A Saving Birth
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Salvation involves so much more than deliverance from a lonely and meaningless life. Today, Steven Lawson explains that God graciously saves His people from the wrath and judgment they deserve.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on renewing your mind. |
| 0:02.8 | To be outside the kingdom is to be an avowed warrior |
| 0:08.1 | against this kingdom and against the kingdom of God. |
| 0:11.7 | There is no state of neutrality. |
| 0:14.1 | You're either in the kingdom or you're out of the kingdom. |
| 0:17.1 | You're either at peace with God or you're at war with God. |
| 0:21.1 | As Christians we often say that everyone needs a Savior, but many times we don't explain |
| 0:32.7 | why we need a Savior. |
| 0:35.0 | It can be intimidating to tell someone that apart from Christ, they're an enemy of God, |
| 0:39.7 | and we fail to address the question, save from what? |
| 0:43.8 | For featuring select messages from Dr. Stephen Lawson's series The New Birth, and today |
| 0:48.8 | he'll affirm the biblical reality that salvation is a gift from God. |
| 0:53.5 | Well, in this session we want to consider yet another aspect of the New Birth. |
| 1:00.9 | We want to consider that it is a saving birth. |
| 1:05.1 | R.C. Sproul has written a book entitled Save from What? |
| 1:09.8 | He talks about when he was a new Christian, a new believer. |
| 1:12.7 | Someone came up to him on campus and was kind of a rabid, evangelist type person, and |
| 1:17.8 | he just almost grabbed him by the lapel and said, are you saved? |
| 1:21.8 | He said it's so startled him that he almost ran back to his dorm room and shut the door |
| 1:27.5 | behind him. |
| 1:28.5 | He said it made him think, save from what? |
| 1:33.6 | At that time he said I was a Christian, I knew the Lord, but I needed to think about that. |
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