Thank God for God

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Have you ever wondered what you might do if you were God? Today, R.C. Sproul reminds us why we should be grateful that the Lord is God and we are not.

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0:00.0	I sometimes wonder what I would do if I were God.
0:07.0	And when I muse on that subject, I usually become very beneficent and benevolent.
0:16.0	I say, well, if I ever God, I'd save everybody.
0:29.2	I would just forgive everybody and wouldn't even require a cross or an atonement or anything like that.
0:34.0	And I sometimes wonder why God didn't do it that way.
0:44.3	But then I'm reminded of two things, dear friends. One is that I'm not God, and I don't think like God. And the biggest reason why I am not God is because I am not holy.
0:57.0	And so the way that I would do it, the way that you would do it, is not the holy way.
1:05.0	That's not the way God has decided to do it.
1:09.0	God does care about us and He does care people, and he does care enough to give
1:13.8	his only begotten son, but he doesn't care so much that he will negotiate his own character.
1:21.6	The second thing I want to say is that not only am I not God, but I think if you thought
1:26.1	about it for five minutes, you would rejoice
1:29.3	in that discovery. Aren't you glad that R. C. Sprol is not God? I'm glad because I couldn't
1:38.3	begin to do for a fallen world what God has done for us in Christ.
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