Justified by Faith
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The doctrine of justification profoundly shapes the way we view our relationship with God and our approach to the Christian life. Today, Michael Reeves describes the immense joy that this biblical truth should bring.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Michael Reeves is president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology in the United Kingdom.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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 | He will not love God unless you know he loves you first. |
| 0:04.0 | You will not love him unless you know a security in which to enjoy him. |
| 0:10.0 | And therefore, justification by faith alone must be the very foundation stone of healthy Christian living. |
| 0:23.6 | Martin Luther famously wrote the beautiful line, |
| 0:27.6 | The Love of God does not find, but creates that which is pleasing to it. |
| 0:32.6 | And today on renewing your mind, you'll hear how he came to say that, as his mind was |
| 0:38.5 | renewed according to the Word of God, and he finally understood the gospel and the truth |
| 0:43.8 | that Christians are justified by faith alone. |
| 0:48.4 | If you'd like to dig a little deeper into the truths that were rediscovered and reaffirmed |
| 0:52.8 | during the Protestant Reformation. |
| 0:54.8 | Be sure to request Michael Reeves' entire series, Reformation Truths. |
| 0:59.9 | We'll send you the series on DVD, along with digital access to the messages and study guide, |
| 1:05.5 | when you give a donation in support of the proclamation of those truths through Renewing Your Mind at Renewing Your Mind.org |
| 1:12.5 | before this offer ends tomorrow. |
| 1:15.4 | To continue our time in this series, here's Dr. Reeves. |
| 1:21.6 | We come now to the wonderful doctrine of justification. |
| 1:31.9 | The matter of the Reformation. |
| 1:35.9 | The matter that made the Reformation the Reformation. |
| 1:38.9 | As John Calvin put it, |
| 1:43.8 | the first and keenest subject of controversy between us. Now, justification is perhaps the ultimate |
| 1:48.7 | example of a doctrine that quite different Christian traditions can hold to and understand |
| 1:57.5 | in completely incompatible ways. Both Rome and the reformers now and then believed and |
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