The Knowledge of God

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

When we make excuses as to why we can't study theology, we starve ourselves of the knowledge of God. Today, R.C. Sproul describes the consequences of neglecting theology, the queen of the sciences.

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0:00.0	The Queen has been beheaded.
0:03.0	Theology was supposed to be the Queen of the Sciences
0:08.0	that gave principles to every other academic discipline.
0:17.0	If you don't know who God is,
0:19.0	your knowledge that you do have is empty.
0:23.0	God is saying to His people that the people are perishing here,
0:31.0	not because they're stard for wheat and meat to feed their bodies,
0:38.0	but because their people have no knowledge of the things of God,
0:43.0	that's what's killing them.
0:44.0	And He says, the whole land mourns and languishes.
0:48.0	You have an ecological crisis taking place in Israel.
0:53.0	Because the fundamental principles of government,
0:56.0	the fundamental principles of economics that are revealed
0:59.0	from the wisdom of God are hidden and obscured by ignorance.
1:07.0	The Queen has been beheaded.
1:11.0	Theology was supposed to be the Queen of the Sciences
1:16.0	that gave and informed principles to every other academic discipline.
1:25.0	But now, in some places in the world, the Queen is dead.
1:29.0	In other places, she is an exile.
1:32.0	She's banished to some obscure department
1:36.0	that has no relevance to the rest of our education.
1:41.0	If you don't know who God is,
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