The Whole Counsel of God

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Is it possible to believe in God's mercy and grace without believing in His justice, wrath, and holiness? Today, R.C. Sproul warns us against straying from a full, biblical understanding of God.

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0:00.0	The only God that we are to worship is the God who reveals himself in sacred scripture.
0:12.0	The problem with idolatry, which is the number one evil in biblical history,
0:20.0	is not in making deities out of stone or wood, but the issue of idolatry is producing a substitute
0:29.0	for the true God. We don't make idols of stone and wood anymore,
0:35.0	but the kind of idolatry that pervades the church today,
0:39.0	is that idolatry where we take the biblical revelation of God
0:44.0	and we look at those attributes of God that we find distasteful such as his sovereignty,
0:50.0	his holiness, his justice, his wrath, and we say,
0:56.0	oh, we don't like those, we like the love of God, the mercy of God, the grace of God,
1:02.0	and we construct a God who is all love, all grace, all mercy, no sovereignty,
1:08.0	no justice, no holiness, no wrath, and that we create a God with our own minds,
1:15.0	who is not God, that God is an idol. The only God that we are to worship
1:21.0	is the God who reveals himself in sacred scripture and true worship,
1:26.0	focuses on the whole council of God, not on isolated aspects of God
1:34.0	with which we are comfortable.
1:40.0	Thanks for listening to Ultimately with R.C. Sproul.
1:44.0	This is a podcast from Ligonier Ministries. For more information about Ligonier
1:48.0	and to discover thousands of free resources to help you grow in your Christian faith,
1:53.0	visit ligonier.org.

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