The Beatific Vision
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 1 February 2023
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Now we trust in a God that we cannot see. But when our lives come to an end, we will behold Christ in His unveiled splendor and glory. In this episode, R.C. Sproul strives to describe the supreme hope that awaits every Christian: the beatific vision.
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| 0:00.0 | Imagine having an unmediated direct apprehension of the very being of God. |
| 0:10.4 | No more doubt, no more fear, no more pain, no more evil, all gone. |
| 0:21.7 | How many of you saw the Super Bowl? |
| 0:27.5 | Anybody see the Super Bowl? |
| 0:29.6 | Let me see, get your hand up there. |
| 0:31.3 | You saw the Super Bowl? |
| 0:32.8 | Where were you? |
| 0:36.8 | You didn't see the Super Bowl? |
| 0:39.7 | You weren't there? |
| 0:41.5 | Where are you? |
| 0:42.5 | No, but you just said you were. |
| 0:45.3 | You saw a televised broadcast of transmission of light images and all of that in your living |
| 0:51.1 | room, and yet you saw the Super Bowl. |
| 0:55.8 | You never saw the Super Bowl. |
| 0:59.1 | You saw a television account of the Super Bowl, or you read about it in a newspaper, or |
| 1:03.4 | you hear about it on the radio. |
| 1:06.3 | Am I different to you here from those who just listened on the radio? |
| 1:12.3 | But imagine having an unmediated direct apprehension of the very being of God. |
| 1:25.2 | That's what the New Testament promises as the end of the Christian life. |
| 1:29.3 | We don't know what we're going to be yet, but we know this. |
| 1:32.5 | We're going to be like Him, and we're going to see Him as He is. |
| 1:35.7 | Now here's the question. |
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