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.org/learn/series...

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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

[@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!

[@sandman9390]

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

[@jessyjonas4988]

Amen Praise the Lord for my supernatural birth

[@created_by_the_divine_83]

R.C. preached the Gospel 💯

[@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 !

[@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!

[@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)

[@aszochang4183]

Thankyou you for this sermon ☺️

[@SaanichtonMinistries]

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

[@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.

[@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. 🙂

[@andrewk8857]

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

[@tedmwirigi5038]

May God bless Rc sproul ❤

[@gorockmarketing]

Wow. Powerful!

[@JohnSmith-bp1er]

Thank you

[@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.

[@SoldierofChrist9]

Amen..

[@KBKB-kg8qt]

❤

[@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."*

[@user-zu4zz6kz4h]

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.?

[@Jondoe_04]

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

[@billmartinn9851]

No, faith in Christ is the beginning!

[@paquitocostunajr9191]

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

[@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.