Great teachers like R.C. Sproul are very, very rare. Though he is, by Grace, with the Lord Jesus, the Truths he preached are Eternal. Thank you, God, for loaning him to us for so many years!

This teaching helped me grasp a true understanding of God's election. Made me humble and give God all thanksgiving for creating faith in my heart.

@KeithThompson52

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

@clintmyrick4128

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

@brondenafanning9544

5 жыл бұрын

@@clintmyrick4128 Amen!

@donnar9864

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

@terrysordal1693

3 жыл бұрын

Amen

What a delightful man. He has a calm way of talking. Praise Jesus Christ.🥰

Without God's election, I wouldn't be saved by his mercy and grace, thank you RC for making a difficult truth clear

WOW, 29:00!!! That explanation of Pharaoh! Wow, wow, wow. Yes, every good thing comes from above. Any goodness in Pharaoh was from God, so God removing his good influence hardened Pharaoh's heart -- exactly what came natural to Pharaoh. WOW.

I love RC. God used him to bring me to Reformation i.e. to understand these biblical concepts.

@geraldtimmons4053

3 жыл бұрын

I praise the Name of Jesus Christ for His Salvation for you.

@bobbyadkins6983

11 ай бұрын

Please read Adam Clarke's commentary on Romans 9.

Wow this helps me understand Romans 9 so much better. And it makes salvation and the cross so much more important to me as a believer. Thank you Lord

Our brother RC was such a magnificent expositor and his teaching God's word has been a catalyst in setting my heart ablaze with passionate affection for the Lord by helping me understand His absolute sovereignty. Praise almighty God.

Amen Sproul. We have been predestined before the foundations of the earth. May we cherish this within our hearts forevermore. God bless you all.

All Glory to God!!! ❤

R.C Sproul was one of the best Bible teachers in the world.

@mikeburton1703

2 жыл бұрын

i too want to hear more of his teachings....he is .really about the only one in my 48 yrs of turning to JESUS that seems to think like me......and i have listened to all the so called great teachers having lived in tulsa for about 18 yrs........i would like to know where this brother lives and teaches ....

@barbarafriedenberger6205

2 жыл бұрын

And RC is still one of the best preachers.. He's not dead Spiritually, He is still with Us..RC is just sleeping..

@angloaust1575

Жыл бұрын

No comparison to the Holy Spirit The supreme teacher!

This is Biblical truth. Thanks to the late, Dr Sproul 🙂

RC’s teaching is like sweet music to the ears. It’s just is so good and I praise God for His unconditional election, I never deserved it and never will. I praise God for Him raising up a teacher like RC to help us understand His truth

@reynaldodavid2913

2 ай бұрын

@skylineFG, RC Sproul is a genius that understand more of the bible than both the Calvinists and Arminians but none of the Calvinists understand the biblical doctrine of Election and Predestinatio including R.C. I can prove it to you...

@dionsanchez2775

Ай бұрын

@@reynaldodavid2913 Hahaha. Go ahead. Give it a shot then.

@reynaldodavid2913

Ай бұрын

@@dionsanchez2775 , Okay...

@reynaldodavid2913

Ай бұрын

@@dionsanchez2775 , I'm waiting for your response or comment bro...

God bless you ..what a gospel ... You preached here is great source for our understanding

Thank you Lord for R.C...such a great wisdom to grasp...❤❤❤

The last couple of minutes of this brought great clarity to me. Thank you ☺️

8 views? Wow! I am so grateful for Ligonier Ministries and your work of sharing God's message to a lost world.

@RheaSeo

8 жыл бұрын

+John M I am also bless with Ligonier Ministry.

@dpastor6631

6 жыл бұрын

No, Ligonier ministries is fully committed to sound teaching of Scripture. Your slander is a lie...

@Stanzi18

5 жыл бұрын

56k views today.

@brynwhit

4 жыл бұрын

David Pauley looks like KZread removed what you responded to

@gracepilgrim7765

4 жыл бұрын

Over 69k as of 16 Nov 19.

I am thinking of the song "Jesus ,Jesus, hear my humble cry. When on others thou art calling , do not pass me by ". 🙏

Thank you Pastor Scott, the gospel should never be a fluff piece. 1Cor. 1:23 says, but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness. May every time we step foot in church may we be transformed by the conviction of the Holy Spirit, leading us to repentance, may our deaf ears be opened and may our blind eyes see again, to a Holy God I ask that You would transform us. Thank you Jesus for the cross! Thank you for shedding Your blood to make us whole again.

The Lord God's Grace is to give us, what we do NOT deserve. The Lord God's Mercy is NOT to give us, what we deserve.

Wow! I had to look into transcripts to get the most of it understand it fully. Glory to God for His mercy to a person so undeserving like me.

thanks for Ligonier Ministries and their noble message..

So thankful for these tapes.

God wrote all our stories before time.

@randys2358

19 күн бұрын

Just ask Job...

Awesome Truth ✝️ ❤️ Thank You LORD For Saving Me.. I Love You❤️❤️

So helpful and so truthful!!! Thank you for this clip!

@CameronCanFLY

2 жыл бұрын

Make more videos where have you been?!? Lol

@marylandsaw3388

2 жыл бұрын

W

Some amazing teaching in the last 5 minutes. This helped me with a problem posed by a family member. Thank you!

This man is much appreciated by whom were not in clear thoughts on God's existence, but he in the grace of God he could manage to communicate the word of God in a simple manner of explaining what they have missed them and made it lucent to them. Rest in peace. My God's father in distance.

Thanks R.C for awesome explanation.

This entire Universe belongs to the Lord God and he may do as he wishes with it. But we must remember that there is Absolutely NO Darkness in God and he is Perfectly HOLY. Therefore everything God does is perfect which is in line with his character. God bless everyone.

@mikeburton1703

2 жыл бұрын

and i agree with you....i am longing to know how GOD is GOD.....we will all know someday....

I have been foolish enough to think I deserved to be saved....... even by listening to the Gospel many times I still refused to understand

Learns so much from fro this ministry. Thank you angGod bless.

How deep.Amen. Definitely answers all conflicting questions regarding predestination.

I believe help my unbelief!

What a blessing!

Thankyou for making this clear

Such a great explanation of election. 🙏🏼❤️

Amen , thanks Mr RC for the true teaching of the word of God. May God continue bless His words and through this teaching may God continue bringing His peoples to His kingdom 🙏🙏🙏

Very inspired teaching!

Please 🙏 for my children and I

Amazing teaching. I finally understand such matters. Thank you so much for sharing these.

Amazing teacher

This is an awesome teaching of this .

Priceless

I agree with RC. The point he didn't make that nails it without any ambiguity is the the word forknowledge is NOT the word FORSIGHT. The word foreknowledge is the word PRO GNOSKO...Gnosko (To know Intimately) as in adam knew eve and she bore a son. Also as in "depart from me, I never knew (gnosko) you". So gnosko is a deep intimate love and knowledge of someone. It is not merely forsight (seeing what would happen & choosing that) that theory makes me chuckle, and makes God a very puny God indeed.

@greeneyes8604

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yes. Our Creator has the most Holy Holy Holy, sense of humor! :D

Soooo valuable

A clear presentation on the responsibility the reprobate takes for his own destiny, while God validates His sovereign mercy.

@kg4st

3 жыл бұрын

Hi.. it would seem to me, according to this teaching, that no one is responsible for their own destiny, redeemed or reprobate. Had God not made his election, all would go the way of reprobation. For He has made the choice of belief for the believer, even against human will. Maybe I'm just not completely understanding this teaching.

RC, thank you for the best explanation of predestination, i am hoping one day we will meet in heaven, i will shake your hand and will say. "Thank you"

@redeemedthroughchrist878

4 жыл бұрын

All glory to God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ for sanctifying him in the Holy Ghost by grace through faith. We are but wretched sinners saved by grace through faith and repentance for remission of sins in the Lord Jesus Christ, imputed righteousness and merits!

@williamhenderson191

3 жыл бұрын

You will meet him and every believer because they're will be an eternity to do so. 👍😀 ✝ 🙏🙇

@judylloyd7901

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamhenderson191 there * 😊

@huntsman528

Жыл бұрын

He may be of a different soteriological view once you get there.

@coffeeaka5569

Жыл бұрын

Heaven no hand,arms ,shoulder and leg

i have enjoyed your teachings and would love to come to one of your meetings ......i kinda feel like these people that you are teaching may be the people i should be around .....instead of those that i have been around for 48 yrs that strongly condemn that GOD has done all and is all.....it's always been Mike " you did this or that " always that i have been at fault or the problem .....my believe my SPIRIT has been leading me to someone like br. Sproul....

@jessethomas3979

2 жыл бұрын

I hate to inform you that this is really old and Dr. Sproul has gone to be with the Lord

@mikeburton1703

2 жыл бұрын

@@jessethomas3979 you know i found that out -- i thank you for informing me....i guess i can learn from him and his video's

„Let no man say when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempteth no man: but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.“ ‭‭James‬ ‭1 : 13-15‬ ‭ASV‬‬

Let's all Chew on this Christians here in Manila. Let God be God!

Woooow the end was so good

@barbarafriedenberger6205

2 жыл бұрын

The whole video is awesome..

Awesome truths thanks

Excellent teaching, which has helped my understanding of differing views to come into more lucid focus. What Dr. Sproul speaks of as positive/negative of God's action (or inaction for negative), in the hardening of Pharaoh's heart, I think can also be applied to 2 Thess. 2:11. "And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie..." Perhaps God will simply remove His restraint of evil (after all this is an eschatological verse), allowing reprobate minds to be further blinded by the enemy, rather than directly by God. And yet all He allows is by Him for He is sovereign. I am uncertain as to whether or not I expressed my thought well enough here, but there it is. Blessings.

@DVL327

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, I believe you expressed your thought masterfully.

@kurtweiand7086

9 ай бұрын

I 👍 agree!

Thank you!! 2 John 1:6. KJB ☝️😇

Far out I think I'm a calvinist now. God is Sovereign.

This man speaks the absolute truth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

@ronaldm.6150

8 ай бұрын

no, he does not

Hallelujah October 10 2011 hallelujah Amen

God bless him I know hes with the Lord. Helped me reform my faith, pointed me to Jonathan Edward's sinners In the hands of an angry God

@uncasunga1800

Жыл бұрын

Yes God only likes him because of you hahahahahahaha Millennial single digit iq narcissists

Concluded all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all!

@bobbyadkins6983

11 ай бұрын

Amen! Jesus died for ALL!

I agree almost with everything what R.C. teaches. There is one thought though in my mind: I was nat given a chance at my birth to choose between evil and good. I was born with the stigma of sin and death only because some thousands years ago Adam did sin. So, granted, I deserve justice because of my fallen nature. The problem is - I was never asked if I embrace the fallen nature. So it means I take the fall for someone else's sin unless God offers me a hand.

@timboskia

6 жыл бұрын

Just as we all sinned being IN ADAM, we are justified being IN CHRIST in his death and resurrection.

@barbarafriedenberger6205

2 жыл бұрын

If your Born from above..

@LOT116

2 жыл бұрын

@yousuf nairang it is not enough to say “I don’t agree with him” to meaningfully rebuke someone. His argument is based on the teachings of the Scripture. If you want to rebuke him, you have to prove at least that his argument is faulty…

@justinmadison513

Жыл бұрын

You say "it means I take the fall for someone else's sin" as if to say you've never committed sin before. If you've sinned at all, you deserve eternal damnation in hell, apart from the redeeming grace of Christ. And all people are born sinning.

@L.Fontein7

Жыл бұрын

@@justinmadison513 I think that's what the poster was saying here...'why should Adam's sin be imputed upon him to begin with'...as he the poster, thinks it's unfair he had no say-so in the matter. Anyway, I think that's what he's trying to say.

In him.

One verse that jumps out at me that further back RC's point is God's statement about Pharaoh... "for this cause have I raised thee up" Exodus 9:16 (KJV) And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth. Proving God made it happen and he is not bring responsive but is responsible for it.

amen. whew.

Justice is meted out to everyone. For those outside of Christ it is received directly, for those in Christ it is vicariously done to Christ on our behalf. The just dying for the unjust, our sins imputed to Christ and God's wrath being poured out onto Christ in our stead and Christ's Righteousness being imputed to us for whom Christ died. In every case, God's justice is satisfied. Propitiation is about the satisfaction of God's wrath against us. Christ is the Propitiation for our sins. "God made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that we might become the Righteousness of God in Him" (II Corinthians 5:21).

There is one important verse that talks about elect based on foreknowledge 1 Peter 1:2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace be multiplied.

@jessupsmith656

9 жыл бұрын

JD Ks

@uwekonnigsstaddt524

8 жыл бұрын

+Theology Matters God and God alone exist in the eternal state. He can see past, present, and future, at the "same time" from His eternal perspective. God cannot "learn" from the future. His redemption plan will not fail.

@uwekonnigsstaddt524

8 жыл бұрын

Faith is a GIFT from God. Without it, man cannot believe. God does the saving. All glory to Him.

@motica100

7 жыл бұрын

God bless Dr. R. C. Sproul and ligonier for preaching the truth of the Bible!

@RonBozich

6 жыл бұрын

bible4truth, what do you mean by "false bibles"? Do you have accounting for only one true bible? I suspect I am coming into the presence of a kjv-only follower by submittal of your kjv reference.... I believe much of what you say, but I am troubled by what appears to be your charge of translations that were assembled by theologians and historians who are fully dedicated believers in Yashua Ha Mashiach. I have an affection for His name within the language God chose to reveal Himself... Shalom!

“So they said, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved, you and your household.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭16‬:‭31‬ ‭

How then do we make our call and election sure?

I’m having trouble squaring his comments on Romans 9 with 1 Timothy 2:4. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?

2 Peter 3:9 King James Version (KJV) 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

@joeiiiful

4 жыл бұрын

Text out of context is a pretext for a proof text. Who is the letter written to? Who is the "us"? If you are trying to refute the teaching with this verse you struck out. Learn the science of hermeneutics please.

@feastwchopsticks2816

Жыл бұрын

​@@joeiiiful first of all, you need to learn to show love to your brothers and sisters. This response was very egotistical. Secondly the verse sais that ALL, again ALL should come to repentance. This teaching contradicts the Bible itself. So to you I will say learn the Bible. Nothing out of context about ALL.

@tonydelicati4203

6 ай бұрын

Amen. Calvinism is wicked and I'm in no hurry to call any teacher who promoted a false jesus and gospel as brother.

This makes perfect sense ... until I read all those verses about what we must do to believe. And all the other verses about what we must do to keep the faith that we believe ("IF" you...!"). I have had this settled after hearing Timothy Keller say the analogy: "The door of salvation has written over the top, "Whosoever believes," but after you walk through, you look back, and over the other side of the door is written, "You didn't choose me, but I chose you." That made it seem like it WAS both God and man (though God is more free, to choose). Now, I don't know if I will ever understand it. However, I like what Paul Washer said: "It's better to have it and not know what to call it, than to know what to call it and not have it." I pray I have His Spirit -- His unbreakable seal upon my heart. Though it has been very hard, even after I first believed.

@User_at_777

2 жыл бұрын

John 10:27-28 KJV *My sheep hear my voice,* and I know them, *and they follow me:* [28] And *I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.*

@lilacDaisy111

2 жыл бұрын

@@User_at_777 Thank you, SB! I was just reading this morning John 1 to 7, which is all over that same topic! I'm starting to see the reason why the book of John is so often recommended to new believers. That, and how it so plainly shows Jesus as God.

@uncasunga1800

Жыл бұрын

Obviously your biggest is you just want the rewards you think you will get from him not HE Himself. You must be Born again born of the Spirit born from Above. His Spirit was prophesied by all the prophets to Convict us of sin, guide us into all truth and make us concerned to follow all His Torah: Law. You need to spend time with Him in His word and in forsaking all worldly concerns. 🤷 There is no methodology we can use to manipulate favor rewards or an audience with Him. If you believe He has chosen you then Trust Him place your faith in Him. If you do not know then you desperately need to read and seek Him. In accordance with the Law and the prophets you will find Him when you seek HIM, not your imagination of who you want Him to be: with all your heart mind and will. He is the only antidote only solution only remedy only cure. But do you know how sick you are?

@lilacDaisy111

Жыл бұрын

@@uncasunga1800 I don't know what you read about my life in that comment I left, but I'm desperately sick! I have no hope but Jesus -- no merit or charms to employ, to earn anything good. Mankind is 100% hopeless without him. How intensely we need him, yet how intensely we want to be our own god and own saviour.

Calvinists want to say that God foreordains whatsoever comes to pass, but in the very next breath, they want to say, “Ah yes, but he did not foreordain that Mr Smith would commit a particular sin at 5:30pm on 3 November 2023.” Well, they can’t have it both ways. If Mr Smith is just left to do his own thing, how can it be said that God predetermines that thing?

I highly recommend that you read Adam Clarke's commentary on Romans 9.

How is “letting go” of Pharoah’s heart passive or different than the alternative stated?

How does this be in harmony with the great commission?

Was this filmed back in Ligonier, Pennsylvania?

Anyone know if there is a transcript of this lecture?

@harnun645

5 жыл бұрын

Chosen by God, by RC Sproul

Rest upon a human choice…You mean a human choice like Adam and Eve made? It does rest upon a human choice to whether to believe or not. What could be clearer in Scripture?! But that God does the believing for me is not belief. But that God does the loving for me is not love. But that God does the choosing for me is not choice. And that is what this comes to. Calvinism is determinism. It changes God, it changes man, and it changes the Gospel. In this specific passage, the central mistake I believe Sproul ( and I grew up listening to Sproul and reading his books - fantastic teacher) makes in in conflating the election of Israel with the election of believers.

So I have a question about this if I had the desire to be saved does that mean Gods working in me or even if I have a desire I could just want to be saved but I won’t because I’m not predestined. I’m not saying this is wrong.

Genesis 25:23 two nations are in thy womb

@landonsmith348

5 жыл бұрын

does Paul not demonstrate here that the election of the nations is done by God's electing of individuals here??

@theologian1456

4 жыл бұрын

I think it's simpler than that. Each time Moses went to pharaoh with God's command, pharaoh increases in his determination to not obey. So, when God tells Moses "go and tell pharaoh........... I will harden his heart", its the command itself that angers pharaoh and produces more and more resistance.

John 6 :64

God said He knew us before we were formed in our mother's womb.

Paul looked forward through time and adopted the Augustinian view of election. 😜

Philosophical blended with scripture.

I am having trouble understanding this. I understand this passage to be Paul explaining to the Jews that they are not all grandfathered in or saved just because they are descendants of Abraham. Isn’t he explaining to them that the gentiles can be saved because of faith- and that Israel is only saved because of faith as well? Please help!

@scarlettm8702

Жыл бұрын

@@augustoalfa01 thanks so much for replying and for the information!

@iacoponefurio1915

Жыл бұрын

@@scarlettm8702 Yes that's part of it. Eschatology comes into play as most amillennial do not accept a physical Israel which i believe. Most reject the formerly predominant premillennial physical kingdom of ISRAEL. I highly recommend Voddie Bauchams revelation series. It really helpes bring out the absolute necessity of the OT because YHVH ELOHIM ADONAI GOD is talking to all believers of every age. Because only they will listen and heed, by His grace and election. 1 is not a jew if he is 1 outwardly but the inside,is,what matters.

@iacoponefurio1915

Жыл бұрын

They are saved the same way absolutely.

@iacoponefurio1915

Жыл бұрын

@@augustoalfa01 Well YHVH made the first covenant with a people that were not a people. IF they follow his commands they will live by them. But man is inherently lawless due to hereditary original sin nature. They refused and he divorced them so He fulfills the 2nd covenant He planned or decided on all along, dependent only on Christ.

If you take the phrase, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated” as being literally about their individual election to salvation, and as representatives of every individual, then you cannot say that the reprobate are reprobated because of their own works that God foreknew. Because that very text says that God chose them before they had done anything good or evil, meaning Jacob was hated and therefore reprobated without regard to any foreknowledge of God. This means election to salvation and election to reprobation BOTH were done without regard to anything that they had done.

@sketchbook1

Жыл бұрын

Yet the Calvinist wants to have both their monergistic salvation and their synergistic damnation.

@iacoponefurio1915

Жыл бұрын

Space case Jacob was Loved As alwasy saying the exact opposite of what the bible says lol typical unbelievers

Okay. So if God steps back to let Pharaoh's heart be hardened by pharaoh's own desires and actions does he also step back to let Job's heart to cling to God and express his faith? And if that's the case is that not an argument for free will but within the bounds of God's sovereignty?

@eminem101904

Жыл бұрын

Job is wicked like pharaoh. If God stepped back, Jobs evil would pour out. Job was only righteous because God had mercy and created righteousness in him. Whenever God pulls away from someone, evil always erupts

@iacoponefurio1915

Жыл бұрын

@@eminem101904 Amen!

@iacoponefurio1915

Жыл бұрын

What a ridiculous strawman.

@iacoponefurio1915

Жыл бұрын

Definitely liked his own comment with 3 fake profiles haha what inane gibberish

@basedxrp

Жыл бұрын

@@eminem101904 i agree 💯

Fact: Only God is perfect. Fact: God is Just, so He must punish sin. To be love what is good means to hate that which corrupts what is good. Fact: God cannot create something that is equal to Him, therefore, all created beings are imperfect and have a "sinful nature". Fact: A lifetime of sinning and a rejection of Jesus Christ deserves the punishment of eternal Hell, because God's Hatred for sin is everlasting. However, the harshness of this punishment depends on the sinner. Satan will suffer unimaginably because He has been sinning since the beginning, whereas someone like the Rich Man still had his mental faculties and could even communicate with Abraham despite suffering. Fact: Those in Hell continue to sin and have no opportunity for forgiveness because they rejected the love of God. However, the interesting part starts here... Fact: Since all have sinned, God has the right to choose who He wishes to save. He does not have to show mercy, and He will not for some to display His Holiness. Fact: Anyone who asks God for mercy will receive it. God is faithful to His promises and cannot lie. Fact: But only those who have been born again by the Spirit of God will ever choose to ask for mercy. Those who don't have the Spirit cannot love God because they love their sin. They hate God because of their pride. Fact: Though we have been born again, that does not mean we are completely set free from the lusts of the flesh. God will sanctify us slowly, just as He explained to the Israelites that they had to multiply their numbers in the wilderness before they were ready to enter the promised land. In our flesh God is teaching us as His Father to know right from wrong, to learn to hate sin and put to death our sinful flesh in the same way that Jesus was refined and perfected through His suffering. Fact: If we don't have assurance of these things then Satan will eat us alive and we will fail to let the Spirit work in our lives. Satan wants us to doubt God and give up on Him, but we must never lose heart. God's love is unconditional.

@L.Fontein7

Жыл бұрын

No, not 'all created beings have a sin nature', only human beings.

I love his teaching. But in Romans eight, Paul said that those he four knew he also predestined. So the augustinian view of election is incorrect. For knowledge preceded election not afterward. To understand Paul's point, you have to read chapters 8 thru 11 in their entire context.

God will allow a lying spirit the have its way with the wicked and the hopelessly apostate. Also, The first Chapter of Romans tells us that people will be 'given over' to wickedness. You get your chance, you cast it aside, God shuts the door and no-one can open it. Those who mock God suffer a similar fate.

For salvation, we just need to follow the way they did it in Acts? They were baptized in water for the removal of sins and filled with the Holy Ghost. Acts 2:38! Here's why! The gospel is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4. If we are to follow him, we must do the same thing. Death= repentance, Burial = baptism, and resurrection = being filled and rising again from the dead and walking in the newness of life. That's what Acts 2:38 is. We must obey the gospel, 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9, in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that OBEY NOT THE GOSPEL of our Lord Jesus Christ... Matthew 7:21-23, Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that DOETH THE WILL OF MY FATHER which is in Heaven. St John 3:3-5, EXCEPT a man, be born of WATER AND OF THE SPIRIT, he cannot enter into the kingdom of GOD. We can't come up with our own gospel. Galatians 1:8-9, But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. Don't be cursed. One way for all people. Jews, Gentiles, and Samaritans. Our salvation has to match up with the scriptures and no scriptures on the subject can be taken away. Eternity is TOOO long to be WRONG! st, John 5:39, Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. The gospels show what Christ has done on the cross for us. The book of Acts shows us the beginning of Christ's Church and how to enter the Church, obeying Acts 2:38. The letters were written to the Church to show us how to behave now that we are born again into the Church. It's better to walk alone than to walk with a crowd going in the wrong direction. Are we supposed to follow the teachings of the apostles? Acts 2:42, And they continued steadfastly in the apostle's doctrines. Ephesians 2:20, We are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone. Don't get Titus 3:5 mixed up with James 2:14-26, about WORKS. One is a WORK of your OWN RIGHTEOUSNESS OR GOOD DEEDS and the other is a WORK OF FAITH. Titus 1:16, They profess that they know God; but in WORKS they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate. God bless you!

I agree with all but about the "hate" thing, for in Ps. 5.5 it declares that "He hates all who do evil". Why can't the Almighty hate what He doesn't love?

@adrianpasillas3832

4 жыл бұрын

Hate....to love LESS....

In the case of pharaoh God hardens his heart, i find no problem with this. We are just the creation of God and and He is free to do anything He wishes to His creations as illustrated by paul when he descrived God as the potter. We should never limit God's sovereinty or put God inside the box.

Jesus also said, The Son CAN do nothing by Himself; He CAN do only what He sees the Father doing" (John 5:19) The word "can" (δύναται) is the same word here that is in 6:44. If we interpret this and other hyperbolic sayings of Christ the way Mr. Sproul interprets John 6:44, what's to keep someone from thinking that Jesus was in the same helpless state as any depraved sinner?

I'm not sure if Rc talked about God predestined Pharaoh to make that choice. Doesn't that mean God is behind the sinful choice that Pharaoh made. I Know Scriptures say God cannot cause someone to do evil, I would like a good explanation so that I can give an answer to those who don't agree with Reformed theology

"He leaves them to themselves"... (Not everyone chooses God) Some people are worse than others (God takes His hands off the reprobate who refuses to turn to God)

If God predestined some to heaven and to hell then what was the purpose for the cross?Perhaps to make sure those he destined to heaven would make it there?I don't think so!!

Sproul is a Western reformed theologian! Consider the following from the Christian EAST! The MISSING DOCTRINE in the Protestant predestination debate is Eastern Biblical GRACE which is "God working in us" to enable ALL people to be free to receive or reject God's love! Philippians 2:12-13; Titus 2:11; 1 Timothy 2:3-6 The order is, Grace > Repentance/Faith > Life in Christ (regeneration) Jesus is truly God and truly man! The Bible is about the love of Jesus Christ for all! John 1:1, 14; 3:16; 1 John 4:8 It is by freely believing IN CHRIST by GRACE that we are chosen and elect IN Christ who is God's beloved Son and the only One chosen! Luke 9:35; Ephesians 4, 13; Romans 8:29 These riches in Christ are a result of our freely repenting and being faithful to Christ, which we can only do by the GRACE of God which is "God working in us!" 1 Corinthians 15:10 Apart from Jesus we can do nothing! John 15:5 But God loves His creation and all people and wants all to be saved! 1 Timothy 2:3-6 In love Jesus willingly died for all in order to raise from the dead to conquer death, sin, and the devil for all! This is Christus Victor! Hebrews 2:9, 2:14-15; 1 Corinthians 15:22; Colossians 1:20 God's loving Grace, which works in all who are dead in sin, enables ALL people to freely choose to love God and be saved! John 6:65; 12:32-33; Titus 2:11 But the choice to love God remains in all people! John 7:17; 11:35 The divine order is: 1) Enabling Grace for all! John 6:65; 12:32-33; Titus 2:11 2) Our freedom to repent and be faithful to Christ! Acts 17:30-31 3) Being united and made alive with Christ (regeneration)! John 20:31 What the Calvinist system does not have is God's Grace "working in us to enable us," to be free to choose to be in Christ! Philippians 2:12-13; John 6:65, 12:33-33; Titus 2:11 The Calvinist system cannot answer why Adam was created very good and created in God's image and likeness with a "mysterious free will" and Adam lived in a perfect environment and had the Spirit of God and yet Adam disobeyed God and fell from grace! Therefore, Christians can also fall from grace! Galatians 5:4 The Calvinist belief that God predestined most to go to hell, and that they are given no grace to freely believe is not the God of the Bible Who is Love! 1 John 4:8 God foreknew all those who would believe in His Son by God's Grace! God predestined them to be like Christ! Romans 8:28-30; Ephesians 1:4-5 God did not determine who would believe in Him and who would not! God’s foreknowledge does not cause man’s choices! To choose Christ and receive Christ's love for us will be Heaven. To reject Christ and Christ's love for us will be the experience of Hell! The predestined reprobates in the Calvinist system never have a chance to experience the love of God! This is injustice! John 3:16 Calvinists believe that in the atonement God the Father poured out wrath and damned and cut off God His Son on the cross! (See Sproul, McArthur, White, etc. sermons) This is a heresy condemned in the Ecumenical Councils because it splits the Eternal Holy Trinity! Christ died in order to raise from the dead and destroy death, sin, and the devil on behalf of us all! And now God commands everyone everywhere by the grace of God to repent! Acts 17:30-31; Romans 1:20

God has primary causality in saving and in hardening both. Man cannot resist this causality and they willfully do what God ordains.

@kevinbritton3993

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Remember that hardening is not an injustice, the reprobate deserve punishment.

@iacoponefurio1915

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Considering YHVH ELOHIM GOD invented every mans will and our entire being inside and out when there was nothing...

Scripture DOES say that God chooses according to His foreknowledge those who will be sanctified. 1 Peter 1:2 The “foreknowledge” is the “foreknowledge” of those who would love Him. Not the “works” the love. Because God works all things together for the good of those who LOVE HIM. A person who does not love God will never repent. They do not fell they have anything to repent of. God opens the eyes of people and draws them to Himself by way of truth. Believers have a love for the truth. Even when it is hard.

@sarahlynn4790

2 жыл бұрын

@KTTGHMTJWYCBLAC This is true. The two are not mutually exclusive, they are inclusive when speaking of God. God loving us first does not mean He forgoes His foreknowledge. Rather, God hates those who hate Him. They are objects of His wrath. He knows who they are before they are born. See Esau.... God hated him before he was born before he ever did anything.