Hank & RC Sproul two men I have great admiration for even though we have those theological differences as well. Father knows His servants hearts 💕 and I pray for comfort for his wife, Vesta and family and also for continued health for Hank in his treatment. Abba is good and merciful ! 🙇

I know we shouldn't be sad here but I cant help it. TY for this wonderful tribute.

@admiralmurat2777

6 жыл бұрын

E Johnson I don't know how to feel tbh kinda want to give a sigh of relief but also mourn.

Thank you Mr. Hanegraaff for this. I came to surrender to Jesus Christ three years ago at the age of fifty-eight. I then came across R.C. Sproul's youtube videos from the early nine-teen seventies. Watching and listening to him made me think back to that time and wondering why I hadn't known about him and his teachings . I was lost in this world without any real answers. I thank God for His continued mercies on His chosen.

Sola Gratia! The great Biblical truth!

My God...WOW! I did not know! May he rest in heaven!

@sharonbyers3982

5 жыл бұрын

@Dennis Glavin Dr. Sproul is certainly there in spirit and as each of us lies in the grave, waiting for the resurrection, so are we all...God Bless and much love from the Oklahoma Grandma

Wow, Mr. Hanegraff...you had me in tears from the get-go!! RC Sproul has been a HUGE force in my Christian walk and a treasure chest to mine for diamonds...God Bless and thank you for the love and friendship you shared with him...a Giant of the faith has left us but none of us would pull him back from the joy he lives in now. Much love from the Oklahoma Grandma

Excellent comments Hank about someone we already miss tremendously. Thank you

I was just thinking about this the other day and wanted to call in but had not time. I was able to watch the ceremony online. I never met the man but I have been truly blessed. I wanted to tell you Hank how much I appreciate you and what you have done and I hope to speak to you soon. God bless.

I truly LOVED him, too!!! ...and I love you for this!!!

Why are people being so hostile because of Hank's personal decision to worship Christ within the context of the Christian Orthodox faith? Why do you find it so offensive and why the ugly hostility? If you were so happy with your own walk with the Lord you wouldn't be so downright nasty. The fact is people mature and grow in life. No growth = Death. Christians are the church and if we do not stretch our limits and expand our faith within the context of scripture and our personal convictions then we just become crotchity, stagnate fools. The Body of Christ is dynamic and ALIVE, therefore I rejoice today for the vigor that Christ has brought into Hank's life. Keep going and growing my brother and never stop!

I see some below just couldn't accept your tribute..... but had to be derisive. Love is the theme "I" see here.... Thank you for this wonderful tribute. God Bless!

Thanks Hank, God's blessings upon you ,I have been listening to RC for a few years. He was truly a great theologian, who opens the word of God truthfully yo me. He ran a good race, well done Dr Sproul.

8 years ago, I went to a library in AZ looking for R.C. Sproul's books. Found many WoF books, found 2 by Hanegraaff, but not one of the many Sproul books. I asked the library why. 2 weeks later, I received a call explaining it was due to copyright restrictions. Saddened me that I was more likely to find them at a garage sale during difficult financial times.

@chesterdiaz4382

4 жыл бұрын

You buy RCʼs books and materials through www.ligonier.org.

He will be missed, but I love knowing that He's experiencing already what we still long for.

Thanks Hank for sharing your memories of RC. He will be missed by us all, but left behind a legacy to honor and follow as an example to all. BTW I am still trying to break 80...

Me too, thank God for his teaching

Sometimes I need reminders that The Church is not compartmentalized by doctrinal nuances, while acknowledging that there are definite gulfs between those that profess the faith, but whose doctrines deny the very core essentials of God's Plan of Salvation. Hank Hannegraaf's tribute to R. C. Sproul, is a perfect example of the former...

Because of R.C. I am no longer interested in what man has to say or do....only G#d.....the Alpha and Omega.....RIP, Dr. Sproul....I love you and will miss you..... :-)

As J. Vernon would often say: "You don't have to agree with me, but if you want to be right you will".

R.I.P.

Faith without works is dead.

I consider R.C. To be the last of the puritans.

What are their theological differences?

Hank said 'we had PROFOUND theological differences' mid way through this frame; the rest of the frame is about gold. I will ask all of y'all a question: why has Hannegraaff gone back to the Eastern Orthodox doctrine?

@OlympicLeprechaun

6 жыл бұрын

Because the Eastern Orthodox doctrine is the ancient unbroken faith of the Apostles.

@DrKeef

6 жыл бұрын

paul mcclaren Because Hanegraaff strays from the biblical (and apostolic) teaching of salvation by faith alone, and clings to tradition set up in the Eastern Orthodox Church, which clearly does not believe this, but believes one is saved by a mixture of faith and works (don't take my word for it, check their doctrine; Hanegraaff would have had to confirm this upon his acceptance into the EO church). I'll admit he sounds almost surely to believe in salvation by faith sometimes when he addresses the issue, but that is why he is so dangerous, because he himself is confused about his own beliefs and does not realize he is giving up faith for works, and he is leading many others down the same path of confusion and acceptance of unorthodox theology and damning heresy. All said, be careful, and like the noble Bereans, always compare everything to the scriptures so that you are led astray by no man.

@OlympicLeprechaun

6 жыл бұрын

No. Your understanding of "faith alone" was invented by Martin Luther. It appears nowhere in Scripture and like the vast majority of Protestants you haven't the slightest clue about what the early Church taught or how they worshiped. It was the very Orthodox Church that you are so contemptuous of that compiled and canonized the New Testament. And the onus is on YOU to prove why your understanding of Scripture is correct and the ancient unbroken Church's is not. can you read Koine Greek?

@DrKeef

6 жыл бұрын

Paul makes it clear in Galatians and Romans that man is “justified by faith in Christ and not by observing the law” (Galatians 2:16). “Now when a man works, his wages are not credited to him as a gift, but as an obligation. However, to the man who does not work but trusts God who justifies the wicked, his faith is credited as righteousness" (Romans 4:4-5). And also in Ephesians "For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast." (Ephesians 2:8-9). It is very clear that "faith alone" is what saves man, not works (not even faith and works).

@eflint1

6 жыл бұрын

The "works" that "accompany salvation" are FRUIT. They do not justify us. Rather they are proof we have been justified and have become a new creation. Works justify our FAITH. And the works James spoke of had to do with how we treat our fellow-man. If the love of God has been shed in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, the PROOF will be a loving /compassionate attitude towards others, and not showing partiality. That was the theme of James' message concerning work and faith. But just deciding to be nice to people will not save anyone. They must be born again.

It must have been the hardest thing, for R.C. to remove his own son from Ligonier Ministries and association with his church. Certainly this would have been a pivotal time in his life.

Hank, I gotta ask you, are you still a TULIP? I have followed your conversion to the Greek Orthodox with a lot of excitement. How far away have you come from personally from reformed dogma that RC championed? I ask very respectfully with intense interest, but without inviting any conflict. I have had many different conversions in my own lifetime, so it is fascinating to hear of others.

@markrogers7546

6 жыл бұрын

Hanegraff could not be both TULIP and Greek Orthodox simultaneously. He is a walking contradiction.

@joshtheegotist

6 жыл бұрын

thanks I wasn't asking you, everyone knows the story dude, pontification unnecessary

@Ggeg0000

6 жыл бұрын

interesting you should use the word pontification. The guy is just expressing an opinion in a public forum "dude"

@joshtheegotist

6 жыл бұрын

blah blah blah

@susanbaker8130

6 жыл бұрын

Josue Riverbank Did you miss what Hank said about communion in essentials? Sounds like what Jesus confirms.

You can't have it both ways Hank, you can't be Greek Orthodox and praise a man like RC Sproul whose whole life was dedicated to serving God and His truths of the Reformation.

@Ggeg0000

6 жыл бұрын

either you are being sarcastic or you don't understand the impossibility. God Bless either way

@Ggeg0000

6 жыл бұрын

forgive me if I came across as arrogant. I did not mean to. But the point of course stands that you cannot be G O and praise a man like RC Sproul who spent his life defending the truths of the gospel. This is life and death, we are not talking about sports or preferences in taste. You are either saved by grace through faith alone or you also have to do works and partake of the "sacraments" to be saved. Either our sins are all forgiven when we believe (the Biblical view) or you go to the priest for forgiveness. If the G O position is right and Hank now claims he believes it is, then RC Sprould is misleading people in a big way. If RC is (was) right then the G O is leading people stray. Sola Scriptura is anathema to the G O I believe? And yet RC spent his life defending it. As also the other five solas. Praise God for men like RC Sproul !!!!!! I heard Hank on the radio for many years so I am not talking in a glib way here. After defending the protestant view for so many years now he comes out as G O!! Of course I am nobody to judge anything but in my opinion something is not right here, something does not seem geniune. I would ask Hank this. Did he receive the Spirit by sacraments of the GO church or by faith in what he heard many years back when he first heard the gospel? As the Apostle Paul implies in Galatians, I am certain it was the later not the former. And having the Spirit is salvation Peace and God Bless you

@v33punk

6 жыл бұрын

Get a life, pharisee.

@Ggeg0000

6 жыл бұрын

Johnny: why do you call me a Pharaiee friend? I already did get a life, His name is Jesus Thanks and God Bless

@ronhazelaar7044

6 жыл бұрын

Galatians 5:1-4 Behold,I Paul say unto you that if you are circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing.For I testify again to every man that is circumcised that he is a Debtor to do the whole law.Christ is become of no effect unto you,whosoever of you are justified by the law you are fallen from grace. For the Judisizers to achieve salvation you needed to be circumcised.It was faith in Christ AND circumcision.Anytime a church or a individual advocates faith in Christ AND works,there really saying that Christs substitutionary atonement wasn't sufficient to save you and that you have some part to play in your redemption.Ephesians 2:8,9 Says For by God's grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast.

i wonder if he ever got to where he wasnt 100 % he thought he was going

RD

I loved RC Sproul. I have read about 90% of his books. His writing has had epic influence on me. Thank you for this video Hank. I am no longer a Christian, but I have always been a theology junkie. It fills me with joy that RC has reunited with the Logos (in my perspective).

5:12 won't be saying what we were drinking

One need not go to any denomination as long as one is born again; this is the only thing needed for eternity with Jesus. And your proof that E Orthodox is 'ancient unbroken faith of the Apostles'? whatever is your point?

Did RC bring his wife on your golf outings?

Rc was reformed U reject those doctrines Curious what u learned from him

Why would R. C.'s life make a difference on eternity if God is the only one that can make a difference on eternity, and things have already been settled from the beginning? Doesn't make sense, just sayin.

Twelve seconds into the video: "He's absent from the body, but he is most certainly present with the Lord" (re 2 Cor 5:8). Sorry, but the apostle Paul taught we meet the Lord _after our resurrection from the grave, at Jesus' return:_ _"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:_ _Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."_ (1 Thessalonians 4:16,17). A few will immediately ask "Hey, wait, didn't Paul write that he'd prefer to 'depart, and be with Christ'"? It's in Philippians 1:23: _"For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better."_ Did Paul think he'd meet Christ _when he died?_ That would have directly contradicted _his own teaching_ that we meet Christ after our resurrection at Jesus' return. Psalm 146:4 describes death: _"His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish."_ We go _to the grave_ when we die and our "thoughts perish" - our consciousness stops. We remain in the grave until we are resurrected. While in the grave we have no consciousness and do not experience the passage of time. When Jesus' elect are resurrected at His return (as Paul described in 1 Cor 15:50-54 and 1 Thess 4:13-17) their consciousness returns and _then_ they will meet Christ. It will _seem to them_ like no time had passed since their last conscious moment at death. Paul understood that after departing in death, the next thing _he would know_ would be that he had been resurrected and was meeting Christ. _That's_ what Paul meant when he wrote _"For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better"_ (Phil 1:23). We remain "asleep" in death until our resurrection at Jesus' return. Paul wrote: _"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him._ _For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep."_ (1 Thess 4:14,15). In fact, Jesus stated that *no man* has gone to heaven (except for Himself). That's right: Abraham, Moses, David and all the other prophets are still in the grave awaiting their resurrection: _"And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven"_ (Jesus, in John 3:13). Also see Acts 2:29,34,35: David _"is both dead and buried . . . For David is not ascended into the heavens."_

@MarkNOTW

6 жыл бұрын

The Bible Says Sorry, soul sleep is not Biblical. You’ve taken verses out of context and/or reinterpreted them to make them fit your beliefs. Jesus said to the thief on the cross that he would be with Him in paradise TODAY, not someday. And please don’t even try using the argument of where the comma goes in that verse. We also have the verse “to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord”. We also see Jesus communicating with Moses and Elijah at the mount of transfiguration. We also have the story of Lazarus and the rich man where each was fully conscious. We also see that God took Enoch from the earth. I could go on and on...

@TheBibleSays

6 жыл бұрын

Mark L, you wrote "Jesus said to the thief on the cross that he would be with Him in paradise TODAY." Sorry, but Jesus was dead, in the tomb for three days and three nights, just as He said He would be. If you don't believe Jesus was dead, read Revelation 1:18 where He said so Himself. The "comma argument" is entirely valid. There was no punctuation in the early texts. The verse should read something like, "truly I tell you this day, you shall be with me in paradise" and some translations of the Bible get it right. When Jesus appeared to Mary shortly after His resurrection, He told her He had not yet ascended to the Father (John 20:17). What does that tell you? As I explained in my original comment, Paul taught we meet Jesus _after our resurrection_ at Jesus' return. Paul taught that those who were "asleep" in death would be _raised from the grave at His return, and then meet the Lord in the air._ Upon death our "thoughts perish" as stated in Psalms 146:4. We have no consciousness until resurrected. Paul understood that after departing in death, the _next thing he would know_ would be that he had been resurrected and was meeting Christ. That's what Paul meant when he wrote "For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better" (Phil 1:23). That what Paul was talking about when He wrote "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord" (2 Cor 5:8). Paul clearly taught we meet the Lord _after our resurrrection._ Your _assumption_ that we meet the Lord _when we die_ is error and contradicts Paul. The transfiguration was a _vision._ Jesus said so in Matthew 17:9. Moses and Elijah weren't visiting from heaven. Jesus clearly stated (John 3:13) that no man had gone to heaven (except Himself). Do you think Jesus was wrong? Jesus staged the parable of Lazarus and the rich man in the afterlife according to the pagan Greeks, knowing His listeners would recognize this as false teaching and look for the real meaning. He gave a hint to the identity of the rich man: he had five brothers. The rich man was the Jews: their ancestral father Judah had five brothers (Gen 35:23). The parable was a warning to the Jews that their place of favor with God was soon to be passed on to believing Gentiles, the Lazarus in the parable. Jesus gave a similar warning in Matthew 21:33-43, in the parable of the vineyard. Remarkably today the pagan Greek afterlife ideas (immortal soul, torment in hell etc) have become so integrated into popular Christian thinking that people do not even recognize their pagan origin. Genesis 5:24: "And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him." It doesn't say _where_ God took him, and it doesn't say God took him "from the earth" as you claimed it says. But we _do_ know that it was _not to heaven_ because Jesus said "And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven" (John 3:13). I do not recognize the term "soul sleep," it's not in my Bible. But there are many verses referring to being "asleep" in the grave. Here's one from the Old Testament: "And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt" (Daniel 12:2).

@MarkNOTW

6 жыл бұрын

Nope, sorry, but nothing in your diatribe refutes anything I said or any part of scripture I quoted. Soul sleep is an invention of modern day men, for whatever reason, and clearly not believed by any of the apostles or Jesus. When a believer dies, his soul goes to be with the Lord in paradise, while his flesh remains in the grave until the resurrection (1 Thess 4:13-17)

@TheBibleSays

6 жыл бұрын

There is nothing, *absolutely nothing* in 1 Thess 4:13-17 saying "when a believer dies, his soul goes to be with the Lord in paradise." Here is 1 Thess 4:13-17: "But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."

@MarkNOTW

6 жыл бұрын

"even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."

RC made some important contributions to Christianity especially in the area of apologetics IMO. I’m sure he is with the Lord. However he also spread some very damaging information with regards to salvation and who can be saved. He erroneously believed that only a preselect group could come to Jesus. I’m sure he knows differently now :).

@madamedivaloach645

5 жыл бұрын

Hmm? Many are called..few chosen. Right? Case/Point: Christ came that ALL might be saved. Will they be? Key word MIGHT, meaning may be - as in probably not. IJS

@savedbyjesusblood

5 жыл бұрын

He made important contributions to Satan's kingdom with his rank Calvinistic heresy. It is absolutely satanic to tell someone that Jesus might not have died for them when the Bible clearly says He did.

Yeah well that's too bad he don't believe he's a Calvinist. I suggest you listen to Gregg Jackson stay away from John McArthur's teachings

According to Matthew 7:15-23 RC was a false teacher. He denied faith alone for salvation by grace and believed Jesus never said John 3:16 because it did not agree with his theology. He preached salvation by works instead of grace. Not Romans 11:6, Romans 3:26-28 Romans 4:5-8 and Ephesians 2:8-9. Not the gospel. First Corinthians 15:1-4. Or John 3:18. Galatians 1:7-9 Though we or an angel from heaven preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let them be accursed. As we said before, so say I again, if any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed. Gods word not mine. John 6:40 and John 6:29 Faith alone apart from works that can not save. let God be true and every man a liar. First John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that BELIEVE on the name of the Son of God, that ye may KNOW YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. Faith alone apart from works. Romans 6:23

@djnv4702

4 жыл бұрын

Care to prove that? Before I came Orthodox, I never heard him say anything like that.

@docholliday7548

3 жыл бұрын

You are grossly mistaken, Jimbo!

@jimkraft9445

3 жыл бұрын

Watch his video, the most miss understood verse in the bible.

The ones religeous people think are so smart today may be as ignorant as one of the highest rulers in Israel I never herd Hank give a clear Gospel. A man who memorized Revelation I don't think has a clue about the Gospel that saves from hell....... John 3:9-10 KJVS Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? [10] Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

R.C. Sproul was generally a sound conservative reformed theologian and defender of the faith for the past 40 years, and praise the Lord for him. But he also had a great deal of sin and theological error, that is worth a solemn warning! R.C. was definitely not a reformer in any way that Johnny Mack or Bob Godfrey portray him. That is just flattery! He was certainly a bridge for many between modern Evangelicalism and Reformed theology. But that is it. He was never a good preacher. When he did become a pastor late in life, his sermons were always short and superficial. His books were also incredibly superficial in comparison to the Reformers and Puritans and many others. I avoided him altogether. There is always a hint of personal vanity in his writing style. Just read the first chapter of his supposed classic, The Holiness of God. It is more about him and his searching than about God and His holiness. In his teaching, there was always the remnant of his Liberal Presbyterian background in him that followed (and I believe hampered him) all of his life and ministry. I always thought of him as an Anglican and anti-Puritan in his theological views. For that, I couldn't stand listening to him or reading him at all. He used flattery to gain advantage over people. His views on Apologetics and Eschatology were also completely wrong-headed. His exposition of Scripture was shallow. Worst of all, R.C. was inordinately covetous as a Christian leader, selling his books and CD's for an ungodly and profane profit. He made millions of dollars and lived like a pagan celebriity most of his life. And those who were loyal to him, family and friends, and those who worked at Ligonier, were paid unbelievable salaries. And these people weren't even pastors! How profane and scandalous to th church! He could have supported 20-30 missionaries or pastors with the excess. In this respect, R.C. was almost a complete charlatan, selling the Gospel for a profit at such outlandish prices. Like the corrupted tele-evangelists of our times, he was a man of his age, and age of covetouness and personal vanity.. Now his books are easily found for $1 at Goodwill! That is about what they are worth, in comparison to Calvin or the Puritans! R.C. was also a very bad father, as can be seen in the failures of his only son, R.C. junior. Whta a warning! Pray for R.C. junior and his family though. In many respects, R.C. was for the past 30 years like one the judges who judged Israel (Gideon, Jephthah, Samson, etc..) at a time when everyone did what was right in their own eyes. He was not like Joshua or Boaz!!! NO! R.C. was not a reformer, not a great preacher, not even a great Christian leader! But he was certainly a light to many in this generation; to Liberals, Roman Catholics, Pentecostals, Dispensationalists, and Broad Evangelicals, etc.. for sound doctrine and reformed theology.. And for that, we ought to praise God for him, and for his life's work. But God forbid that pastors and Christian leaders would follow him and repeat his sins and his errors! Soli Deo Gloria! Pastor Brett Woody

@Ggeg0000

6 жыл бұрын

You are good at slandering but not very good at providing specifics are you? You have thrown dozens of unsubstantiated accusations there which I know are not true since I listened to him for many years

@FORGVN

6 жыл бұрын

Lori Ann Woody @"pastor" Brett, You sign with "pastor" in your name, will then you accept accountability and should be familiar with the Word and even more you should be applying it in life especially in times as this. You should be ashamed of yourself! The one who conceals hatred has lying lips, and whoever utters slander is a fool. Proverbs 10:18. You try to relate OT passages against the departed, then beware what happened to the men Moses sent who came back with a slanderous (or evil) report. (Numbers 14:36,37). As many times as you copy and paste your slanderous report may it be to you. Repent! Correct your foolishness.

@Ggeg0000

6 жыл бұрын

"pastor" Lori You said about RC But he also had a great deal of sin and theological error Would you like to elaborate, otherwise shutting up maybe a good option

@POLOE

5 жыл бұрын

And you are...who? To spread such fudge.

@madamedivaloach645

5 жыл бұрын

@David Stanton That's the idiot pissed off husband talking through his wife's thread.

He's NOT with God and you won't be either unless you abandon your false teachings. There is but ONE CHURCH and that is the church of Christ and we are the ONLY body of believers who are saved from the wrath of God. However if the people who listen to you never study the Bible for themselves, then it is indeed, "the blind leading the blind and they both will fall into the ditch."