The Degrees of Sin: Building a Christian Conscience with R.C. Sproul

A man who hates his brother is a murderer at heart. Ask to be washed clean and strive to be pure hearted. He thinks as a beast does and has no sense of spirit by focusing on the world.

I have loved this!!!!❤❤❤❤❤

I presume R.C. recorded this study while he was in his later 20's? early 30's? much appreciation and may God Bless you!:-)

There are only two types of sin. That which can be forgiven and that which cannot be forgiven.

Young R C looks like Nick saban ❤

I would’ve loved to be in that class in person. Thank you Lord for the capability to share it on the web🙌🏻

Praise the Lord God Almighty! Pastor Sproul is in the Holy Presence of the Lord now, but Jesus surely used him to the max. to preach/teach His word! He was a faithful minister of righteousness, and how fortunate we believers who are still alive can hear his sermons and learn of God and the Bibe from him! Glory!!!

I was hoping you could answer this serious question. No question without God's grace just one sin leads to eternal damnation. I believe God's word is pretty clear that they are degrees of sin and even the serious sins God will forgive once He justifies us. So my question is and I want to use an example. A presumptuous sin such as a unbiblical divorce. That is, it is a planned willful disobedience against God. Divorces take some time to complete. Plenty of time to seek guidance to change your mind. Can a born again Christian willfully disobey God, a sin He hates with a passion. I have come to the conclusion unless this sin is repented quickly you were never born again.

🤷‍♂️Will the sinner in hell hoping to reduce the quantum of his sinning perceive "less heat" in hell⁉️🤦🏻‍♂️
As for the truly saved, Jesus (living in him today) is the only reward he wants.

I'd have to find book, chapter and verse -- wherein it is written that if we put ourselves under the law, that is when we will be judged by the whole law - if guilty of one sin, then guilty of breaking all of the laws. As born-again Christians, we are under grace. Sure sounds like Galatians to me. The law was as a school teacher - to show us our sins. Now that part I know is Galatians.
I'll listen to this whole series- see if there's something more specific on this.

He who knew his Lord's will and prepared not himself shall be beaten with many stripes though he did nothing worthy of stripes, but he who knew not shall be beaten with few stripes though he did things worthy of stripes. Solomon said that there is a vanity, that there be a wicked to whom it happens like unto the righteous, and the righteous that it happens like unto the wicked, it is vanity and vexation of spirit. Truly, there are degrees of sins, therefore degrees of punishments, yet a liar will spent eternity in hell just like a mass murderer, no purgatory etc. We just have to pray to escape God's eternal wrath and judgement on sin and sinners. May God bless you for teaching sound doctrine Sir.

I want to know who this psychiatrist is

For the wages of sin is death, spiritual death.

All sins are deadly because they can all send you to hell if you're a spiritually dead unrepentant sinner who dies in their sin.

Did the Young Ruler ever lie...

The Lord will save me from every evil and keep me for His heavenly kingdom, to Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Even Scripture equates sin with an illness, a deadly one, it's like an illness that slowly kills you from the inside without you even noticing, even worse, you think you're doing great. But deep inside you are deathly wounded.

The cross is foolishness to the dead.

Sproul, like other heretics and liars, preached some truth. Even Satan himself tells the truth at times, but ultimately, he was a man of Satan.

An online acquaintance recommended this ministry, and was she ever wrong!! I worry about her because she has become very deceived, ir thinking that' we have no free will about salvation. I initially saw the Lord in her but see less of Him in her now. I'll be praying for her.

And preaching against God's Word is as sinful as it gets, that and having professing Christians endorsi g such a person.

I really like RC but not too sure about this and the degrees of heaven and hell. Through Christ I am saved — I would like to think that one day I am sitting at the table with Him and the disciples and those mighty men such as RC and all those who have preached the gospel in a mighty way — but if there were degrees in heaven then I won’t be at that table. The Bible also says there is no weeping or gnashing of teeth in heaven - surely if I am sitting at the lower table I will be sad in that my life for Him on this earth was never good enough to be at the higher table. The same with hell. I believe all of us that are saved will be happy knowing that we are with out Saviour — regardless that some were mightier than others. Probably I am wrong - but I simply believe that there is two ways - heaven or hell. And regardless - there are no degrees as this would bring about ‘feelings’ and unhappiness in heaven.

Gives me a headache hearing this stuff. Sometimes I think that ego gets between the inspiration for a teaching and the delivery of the teaching.
It is written on our hearts.

RC is way off Base 🔥🙏🔥Especially by using the human factor 🔥🙏🔥I’m embarrassed as a Believer to hear this type of Human understanding 🇺🇸Americans always think Our Holy Faithful Father tip toes around US 💀💀Not So 😶🤐😶Proverbs 3:3-6 Psalm 28:7

DONT FORGET THAT THE APOSTOL SAY THERE ARE MORTAL SIN, AND NOT MORTAL SIN.

There are no righteous relationships smh!

Jesus was basically saying that we should not trust in the law or our supposed adherence to it.

God's law is far greater than our understanding of it. God is judging our hearts compared to His own Holiness.

God will not only judge our actions but the sins within our hearts.

So then His point is that we should give up trying to produce our own righteousness by the law but should trust in His salvation by faith thru grace.

It was astonishing to hear that God would judge the heart itself.

The reality of this means that all humans are in desperate need of Salvation.

I know one thing after coming out of a life of horrid sin ..IF GOD HAD NOT CHOSEN ME I WOULD HAVE NEVVER CHOSE HIM..

Wow, an eye opener for me. Great lesson. Thanks.
So much more to reflect on and consider.

I absolutely needed to hear this today. I had been struggling and wondering if I’m good enough to make it into heaven with Jesus. Thank you Jesus for your perfect judgment!

Thats not what Jesus meant at all, He meant that once the idea of Adultery lands in your head (temptation) and you dont shoo it away, but rather begin then to Dwell on it, you then have committed it to heart, meaning that if given the opportunity you would have committed it in concrete, not just the abstract. Sin is not Consequentialism, its spirtual, its problem does not lay in the committing in a concrete sense.
We know consequentialism as a Moral system fails continually.
If anything its worse to only dream about it and say "at least i have not done it" and be a hypocrite than to actually go and do it, at least the person doing it you can be seen as a individual.

This is weird he never said in Jesus name !

'He soweth discord.' Proverbs 6:14

Before personal phones you could judge character, when someone would get a call and they would say; Tell them im not home.

R.C. Sproul’s teachings have been a comforting revelation for me, after coming out of an NAR / Charismatic background. So grounded in Scriptures and intelligently presented. God Bless Mr. Sproul. We miss him.

Good teaching

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This is true, also what is true; is the reasoning of a good preacher like RC Sproul that even though they are gone from the Earth their words still speak because they are speaking when they do from the Holy Spirit, and word that shall never perish.

Threr are two degrees of sin. Sin against the holy spirit and everything else.matthew 12:31-32 and Luke 12:9-10. Sorry RC, wrong again. Straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.

This sermon proved that there will not be eternal hell, the sinner will burn to the degree of their sins, en finally turn to ashes.

This is ground breaking stuff to me. Nobody is fooling God! I’m amazed at RC Sproul’s teachings.

Such shall receive the greater
Damnation
He who delivered me unto you
Has the greater sin!

Sin is Sin! There is no degree of sin. Once a person believes in Christ as their Savior, their sins are forgiven. Do they still Sin! Obviously they do. Sin is sin. Believers are not judged according to their sins. But at the Rapture, when we see Jesus face to face, and stand before Him, we will be rewarded for our service to Him on this earth. And we will receive our crown or crowns, if any, to lay at His feet.

Matthew 5:21-22 "21 “You have heard that it was said to those of old, ‘You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’ 22 But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ shall be in danger of the council. But whoever says, ‘You fool!’ shall be in danger of hell fire."

No. No. I have to say NO to this one. The flaw in this argument is that while hell is a reward, eternal life is NOT a reward. Justice demands that I go to hell, but the grace of God spared me from justice by God taking my sin upon Himself. It is true that the unsaved people will be judged according to their works. However saved people will not be justified to enter heaven because of their works. If justice overules, all deserve death - eternal death. I am not looking for justice, I want mercy!! Romans 4:1-5 teaches that the only people who are righteous are those who believe in the One who justifies the ungodly. Our faith is counted for righteousness by God. NOT our works. There are NO degrees of righteousness. There is only 'sin' and 'not sin'. All believers have the same righteousness as far as God is concerned. Any 'righteousnes' apart from that is filthy rags according to the prophet Isaiah.

It is just as bad to hate as it is to murder. The temporal consequence might be different but the eternal is as horrible. God is a judge of a standard way above ours. Sin is sin. Plain and plain.
O Christian never pray for justice. Never ask for what you deserve.
O sinner, I promise you that you don't want justice - you need mercy. Don't think that some sin is any less - the price is as hefty. Yes the more the sin, the more the punishment but the punishment is as horrible. It will all be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Flee to grace and mercy in Jesus Christ. You will have fled from justice - for Christ took it upon Himself.

I'm sorry😢

Wow..this is so instrumental...such clarity is welcome...always thought sin is sin...so important to really read scripture and hear christ teachings

God Bless This Man In Heaven! Love You RC Sproul!!!!

The richness of this message is so vast. 🙌🏾🙏 To God be the glory!