Assurance and Trust
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2023
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
When you've examined the progress of your Christian growth, have you ever become discouraged--even to the point of questioning your salvation? Today, R.C. Sproul teaches that our assurance is a matter of where we place our trust.
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| 0:00.0 | This is where the devil majors in the life of the Christian, not as the tempter but as the accuser |
| 0:04.5 | who comes to you day after day after day and said, look at that sin, look at that sin, look what you did. |
| 0:08.0 | How could you be a Christian to do that? |
| 0:10.3 | Who will take away the peace of God. |
| 0:13.0 | Christians have peace with God, |
| 0:21.0 | but as R.C. Sproll just said, the devil seeks to take away that peace as he |
| 0:26.0 | accuses us and brings doubt, making us wonder, am I even really a Christian? Have you ever |
| 0:31.7 | experienced that? |
| 0:33.4 | If you have, I'm glad you're joining us for today's edition of Renewing Her Mind |
| 0:37.8 | as we conclude a two-day study on assurance. |
| 0:41.3 | How can we resist the accusations of the devil and not find ourselves |
| 0:45.0 | paralyzed with doubt? That's what Dr. Sprawl will help us with today as he |
| 0:49.9 | challenges where it is that we're placing our trust and encourages us to place our |
| 0:55.0 | trust in Christ alone and remember these messages are part of a larger series |
| 1:00.3 | and today is the final day to request it on DVD at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:06.0 | So here's R.C. sprawl with a message on assurance and trust. |
| 1:10.0 | In our last session we considered the four groups of people with respect to |
| 1:19.2 | assurance of salvation, those who were unsaved and knew they were not saved, those who are saved |
| 1:25.0 | and know that they're saved, those who are saved and don't know that they're saved, and then the |
| 1:29.3 | one that muddles at all, those who are unsaved and are sure that they are saved and we considered in the time |
| 1:36.0 | that we had some of the reasons why it is that people can come to a false sense of security about their state of grace. |
| 1:46.2 | And what we want to do in this session |
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