Regeneration Is the Beginning: Born Again with R.C. Sproul

When does the Christian life begin? In this message, R.C. Sproul turns our attention to the moment of regeneration and teaches on the sovereignty of God in bringing about the new birth.
This message is from Dr. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series Born Again. Learn more: www.ligonier.o...

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This message is from R.C. Sproul’s 6-part teaching series "Born Again". Watch the entire series: www.ligonier.org/learn/series/born-again

[@loislois3086]

I was an orthodox jew and i now am a christian and believe in pauls gospel. It is not easy and i know i am a babe in christ. These videos are helping me to mature as a christian. My faith which is by the way my middle name is strong in christ. Amen.

[@e.t.h.559]

Praise God! I’m thrilled to hear about your journey. I wanted to share a channel with you that I think will be incredibly helpful as you continue to grow in your faith. It addresses objections from orthodox Jewish perspectives, delves deeply into how Christ fulfilled Old Testament prophecies, and explores biblical studies on the deity of Christ and the Trinity in the Old Testament. www.youtube.com/@Ousias1 May God bless you.

[@mikemccormick9667]

Welcome sister! 🙏😊🙏

[@ryanhart3159]

Praise God for changing your heart and opening your eyes and ears.🙏❤️.

[@bobjob2514]

I love to hear testimonies like this! “Paul’s gospel” seems like kind of an interesting way to put it, but praise to the Lord for your dedication to His Word given through all His prophets!

[@loislois3086]

@@bobjob2514 what i meant by pauls gospel is the gospel that says christ died was buried and on the third day arose. I love all scripture. Amen.

[@lchapman4427]

There is no one like this man when it comes to teaching us what the Bible means. I praise God for his life and his service to God

[@created_by_the_divine_83]

R.C. preached the Gospel 💯

[@prryblu]

I Love and Miss RC Sproul,God The Holy Spirit Led Me To Him(online) In My First 2yrs Of Learning The Basics Of Reformed Theology and Now Thank God I Have John MacArthur As Well As My Local Pastor!

[@ElizabethMayo-sf4wg]

I cannot say enough good about R.C.; I love him and am grateful God put him in my life through his teachings. I think I will always remember his example of speaking evangelistically to a conference of men!!!! I understood his example which powerfully capped off his teaching. ❤

[@sandman9390]

The more the Lord has allowed me to learn, the more I realize how little i know & how wretched i truly am 🥴❤️✝️

[@rudyferrell]

I know exactly what you're talking about, you're not alone my friend.

[@sandman9390]

@@rudyferrell ❤️✝️

[@jessyjonas4988]

Amen Praise the Lord for my supernatural birth

[@sherrymoody3131]

Please Jesus I repent of my sins and ask you to except me a sinner! I put my trust in what you did on the cross to save me from my sins!!! Please help me to turn from all sins here and now!!! Strengthen my heart mind and soul from eternal hell !!! Fill me with saving grace ✨️!

[@jeremynethercutt206]

Grant her eyes to see her ears to hear her heart to be circumcised O LORD GOD TO SURHOR AND PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH! You God almighty be with her , command what you will and grant what you command sovereign LORD !

[@bobjob2514]

7:22 - I wonder about my mental stability sometimes too 😂! And it’s so strange… I fully recognized my “moment” of belief and certainly there was a change in my heart… but it took so many years to seem like I remotely belonged to the church crowd. And many more years later I still need a ton of sanctification. Don’t get discouraged if you’re starting from the end zone and not keeping up with the pastors’ kids! His timing will be what’s best for you. Stay reading!

[@ogmakefirefiregood]

God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption. so that, as it is written, "Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord." (1 Corinthians 1:28-31, ESV)

[@rudyferrell]

Well said

[@aszochang4183]

Thankyou you for this sermon ☺️

[@jessyjonas4988]

So great a salvation,” ye saints 🎶of the Lord,🎶🎶 To us is revealed in His marvelous Word! Since all that He is and has done is for us, We’ll give earnest heed to this word glorious. What He is of God and of Man as the Son, We now may enjoy since with Him we are one; Our High Priest and Captain-salvation is He! He’ll cause us to grow in His glory to be. He’s washed all our sins, purified them fore’er; Tasted death on the cross, ended slavery there. He took on our nature, the devil has slain, And put you and I in His glorious train. So great the extent of salvation to us- We’re partners of Christ in His plan glorious. He’ll bring us to glory and we’ll rule with Him, To the uttermost saved by His working within. To such a salvation our heed we must give, Lest drifting away or neglecting we live. Christ now as our life, future ruling with Him, We’ll miss if we miss this salvation within. “So great a salvation” is given to us That we may be made like our Lord glorious! By all that He is and by all He has done We’re brought into glory with God’s firstborn Son.

[@FishingWithTheWord]

Just recited this while pounding a beat on my desk, thank you for posting this here 😁 Glory to Christ!

[@SaanichtonMinistries]

We are grateful for this ministry and teaching which supplements our own.

[@ronlewis9374]

What a message! I cannot count how many times I've listened to messages from RC Sproul and I've read some of his books, but that teaching spoke to me in ways that are hard to explain.

[@rhondae8222]

Excellent teaching and brilliant biblical message by the late Dr. R.C. Sproul. 🙂

[@rhondascott7463]

Thank the Lord for choosing you. Luke 14:26 says “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. You have been called out of darkness into God’s marvelous light. Keep praying for your family. According to the book of Romans 11 there will be a remnant of Jews saved. R.C. Sproul, John MacArthur, Viddie Bachman, Gary Hamrick and Jack Hibbs are great teachers on Israel and the Jews and how they were the ones that Jesus came for but because of rejection, the Gentiles were grafted in or adopted into the family of Christ. Rabbi Kirk Schneider is also a Messianic Jew who preaches truth. Stay strong and know the entire Old Testament speaks of Christ! He is the Messiah. The suffering servant Isaiah speaks of. Every book of the Old Testament points to Christ! The one that was, the one that Is and the One who is to come.

[@anthonypassalacqua3330]

I knew I was saved the moment God revealed to my understanding my total bankruptcy and that his righteousness had been applied to me by means of the blood of his Son the Lord Jesus Christ. God doesn't expect us to become caught up with metaphysics.

[@tedmwirigi5038]

May God bless Rc sproul ❤

[@gorockmarketing]

Wow. Powerful!

[@jackchris8148]

I can not keep the tears back on these sermons. REPENENTS for for years two years . Then I creied out and I knew the regerneration of spitit. Jesus then came natural as openly came to me for bapitiest. I did confess John anf the spirit compared to the wind as my confession before bapitism.

[@andrewk8857]

Welcome and God bless you! I'm a gentile but I follow a Jewish Messiah who loves me.

[@JohnSmith-bp1er]

Thank you

[@rudyferrell]

Most Christians don't believe that being born again is something that is done by God alone, but it's true. I get so tired of pastors and "Christians " telling people to be born again like it's something that they're supposed to do themselves . I guess the bottom line is that they don't see God as totally sovereign.

[@Robbie-vu6pl]

Calvinists', when quoting Romans 8:30..."and those whom he predestined he also called"...YOU need to go back to verse 29, "For those whom he FOREKNEW he also predestined to be conformed..." In other words, God called us because he already knew we would believe so he predestined us to be the image of his Son and do good works. Verse 29 seems to be left out when quoting Romans 8:30 regarding Calvinist's? God Bless

[@seinibloomfield7600]

AMEN!!

[@Mike65809]

We are regenerated after we put our faith in Christ. We are born again by the Word of God. "For you have been born again not of seed which is perishable, but imperishable, that is, through the living and enduring word of God" (1Pet. 1:23). Those whosoever would believe have eternal life. You don't have it before you believe, or so you can believe.

[@blchamblisscscp8476]

Not according to Jesus and Paul. See the Gospel of John and the Epistle to the Romans. Luke writes in Acts that Jesus was delivered up to be crucified by the predeterminate foreknowledge of God. In Ephesians, as RC just went through, Paul writes that all mankind is enslaved to sin and the devil. Only Christ can break those chains, not the free will of man. In Romans, Paul writes that the natural man (the one enslaved to sin and the devil) cannot please God, cannot comprehend God, and has no capacity to believe or trust God. Jesus said on several occasions to the Jews, there is no possibility of coming to him unless drawn to him by the Father, and all who are drawn by the Father will come to him, and he will not lose any. If you were to acknowledge the Bible is true and claim a universal drawing, then the logical conclusion, taking the Bible at face value, all men are drawn and thus all men are saved. If the claim is the drawing is universal but not effective, then logically God is impotent to complete His expressed will. As some someone else had said, He has a plan, but He has no power to bring it about.but is dependent upon the whims of man - those who overcome the limitations stated by Jesus and Paul may come (if they are willing) the rest will prefer to sit in reprobation. So it all depends not on God, but on man.

[@Mike65809]

@@blchamblisscscp8476 Well, either the Bible contradicts itself, or one of us is not interpreting it correctly (or Peter got it wrong?). Paul, in writing about his enslavement to sin, made it clear that he wanted to please God but found it impossible, since sin indwelt him. If you think he was writing Romans 7 as a Christian, then the "law of the spirit of life in Christ" had NOT "set him free from the law of sin and death"! Right? But from the context he was describing his battle under the law, and how futile the law was to bring about righteousness, and in fact, made sin worse. Only in Christ can one be set free from this battle. As for John 6:44, the next verse gives understanding as to what he is taking about. It is a a prophecy about how in the future the children of Israel will be taught by God. In God's protocol, if they believed Moses and feared the Lord, he would lead them to Christ (John 5). He said, "Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me." There is nothing there about being regenerated before putting their faith in Christ, rather he would lead them to Christ. But they had to have the right heart to begin with. This is the reason John came baptizing them in repentance, preparing the way for the Lord. They could not love darkness rather than the light.

[@Matrixqc777]

*Yes, what R.C. Sproul meant refers to "The Adoption" (in the future - Romans 8:23, 29-30; Eph.1:5, 14 - "our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession"),* *Revealed 115 years ago (1909): "Adoption is AN ACT (future, prerogative - 2Cor. 6:17-18 = Ezek.**11:19**-20) of God whereby the BELIEVING SINNER is received into the family of God, with all the rights and privileges of His children in which he becomes an heir of God with a right and title to eternal life."*

[@AbrilLopez-w7v]

All of us where called to evangelize we dont need a phew. Is in the new testament. If you're not doing that how will your loved ones convert.?

[@SoldierofChrist9]

Amen..

[@lightbethelightlaun3377]

The lecturn

[@Jondoe_04]

Man, I dont want to go through Spiritual puberty. Fleshly puberty was bad enough.

[@gabrielcaleb9277]

He IS inspector Colombo....😂

[@billmartinn9851]

No, faith in Christ is the beginning!

[@paquitocostunajr9191]

How can you have faith if you have not been regenerated?

[@Robbie-vu6pl]

Calvinism teachers that God chooses who goes to Hell and who goes to Heaven which is not biblically correct... If God is God, why did he let Satan come into the Garden? because God would be an unfair God if he gave us free choice, but then no choices so what choice did they have? God spoke to them, and if they didn’t hear anything else but God, what’s the point of free choice? That’s why he let the serpent in God says something, the serpent says something else, and they believe the serpent and choose to disobey God because God is Holy, they had to separate from God in sin and ever since there’s been a war and the war one day will end when every single person on the planet hears about Jesus has the same opportunity as Adam and Eve. The insanity of Calvinism is clearly told by RC. Sproul on answering a question on predestination, in short “…That God positively decrees and determines in advance those whom he will save namely the elect and in the same method he decrees the damnation of the sinner and that just as on the one hand he creates positively saving faith in the hearts of the elect he in an equally determined fashion creates fresh EVIL in the hearts of the reprobate to make sure they don’t come to BELIEVE “ James 1:13 Jeremiah 7:30-31 - “‘The people of Judah have DONE EVIL in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire-SOMETHING I DID NOT COMMAND, NOR DID IT ENTER MY MIND. James 1:13 “Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am being tempted by God," for God cannot be tempted with evil, and he himself tempts no one”. Genesis 6:6 debunks Calvinism's false teaching that He "predestined" everything including the fall of man, sin, and evil. Calvinists also believe that God created man and then INTENTIONALLY predestined his fall and predestined sin and evil. If that is true, then it makes no logical sense for God to feel regret and be deeply troubled afterwards. Hence, the errant belief that God predestined the fall of man is debunked and blown out of the water. Genesis 6:6 - The Lord REGRETTED that he had made human beings on the earth, and his heart was DEEPLY TROUBLED. If YOU create something and then intentionally engineer it for FAILURE, THEN YOU SHOULD NOT BE FEELING REGRET AND BE TROUBLED AFTERWARDS. Jeremiah 7:30-31 - “‘The people of Judah have DONE EVIL in my eyes, declares the Lord. They have set up their detestable idols in the house that bears my Name and have defiled it. They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire-SOMETHING I DID NOT COMMAND, NOR DID IT ENTER MY MIND The Bible teaches John 3:16, NOT "John Calvin 3:16".

[@JoseSanchez0795]

❤❤❤🇮🇱✝️✝️✝️

[@aussierob7177]

The Church is the "sinless", one, made up of sinners.

[@elsamusoy]

A *calvinist* approaching a person to preach *his* “gospel”: "Hi! I have good news for you! I don't know if God loves you, the most probable thing is that He hates you. I also don't know if He died for you in the cross, only a very few were chosen… But Listen!" Sad but true! This is the false gospel that is being preached in many churches. We need urgently to bring back the *powerful, simple* and *true gospel* summarized in *John 3:16.* If God says that he died for everyone, *it means that He died for everyone:* *Isaiah 53:6* ; *John 1:29* ; *John 3:16,17* ; *John 4:42* ; *2 Corinthians 5:14,15* ; *Romans 5:18* ; *1 Timothy 2:6* ; *1 Timothy 4:10,11* ; *1 John 2:2* ; *John 12:47* ; *1 John 4:14* ; *Hebrews 2:9* …etc Let's be very careful, let's not be found liars.

[@lynbautista6341]

Don't forget to read Romans 9 and may God be gracious to you and save you from your simple understanding of the Gospel. The weak and watered down Gospel. Doctrine of demons that create false converts like you.

[@elsamusoy]

@@lynbautista6341 It's probable I know Romans 9 better than you. (Isaiah 53:6), (1 John 2:2), (John 4:42), (John 12:47), (1 John 4:14), (Titus 2:11), (Hebrews 2:9), (John 1:29), (John 3:16,17), (2 Corinthians 5:14, 15), (Romans 5:18), (1 Timothy 2:6), (1 Timothy 4:10,11) Read carefully these texts before saying more foolishness. Please.

[@rudyferrell]

I don't know what you are trying to say, is that a lot of sarcasm ? Did he say something that you don't believe? If so, what part?

[@elsamusoy]

@@rudyferrell basically what I'm trying to say is the 5 points of calvinism are 5 lies. And each lie builds on the previous one.