Confession

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 31 August 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A prayer of genuine confession doesn’t appeal to excuses or to vows of doing better next time, but to the mercy of God. Today, R.C. Sproul describes how Christians are to confess their sins in a way that manifests genuine repentance.

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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	As long as you think you deserve forgiveness or you deserve mercy, you haven't really repented.
0:06.4	A truly penitent person says, God, I understand, I have no claim at this point, I forfeited all of my rights. You have every right to destroy me. You have every right to punish me according to the full measure of the law.
0:21.0	I ask that you don't. I plead with you that you won't, but I acknowledge that if you do it,
0:26.1	I have no grounds to complain against you. Martin Luther, the 16th century reformer famously said that the Christian life is to be a life of
0:41.4	repentance. But do we really confess our sins as often and
0:45.8	specifically as we ought?
0:47.8	Arse Sproll will help us on this Saturday edition of renewing your mind as we continue our study of prayer focusing today on
0:55.7	contrition. Prayer is part of the Christian life, but it's also an area where many of
1:01.9	us struggle.
1:03.1	So we're taking our time to work through Dr. Sproll's practical series on prayer.
1:08.4	Reflecting on these messages again myself, I've been helped this week. So you may wish to revisit this series or study it
1:15.8	along with the study guide with your family. You can do that when you request the
1:20.6	DVD and Lifetime Digital Access to the messages and study guide
1:25.3	at renewing your mind.org with your donation of any amount.
1:30.8	What does true repentance, true confession look like?
1:34.0	Here's Dr Sproll on Psalm 51.
1:37.0	In our last segment of our study of prayer, I made use of this simple acrostic, the word
1:46.0	acts, and we looked at these elements, simple elements that should be included in every prayer. And we spend our time the last time looking at the first
1:54.9	one adoration and today I want to look particularly at the importance of confession.
2:03.5	It's been said that it's important for the Christian to keep short accounts with
2:07.4	God.
2:08.4	That even though our sins have been nailed to the cross and Christ has atone for all of our sins that we've ever
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