Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees: Pleasing God with R.C. Sproul 

There was once a man who loved being righteous so much that he devoted his life to becoming it. When he eventually died and met God, they didn't recognize each other. At the same time, another man loved God so much, he devoted his life to seeking a relationship with Him. When he died, Jesus said, "this is my friend. He's with me".

I'm so happy that I have come across these videos. Praise God for raising his ministers, they are great blessings. Thanks Father for the ministry of RC Sproul.

I love his voice ! I can hear the kindness of the Father in his voice.

Thanks to Ligonier Ministries for posting these teaching videos and sermons. 👌👍

Thank you for posting more of his old teachings. Blessed by these videos

Amazing teacher of the word of God

Well, wow sir, thank you for this outstanding preaching.I am thankful to the Lord that I bumped into this marvel while searching for leaven. Thanks from Mauritius. God Bless.

"The letter and the spirit......The outside and the inside" yes!

I am so blessed to have found these videos. Thank you RC Sproul. You are my brother in Christ and I love you and I look forward to meeting you in heaven.

R.C. Sproul, a master teacher!

Jesus loves you and died so you can have eternal life. Repent and turn to Him because He is coming soon! He loves you…

Amen, May God Be Blessed. I have learnt a lot.

Thank you for the videos I'm blessed and hope to accomplish all that God has given him for us. Awesome explanatory teaching.

This was fantastic thank you

Good teaching sir.

Thank you . I was wondering about who The Pharisees were I had a general idea but this is revelation for me to understand. God bless you

I agree but I believe “LOVE” is superior & is the fulfillment of the law & righteousness. With Love we can’t be truly righteous because God is righteous because He is Love. Without Love our righteousness is like that of the Pharisees

If you love God back the way he loves you, everything else falls into line.

There are so many places in the psalms referring to the righteous...was just reminded of this.

Jesus is “the Lord our righteousness “. Jeremiah 23:6

Wonderful teaching that helps me so much!

No one tithed in the new testament. They gave freely

One day i will see RC in heaven 🙏🏼✝️

He then went on to point out that we what we should do to please God is what they teach when they are "sitting in the Seat of Moses" - teaching the Torah.

Righteousness is actually the second portion of faith. On the way of life through the kingdon of God, righteousness should place you in the middle court. Holiness is required to get into the holy of holies--remembering that the ultimate call to all of us is "Seek my face." Righteousness is a commitment to accept God's will as our own. It also includes an increase in faith. Obviously, we will fail many times. We need the faith to count on God's grace to forgive the repentant.

Don’t do anything for God if it isn’t out of love for Jesus Christ. If you do it to keep God on your side, then you are Cain. It’s easy to obey for the wrong reason, and that reason is the heart and mind. If you believe your money should be tithed, then do it with joy and faith in God making the ninety percent you keep work better than the 100%! If you can only give 3% with joy, then you do that! You share the light of salvation to those in darkness out of loving service to your Lord and compassion for those perishing in their sins, as you were, not following a commandment to keep your membership in Saint Peters logbook. I am praying for us all, that we will all have a greater knowledge of how to walk and talk in peace and joy in a manner that glorifies God, no matter our circumstances. God’s grace to us all!

the religious leaders (pharisees) looked down on the people for their sin casting condemnation upon them .. God looks at us as slaves in need of deliverance stuck in sin. We dont know why people get stuck, its their choices but also under privilege and misfortune. Jesus came to this people and rejected the religious leaders who were oppressing them... Christ walked with us here at the bottom and died to forgive our sin, setting us free in spirit first leading to freedom physically next

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Some really unbelievable comments about tithing that indicate that the individuals are not Orthodox in their understanding of the Doctrine of Scripture. Probably most are taught by the false teaching of Dispensationalism. "All Scripture is God breathed and profitable for Doctrine, for reproof, correction and instruction in Righteousness". II Timothy 3:16,17. Paul was referring primarily to the Old Testament. Whether or not tithing is a New Testament requirement is not important. We should remember that 100 percent of what we have and earn belongs to God. 10 percent is the minimum that we should be giving back to him. Actually, it should be greater than that. God loves a cheerful giver, so be cheerful and give sacrificially. Stop playing games with the Scriptures and picking and choosing what you want to obey. You have clear teaching about giving in the New Testament. Read II CORINTHIANS 8 and 9.

To receive the righteousness, believe the gospel. 1 Corinthians 15:1-4.

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1 Corinthians 15:1 - Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; 1 Corinthians 15:2 - By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:3 - For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; 1 Corinthians 15:4 - And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: John 3:16 - For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. John 5:24 - “Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.” Acts 16:30 - And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be Saved? Acts 16:31 - And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy House. Hebrews 10:14 - “For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that are sanctified.” Ephesians 1:13 - In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Ephesians 4:30 - And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Once saved always saved.

When we trust Jesus as our savior, He imputes His righteousness to us, and will no more impute sin to our account. Romans 4:6-8. AMAZING GRACE, JESUS PAID IT ALL AND WE PAID 0. IT IS FREE. Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the GIFT of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 8 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 Titus 1:13-15 Revelation 2:9 Revelation 3:9 It’s obvious what the problem is because the bible tells us.

I heard a glimpse of RC talking about the difference between Pharisees and Sadducees. He said they really didn't like each other but that they could agree in their mutual contempt of Jesus. I think he was relating to Mark 12 where the Pharisees were trying to trap Jesus about who the wife was who married some brothers who kept dying. If anyone has access to a link where RC is teaching on this, please stick it here for me.

The way our righteousness can exceed the scribes and pharisees is imputed those who put their trust in Christ. Of coures(course) we are to pusue (pursue) righteosnee (righteousness)ourselvees. "Be holy as Iam holy" (Lev. 11: 44).

Does anyone know what bible translation he is using?

How can a learned man like RC teach tithing, and use the tired old Malachai verse to do so? So confused. Obviously the Pharisees were under the law and should have tithed. Just shows how ingrained the tithe is in modern day evangelicalism.

Motivation is not intrinsically righteous and thus should not be measured on a congruent scale. The level of hate that drives one to murder is not noble because it is extreme. So, the pharisees efforts should not be notably attributed to them because it was extreme. Evil motivation has it's extremes.

When the KING states a (woe), it's a real danger for that person or people HE'S talking to.. IMHO, pharisees branched out for converts was to be adored by other peoples, and be looked up to by them as well as their own countrymen...

Sproul had some good lectures, but it's sad he was a chain smoker and developed COPD, which eventually took his life... My whole family were smokers, and their lives ended badly.... My mother herself having developed emphysema, never quit smoking even though it ended her life - SAD...

Psalms 119:142 142Your righteousness is an everlasting righteousness, And Your Torah/Law/Instructions is Truth.

It is my understanding the tithe (that is to say offering) has been fulfilled by Jesus Christ being the ultimate sacrifice. Of course one should tithe while Jesus was alive, since he was not yet sacrificed. After he sacrificed/offered himself the ceremonial laws (which include tithing/offering) are abolished or rather fulfilled. That being said, being charitable in acts and with your money is ALWAYS the right thing to do (be a cheerful giver not a reluctant giver by duty), but tithes/offerings as a commandment of law I thought were abolished by Jesus offering himself for us.

Well, its all to do with the heart. The reformers all taught that Justification and sanctification ARE Inseparable!!!!!!! 11.On justification .... Eph and Gal... all talk about the works of the flesh..... walk in the Spirit. JESUS IS OUR ALPHA born again Jesus is also our Omega. Our resurrection newness of life. The problem is we dont believe the resurrection as we ought... We believe in Justification By Grace ALONE. BUT it is never Alone in the person Justified...Love your weakest brother and sister if we do not how can we say we Love God who we have not seen....By their fruit ye shall know THEM. Remember the old Israel just has leaves Justification of mouth. Hosanna in the highest spread their garments and palm leaves then in moments they cried out crucify Him crucify Him...Justification because of who they claimed to be. Theif on the cross. 7 fruits of the Spirit. Love for his neighbour dont you fear God? We Justly,prayer remember me, readiness of Gods forgiveness...etc....weather we live for an hour or 100years fruit.. Who would except John the Baptist preaching today...😚

This sounds like a sermon on how to become righteous, which is disturbingly ironic.

I always thought it was belief..

Stop looking for anything that might be wrong in his Bible teachings. Just accept his spirit of it

With Ligonier's ministry they are always going over land and sea to win one convert through technology.

Well it ends just as its getting to the good part…It’s like watching a happily ever after and never seeing how that is to be accomplished. Why did the Pharisees fail? What could they have done to not fail? And very interestingly Yeshua said the weightier matters of the law and included faith…? Is He suggesting that these guys didn’t believe in God? Naturally not they obviously believed and as RC said put their money where their mouths were. God for them was a fulltime vocation. They believed….so then what faith is Christ pointing to? This question of how to live as a Christian is fundamental to what Christianity even is. How can we live by faith….how can the just live by faith…if they call faith belief? Add to this the bar Christ sets is not actually higher than these men it’s Himself…He is the bar….perfection. We don’t …well I don’t get there for 5 seconds out of every day, how is the gospel good news for me? I struggle with gluttony as an example I struggle with far more than that but just as a place to begin…I’m terrible when it comes to ice-cream…and I have the waistline to evidence that. Personally I am very sure that where I more disciplined when it comes to food I would be a much happier and more fulfilled person. Gluttony you see affects me; is a personal detriment. There are some sins of or at least that appear to be of pleasure, but gluttony is not one of them…I‘m a slave to my lusts for food. Righteousness seems like something God wants from us, but in fact He wants it for us. Yet we have very little interest in the good life as God sees it…and that is just stupid, but I am not a stupid man. I see the truth my problem is living it. So what is faith and just as interesting what is sin? People often point to satan and say here is the adversary, but satan is not my problem I am. The truth is satan was certainly better off before he fell. Sin is a problem we both have in common; he isn’t the master of it. Yes true he spreads it like a viruses but so do we. Sin is the problem faith is the cure and just at the point where we might hear about these the video ends. It is true that you can read the book… Churches are full of people that do and ministers who like the Pharisees are studied in the word, but again I have an issue. If reading and studying the word works why are there so many different interpretations? Getting right back to Yeshua….you study the scriptures…why didn’t it work for the Pharisees. Christianity is not about what we do Paul said it’s a work of God in us, and he tells us about faith too. He tells us that we are saved not by work but by grace through faith and while a lot of people are drawn to the grace aspect…the gift they don’t recognise that grace is effective because of the faith they don’t have and don’t understand…faith they would call belief. Can a man fly? I have heard stories of people who have taken different substances and become convinced they could…I don’t know anyone personally and these may just be urban legends, but either way the outcome of making the attempt seems obvious. Gravity wins every time, no matter how fervent the belief. Yet Peter by faith walked on water and as his faith failed he sank. Clearly faith and belief are cousins or at least there is a connection, but just as clearly, they are not one and the same thing. Belief is in the mind; faith is like it but in the Spirit and our trouble is that we are born spiritually dead. So faith cannot work to perform the function it was meant to perform in us. Dead seem rather final. After all most often when a person dies they stay that way. I think though that just as we have a warped view and understanding of faith and sin we can also include death. I would offer that to be dead is to be unable to achieve that for which we were created. Physical death causes the body to be completely inanimate, but the body is still there and it may be with intervention a person can be brought back, so it need not be permanent. There was still a point at which the body was fully unable to function and so dead. Perhaps it is similar with the spirit. Perhaps that is the aim of Christianity, Spiritual rebirth and faith is the evidence of that having taken place, as faith is spiritual in nature just as belief is physical. While most seem focused on good works and I suspect those can be physical in nature just as belief, both having been performed in the past and both having being described as inadequate for salvation are clearly not defining Christianity….

It takes a Pharisee to know one. John 6:40 And this is the will of Him who sent me, That ALL that seeth the Son, and believeth on Him, may have everlasting life, and I will raise him up on the last day. John 6:29. Jesus, answered, and said unto them. This is the work of God, that ye believe on the one He has sent. John 3:18. Believers are no longer condemned to hell, but unbelievers are condemned already because they have not believed on the name of the Son of God. First John 5:13 These things have I written unto you that BELIEVE on the name of the Son of God, that ye may KNOW YE HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. Thank God. Romans 6:23 For the penalty for sin is death, and we all sin, First John 1:8, and we all die, BUT, ( I love that BUT), the GIFT of God is ETERNAL LIFE. Why? Because no one can earn it. Romans 4:5-8. Romans 3:26-28. There will be no boasting in heaven. You cannot boast in free. John 6:47. John 3:16. I am a WHOSOEVER. Therefore I have eternal life, because God cannot lie. John 3:18.

Mark 7:5-9 5¶Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk ACCORDING to the tradition of the ELDERS, but eat bread with unwashed hands?” 6¶He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far from Me. 7And in vain they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the commandments of MEN.' 8“For laying aside the commandment of YAH, you hold the tradition of MEN-the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.” 9¶He said to them, “All too well you reject the commandment of YAH, that you may keep YOUR tradition. The pharisees put THEIR traditions and commandments (talmud) above the Fathers Torah/Law/Commandments/Instructions

Typical pharrisee telling you who God is but has never actually met him

Love RC’s teachings but this is a perfect example of how errors get engrafted into otherwise sound theology and ruin it - at least the title was good. The reformed doctrines mix in the law and works righteousness and ruin the simple truths of the Gospel. That’s why it’s fading away.

Let's cut the crap and go to the bottom ☺️ line.. The fact of the matter is... that life is good and beautiful to some but to most of us life is not fair 😜😂😜 Oh, what a life!

He just said Jesus obeyed for us so we don't have to for our salvation, we can continue in evil and still be saved. In Mathew 5 Jesus was saying we must obey the law of God, turn from sin, or we will not be saved. He does not understand what righteousness is. It is obeying God's law in faith not outside faith like the Pharisees. Jesus was saying they were totally unrighteous. You cannot be righteous without faith. He is teaching lawlessness. It is our righteousness, not Christ's. Ezekiel 36:27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them. This is what Mathew 5 is all about. He that sins is of the devil, is unrighteous. We don't get Christ's righteousness. How were all the saints in the OT saved. They believed in the gospel. They recieved the blood after the cross. They did not recieve the life of Christ he had not lived yet. Where is that in the bible. He was raised for our justification for our ongoing sin. He cleanses us and justifies us all our lives before the Father. Search for it. 7 Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous. According to RC Sproul this is Christ again but it says we are righteous because we do, we walk in obedience to God's law, just as Christ did. RC does not even know what righteousness is. It is only for those who love God in the Spirit not the flesh. Psalm 119:172 My tongue shall speak of thy word: for all thy commandments are righteousness. 173 Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts. 174 I have longed for thy salvation, O Lord; and thy law is my delight. Romans 8: There is no condemnation for those in Christ who walk in obedience to the law of God by the Spirit, which pleases God, Again, this is our righteousness. RC Sproul claims this is Christ walking for us. Wow, Luther must have had a sin problem he just could not get over. 18 And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

Tithing is NOT a new testament principle! I'm sorry, I like RC but that is duel covenant theology! We are nowhere commanded to tithe in the NT. We are to be cheerful giver... to all who have need!

I'm getting tired of this guy. His intellect precedes his rationale.

Sproul was a sneaky, snarky, serial liar.

He just does not get it at all or he is deceiving. Righteousness of the law is not the righteousness of God, it is unrighteousness. Obedience of faith or good works or the works in James is righteousness. Trying to claim the Pharisees were righteous when Jesus said their father was the devil just shows how messed up this guy is. He follows Luther and Calvin and has thrown his bible in the trash. No matter how he spins it God wants our obedience, he wants our love, which is our worship. Faith without works, without love, without obedience is a false dead faith. The Catholics added unrighteous works to our faith but this guy throws the very reason God created us, to love him and obey him, our righteousness, in the trash. And this is all about salvation, not sanctification.

This man's version of biblical theology is deeply flawed. What God requires MOST of His children is NOT righteousness. It is overwhelmingly FAITH. For without faith, the Word of God says that it is IMPOSSIBLE to please God!!! This man was a false teacher. He was teaching many lies to his "followers".