R.C. Sproul: Defending the Faith
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- in his first epistle, Peter informs believers that we are to be always prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks us for a reason for the hope that is in us. In this day and age, the number and kinds of questions that arise are astounding, but this does not give us an excuse to give up the fight. In this lecture, Dr. R.C. Sproul reminds us that apologetics is the duty of every Christian in every walk of life.
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Pastor Often when I listen to your preaching I am weeping
No one tells it like R.C. The truth. Delivered in a manner unique to him and him alone. Miss him much.
Please sir what do you mean by apologetics?
@@joybreytenbach3809 A short version: presenting reasoned arguments for Christianity - especially that the LORD Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer.
@@joybreytenbach3809 in the video R C starts with what apologetics means.
Ive never knew of him...his amazing the knowledge that he shared....his devotion to Our Savior....
Blessings you sister
Love this man of God!
Loved listening to RC. He was a teacher, first and foremost, and he loved his profession to the utmost. He is surely missed.
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😂2121 I TRUST in GOD ‘S TIMING..Amen
Glory be to God and all praises, it’s an absolute privilege to listen to this theological intellectual giant of the faith that God has blessed us with. RC Sproul and John MacArthur are a blessing to me and Christ Church. God will keep raising up more and more until it’s time for our King Jesus Christ to takeover. Be blessed,love you all
He was there in 2015, fighting the good fight of faith. Now bro Sproul is in heaven. Praise God for the faithful ministry of this guy. May we be faithful....
Get 'er done.
if you had paid attention ?
2011. thank you.
2021 march 5, friday 7:39 pm mountain time.
When you see these beautiful moments in time - you almost want to weep
all the thumbs down are folks who cant digest the big words.....RC was one of the very men, he himself admired.
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Very true sister, unholy people can’t understand the the holy words of the Christ
Even then we have to pray for their healing believing one day they shall repent in the name of Jesus Amen
I love this man. In Peace, Sproul
Mobil yang mana dek k pol ooo
such a GREAT sermon to give to my overly educated proud and arrogant, but, dearly beloved sons (mid 30's & 40 y/o🙄), who i love with my whole entire heart, mind, soul, spirit, and, who i pray for unceasingly - i failed them miserably for my ignorance, before i learned just how critical it is to have Gods WORD in my life....now, i beg God all the time to go after my sons, hunt them down, do whatever it takes, to draw them to HIM, thru Jesus Christ....amen.💖
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@@nicolassmith8338 mafia goon #2, are you a seething with hate coward? For what ELSE sort of a creature would act like you do?
Thanks RC, even though you are no longer here
i miss you too R.C ,we lost one of the best apologist of our time.
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Thank you sister
It is not without reason that Jesus chose Saul and changed his name as Paul and made him to represent his place in the world. The reason was that he studied under the guidance of the great intellectual Gamaliel . So Paul was a brilliant person .Moreover during the first century the Greek philosophical influence was very high ( Epicurians ) in Israel and the surrounding areas. In order to debate with them and defend the faith any ordinary person will not be able to do it. So Jesus choice fell on this brilliant man who became the worlds first Apologist . Excellent teaching by R.C . sproul. We miss him.
Well said! Jesus Christ always provides in SO MANY WAYS including teachers which teach us and provide us a glimpse of God through God's Holy Word! Amen!
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Wow! All these things I’ve hit upon during the last few weeks with atheists yet “sonny” weaves them together like the finest, most regal robe made of purest gold! What a blessing!
Ah....so awesome Amen God exists and all can know it, but still some will choose in many ways and forms to deny that God exist.
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Amen sister
Simply awesome R C Sproul!!!
Now this one blew me away. And i just came from the Copleston vs Russel debate video. :) This man is not only a true master in the arts of thoughts but also a master in explaining the complex in a simple manner. Thank you lord for bringing me to him. cogito ergo sum et ideo amo
Please pray for my daughter Carli she is out with a career criminal they're both on drugs on the streets. Please Please Please help me pray she will be Saved and set free! and come home.
Praying
@@thomasbarnes8473 Thank you so very much!
@@tricko321how is she right now brother
Praying right now from Brazil
We will pray for both, both needing saving, God will bring them home don't worry
Lord I thank you 🙏 for this knowledge you just downloaded in my mind amen 🙏
Amen Preacher ✝️ I took one thing from this sermon and wrote down the reasons why the Rapture is so near. I am looking at my list and I can not find one thing that needs to happen before the Rapture! All things in the Bible has happened, so I am looking up, for Jesus Christ has to be so near, He's just about here! Blessings to you and your family ✝️
Hi, Until the last of the elect are brought to Christ. That, I submitt is the final thing to happen, or at least one that will happen according to His promise. And one that we just can't know 😊
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I know what you're saying. It's rather surreal to think we are LIVING OUT the last days of the church Era and will soon be with all believers in heaven seeing Jesus' beauty and glory!!! It's so exciting! So comforting, too! ❤
I believe RC's existing was necessary🙏
Thank You, Jesus. Stay forever blessed, great man of GOD and of great wisdom. Amen, Amen and Amen 🔥.
I miss RC and I never had the pleasure of meeting him. When I first started listening to him I had no idea he had passed a few months earlier and it made me sad when I found out. Then happy because I know where he is.
I think of R.C. Sproul as my Instructor in The Word of God in all the videos I encountered. The first video, I has cast to the TV. I was about in my room and the more I listened - I stopped doing anything and sat down to listen intently. It was beautiful and said in ways I understood completely in my heart. He had already passed then. I found videos enough to last all my life. Then I discovered the Ligonier Ministry, all the colleagues from afar to here. They were all great men servants of God and very well qualified every word every verse. John MacArthur, Steve Lawson, Godfry everyone. This journey was caused by God as I know the teaching nothing by coincidence or accident. Love you all - Great Wisdom given by God. So on I go studying tonight.
Kami mohon Tuhan Yesus dengan Kuasa dan Mukjizat-Nya yg untuk menjamah bagian tubuh yang mengalami sakit dan kelemahaan dari Bpk. Harry Bastian Opit/Ketua PPAL Wil VIII Manado di Rs.Dr.Kandou Manado dan Bpk. A. Waworega di Rs. Siloam Pal II untuk mendapatkan kesembuhan Amin.
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God bless you and rest in peace.
HALLELUJAH LORD♥️ AMEN🙏♥️
The impossibility of the contrary.
Matter has no mind
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Matthew 11:28 KJV
Jesus lives
Jesus Christ is Lord
For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
Romans 3:23 KJV
Jesus loves you repent
You're a sinner in need of a Savior
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:9-10 KJV
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The Basics:. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ (NOW!) and thou shalt be saved." Rejecters will not be. Why wouldn't the myriads of similar verses not say "those chosen to believe at creation will be saved"? Because it would be an accursed predestined different gospel! Those that do believe are predestined to be conformed to Christ's image. Believe and trust the Bible, not men! Let God be true and every man a liar!
A square circle is a boxing ring.
How are you doing
Super powerful... To ddoubt it is to ligitmize that it is worthy to doubt to factualize the idea that .....bla bka... Whatever it made sence lol
Penyembuhan
and that was very dumb to me, mind and matters, one is Holy Spirit who gives the Light of Life freely The Mine over the Body that Metters amen one Spiritual Realm one Physical Realm, and a song comes to mine, "Come Together Over Me"
I love RC and listen to him often that microphone next to his slurping gives me the irrits
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Pelajari biblemu dg seksama agar tahu jalan yg benar menuju hari akhir ( hari pembalasan) dan lihat para pendeta yg berkulit hitam yg merasa telah terjajah dan tertipu dg dalih agama, maka mohon pelajari mana yg sebenarnya agama yg diridhoi Tuhan Yang Maha Kuasa agar tidak menyesal setelah kematian
GREG BAHNSEN!!! HA HA
A false phrophet
Are you? But Jesus paid for our son and we are free by His blood
As sure as I am that 3+4=7 is as sure as I am that killing people because of their sexuality (see Lev 20:13) is and was always wrong. Just the first shot that knocked over my religious house of cards. At least RC is a Steeler fan.
Lev 20:13 doesn't command people to kill because of their sexuality, but because of their unpure sexual act. Sexuality which is not acted upon is not sin, but any form of sexual contact outside marriage was a violation of God's covenant design of marriage. Don't make one thing the other... read the Bible and ask for the Holy Spirit's guidance.
@@tobianpesik7913 So what? The thought or act are equally innocuous and completely inconsequential to you or I or anyone else.
A death sentence for either is insanity. If you are a Christ believer, Matthew 25:8 says sexual thoughts ARE COMPLETELY a sin. Read your Bible.
@@wp5875 You know sexual immorality to be a sin. Wages of sin is death.The same God who punished it has endured your immorality until now and calls you today to repent of your sins and trust in the finished work of Jesus,the son of God. God has been so patient with you and me inspite of our sins and he loves to save the sinners. Our intention is not to hurt you but we love you enough to say the truth. Justice seems unfair for the guilty but the righteous judge will bring every sin to judgement. God will save you when you repent and trust the one who took on the punishment for the sins of the world. May God bless you.
@@@wp5875 dissonance is not expressed by Dhaka but to think can still be an act, a deliberate action.
I am a married heterosexual and if I see another beautiful women I may comment on her beauty but it would be wise for me if I notice her beauty to stop my self from being intoxicated by it.
I must not allow myself to descend into a lust in my heart or mind for the body of another that has not been given to me by promise or consent especially when I belong to another.
No matter how much I am attracted to the opposite sex I have no license to take her.
I must use all my strength to train myself to resist or keep my self clear of temptation as far as possible because even my wife will not find out, God has forbidden the practice for man to commit adultery.
My maker made me and I sin in desiring what he has forbidden me to touch.
I honour God when I honour His word. I make myself His enemy when I oppose Him.
I pray God help stay on side with him and to keep me.
He has done it so far and trust he will continue to do so.
Let seeking and honouring God be your greatest concern.
This would be adultery.
This would be adultery not to keep to my wife and a sin against God.
One of the greatest theologians of our generations, he makes you think.
This was a great message. This man is an excellent speaker. So profound yet not hard to understand even for people like me who aren’t that intellectual. Praise God! I hope that I can be friends with RC in heaven.
Simple yet profound!!
Amen so true, imagine if a mere man is so interesting IMAGINE seeing the Good Lord JESUS CHRIST one true God King of Kings Name Above ALL Names!!! My brain can't even fathom the day! All Glory be to God! Will be something!!! See you there!
Just got RC's audio book titled Developing Christian Character. It's essential listening! He narrates so it's RC in his familiar style.
I really think this is my most favorite video because I think I see and feel Dr. Sproul’s heart for people to understand so they will believe/believe so they understand. His passion for the Lord and desire to make difficult concepts clear with real examples is so precious to me. It’s also precious because he was suffering and still wanted people to understand no matter how hard it was for him to speak, because he was weak and then he was strong ❤️.
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JEREMIAH 8
9 THE WISE MEN SHALL BE PUT TO SHAME; THEY SHALL BE DISMAYED AND TAKEN;
BEHOLD, THEY HAVE REJECTED THE WORD OF THE LORD, SO WHAT WISDOM IS IN THEM?
Reformed Theology at it’s best, This man has been and always be an instrument God uses in the knowledge I gain in certain areas of biblical Christianity. All glory be unto Him 🙏
Apologetics helps the believer think & the thinker believe. It certainly helped me in my faith walk & avoid the trap of credulity aka having faith with no reason🔥
Yes, only God can manifest Himself in such manner as to cause man to see His creation and immediately see God in it. This is amazing revelation that can convince and correct a man, thus bringing him into personal relationship with God.
Yes but than again Jesus said Have Childlike Faith so don't count on apologetics and wisdom and answers to keep your Faith stable count on God
Absolutely
@@brethrenjc.3606, Everyone is born either a believer or none-believer...
Sweet dreams ....humble servant...of the Most High God.
Easily the greatest intellectual Christian mind in the 20th century. Not many realize that.
The hope that is within me is, I am a child of the King! Acts 2:38!
l really love you RC! l will be happy to meet you in heaven, as the Lord Wills ..my brother in Christ. _ALL GLORY_ goes to The KING of kings, and LORD of lords.
You read my mind! See you there as well! ALL GLORY goes to The KING of kings, and LORD of lords Jesus Christ!!!
DO YOU MEAN FAITH IN JESUS THE CHRIST OR FAITH IN THE PAGAN TERINITY.
MATTHEW 7
24 THEREFORE
WHOSOEVER HEARETH THESE SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOETH THEM, I WILL LIKEN HIM UNTO
A WISE MAN, WHICH BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON A ROCK:
25 AND THE RAIN
DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW, AND BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE;
AND IT FELL NOT: FOR IT WAS FOUNDED UPON A ROCK.
26 AND EVERY ONE THAT
HEARETH THESE SAYINGS OF MINE, AND DOETH THEM NOT, SHALL BE LIKENED UNTO A
FOOLISH MAN, WHICH BUILT HIS HOUSE UPON THE SAND:
27 AND THE RAIN
DESCENDED, AND THE FLOODS CAME, AND THE WINDS BLEW, AND BEAT UPON THAT HOUSE;
AND IT FELL: AND GREAT WAS THE FALL OF IT.
YOU'VE GOT IT > JESUS IS THE ROCK AND THE TRINITY IS THE FOUNDATION OF SAND.
I DO HOPE YOU GET IT.
REVELATION 18
4 AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE FROM HEAVEN, SAYING, COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE, THAT YE BE NOT PARTAKERS OF HER SINS, AND THAT YE RECEIVE NOT OF HER PLAGUES.
Amen amen. Now what you talkin' about Willis?
My thoughts exactly
@@lancebach I can't help but think back to the baptism of Yesahua when Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are there at one time. IDK...
I wouldn’t even know who I am if it wasn’t for God and His word. Jesus is Lord.
I listen to the late RC Sproul and John Macarthur on an almost daily basis and thanks God for these 2 theological and intellectual giants God has given us in this generation that they solidified my beliefa theologically and intellectually helping me in my own teaching and preaching ministry🙏😇😍
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Greetings from COLOMBIA in South America. Praise JESUS for RC's ministry. John 3
RC, I thank God for bringing me to you through your marvelous speeches, thank you RC.
A wealth of information. Wonderful. Praise God.
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Que lejos se me olvidar
I absolutely LOVE this man!
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Dios sea con ustedes lindo pastor aunke no entiendo nada el inglés 😢soy una mujer humilde le pido oración 😢por mi vida e perdido un hijo mi hermano y esposo 😢pero pido fuerza ami padre pRa seguir adelante saludos para usted desde Honduras 🙏🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳🇭🇳
I'm not a Protestant or Calvinist, but I cant help admiring this man !
what are you?
Independent Fundamental Baptist.
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The eternal sovereign God, and His omnipotence, causes me to ask those who are idolatorous, atheists, muslim, islamists, etc, "How BIG is YOUR god??" MY GOD IS BIGGER THAN ANYTHING OR ANYONE and is PROVEN to be WORTHY of my worship!!!🤗 HALLELUJAH!
The older I get the less words I don’t even know why I don’t wanna fight about my savior I want to enjoy my God when he is we speak it well in that way anyways who is the country 43 years yakkyakk yak I will love it and the bees everything silly thing other than beautiful stuff
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Adolf Schlatter's(1852-1938) works discusses human reason process. Brilliant talk.
excellent lessons in logic and thinking
Proverbs 9 : 13 - 18 “The woman Folly is loud ; she is UNDISCIPLINED and without knowledge. She sits at the door of her house, on a seat at the highest point of the city, calling out to those who pass by, who go straight on their way. “Let all who are simple come in here!” she says to those who lack judgment. Stolen water is sweet ; food eaten in secret is delicious!” But little do they know that the dead are there, that her guests are in the depths of the grave.”
How great to have the technology that has recorded and broadcast this message around the world 🌎 so that years after RC has gone to glory we can still see and hear him and the message he preaches.
Love the simple yet true depth RC teaches . Look forward to spending eternity in heaven with him .
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Lord Jesus, I need a radical transformation from you, please reshape my heart, please make my mind more as yours, free me from the grip of the flesh and carnality, forgive me Lord and make me strong and whole again...
You know my history Lord please restore the years taken by the darkness teach me how to love you properly and purely with no motives other than to learn from You and move beyond this dimension that I find myself within.
In Jesus name I pray Amen...
Prayer Warrior's.... please.
If anyone sees this or reads this please pray for S.A.M thoes are my initials
I need desperately full healing for my shoulders and to regain strength in my mind and body so I may return to work... and live again thank you so much! ❤
I both miss and love this guy. One of the greatest speakers of our time! Brilliant mind! BUT, has the loudest swallow of anyone I know. lol
"All knowledge is dependent upon you hearing and your seeing...' Adolf Schlatter (1852 -1939) Excellent talk.
Dr Sproul makes difficult topics easy to understand. All respect to him.
It took a while to get to the point, but when he got there it was worth the wait.
Ireally thank God she always there even I call here n ireally thanks god for my dough ter save the second life is merackle n blessing n deserve n present my doiugther last year survivor for sure gery I believe god id nothing impossible this my savior n power thanks god 🙏 amen
infinite series of finite causes portrayed in a conceivable fashion:
Big bang occurs, all life manages to come into existence, becomes advanced enough to explore space, eventually develop a mega black hole to pull the universe back together, everything is pulled into a single point (exactly as it had been), Big bang occurs and the infinite series begins with its finite causes (of which 5 of the trillions have been mentioned above) created within itself.
It's quite conceivable, but conceivable doesn't make it correct, and the odds of the universe manifesting in some kind of infinite Rube Goldberg device on it's own are phenomenally worse than the odds of a universe even coming into existence in the first place without a God to ensure that the basic laws of physics were all harmonious enough to even allow matter to form.
Apologetics played a Big part in my walk with Jesus and my relationship with him After my christian friend started to do apologetics and debating I Wasn't interested I wanted to preach but than one day when I was preaching a person came to me asking me "How do you know Christianity is true and not other religions?" I said because the bible says it's true but than he said "That doesn't necessarily make the Christianity true" and so After that I left and I was thinking about that question all day I even prayed about it to God and every time I preached I started getting more questions like that and it came to I point where I had 0 answers and it was shaking my faith a little But than my friend introduced me to study apologetics to find the answer to the questions I was getting so I did and eventually the more I studied the more My Faith Started to Grow more and more and I started to answer people questioning me I thank God for people like R.C Sproul, Frank Turek, William Lane Craig, Ravi Zacharias ect. for all their great thinking and debates on apologetics Thank God for helping me
Apologetics help me, to show that my faith is not a leap into the dark.
@@pandoranazo7746 Amen
@@brethrenjc.3606 Thank you JC. Stand firm.
I keep coming back to this talk. Must have watched it 20 times to date.
Thank you R. C.! For blessing us all with your teachings during your earthly walk and presently through these videos! I look forward to meeting you someday, God willing, in the Kingdom! God bless you!❤
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So Sproul is whining that people today got smarter than in the middle ages. Such a great lecturer and defender of the faith, haha.
Speak for yourself. I do not hate God. I've loved and knew God my whole life.
He would comfort me with his words. When I was an infant and my parents were killed in the war he would let me know he was protecting me. I'll never forget
"In order for something to be self-created, it would have to be before it is."
what do you want a square in a circle or a circle in a square but keep in mind one will always be smaller than the other
I could not care less about defending faith. Faith is believing what you know ain't so. I defend science and critical thinking, two things this man lacks.
What a pointless existence you portray. Going by what you say we come from nothing and after life there’s nothing. What’s the point in even existing according to your views? .
thank you for recording in uploading... people like me can also listen to his teachings and learn. We are also blessed through it.
Bless you RC!!! You have been a faithful servant of the Lord Jesus Christ. I will meet you in Heaven!
Maranatha
Brilliant?
What a way to build up a beautiful message. This is worth it
I miss this great man of God who is making Jesus laugh.
a simpleton thought he knows the mind of his Maker.
@@ynikshia5986 He and we have God's word, The Holy Scriptures and the Holy Spirit to guide us. We are not left to walk around ignorant of the thruthof our Lord and Savoir, Jesus, the Christ.
❤❤❤ GODBLESS CHRISTIAN FAMILY'S
Standard question posed by Fundamentalists: “Have you been saved?” What the question also means is: “Don’t you wish you had the assurance of salvation like me?”
All they have to do is “accept Christ as their personal Savior,” and it’s done. They might well live exemplary lives thereafter, but living well is not crucial and does not affect their salvation. But is this true? Does the Bible support this concept?
Scripture teaches that one’s final salvation depends on the state of the soul at death. As Jesus himself tells us, “He who endures to the end will be saved” (Matt. 24:13; cf. 25:31-46). One who dies in the state of friendship with God (the state of grace) will go to heaven. The one who dies in a state of enmity and rebellion against God (the state of mortal sin) will go to hell.
For many Fundamentalists and Evangelicals it makes no difference-as far as salvation is concerned-how you live or end your life. You can announce that you’ve accepted Jesus as your personal Savior, and, so long as you really believe it, you’re set. From that point on there is nothing you can do, no sin you can commit, no matter how heinous, that will forfeit your salvation. You can’t undo your salvation, even if you wanted to. God has already preordained everyone's fate heaven or hell and we can't change it even if we wanted to
Take a look at what Wilson Ewin, the author of a booklet called There is Therefore Now No Condemnation, says. He writes that “the person who places his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ and his blood shed at Calvary is eternally secure. He can never lose his salvation. No personal breaking of God’s or man’s laws or commandments can nullify that status.”
“To deny the assurance of salvation would be to deny Christ’s perfect redemption,” argues Ewin, and this is something he can say only because he confuses the redemption that Christ accomplished for us objectively with our individual appropriation of that redemption. The truth is that in one sense we are all redeemed by Christ’s death on the cross-Christians, Jews, Muslims, even animists in the darkest forests (1 Tim. 2:6, 4:10; 1 John 2:2)-but our individual appropriation of what Christ provided is contingent on our response.
Certainly, Christ did die on the cross once for all and has abundantly provided for our salvation, but that does not mean that there is no process by which this is applied to us as individuals. Obviously, there is, or we would have been saved and justified from all eternity, with no need to repent or have faith or anything else. We would have been born “saved,” with no need to be born again. Since we were not, since it is necessary for those who hear the gospel to repent and embrace it, there is a time at which we come to be reconciled to God. And if so, then we, like Adam and Eve, can become unreconciled with God and, like the prodigal son, need to come back and be reconciled again with God.
You Can’t Lose Heaven?
Ewin says that “no wrong act or sinful deed can ever affect the believer’s salvation. The sinner did nothing to merit God’s grace and likewise he can do nothing to demerit grace.” But when one turns to Scripture, one finds that Adam and Eve, who received God’s grace in a manner just as unmerited as anyone today, most definitely did demerit it-and lost grace not only for themselves but for us as well (cf. also Rom. 11:17-24)
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hmmm April 1988 a nice spring very early day up for Physical Training "PT" here in Texas on Fort Hood in the US ARMY the Mp's closes the Mane roads coming in and off Post for two hours every morning so the Troops can run as a whole Battalion we use to YALL at each other as we run the opposite way well I was setting in my pickup truck in the barracks parking lot when in between two three-story barracks woo funny now thing about this one was to the right was my fast home station barracks, lol right by Brager Heaven well the sun with coming up at just before 0700 the roads opened than when out of nowhere a feeling has taken hold of me and it was to be known too that it was Deep with the Morrow of the Hip Bone It was Warm Glowing Light a Light that was Not made by the hands of man by a light that was Alive and that Light Said only what it had to say to me the Was I Qute, " I adore you, and I'm nothing with out you" and of quet and if love sposk it was Agape forsure that vioce I will never forget then I was right back in my truck saying toself WHAT WAS THAT My Lord and I got a YES in my soul you called, MY GOD yes There is a GOD Yes Ron what do you have to ask of I am within you, so I have never stoped asking to this very day
Eventually the LORD will wipe our memories of being here, but that doesn't mean we didn't exist here... Not really a fan of that kind of thinking on his part... And no, I don't believe in living many different lives like the Hindus do... Not into reincarnation...
He stays in place aside by the best and never in front unlesscput there by the hand of the rest.
Love Sproul, but this is one of the blind spots he had, and I believe Greg Bahnsen showed that in their debate on classical vs presuppositional apologetics.
This is the best sermon I have ever heard. Before becoming a believer i was convinced that man invented God to rationalize and cope with out imminent mortality. I guess i just got my proper nouns mixed up a little...
Keep on thinking why or how could they hate the Messiah will have eternal life he does beautiful beautiful all the time sometimes I don’t know I gotta tell you I’ve changed the different if Jesus was standing with the weather it would make him want dinner it would share another whatever it’s very sad very sadI don’t know what apologetics means I don’t want to know
Does not the Neurones of Light that is of Life fire off in one Throne room the Rooms of our Father's Man Mansion the Ark of PItutary, that I'm very familiar with by the will of he that has created it amen
Thank you brother R.C.. such an intelligent professor and also very theologically sound
What are you talking about? Is there a point to this talk you are giving?
OHH LORD HOW AWESOME GLORIOUS EVERLASTING CREATOR ALOHEEM FATHER SON GOD HOLLY SPIRIT IMANUAL HOW BEAUTIFULLY YR SERVANT RC TEACHES THE WORD OF GOD THIS IS ALL ABOUT YOU OHH LORD YOU ARE AWESOME GLORIOUS EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING GOD I THANK GOD FOR THIS EXILLENT BIBLE TEACHER RC IS GOD BLESS THIS MINISTRY ENGLISH IS MY 2ND LANGUAGE BUT I STILL UNDERSTAND THE BIBLE TEACHING IN ENGLISH MY PRAYER OHH LORD JESUS TEACHES UR WAYS SO I WALK IN IT
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He KNOWS dispensationalism is wrong? Which parts? I know there are certain areas in dispensationalism that are wrong, but I could say the same thing about covenant theology. I mean, to throw out ALL of dispensationalism like that is a mistake.
thank god I'm a atheist. without evidence , theism sure has a lot of baggage.
I am polite. but I can not check my brain at the door.
Why do all these videos say "Live" when they are all recorded? Seems deceptive for a Christian ministry.