Confidence in God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Before Judah fell to the forces of Babylon, the prophet Isaiah urged the people to trust in the name of the Lord. Today, Stephen Nichols visits this pivotal moment in Israel's history and calls us to place our confidence in God.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Stephen Nichols is president of Reformation Bible College, chief academic officer for Ligonier Ministries, and a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow. He is host of the podcasts 5 Minutes in Church History and Open Book. He has written more than twenty books, including Peace, A Time for Confidence, and R.C. Sproul: A Life and volumes in the Guided Tour series on Jonathan Edwards, Martin Luther, and J. Gresham Machen. He is coeditor of The Legacy of Luther and general editor of the Church History Study Bible.
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 | Sometimes that's |
| 0:02.0 | power of the nations is so strong, it's all we can see. |
| 0:06.0 | It blocks the sun, as it were. |
| 0:09.0 | And we can't see beyond the horizon of our existence |
| 0:12.0 | because all we see is what is in front of us, the nations. |
| 0:17.0 | But the true perspective is they are a drop in the bucket. |
| 0:27.0 | Where do you place your confidence? |
| 0:29.1 | As we look around, we see powerful nations, military forces, powerful institutions, rapid technological change. |
| 0:38.0 | We can look to these earthly things and shrink back in fear, |
| 0:42.0 | or some look to them hopeful placing their confidence in |
| 0:45.0 | them but our confidence needs to be in God. This is the Tuesday edition of |
| 0:50.8 | renewing your mind. I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. It can be |
| 0:56.0 | tempting to have our confidence shaken as we survey the state of the world today. |
| 1:00.7 | It can also be tempting to place our hope in the wrong things. |
| 1:05.0 | So we need to have a biblical view of confidence, |
| 1:08.0 | recognizing that it is a time for confidence, but confidence in God. So I would remind you to request Stephen Nichols |
| 1:16.0 | series and book both titled A Time for Confidence when you give a gift of any amount |
| 1:21.8 | at renewing your mind dot org. To remind us why it's foolishness |
| 1:26.9 | to trust in the temporal things of this world and why we must trust in our great God, |
| 1:32.1 | here's Dr Dr Nichols. |
| 1:34.0 | We've been talking about a time for confidence and in this session we're going to |
| 1:40.0 | talk about our confidence must be in God. To help us get a handle on this, we're going to |
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