Cast into the Outer Darkness
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 March 2023
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
We were created to bask in the light of the glory of Christ. To reject Jesus is to be shut out into impenetrable darkness under the everlasting judgment of God. Today, R.C. Sproul solemnly warns of the worst possible doom that could ever befall us.
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| 0:00.0 | Outside the New Jerusalem will be a place of higher darkness, |
| 0:08.0 | where no light will shine. |
| 0:14.0 | Do you want a future of utter abysmal darkness? |
| 0:23.0 | The greatest pleasure we can ever hope to enjoy |
| 0:26.0 | is to experience the radiance of the countenance of Christ, |
| 0:31.0 | the beholding of the manifestation of His unveiled glory. |
| 0:38.0 | And the Scriptures uniformly describe the majestic radiance of Christ |
| 0:43.0 | in terms of the metaphor of light. |
| 0:47.0 | We go to the book of Revelation and we read of the New Heaven |
| 0:52.0 | and the New Earth that comes down out of heaven |
| 0:54.0 | and we note something extraordinary there that in the New Heaven |
| 0:58.0 | there is no sun. |
| 1:01.0 | There are no artificial means of illumination |
| 1:06.0 | because they're totally unnecessary, |
| 1:09.0 | because the light that is generated by the glory of God |
| 1:13.0 | and by His Son will fill the holy city with light. |
| 1:19.0 | But outside, we are told, |
| 1:23.0 | outside the New Jerusalem will be a place of higher darkness, |
| 1:31.0 | where no light will shine, |
| 1:34.0 | where the glory of God will not pierce and will not penetrate, |
| 1:39.0 | and the radiance of the countenance of Christ will be shut out |
| 1:43.0 | into this outer darkness, |
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