What's Wrong With You Men? Seriously!

A few years back at a Christian conference  the
late Dr. R.C Sproul. uttered a line in response to a audience question that has since become quite famous: "What's wrong with you people!" The question was:

"Since God is slow to anger and patient, then why, when man first sinned, was His wrath and punishment so severe and long lasting?"

R.C.'s blunt answer was as follows:

Timeout! Didn’t we just have that question a second ago?

God’s punishment for Adam was so severe?

This creature from the dirt defied the everlasting holy God. After that, God had said “the day that you shall eat of it, you shall surely die” and instead of dieing (thanatos) that day, he lived another day and was clothed in his nakedness, by pure grace, and had the consequences of the curse applied for quite some time, but the worse curse would come upon the one who seduced him, whose head would be crushed by the seed of the woman. And the punishment was too severe? What’s wrong with you people? I’m serious! I mean, this is what’s wrong with the Christian church today. We don’t know who God is, and we don’t know who we are.

The question is, why wasn’t it infinitely more severe? If we have any understanding of our sin and any understanding of who God is, that’s the question. Isn’t it?

R.C. wasn't trying to funny but was all too serious about those who call themselves "Christians" yet seemingly do not know who God is nor who we are. Watch his classic 2-minute moment of biblical truth and may it be sobering to your soul HERE  Brothers, this truth is also foundational to being a man of God - i.e. having R.C's passion for the Holiness of God and His Glorious Gospel!