God's Electing Love
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Does God love everyone in the same way? Today, R.C. Sproul teaches on the doctrine of predestination, showing that our election is bound up with a special love that the Lord has for His chosen people.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
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.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | We love him because he first loved us. And that's the power or the triumph of his love that triumphs over our hostility, over our estrangement, and brings us back to himself in a posture and relationship of love. |
| 0:30.5 | It's not hard to convince someone that God is a God of love. |
| 0:35.9 | Your unbelieving friends, coworkers, or neighbors likely believe that if there is a God, |
| 0:39.4 | surely he is loving, and surely he'll let them into heaven. |
| 0:44.8 | And some Christians add further confusion because they only ever speak of God's love, |
| 0:50.2 | and not of His holiness, justice, and as we'll consider today, his sovereignty. |
| 0:53.8 | Welcome to the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and this week we've been considering |
| 0:56.0 | the love of God. |
| 0:58.0 | If you'd like to study this topic further, tomorrow is the final day to request the entire |
| 1:04.0 | 11-part series, Loved by God, with R.C. Sprawl, when you give a donation in support of |
| 1:10.0 | renewinging your mind at Renewingermind.org. |
| 1:13.6 | So does God love everyone in the same way? Since God is a God of love, does that mean all people |
| 1:20.6 | will be saved? Here's Dr. Spraw on the sovereign or electing love of God. |
| 1:29.3 | As we've been exploring the biblical concept of the love of God, we've noted that God's love |
| 1:36.3 | as an attribute of his character and of his being must be always understood in connection |
| 1:42.3 | with all the rest of his attributes. |
| 1:44.5 | And we've seen how, for example, his love is an eternal love, |
| 1:49.8 | and that his love is an immutable love, |
| 1:52.6 | and that his love is a loyal love, a steadfast love. |
| 1:57.7 | And we've looked at various aspects of the way these other characteristics of God |
| 2:02.6 | help us understand the nature of his love. Today, I want to look at a somewhat controversial aspect |
| 2:11.9 | of the love of God. In fact, a dimension of God's love that raises such serious questions in some people's mind |
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