you contemplate the great control God exercises over every aspect of life.

We have the best of both worlds. By "both worlds" I mean the absolute and the relative. We live as though nothing is certain, but believe as though EVERYTHING is certain because everything IS certain, but this is not necessarily helpful as we work through problems. But then again, maybe it is.

I talk about my Play-Doh demonstration, where at a conference I will slap a piece of Play-Doh on the podium, walk away, and challenge the Play-Doh to become whatever it wants to become. No blob of Play-Doh has ever fashioned itself into anything apart from controlling hands. The connection to Romans 9 is obvious. It's a compelling little demonstration.

I totally forgot about an article by Ernest Martin on the topic of Free Will that I critique. It's a bit maddening because this smart guy talks out of both sides of his mouth with great conviction. He basically subscribes to the erroneous idea that we have limited freedom, but then at the same time insists that God is sovereign—both things being mutually exclusive, of course. It's a rather disappointing thing to listen to. The bottom line is that Ernest Martin thinks the relative viewpoint is a degree of freedom. Many people make the same mistake. I used to make it back before I started writing and broadcasting. The relative viewpoint is NOT a degree of freedom, it's a way of looking at things without considering the truth that God is operating all, that is, is doing everything.

My question is: WHY CAN’T PEOPLE JUST LEAVE THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD ALONE? Nope. Even thoughtful men like Ernest Martin feel the need to modify God's sovereignty in order to satisfy the desperate human longing for freedom of choice. This proves to me how desperate the longing really is.

One of the best verses highlighted in this presentation is Isaiah 29:16 “SHOULD AS CLAY THE POTTER BE ACCOUNTED?” And yet Christians do EXACTLY this. They turn the clay into the Potter. It's a sick perversion inspired relatively by Satan. But this is the very definition of Human Free Will: accounting the clay as the Potter.

You've heard of the phrase, "Man proposes, God disposes"? The way Christians believe it is: “God proposes, man disposes.” Their god is hamstrung by human whim. It's Satanic to the max.

I love the video Rodney tacked onto the end. It's MZTV 242 from August 23, 2019, titled, “How Belief in Free Will Leads to Sin.” I show which verses from Isaiah Paul borrows for Romans 9.

When you hear me reference a “Marie of Lima Peru” I’m not talking about my future wife (that would be “Maria”) but rather a female pastor (pastorette?) of a church in Lima who captured a friend of Giuliana (Giuliana, my landlady) and led her into the lie of human free will.

I love a point I make in this video: the lust to be a free moral agent is worse than sexual lust.

This MZTV presentation is, honestly, the greatest condemnation of Human Free Will I’ve ever heard. You don't want to miss it, so hang on to the end. The final ten minutes of this video is solid gold and, alone, worth the price of admission.

Thanks to all of you for your support of the work. The financial support is critical to sustaining life, of course, but the emotional and spiritual support you provided me last week kept my head above water during a difficult week of exposure and rebuke. You remain the best and smartest audience on YouTube.

Grace, peace, and appreciation from the Floridan peninsula,

—Martin