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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
The principle of priestly absolution was not a major issue. The Roman Catholic Church has always taught that the priestly words Te absolvo {"I absolve you"} find their strength in the promise of Jesus to the church that "whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven" {Matt. 16:19}, granting the spokesmen of the church a right to speak the pardon of Christ to penitent people. The Roman Catholic Church understands that the power to forgive sins does not reside ultimately in the priest. The priest is merely a spokesman for Christ. In practice, the priestly absolution differs very little from the Protestant minister's "assurance of pardon," which is given from pulpits across the land every Sunday.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
Several recent books would have us believe that all we have to do is follow certain steps and God will give us whatever we ask. The authors say, in effect, "Follow this procedure or use these specific words and know for certain that God will give in to your requests." That's not prayer; that's magic. That's not faith but superstition. These are gimmicks intended to manipulate the sovereign God.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
It is our privilege to bring the whole of our finite existence into the glory of His infinite presence.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
Today a frightening lack of fear of God prevails in our world. Martin Luther once remarked that those around him spoke to God "as if He were a shoe clerk's apprentice." If that was true in Luther's day, how much more so today? Yet the top priority that Jesus established is that the name of God should be hallowed, honored, and exalted.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
the neglect of prayer is a major cause of stagnation in the Christian life.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
The body of Christ is a group of people who live daily in the context of forgiveness.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
We aredebtors who cannot pay, yet we have been released from the threat of debtors' prison. It is an insult to God for us to withhold forgiveness and grace from those who ask us, while claiming to be forgiven and saved by grace ourselves.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
Prayer prompts and nurtures obedience, putting the heart into the proper "frame of mind" to desire obedience.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
One might pray and not be a Christian, but one cannot be a Christian and not pray.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
We can take comfort from the fact that God knows our hearts and hears our unspoken petitions as well as the words that emanate from our lips. Whenever we are unable to express the deep feelings and emotions of our souls or when we are
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
What prayer most often changes is the wickedness and the hardness of our own hearts. That alone would be reason enough to pray, even if none of the other reasons were valid or true.
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R.C. Sproul _ Does Prayer Change Things?
Where God is not respected, it is inevitable that His image-bearers will also suffer a loss of respect."
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