Who Is the Truth?: A Blueprint for Thinking with R.C. Sproul

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In the development of a solid Christian worldview, we need a solid foundation. Unfortunately, many have not done that. As a result, many corners of modern Christianity resemble the religions of the world. Where is the church in her thinking about God? What place does He really hold in the minds of Christians? In this message entitled “Who is the Truth?” Dr. Sproul points us back to our Creator as we seek to understand ourselves and interpret the world around us.
This is the 3rd message in a series on Christian thinking by R.C. Sproul. See other videos in the series: • A Blueprint for Thinki...

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@kronos01ful 3 жыл бұрын

I miss R.C. ...I struggle with truth as an atheist 15 years ago . And by the grace of God I came across R.C. Sproul one day on the radio. And he spoke so well,so intellectually so historically rich that I was so stimulated to keep looking for hes teaching. I became a Christian after many years of this amazing apostle of God . He spoke truth. Jesus is amazing! And I'm so thankful for R.C Sproul.

@honahwikeepa2115 Жыл бұрын

Beautiful story.

@rubiks6 3 жыл бұрын

Theology is my pastime. That's why I'm here. I love thinking about God, including thinking deeply about God. I would question my own salvation if I didn't think all the time about God. He is truly in my soul.

@rubiks6 Жыл бұрын

@@nonamesthesame - Yep. I was just having a conversation with someone about "life only comes from life." The Living God is the source of all life - not hydrothermal vents in the ocean.

@deusx.machinaanime.3072 7 күн бұрын

Pastime? RC Sproul’s response to that is 14:40 “I think everything Theological…because everything has Theological significance” Therefore, there’s no such thing as pastime, as it should be all-the-time.

@rubiks6 7 күн бұрын

@@deusx.machinaanime.3072 - Why are you finding fault? Do you just want to start an argument with a brother in Christ?

@Dianasaur78 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve discovered that these reformed brothers are my people. Especially when he says that we can acknowledge God in all our ways and in everything we experience. I’ve often been accused of “over-spiritualizing” everything. Now I’ve found my people! 🥳

@jubedance15 Ай бұрын

Oh that every church could hear this message today. Thank you for posting, Ligonier!

@Benjamin-fu5ij 2 жыл бұрын

I came across a clip by R.C. around 5 years ago on biblical non-conformity, and my life hasn't been the same since. R.C. has helped me come to a deeper understanding of the character of God, a debt that can never be repaid. Miss him dearly.

@hephzibahhart5995 4 жыл бұрын

RC, we needed you here longer.

@beulahgideon9779 4 жыл бұрын

Yes, so true...

@freshlikeme383 4 жыл бұрын

If that were true he'd be here.

@TheKing-qz9wd 4 жыл бұрын

Are we so weak that only one teacher could manage? There was a time before Sproul, and we have outlived him now. Find another teacher if you must.

@Manatti06 4 жыл бұрын

His departure was pitch perfect

@faithafterdark7801 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheKing-qz9wd Someone saying that we needed a minister here longer, does NOT imply that they're weak. Shame on you for the implication and rudeness.

@normgardner4560 4 жыл бұрын

Oh my, how good is this! The church has become impotent b/c of a worldly view of God! Forgive us God! Forgive me Abba Father!

@24Revelation 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting these longer messages. The content has more depth and meaning in context. God bless!

@MannyLokstahh Ай бұрын

Isn’t it funny that the Word of God and Gods sovereignty is, and still holds true today. I struggle daily with things and asked God to know his truth, to believe his truth in the deepest parts of my inner being, and this is the first video that pops up while I’m at the Gym. Lord I thank you for your truth, I thank you for your mercy, and your grace that is ever un ending.

@actrealationalist 4 жыл бұрын

When Sproul and Van Til agree, you know you better be taking notes. X D

@enriquealbertoperezdelgado9580 4 жыл бұрын

I am seeing 11 dislikes at the moment of this post, how could anyone dislike this video? Great preaching and teaching

@Manatti06 4 жыл бұрын

I Love how he said: One who "Survived the seminary experience". I'm in seminary right now and survival is certainly part of it.

@mjl0611 4 жыл бұрын

Why so?

@Manatti06 4 жыл бұрын

@@mjl0611 you're learning everything about God and how to be equipped to minister. For God to use you. "Principalities" do not like that.

@shannonlawsonnashville 4 жыл бұрын

Manatti06 i wish i could hear your stories on that. Ive experienced it just after being saved. I can only imagine what you have gone through

@jensmith5116 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Lord for this man!!!!!!

@barbarawiggins4403 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for posting this... We need a God Worldview. Help us to see You and Your holiness.

@deusx.machinaanime.3072 7 күн бұрын

Something to ponder indeed. It does make you ask “Why?”

@aprilholton1150 3 жыл бұрын

Another great teaching by R.C. Sproul!! I believe the most life changing way to realize truth is by "going through" life situations. Driving by a car accident or hearing about it on the news is one thing, but when you are IN a car accident it gives you a different perspective. I find this to be true in our spiritual walk as well! The more intense the situation, the better the understanding will be. I remember many life lessons which came from tragic circumstances. I always reflect with the attitude of what did I learn from that?!? Did going through that mold me into a better person, or show a character flaw? Personal reflection is so critical in our spiritual walk, but we must be OPEN to it. We must be humble enough to realize we are going to make mistakes in this life and react accordingly...................God bless you all

@gerardovivanco5631 2 жыл бұрын

Amen sister! At 65 yrs of age I am going thru a very difficult "situation" myself. R.C.s teaching of God's Word has helped me tremendously!

@aprilholton1150 2 жыл бұрын

@@gerardovivanco5631 I'm sorry to hear you are going through a very difficult situation. I imagine we will have them until Jesus comes back for us! We serve a cruxified Lord so what do we expect?! I will pray for you tonight, that our heavenly father will be with you(of course He will) and that you get some epiphany from it. Those are always nice to get!! I want to meet R.C. in heaven and have a meal with him, he is fascinating to me! God bless you

@gerardovivanco5631 2 жыл бұрын

@@aprilholton1150 Thank you very much for your response. I just saw it right now........ Blessings to you!

@aprilholton1150 2 жыл бұрын

@@gerardovivanco5631 Your welcome, has your situation gotten any better?!? I am still praying for you--

@101guitars-tm6 4 жыл бұрын

Honest preacher - you can tell

@aronmoralez9415 7 ай бұрын

Rc sproul, excellent teacher

@sheldonbass4238 6 ай бұрын

Having absorbed the first two videos in this series, I'm elated to discover there are yet more. Oh that I had been exposed to such teaching in my younger years! Over the past 8 or 9 years, Ligonier's Ministry has tremendously blessed me. Having been inculcated with various tools, and lenses through which to peer, has enabled me to cogitate more deeply and usefully on sundry aspects of the world, with emphasis on theology, hence the teleology of life in its multitudinous facets. Don't ask for my telos in making this comment as I'm not really certain. Perhaps it has something to do with my yearning to be of greater benefit to my siblings in Christ. It's tough to sell myself when, educationally, I merely possess 20 years of "autodidactic" study. I suppose I was wrong: that degree would have been worth something after all. Now, I'll listen to this one. Thank you for your prayers for an old man still working to mortify the flesh, and to help bring disciples to maturity.

@tommasolombardi3520 4 жыл бұрын

I love this man. I always fill fulfilled when I listen to him. The truth is wonderful.

@paollipoapazola3829 4 жыл бұрын

My best description of RC's lectures.... like you've just sat down and eaten a 5 course meal, including a huge Angus steak. You walk away feeling stuffed full.

@tommasolombardi3520 4 жыл бұрын

Paolli Poapazola good description 😀

@williamjayaraj2244 4 жыл бұрын

Very good message from the man of God R.C . Sproul. Thanks to the ministry.

@mildseven0506 4 жыл бұрын

Wow, I see the significance. Thank you Jesus, and Robert who still speak today 2020 💕👏💕👏

@daniellim5781 4 жыл бұрын

This is what has been on my mind as of lately ever since I started to read the Gospels again but this time with more focus and meditation; also writing about the things I come across from them. God's sovereignty being the biggest one.

@fritzdoerring9058 3 жыл бұрын

Amen! RC; We are given reason, for a "Reason".

@marialamb6781 3 жыл бұрын

LOL, AMEN……@13:25 I guess I’m a theologian also. I have always endeavored and without even thinking to find God in everything. My mother taught me how to convert things …… to see God in things. To a point of course I’m not saying converting sin. But I never saw Moby Dick the way he explained that book in the introduction to this series. That’s just amazing. I would have so much enjoyed being able to talk to him. I was a grown woman whenever he was around TEACHING. And I never had a chance of sitting under him. It’s a joy and a treat to find him now. I have an atheist Facebook friend that I’m going to send this series to and I’m gonna tell him, “guess what he agrees that you should use your mind to think about God” and then when he listens maybe he will finally hear and listen to comprehend.

@billmoxon9506 4 жыл бұрын

That's the most powerful sermon I've heard in a long time. Why wouldn't we be delighted to try to understand and savor all the glories of the holiness of our God?? What've we got to do that could compete with that??

@JesusAlleineRettet 2 жыл бұрын

Seminary is the entire life, and having the Teachings of RC included is high potentially necessary a must have.

@BraydenWolframe 3 жыл бұрын

Amen Sproul. We need to be firmly rooted in the living Word of God. May our lives imitate His, walking in His footsteps forevermore. God bless you all.

@Martha77 4 жыл бұрын

Praise God for RC Sproul

@Yesica1993 Жыл бұрын

It was so encouraging to hear about his Christian philosophy professor! God bless that man. People like that are on the front lines of spiritual battle. They get very little credit for it. They're often even criticized for being in that profession. But if not for such people, many Christians would fall away. Imagine if this professor had not been in RC's life when he was! Imagine the world without RC's strong biblical teaching. People like that professor are heroes just as much any missionary going to some isolated country. Only eternity will reveal the reaches of their influence for Christ's kingdom. When hearing challenges, so many Christians do the plug-your-ears, "I believe it, that settles it", thing he described earlier. Nowhere does the Bible present or command such a thing. The biblical worldview is entirely defendable! We must learn these other worldviews and how the Bible addresses them. It doesn't have to be formally in a philosophy class. But philosophy is everywhere, every day. We must have the biblical worldview that knows how to take these things apart and how God's Word is superior to anything made up by man.

@CosmoviZionn 4 жыл бұрын

How amazing! Such charisma!

@micahvm7476 4 жыл бұрын

Wohoo! Excited to listen.

@honahwikeepa2115 Жыл бұрын

This is my 3rd devotion today. Brilliant.

@ianself9365 4 жыл бұрын

Rc you taught me so much over the years...thank the lord for you. Truth? Not what is the truth, the truth is a person

@marstonward3602 4 жыл бұрын

Not all can articulate their faith as RC. Instead of calling them names, RC should use his skills to help them. Together we are stronger and in the body of Christ.

@arthurwolfgramm4823 4 жыл бұрын

That's true but I think RC was more saying that sometimes our approach towards skepticism is to simply close our ears and think we cannot win.

@marstonward3602 4 жыл бұрын

@@arthurwolfgramm4823 Indeed. Love RC though. Hope he is with the Lord 🙏.

@arthurwolfgramm4823 4 жыл бұрын

@@marstonward3602 Amen brother. Hope you have a blessed day

@Manatti06 4 жыл бұрын

That's what Ligonier is... It's a ministry that helps.

@ericcasey7593 2 жыл бұрын

I love this man.

@Second_Insight 4 жыл бұрын

This was a beautiful man.

@themessenger9624 4 жыл бұрын

This is fantastic

@Chesterbarnes1 2 жыл бұрын

I totally agree with Dr. R. C. Sproul

@AndradeM 9 ай бұрын

Looking unto Jesus!

@simonerobledo8198 4 жыл бұрын

Such a beautiful video!

@pd003 4 жыл бұрын

Great teaching

@lolserm Жыл бұрын

Este video merece muchos más likes. Pero gloria a Dios por ligonier

@pd003 4 жыл бұрын

Great sermon

@delmar6863 4 жыл бұрын

Great and awesome messages

@wordopencom328 4 жыл бұрын

Amen and Amen!

@guitarfangoil 3 жыл бұрын

YahuShua Is The Gift... Blessed Are Those Who Know and Accept Him

@egrstga255tga255 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Watching these with a dictionary but wow!

@jacobwhitus3715 3 жыл бұрын

I love R.C's teaching. It's so powerful, even for a Presbyterian. JK. He's the best.

@Okieshowedem 4 жыл бұрын

Since Father YAHweh know everything in advance. It would be wise I do believe to ask Father YAHweh why we do what we do.

@samuelsnead7063 3 жыл бұрын

Psalm 1 - Pslam 2 relax and soak these to chapters in. over and over again is the Key.

@jesuschristbiblebiblestudy 4 жыл бұрын

One of the most common logical fallacy has the name ad hominem or “against the person.” Ad hominem arguments are usually defined as those in which an attack on a person is substituted for a response to an argument. This continues the discussion of general errors in reasoning with the treatment of vacuity. We must examine deficiencies in relevance, those that involve inferences from factors that have nothing to do with the relationship between evidence and claim. Some fallacies are deficiencies in relevance. These result from introducing a factor that has nothing to do with the relationship between the evidence and the claim. Ad hominem arguments are usually defined as those in which an attack on a person is substituted for a response to an argument.

@elcioeverton8679 3 жыл бұрын

Amém.

@Truthjustice23 4 жыл бұрын

Very good we need to know this. Thanks God for this ministry. 💗😌🙏

@dehsa38 2 жыл бұрын

Rip RC I just met you, but we're so brothers in Christ! See you face to face soon.

@thomasricardo9833 4 жыл бұрын

🙏

@pd003 4 жыл бұрын

R.C. Sproul is very much missed

@almamoore8446 3 жыл бұрын

I enjoy the explaining Words, as I know that one Word whch is the most important Word in my life and this Word is Jesus. The word why gets so many answers, My question is Why do I see so many red haired people in your audience. I like red hair as it runs in our ancestry.

@jinimurray4090 4 жыл бұрын

Will we ever have godly relationship with God while we have our own opinions?

@TheKing-qz9wd 4 жыл бұрын

Your opinions don't gaurentee disrupting your relationship with the Son. Heresy will. What color you like won't.

@Frank-og4nn 4 жыл бұрын

I don't think the scholars R.C Sproul is referring to were skeptics in the sense that they were skeptics about everything. It sounds like they were only skeptical about God and this would be an untenable position to hold.

@briankelley1093 4 жыл бұрын

1 Corinthians 15:3-4 (The Gospel)

@liljade53 4 жыл бұрын

why were those professors even teaching at a seminary?

@sanjaygunawardena7715 4 жыл бұрын

I think those professors were ego centrist maniacs

@daniellim5781 4 жыл бұрын

Kinda like the Pharisees? Teachers of the law of Moses but no real love for God and His people?

@stephenblackwell8486 3 жыл бұрын

Daniel Lim Maybe to help those go in to ministry and have a deeper understanding of God and His Word. Who are you to judge motives? That is the judgement God warns against.

@stephenblackwell8486 3 жыл бұрын

Sanjay Gunawardena I really wish you cared enough to even listen instead of making judgements against those who care to know God more and more. People won’t judge sports fanatics who are only spectators but judge those who are made by God and commune with Him for learning more about the one who gives them life! Wow how ironic!

@daniellim5781 3 жыл бұрын

@@stephenblackwell8486You asked a question and I asked another question. It wasn't a definite answer. I never claimed that all seminary professors were just there for academics but I heard from a lot of pastors that a lot of professors are like that, just there for academics and status.

@TheKing-qz9wd 4 жыл бұрын

It's an exceedingly difficult situation if you're young in the faith. The skepticism of the damned disgusts me and is ineffectual. But it is something I deal with often.

@arthurwolfgramm4823 4 жыл бұрын

Pray for them

@TheKing-qz9wd 4 жыл бұрын

@@arthurwolfgramm4823 I won't waste my breath on a prayer that will not be answered by any means.

@arthurwolfgramm4823 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheKing-qz9wd God used Paul, he used Peter, he used the possessed man, more specifically, in His love, He uses you and me. If God is so merciful to us, how can you not have a heart for the lost? Without God, are we any better than the lost?

@TheKing-qz9wd 4 жыл бұрын

@@arthurwolfgramm4823 Who was possesed of satan and comparable to an apostle or a prophet? My heart burns in defiance of the damned. Pray that you too may know what Righteous Indignation is, fledgling brother.

@arthurwolfgramm4823 4 жыл бұрын

@@TheKing-qz9wd What I'm trying to say is God uses the weak my friend. If God has not saved us, we would be in the same position and them. How can we not extend the same sort of love towards them as God had shown us in our unbelief and sin?

@fritzdoerring9058 3 жыл бұрын

Speaking of truth; How do you view John MacArthur and his connect with President Trump over Sunday in person meetings??

@Sherlock245 3 жыл бұрын

Gone very sour in my opinion lost faith in the reformed movement. Listen to rc sproul since he has not betrayed the church like john MacArthur. The disgrace attitude of trump and john MacArthur trust Christian into his arms. His ministry now has now been forfeited and it be like going to listen to Joel osteen. He has build his ministry on truth and looking to trump and disobeying the authorities has thrown it all away. There was no discerment no rigiorous test. Just all trump and virus hoax. Do not trust pastor for truth just stick to the bible and dead pastor who have not gone astray.

@fritzdoerring9058 3 жыл бұрын

@@Sherlock245 Still faithful by the [pwer of The Holy Spirit, but feel that John MacAurthur is too ridgid in fundamentalism of literal biblical English, rather than seeking out deep context. I think he is aging mentally. RC used to modify John somewhat. Now RC is no longer here, and John is running amok.

@Sherlock245 3 жыл бұрын

@@fritzdoerring9058 his theology was good there is nothing wrong with say most of his sermon. But what matter is how he applied that in life and it did not turn out well at all. Too much theology it seem can make you vote for someone like trump. And it shown even bible expert can be decived. But theology is not at fault it was his application and influences that mislead him. The ancient christian look out for each other. Not advocate for constant rebellion. Even paul in chain did not campaigning his followers to resist ceasar and start a rebellion. His treatment was unfair but he did not insist on a revolt. He did not even side with the romans or ask them for politcal favoritism. Like what john MacArthur on trump has done. Money was not give to help paul win his fight like john macarthur. Paul whole attitude was humility and submission. He appealed, lost and submitted to death. John macarthur was arrogance and power. Boosting going to jail and to take on the courts and using political gain to win the issue. There was no submission at all. He could still wordhip but just wanted his way for indoor gathering. He has cause many to fall away cause of his carless action that he keeps justifying was right. Does he care no!!!!!!!! He still have followers the money still flowing. We are brush aside like a brush. No apologies for siding and advocating for trump snd dening covid. Its all he is right all the time and everyone else is wrong. There are some big major issues.😔😔😔