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Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Robbed of Wonder

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 August 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

When people try to explain the world without reference to its Creator, they rob themselves of the truth and of the wonder this truth should evoke in us. Today, R.C. Sproul reminds us that creation is filled with the glory of God.

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0:00.0

We're the most arrogant generation in human history

0:03.0

because we think that by describing reality, we've explained it.

0:12.0

And we don't have a sense of wonder.

0:23.6

Look at the frontiers of science. We've had startling marvelous new discoveries of outer space.

0:29.6

And what many believe is the confirmation of the Big Bang theory of the creation of the world.

0:36.6

And I was excited, but I was really excited when the Hubble spacecraft went up.

0:40.9

That's really interesting to me.

0:43.4

And I read the paper two weeks ago.

0:47.5

I was in a restaurant.

0:48.3

I read it.

0:49.6

I shook my head, and I called the waitress over, and I said,

0:52.6

what's wrong with this?

0:55.7

And I read it, and it says, scientists have now discovered that matter was created

1:02.8

when matter and energy exploded.

1:10.2

I said, what's the matter with that? What's the matter with that?

1:16.1

We have matter being created after it already was there.

1:22.7

No, that won't work.

1:26.8

And I'm running down the street and I listen to a news commentator who said, well,

1:30.3

we've got such and such as physicists, astrophysicist from University of Berkeley or so on, has

1:34.9

declared that 15 billion years ago the universe exploded into being. It exploded into being.

1:49.3

What was it before it exploded?

1:51.6

Non-being?

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