This man left us with such wealth of gospel truth that we may never get to the end of it. He wouldn't say it of himself so I will say it, RC Sproul was a giant of the faith worthy to be mentioned in the same breath along with Calvin, Edwards, Luther etc. I can't wait to meet him in glory.
He once said 'If there was ever a point at which nothing existed then nothing would ever exist. Not even God would exist because He would have to be before He was. That's a contradiction in terms.' R.C. Sproul had a brilliant mind.
Even Jesus was tempted by satan and Jesus rebuked Him with the Word of God on every level before He entered his Earthly ministry...satan is a real deceiver and prowls around like a roaring lion seeking those he will destroy. RC Sproul has now passed on and he was a brilliant teacher.. Thank you.
I just preached on this, Sunday 11 FEB 2024. I read Isaiah 14 3-23 and Ezekiel 28 11-19; making a particular point that in Jude, Michael didn’t try to oppose satan; rather states the Lord rebuke you. Thus is not to build satan up, but to show, he is the most powerful being God ever created, and we are no match for him without a firm relationship with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit. RC mentioned what they did in medieval times to make fun of satan. I would postulate the theory that satan had them do that to counter how people perceive the threat he is. Thus fulfilling the scripture that he deceived them as he would the elect if possible.
@@chernetayelelole2794 he is, and you’re right, a single angel backed by the power of God will lock him away. In Job chapter one, we find satan can kill, cause earthquakes, tornadoes, and illnesses. Else God would not have had to restrict him from killing Job. Satan is the most powerful being God created, but he is no match to the power of God. Even though with the war in heaven, and Michael with his angels prevailed over satan and his angels; in Jude, Michael alone deferred to the Lord to rebuke satan. The difference is, Michael knew and accepted that God empowered him to overcome satan, but he did not let that cause him to fall due to pride as satan had.
@@cassiem2528 your saying that I stated things I did not say that the other wrong person that replied to me. I never said satan was omni anything. What I said was straight from scripture concerning satan being the highest and most powerful being God created. Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 speak of his position and his fall Genesis 3 God Himself states satan will bruise the heel of Jesus, but Jesus will bruise satan’s head - he could never lest God allowed it, and He did allow it In Job - God turned everything over to satan except Job’s life, and as such he caused the great wind (tornado) that killed Job’s children Matthew 4, satan tempted Christ; yet every other encounter with a fallen angel / demon, they feared and trembled at the very presence of Christ Paul refers to satan as the god (little g) of this world Jude states there is contention between Michael and satan, and Michael defers to God to rebuke satan Revelation 12 when he drew a third of the angels to follow him in rebellion against God And in Job and Peter both we find satan roaming the earth seeking whom he can effect, because he is not Omni anything, he must transverse the earth himself or through his minions I’m sorry you all don’t like the scriptures that speak of God’s greatest created being, but God calls Lucifer / satan *the* anointed cherub, not just a cherub (which are the highest rank of angels) not just an anointed cherub, but the anointed cherub.
Even many church pastors who are saved and men of God can be, and in some cases, are decieved. If even the wisest pastor living today can be and has been blindsided by events, so can I, and I have been blindsided.
I found this very helpful. I remember a 1940s movie - Claude Rains played a judge & throughout movie Rains has a tiny devil w/ horns & pitchfork on 1 shoulder & angel on other both speaking w/ him-so Satan is seen as tiny. images like this trivialized his size to us. Jolted by Billy Graham comment as other poster below was. Assuredly RC did not mean that literally--but it may literally have been true. I read Billy Graham crusades sent Catholics who went forward back to Catholic churches & Jews who went forward back to synagogues. No wonder everybody liked him. Some information available about Billy Graham is quite troubling. I believe he meant well but was caught in a vise (perhaps a pun...). Sorry if name icon comes up 2x. Computer glitch we don't know how to fix.
I Peter 5:8 Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
Zephaniah 3:3 (talking about last day's Israel/Jerusalem) Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
Your comment could not possibly be more ignorant and wrong. You have only exposed your Biblically illiterate, blind, lost, deceived, and unsaved state. Repent!
This guy, and the god he preaches, orgasm at the thought of almost every single human ever created, being eternally punished and tortured. Tell me... who is the demon?
I know this was made long ago but as far as Billy Graham is concerned look at Dave Hunts on Billy Graham that too was some time ago [ both these men are now with the Lord] I believe Dave Hunt is correct on Billy Graham
satan only has the power that has been afforded to him. satan is weak, and had to grovel at God's holy feet, to even attack Job. In result, God has all the power, and all the glory, Amen.
God ordains whatever He wants and satan has to he given permission. The point of that is for 1. To give us the reader the illistration that the devil temps us but there are some...few.. who pass God's test 2. To show Job that his belief in God (despite even his own WIFE/Family telling him he was crazy) didn't go in vain. 3. To show satan that there are some that won't be easily fooled and that he isn't going to infiltrate everybody straight to hell.
Many preachers dramatize the sermons ,but they dont have a complete knowledge of Bible symbolic interpretation ,The Protestant Church are expecting Moses and Elijah, But we are not gonna see Moses or Elijah, We will hear the message of Moses and Elijah , Moses is the Law giver "10 commandments "" Elijah is the reformer " the Two prophets are giving a final message , Moses do not keep Sunday, Elijah also do not observe Sunday" get the message? Sunday keeping in end times will become a controversial political issue ( Sunday Law)(Mark of Roman Catholic Authority ) Beast means kingdom= Mark of the false Roman religion kingdom.
God is In the life changing business of truth. Therefore if any one is in Christ he is a new person. The old has gone & become new ( spiritual rebirth). The old has gone….,,,,,, 2 Corinthians 5:17
He knows how things would work out eventually independently of his standards but like mankind he is not a robot, like Jesus christ said about him "he did not stand fast in the truth". Instead of showing appreciation of what he had, he decided to test God's beautiful creation the first human couple, interestingly he targeted Eve not Adam 1Timothy 2 v 14
@@bowieupland6112 he is our creator, he has set the standards for our benefit Isaiah 48 v 17; he is greater than we are, Jesus christ also had no sin when he dwelled on earth. Sin is like a disease, it also effects the way we think, that's probably why you made that comment. God is trying to lead mankind to everlasting life right here on a restored crime free earth
@@RStark-ek7mh I have no problem backing up my words in front of God, because they are true. Some people like you, with "little minds", are unable to understand that the question of where evil comes from, is logically unanswerable. A few honest christians understand this, and will simply say that they do not know. I think like a Free Man, you think like a slave. PS: be very careful threatening others with eternal damnation. Most of your ilk, will wind up in the wrong place.
@@nigelmcculloch3746 I agree that sin is a disease. So why did God allow his innocent creation, who knew no better, to be poisoned by an evil creation of his, then holding us responsible for being deceived and born broken. If he and Jesus are sinless and unable to sin, like a "robot", why didn't he make us sinless too, instead of creating a system where almost everyone is eternally damned?
The core teaching of Jesus is simple, just two phrases: One must love God and love thy neighbours. Is it hard to remember this teaching? To love God is easy but many followers find it not easy to love thy neighbours. Loving thy neighbours is just like a camel trying to enter the hole of a needle! It is useless to love God if one does not love his neighbours. Neighbours are imcluding haters, enemies, lgbt, leaders, dictators, tyrant leaders etc.
Matthew 7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Acts 4:12 Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved. There's only one way to Heaven there are a million ways to Hell Leonard Ravenhill.
"Angel of Light" Sort of like what Jesus called the pharisees...."Whited sepulchres"The whole Jewish religious system in the 1st century fulfilled the role the the serpent!
Yet he taught Calvinism: Only an arbitrary pre-chosen elect will irresistibly turn to Christ & escape the clutches of Satan. No grace for the unelect. They have a divine decree of reprobation upon them & their fate was sealed in eternity past before they had done anything good or evil (per: an incorrect teaching of Romans mid-9)... so sad, causing doubt & fatalism in the body of Christ. "Some are doomed from the womb" John Calvin
With respect brother. God is eternal and not bound to linear time. He knows the end from the beginning. He cannot be constrained by the human concepts of free will and fairness. To suggest otherwise denies his sovreignty and makes him subject to the will of man. Its a paradox. Just like all great doctrines in the Bible.
@@stevemathew1453 No Calvinism makes it a paradox, conundrum & mystery. Scripture is true, not Calvinism. Calvin said "Some are doomed from the womb". No one in scripture is irresistibly regenerated & no one in scripture has a divine decree of reprobation upon them with no hope or opportunity of being reconciled to God thru Christ. Calvinists conflate God's sovereignty with absolute determinism. God's foreknowledge of all events does not make Him the causal agent of all events (see Jeremiah 19:5 for one of many examples)
I don't care about Arminianism or Calvinism or any "ism" for that matter. Let's just agree on the core doctrine of salvation by grace through faith. And don't get so triggered by these discussions. I watch videos from other points of view from teachers I don't agree with on all points of doctrine but I am not threatened by it. Remember to practice forebearance.
@@stevemathew1453 Ok, I will do what scripture says. I am not ok with "Some are Arbitrarily pre-chosen & some are Arbitrarily pre-damned...& the unelect don't get any grace. They have no hope of salvation.
The elect won't be deceived by Satan. THE REST OF THE WORLD WILL BE! There are two resurrections and those deceived by Satan WILL NOT PARTAKE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION! Revelation 13:8-18, Revelation 20:5.
What the church gets wrong, sproul also gets wrong.... satan was bound at the cross as described in Rev 20. He said,,, "now is the prince of this world cast out". Jesus defeated satan by going to the cross and becoming the lamb of God, taking our sins away. Demons are likewise easily cast out in His name and go into the pit as Legion said they would. They are currently all there. Foretold in the garden of Eden,,, You shall bruise his heel and He will bruise your head... ie out cold.
@dsheppard8492 - Exactly. "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." (Colossians 2:15) BSB
What are you saying? Christians believe in the writings of the Holy Bible. It tells us what we need to know about God and creation. It tells us that Jesus was God incarnate. That He came to reconcile us back to God as the mediator between God and man. God is Holy and sin cannot nor nothing unclean approach His presence without a cleansing, purification first. Jesus was the pure sacrifice . He took our sins upon Himself. He was the pure, innocent sacrifice. As an example. Think of some heavily guarded positions. Nothing nor anyone can approach that individual without first going through security.
@@mnp870 if u do any one of these things, then who told u to do it? Thus saith the Creator YAH in the Law and Prophets WRITTEN word for word does not tell anyone to do these things, but Eve in the Garden, decided to listen to, follow, believe, and obey some one other than Thus saith the Creator YAH, so who's voice are u choosing obedience to exactly? Give me a name please, Thx.
@shellyjones5556 Don't Lie on God, ok. Post a plain *(Thus saith the Creator YAH in the Law and Prophets WRITTEN word for word) where the Creator YAH Himself says with His Own Mouth these things, when did these things proceed directly out of the very Mouth of the Creator YAH? Book Chapter Verse, Thx.
THE GOAL OF EVERY CALVINIST The goal of every Calvinist like RC Sproul is to convince you that God does not love everybody! That God doesn’t want to save everybody! That God did not die on the cross for the sins of everybody! That they are the one in a million hand picked people God decided to save! They will be saved by their infant baptism. They will be born again before they believe. They will do good works all their lives to keep their salvation! There is no amount of sin they freely do that is big enough to take away their salvation! After all: The Calvinist god has made rules that he commands all of people to obey and not break. Then the Calvinist god forces people to break these laws. Then the Calvinist god judges people for breaking the very laws he forced them to commit. This glorifies the Calvinist god and shows his justice and love. But guess what? The Calvinist that preach this are not part of it! Reformed 5-Point Calvinists say to there faithful Calvinists, that they should be more grateful for their own salvation! It’s like, ‘as long as my eternal destiny is secure, as long as my life is all planned out and taken care of by God, who gives a damn about family, friends or anyone else!’ We are in and they are out. It’s a win, win, for us. Too bad, so sad, glad I am not like the un-elect! Truth in love
It's bizarre that RC believes 5 point Calvinism. 5 point Calvinism teaches God is completely sovereign. It teaches He is SO sovereign that God does not allow anyone or anything to make independent choices. It teaches God pulls everyone's strings. No one can choose anything?!? 😕 Well then, why preach? If people don't believe in the Devil.... it is because God made them NOT believe in the Devil. They cannot change their mind if 5 point Calvinism is true. It is a ludicrous religion. It makes no sense from the floor up. Such a brilliant man who wasted so many years preaching nonsense. We all choose every moment, every day to submit or reject our Savior.
@RStark-ek7mh - And none of them make any sense. I've heard them. I listened to him for years. It's a very unbiblical approach. It makes God guilty of sin. That's blasphemous. So when a child gets molested it's God's plan? God's fault? That's sick dude. When God tells us in His Word that we CAN choose.... that's pretty simple. That means we can choose. "I set before you life and death. Good and evil. Choose life." All these complaints about evil make no sense of God is pulling people's strings. There can be no repentance of God does not empower us to be able to turn. It's not a mystery like RC says it is. It's a mystery to those who twist God's Word to promote man made theology, Calvinism. Flush it. 💩
@RStark-ek7mh - Most people who spend time in God's Word know the principle of "firsts". If you want to know the definition or explanation of a word in the Bible you go to the first place it talks about the word. Isa 42:1 Jesus Christ is the Elect. If you are in The Word of God, living in it, by it, then you are in Christ. If you are in Christ, you are Elect. It's not random, arbitrary or mysterious. You are following Jesus. It's trusting Christ. If you're living in sin, you cannot possibly say you're trusting Christ. If you are living a life of repentance, you are trusting Christ. But that's impossible if you cannot make your own decisions, turn from your sin. Making God guilty of your sin is blasphemy. God does not pull your strings. God leads. Gala "Be ye led of the Spirit..." and you will not fulfill the will of the flesh. That's choice. Before or after you are saved, we have choices every moment, every day. That's the entire reason Jesus said "Follow Me." Otherwise He would've said "Don't even try to follow Me. I'm going to drag you in." Commandments always imply choice. One explanation makes 100% sense. The other is completely nonsense. Calvinism makes ZERO sense.
I read a lot of text about the Pharisees whose father is satan, such as “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees” Also the “revelation of Jesus Christ” has much teaching about the beast Also anything we know about satan has come from the scriptures which the scripture is the word of God that became flesh. Being in the trinity Jesus had a pretty big role in the inspiration of scripture Which speaks quite a bit about satan, the deceiver, that’s how we can know his name is Lucifer. So basically Jesus taught about him from genesis to revelation.
Jesus spoke and warned people the devil your adversary roams around like a hungry lion seeking someone to devour. Jesus warned people about the devil and the devil's tricks. Do not be deceived.
Why didn’t/doesn’t/wouldn’t Satan read scripture the way the world does and NOT do what is prophesied of him and make God and his word unreliable? It is impossible to believe that an angel of high order and his untold number of followers (“1/3rd of the heavenly angels” as taught) are too stupid to realize the simplicity of this ploy that would make God and his word unreliable. It is also impossible to believe that God would risk his sovereignty on the whiles of an emotionally and/or mentally unstable being. It is impossible for Satan to be a fallen heavenly angel, because if he is all this angel must do is absolutely nothing to cause even just one of God’s prophesies to come about, and then the bible (KJV) becomes unreliable and false, do this and many more people would turn their backs on God than ever would because of any evil that satan could do. Also, what prevents another angel from rebelling in the eternal future, and another, and another, etc.? Satan is not a fallen angel; he is not a self-aware being. The bible (KJV) tells us he is a power and a principality. This fact proves that the world is not “rightly dividing the word of truth”. This fabled Satan that has considerable intelligence should know that all he must do is sit back and do nothing to bring about even just one of God’s prophecies, then at best God and his word become unreliable and then God is as fallible as man and no God. Or at worst God becomes the same as your fabled Satan “a liar” and is just a power hungry being. And this would leave 2 billion+ professing Christians without a leg to stand on, not mention those that are asleep in the lord. To “rightly divide (separate) the word of truth” you must separate fact from fable, truth from tale, and principle from parable. When you sincerely study the bible (KJV) the Holy Spirit will show you that Satan is a power and a principality in high places. In more than one instance in the bible (KJV) high places is referred to as governing seats and rulers, it is not some other dimension with literal ghouls and spirits floating around waiting for a vulnerable human to consume. Satan is not the only inanimate personified by the bible(KJV), Solomon personified wisdom and speaks for her, Prov 1:22-33 (KJV), Jesus personified the Word and speaks for it, John 17:1-5 (KJV) As for “prince of the power of the air”, when you enter a house with undisciplined and disobedient children you can feel the contention and strife in the air, when you go to a neighborhood ran by gangs you can feel the tension and fear in the air, and every day more and more you can feel the division and hate in this nation (U.S.A.) the great “liar”, “in God we trust” and “one nation under God”. When someone is tempted to do something that they know is wrong they have a little debate in their head and lie to themselves and make excuses to justify the action they want to take. Just like the story of Eve and the talking serpent. A talking serpent is a fable; 2 Tim 4:4 (KJV). A talking serpent symbolic of the lust of the flesh; is truth. The power of those that give into this serpent is what God calls Satan, or to be more specific, the power of those that use and abuse the laws of God “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” the poor, fatherless, and widows, is what God calls Satan. A principality (a government). And any who support him, through lies or evil plans (mind), or with works (hands) are his angels. Hence the mark of the beast. All glory to God. Amen
Satan tried. And failed because he is a created being and not omniscient. Here is how unbelievably powerful that God is. He gave every created being free will. He does not interfere with that freedom EVER. And yet He still accomplishes His ultimate plan in spite of that. God does not exist in time. He knows everything and knows every choice that will be made. His will is accomplished simply because of probability. If an action has to occur it will because if 100 fail the 101st will do it. A being without the bounds of time can be ultimately patient. My Dad used to say that inventors were probably not due the accolades they received because someone was bound to have done it eventually. If the Wright brothers has not succeeded at KittyHawk and had hung it up... the heavy than air flying machine would still have been eventually invented. Satan thought he'd won when he had Yeshua ( Jesus ) crucified. His pride in his accomplishment blinded him to the fact that God had already said that Jesus would be resurrected and defeat death. Satan has to play by rules and we aren't privy to all of them. I have heard your argument before many times and you have to understand that Satan is merely a created being that still has to operate inside of time and there is no action he can perform that an omniscient Creator cannot counter. And for icing on the cake... our Creator does it without violating our free will.
What Christians get wrong about Satan is that they do NOT follow Christ's command to love Satan. As Sproul say's Satan is our enemy 1Peter 5:8 Christ commands " Love your enemies " Matthew 5:44 ; a command not a suggestion . Christians believe Satan's deceit results in most people going to hell whilst Christ is a pathetic Savior winning only a few. Sproul has a video entitled 'The reason most people will go to hell' . Sproul also believes (correctly) that Jesus is God John 1:1 and that "God is Love" 1John 4:8 and "love never fails" 1Corinthians 13:8 . Sproul agrees with 1Timothy 1:15 ..."Christ came into the world to save sinners" . Sproul and Christians are obviously a bit confused because everyone is a sinner and Jesus , who is love, came to save everyone but evidently He is going to be a big failure lol. Yes one of the purposes Christ came was to save sinners/everyone and " no purpose of God can be thwarted " Job 42:2 Before you say , what about hell and eternal punishment ; i point out that neither of these can be found in God's original Hebrew OT or Greek NT. "No one is cast off by the Lord forever, though He bring grief, He will have compassion because of the greatness of His unfailing love " Lamentations 3:31, 32
First, when Jesus tells us to love our enemies, he is talking about men and women who walk this earth , people who have the opportunity to repent, not fallen angels who do not have that opportunity! Further I think that your argument is rather flawed.
Love never fails true. Jesus tells us that all those the Father has given him will come to him and he will not lose any of them. That doesn’t include all sinners.
Never ceases to amaze… how grown men & women can be so steeped in “nothing” (literally). Theists claim that nonbelievers believe in “nothing” and that something can’t come from nothing. And yet their very belief is a vacuum of evidence.
Oh no! you must be a Sicilian! And us "moron" theists have "fallen victim to one of the classic blunders!" engaging in a battle of wits with a Sicilian!
@@Buzz-rh4dz What you're doing is displaying one of the human predispositions that cause many people to accepting something even if there is no evidence for a claim. You're unhappy with the world and you've looked for ready-made solutions to some questions. Just like the well known ad for a financial service... "It's my money and I want it NOW!" Except you're saying "It's my world and I want answers now." Impatience in human history has got countless people into trouble. For example, 2000 years ago everyone just HAD to have an answer to the importance of being human. Well, heck, the Sun circles around us so we must be at the center of the universe. People just had to have an answer even before all the evidence was in. And a lot of mistakes have been made due to not waiting until convincing evidence was presented. The god problem is the same. People don't like what they've been dealt in the real world. They get a sense of insecurity because they just have to know the "truth". Even if they have to make up the "truth". Beginning of the universe? The big bang? How did it all come about? Well... if one wants to believe anything they should at least base conclusions upon the best known empirical evidence instead of making up things that ease their minds. In fact the natural world doesn't care about your or anyone else's mind. The natural world just IS. And even IF there is no concrete answer to where everything came from, you'll never have an accurate answer if you keep relying upon the supernatural. Because the supernatural [as theists claim] does fall outside the natural universe and no data can be extracted from that place. Thus no reliable answer will ever be had. So you keep believing that stuff if it eases your amygdala. But don't go out at night because there are wild beasts waiting in the darkness to consume your existence.
There are no proof texts for the existence of Satan (OT) or the devil (NT). You may say it's implied but there is nothing, for example, to say the serpent in the garden was Satan. And God cursed it for its lie by taking away its legs.. The Satan of Job was most probably an angel questioning the genuineness of his righteousness. But God gave the angel (Satan/adversary to Job) the authority to test him. Job even said should he not expect evil at the hand of God, which it was because angels carry out God's will (they don't sin - if they did , they would have to die since the wages of sin is death - but angels can't die because they are immortal). If the Satan of popular myth exists then is it Peter or even God who are both termed Satan in the bible. Why would the devil in the NT be turned away by God's word being read to him if he was rebellious to it? How did Jesus destroy the devil on the cross unless it was actually sin itself (Hebrews 2:14,15)? How is God almighty if there is another god in opposition to Him? These are big problems for devil advocates. But also this. How much of your sin do you blame the devil for? James was pretty sure about the source of temptation and sin when he in James 1:14 we see the devil each time we look in the mirror, which is quite a lot if we are particularly vain. Forget Satan, the devil, Lucifer or whatever you want to call this figure of superstition and come to terms with the fact that man's heart is deceitful above of things and desperately wicked. (Jeremiah 17:9) Frankly if you believe in the Devil you don't know God and you don't want to face the truth about yourself.
@menmustchangebeforekingdoms Ever seen god? How come god NEVER shows up anywhere? Floods, hurricanes, fires, wars, Bubonic Plague, Holocaust, god is NO where to be found. Every day, another 27,000 children die slow, miserable deaths from starvation. NO real god would allow that. So, why do you still believe in your imaginary god friend? Why can't you OUTGROW it. I did
@@parkestanley2436 How much money have you given to the poor in your lifetime? How much have you spent on yourself? Man is evil. Evil men caused the Holocaust. If our world wasn't so selfish spending money on 70,000 dollar cars and plastic surgery there wouldn't be any starving children. You're blaming God for how evil men and women are in this world? Natural disasters are results of a fallen world. The problem is sin. We have all sinned against God. Liars, thieves, sexually immoral, etc. Our sin has separated us from God. Right now you are currently Gods enemy. We all need to realize that we are the wrong ones. We have sinned. We have not worshipped God or followed Him according to His word. If you died today you would be in hell. God is offering you forgiveness and salvation from hell today. In His love and justice He became a man, Jesus Christ. Jesus was God in the flesh. He came to take the punishment of your sin on himself. He paid for your sin on the cross in full. He died and was resurrected on the third day. The only way you can be forgiven of your sin and given salvation is if you repent of your evil ways and make a commitment to follow Jesus. You just trust in Jesus Christ to save you and make you right with God. You cannot save yourself. You need a savior. If you do not repent and trust in Jesus you will pay for your sins in hell forever. This is just the truth. Have a wonderful day.
I Peter 5:8-9 Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
An anecdote or analogue in the hands of a master teacher is a whole meal to the soul.
I loved R.C. Sproul's teaching and R.C. himself greatly. I often go back to look at his videos again and always find them wonderfully edifying.
This man left us with such wealth of gospel truth that we may never get to the end of it. He wouldn't say it of himself so I will say it, RC Sproul was a giant of the faith worthy to be mentioned in the same breath along with Calvin, Edwards, Luther etc. I can't wait to meet him in glory.
He once said 'If there was ever a point at which nothing existed then nothing would ever exist. Not even God would exist because He would have to be before He was. That's a contradiction in terms.'
R.C. Sproul had a brilliant mind.
Sproul was not a man.of God.
You're not a man of heterosexuality.
What is the reason you believe that?@@RonaldM992000
Even Jesus was tempted by satan and Jesus rebuked Him with the Word of God on every level before He entered his
Earthly ministry...satan is a real deceiver and prowls around like a roaring lion seeking those he will destroy.
RC Sproul has now passed on and he was a brilliant teacher..
Thank you.
satan no such deity satan is Hebrew for against the true antagonist against the mad Bible god Jehovah was Lord Lucifer,
Let me guess…. You must be against calvanisim?
Your perception. @@MichaelTheophilus906
@@rethabosman are you? And if so why?
Wrong. How could he have been tempted if he was perfect? Could God fail in his mission?
I just preached on this, Sunday 11 FEB 2024. I read Isaiah 14 3-23 and Ezekiel 28 11-19; making a particular point that in Jude, Michael didn’t try to oppose satan; rather states the Lord rebuke you.
Thus is not to build satan up, but to show, he is the most powerful being God ever created, and we are no match for him without a firm relationship with Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit.
RC mentioned what they did in medieval times to make fun of satan. I would postulate the theory that satan had them do that to counter how people perceive the threat he is. Thus fulfilling the scripture that he deceived them as he would the elect if possible.
Satan is not the most powerful being God created. A single angel can arrest him and lock him up (Rev.20:1-3).
@@chernetayelelole2794 he is, and you’re right, a single angel backed by the power of God will lock him away.
In Job chapter one, we find satan can kill, cause earthquakes, tornadoes, and illnesses. Else God would not have had to restrict him from killing Job.
Satan is the most powerful being God created, but he is no match to the power of God. Even though with the war in heaven, and Michael with his angels prevailed over satan and his angels; in Jude, Michael alone deferred to the Lord to rebuke satan. The difference is, Michael knew and accepted that God empowered him to overcome satan, but he did not let that cause him to fall due to pride as satan had.
@@cassiem2528 your saying that I stated things I did not say that the other wrong person that replied to me. I never said satan was omni anything. What I said was straight from scripture concerning satan being the highest and most powerful being God created.
Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28 speak of his position and his fall
Genesis 3 God Himself states satan will bruise the heel of Jesus, but Jesus will bruise satan’s head - he could never lest God allowed it, and He did allow it
In Job - God turned everything over to satan except Job’s life, and as such he caused the great wind (tornado) that killed Job’s children
Matthew 4, satan tempted Christ; yet every other encounter with a fallen angel / demon, they feared and trembled at the very presence of Christ
Paul refers to satan as the god (little g) of this world
Jude states there is contention between Michael and satan, and Michael defers to God to rebuke satan
Revelation 12 when he drew a third of the angels to follow him in rebellion against God
And in Job and Peter both we find satan roaming the earth seeking whom he can effect, because he is not Omni anything, he must transverse the earth himself or through his minions
I’m sorry you all don’t like the scriptures that speak of God’s greatest created being, but God calls Lucifer / satan *the* anointed cherub, not just a cherub (which are the highest rank of angels) not just an anointed cherub, but the anointed cherub.
@@cassiem2528 you’re entitled to your opinion, it’s wrong, but it’s to be expected now days.
Where does it say in scripture that he caused a third of angels to rebel with him?@@Rood67
Wow ,such a good teaching thankyou god for using this teacher of the word 🙏
My left ear is enjoying this video
Me, too. I thought there was something wrong with my speakers.
Depends on which voice you choose to listen to.
Even the fact that Satan allowed the red devil image to be used about him is a sign of how wickedly deceptive he is.
No the mad bible god Jehovah allowed that satan is not a deity
@@ashwayn Satan encouraged its use in order to further deceive humanity.
satan IS NOT A DEITY its a Hebrew word for against you dim fool
If it were possible the very elect Would be deceived!
Why Catholic, Orthodox and many Protestants?
Even many church pastors who are saved and men of God can be, and in some cases, are decieved. If even the wisest pastor living today can be and has been blindsided by events, so can I, and I have been blindsided.
We don't know who the elect are!
RIP R.C.
I found this very helpful. I remember a 1940s movie - Claude Rains played a judge & throughout movie Rains has a tiny devil w/ horns & pitchfork on 1 shoulder & angel on other both speaking w/ him-so Satan is seen as tiny. images like this trivialized his size to us. Jolted by Billy Graham comment as other poster below was. Assuredly RC did not mean that literally--but it may literally have been true. I read Billy Graham crusades sent Catholics who went forward back to Catholic churches & Jews who went forward back to synagogues. No wonder everybody liked him. Some information available about Billy Graham is quite troubling. I believe he meant well but was caught in a vise (perhaps a pun...). Sorry if name icon comes up 2x. Computer glitch we don't know how to fix.
The deception is RC Sproul’s Calvinism was and is infinitely more harmful to the body of Christ than anything Billy Graham ever said or did.
I Peter 5:8 Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.
I really wish you would have taken the time to fix the audio so that it plays mono (as in the same volume in both speakers)
Zephaniah 3:3 (talking about last day's Israel/Jerusalem)
Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he doesn't exist."
-Kyser Soze
Your comment could not possibly be more ignorant and wrong. You have only exposed your Biblically illiterate, blind, lost, deceived, and unsaved state. Repent!
You would not have to be confused about the deception if you realize we are in Satanos little season. It’s in Revelation in broad daylight
Please switch the audio to MONO if you cant get stereo right :)
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No need for formality! Call me Stan🐝
I can’t believe how many demons get on here to muttle the truth from the great Doctor. This truly is the end times.
This guy, and the god he preaches, orgasm at the thought of almost every single human ever created, being eternally punished and tortured.
Tell me... who is the demon?
Diversity, equality and humanity, just name a few
Are there any denominations mentioned in the Bible?
Nope .. none
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Thank you sir.
I know this was made long ago but as far as Billy Graham is concerned look at Dave Hunts on Billy Graham that too was some time ago [ both these men are now with the Lord] I believe Dave Hunt is correct on Billy Graham
Satan has dcieved everyone that is his job,its not like were expe ting him to tell us thre truth
A grift! Yes! A meow! A fuddle wuddle cat and a moose ❤ no grift
Revelation 12:9 tells us that Satan has misled the whole earth. The Trinity and living on at death being his favourite topics.
Columbo hasn't seen : 15. Daniel
Shepherds Student yet 😮
The 'physical being' of the evil force are the 'hosts of heaven'. Man is a 'host' for the Spirit of the Lord. Now go read Isaiah 45:7. Any questions?
satan only has the power that has been afforded to him. satan is weak, and had to grovel at God's holy feet, to even attack Job. In result, God has all the power, and all the glory, Amen.
God ordains whatever He wants and satan has to he given permission. The point of that is for
1. To give us the reader the illistration that the devil temps us but there are some...few.. who pass God's test
2. To show Job that his belief in God (despite even his own WIFE/Family telling him he was crazy) didn't go in vain.
3. To show satan that there are some that won't be easily fooled and that he isn't going to infiltrate everybody straight to hell.
Seeking + Searching to + for Satan + the devil has, is + will own you
- well Satan's bluffoon red suit costume is what he only wears around on Halloween - so be careful
Angel OF 'light'. Now go read Psalm 139:12
good point. Obvious after he makes it.
Many preachers dramatize the sermons ,but they dont have a complete knowledge of Bible symbolic interpretation ,The Protestant Church are expecting Moses and Elijah, But we are not gonna see Moses or Elijah, We will hear the message of Moses and Elijah , Moses is the Law giver "10 commandments "" Elijah is the reformer " the Two prophets are giving a final message , Moses do not keep Sunday, Elijah also do not observe Sunday" get the message? Sunday keeping in end times will become a controversial political issue ( Sunday Law)(Mark of Roman Catholic Authority ) Beast means kingdom= Mark of the false Roman religion kingdom.
Lieutenant Columbo turned preacher
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God is In the life changing business of truth.
Therefore if any one is in Christ he is a new person. The old has gone & become new ( spiritual rebirth). The old has gone….,,,,,,
2 Corinthians 5:17
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A thought just occurred to me, Lieutenant Columbo looks a little like him since u mentioned it. 😅
But did not God create Satan? Why didn't God have the forsight to know how Satan would turn out?
He knows how things would work out eventually independently of his standards but like mankind he is not a robot, like Jesus christ said about him "he did not stand fast in the truth". Instead of showing appreciation of what he had, he decided to test God's beautiful creation the first human couple, interestingly he targeted Eve not Adam 1Timothy 2 v 14
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Can God sin? If not, then he's a robot.
@@bowieupland6112 he is our creator, he has set the standards for our benefit Isaiah 48 v 17; he is greater than we are, Jesus christ also had no sin when he dwelled on earth. Sin is like a disease, it also effects the way we think, that's probably why you made that comment. God is trying to lead mankind to everlasting life right here on a restored crime free earth
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I have no problem backing up my words in front of God, because they are true. Some people like you, with "little minds", are unable to understand that the question of where evil comes from, is logically unanswerable. A few honest christians understand this, and will simply say that they do not know. I think like a Free Man, you think like a slave.
PS: be very careful threatening others with eternal damnation. Most of your ilk, will wind up in the wrong place.
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I agree that sin is a disease. So why did God allow his innocent creation, who knew no better, to be poisoned by an evil creation of his, then holding us responsible for being deceived and born broken. If he and Jesus are sinless and unable to sin, like a "robot", why didn't he make us sinless too, instead of creating a system where almost everyone is eternally damned?
The core teaching of Jesus is simple, just two phrases: One must love God and love thy neighbours. Is it hard to remember this teaching? To love God is easy but many followers find it not easy to love thy neighbours. Loving thy neighbours is just like a camel trying to enter the hole of a needle! It is useless to love God if one does not love his neighbours. Neighbours are imcluding haters, enemies, lgbt, leaders, dictators, tyrant leaders etc.
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Most born again preachers work for him so i guess they would know
@@HaroldZwingley satan is an angel of light
In other words he decieves the preachers into promoting his lies about god
Matthew 7:13
Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Acts 4:12
Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.
There's only one way to Heaven there are a million ways to Hell Leonard Ravenhill.
Were you expecting what 😮
I wish he would stand still. All that gesticulation makes him look like a fraud.
What the Church gets WRONG about Trump | R.C. Sproul
"Angel of Light" Sort of like what Jesus called the pharisees...."Whited sepulchres"The whole Jewish religious system in the 1st century fulfilled the role the the serpent!
Yet he taught Calvinism: Only an arbitrary pre-chosen elect will irresistibly turn to Christ & escape the clutches of Satan. No grace for the unelect. They have a divine decree of reprobation upon them & their fate was sealed in eternity past before they had done anything good or evil (per: an incorrect teaching of Romans mid-9)... so sad, causing doubt & fatalism in the body of Christ. "Some are doomed from the womb" John Calvin
With respect brother. God is eternal and not bound to linear time. He knows the end from the beginning. He cannot be constrained by the human concepts of free will and fairness. To suggest otherwise denies his sovreignty and makes him subject to the will of man. Its a paradox. Just like all great doctrines in the Bible.
@@stevemathew1453 No Calvinism makes it a paradox, conundrum & mystery. Scripture is true, not Calvinism. Calvin said "Some are doomed from the womb". No one in scripture is irresistibly regenerated & no one in scripture has a divine decree of reprobation upon them with no hope or opportunity of being reconciled to God thru Christ.
Calvinists conflate God's sovereignty with absolute determinism. God's foreknowledge of all events does not make Him the causal agent of all events (see Jeremiah 19:5 for one of many examples)
I don't care about Arminianism or Calvinism or any "ism" for that matter. Let's just agree on the core doctrine of salvation by grace through faith. And don't get so triggered by these discussions. I watch videos from other points of view from teachers I don't agree with on all points of doctrine but I am not threatened by it. Remember to practice forebearance.
@@stevemathew1453 Ok, I will do what scripture says. I am not ok with "Some are Arbitrarily pre-chosen & some are Arbitrarily pre-damned...& the unelect don't get any grace. They have no hope of salvation.
The elect won't be deceived by Satan. THE REST OF THE WORLD WILL BE! There are two resurrections and those deceived by Satan WILL NOT PARTAKE IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION! Revelation 13:8-18, Revelation 20:5.
What the church gets wrong, sproul also gets wrong.... satan was bound at the cross as described in Rev 20. He said,,, "now is the prince of this world cast out". Jesus defeated satan by going to the cross and becoming the lamb of God, taking our sins away. Demons are likewise easily cast out in His name and go into the pit as Legion said they would. They are currently all there. Foretold in the garden of Eden,,, You shall bruise his heel and He will bruise your head... ie out cold.
@dsheppard8492 - Exactly. "And having disarmed the powers and authorities, He made a public spectacle of them, triumphing over them by the cross." (Colossians 2:15) BSB
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@@louierivera7512- I'm glad that makes you laugh....but you won't be laughing on Judgement Day I assure of you of that.
*(WHO) exactly, by name, told any one of u to *(accept, follow, believe in, trust for salvation, and or worship) the son of Mary? Thx
What are you saying? Christians believe in the writings of the Holy Bible.
It tells us what we need to know about God and creation. It tells us that Jesus was God incarnate. That He came to reconcile us back to God as the mediator between God and man. God is Holy and sin cannot nor nothing unclean approach His presence without a cleansing, purification first.
Jesus was the pure sacrifice . He took our sins upon Himself. He was the pure, innocent sacrifice.
As an example. Think of some heavily guarded positions. Nothing nor anyone can approach that individual without first going through security.
@@mnp870 if u do any one of these things, then who told u to do it?
Thus saith the Creator YAH in the Law and Prophets WRITTEN word for word does not tell anyone to do these things, but Eve in the Garden, decided to listen to, follow, believe, and obey some one other than Thus saith the Creator YAH, so who's voice are u choosing obedience to exactly?
Give me a name please, Thx.
God
@shellyjones5556 Don't Lie on God, ok.
Post a plain *(Thus saith the Creator YAH in the Law and Prophets WRITTEN word for word) where the Creator YAH Himself says with His Own Mouth these things, when did these things proceed directly out of the very Mouth of the Creator YAH?
Book Chapter Verse, Thx.
THE GOAL OF EVERY CALVINIST
The goal of every Calvinist like RC Sproul is to convince you that God does not love everybody!
That God doesn’t want to save everybody!
That God did not die on the cross for the sins of everybody!
That they are the one in a million hand picked people God decided to save!
They will be saved by their infant baptism.
They will be born again before they believe.
They will do good works all their lives to keep their salvation!
There is no amount of sin they freely do that is big enough to take away their salvation!
After all:
The Calvinist god has made rules that he commands all of people to obey and not break.
Then the Calvinist god forces people to break these laws.
Then the Calvinist god judges people for breaking the very laws he forced them to commit.
This glorifies the Calvinist god and shows his justice and love.
But guess what? The Calvinist that preach this are not part of it!
Reformed 5-Point Calvinists say to there faithful Calvinists, that they should be more grateful for their own salvation!
It’s like, ‘as long as my eternal destiny is secure, as long as my life is all planned out and taken care of by God, who gives a damn about family, friends or anyone else!’
We are in and they are out. It’s a win, win, for us. Too bad, so sad, glad I am not like the un-elect!
Truth in love
Sure use a lot of words, don't you? Be slow to speak, quick to listen. What exactly is your point?
Watch your language.
The substance of this guy's argument is correct; folks, and I believe you know that.
Sproul = satanic.
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@@louierivera7512 are you BORN AGAIN? John 3.3,
And if satan were so intelligent, he would have never challenged God, period.
There is no such thing as satan. There is only such a thing as fake christians that are all completely Biblically illiterate.
...what about us? We challenge him in our day to day life. Also just because you are intelligent doesnt mean you are wise.
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The Jesus church doesn't get anything wrong about satan.
Demented Yahweh worshiper. Run for your life.
It's bizarre that RC believes 5 point Calvinism.
5 point Calvinism teaches God is completely sovereign. It teaches He is SO sovereign that God does not allow anyone or anything to make independent choices. It teaches God pulls everyone's strings. No one can choose anything?!? 😕
Well then, why preach? If people don't believe in the Devil.... it is because God made them NOT believe in the Devil. They cannot change their mind if 5 point Calvinism is true.
It is a ludicrous religion. It makes no sense from the floor up. Such a brilliant man who wasted so many years preaching nonsense. We all choose every moment, every day to submit or reject our Savior.
@RStark-ek7mh - And none of them make any sense. I've heard them. I listened to him for years. It's a very unbiblical approach. It makes God guilty of sin. That's blasphemous.
So when a child gets molested it's God's plan? God's fault? That's sick dude. When God tells us in His Word that we CAN choose.... that's pretty simple. That means we can choose. "I set before you life and death. Good and evil. Choose life."
All these complaints about evil make no sense of God is pulling people's strings. There can be no repentance of God does not empower us to be able to turn. It's not a mystery like RC says it is. It's a mystery to those who twist God's Word to promote man made theology, Calvinism. Flush it. 💩
@RStark-ek7mh - Most people who spend time in God's Word know the principle of "firsts". If you want to know the definition or explanation of a word in the Bible you go to the first place it talks about the word.
Isa 42:1 Jesus Christ is the Elect. If you are in The Word of God, living in it, by it, then you are in Christ. If you are in Christ, you are Elect. It's not random, arbitrary or mysterious. You are following Jesus. It's trusting Christ. If you're living in sin, you cannot possibly say you're trusting Christ. If you are living a life of repentance, you are trusting Christ. But that's impossible if you cannot make your own decisions, turn from your sin.
Making God guilty of your sin is blasphemy. God does not pull your strings. God leads. Gala "Be ye led of the Spirit..." and you will not fulfill the will of the flesh. That's choice. Before or after you are saved, we have choices every moment, every day. That's the entire reason Jesus said "Follow Me." Otherwise He would've said "Don't even try to follow Me. I'm going to drag you in." Commandments always imply choice.
One explanation makes 100% sense. The other is completely nonsense. Calvinism makes ZERO sense.
@@RStark-ek7mh - The satire is dripping on my tablet. 🤣🤣🤣
Here we have the exact opposite teaching style of Christ. Did Christ ever focus on Lucifer when teaching the crowd?
I read a lot of text about the Pharisees whose father is satan, such as “beware of the leaven of the Pharisees”
Also the “revelation of Jesus Christ” has much teaching about the beast
Also anything we know about satan has come from the scriptures which the scripture is the word of God that became flesh.
Being in the trinity Jesus had a pretty big role in the inspiration of scripture Which speaks quite a bit about satan, the deceiver, that’s how we can know his name is Lucifer. So basically Jesus taught about him from genesis to revelation.
Yes, indeed he did
@@keltecshooter So give me scripture and verse.
Jesus spoke and warned people the devil your adversary roams around like a hungry lion seeking someone to devour. Jesus warned people about the devil and the devil's tricks. Do not be deceived.
Jesus revered to satan with several different titles explaining opposite of His teaching but He did not focus on satan.
Evil force is between your ears
Satan is in all of us including you and probably telling you now.
Why didn’t/doesn’t/wouldn’t Satan read scripture the way the world does and NOT do what is prophesied of him and make God and his word unreliable?
It is impossible to believe that an angel of high order and his untold number of followers (“1/3rd of the heavenly angels” as taught) are too stupid to realize the simplicity of this ploy that would make God and his word unreliable.
It is also impossible to believe that God would risk his sovereignty on the whiles of an emotionally and/or mentally unstable being.
It is impossible for Satan to be a fallen heavenly angel, because if he is all this angel must do is absolutely nothing to cause even just one of God’s prophesies to come about, and then the bible (KJV) becomes unreliable and false, do this and many more people would turn their backs on God than ever would because of any evil that satan could do.
Also, what prevents another angel from rebelling in the eternal future, and another, and another, etc.?
Satan is not a fallen angel; he is not a self-aware being. The bible (KJV) tells us he is a power and a principality. This fact proves that the world is not “rightly dividing the word of truth”.
This fabled Satan that has considerable intelligence should know that all he must do is sit back and do nothing to bring about even just one of God’s prophecies, then at best God and his word become unreliable and then God is as fallible as man and no God. Or at worst God becomes the same as your fabled Satan “a liar” and is just a power hungry being. And this would leave 2 billion+ professing Christians without a leg to stand on, not mention those that are asleep in the lord.
To “rightly divide (separate) the word of truth” you must separate fact from fable, truth from tale, and principle from parable. When you sincerely study the bible (KJV) the Holy Spirit will show you that Satan is a power and a principality in high places. In more than one instance in the bible (KJV) high places is referred to as governing seats and rulers, it is not some other dimension with literal ghouls and spirits floating around waiting for a vulnerable human to consume. Satan is not the only inanimate personified by the bible(KJV), Solomon personified wisdom and speaks for her, Prov 1:22-33 (KJV), Jesus personified the Word and speaks for it, John 17:1-5 (KJV)
As for “prince of the power of the air”, when you enter a house with undisciplined and disobedient children you can feel the contention and strife in the air, when you go to a neighborhood ran by gangs you can feel the tension and fear in the air, and every day more and more you can feel the division and hate in this nation (U.S.A.) the great “liar”, “in God we trust” and “one nation under God”.
When someone is tempted to do something that they know is wrong they have a little debate in their head and lie to themselves and make excuses to justify the action they want to take. Just like the story of Eve and the talking serpent. A talking serpent is a fable; 2 Tim 4:4 (KJV).
A talking serpent symbolic of the lust of the flesh; is truth. The power of those that give into this serpent is what God calls Satan, or to be more specific, the power of those that use and abuse the laws of God “to steal, and to kill, and to destroy” the poor, fatherless, and widows, is what God calls Satan. A principality (a government). And any who support him, through lies or evil plans (mind), or with works (hands) are his angels. Hence the mark of the beast.
All glory to God. Amen
Satan tried. And failed because he is a created being and not omniscient. Here is how unbelievably powerful that God is. He gave every created being free will. He does not interfere with that freedom EVER. And yet He still accomplishes His ultimate plan in spite of that. God does not exist in time. He knows everything and knows every choice that will be made. His will is accomplished simply because of probability. If an action has to occur it will because if 100 fail the 101st will do it. A being without the bounds of time can be ultimately patient. My Dad used to say that inventors were probably not due the accolades they received because someone was bound to have done it eventually. If the Wright brothers has not succeeded at KittyHawk and had hung it up... the heavy than air flying machine would still have been eventually invented.
Satan thought he'd won when he had Yeshua ( Jesus ) crucified. His pride in his accomplishment blinded him to the fact that God had already said that Jesus would be resurrected and defeat death. Satan has to play by rules and we aren't privy to all of them. I have heard your argument before many times and you have to understand that Satan is merely a created being that still has to operate inside of time and there is no action he can perform that an omniscient Creator cannot counter. And for icing on the cake... our Creator does it without violating our free will.
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You have some very mixed up beliefs and facts. That if AntiChristian beliefs.
What Christians get wrong about Satan is that they do NOT follow Christ's command to love Satan.
As Sproul say's Satan is our enemy 1Peter 5:8
Christ commands " Love your enemies " Matthew 5:44 ; a command not a suggestion .
Christians believe Satan's deceit results in most people going to hell whilst Christ is a pathetic Savior winning only a few. Sproul has a video entitled 'The reason most people will go to hell' . Sproul also believes (correctly) that Jesus is God John 1:1 and that "God is Love" 1John 4:8 and "love never fails" 1Corinthians 13:8 . Sproul agrees with 1Timothy 1:15 ..."Christ came into the world to save sinners" . Sproul and Christians are obviously a bit confused because everyone is a sinner and Jesus , who is love, came to save everyone but evidently He is going to be a big failure lol.
Yes one of the purposes Christ came was to save sinners/everyone and " no purpose of God can be thwarted " Job 42:2
Before you say , what about hell and eternal punishment ; i point out that neither of these can be found in God's original Hebrew OT or Greek NT.
"No one is cast off by the Lord forever, though He bring grief, He will have compassion because of the greatness of His unfailing love " Lamentations 3:31, 32
First, when Jesus tells us to love our enemies, he is talking about men and women who walk this earth , people who have the opportunity to repent, not fallen angels who do not have that opportunity! Further I think that your argument is rather flawed.
Love never fails true. Jesus tells us that all those the Father has given him will come to him and he will not lose any of them. That doesn’t include all sinners.
Satan is a fiction, along with God and the Holy Ghost.
Never ceases to amaze… how grown men & women can be so steeped in “nothing” (literally). Theists claim that nonbelievers believe in “nothing” and that something can’t come from nothing. And yet their very belief is a vacuum of evidence.
Oh no! you must be a Sicilian! And us "moron" theists have "fallen victim to one of the classic blunders!" engaging in a battle of wits with a Sicilian!
@MichaelTheophilus906 how does everything come from nothing?
@@MichaelTheophilus906 gotcha. Same page.
@@Buzz-rh4dz What you're doing is displaying one of the human predispositions that cause many people to accepting something even if there is no evidence for a claim. You're unhappy with the world and you've looked for ready-made solutions to some questions. Just like the well known ad for a financial service... "It's my money and I want it NOW!" Except you're saying "It's my world and I want answers now." Impatience in human history has got countless people into trouble.
For example, 2000 years ago everyone just HAD to have an answer to the importance of being human. Well, heck, the Sun circles around us so we must be at the center of the universe. People just had to have an answer even before all the evidence was in. And a lot of mistakes have been made due to not waiting until convincing evidence was presented. The god problem is the same. People don't like what they've been dealt in the real world. They get a sense of insecurity because they just have to know the "truth". Even if they have to make up the "truth".
Beginning of the universe? The big bang? How did it all come about? Well... if one wants to believe anything they should at least base conclusions upon the best known empirical evidence instead of making up things that ease their minds. In fact the natural world doesn't care about your or anyone else's mind. The natural world just IS. And even IF there is no concrete answer to where everything came from, you'll never have an accurate answer if you keep relying upon the supernatural. Because the supernatural [as theists claim] does fall outside the natural universe and no data can be extracted from that place. Thus no reliable answer will ever be had. So you keep believing that stuff if it eases your amygdala. But don't go out at night because there are wild beasts waiting in the darkness to consume your existence.
@msmd3295 lmao. The best evidence is that there is God.
What the church gets wrong about Satan is that such a thing exists.
You know him very well, you just don´t know. He is the one who whispers in your ear that he does not exist. Repent before it is too late.
@@olgarullegardin7242 Oh, get off it.
There are no proof texts for the existence of Satan (OT) or the devil (NT). You may say it's implied but there is nothing, for example, to say the serpent in the garden was Satan. And God cursed it for its lie by taking away its legs.. The Satan of Job was most probably an angel questioning the genuineness of his righteousness. But God gave the angel (Satan/adversary to Job) the authority to test him. Job even said should he not expect evil at the hand of God, which it was because angels carry out God's will (they don't sin - if they did , they would have to die since the wages of sin is death - but angels can't die because they are immortal).
If the Satan of popular myth exists then is it Peter or even God who are both termed Satan in the bible.
Why would the devil in the NT be turned away by God's word being read to him if he was rebellious to it? How did Jesus destroy the devil on the cross unless it was actually sin itself (Hebrews 2:14,15)? How is God almighty if there is another god in opposition to Him? These are big problems for devil advocates. But also this. How much of your sin do you blame the devil for? James was pretty sure about the source of temptation and sin when he in James 1:14
we see the devil each time we look in the mirror, which is quite a lot if we are particularly vain. Forget Satan, the devil, Lucifer or whatever you want to call this figure of superstition and come to terms with the fact that man's heart is deceitful above of things and desperately wicked. (Jeremiah 17:9)
Frankly if you believe in the Devil you don't know God and you don't want to face the truth about yourself.
amazing how impotent this god is.
Because God allows man’s free will makes Him impotent? Pls explain
God is a childish fairy tale. OUTGROW IT
@parkestanley2436 - Do you "Know" this, or do you just "Believe" this ?
@menmustchangebeforekingdoms Ever seen god? How come god NEVER shows up anywhere? Floods, hurricanes, fires, wars, Bubonic Plague, Holocaust, god is NO where to be found. Every day, another 27,000 children die slow, miserable deaths from starvation. NO real god would allow that. So, why do you still believe in your imaginary god friend? Why can't you OUTGROW it. I did
@@parkestanley2436 How much money have you given to the poor in your lifetime? How much have you spent on yourself? Man is evil. Evil men caused the Holocaust. If our world wasn't so selfish spending money on 70,000 dollar cars and plastic surgery there wouldn't be any starving children. You're blaming God for how evil men and women are in this world? Natural disasters are results of a fallen world. The problem is sin. We have all sinned against God. Liars, thieves, sexually immoral, etc. Our sin has separated us from God. Right now you are currently Gods enemy. We all need to realize that we are the wrong ones. We have sinned. We have not worshipped God or followed Him according to His word. If you died today you would be in hell. God is offering you forgiveness and salvation from hell today. In His love and justice He became a man, Jesus Christ. Jesus was God in the flesh. He came to take the punishment of your sin on himself. He paid for your sin on the cross in full. He died and was resurrected on the third day. The only way you can be forgiven of your sin and given salvation is if you repent of your evil ways and make a commitment to follow Jesus. You just trust in Jesus Christ to save you and make you right with God. You cannot save yourself. You need a savior. If you do not repent and trust in Jesus you will pay for your sins in hell forever. This is just the truth. Have a wonderful day.
God is not a fairy tale. Watch what you way.
And Calvinism is not of God.
@@RonaldM992000 Show us ANY proof of your imaginary god
Dear grandpa, we're done with this stupid shit.
Please don't swear.
You deceived yourselves
I Peter 5:8-9 Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of sufferings.