Oh, How I Love Your Law
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 2 July 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Does the law of God bring you delight? Or do you find it distasteful? Today, R.C. Sproul explains the importance of God's law and the consequences of ignoring it.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we begin today's episode of renewing your mind, we invite you to stay with us through the end of the program to hear how you can request today's featured teaching series from Ligdair Ministries. |
| 0:11.3 | Do we hear people today in the church celebrate the depths of their affection for the law of God? |
| 0:20.0 | Obviously, we don't. |
| 0:21.9 | And my question, not only today, but for this whole series, is why not? |
| 0:27.1 | Have we moved to such a place in our understanding of Christianity |
| 0:31.4 | that the law of God no longer provokes size of joy within our souls. |
| 0:40.3 | Hello and welcome to renewing your mind. |
| 0:47.3 | Today Dr. Sproul turns to Psalm 119, verse 97, as he addresses the role of God's law in the life of a Christian. |
| 0:56.3 | Psalm 119 may be the Bible's most extensive meditation on the law of God, |
| 1:01.4 | demonstrating how the law sparks joy and reveals the character of God to us. |
| 1:07.0 | Here's RC. |
| 1:10.3 | As we begin our study now on the Ten Commandments and the role of the law in the life of the |
| 1:16.9 | Christian, I want to begin by looking briefly at a portion of Psalm 119. |
| 1:24.9 | You may be familiar with this Psalm. |
| 1:26.8 | It's one of the longest Psalms in this altar, and it is the one where each section begins with a different letter of the Hebrew alphabet. And the whole of this Psalm is a celebration of the law of God. And that may seem completely archaic to us in this day. |
| 1:50.3 | Because we, living on the side of the New Testament, are familiar with the teachings of the New |
| 1:57.2 | Testament that we have been redeemed from the law, that the law came from Moses, |
| 2:04.0 | and grace and peace came from Jesus, and we have a tendency in our day. It's more than a tendency. |
| 2:10.1 | It's an epidemic to consider the Old Testament law as completely irrelevant to our lives. But I'd like to read a portion of the Psalm |
| 2:21.1 | to begin this study, beginning at verse 97. This is Psalm 119, verse 97. There aren't too many |
| 2:30.8 | books or chapters in the Bible that have verse 97s in them. |
| 2:37.5 | This is one of them. |
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