Human Freedom and Restrictions

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

God has given us the ability to make choices, but our freedom is not unlimited. Today, R.C. Sproul explains why this is actually good news for us.

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0:00.0	What God gave human beings in creation was the ability to make choices.
0:12.0	But that ability was not unlimited.
0:17.0	You can't just do anything you wanted though.
0:21.0	When God put Adam and Eve in the garden, what did He say?
0:33.0	You live in this garden and you're not allowed to do anything.
0:39.0	I have all these trees with all these beautiful foods there in the garden I've made,
0:45.0	but you can't avail yourself of any of it.
0:47.0	Don't you touch any of those trees because if you touch a single tree in that garden, you will die.
0:53.0	Is that what God said?
0:55.0	That's what the devil said that God said.
0:58.0	That's not what God said.
1:00.0	Here's the first introduction of the concept of freedom of all of the trees in the garden.
1:09.0	You may freely eat.
1:15.0	Accept this one over here.
1:18.0	You may not eat of that.
1:20.0	If you do, you die.
1:24.0	What God gave human beings in creation was the ability to make choices.
1:33.0	But that ability was not unlimited.
1:38.0	It was limited.
1:41.0	Of all the trees God said over here, you may freely eat.
1:46.0	But you can't just do anything you want to do.
1:50.0	There are limits to your freedom.
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