God's Sovereignty & Man's Responsibility | How Do I Know If I'm Elect? Don't Miss Jesus' Explanation
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Jonny Ardavanis
4.9 • 902 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
What if everything you thought about “being a good person” was wrong?
In this episode, we explore a shocking but deeply biblical truth: Even the most admired humanitarian like Mother Teresa and the most notorious criminal like Jeffrey Dahmer need the exact same thing to be saved—a miracle of God.
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This conversation dives into:
- Why good works don’t earn salvation
- The real meaning of being “born again” (John 3)
- The tension between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility
- The powerful illustration of the bronze serpent (Numbers 21)
- What it truly means to look to Jesus and be saved
If you’ve ever wondered:
- “Am I saved?”
- “Do I need to do something, or is it all God?”
- “Why would God save some and not others?”
This episode tackles those questions head-on with biblical clarity.
“The Bible never says people missed heaven because they wanted Jesus but weren’t chosen… it says they did not repent and believe.”
Key Takeaway: Salvation is not about your merit—it’s about Christ’s finished work. Whether you’re moral, religious, broken, or lost… the call is the same: Look to Jesus and believe.
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| 0:00.0 | Nothing Mother Teresa did got her to glory. |
| 0:05.0 | What Mother Teresa needs in regards to her standing before God |
| 0:09.0 | is the same thing that the Milwaukee monster serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer needed. |
| 0:13.0 | What's that? A miracle of God. |
| 0:16.0 | And I think we lose sight of that. |
| 0:18.0 | Or even personally, you may be wrestling with this saying. Maybe the reason |
| 0:21.4 | I'm not born again is because God just hasn't done a miracle in my heart. And I want him to, but he |
| 0:26.3 | hasn't. And in a way where you dismiss your responsibility to look to Jesus Christ in faith, |
| 0:32.8 | the Bible never says that sinners miss heaven because they wanted to turn to Jesus, but they were |
| 0:36.9 | simply not elect. They don't go to heaven because they wanted to turn to Jesus, but they were simply not |
| 0:37.6 | elect. They don't go to heaven because it says they neglected a great salvation and did not repent |
| 0:44.9 | and believe. Hank, how we doing? I'm doing great, Johnny. How are you? Good. I like your shirt. Thank you. I need to address a little bit of controversy. I feel like we skated over real quickly the voice memo point in, I don't know, a couple episodes back. If you missed it, just that, hey, it's the 11th commandment. You can't send a voice memo over two minutes long in a text message. Okay, I found out. There's a lot of flack on that. I got, I'm getting people stopping me. Almost more than the crunchy episode. With regularity. More to come on that. Yeah. But all I'm going to say is people can send voice memos as long as they like. They just need to know it's wrong to send anything over two minutes. Just know you're living in disobedience. Yeah, 100%. But, I mean, there's a person in our community group sending 20 minute plus voice memos. I would block that number. I mean, that's in, I don't know if I could talk 20 minutes uninterrupted on anything. You could. Yeah, you're right. Portillo's order. Drop here. I just said, hey, what would be your last meal before you die in your... 25 minutes later? All right. What are we talking about today, Johnny? Hey, well, if I said the name Agnes Gunga Boajiu, does that ring a bell? Of course. Yeah, well, she was born in |
| 2:03.0 | Northern Macedonia in 1910. She's most commonly known by the name Mother Teresa. I know that name. |
| 2:08.5 | In many ways, she is the embodiment, was the embodiment of charity, humanitarian kindness. |
| 2:14.2 | She opened homes for abandoned children. She opened AIDS, hospice centers. |
| 2:18.3 | She fed the hungry. |
| 2:20.3 | In 1971, which was before you were born and me, |
| 2:23.3 | she was awarded the Peace Prize for Humanitarian Work, |
| 2:26.3 | and she was given a $25,000 reward. |
| 2:28.3 | And with that reward money, she used to construct |
| 2:31.3 | a new leper colony in Bangladesh. |
| 2:33.3 | Then in 1979, she was awarded the |
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