A Love That Suffers Long
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 25 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We're called to pursue love of God and love of neighbor. But is our pursuit influenced more by the world's distortion of love or the Bible's definition of it? Today, R.C. Sproul introduces the characteristics of true Christian love.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | If you are a Christian, let me ask you this question, how long did God endure your unbelief |
| 0:08.4 | before you were redeemed? How long does he continue to endure your abiding sin? |
| 0:15.0 | If it weren't for the long suffering of God, dear friends, I would perish, and you would perish. |
| 0:21.0 | God is a long suffering God and that is how he talk about love. |
| 0:35.0 | Christians love to talk about love. |
| 0:39.0 | Love can be so easily distorted, romanticized, and the love that is evident in the life of a Christian |
| 0:46.0 | can sometimes fall short of the biblical definition of love. |
| 0:51.0 | Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:57.0 | God is love, John tells us in First John. Love is included in post list of the fruit of the spirit in Galatians 5. |
| 1:05.0 | But are we pursuing a love of God and a love of neighbor that is influenced more by the world's distortion of love or by the Bible's definition of it. |
| 1:15.0 | Over the next few days, R.C. Sprawl is going to help us think through the various traits of love |
| 1:21.0 | to help us grow in Christian character. |
| 1:24.5 | Here's Dr Sproll from his series, |
| 1:26.7 | Keeping in Step with the Spirit. |
| 1:31.6 | We have been looking at the fruit of the spirit as evidence of saving faith in the life of the |
| 1:39.6 | Christian and as really the test of our growth in grace and the outward signs and manifestations |
| 1:50.5 | of our growing sanctification. |
| 1:53.0 | Now if we again turn our attention to Galatians in the fifth chapter where Paul lists |
| 2:00.0 | the fruit of the spirit, we read that the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, long |
| 2:08.9 | suffering, and so on. |
| 2:11.8 | I don't think it's by accident that the first fruit that is mentioned in this list is the |
| 2:19.6 | fruit of love. We remember that elsewhere Paul gives an exceedingly profound exposition of the nature of Christian love. |
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