Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode we are

continuing our series of looking at these great figures in church

history by boiling down all of their thought to five sayings.

This week we are looking at the five sayings of Dr. R.C. Sproll, the late 20th, 21st century theologian and

will begin with this saying, Sin is cosmic treason.

Now, R.C. got a lot of books in the mail,

and one day he got a book in the mail,

and it was Bartlett's familiar quotations.

This was a standard reference book of quotations, and the book was accompanied by a letter and as he's reading the letter

He's told by the publisher that he's receiving this copy of the book because one of his

quotations has made it into the book.

And the quotation is indeed,

sin is cosmic treason.

This is a way of getting at two doctrines

that are very important to him. The holiness of God, of course. way of

get to doctrines that are very important to him. The holiness of God, of course, on the one

poll and on the other poll the sinfulness of man. We talk about

little sins. We even have this expression,

pecadillo.

But this saying reminds us that all sin

is not regional treason.

It's not even national treason.

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