Glory to God Alone
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 13 June 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When the Bible tells of God's glory, it refers to His ultimate dignity, importance, and significance. Today, R.C. Sproul explores our privileged purpose as God's creatures to glorify His name.
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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 | Before we begin today's episode of renewing your mind, we invite you to stay with us through |
| 0:04.7 | the end of the program to hear how you can request today's featured teaching series from |
| 0:09.5 | Ligadier Ministries. In the work of redemption, all the credit, all of the honor, all of the glory |
| 0:19.6 | belongs to God and to God alone. The scriptures tell us |
| 0:25.7 | salvation is of the Lord. And God is glorified in his plan of redemption. That's what the reformers had in mind when they advance this notion |
| 0:41.3 | of the Soul of Day of Gloria, that we can take no credit whatsoever for our salvation. |
| 0:52.7 | God declares that he will share his glory with no other. Yet if we get the gospel wrong, |
| 0:59.3 | we may be guilty of attempting to share in that glory. Hello and thank you for joining us for |
| 1:04.7 | this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. We come down to the final message in this series |
| 1:09.8 | by R.C. Sprole on the Five Solas of the Reformation. |
| 1:14.3 | So who should receive all the glory for our salvation, and what role do we play? |
| 1:20.5 | Let's join Dr. Sprole now. |
| 1:24.8 | Today we come to the last of the five solas that we are studying in this series, and this one is |
| 1:34.4 | Soli deo Gloria. |
| 1:40.3 | In one sense, this is the overarching Sola that captures the whole spirit of the Protestant Reformation, |
| 1:49.9 | because this one means, to God alone, is the glory. |
| 1:58.2 | Now, when I was a boy, I had to study the Westminster Catechism in order to join the church |
| 2:04.9 | that my parents belonged to, and we had to memorize the shorter catechism. And the very first |
| 2:11.3 | question of that catechism was this question, what is man's chief end? Now, of course, the word end here does not mean |
| 2:24.1 | destination, but what is man's chief purpose for what end or to what end were we created in the first place. |
| 2:36.1 | And the answer to that first catechism question is this. |
| 2:40.7 | Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever. |
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