The Trauma of Holiness: The Holiness of God with R.C. Sproul

An encounter with the holiness of God is always a traumatic experience. Throughout Scripture, when people encounter God, they tremble before Him. In this lesson, Dr. Sproul describes what happened to Isaiah in response to his vision and demonstrates how it fits within the biblical pattern of human reactions to the presence of God.
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  • @tjhoss6729
    @tjhoss672910 ай бұрын

    Thank you Jesus for R.C. Sproul and his ministry.❤

  • @MsMarilynP
    @MsMarilynP5 жыл бұрын

    What an understanding R.C. had in his relationship with God (exclamation point). I'm so thankful for the technology that allows me to continue to learn from this unusually gifted spokesman as God's ambassador.. Even though I've never met him, I miss him being on the earth. I can't wait to meet him in Heaven!

  • @robksmit

    @robksmit

    2 жыл бұрын

    Me too

  • @gjergjiproko1549

    @gjergjiproko1549

    2 жыл бұрын

    So fun!! That's what I think when I listen to R. C!! Can't wait to talk with him about all his preachings while in the presence of our Holly Beautiful Good God !!

  • @STAIND12300

    @STAIND12300

    2 жыл бұрын

    This is beautiful:) and i couldn't agree more!

  • @jeanjacket4238

    @jeanjacket4238

    Жыл бұрын

    Same I never met him but when I found out he died even though I didn’t know him before he died my heart was torn.

  • @The_Lord_has_it

    @The_Lord_has_it

    11 ай бұрын

    Me too. I'm 56 and just found out about RC two years ago and I live 20 minutes from Ligonier Pennsylvania!

  • @OhioCoastie94
    @OhioCoastie946 жыл бұрын

    We all need to be constantly reminded of our unholiness.

  • @Repentee

    @Repentee

    5 жыл бұрын

    ​@Richard Wolfe Indeed Richard Wolfe indeed.

  • @The_Lord_has_it

    @The_Lord_has_it

    11 ай бұрын

    With how the world has gotten, it's like all day, every day.

  • @jimijames7703

    @jimijames7703

    10 ай бұрын

    I think actuality what we need to be reminded of is HIS Holiness We are to keep our eyes on Him not ourselves

  • @JANAE-fi1ju

    @JANAE-fi1ju

    6 ай бұрын

    Yes I agree. Am also learning to understand my true position under Christ.

  • @AztecWench
    @AztecWench4 жыл бұрын

    "There is not one person in a thousand who understands the seriousness of not being perfect. Because the standard by which we will be judged ultimately is not a curve, but it will be the standard of God's perfection."

  • @seektruth7

    @seektruth7

    Жыл бұрын

    Wow.

  • @iacoponefurio1915

    @iacoponefurio1915

    Жыл бұрын

    Correction we have already been judged in such a way. That is why we were banished from the Tree of life to this place. John 3 18

  • @nobstompah4850

    @nobstompah4850

    Жыл бұрын

    @@iacoponefurio1915 that does not compare to the judgement after death.

  • @pampamcherry

    @pampamcherry

    Жыл бұрын

    TRUE

  • @Nurseandiw

    @Nurseandiw

    Жыл бұрын

    We are redeemed by the blood of the lamb. We will not be judged as the unsaved are.

  • @normanpelley
    @normanpelley6 жыл бұрын

    My man R.C. Love him. REST IN PEACE!

  • @rosemarymorin6702

    @rosemarymorin6702

    5 жыл бұрын

    Norman Pelley Why do you say rest in peace, has he passed away? Or just saying rest in God's peace . I had never heard of R C Sprout until yesterday on his own sermons. I had just seen him on group discussions as an one of the older persons in group.but this man really touched me with the sincerity of his words that came to me as if he was so sorrowful that there will be many lost and not be touched by his message. But God knows each one of our hearts and knows that Mr. RCSprouts heart is or was at the moment he delivered this message to us. We all need to rest in God's love and peace if we believe in his Son and abide in his word. Peace and love to all!!!!

  • @normiejeanj

    @normiejeanj

    4 жыл бұрын

    Rose Mary Morin He's with the Lord now. Within the past 2 years or so.

  • @jeanmilhollin5176
    @jeanmilhollin51766 жыл бұрын

    On my how beautiful is this man teaching us the Word of God

  • @PrenticeBoy1688

    @PrenticeBoy1688

    3 жыл бұрын

    Not very ... but he does proclaim the Word of God faithfully. He gives us short, plain looking chaps inspiration!

  • @jennimoon137

    @jennimoon137

    3 жыл бұрын

    Our generation is indebted to to this man. God saves a remnant.

  • @vergenepolk2670

    @vergenepolk2670

    3 жыл бұрын

    Words fail me in contemplation of this message. Thank God for a man who can articulate truth to such depth.

  • @ambercrombie789

    @ambercrombie789

    Жыл бұрын

    @@PrenticeBoy1688 I would note that he certainly does have "beautiful feet'.

  • @PrenticeBoy1688

    @PrenticeBoy1688

    Жыл бұрын

    @@ambercrombie789 I hope you're a chick...

  • @Yesica1993
    @Yesica1993 Жыл бұрын

    Our God is a consuming fire. He's terrifying. And yet, it's that same God, in Christ, to whom we must take refuge. He paid for & took the punishment for our sins that we deserved. It's mind boggling!

  • @iacoponefurio1915

    @iacoponefurio1915

    Жыл бұрын

    Amen

  • @iacoponefurio1915

    @iacoponefurio1915

    Жыл бұрын

    He paid the dowry for His bride. He will receive what He has paid for. Mind blowing indeed.

  • @syrildaforeman8379
    @syrildaforeman83797 жыл бұрын

    "The holiness of God is traumatic to unholy people."

  • @mikekulati7526

    @mikekulati7526

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@rebeccaj7164 very sad to hear that... You lack fundamental Christian doctrine. Once forgiven, always forgiven! Then there after 1Jn1:9 kicks in.... If you commit any transgression or your conscience condemns you for something you've done... Confess it and ask for forgiveness and he is faithful and just to forgive you. And cleans you from all unrighteousness...! Christian life is one of joy not sadness. Blessings.

  • @Minotaur-ey2lg

    @Minotaur-ey2lg

    3 жыл бұрын

    I would say the holiness of God is traumatic even to his own people. We may have holiness attributed to our account, but we are yet still unclean, and will remain so until our glorification. What I’m curious about is: Will we be able to look upon the face of God, even after our glorification, or is it still too powerful?

  • @vaughnlonganecker986

    @vaughnlonganecker986

    2 жыл бұрын

    We're all unholy people but only to the repentant is the holiness of God traumatic now, at the end of time is when the holiness of God will be traumatic to the unrepentant but a joy to those made holy by the Son.

  • @ronnywhite5602
    @ronnywhite56028 ай бұрын

    These sermons give me a deeper understanding of the God i will one day stand before. (2 Cor 5: 10). I am in awe and wonder of His holiness. The closer i am to God, the more i recognize my sinfulness and when i come to Him, i crumble before Him in reverant respect and a holy fear. Too many people only want to see Jesus as the humble carpenter from Nazareth. I was one of those at one time. So thankful that my prospective has changed. Thank you Holy Spirit for revealing this to me.

  • @andrewd2114
    @andrewd21143 жыл бұрын

    Wow honestly what a great sermon! How often we need to be reminded of God's Holiness and how utterly unholy we are, this reminds us of how utterly sweet God's forgiveness is, it reminds us of his incredible mercy on us as fallen man, and his incredible love and compassion! Praise be to God!

  • @reallivehumandrummer4438
    @reallivehumandrummer44385 жыл бұрын

    This may be his magnum opus. I encourage anyone to listen intently to the gospel being delivered here, meditating on it as if your very LIFE depended on how you respond to it because there is no doubt in my mind, it does.

  • @jennimoon137

    @jennimoon137

    3 жыл бұрын

    True repentance is very costly. It requires every aspect of our lives. Heart mind and strength.

  • @laniejuanitawhitehurst1624

    @laniejuanitawhitehurst1624

    2 жыл бұрын

    R C Sproul’s exposition on the HOLINESS OF GOD is generally, I believe, considered to be his magnum opus. A philosopher who became a great theologian and viewed philosophy as the handmaid of theology.

  • @seektruth7

    @seektruth7

    Жыл бұрын

    @@laniejuanitawhitehurst1624 agreed

  • @BraydenWolframe
    @BraydenWolframe3 жыл бұрын

    Amen Sproul. The Lord is beyond comparison, everlastingly holy. May we praise and honour His glorious great name forevermore. God bless you all.

  • @mercymercy331
    @mercymercy331 Жыл бұрын

    27:7 I love his expression and his innocence about the beauty of the confessional it’s so beautiful. This man is one of my favorites teachers of the word of God.👏💕 May God bless him!

  • @martinaa23122

    @martinaa23122

    3 ай бұрын

    This made me weep. It is everyone's longing.. Blessings 🙏🏼

  • @billy8065
    @billy80655 жыл бұрын

    i never seen that holy spectrum of holyness of God but i did felt more than once the piercing fire of holyness upon my very soul and just to cry and cry was my ultimate response at those wonderfull and unforgetable marked moments in my life.

  • @lintonbrowne7157
    @lintonbrowne71576 жыл бұрын

    Our God is Absolutely Holy Holy Holy , We cannot even begin to understand His Holynes , how can we ? We are sinful mortal, Our intelligence was damage by sin. Even. a regenerated man like Isaiah says Woe is Me. When God open our eyes to see true Holyness , it reduce us to nothing, so humbling ,why do we judge and. Insult each other, thank God for Jesus's gift of Himself. Fucus on God and God Alone. Amen.

  • @katielee4892
    @katielee48922 жыл бұрын

    Wow! We really have no comprehension of God's holiness. If we did, we would not fear the patheitc things on this fallen earth because our fear of God would far outweigh anything at all.

  • @jodyel
    @jodyel5 ай бұрын

    Powerful sermon that made me weep. This man's understanding of God is amazing to me. Thank God I discovered his preaching.

  • @joshuahussainmusic
    @joshuahussainmusic4 жыл бұрын

    This is wonderful. Thank you Ligonier Ministries for sharing this.

  • @danabalanmurthy3094
    @danabalanmurthy3094 Жыл бұрын

    Who ever has done this translation in Tamil, has done a good job of this beautiful message of Dr.Sproul . Thank you and God bless you.

  • @TheVCRTimeMachine
    @TheVCRTimeMachine10 ай бұрын

    If we would all encounter God in his holiness, how different our worship services would be and different we would conduct ourselves with our neighbors

  • @revdouglasmoore3927
    @revdouglasmoore392711 ай бұрын

    Dr. Sproul was a powerful preacher, teacher, and author. I thank GOD for his ministry. 🙏🏾

  • @reallivehumandrummer4438
    @reallivehumandrummer44385 жыл бұрын

    The part of "modern psycho analysis" was quite insightful.

  • @tmaddrummer
    @tmaddrummer5 жыл бұрын

    Jesus, I Trust in You! Hallelujah!!!

  • @88momart
    @88momart9 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful series. Soul elevating.+

  • @tymurphy8564
    @tymurphy8564Күн бұрын

    Incredible sermon od great importance.

  • @edwinrivera5377
    @edwinrivera5377 Жыл бұрын

    HOW AWESOME IS CHRIST

  • @janet183
    @janet1833 жыл бұрын

    How beautiful in the Mountain are the feet of those that bring Good News ....Understanding the holiness of God and his righteousness nature, truly is trauma to the Ungodly....and a realization of the Nature of the deprived man rebellious and running 🏃 away from God...but because of his Grace and Mercy those he predestined he called and those he called he justified and those he justified he also glorified.. Thanks be to God, for his begotten Son that however believes in him will not perish but have everlasting life..it is cause of the atoning work of Christ on the Cross that we are declared righteousness by faith in Him. Abiding in the word of God is a true believers sanctification process and we are being transformed into the image of his Son ..love R.C Sproul a bond servant of Christ that has gone to be with Christ..he was a blessing from God and is still contributing to the spiritual growth of many and to the kingdom, he’s reward will be great 👍🏾...I’m for expository preachers men that understand the Sovereign Grace of God and his nature and are able to preach in Truth and Love.He is righteous and those that practice righteousness are born of God. So grateful for his Sermons and Sound doctrines.....he was truly a faithful man of God .

  • @williamwalls9768
    @williamwalls97686 ай бұрын

    Praise God almighty for your servant mr.sproul

  • @saschaspring2198
    @saschaspring21983 жыл бұрын

    Perfectly delivered message of vital importance...

  • @SylvanAB-HVGB
    @SylvanAB-HVGB2 жыл бұрын

    Very powerful, convicting, and redemptive.

  • @jazz77T
    @jazz77T Жыл бұрын

    Phenomenal sermon with such conviction...

  • @juliaheisey8589
    @juliaheisey8589 Жыл бұрын

    Wow that was so good. He was truly gifted.

  • @jeromegrzelak8236
    @jeromegrzelak82367 жыл бұрын

    A true man of god

  • @lynnmcintosh
    @lynnmcintosh Жыл бұрын

    I learned a lot from this sermon. Thank you for providing it.

  • @bcad6099
    @bcad6099 Жыл бұрын

    That was a journey of painful self reflection relieved by the beautiful gospel of grace.

  • @candybanks8717
    @candybanks8717Ай бұрын

    This may have been the most important theological presentation in the last 100 years. The impact of this one lesson, taught to a room of maybe thirty people, would go on to have a transcendent impact on the future ministry of John MacArthur (and all the battles for the faith they waged together in the future), Paul Washer, Voddie Baucham, Steve Lawson, Tim Conway, and hosts and hosts of others. What the LORD accomplishes through His frail servants staggers the mind. It was MacArthur's sermon, "The Forgotten Side of God" where my faith cast its anchor, (Tim Conway's as well, incidentally). When he read verse 7, of Isaiah 6, I didn't hear the rest of the sermon. It was ME who was undone. After 20 minutes of uncontrollable, loud, gasping sobs, I was free and the burden of my sins had been nailed to the cross of Christ, and I bore it no more, and the first thing the Holy Spirit changed, wouldn't ya know it, was my mouth! Praise our King for His unspeakable Grace!

  • @andreastruble
    @andreastruble Жыл бұрын

    touchdown, thank you

  • @grampyguy6389
    @grampyguy63894 жыл бұрын

    Excellent ♥️

  • @jennamirgholi4849
    @jennamirgholi48497 жыл бұрын

    awsome.

  • @jody2873
    @jody2873 Жыл бұрын

    YIKES... That's just plain good! 👍

  • @billy8065
    @billy80655 жыл бұрын

    deepest more than thousands oceans, unlimited and beyond any clear comprenhesion,

  • @GodnMe
    @GodnMe Жыл бұрын

    TY

  • @bkpascalkim
    @bkpascalkim8 жыл бұрын

    amen

  • @CoramDeo1977
    @CoramDeo19772 жыл бұрын

    Wow.

  • @shirleywong4333
    @shirleywong43333 жыл бұрын

    Please 🙏 for my children and I

  • @kimathi_w

    @kimathi_w

    2 жыл бұрын

    I pray for you and your children. I pray for favour in everything you do and I pray that the Lord would show His face upon your family

  • @laniejuanitawhitehurst1624
    @laniejuanitawhitehurst16242 жыл бұрын

    Natural Man believes himself to be good enough within his own self.

  • @iacoponefurio1915

    @iacoponefurio1915

    Жыл бұрын

    In spite of the evidence of every single action in every single person in every single age. Blinded indeed

  • @13g95
    @13g956 ай бұрын

    A Omnipresent being can't be bound by time or space 🌌🚀 armies in heaven remember 🪖👑

  • @JoseSanchez0795
    @JoseSanchez07957 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤

  • @mthuthuzeli1451
    @mthuthuzeli14512 жыл бұрын

    27:50 ❤

  • @13g95
    @13g956 ай бұрын

    5:00pm

  • @billy8065
    @billy80655 жыл бұрын

    as long as we allow God the wheel of our behaviour we are all under a real sinful nature that is well manifested in public and as well in secret .

  • @theologymatters2479
    @theologymatters24797 жыл бұрын

    he looks much younger. but other than that this is amazing

  • @denniscampbell242

    @denniscampbell242

    7 жыл бұрын

    Well, he is much younger. R.C. was a handsome man.

  • @thethikboy
    @thethikboy7 жыл бұрын

    Scary - no -- terrifying -

  • @billy8065
    @billy80655 жыл бұрын

    the mention of the word holy is not numerical limited , the angelical creatures claim holy , holy , holy UNCEASANGLY

  • @rayma66

    @rayma66

    5 жыл бұрын

    That makes it more profound because the more something is repeated, the more important it is.

  • @judithmargret5972

    @judithmargret5972

    3 жыл бұрын

    In Jewish culture it was customary to repeat something 3 times in order to affirm the strength of the truth of the statement. Trihagion is a word that refers to the repetition of the word holy, meaning God's predominant nature is holiness.

  • @banilacoapieu2256
    @banilacoapieu22563 жыл бұрын

    Love sermons better that actually quote the Word of God verbatim and where; not just as mentioned or assumed that everyone listening already knows.

  • @michaelart4878
    @michaelart48782 ай бұрын

    💘

  • @karintolbert5805
    @karintolbert58055 жыл бұрын

    Is he saying woe and wheel?

  • @alexsun5668

    @alexsun5668

    4 жыл бұрын

    woe and weal*

  • @lindacowles756

    @lindacowles756

    Жыл бұрын

    "woe and weal", as in wealth

  • @lesterpace5625
    @lesterpace5625 Жыл бұрын

    Things leak.

  • @mariapower8026
    @mariapower80269 жыл бұрын

    Challanging

  • @13g95
    @13g956 ай бұрын

    Space Force 🪖🚀🌌💎✍️👑

  • @JayWC3333
    @JayWC33335 жыл бұрын

    My church is protestant, but we have the ability to talk to our elder (the local shepherd) and confess sins. We're supposed to confess our sins one to another... Too bad R.C. couldn't have attended our church.

  • @mikekulati7526

    @mikekulati7526

    3 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you... It's like he said... The outcome of the reformation has been to throw out the baby with the bath water when it came to this biblical teaching... 2 Cor.7:1 the kjv has cleans, which should be confess, and be cleansed. Js. 5:16. Pr. 28:11. All these and more are about confession in order to be corrected, instructed in righteousness. 2Tim.3:16. Not only by preaching, but by private counseling also.

  • @irishslave51

    @irishslave51

    Жыл бұрын

    It's (faults), not sins... Only the KING can forgive sin..

  • @iacoponefurio1915

    @iacoponefurio1915

    Жыл бұрын

    Weirdos hahahahahahaha

  • @iacoponefurio1915

    @iacoponefurio1915

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah too bad 1 of the greatest most influential bible teachers of the 20th century didnt stay blind and enslaved to 70 year old pedophiles.

  • @MizRuthie

    @MizRuthie

    6 ай бұрын

    How does one confess a sin they forgot they did?

  • @irishslave51
    @irishslave51 Жыл бұрын

    How did God appear to Isaiah? INTRODUCTION: Isaiah faced a crisis when his beloved sovereign, king Uzziah, died. But that same year God appeared to him in one of the most amazing visions in the Bible. Isaiah saw the Lord in His holiness and glory. But that made Isaiah realize his own weakness and wickedness. Sproul was wrong on that point.. Isaiah was in (vision) seeing the LORD'S train fill the temple...

  • @13g95
    @13g956 ай бұрын

    GOD is not bound by space or time a duh

  • @norbertjendruschj9121
    @norbertjendruschj91212 жыл бұрын

    So Mr. Sproul suggests a sado-macho relation between men and god? Well, you always get the god you have shaped for yourself. If you prefer to regard yourself as worthless ...

  • @doriesse824

    @doriesse824

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes! It's the kindness of God that leads to repentance, not the ferocity.

  • @norbertjendruschj9121

    @norbertjendruschj9121

    Жыл бұрын

    @@doriesse824 God is a product of your phantasy. Phantasies are neither kind nor ferocious, they are imaginary.

  • @Yesica1993

    @Yesica1993

    Жыл бұрын

    Which statement in this video did you disagree with, and upon what basis? Give the time stamp.

  • @norbertjendruschj9121

    @norbertjendruschj9121

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Yesica1993 You have a very slow learning curve, Yesica1993.

  • @norbertjendruschj9121

    @norbertjendruschj9121

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Yesica1993 Homework for you: Watch the video and find the sections which show Sprouls deranged opinion of the god- man relationship. Don´forget the time stamp!