Known by the Savior

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

We need more than to know about Jesus to enter the kingdom of heaven. Today, R.C. Sproul reminds us of Saul of Tarsus' conversion, emphasizing how critical it is for a sinner to be known by Christ in order to be saved.

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0:00.0	Can you imagine anything more dreadful than to go rushing up to Jesus?
0:05.0	I said, look, it's so great to see you.
0:09.0	And he says, who are you?
0:15.0	The issue eternal will not be, do you know Jesus?
0:20.0	The issue will be to see know you.
0:25.0	Do you see the kind of Christ that comes and intrudes into the life of Saul of Tarsus?
0:39.0	Saul knew more theology than any living Jew.
0:47.0	But he didn't know Jesus.
0:52.0	But Jesus knew him.
0:57.0	He said, it wasn't Saul saying, Jesus, Jesus.
1:02.0	But it was Jesus saying, Saul, Saul.
1:09.0	I know you, I know you intimately, I know you personally, and I love you.
1:17.0	Come to me.
1:19.0	There's a strange flip side to this that we find at the very end of the sermon on the Mount.
1:25.0	Do you remember how the sermon ends?
1:28.0	An ends were the warning.
1:32.0	Where Jesus says, many will come to me in the last day.
1:40.0	And they will say to me, Lord, what?
1:46.0	Lord, Lord, did we not cast out demons in your name?
1:52.0	Didn't we do this for you and didn't we do that for you?
1:55.0	And Jesus has said, and I will look at them and I will say, depart from me.
2:01.0	You workers of an equity, I never knew you.
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