Inner Sanctum
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In the Bible, you will never find an example of someone who meets the living God and is bored by the encounter. Today, R.C. Sproul shows us what it really means to be in the presence of the Holy One.
Get R.C. Sproul’s book The Holiness of God, plus lifetime digital access to his teaching series Fear and Trembling with the digital study guide, all for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3601/fear-and-trembling
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 | God who dwells in the holy of holies is himself altogether holy and we are not |
| 0:09.9 | holy and those who are not holy fear whatever is holy. |
| 0:15.0 | The one true and living God is holy. We've been learning about that all week, but what do we mean when we describe God as holy? How does the Bible use holy to describe God? |
| 0:34.0 | Welcome to the Wednesday edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:37.0 | Glad you're with us today. |
| 0:39.0 | You and I are human beings, but God is the supreme being, different from us in many ways. |
| 0:47.6 | And when we read in scripture of people's encounters with God, they lead to fear and trembling. It's actually the title of the series you're |
| 0:56.2 | listening to this week and you can gain lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide. Plus we'll send you Dr Sproll's classic book |
| 1:04.4 | The Holiness of God when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your |
| 1:09.2 | mind dot org. Well here's R.C. sprawl on the Supreme Being, the one who is holy, holy, |
| 1:17.0 | A few years ago a survey was taken outside of Chicago in which people were visited who at one time in their lives had been members of Christian churches but who dropped out of their membership and the main question was |
| 1:35.8 | why did you stop going to church? |
| 1:39.4 | And when the results came in they tabulated the answers that a couple of thousand people gave, |
| 1:44.5 | and the number one answer that people gave for dropping out of church was this. Church is boring. |
| 1:56.6 | The number two answer given by these people |
| 1:59.7 | who quit going to church |
| 2:01.5 | was the answer, church is irrelevant. |
| 2:07.0 | Let me ask you that question. |
| 2:09.6 | Do you ever get the feeling the church is boring? Have you ever been bored in church? |
| 2:14.3 | Don't lie. Have you ever felt that what was going on in church was irrelevant? You know, |
| 2:22.0 | asking you so, |
| 2:22.6 | when the world am I doing here? |
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