The Problem of Guilt
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
Is the root cause of guilt psychological or spiritual? Today, R.C. Sproul recounts a time when a psychiatrist attempted to recruit him to address the common struggle of guilt among his clients.
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| 0:00.0 | Several years ago, I had a friend who was a psychiatrist, and very seriously, he came to me |
| 0:08.0 | in one occasion and asked me to come to work for him. |
| 0:17.0 | And I said, you must be joking. I don't know the first thing about psychiatry, |
| 0:23.0 | and I'm certainly not qualified or capable to work in your office dealing with people who are in therapy. |
| 0:32.0 | And he said, oh, but you are. And I said, why is that? |
| 0:35.0 | He said, because the vast majority of the problems that I have to deal with as a psychiatrist are all bound up with guilt. |
| 0:46.0 | Guilt, and its consequences, guilt that is paralyzing guilt that is unresolved. |
| 0:53.0 | And he said, most of the people I see don't need a psychiatrist. They need a priest. |
| 0:58.0 | They need to understand how to unlock this problem of guilt. |
| 1:09.0 | Thank you for listening to Ultimately with Arsene Sproul. |
| 1:12.0 | Dr. Sproul founded Ligonier Ministries to proclaim the holiness of God in all its fullness to as many people as possible. |
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