Nothing Left to Chance: The Classic Collection with R.C. Sproul
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The dominant view in our culture is that mankind-in fact, the entire universe-arose by chance. In this message, Dr. Sproul critiques this view by appealing to a basic truth: you can’t get something out of nothing. Nothing ever happens by chance, for God, who created everything in this world, rules over it all.
This is the 7th in a series of messages by Dr. Sproul. See other videos in the series: • Classic Collection - R...
What a blessing this man was. This is one of my favorite sermons from him. Shows his great sense of humor as well. He is so missed. An amazing message with a great delivery.
He's crazy
@@thunderpooch we kow you are
Agreed!! A blessed man of God.
one of the greatest teaching from a masterful teacher gifted by a sovereign God! I praise God for R.C. Sproul. to God be the glory!
What a wonderful sermon. I am sure I did not find it by chance.
What was the chance of that?
Not a chance.
Robert ~ Amen to that Robert! xD
You get that God is the beginning and the ending he needs no one you don't want to feel God wrath he hell to the battle is God your creator look at covid God wiping out everyone
Haha - Me neither!
I love all of RC's sermons and this one is epic.
One of the most magnificent teaching messages I have ever heard in my life
Hope to see RC in glory one day....God used this man to grow me in the Lord.....Amen...😇
Thank you for posting these earlier sermons of RC Sproul. His insight and teaching has been very illuminating for me.
I just happened to catch this video by chance ... uh, oh yeah. 😉
Haha! I like that. Thanks for the chuckle.
Brilliant... his teaching unmatched!
For me. This message is second only on his studies of the Holiness of God. I'm so thankful for this man's ministry.
One of the greatest theologian! Of modern day history ❤
Oh! How l have been blessed by this great semon of a great preacher in the history of the Christian Church. Christ died not by chance on the cross for me. He was fore ordained by my Father God before the foundation of the world. Really Gid fore ordains every thing, bad or good, which takes place in time. Praise the Lord, for He is our sovereign God.
This is the ultimate wisdom we could get from this preacher...it so simple to understand...BRAVO...
God always has some men in every generation who know the truth and through whom God preserves his truth and through whom also he teaches us his precious truth in order to save us and preserve our soul unto eternity for the praise of his glory.
Amen Sproul. The Bible is truly remarkable, for it is the living word of God. May we adore and uphold His glorious name forevermore. God bless you all.
2021 and Still RC speaks... with such grace.
He is my favorite teacher along side cs lewis
Epic! Thank you Ligonier
Best sermon ever!!!
Amazing message
WOW!
"Daag-gone"! 😂
How come I only saw this today. Is it by chance? 😁😉
25:54 Sovereignty/Passive/God's Will of Permission detail
Are you asking a question?
Have you found answers?
@@samdg1234 I don't recall why I tagged that??? Think I meant to go back at a future date for reference.
Do you think he was correct (~34;08) when he said,
"The word chance is a word that we use, a cipher, a symbol to describe mathematical possibilities."
Shouldn't the word possibilities have been probabilities?
Major mess up on the subtitles in the beginning of the sermon. Could those be fixed?
R. C. Sproul was an outstanding preacher. But does he believe this thing happened the way described in the Old Testament? How come, that God punished the Philistines for capturing the Ark, but several centuries later the Ark went missing, obviously destroyed by the Babylonians, and we do not hear of the humiliation of the Marduk by YHWH, or any kind of plague or rodent infestation of Babylon.
The explanation is rather simple. This story of Dagon being humiliated in front of YHWH was written after the wars between the Hebrews and the Philistines, but the story of the Babylonian defeat of Judah was contemporary history, which could not be embellished, all the more so, that Judah did not get back its independence even after the return from Babylon. But while the two Jewish kingdoms (or at least Judah) existed, they could tell such a legendary tale about the fights with the Philistines.
Moral of the story: if you ever get hemorrhoids…repent!!
Yea right.
Just awesome . there is so much to learn in the bible about life and of course THE GOD WHO IS SOVEREIGN OVER IT ALL
Around 9:50 he misspeaks a bit. The mother named the child, not someone else. There should've been a correction on the screen or something.
1 Samuel 4
20 And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention. 21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”
That said, I've always found this to be one of the saddest, darkest passages in Scripture.
You are right.. the mother named the child " Ichabod "...
@@elizabethvardhan2956 The whole thing is so sad!
I see that it's a year later and there is still no correction.
How could you not get depressed reading stories like this?
Depressed when God is sovereign?
Florin D depressed when your name is “the glory of God is gone”
@@sheepdog916 He can change his name.
... If one has been through very difficult trials & struggles... and is finally blessed with the conviction that there is no malevolence within the Almighty (as I was), then one can retain confidence in a perfect, holy God.. because of his benevolent nature........ despite whatever we might experience. God is not malevolent.. just because he ordained (or allowed) my first three young children to die. God doesn't exist to serve me. I exist to honor Him. Peace.
Daaaaaagon 😂🙏✝️
The lake of fire is eternal otherwise there is no punishment for sinners and the devil and his angels.
The Basics:. "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." Rejecters will not be. Why wouldn't the myriads of similar verses not say "those chosen to believe at creation will be saved"? Because it would be an acçursed predestined different gospel! Those that do believe are predestined to be conformed to Christ's image. Believe and trust the Bible, not men
Jay, I have recently begun to study on the topic you mentioned in your comment as I never have directly before (at least not with purpose). A question/scenario jumped out to me early in my study of this that seems so obvious in that it needs to be answered and yet I had never considered it before. So far no one I have posed it to has been able to answer it and seeing your comment I am hoping you might provide some insight.
I assume you believe in Yahweh’s sovereignty, that He knows the end from the beginning, that He knows all things past present and future, that there is no knowledge that He ever gains, and that there is nothing He ever learns.
With that said, let’s take a hypothetical man by the name of Bob Jones. Bob Jones is born like every other human, lives his entire life in rejection of his Creator and of Christ, and dies separated from God to spend eternity separated from the LORD. Bob Jones is not eternal, there is no essence of Bob Jones that must be created, and no one has forced God to create Bob Jones.
If God knows all things and also knows that Bob Jones will reject Him his entire life and end up in hell, why does God create Bob Jones?
I cannot see any other possibility other than that the Armenian and the Calvinist both have to answer this question that God chose it to be and that He had a purpose for creating Bob Jones who He knew would end up in hell if created. The only theist who does not have to answer this question in this way is an open theist who believes that God is constantly learning and did not know the end before he created. Thoughts?
@@miketisdale7341 As you said, God knows the end from the beginning. He knew Adam would sin but gave man choice so that he could freely return His love and not be a robot. He also knew his creation was good, and the outcome would be to His glory. Just because God has foreknowledge does not mean everything is predestined. In 1Sam23:11 God told David that Saul would come to Keilah and attack him. David & his men left and it didn't happen. In Luke 10:31 Jesus said a priest came down a road By Chance. In Luke 7:30 the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God. Even Judas could have changed his mind, God would have just found another way,. See, He has all the bases covered, He will not be stymied. We are not outside of time like God is and can only surmise, as Solomon did:. Ecclesiastes 9:11 I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
@@jayahladas692 but that still does not answer my question about Bob Jones. Bob Jones did not ask for God to create him, and God knows he will end up in hell, and still creates him. It seems like Romans 9 speaks to this scenario and I am certainly not calling it unfair as Paul anticipates. I just don’t see how the Armenian camp can say it is not predestined if God knows it will happen and by His sovereign degree creates Bob anyway. Even if you go with the perspective that He knows the outcome of all possible worlds He creates or knows the outcome of all possible decisions that could be made, it’s still His choice to create who He creates. I’m not sure how any person honestly gets out from under that without saying God didn’t know. Again, Bob Jones did not have to be created and no matter what possibility of decisions Bob Jones could make, God knows the exact ones he will make.
These are just the questions I have been mulling over in my head but I don’t think your response of “God can get it done another way if he needs to” addresses my question because it does not address what God did do. Either way, thank you for the response and based on the content at least I know your stance. Thank you!
@@miketisdale7341. Mike, I think you're not comprehending what I wrote. In summary, I was trying to show (by scriptual examples) that just because God has foreknowledge it does Not mean that it is 100% predestined to happen & set in stone (unless it's a Covenant promise) Man Always has Choice!! God can Always do whatever He wants, including change his mind!
@@jayahladas692 Thank you for attempting to answer.
Daaa gone 😆 🤣
Satan did not gather his armies from the four quarters of the earth in 70 AD.
Only Rome came against Israel.
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Christ has yet to save the remnant of Israel when he stands upon the Mount of Olives (Zechariah 12:10)
That has not yet been fulfilled.
And the saints come WITH Christ (Zechariah 12, rev 19, Jude 1:14, 1 thes 3:13)
If Christ came already you missed the rapture.
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The elements melt with fervent heat when Christ comes. (2 peter 3)
That did not happen 70 AD.
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1/4 men have not died yet (rev 6)
1/3 Burnt has not yet happened (rev 8)
144000 has not been saved yet, the remnant has not yet fled.
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If Christ already came, then how do you explain (rev 19, Isaiah 63, when Christ spills the lifeblood of the nations in the day of vengeance.
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If Christ came, where is the 1000 year millenial kingdom the Jews were promised to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
This has not happened, as they get the kingdom when Christ returns.
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There's so many holes in your pail it does not hold water.
Please share my two brief videos with other people.
Jesus met the cross because he offended God he will judge you 70times 7
Masterpiece
Today marks RC's 4th year in Heaven. May God bless His beloved Church by sending us faithful preachers and teachers who will not bow the knee to the world. Who will encourage us to stand and fight the good fight of faith. Let us all glorify God in the life of our departed brother R.C. Sproul. May God bless us all
Awesome preaching!! It's a privilege that I got the opportunity to listen...thank you for playing it in UA-cam ❤ above all thak you the sovereign God😢
I’ve learn almost all of my theology from RC!
I admire the height of insights with which the Lord has endowed this servant of God
An awesome teacher. Greatly missed..yet I rejoice for him. see you soon R.C.
This video was my first exposure to this gifted scholar, speaker and lover of our Lord. I give thanks for his life and will be back.
Nothing in our lives happens by chance-- what an encouraging message!
Amen to your comment. The Word I need always pops up without prompting. It helps to only follow solid teachers. Nothing we do is by chance...all our steps are ordered by The Lord.
I have listened to this classic message over and over and each time it strengthens my faith in our awesome God! Thank you for this Ministry!
Never gets old
I thought I was alone. One of my favorite sermons. I love it when he says “What are the chances that the universe was created by chance? Not a chance.”
God has blessed us tremendously through his preachers and teachers like RC. I praise and thank you, Lord. Help us to continue to honor, love and serve You.
IfaavuivDssd
The Lord God is sovereign!!!!
I like it. Thank you Ligonier for keeping n posting this video. May Jesus Christ bless your mission.
Amazing and eye-opening teaching, I'd never realized certain things until R.C. Sproul explained them to me via these videos.
I love the man!
Not a chance!
I love RC, & am so grateful to be at his church. We don’t understand why the Lord took him, but we know, The Lord knows best.
Lord, thank you so much for giving me by your grace, the opportunity to listen to the beautiful sermons of RC Sproul and to vicariously met him. 🙏❤️🙏. This is such a tremendous blessing for me!
RC is a tremendous instrument of God's truth, even in death!
Unfortunatly now, if someone named their son Sue, they would be called "brave and stunning"
So?
This is a masterpiece
Gods miracles stoped he washed his hands of us you worshipping other Gods Jesus above God God is the antichrist what's the punishment for worshipping another God Death by God
He’s the best
2nd to none!
How does this only have 61k views?
Best sermon that I have ever heard!!! Hands down
I have watched this 4X already.
Dr R.C Sproul is a Titan of Christianity
Zee Dub Titan indeed
Spiritual giant, he's gonna go into the books as the Spurgeon of his century. Steven Lawson for the 21st.
RC was a legend. Learned so much from him. He’s missed tremendously.
Please pray for my children and I
I have.
God bless you and your children.
@@samdg1234 thank u so much
Amen..there is nothing like chance for God is Soverign
Maybe I haven't made enough trips around the sun yet but this is still the best sermon that I have ever heard. A true masterpiece!
Amen, I’ve listened to this message countless times and it never fails to put me in awe of God😍
How talented God has blessed RC.... So the everybody listening to his sermons is so impress ed and deeply touched!
Amazing. What we miss in this world are truly god fearing leaders
I’m so grateful God sent us men like Sproul for a time such as this.
Thank you, God, for RC and Vesta!
What a beautiful teaching.. Everything is ordained by our Most High God...
Can anyone hear an echo when rc shouts?
God blows my mind. Praise God.
It's been a year since my last comment. I see that there is still no correction for the portion around 10:11 where he misspeaks and says someone else names Ichabod, when the text says the mother named him. Please correct this. We cannot allow any mockers to start their mocking. Thank you.
1 Samuel 4
20 And about the time of her death the women attending her said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you have borne a son.” But she did not answer or pay attention. 21 And she named the child Ichabod, saying, “The glory has departed from Israel!” because the ark of God had been captured and because of her father-in-law and her husband. 22 And she said, “The glory has departed from Israel, for the ark of God has been captured.”
Great message to hear around Christmas or anytime
The Virgin Mary had a ✋ baby boy and they said his name 💕 was Jesus. He came from the glory, he came from the glorious Kingdom.
Absolutely beautiful message!🥲
I LOVE THIS MAN EVERY TIME I WATCH HIM!
So far, RC Sproul is the best theologian-preacher I have ever
listened to. His intellect is natural. His belief in God is sincere.
Can anyone suggest someone like him?
Thanks.
ohn barnett is also awesome. more from history and languages, but he is good
27:54--28:01... "one maverick molecule could destroy all the plans of God"! Exaggeration is not allowed; and "one maverick fallen angel" is the proof: read Is.14:4-27. God does ordain "every thing that comes to pass", if He ordained it to do that. God does not "ordain" every evil thing that people think. That would go against His holy and righteous character and will.
Let's see the Scripture for such exaggeration...if you can present it.
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. - Proverbs 16:33
I agree with everyyhing he said.. RC Sproul is a genius and the best Christian expositor I've heard...
No
He does not ordain EVERYONE Clearly.
I love him soooo much....thank you Lord for his sermons
RC Sproul would've been an amazing Columbo!
Heard him once speak of his love for Columbo.
YES 😂😂😂
You get it.
No chance I found this by chance.
DAAaaaGOON hahah funny
Lord GOD Almighty
Outstanding
Not a Chance!
My Favorite
Amen
Thanks
Amen!
Amen
I love you RC Sproul, I do not share your very sharpened mind of all things scripture. I am very interested and I am a dope! Thanks to you for sharing understanding of scripture, and passion for God relationship.
Give them a 50-50 chance, so called Nature's lovers as Scientific named it zooo not causative effective habitat, and Humanities want paint surfaces of a Dice's themselves in hierarchical order fallen on own fates no events?!
It certainly pays to seek God's guidance as we walk through his word as we discover the wisdom of his counsel. What a great God we have. God continue to use this ministry and bring blessing and understanding to all who claim him as Lord and King.
What a blessing R.C. Sproul was in his time here on earth, and still is through his teachings of the scriptures that were recorded by man, and ordained by God the Father. Glory
A preacher once sent me several scripture references with the word " chance" in them. He was trying to prove that God is not sovereign
I was totally puzzled why he would do that 😢
That was so beautiful.!! What a man! What a God, to choose such a man to teach and edify us. I,ve been so blessed. It moved me to pray. To talk to this God of wonder. He has no equal!! To whom would we liken God? Yet he being so great, loves with a strong love. Glory to his name
Such incredible, timely messages from RC as he teaches from Biblical History. Jesus Christ the same yesterday to day and for ever. (Heb. 13:8)