The Bible informs us that not a single soul will escape the accountability of our holy God.

I know that that tends to be obscured in our culture and people don't like to talk about last judgments and so on.

But you cannot have an intelligible understanding of the preaching of Jesus if you obscure that central motif of judgment.

The last stanza of the Apostles' Creed states, I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic Church, the forgiveness of sins,

the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen. Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and today

on renewing your mind, we come to the final message in R.C. Sproles' series Basic Training. In this series,

he is teaching us the foundational truths of the Christian faith as recorded in the Apostles' Creed.

But just because these truths are foundational, it doesn't mean there isn't confusion.

For the final day, you can request this series on DVD, along with a thin-line

edition of the Bible, when you give a donation in support of renewing your mind at

Renewingermind.org for midnight tonight. Today, in this final message, we see the good news,

the gospel of Jesus Christ, affirmed

for us in the Apostles' Creed.

Here's Dr. Spraw.

Let's look then at that first of the last triad, the forgiveness of sins.

Not too long ago, I listened to a theologian complain about the fact

that theology sometimes gets lost in abstract theories about what God has done in his sovereignty

and in the atonement, and we have a doctrine for this and a doctrine for that. And he said,

where is the accent of what all of these doctrines mean for us personally? He said, where's the

message of the forgiveness of sin, which is a very personal matter? And yet it's where the heartbeat

of Christianity is found. I know, again, if I can

just be personal and experiential for a second, when I go back to my own conversion experience to

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