This message is from Dr. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Surprised by Suffering. Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/surprised-by-suffering
Words of wisdom so soothing to the soul. I fought the good fight and I have kept the faith. May I die with these words in my mouth before I go to heaven.
My mother's last words after a decades of painful illnesses were during one of the many resuscitations where her heart would stop and CPR would resume and it would come back. She would duck in and out of consciousness. The time before she fell asleep for good she sat up on that hospital bed and yelled at the doctor "what are you doing? Let me go home!" She was a converted Christian and our family attended church my whole life. I wouldn't go on to be regenerated for another 8 years after this. I thought at the time she was wanting to be discharged from the hospital. Looking back I know now exactly what home really meant to her.
Jacob ~ AMEN! My grandmother who lived to almost 103 told the doctors when she wouldn't open her mouth to eat _''PLEASE! Cant you see lm trying to die here?!_ A little less nuanced but she LOVED Jesus with all her heart! Grandma Blanche was just SO anxious to ''go Home'' also. BLESS THEM!
RC Sproul is the image of a true Christian and Evangelist, He has a gift of teaching, I am not a Calvinist but I can say, I have not heard anyone who can teach or preach as good as RC... I have listened already several of his great sermons..
R.C. Sproul truly was gifted in teaching... I find myself wanting to rewatch teachings of his just because of how confidently & lovingly & beautifully convicting his teachings on God's Word are delivered...
This is one of the most touching sermons I’ve ever watched, not only of Dr Sproul, but of any preachers. I hope I will remember this sermon when I’m on my own deathbed.
Another timeless & transcendent message by RC Sproul. His teachings impact my spirit while pleasing the intellect. Such a blessing to my life & teacher to my Christian walk
In the last weeks of my moms life, the Lord took her voice and sent in a real Babe Ruth of the Bible to take over her care who read the Scripture to her from the Bible I had given her. She read many hours a day and my mom could not object, thus was the Lord’s work.
My great grandfather usually went out to the courtyard after lunch and read his Bible in his armchair under the winter sun. One day he never got up from his chair. His children went up to see him. He had departed the world, his Bible was open on his lap and his finger was upon Matthew 11:26: “Even so Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight.” We still have this verse etched on his gravestone. :)
l always loved this man, and how he could laugh at himself at times! Like when he said at a conference as an older man ... _''l just took a pain pill about an hour ago, and l'm all LOOPY, but we'll see what l can do.''_ ~ RC :D l love you Dr Sproul.
What an inspirational sermon! What a wonderful preacher ! I will look for you in heaven to be able personally to thank you for your ministry of saving souls for Jesus. 🙏🙏🌺
My last words to my dad were I love you. God gave me that gift and it was so precious. My brother took him out for snacks and he came home and dropped him off, he died in his chair peacefully happy with his snacks. Oh how I miss him so much. I am very sick right now and may go anyday, I will be so glad die and be with Jesus and my mom and dad again.. oh how wonderful that will be.
consider the etymology and history of the word suffer mid-13c., sufferen, "allow to occur or continue, refrain from hindering, fail to prevent or suppress," also "be made to undergo, endure, be subjected to" (pain, death, punishment, grief, injury, humiliation)
I keep hearing this theam o not submitting or surrendering their sins in death. What a fool who would not confess his sin before death and even a bigger fool would think I'm hiding anything and I would hate to be the man who says I am hiding anything. This is a great sermon for me and that man of sin who will die in his sin
What an incredible sermon. So full of human and divine truth. Thank you God and thank you to Mr. Sproul for what you shared with us during your time here.
We are fortunate to be able to listen and watch these recordings of Dr. Sproul in our time period ..It feels like Collegiate or sometimes Advanced Collegiate Studies .....Which I believe Honors the Lord very well . This perspective helps
I can't just tell how overwhelmed I am, listening to this session . one of Dr Sproul's greatest messages ...I can't by any means say how grateful we are to you and that we owe you a lot for teaching us the word of God earnestly,but I am sure you are thanked and rewarded by Him, our lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
You know, this isn't the first time that I forgot that this man is a college professor and not a pastor! Honestly, these lectures should actually be allowed to be stored in the Smithsonian museum!🙏😣
@@1Whipperin RC said the Bible should never be boring and he said if you can’t get excited about teaching it then your not reading it as God’s word. He practiced what he preached. His love for God shows in every teaching he’s ever done. It’s okay to be skeptical but watch him at conferences, in the pulpit and next to the chalkboard, he was passionate for the Holiness of God. He was a blessing to the church by a merciful God. Peace🙏
There are a lot of words that I spoke to my Mam and Dad that I would give anything to take back. I have done a lot of sins, but the ones that hurt the most are the ones that hurt my mam and dad. There was no intention to hurt, but hurt they did. And for that I am eternally sorry.
Is it worse to be incurably ill for many years, or to be witness and caregiver for someone you deeply love who will certainly die. Or even two people in your immediate family. I don't know the answer to that question and I'm not sure it even matters. I do know that personal longevity and any "willingness to fight" potentially lethal personal illness is not always tied to faith in the way we think. Perhaps some of us have endured the suffering of others at close proximity for decades and are very ready to go home. I hope, pray and believe God understands those types of situations.
No one escapes death. When those who meet Jesus in the air are changed in the twinkling. of an eye, that is death and instantaneous resurrection. No one escapes death.. Those will simply not notice. They wont have to wait to be raised.. Radio/TV comedian Fred Allen went for his usual daily walk and had a fatal heart attack. His friend Jack Benny who spent years faking a fued with him was heart broken.
@@jacobforaker6222 tell me when we're transformed in the twinkling of an eye and in another place the scripture says Flesh and Blood shall not enter the kingdom of God oh, well what happens to the flesh, I'll tell you what happens to it , it dies , it is death for the flesh when we're transformed so they were right and you're not. There is also another scripture that says all flesh is like the grass of the field. What happens in grassy field? Need I say more?
@@donsimonds5186 again, no, Don. I recommend studying the topics you wish to discuss on social media so that you don’t look so silly. What is the Greek word used for transform? What does it mean? “Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air…” Notice the word ALIVE? “Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.” Paul literally says WE WILL NOT ALL DIE. Tell me you don’t know the Word of God without telling me..
I had to walk away for a moment... My concern since young adulthood was where did you go after death. I have seen quite a bit of it. The question still remains, so I had tried to tell family and friends about Jesus for that reason. I have been shamefully negligent about this of late. No more....
All have to be dying yet it's Qualifying note in Peter's epistle 1 Pet. 4:12-19 Surprising as based on Prov. 11:31 if redefined for every Christian carrying own cross likewise only due easiest wayout lest denying God's gospel as sinners ...
I don't know the exact circumstances of his death, but I know he preached one of the most beautiful sermons I've ever heard a few days before he passed. He definitely died in faith.
R.c. was a smoker for most of his life as far as I know and he had emphysema which eventually took his life. If I am wrong about this, someone can surely set the record straight.
Aren't as members of the church responsible for knowing whether someone knows the Gospel so that we might share it if they don't? I mean, I am nor sure I can have a conversation with anyone without it always coming back to Jesus for me. I'm just saying, like could you imagine one of the Apostles even sitting down before finding out whether you knew Christ or not first? Are we not supposed to avoid sitting with mockers? (Psalm 1) nor is this any judgment on Mr. Sproule, here, nor should we assume they kept much company with another. I love R.C Sproule. He's probably one of Jesus' modern ministers of His Word!! Anyway...there are just many verses as well regarding the company you keep but most importantly is being able to talk about Jesus with anyone. If we are ashamed of him after all, why shouldn't he also be ashamed of us? For him to die on a cross for OUR sins and then we can't even mention him? Boy, I wouldn't want you in my kingdom either. Or if you only come over when you need something. So I'm trying to do a lot more like Jesus did. And I thank such great men of God who teach and preach the things of God with love and respect and honorably, morally, with judgment and even with humor , as these. I pray he is loving living with the Lord now.
This message is from Dr. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Surprised by Suffering. Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/surprised-by-suffering
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Words of wisdom so soothing to the soul. I fought the good fight and I have kept the faith. May I die with these words in my mouth before I go to heaven.
Hallelujah
My mother's last words after a decades of painful illnesses were during one of the many resuscitations where her heart would stop and CPR would resume and it would come back. She would duck in and out of consciousness. The time before she fell asleep for good she sat up on that hospital bed and yelled at the doctor "what are you doing? Let me go home!" She was a converted Christian and our family attended church my whole life. I wouldn't go on to be regenerated for another 8 years after this. I thought at the time she was wanting to be discharged from the hospital. Looking back I know now exactly what home really meant to her.
Amen
Praise the Lord for our salvation!
Praise the Lord for His holiness!
Jacob ~ AMEN! My grandmother who lived to almost 103 told the doctors when she wouldn't open her mouth to eat _''PLEASE! Cant you see lm trying to die here?!_ A little less nuanced but she LOVED Jesus with all her heart! Grandma Blanche was just SO anxious to ''go Home'' also. BLESS THEM!
☺️😂 tears of joy. What a blessing to know we have a home in glory. Oh to be with Christ 🥰
WOW!!
In my almost 40 years of being a Christian I probably have learned more from this man about Christ than I have from anyone else.
Same here🙏🏻
Yep. Me too
@deathknell5167I think he’s referring to theologians/teachers?
RC Sproul is the image of a true Christian and Evangelist, He has a gift of teaching, I am not a Calvinist but I can say, I have not heard anyone who can teach or preach as good as RC... I have listened already several of his great sermons..
Stage 4 prostate cancer! Hormone therapy for almost 2/1/2 yrs. I want to live. I truly my life to Christ, not out fear of death but for peace! 😊
R.C. Sproul truly was gifted in teaching... I find myself wanting to rewatch teachings of his just because of how confidently & lovingly & beautifully convicting his teachings on God's Word are delivered...
This is one of the most touching sermons I’ve ever watched, not only of Dr Sproul, but of any preachers. I hope I will remember this sermon when I’m on my own deathbed.
What a blessing God shared with us when he sent Dr Sproul
What a great story about his mother. " Happiest day of my life" then lays down and dies.
Beautiful.
Another timeless & transcendent message by RC Sproul. His teachings impact my spirit while pleasing the intellect. Such a blessing to my life & teacher to my Christian walk
Amen
His teaching is so powerful. Praise God for his life and ministry.
This message hit me emotionally since R.C. Sproul went home not long ago to be with Christ...and his dad.
In the last weeks of my moms life, the Lord took her voice and sent in a real Babe Ruth of the Bible to take over her care who read the Scripture to her from the Bible I had given her. She read many hours a day and my mom could not object, thus was the Lord’s work.
Who wouldn’t wish to go the way his mother did. So beautiful. So amazing.
My great grandfather usually went out to the courtyard after lunch and read his Bible in his armchair under the winter sun. One day he never got up from his chair. His children went up to see him. He had departed the world, his Bible was open on his lap and his finger was upon Matthew 11:26: “Even so Father: for so it seemed good in Thy sight.” We still have this verse etched on his gravestone. :)
Wow! What a wonderful testimony!
I don't know why but that made me cry... thank you
Priceless
Oh, how I wish I could die in this way!
One of the best sermons on dying
l always loved this man, and how he could laugh at himself at times! Like when he said at a conference as an older man ... _''l just took a pain pill about an hour ago, and l'm all LOOPY, but we'll see what l can do.''_ ~ RC :D l love you Dr Sproul.
RC never fails to make me laugh lol. He was hilarious
What an inspirational sermon! What a wonderful preacher ! I will look for you in heaven to be able personally to thank you for your ministry of saving souls for Jesus. 🙏🙏🌺
It's so amazing that at that moment RC reminisces his father's last words. That one day his last words would be exactly the same. Rest in peace RC.
I just love it when Dr. Sproule or any teacher , speaker , preacher bring their life's testimony of the past in their message
I agree!!!!!
I met Dr. Sproul and it was an honor. He helped point me to the cross. He finished the race and now knows glory in its fullness, Jesus Christ.
My last words to my dad were I love you. God gave me that gift and it was so precious. My brother took him out for snacks and he came home and dropped him off, he died in his chair peacefully happy with his snacks. Oh how I miss him so much. I am very sick right now and may go anyday, I will be so glad die and be with Jesus and my mom and dad again.. oh how wonderful that will be.
consider the etymology and history of the word suffer mid-13c., sufferen, "allow to occur or continue, refrain from hindering, fail to prevent or suppress," also "be made to undergo, endure, be subjected to" (pain, death, punishment, grief, injury, humiliation)
I keep hearing this theam o not submitting or surrendering their sins in death. What a fool who would not confess his sin before death and even a bigger fool would think I'm hiding anything and I would hate to be the man who says I am hiding anything. This is a great sermon for me and that man of sin who will die in his sin
Amen
Whether we die in faith or die in our sins this is the question
Yes, Dr Sproul; how wonderful would that be to die in faith ! ❤️You are a legend in true Christian preaching and I am certain you died in faith,too 😊🙏
This is gold! Praise Jesus!
My favorite preacher. Rest in God’s Kingdom, Saint Sproul.
What an incredible sermon. So full of human and divine truth. Thank you God and thank you to Mr. Sproul for what you shared with us during your time here.
We are fortunate to be able to listen and watch these recordings of Dr. Sproul in our time period ..It feels like Collegiate or sometimes Advanced Collegiate Studies .....Which I believe Honors the Lord very well .
This perspective helps
*❤️❤️❤️Yes, I like it, thanks to Ligonier Ministries. Regards from Jakarta. GBU* 🙏❤️🎼✝️
We await you're arrival oh master.
Blessed assurance, JESUS is mine. I have no doubts that I am His. Have never doubted my assurance that He has in store for me eternal life with Him.
Another wonderful message ❤️
Thanks for this beautiful message ❤
Perfect faith works with patient endurance.
I can't just tell how overwhelmed I am, listening to this session . one of Dr Sproul's greatest messages ...I can't by any means say how grateful we are to you and that we owe you a lot for teaching us the word of God earnestly,but I am sure you are thanked and rewarded by Him, our lord and saviour Jesus Christ.
Thank you for this sermon
Blessed Assurance. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
Thank you for this message.
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You know, this isn't the first time that I forgot that this man is a college professor and not a pastor!
Honestly, these lectures should actually be allowed to be stored in the Smithsonian museum!🙏😣
RC has been a blessing in our lives. Surely a gift from above.
@@drivewaymarvels311
R.C'.s teachings isn't just spiritual meat, it's a steroid! ✊🤯
Sproul was a pastor as well. He wasn’t just a professor.
@@1Whipperin as good pastors should. People like connecting with the speaker.
@@1Whipperin RC said the Bible should never be boring and he said if you can’t get excited about teaching it then your not reading it as God’s word. He practiced what he preached. His love for God shows in every teaching he’s ever done. It’s okay to be skeptical but watch him at conferences, in the pulpit and next to the chalkboard, he was passionate for the Holiness of God. He was a blessing to the church by a merciful God. Peace🙏
I've heard this before but it has a different meaning to me now as one of my sisters passed away this week. 💔
30:30 R. C was cooking🔥🔥🔥
Wonderful
LET NOT YOUR HEART 🐝 TROUBLED : YE BELIEVE IN GOD , BELIEVE ALSO IN ME . JOHN 14 : 1 KJV
Amen
There are a lot of words that I spoke to my Mam and Dad that I would give anything to take back. I have done a lot of sins, but the ones that hurt the most are the ones that hurt my mam and dad. There was no intention to hurt, but hurt they did. And for that I am eternally sorry.
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Die in Faith
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Is it worse to be incurably ill for many years, or to be witness and caregiver for someone you deeply love who will certainly die. Or even two people in your immediate family.
I don't know the answer to that question and I'm not sure it even matters. I do know that personal longevity and any "willingness to fight" potentially lethal personal illness is not always tied to faith in the way we think. Perhaps some of us have endured the suffering of others at close proximity for decades and are very ready to go home. I hope, pray and believe God understands those types of situations.
No one escapes death. When those who meet Jesus in the air are changed in the twinkling. of an eye, that is death and instantaneous resurrection. No one escapes death.. Those will simply not notice. They wont have to wait to be raised..
Radio/TV comedian Fred Allen went for his usual daily walk and had a fatal heart attack. His friend Jack Benny who spent years faking a fued with him was heart broken.
No, it isn’t death. Please stop speaking on your thought experiments as fact. We are transformed, not killed.
@@jacobforaker6222 tell me when we're transformed in the twinkling of an eye and in another place the scripture says Flesh and Blood shall not enter the kingdom of God oh, well what happens to the flesh, I'll tell you what happens to it , it dies , it is death for the flesh when we're transformed so they were right and you're not. There is also another scripture that says all flesh is like the grass of the field. What happens in grassy field? Need I say more?
@@donsimonds5186 again, no, Don. I recommend studying the topics you wish to discuss on social media so that you don’t look so silly. What is the Greek word used for transform? What does it mean?
“Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air…” Notice the word ALIVE?
“Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.”
Paul literally says WE WILL NOT ALL DIE.
Tell me you don’t know the Word of God without telling me..
Love Dr. Sproul's teachings!!! I've yet to listen to a full message where I didn't end it different then when I began it.
I had to walk away for a moment... My concern since young adulthood was where did you go after death. I have seen quite a bit of it. The question still remains, so I had tried to tell family and friends about Jesus for that reason. I have been shamefully negligent about this of late. No more....
wow. just::::::wow
He reminds me of Rod Serling creater of the Twilight Zone. The way he speaks and his manerisms.
James 2 john 6:40 eph 2:8-10 jeremiah 11:8
All have to be dying yet it's Qualifying note in Peter's epistle 1 Pet. 4:12-19 Surprising as based on Prov. 11:31 if redefined for every Christian carrying own cross likewise only due easiest wayout lest denying God's gospel as sinners
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Not just like that in literal senses but on the Spiritual dimensions Kingdom of Heavens dawn down opens its Gate.
I trust God but I don't trust me...Jude verse 24
does anybody know how RC died?
I don't know the exact circumstances of his death, but I know he preached one of the most beautiful sermons I've ever heard a few days before he passed. He definitely died in faith.
R.c. was a smoker for most of his life as far as I know and he had emphysema which eventually took his life. If I am wrong about this, someone can surely set the record straight.
@@TheAvenstarWhat matters is how he die either in faith or sin. I believe he died in faith.
Aren't as members of the church responsible for knowing whether someone knows the Gospel so that we might share it if they don't? I mean, I am nor sure I can have a conversation with anyone without it always coming back to Jesus for me. I'm just saying, like could you imagine one of the Apostles even sitting down before finding out whether you knew Christ or not first? Are we not supposed to avoid sitting with mockers? (Psalm 1) nor is this any judgment on Mr. Sproule, here, nor should we assume they kept much company with another. I love R.C Sproule. He's probably one of Jesus' modern ministers of His Word!!
Anyway...there are just many verses as well regarding the company you keep but most importantly is being able to talk about Jesus with anyone. If we are ashamed of him after all, why shouldn't he also be ashamed of us? For him to die on a cross for OUR sins and then we can't even mention him? Boy, I wouldn't want you in my kingdom either. Or if you only come over when you need something. So I'm trying to do a lot more like Jesus did. And I thank such great men of God who teach and preach the things of God with love and respect and honorably, morally, with judgment and even with humor , as these. I pray he is loving living with the Lord now.
My conversations do not veer to Christ. That is a severe shortcoming and says more about me than I knew. Thank you. God forgive me. You are right
"Dying in faith vs dying in sin"
Perhaps that's what RC said before he passed on...
Primarily anecdotal.
RC Sproul is rude to Israel, Not good. But an error in judgment. RIP Sir.
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Amen.