Monthly Archives: February 2014

Ask R.C. Live (January event)

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Watch this “Ask R.C.” event hosted by Lee Webb and recorded live on January 21, do they immediately go to heaven?

03:00 – If Jesus was born of the substance of the virgin Mary, how was He born without original sin?

09:10 – If Saul had repented, would God have made the bloodline of Christ go through Saul and Jonathan rather than David?

11:08 – If God is a Spirit, how is Jesus, being God, more than just a Spirit?

19:45 – If no one seeks for God (Rom. 3:11), how do we understand what Paul says in Acts 17?

27:33 – Did God know there would one day be sin in the world when He created it?

30:05 – Should a Christian pursue a philosophy degree?

38:50 – Should fear play a role in our evangelism?

43:43 – Since Jesus took the punishment for us, why did He not have to spend eternity in hell?

47:45 – How concerned should we be for the lack of truth in the local church?

51:00 – When should a person leave a church?

54:37 – If we do not witness and share the gospel will some people not go to heaven?

58:54 – Can you, by prayer, change God’s will? If not, why pray?

1:02:10 – How does one obtain eternal life?

1:08:40 – When the Psalms make promises like in Psalm 91—no harm, no disaster will overtake us—how are we to interpret them?

1:11:30 – How do we distinguish between the work of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament, and His work in the New Testament?

1:17:35 – I’m a believer, but can’t recall a time when I became a Christian. Can you help me understand this?

1:18:30 – How is it just for people to be born with a sin nature when they have never actually sinned?

1:19:42 – Why did God rest after six days of creation?

1:20:42 – Has God created one right person for each to marry?

1:21:25 – What do you think is the greatest need of the modern church?

1:21:37 – What is conveyed to an infant at baptism?

1:22:18 – What role do electronic devices have during the Lord’s Day worship?

1:23:28 – What does the resurrection mean?

1:24:07 – Why does Old Testament prophecy speak of God giving His people a new heart of flesh if Old Testament saints were regenerate to begin with?

1:26:15 – Why do we need a new heaven and a new earth if heaven is perfect?

Why Doesn’t God Extend His Saving Grace To All?

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“We may ask, no doubt, why God does not extend his saving grace to all; and why, if he sends it to some only, he sends it to just those some to whom he sends it rather than to others. These are not wise questions to ask. We might ask why Christ raised Lazarus only of all that lay dead that day in Palestine, or in the world. No doubt reasons may suggest themselves why he raised Lazarus. But why Lazarus only? If we threw the reins on the neck of imagination, we might possibly discover reasons enough why he might well have raised others, too, with Lazarus, perhaps many others, perhaps all the dead throughout the whole world. Doubtless he had his reasons for doing on that great day precisely what he did. No doubt God has his reasons, too, for doing just what he does with his electing grace. Perhaps we may divine some of them. No doubt there are others which we do not divine. Better leave it to him, and content ourselves. facing, in the depths of our ignorance and our sin-bred lack of comprehension, these tremendous realities, with the altitude of Paul: ‘O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!’ Or may we not even rise to the great consenting ‘Yea!’ which Christ has taught us: ‘Yea, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in thy sight!’ After all, men are sinners and grace is wonderful. The marvel of marvels is not that God, in his infinite love, has not elected all of this guilty race to be saved, but that he has elected any. What really needs accounting for — though to account for it passes the powers of our extremest flights of imagination — is how the holy God could get the consent of his nature to save a single sinner.”

B. B. Warfield