Christ Alone
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 30 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Jesus is the Mediator and Champion who does for His people what we could not possibly do for ourselves. Today, R.C. Sproul displays the preeminence of Christ's work in our salvation.
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R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) 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.
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| 0:00.0 | The whole doctrine of salvation by grace rests on the principle that the law of God has been |
| 0:08.1 | fulfilled by Christ and by Christ alone. That what the first Adam failed to accomplish and plunged us |
| 0:19.1 | into misery, the new Adam or the second Adam, took upon |
| 0:23.9 | himself the burden to obey all of the commandments of God and to fulfill the covenant of works. |
| 0:33.4 | And what is so gracious about the covenant of grace is that the covenant of grace does not destroy |
| 0:39.4 | the covenant of works, but rather says the covenant of works can be fulfilled for you by a mediator |
| 0:49.1 | that God appoints. If all that was needed to be saved was Jesus' death on the cross, why was he born |
| 1:02.7 | as a baby instead of simply appearing as a man and dying the next day? |
| 1:07.8 | Hello and welcome to this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 1:10.5 | I'm glad you're with |
| 1:11.2 | us. We're currently working our way through a series by R.C. Sproll titled God Alone. In it, |
| 1:17.8 | R.C. unpacks each of the five solas of the Protestant Reformation. Today, he considers |
| 1:23.7 | Solis Christus, Christus, Christa. |
| 1:28.3 | We're going to continue our study of the Solas of the Reformation, and today we're going to look |
| 1:36.3 | at Solus Christus, S-O-L-U-S, which means by Christ alone, or more particularly because of Christ alone. |
| 1:49.0 | The three-fold recitation of the solas and the Reformation went like this, that justification |
| 1:55.3 | is by grace alone, through faith alone, because of Christ alone. And what we want to do now |
| 2:08.1 | is to explore in what sense our justification is rooted and grounded in the person and work of Christ. |
| 2:19.2 | I think to get a handle on this and the way the Reformed churches were thinking throughout |
| 2:24.4 | the ages, we need to look briefly at the 17th century Reformed Confession, the Westminster |
| 2:32.3 | Confession of Faith, in the seventh chapter, because the seventh |
| 2:36.9 | chapter of that confession explores the whole concept of the covenant that God makes with his |
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