The Only Firm Foundation
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 26 June 2024
⏱️ 7 minutes
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The stakes are too high for us to build our lives on anything but the solid foundation of God's Word. Today, R.C. Sproul teaches that if we want to ground our thinking and our habits in the truth, we must be diligent students of the Bible.
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| 0:00.0 | You can build a life on a sort of a simplistic Christian discussion group mentality, |
| 0:08.0 | and that would be great if life were simple. |
| 0:16.0 | But when your life becomes complex, you won't know what to do. |
| 0:25.6 | God doesn't write retractions. |
| 0:28.6 | He doesn't change. |
| 0:30.6 | His truth is stable. |
| 0:32.6 | It abides. |
| 0:34.6 | It's to be applied in every generation. |
| 0:39.8 | But it's easier to sort of float along with our collective ignorance, exchanging ideas among |
| 0:48.6 | among ourselves, hoping that somehow in the midst of all of the confusion, we'll be able to find out what the |
| 0:55.8 | truth is and live according to it. |
| 0:59.0 | Jesus says you live like that. |
| 1:03.4 | When the storm comes, great will be your fall because you have nothing solid, nothing stable, nothing rooted, nothing |
| 1:15.1 | grounded, nothing secure to stand on. |
| 1:19.3 | It really scares me. |
| 1:21.9 | I really think this is the most sensuous age in the history of the church. The Christians are living on the basis of how they feel. |
| 1:30.3 | And I think it's enormously important, and when a person becomes a Christian, he gets grounded |
| 1:37.3 | in God's word, rooted in the Scriptures, that he builds good habits from the beginning. |
| 1:49.0 | Else he's going to have to be tearing him down later. |
| 1:52.0 | Having to learn the scales all over again, the biggest problem I had with that piano business was fingering. |
| 1:59.0 | I would get myself in a position where, you know, |
| 2:03.4 | I was practically a contortionist in order to get to the next octave. And half the time I couldn't get |
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