We 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. SproulManโs will is free to follow his inclinations, but fallen manโs inclinations are always and invariably away from God.
R. C. SproulItโs dangerous to assume that because a person is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. There is irony here. I am sure that the reason I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy. I am a profane manโa man who spends more time out of the temple than in it. But I have had just enough of a taste of the majesty of God to want more. I know what it means to be a forgiven man and what it means to be sent on a mission. My soul cries for more. My soul needs more.
R. C. SproulWe are cosmic traitors. We must recognize this problem within ourselves if we are to grasp the necessity of the cross.
R. C. SproulYou are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true.
R. C. SproulThe resurrection was God the Father's way of authenticating all of the truths that were declared by Jesus.
R. C. SproulThe more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.
R. C. Sproul