An Interview with Dr. Gerstner: Silencing the Devil with R.C. Sproul and John Gerstner 

Haha. I was thinking the same.

My thoughts exactly. Haha

Me too 😊

Student always learns from the master

I came here too knowing rc is gone. 😥

Oh, what a day of rejoicing that will be! When we all see Jesus, we'll sing and shout the victory

I share the same thought, but than i think to the immensity and overwhelming presence of the Lord, that i have to force myself imagining i can be bother with the presence of anyone else in this place, even may it be my beloved wife. But sure, as mirrors, we will reflect to each other and to God His Glory.

Frampa amen

Right

@Raymondo of Nottinghamshire No sir.

I believe you show joy in Jesus Christ and are struggling in a human way with your pain. I also struggled with a different kind of pain but had/have joy in Jesus Christ - let your mind focus on that joy and turn your pain over to God. One day, all our pains will be lifted from us.

So do I. But we are gonna see all these Saints in heaven. We are close to that great day! Let's keep moving forward.

Amen

Amen. I'm also reformed and attending a charismatic church. The Sovereignty of God puts me in peace at heart. Even when a miracle doesn't happen to some people it is okay. They are not lacking any faith and they are not at fault. There is time and season for everything under heaven.

Achim Titus so funny! I’ve always thought so, too!🌺

I thought the same thing 😄

@@alexmeyer1262 Yes they do.

I'm also in the same dilemma but I keep on pushing that God will take me through this earthly anxiety and He will restore and bless you in His timing and make you whole. In the end it will be for glory.

Read 1stJohn 5:13 over & over. Then John 5:24 & Romans 5:1.

If you have doubts, then there is a problem, what are your doubts? Do you need confirmation, of your salvation? Look Jesus was victorious on the cross, if not we all would be vaporized already, not even there. We are the proof Jesus was victorious and he paid for your sins entirely. We need to have a relationship with Jesus and God the father not for just prayer time, the entire life, Jesus wants to participate on your entire life, not just in your prayer time. As more you extend your relation with Jesus as more your doubts will disappear. Jesus never break and promises. If you be reborn out of water and spirit you will loose your doubts if you strengthen your relationship with Jesus and depend on his word, his promises and most of all his grace. Don’t make the mistake to earn something you can’t, we can’t we all rely on Gods grace to be justified. Check yourself if you thinking what is good and what is evil, a reborn christian, will always recognize that doing what comes from the light and not from the darkness. If you like the darkness, yes then you need to doubt your salvation but if you seek the light and truth, there is no reason for you to doubt you salvation. Satan always pour out the seeds of doubts. Don’t forget that.

Repent, pray, read the Bible, seek out believers, pray to God for truth, guidance, and strong faith, help those less fortunate, pray to do God's will-not ours (yours), repent, etc Repeat over and over

God keeps his promises. All of them.

Great stuff all around, I would like to add; that God didn't waste Jesus when He sent Him. Let me clarify, God sent Jesus to pay for sins and gets glory when people receive that payment through faith. He didn't send Jesus for nothing and therefore is very eager to offer you the free gift provided you are truly contrite and repentant and desperate to know the real and only Wise God. He loves to save sinners for His names sake!

No he didn’t misspeak. He was making the point that that is their attitude.

The key word is "fundamentally." None of those you listed were fundamentally unhappy.

I appreciate your thoughts and agree the terminology is not precise and therefore can be confusing, but after watching this video multiple times, I will still have to respectfully disagree with Dr Sproul and Dr Gerstner’s general premise regarding fundamentally unhappy Christians. God bless you :-)

I struggle with depression, severe depression. However, I still feel a degree of sedate joy even in the depths.

Joyfully sorrow is real. After I repented God took my suicidal thoughts he gave me something to live for and that was Jesus. There is many moments of joy and moments of sorrow and sometimes it's at the same time.

See how the Westminster confession of faith to which these men both subscribed speaks about joy and assurance of faith, but also acknowledging the reality of lost joy etc. "Fundamentally" really is important in the sentence. He means, the Christian cannot be predominantly, most, always, overwhelmingly unhappy their whole life considered. 1. Although hypocrites and other unregenerate men may vainly deceive themselves with false hopes and carnal presumptions of being in the favour of God and estate of salvation, a which hope of theirs shall perish:b yet such as truly believe in the Lord Jesus, and love him in sincerity, endeavoring to walk in all good conscience before him, may in this life be certainly assured that they are in a state of grace, c and may rejoice in the hope of the glory of God, which hope shall never make them ashamed.d a. Deut 29:19; Job 8:13-14; Micah 3:11; John 8:41. • b. Mat 7:22-23. • c. 1 John 2:3; 3:14, 18-19, 21, 24; 5:13. • d. Rom 5:2, 5. 2. This certainty is not a bare conjectural and probable persuasion, grounded upon a fallible hope; a but an infallible assurance of faith, founded upon the divine truth of the promises of salvation, b the inward evidence of those graces unto which these promises are made, c the testimony of the Spirit of adoption witnessing with our spirits that we are the children of God:d which Spirit is the earnest of our inheritance, whereby we are sealed to the day of redemption.e a. Heb 6:11, 19. • b. Heb 6:17-18. • c. 2 Cor 1:12; 2 Pet 1:4-5, 10-11; 1 John 2:3; 3:14. • d. Rom 8:15-16. • e. Eph 1:13-14; 4:30; 2 Cor 1:21-22. 3. This infallible assurance doth not so belong to the essence of faith, but that a true believer may wait long, and conflict with many difficulties before he be partaker of it:a yet, being enabled by the Spirit to know the things which are freely given him of God, he may, without extraordinary revelation, in the right use of ordinary means, attain thereunto.b And therefore it is the duty of everyone to give all diligence to make his calling and election sure;c that thereby his heart may be enlarged in peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, in love and thankfulness to God, and in strength and cheerfulness in the duties of obedience, d the proper fruits of this assurance: so far is it from inclining men to looseness.e a. Psa 88 throughout; Psa 77:1-12; Isa 50:10; Mark 9:24; 1 John 5:13. • b. 1 Cor 2:12; Eph 3:17-19; Heb 6:11-12; 1 John 4:13. • c. 2 Pet 1:10. • d. Rom 5:1-2, 5; 14:17; 15:13; Eph 1:3-4; Psa 4:6-7; 119:32. • e. Psa 130:4; Rom 6:1-2; 8:1, 12; 2 Cor 7:1; Titus 2:11-12, 14; 1 John 1:6-7; 2:1-2; 3:2-3. 4. True believers may have the assurance of their salvation divers ways shaken, diminished, and intermitted; as, by negligence in preserving of it; by falling into some special sin, which woundeth the conscience, and grieveth the Spirit; by some sudden or vehement temptation; by God’s withdrawing the light of his countenance, and suffering even such as fear him to walk in darkness and to have no light:a yet are they never utterly destitute of that seed of God, and life of faith, that love of Christ and the brethren, that sincerity of heart and conscience of duty, out of which, by the operation of the Spirit, this assurance may in due time be revived,b and by the which, in the meantime, they are supported from utter despair.c a. Psa 31:22; 51:8, 12, 14; 77:1-10; 88 throughout; Song 5:2-3, 6; Isa 50:10; Mat 26:69-72; Eph 4:30-31. • b. Job 13:15; Psa 51:8, 12; 73:15; Isa 50:10; Luke 22:32; 1 John 3:9. • c. Psa 22:1; 88 throughout; Isa 54:7-10; Jer 32:40; Micah 7:7-9.

My guess is that it's also because they were both smokers.

What about him?

@@LOT116 He virtually penned the Nicene Creed by himself. Why don't these fools talk about some good theology....like TF Torrance...who considered himself an Athanasian.

Bilbo Baggins good theology is a pretty broad term. What’s wrong with Edwards?

@@LOT116 Sinners in the hands of an angry God? No. God in the hands of angry sinners. That's the Incarnation. Check out C.Baxter Kruger at www.perichoresis.org

@@bilbobaggins5815 WRONG

Must be the most exciting paint ever created

@@chrisreid2566 nope.....it's off white and smelly

@@bilbobaggins5815 I'm sorry you feel that way. Watching men of Christ speak on the splendor of faithful living, warms my heart.

@@chrisreid2566 Is that the way you normally speak? I rarely use the word splendor in common parlance. These guys bore me to tears.

@@bilbobaggins5815 There really isn't a better word. You have to enjoy the topic to enjoy the conversation. Edwards is a role model of mine. R.C sproul wrote the book that has helped my prayer life. I care, therefore it's not boring.