How Can I Be Right with God?
Overview
The Philippian jailer’s question is as pressing for us as it was for the man who originally asked it. God is holy, and we are not. God cannot stand to look upon sin. How then can we, as sinners, be saved? This book delves into Scripture and church history to explore the Protestant doctrine of justification by faith alone, and in so doing, it points to Christ alone as our hope for salvation.
Top Highlights
“He had a profound existential experience where the burden of his unresolved guilt rolled off his back and he realized that the only way he could stand before a just and holy God was to be cloaked in the righteousness of Christ, which Luther couldn’t beg, borrow, steal, deserve, or earn, but could only humbly receive.” (Page 11)
“Thus, forensic justification means that justification rests upon some kind of legal declaration. In the simplest terms, that means that justification takes place when God declares a person to be just in His sight. If God says, ‘You are just,’ then you have been justified.” (Page 17)
“When the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake, because the gospel tells us how we can be right with God.” (Page 2)
“‘He does not say, the righteousness of man, or the righteousness of his own will, but the ‘righteousness of God,’—not that whereby He is Himself righteous, but that with which He endows man when He justifies the ungodly.” (Page 11)
“When the Reformers said that one of the necessary ingredients of saving faith is notitia, they meant the bare minimum of content that is needed to understand the virgin birth, sinless life, atoning death, and resurrection of Jesus.” (Page 51)
- Title: How Can I Be Right with God?
- Author: R. C. Sproul
- Edition: First edition
- Series: The Crucial Questions Series
- Volume: 26
- Publisher: Reformation Trust
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2018
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Justification (Christian theology); Salvation › Christianity; Assurance (Theology)
- ISBNs: 9781567698374, 9781567698831, 9781567698855, 9781642890617, 1567698379, 1567698832, 1567698859, 1642890618
- Resource ID: LLS:HWCNBRGHTGD
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T00:40:29Z
R. C. Sproul (1939– 2017) was a respected teacher, theologian, pastor. He was the founder and chairman of Ligonier Ministries where he served as executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Sproul held degrees from Westminster College, Pittsburgh-Xenia Theological Seminary, Free University of Amsterdam, and Whitefield Theological Seminary. He taught at several colleges and seminaries including Reformed Theological Seminary and Knox Theological Seminary. He served as senior minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew’s Chapel, in Sanford, Florida. Sproul’s teaching can be heard daily on the ‘Renewing Your Mind’ radio broadcast which plays in over 40 countries.
Sproul wrote over 70 books and articles including the classic The Holiness of God and several theological articles in Tabletalk magazine.