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| 0ffee77 | Lake Mary, Florida. He also serves as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's in Sanford, Florida, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2ef911e | Dualism is on a collision course with Christianity. The Christian faith has no stock in dualism. Satan may be opposed to God, but he is by no means equal to God. Satan is a creature; God is the Creator. Satan is potent; God is omnipotent. Satan is knowledgeable and crafty; God is omniscient. Satan is localized in his presence; God is omnipresent. Satan is finite; God is infinite. The list could go on. But it is clear from Scripture that Sat.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e03e77d | So, Nietzsche said, "Life is meaningless, but have courage anyway." Jesus also called His people to be courageous in the face of difficulty, adversity, and hostility, but He did not call them to a groundless courage. As we know, Jesus told His disciples, "Take heart" (John 16:33), or, as some translations put it, "Be of good cheer." However, He did not simply tell them to take heart for the sake of taking heart. He gave them a reason why th.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9aa60bf | Only if we believe God can we maintain joy in the midst of hardship. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| cd741db | Where God is not respected, it is inevitable that His image-bearers will also suffer a loss of respect. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3836534 | What prayer most often changes is the wickedness and the hardness of our own hearts. That alone would be reason enough to pray, even if none of the other reasons were valid or true. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 25f6545 | We can take comfort from the fact that God knows our hearts and hears our unspoken petitions as well as the words that emanate from our lips. Whenever we are unable to express the deep feelings and emotions of our souls or when we are | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 13fc0c9 | One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 741a7f8 | Our divine vocation is not ultimately to suffering, but to a hope that triumphs over suffering. It is the hope of our future inheritance with Christ. This hope is no mere wish or idle longing of the soul. It is a hope that is rooted in the exceedingly great power of God. It is a hope that cannot fail. For those who embrace it, this hope will never bring shame or disappointment. The hope of eternal joy in the presence of Christ, a hope that .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a03ca4b | Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6f8fcdc | arrived, | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e994b9f | We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a731477 | We are debtors who cannot pay, yet we have been released from the threat of debtors' prison. It is an insult to God for us to withhold forgiveness and grace from those who ask us, while claiming to be forgiven and saved by grace ourselves. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e0cc0ef | All we who are human partake of the earthly nature of Adam. We are children of the dust. Our bodies suffer from all the weaknesses and frailties that belong to the earth. Our resurrected bodies will be tabernacles made in heaven. In the heavenly body, there will be no room for cancer or heart disease. The curse of the fall will be removed. We will be clothed after the image and likeness of the new Adam, the heavenly Man. Yes, there will sti.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 0ab611c | The body of Christ is a group of people who live daily in the context of forgiveness. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 61139eb | But Satan comes to believers, just as he came to Joshua the high priest in the book of Zechariah (Zech. 3:1-5), calling attention to our dirty garments and accusing us of our sins. Why does he do that? Why would Satan invest so much time and energy in accusing people who have been forgiven of their sins? As the archenemy of God and His church, Satan wants to paralyze us, to rob us of our freedom, to take away from us our joy and our delight.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ace6286 | When the Holy Spirit convicts us of sin, He does so to bring us to repentance and, ultimately, to bring us to reconciliation with God, to forgiveness, to healing, and to cleansing. In other words, when the Spirit of God convicts us of sin, His entire purpose and entire motive is redemptive. When Satan accuses us, perhaps of the same sin, his purpose is to destroy us. That's why Paul says: "Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8197688 | In short, no prayer of any human being ever uttered in history ever changed the mind of God in the slightest, because His mind doesn't ever need to be changed. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a314806 | the neglect of prayer is a major cause of stagnation in the Christian life. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2e84103 | The day of one's birth is a good day for the believer, but the day of death is the greatest day that a Christian can ever experience in this world because that is the day he goes home, the day he walks across the threshold, the day he enters the Father's house. That is the day of ultimate triumph for the Christian in this world, and yet it is a day we fear and a day that we postpone as long as we possibly can because we don't really believe.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 851a6aa | None of us saw the birth of Christ. We missed His dazzling display of miracles during His earthly ministry. Likewise, nobody alive today beheld Christ's agony on the cross. None of us was an eyewitness of His glorious resurrection and ascension into heaven. But no Christian will sleep through the second coming of Christ. Though we did not see His first coming, we all will be eyewitnesses of His return. The climax of the exaltation of Jesus .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5c42101 | The central issue of Christianity is the issue of justification. It faces the dilemma squarely. The only possible way for an unjust person to stand in the presence of a just and holy God is to be justified. If we remain unjustified, we die in our sins. The only way we can be justified is by the righteousness of Christ. He alone has the merit necessary to cover us. That righteousness is received by faith. If we trust in Christ, we are covere.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e1d2987 | Today a frightening lack of fear of God prevails in our world. Martin Luther once remarked that those around him spoke to God "as if He were a shoe clerk's apprentice." If that was true in Luther's day, how much more so today? Yet the top priority that Jesus established is that the name of God should be hallowed, honored, and exalted." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 01712d1 | three subsistences, with three distinct persons. They subsist within the being of God. THE SPIRIT'S PERSONAL NATURE The fact that the Holy Spirit is a person is seen in a multitude of ways in Scripture. One of the primary evidences is that the Bible repeatedly and consistently | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 69143e4 | pan nuestro de cada dia, danoslo hoy Dios provee para su pueblo. Merece la atencion que lo que aqui se pide es el pan diario, no el bistec diario o el costillar de primera calidad diario. Dios suple las necesidades, pero no siempre las exquisiteces. Observemos la experiencia de los israelitas luego de su liberacion de la tierra de Egipto. Dios le proveyo el pan al pueblo milagrosamente en forma de mana. ?Que sucedio entonces? Primero, ellos.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 45c6428 | when God ordains all things that come to pass, He ordains not only the ends but also the means to those ends, and He works through all things to bring about His righteous purpose. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 30fb3a5 | we can safely conclude that God ordained that Job's camels be stolen. That was God's providential plan. But God's purpose was to vindicate Job from the unrighteous accusations of Satan, as well as to vindicate His own holiness. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f43222c | La simple verdad es que si Dios nos perdona, estamos perdonados. Ese es un estado de cosas objetivo. Tal vez nuestros amigos no nos perdonen. Tal vez nuestro conyuge no nos perdone. Tal vez la sociedad no nos perdone. Tal vez el gobierno no nos perdone. Pero si Dios nos perdona, estamos perdonados. Eso no significa que nunca fuimos culpables. No podemos tener perdon si no hay una culpa real. Pero el perdon nos libera del castigo que con jus.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bb90fca | The call to repentance is a call to return, a call to go back home. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 6ab81e5 | against" or "instead of." In language, there is a difference, but in life, it is a distinction without a difference, because" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bb0445e | It is the task of the pastor and of the church to feed the sheep. If someone who is not a sheep comes in, that's fine, but we're not going to change the menu and give the sheep goats' food. Worship is for the sheep. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3ace352 | If I were the devil (please, no comment), one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible. Knowing that it is the Word of God, teaching people to know and love and serve the God of the Word, I should do all I could to surround it with the spiritual equivalent of pits, thorn hedges and traps, to frighten people off. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f3749df | The worship to which we are called in our renewed state is far too important to be left to personal preferences, whims, or marketing strategies. Pleasing God is at the heart of worship. Therefore, our worship must be informed at every point by the Word of God as we seek God's own instructions for worship that is pleasing to Him. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a7d8cd8 | As the psalmist prayed so many centuries ago, "If you, O Lord, should mark iniquities, O Lord, who could stand?" (Ps. 130:3). The answer is obvious: no one. The bad news is that the Lord does mark iniquities. The blessed person is the one to whom the Lord does not impute guilt. This is the core of the gospel." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1af1b76 | We often hear that people don't like to be in the presence of Christians because Christians manifest a smug, self-righteous attitude or a goody-two-shoes, holier-than-thou attitude. But this should not be the case. Christians have nothing to be smug about; we are not righteous people trying to correct the unrighteous. As one preacher said, "Evangelism is just one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 90ca517 | Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6) | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9962236 | If anyone says that a man once justified cannot lose grace and therefore that he who falls and sins never was truly justified, let him be accursed" (Council of Trent: 6/23)." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ec915d4 | Our preservation is a Trinitarian work. God the Father keeps and preserves us. God the Son intercedes for us. God the Holy Spirit indwells and assists us. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4cb441f | Very early in my tenure with St. Andrew's, I determined that I should adopt the ancient Christian practice of lectio continua, "continuous expositions," in my preaching. This method of preaching verse-by-verse through books of the Bible (rather than choosing a new topic each week) has been attested throughout church history as the one approach that ensures that believers hear the full counsel of God." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| da82481 | I am not satisfied to believe just anything simply for the sake of believing. If what I believe is not true--if it is superstitious or fallacious--I want to be liberated from it. But the mentality of our day seems to be that in matters of religion, truth is insignificant. We learn truth from science. We get good feelings from religion. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 33fa53e | The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b55ad12 | Contrario a estas declaraciones esta la ensenanza clara y biblica de la Confesion de Fe de Westminster: A los que Dios llama de una manera eficaz, tambien justifica gratuitamente, no infundiendo justicia en ellos sino perdonandolos sus pecados, y contando y aceptando sus personas como justas; no por algo obrado en ellos o hecho por ellos, sino solamente por causa de Cristo; no por imputarles la fe misma, ni el acto de creer, ni alguna otra .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 059da20 | What did the Messiah need to do in order to be the Lamb of God, in order to make an atonement for the people of Israel? We know that Jesus came to die for our sins, but why did He not simply come down from heaven on Good Friday, go to the cross, arise on Easter, and go back to heaven? It was because Christ's work on the cross was only half of His mission. In order for Jesus to die for our sins, it was first necessary for Him to fulfill the .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 51527a0 | Sound theology actually teaches the central importance of love and inclines us to love the God of the Scriptures and other people as well. | R.C. Sproul |