How Does Truth Command Me?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
If you're not accountable for your life, then ultimately your life doesn't count. Today, R.C. Sproul reveals that a meaningful worldview must include the discipline of ethics, and our ethics cannot be divorced from the holy character of 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.
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| 0:00.0 | The basic foundation of our culture today is moral relativism. |
| 0:05.2 | And I call that a myth because what it has in common with a myth is that myths |
| 0:10.6 | have no real correspondence ultimately to objective truth. In other words, we are basing |
| 0:17.8 | our civilization and our culture on a moral concept that can't possibly be true. |
| 0:23.2 | Judges 176 describes a time where everyone did what was right in their own eyes. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a good description of our own day too, isn't it? |
| 0:39.0 | No matter how absurd someone's preference is, even if it goes against reason and nature. |
| 0:44.6 | We're not only told we must accept it. |
| 0:47.2 | In some cases, we're told we must celebrate it. |
| 0:50.3 | That's moral relativism. |
| 0:52.4 | But as you just heard R.C. Sproll say ultimately that's a myth. |
| 0:57.0 | Welcome to the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host Nathan W Bingham. |
| 1:03.0 | Over the past few weeks, Dr Sprawl has helped us consider the elements of a Christian life and |
| 1:08.8 | worldview, helping us be thinking Christians, and today he will consider morality and ethics. |
| 1:15.8 | As this is the final message in the series, |
| 1:18.1 | it's also the final time you can request this series |
| 1:21.7 | a blueprint for thinking, its study guide, and a special edition DVD |
| 1:26.3 | of his significant series, The Consequences of Ideas, when you give a gift of any amount |
| 1:32.0 | at renewing your mind |
| 1:33.2 | dot org so I encourage you to request this resource bundle |
| 1:36.8 | for the final time while you still can |
| 1:40.3 | here's dr sprawl on moral relativism and ethics. |
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