Holiness and Justice
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
When Uzzah touched the ark of the covenant to keep it from falling to the ground, he made the fatal presumption that his sinful hands were cleaner than the dirt. Today, R.C. Sproul outlines the danger of trifling with our holy God.
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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.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | The minute you think that God owes you mercy, a bell should go off in your brain that warns you |
| 0:07.7 | and tells you that you're no longer thinking about mercy. For by definition, mercy is voluntary. |
| 0:15.2 | God is never obligated to be merciful to a rebellious creature. He doesn't owe you mercy. A holy God is both |
| 0:25.9 | just and merciful, never unjust. |
| 0:36.5 | Recently, during family worship, I read a passage from Second Kings and the destruction of |
| 0:43.3 | those who worshipped Baal. Naturally, the conversation led to a discussion of God's justice |
| 0:49.3 | and the seeming severity of God's punishment. But as you just heard from R.C. Sprole, no one is owed mercy. |
| 0:57.4 | And today, Dr. Sprawl will remind us why we shouldn't be surprised by swift judgment, |
| 1:03.0 | but instead we should be surprised by God's long suffering. Welcome to the Wednesday edition |
| 1:10.2 | of Renewing Your Mind Mind as we feature a final message |
| 1:13.3 | this week from R.C. Sproles' classic series, The Holiness of God. The Lord has used this series |
| 1:20.3 | to renew countless minds, with many Christians being able to remember their Christian life |
| 1:26.0 | before and after listening to this series |
| 1:28.6 | and the change that came from it. So I would encourage you to request this series, plus the 15 |
| 1:34.6 | Message Extended Edition, with your donation of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org. Well, here's Dr. Spraw on God's |
| 1:42.9 | mercy, His Holiness, and His Justice. |
| 1:47.0 | If we look at the period of the 18th century in the American frontier, we noticed that there |
| 1:55.7 | was a recurring motif during the Great Awakening in the preaching that was found at that time, and there |
| 2:04.9 | was sort of a dual emphasis. On the one hand, the message of the preachers was that man is very, |
| 2:13.6 | very, very, very bad, and that God is very, very, very mad. |
| 2:21.3 | In other words, there was such an emphasis on the sinfulness of man and the wrath of God |
| 2:27.3 | that almost what some have called a scare theology that dominated that period. |
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