Natural manโs sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.
R. C. SproulThe grand difference between a human being and a Supreme being is precisely this: Apart from God I cannot exist; apart from me God does exist. God does not need me in order for Him to be. I do need God in order for me to be. We are dependent. We are fragile. This is how we differ from God.
R. C. SproulWe tend to have mixed feelings about the holy. There is a sense in which we are at the same time attracted to it and repulsed by it. Something draws us toward it, while at the same time we want to run away from it. We canโt seem to decide which way we want it. Part of us yearns for the holy, while part of us despises it. We canโt live with it, and we canโt live without it.
R. C. SproulThe power of the gospel is the word of God . . . nobody needs a gospel if thereโs no judgment, or law, if God is not a God of judgment. If there is no such thing as hell, what good is the gospel?
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