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| 642f40c | Before the Fall Adam was endowed with two possibilities: He had the ability to sin and the ability not to sin. After the Fall Adam had the ability to sin and the inability to not sin. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 22443a1 | Lo que hizo Judas fue totalmente malo, pero cuando Dios ordena todas las cosas que suceden, el no solo ordena los fines sino tambien los medios para esos fines, y el actua a traves de todas las cosas para llevar a cabo su justo proposito. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 534752d | Puesto que no tenemos el poder de ser en nosotros mismos, no durariamos ni un segundo sin su poder sustentador. Eso es parte de la providencia de Dios. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 2faf980 | Since joy is a fruit of the Spirit, our sanctification is displayed not only by our love, peace, patience, kindness, and so forth, but by our joy | R.C. Sproul | ||
| debf248 | When we find ourselves depressed, down, irritated, annoyed, or otherwise unhappy, we need to return to the source of our joy, and then we will see those circumstances that are sapping our joy in perspective. The circumstances of this life will pale into insignificance when compared to that which we have received from God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| aff792b | Wonderland, Alice came to a fork in the road. Icy panic stung her as she stood frozen by indecision. She lifted her eyes toward heaven, looking for | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c0d1958 | Podemos estar seguros de que ser culpables de pecado no nos descalifica del privilegio de venir a la presencia de Dios. El salmista no esta hablando de cometer pecado, sino de permitirlo. Los puritanos hablaban del concepto de permitir el pecado. No es tanto la victoria sobre el pecado lo que tenemos que mirar como la batalla misma. Estamos en una batalla constante contra el pecado, y nunca resultamos ilesos. Una de las senales del verdader.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 1d84f39 | DIOS DISPUSO TODO PARA BIEN Hay una vieja y sencilla historia que ensena una profunda leccion: "Por falta de un clavo se perdio una herradura. Por falta de la herradura, se perdio un caballo. Por falta del caballo, se perdio el jinete. Por falta del jinete, se perdio un mensaje. Por falta del mensaje se perdio la batalla. Por falta de la batalla, se perdio el reino". ?Que habria ocurrido en la historia del mundo si Jacob no le hubiese dado .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 697d377 | In recent years, discussion has emerged on whether evangelism is even an appropriate enterprise of the church. Yet it seems unthinkable to me that a church should consider whether evangelism is an appropriate enterprise when it has the mandate of the authoritative command of the Lord and Head of the church. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8ba4fb4 | When strong unbelief is present, the church's vision, zeal, passion, and commitment for evangelism tend to decline. Who would be zealous about urging other people to believe something that they themselves do not believe? | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f10d1d5 | When sin is characterized as a crime, we see that Christ is the One Who actually comes under judgment in the drama of the atonement. He functions as the Substitute, the One Who stands in the place of the true criminals-you and me. Christ, then, is the One Who made satisfaction. By His work on the cross, He satisfied the demands of God's justice with regard to our debt, our state of enmity, and our crime. In light of the facts of God's justi.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 9e6f86d | To look at the church as an organization where the labor and ministry are done only by the ministers is to miss the entire point. The ministers' primary task is to equip the saints--the rank-and-file, the people in the pews. The ministry of the church belongs to the people of God who have been gifted by the Holy Spirit to carry it out. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e207a1d | on the hired man's face as he threw up his hands and replied, "It's the decisions in life that are difficult." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a6d960a | Too often, however, we "honor" God by creating our own law, making ourselves more pious than Him. God says, "Don't eat," and we say, "Don't touch." God says, "Give ten percent," and we say, "Give twenty percent." Like the Pharisees before us, we add to God's law, then expect Him to pat us on the back. This problem of seeking a piety greater than God's, however, gets no uglier than when we apply it to ourselves." | R.C. Sproul Jr. | ||
| 9bb7446 | What does God expect of His children who are married or thinking about getting married? God expects, among other things, faithfulness to the marriage partner, provision of mutual needs, and mutual respect under the lordship of Christ. Certainly the couple should enhance each other's effectiveness as Christians. If not, something is wrong. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b459539 | The doctrine of the Trinity teaches that God is one in essence and three in person, so He is one in one sense and three in another sense, and that does not violate the categories of rational thought or the law of non-contradiction. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a1297a8 | We see that God called the nation of Israel His vine. He planted and tended it, and He expected it to bear fruit to all nations (see Ps. 80; Isa. 5; Jer. 2:2 1). | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3cb8810 | road. Icy panic stung her as she stood frozen by indecision. She lifted her eyes toward heaven, looking for guidance. Her eyes did not find | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 625df6d | But the Holy Spirit is not simply an abstract force. He is a person who empowers the people of God for the Christian life. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 38fceed | God calls us to work, to plow, to plant, to read, to study, to prepare. We do all of these things, but He brings the growth. What does Paul say? "I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase" (1 Cor. 3:6)." -- | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 56493aa | On the other hand, it is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he have previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself. . . . So long as we do not look beyond the earth, we are quite pleased with our own righteousness, wisdom, and virtue; we address ourselves in the most flattering terms, and seem only less than demigods. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| e787eee | It is our privilege to bring the whole of our finite existence into the glory of His infinite presence. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 45cbf67 | Protestants are particularly vulnerable to this distortion. We seek refuge in our precious doctrine of justification by faith alone, forgetting that the very doctrine is to be a catalyst for the pursuit of righteousness and obedience to the preceptive will of God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 4a3508f | That's our tendency--take credit for the good, transfer blame for the evil. But Edwards understood that any good deed we do, any righteous choices that we make, are only because God is at work within us. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 7942422 | who were hypocrites. The image that we have of scribes and Pharisees from the New Testament period is that of unscrupulous, ruthless practitioners of religious deceit. We must bear in mind, however, that the Pharisees as a group were men historically committed to a very lofty level of righteous | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ff3dc2d | The Apostle Paul frequently admonishes and instructs Christians not to be quarrelsome, divisive, or combative. He extols the virtues of patience, charity, and tolerance. Yet when it came to the gospel itself, this same apostle was uncompromising. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c31d0a8 | The chief difference between the believer and the unbeliever is forgiveness. The only thing that qualifies a person to be a minister in the name of Christ is that that person has experienced forgiveness and wants to tell of it to others. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8091148 | Nature is imitated by our discoveries, but she has known much more than we have yet discovered. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| abba4bd | The most obvious alternative to abortion is to put the baby up for adoption. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| d660a79 | Feminists need to ask why the "sexist" establishment supports abortion. It may be that abortion enhances the male's freedom to exploit by sparing him from the worry ofpaternity. -Bill Crouse" | R.C. Sproul | ||
| cd9789b | Indeed, as others have said, the most dangerous place in the United States for a human being is inside the womb of a woman. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| a870015 | Yet I believe we are in the midst of a new and more evil holocaust, which sees the destruction of 1.5 million unborn babies every year in the United States alone. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ccae42e | The medical community has the greatest financial vested interest in abortion, which has become at least a billion-dollar business. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 8bc7f20 | The doctrine of inspiration declares that God enabled the human writers of Scripture to be agents of divine revelation, so that what they wrote was not only their writing but in a higher sense the very Word of God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| f860559 | The inspiration of the Bible refers then to the divine superintendence of Scripture, preserving it from the intrusion of human error. It refers to God's preserving his Word through the words of human authors. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| b609e89 | When we say the Bible is infallible in its origin, we are merely ascribing its origin to a God who is infallible. This is not to say that the biblical writers were intrinsically or in themselves infallible. They were human beings who, like other humans, proved the axiom Errare humanum est, "To err is human." It is precisely because humans are given to error that, for the Bible to be the Word of God, its human authors required assistance in .. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| c07584c | Sin is not simply making bad choices or mistakes. Sin is having the desire in our hearts to do the will of the enemy of God. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 3ae6119 | Let us examine briefly a formula that has had some currency in our day: "The Bible is the Word of God, which errs." Now let us expunge some of these words. Remove "The Bible is," so that the formula reads: "The Word of God, which errs." Now erase "The Word of" and "which." The result is "God errs." To say the Bible is the Word of God that errs is clearly to indulge in impious doublespeak. If it is the Word of God, it does not err. If it err.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5d66320 | He is the author of more than sixty books, including The Holiness of God, Chosen by God, The Invisible Hand, Faith Alone, A Taste of Heaven, Truths We Confess, The Truth of the Cross, and The Prayer of the Lord. He also served as general editor of The Reformation Study Bible and | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 85ca3c5 | Jesus was different. He possessed an awesome otherness. Lle was the supreme mysterious stranger. He made people uncomfortable. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| bada332 | Several recent books would have us believe that all we have to do is follow certain steps and God will give us whatever we ask. The authors say, in effect, "Follow this procedure or use these specific words and know for certain that God will give in to your requests." That's not prayer; that's magic. That's not faith but superstition. These are gimmicks intended to manipulate the sovereign God." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 5be64f2 | Jesus went on, "Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit He takes away; and every branch that bears fruit He prunes, that it may bear more fruit" (v. 2). This verse sets forth a major emphasis on the relationship of the believer to Christ. Jesus' exhortation throughout this portion of His discourse is that, as Christians, as His disciples, we are to be fruitful. That is, we are to be productive." | R.C. Sproul | ||
| ae39bee | What is a sensuous Christian? One dictionary defines sensuous as, "pertaining to the senses or sensible objects: highly susceptible to influence through the senses." The sensuous Christian is one who lives by his feelings rather than through his understanding of the Word of God. The sensuous Christian cannot be moved to service, prayer or study unless he "feels like it." His Christian life is only as effective as the intensity of present fe.. | R.C. Sproul | ||
| 38e43fb | So I don't fear death, but if you ask me about dying, that's another matter. If I could just close my eyes and step across into heaven, that would be glory for me, but none of us knows the route we will take. It may be one that includes great affliction, pain, and suffering. But the travail will be for a moment compared with the other side. Though we may experience the pangs of terror as we consider the prospect of dying, death itself holds.. | R.C. Sproul |