God's Electing Love: Loved by God with R.C. Sproul
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- Опубліковано 11 сер 2019
- Not everyone receives God’s eternal love. So, how does a person become a part of God’s family? Is everyone called to be adopted? Is God obligated to give His love to everyone? In this lesson, Dr. Sproul discusses the sovereignty of God’s electing love, the recipients of it, and our proper response to it.
This is the 5th in a series of messages by Dr. Sproul on the love of God. See other videos in the series: • Loved by God - R.C. Sp...
I spent 40 years lost, and even celebrating my sin. Every day I still don’t understand why God chose me out of the world. It’s the greatest gift you could ever receive, that no one seems to want. My old worldly friends think I’m a weak, brainwashed, idiot, and none of them will even discuss it with me. I pray that one day, I twill get a phone call from one of them asking me about Christ. Today though, I am much more interested in developing a loving relationship with the Lord and with my self.
Amen brother!
Living for an audience of One is a blessed and peaceful way to live! The Lord bless your journey with Him.
God bless you Danny. I spent a number of years early on in my life doing likewise and the LORD as in the case with all of His adopted children, we’re a “brand plucked out of the fire”.
I’m glad to hear you got saved. That’s the most important thing in life. Don’t worry about what people think; their minds are darkened and hearts are hardened. All we can do is pray for them and try to live by example of following Christ.
Amennnn!!!!!!!!
R.C. is a master teacher!
Agreed!
Excellent teaching on the predestination doctrine by
R.C. sproul. Thanks to his departed soul. Also thanks to the ministry.
Wow ! We serve an awesome God. According to good the pleasure of His will, in praise of the glory of His grace.
God bless the late Dr. R.C. Sproul 🙂❤️
I used too cry when hearing Amazing Grace because it reminded me of people I loved; buried. Today because His Amazing Grace, I know the lyrics in my heart and cry because of His Holy Gift my wretched self will never have a need but sing His praises in me.
I loved this one. They assume grace must be given to everyone.
I too just love him. He makes it so lovely and joyful. The love of God.
Very thoroughly explained !
Amen praise the Lord Jesus 🤓🙏👏🙌👏👍☝️✊
Sad to see the thumbs down votes, must be the people who believe that man is sovereign in their decision for Christ
How lucky those who heard this message directly from R.C. face to face.
Thank you 🙏
This is an extremely humbling message!!
This requires much meditation, wisdom and help from the Holy Spirit to grade. We are so used to judging God by our human standards and understanding. I’m not there yet.
To: Robyn
This is a good approach to take concerning the weighty matters that pertain to God. It demonstrates a seeking soul rather than one being quick to have a made up mindset. I think most of the time in these sort of things, the acceptance of them comes to us more like the dawning of the sun rather than like a light bulb coming on quickly.
And if there is no ‘dawning’ there, we lay it aside until and if He would chose to awaken us.
The Lord bless you, in your pursuit of Him.
Do becareful with meditation. God does say to always have control over our mind. If we meditate, we're allowing demons to have easier access to us. God bless :)
@@loveroftruth8148 I'd suggest that you listen to some Joel Beeke on "Biblical Meditation". There's a world of a difference between worldly satanic meditation vs biblical. With biblical meditation, we take a text and meditate on it, ponder it, in light of God's character and what He reveals to us in His word, how to apply it to our lives properly etc. I pray you get a chance to look at Beeke's sermons on this manner, along with all the wonderful puritan works covering this subject. Biblical meditation is crucial to us adopted children and our walk with our Father. Blessings.
Such good teachings!! Wearable and thank God that he ever looked on us and chose us to be his dear Children. Thank God for such men of God who would u fd
Haven t finished what I had to say.!! Thank God for men of God who would unlock the word of God and edify us.
22:39 If the God chooses certain people according to "his good pleasure and will," and later on "the mystery of his will", then that doesn't explain much how God choses. It's an appeal to mystery. We can never know why God chose some and pass over others.
How do people reconcile this with Timothy 2:3-4? I can just as easily interpret all the verses RC’s provided in a way that is consistent that anyone can be saved and not only a preselected few.
He still didn’t explain what criteria God used to predetermine who will be saved. To paraphrase, RC provided the verse that said that God chose people based upon what brought Him joy, or something. That’s avoidance because it leads to the question of why did preselecting those people bring Him joy and not others? Since he didn’t address it, it follows that his view is actually that we’re preselected randomly. If not randomly, then what was the criteria?
First of all, God doesn't have a council, He is God, sufficient in himself. Who are we to question the actions of God. God does all things for His glory and we trust by faith that every decision God makes is Perfect in holiness and righteousness.
You are reasoning yourself out of what the Apostle Paul is attempting to make clear. It is solely by God's Sovereignty. The very idea that any of us could be saved is incredible in itself.
@@itzFresco God tells us that He wills all to be saved but only a few will be saved. That 100% proves RC wrong.
Well said. R.C. speaks as if he's revealing the reason certain people are chosen and not others, but after all his gyrations, he doesn't actually explain it.
@@itzFresco Well, then, it shouldn't be said, by R.C. or anyone else, that there's an explanation why certain people and not others are chosen, if it's merely arbitrary after all.
Still doesn't explain why certain people and not others.
If God is God, why did he let Satan come into the Garden? I’ll tell you: because God would be an unfair God if he gave us free choice, but then no choices what choice did they have? God spoke to them, and if they didn’t hear anything else but God, what’s the point of free choice? That’s why he let the serpent in God says something, the serpent says something else, and they believe the serpent and choose to disobey God because God is Holy, they had to separate from God in sin and ever since there’s been a war and the war one day will end when every single person on the planet hears about Jesus has the same opportunity as Adam and Eve.
Such a good teacher. Too bad he was so wrong about grace and love. 15:18 How is responding to receive a free gift make that response a 'work' or make it any less glorifying to God?
Because then you can say "God owes me Grace because 'I accepted it.'"
When the true view is that God has accepted you. That "We love him, BECAUSE, He FIRST loved us."
J Fresco that does not follow. When did you ever receive a gift and boast about the fact you received it? Receiving love and grace leads no one to boast. Ephesians 2:8-9.
@@ironlion805 Interesting enough, I started my Christian faith in a Liberal Church. You'd be surprised how puffed up they all are. "You throw around so much grace, you'd give people a license to sin." Don't know who said that. But when I heard it, I looked around that church and realized how artificial and puffed up they were.
2years later, I am now in a IFB church that has traditional and conservative values, they sing hymns. And I see now that these people have a true faith and understand the grace that has been given to them.
T last think about these two verses:
⁴⁴ "No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him; and I will raise him up on the last day. ...
⁶⁵ And He was saying, "For this reason I have said to you, that no one can come to Me, unless it has been granted him from the Father. "
(NASB+ John 6:44,65)
Because your moral inability blocks that from happening.
Freewill salvation like preached by Arminians is salvation by works.
oof, the guy totally forgot to say the first two verses in ephesians which explains that it was to the leaders about ministry, not about salvation.
Now, was it that he stopped using hair product? Or perhaps conditioner? Because in other videos, his hair is vibrant and alive. This one, it's as if he's been wearing a ball-cap all day and just took it off. Mystery.
Haha... it was but a phase. Didn’t last.
Finally, asking the real questions! Haha!
God hasn't chosen the individuals who will be saved. Those individuals are chosen by accepting the criteria God has established by which a person is saved.
That means they weren’t chosen.
By the "good pleasure of His will"
No sir, that is a distortion of Ephesians 1:4. The words "in Him" does not describe WHO God chose, but HOW God chose. Just look at how "in Him" is used in verses 3, 7, 9, and 11... In each case, the words "in Him" describes the context in which God's choice took place. One could paraphrase Ephesians 1:4 to read: "just as God chose, in the context of Christ, the saints before He created the world." Your interpretation has God choosing believers, not non-believers, and that God's choice of men in eternity past is contingent upon their future foreseen faith, that an individual was not elected until he placed his faith in Christ, but this position denies verse 4 that states that this choosing took place “before the foundation of the world.” The Greek language here indicates that “chose” is not an action that took place in the past that would require future actions or modifications in the future, as if God’s choosing before the foundation of the world was somehow incomplete, rather, the language here indicates that God’s choice was a one-time, past, completed action (“chose” is in the aorist tense).
To say that "individuals are chosen by accepting..." is to do a disservice to the text since it ignores both the grammatical tense of the verb "chose," and the context into which it is used. Verse 3 sets the context for how "in Him" is used, and it is carried throughout this passage, but to assert what you have, it interrupts Paul's flow of thought, and inserts an idea foreign to the text.
GET A CLUE~
@@normanpelley
Would you care to be a tad more specific?
Ahh the comforting "gospel"(???) of Calvinism. God has created a race, all of which hate Him, so He picks out("elects") a few of them, saves them etc in order to demonstrate His "Love for all"(8:15) and then tortures the rest forever so the few can really enjoy being saved. This is "the pleasure of His will" apparently even though the Scripture clearly says "He takes NO pleasure in the death of the wicked". Methinks RC may have a few questions to answer as he stands before Our Saviour to give an account as we all must.
And predestined means the Jews where chosen and they didn't except it so the gospel was predestined to the gentile to make the Jews jealous. CALVINISM IS A SYSTEM.
And predestined means the Jews where chosen and they didn't except it so the gospel was predestined to the gentile to make the Jews jealous. CALVINISM IS A SYSTEM.
@Montgomery scott if it's up to us the church is gonna be zero people.
@@TinyMoMosWorld nothing wrong with systematic theology.
Ok with all respect due what is your view..