Is Grace Cooperative?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 24 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What is the classical Arminian view of human freedom and divine grace? Today, R.C. Sproul examines the teaching of Jacob Arminius and his followers to identify how these views differ from Reformed theology.
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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 ministry engagement 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 | If God only gives effectual grace for conversion to some people and not others, then in the final |
| 0:10.3 | analysis, it is God and not man who gets the credit for your salvation, but also would get |
| 0:18.9 | the blame for the lack of it. |
| 0:21.3 | And so trying to protect God from any shadow or hint of arbitrariness, |
| 0:28.6 | Arminius leaves this island of ability within fallen man |
| 0:34.3 | to either cooperate with the grace that is given or to reject it. |
| 0:41.3 | Is God in charge of salvation? What do we choose to be saved? |
| 0:51.3 | The debate has raged since the fourth century when Pelagius and Augustine debated |
| 0:56.9 | the issue. This is the Thursday edition of Renewing Your Mind. Thanks for being with us. To deal more |
| 1:04.8 | extensively with this topic, R. C. Sprold recorded a 12 message series calledage series called Willing to Believe, and you can have lifetime |
| 1:12.6 | access to that series and its study guide, along with a special 500th anniversary hardcover |
| 1:19.0 | edition of Luther's classic book, The Bondage of the Will, when you give a donation at |
| 1:24.5 | renewingyourmind.org. But respond today as this offer ends tomorrow. |
| 1:30.9 | Well, today on Renewing Your Mind, R.C. Sprawl examines the biblical evidence |
| 1:35.7 | to prove that without God's sovereign intervention, people cannot be saved. |
| 1:41.6 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:50.0 | In today's session, I'm going to do something a little bit different from our normal procedure. I'm going to start with the pop quiz. I'm going to ask you to see if you can |
| 1:57.0 | identify the author of the following citation. |
| 2:02.1 | I'm going to read this quotation as it goes as follows. |
| 2:06.7 | In the fall, the free will of man towards the true good is not only wounded, maimed, infirmed, bent, and weakened, but it is also imprisoned, |
| 2:23.5 | destroyed, and lost. It has no powers except as it is excited by divine grace. |
| 2:37.1 | I think if I put that question before my seminary students and ask them to identify the author |
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