How Free Are We Really?

It's been an incredibly busy couple of months including yard work, vacation, more yard work, scanning family albums, more yard work, you get the idea...anyway, scanning photos from the family albums has afforded me the time to listen to many sermons. I've had the pleasure the past few days to feast on God's word with the able companionship of Pastor R.C. Sproul. I'm not in 100% agreement with him on all things, however this topic isn't one of those things.

The matter of free will often comes up in Christian social media conversations...how free are we? If the Son has set you free, you are free indeed...but prior to salvation, were you free to choose the Lord's way over the love you had for yourself and this world?

I love what Dr. Sproul asks about grace: Is it an absolute prerequisite to salvation OR is grace just simply an aid?

A Much Needed Message for Today

Last night I listened to this awesome sermon. It starts out slowly. It is my impression (I may be wrong) that this topic is one that is very different from his usual topics. The first 10 minutes of the sermon, it seems to me, is given to prepare his congregation for this new message, in the attempt to shore up his listeners so they will not turn away from the severity of this subject. He wants his listeners to know that he has given this topic a lot of research, and tears, and devoted study of God's word, to learn the whole council of God on a matter that has caused much damage to many people, and caused many in the church to abandon what the Bible has to say about it. It is approximately an hour and twenty minutes long. I hope you will take the time to listen:


It's Evening in Sodom from Grace Chapel on Vimeo.