Our Calling and Security
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
No one has the power to pry open the sealed grip with which God holds His children secure. Today, Steven Lawson turns to the gospel of John, explaining how the Lord preserves the faith of all true Christians so they never fall away.
Get Steven Lawson's two teaching series Foundations of Grace: Old and New Testament on DVD, plus lifetime digital access to both series and their study guides, for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3537/foundations-of-grace
Meet Today's Teacher:
Steven Lawson is founder and president of OnePassion Ministries in Dallas. He is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, professor of preaching and dean of D.Min. studies at The Master's Seminary, and teacher for the Institute for Expository Preaching. He is author of many books, including The Passionate Preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones, John Knox: Fearless Faith, and The Moment of Truth.
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 | What did? |
| 0:02.4 | There was nothing that you did. It was all of your parents and ultimately it was all of God. |
| 0:09.1 | That is why Jesus chose this analogy to communicate how it is that you and I enter into the kingdom of heaven. |
| 0:19.6 | It is that we are born again and just as there was nothing that we had to do with our physical |
| 0:24.2 | birth in the truest and purest sense there is nothing that we can do for our spiritual |
| 0:30.9 | birth. It is a sovereign work of God. |
| 0:37.0 | The doctrines of grace, the five points of Calvinism. The Five Points of |
| 0:44.1 | Points of Calvinism, biblical truths that remind us of the sovereign grace of God |
| 0:48.8 | in redeeming a people for himself. And these truths, they're found in the pages of scripture from Genesis to |
| 0:55.7 | revelation. Welcome to the Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host Nathan W Bingham. This week Ligonier Ministries Teaching Fellow Stephen Lawson is |
| 1:07.6 | joining us to give us a taste of his Foundations of Grace series. He will show us the truths of God's sovereignty and |
| 1:14.8 | salvation from several New Testament books. However, his complete two-volume |
| 1:19.7 | series covers both the Old Testament and the New Testament and we'll send you both DVD sets, |
| 1:26.5 | grant you lifetime streaming access to both, plus digital access to the study guides |
| 1:32.2 | when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:37.3 | From the sovereign nature of the new birth to the security we have as believers, Here's Dr. Lawson. |
| 1:45.0 | If you were to ask me what my favorite book in the Bible is, |
| 1:50.0 | I have two answers. One is whatever book I'm preaching is my favorite book in the Bible. |
| 1:57.2 | But second I would have to say the Gospel of John is my favorite book. One, because it is so focused upon the person and |
| 2:06.3 | work of Jesus Christ. And two, because it contains the very words of Christ himself. And the greatest teacher, the doctrines of |
| 2:15.2 | grace, and the greatest preacher of the message of salvation who ever lived was |
| 2:19.9 | Jesus Christ himself. |
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