Abrahamic Covenant

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Our salvation depends entirely on God's grace. So it was with Abraham, who was called to trust that the Lord would fulfill His promise. Today, R.C. Sproul considers what the covenant with Abraham teaches us about God's faithfulness.

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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	Why would God wait until Abraham's an old man and his wife is barren to fulfill his covenant
0:08.9	promise to him that he was going to make of him a great nation. The whole point of God's dealing here with Abraham
0:16.2	is to manifest clearly that the benefits of the covenant
0:21.8	rest in the power and in the grace of God alone.
0:27.0	If salvation was ultimately dependent upon us, upon our faithfulness, our merit, no one would be saved.
0:42.0	Salvation is by the grace of God alone. How God is a covenant
0:46.2	keeping God. He is a promise keeper. And that will be our topic this week on renewing
0:52.0	your mind. As you hear select messages from
0:54.7	R.C. Sprawl series, The Promise Keeper.
0:58.4	When you understand the covenants in scripture, I found that it brought so much clarity to the gospel, so I would not only
1:05.6	encourage you to listen all week, but also to request this week's resource offer.
1:10.3	When you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org, you'll receive lifetime
1:15.6	digital access to the Complete Promise Keeper series and study guide, and will also send you Dr. Sproll's
1:22.1	Companion Book, The Promises of God.
1:25.0	Well let's begin this week's study by looking at God's Covenant with Abraham.
1:30.0	Here's Dr. Sprawl. If there's any one person in the Bible whose name is associated with the concept of covenant, it is Abraham.
1:46.7	In fact, Abraham emerges as such an important person
1:50.8	in redemptive history that he's called the Father of the Faithful.
1:56.8	In fact, the New Testament looks back to the promises that God made to Abraham, seeing their fulfillment in the birth and in the ministry of Jesus.
2:08.1	You recall, I've already mentioned that in the Magnificat, when Mary, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, speaks of God's remembering
2:18.3	the promises that had been made to Abraham.
2:22.3	When the apostle Paul uses an Old Testament illustration to illuminate
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