Hedonism
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 August 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Many people now believe that our feelings determine what is true and what is good. But this idea is actually quite old--and dead wrong. Today, R.C. Sproul shows where hedonism leads so many astray in how they view pleasure and pain.
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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 | We can't experience pain and we don't like it. |
| 0:02.9 | We can experience pleasure and we do like it. |
| 0:05.4 | But what the heenness does is he puts that suffix on the end, ISM, |
| 0:09.8 | and turns it into a philosophy of ultimance, |
| 0:13.3 | an ultimate standpoint of value. |
| 0:15.7 | So the truth and goodness are determined in the final analysis by this calculus of pain and pleasure. |
| 0:29.6 | Yesterday, we heard some common modern expressions. That's your truth. This is my truth. Well, as we close this week's |
| 0:39.5 | study of worldviews, we'll consider what led people to start saying, if it feels good, do it. |
| 0:45.9 | Or interacting with ideas, not by thinking, but by feeling. I feel like I disagree with that. |
| 0:53.2 | So you won't want to miss today's episode of |
| 0:55.6 | renewing your mind. I hope you've been helped this week, and perhaps you've been able to put a name |
| 1:01.5 | to some of the ideas that you hear around you, whether online or in the media. Well, this entire |
| 1:07.6 | study is 12 messages, so please consider requesting the series and working through it, |
| 1:13.6 | and reading R.C. Sproles' practical book, making a difference. |
| 1:17.8 | You can request this resource bundle when you give a gift of any amount at renewingyourmind.org. |
| 1:24.0 | But today is the final day, so be quick. |
| 1:31.1 | Let's consider today's worldview. Here's Dr. Sprawl on hedonism. I want to turn our attention now to hedonism. Again, we have a case that we use a word |
| 1:41.2 | to describe a movement or a philosophy that not everybody in the culture |
| 1:46.5 | is aware of. I'm sure that there are vast numbers of people in America who have never heard |
| 1:50.1 | the word hedonism, but I can't conceive of anybody of age in America who has not experienced |
| 1:56.9 | the impact or the import of hedonism as a life and worldview. |
| 2:02.9 | Heedonism as a philosophy has this basic principle for its foundation. |
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