Posted on 12/19/2017 11:42:35 AM PST by Gamecock
GRPL Ping.
I didn’t even know RC had passed away. I didn’t agree with him on some things, but he was an excellent teacher and will be missed by a great many.
Thanks!
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Just - wow.
Thank you for this post.
Pinging you - if you haven’t already read this wonderful tribute.
“And once I get to heaven, R.C. and I will have all of eternity to sing praise to the God who permits what He hates in order to accomplish what He loves.”
That is not quite Calvin’s teaching, which could be more accurately portrayed as that He deliberately created/foreordained some for heaven and others for hell, in eternity prior, and not based on what they would or would not do, but merely to glorify and please Himself.
Thank you for posting. I’ve been following his condition.
He is my favorite.
About 20 years ago I sent a letter to R.C. Sproul. Subject was the topic of works vs. faith alone.
He actually wrote me back and said he was glad it wasn’t just theologians who pondered such topics.
If you haven’t checked them out, he’s got several video series worth a watch out there. Sure everything is on YouTube these days. Choosing My Religion is one title I remember.
Prayers sent.
Thank you TigerClaws for reminding me that YouTube can be an excellent source for sending videos to others who are not subscribers to Tabletalk Magazine or those who do not have the Ligonier organization app downloaded to phone or tablet.
Thank you, Gamecock, for posting this tribute from Joni. She is an inspiration. I have friends from various Christian denominations that pray for the healing of my Parkinson’s Disease. I tell them that witnessing in suffering is my new vocation. :) I would rather have prayers to be patient and gracious. I haven’t reached the point of being thankful for PD but I do understand suffering’s place. RC has taught me (biblically) that all things come from God’s providential hand, that God knows what is best for me, and PD is the way He chooses to keep me close to Him. I am thankful for that.
Too much of this is hitting home for me as I struggle with this mast cell disorder and I watch my condition continue to deteriorate.
I have just realized that I am now sensitive to the last form of Vitamin A I have found to take to supplement my diet. I can’t eat anything that contains it cause of what amounts to severe food allergies to virtually all veggies and fruits. And to anyone inclined to make suggestions, I have already thought of it, whatever it is.
Believe me. I’ve investigated everything.
I am not taking my furnace of affliction as gracefully as Joni.
I heard someone make a comment about how God gives His biggest trials to those He knows are most able to handle it.
I heard that with mixed feelings.
I am a Mormon, certainly far from RC’s flavor of Christianity but I always had great respect for him and his ministry. Always nice when you are driving cross country at 2 in the morning to pick up some distant AM channel and hear RC’s sermons.
Keep up the faith Metmom. One thing I have learned in my stage IV cancer at age 41 is that pain, illness, and debilitation are not optional but when we face these things on a scale we never before imagined in our lives we do have a choice to suffer or to endure. I have have chosen to never suffer from my cancer but rather I endure it as God has prepared me and provides for me.
One of the things that’s made this difficult is getting in the company of Word of faith/pentecostal folks who claim that it’s God’s will for everyone to be healed and that sickness is from the devil and God would not afflict anyone with something like that, etc....
But then again, I’ve noticed that most of them are not dealing with debilitating, life threatening health issues.
It’s easy to blame the sick person for lack of faith, sin in their lives, generational curses, something is blocking the healing from flowing, you need to just speak healing and claim it and *walk in it*, that He wouldn’t use suffering and sickness for growth, to make us more like Christ, teach us things, we all ought to be dying peacefully in our beds at a ripe old age, we’re owed 70 - 80 years we should expect that, ad nauseum.
So if I say something about it, they come back with *I rebuke that*, which does NOT make the person suffering feel any better. It just really invalidates the suffering of the person. It really just ends up putting the burden of getting healed on the sick person, which is an impossible situation.
And their theology JUST. DOESN’T. WORK. It is not the answer to the question of why God allows pain and suffering.
I’m sorry that you’re having to go through all that at such a young age. I’d hate to see anyone suffer like that at ANY age, but I’m well past 41 and you are still young.
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Not to be throwing stones at anyone, but the word of Yehova plainly states that “the curse causeless will not come.”
And when Yeshua healed, every time but one he placed the blame on sin, and said plainly that forgiveness thereof was the cure.
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Sure you are throwing blame.
You’re OT theology doesn’t work.
It didn’t work in the OT.
You are just one of Job’s worthless friends.
They, too, were wrong about Job’s suffering.
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Boiling with bitterness is not the answer to anything.
OT theology is the only theology there is. It is the “theology” of every NT apostle, and of Yeshua.
There is no NT theology, but the “inherited lies” that rose up in the 4th century and later.
Every illness is an individual thing, so there is no grand spiritual cure, but to ask the Father to walk us through our lives to show us what he sees.
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You're projecting again.
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