The High Standard of Holiness
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Summary
Like the rich young ruler, we try to drag God down to meet our cheapened understanding of holiness. In this episode, R.C. Sproul demonstrates why we cannot rely on ourselves to become righteous in the eyes of the Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | Well it seems to me that if the great commandment is to love God with all your heart, the great act of disobedience is failing to do so. |
| 0:10.0 | That's the root problem of man that he doesn't love God with all of his heart. |
| 0:14.0 | Jesus going around gaining quite a reputation for himself. |
| 0:20.0 | He's healing people and performing miracles and teaching and this young guy very wealthy he comes running to Jesus he doesn't walk he runs in his enthusiasm runs up to Jesus |
| 0:30.5 | falls down in front of Jesus, and he says, |
| 0:33.0 | good master, what must I do to inherit eternal life? |
| 0:38.0 | That's the ultimate question. |
| 0:40.0 | What do I have to do to inherit eternal life? |
| 0:42.0 | What do I have to do to inherit eternal life? |
| 0:42.5 | What do I have to do to get into the kingdom? |
| 0:44.8 | I let the Jesus say. |
| 0:47.0 | Well, first place, the thing you have to do is you have to go and join the Boy Scouts. |
| 0:52.0 | And then after that you have to earn 55 merit badges and when you're done |
| 0:58.7 | with that you have to join the church you have to become an elder you you know, deacon, trustee, and all these things and make sure you did that. |
| 1:06.3 | That's not what he said. |
| 1:08.3 | Nor did he say, you have to believe on me and my death and come into the kingdom. |
| 1:13.0 | On this per occasion, Jesus didn't do that at all. |
| 1:14.9 | What did he say? |
| 1:15.4 | Does anybody remember what he said to that guy? |
| 1:17.2 | What? |
| 1:19.0 | He said to give away all your money. |
| 1:20.6 | He said that, but that's not what he said first. What's the first thing that Jesus |
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