The Indestructible Church

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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As the church faces opposition and endures trials, Christians must not lose heart, for we know the gates of hell cannot prevail. Today, R.C. Sproul calls us to take courage in our triumphant Redeemer who is building His church throughout the world.

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0:00.0	My concern is not that we have a strong reformed church next year.
0:05.0	But my concern is will there be a reformed church 50 years from now? You know where you hear the cliche that God doesn't have any grandchildren because nobody's
0:21.0	born a Christian.
0:29.0	And if one Christian dies and leaves in this world,
0:40.4	where one more person on the way to extinction unless God converts somebody else and multiplies his church and we also have another cliche in church history that the blood of the martyrs is the
0:49.1	seed of the church.
0:51.2	The more the people of God are persecuted, the more they are slain, the more God
0:57.2	raises up new people to be there in their place. Somebody once said that our cemeteries are filled with
1:09.2	indispensable people. There are no indispensable people. If I die, if you die, the church goes on.
1:32.4	The gates of hell did not prevail because they can't prevail because death death cannot hold Christ nor can it hold his church nor can it
1:39.2	destroy his church and the one thing you know my concern is not that we have a strong
1:44.2	reformed church next year but my concern is will there be a reformed church 50 years
1:50.9	from now? Now what kind of a reformed question is that?
1:57.0	I'm going to ask. The answer to that is of course there will be.
2:07.0	This church or that church might die,
2:10.0	but the church that Christ is building will never be destroyed.
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