Primary & Secondary Causes

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The source of all life, being, and motion is God Himself. Apart from Him, we can do nothing. Today, R.C. Sproul explores the relationship between the sovereign power of God and the contingent power of His creation.

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0:00.0	Coming up next on Renewing Your Mind.
0:02.5	The power that's in prayer is a secondary power.
0:06.6	It's ultimate power, rests in God.
0:09.6	But God is pleased to bring His purposes about through prayers.
0:16.8	He doesn't need those prayers.
0:18.3	He can work without those prayers,
0:20.2	but He's pleased to work in and through those prayers.
0:23.6	Have you ever thought about that?
0:31.1	God isn't charge of everything,
0:32.8	so why do we need to pray about anything?
0:35.8	If His will is inevitable,
0:37.8	what do our prayers accomplish?
0:40.3	This week on Renewing Your Mind,
0:42.2	Dr. R. C. Stroll is making his way through the Westminster confession of faith,
0:46.6	one of the most precise and comprehensive statements of biblical Christianity.
0:51.2	And today we'll learn how God can be sovereign and still invite us to pray.
0:58.7	We're still considering now the third chapter of the Westminster confession
1:03.4	on God's eternal decree.
1:07.0	And we've been looking at section one where we see that God ordains
1:12.3	whatsoever comes to pass from all eternity.
1:15.6	And then we saw the relief that comes after the semicolon,
1:20.3	but not in such a way as to do violence to the will of the creatures.
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