Paul’s Magnum Opus
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Human nature does not exist in a state of neutrality. Apart from God's grace, we're cascading ever downward into greater depths of sin. Today, Steven Lawson unfolds the Apostle Paul's case for the total depravity of mankind.
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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 | To see how bad the human race is in its sin, you realize how could anyone ever come to faith in Christ? |
| 0:09.7 | If there's none who seeks after God, no, not one. How would anyone ever be saved? |
| 0:13.7 | It's all dependent upon God to be the initiator. |
| 0:16.4 | And that is why we need the sovereign election of God. For the good news to be good there must first be bad news. |
| 0:30.0 | It's when we see the sinfulness of humanity that the grace of God shines as the |
| 0:34.6 | amazing grace that we so often sing about and as we begin two days in Romans |
| 0:39.6 | it's the depravity and sinfulness of man that will be considering today. |
| 0:45.0 | This is the Thursday edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:48.0 | I'm so glad that you're joining us today. |
| 0:50.0 | All week, you have heard messages from Ligner Ministries teaching fellow Stephen Lawson |
| 0:56.2 | examining the writings and ministry of John and Peter to highlight that those truths |
| 1:02.2 | often referred to as the doctrines of grace, |
| 1:05.6 | Tulip, or the five points of Calvinism, are not truths that were invented by man |
| 1:11.6 | or truths hidden in scripture, |
| 1:13.8 | but are in fact found and taught clearly and loudly |
| 1:17.1 | in the pages of all of scripture. |
| 1:19.7 | And today, Dr. Lawson takes us to Romans to begin a two-day study of Paul's teaching. |
| 1:26.3 | Here's Dr. Lawson. |
| 1:30.2 | In this session we come to one of the most important parts of this entire series. |
| 1:36.3 | We come to the teaching of sovereign grace by Saul of Tarsus who became known as the Apostle Paul. |
| 1:47.0 | The Apostle Paul was the poster child of sovereign grace. |
| 1:51.6 | There was no one who was running any faster away from Christ than was |
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