Proverbs

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Every society has a collection of sayings that express popular insights. Yet the book of Proverbs gives us something greater: wisdom from God Himself. Today, R.C. Sproul explains how to read Proverbs to pursue a wise Christian life.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

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.

Meet the Host:

Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

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0:00.0	Every culture has its collection of sayings that preserves the insights of the ages.
0:06.5	What makes the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament different from all other such collections
0:11.6	is that we believe that these proverbial sayings that are found in the book of Proverbs
0:17.1	are inspired of God, that they find their origin in the mind of God and reflect
0:25.1	supernatural and divine wisdom, not just the insights of crafty people in this world.
0:50.5	Since the wisdom in the book of Proverbs is divinely inspired, does that mean each proverb is a universal law or promise that must always come to pass?
0:55.6	If we don't know how to interpret Proverbs and wisdom literature in general, we can easily find ourselves in trouble. This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host,
1:03.3	Nathan W. Bingham. Early in my Christian life, I was in a church filled with false teaching,
1:10.5	and much of that false teaching
1:12.2	came from them misinterpreting and misapplying the book of Proverbs. That's one of the reasons
1:18.5	I appreciate this week's series on wisdom, and why I'm so thankful to be part of a ministry
1:23.7	that is broadcasting truth, sound biblical teaching, seven days a week, 365 days a year.
1:32.6	Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on interpreting and applying Proverbs.
1:39.7	Every culture has its unique, collected wisdom.
1:45.7	The wisdom that's been accumulated over centuries of time
1:50.2	where the insights of the wise are preserved,
1:55.3	usually in the form of the proverb.
1:59.0	We have that in our own culture. We think back to poor Richard's
2:02.7	almanac that was produced by Ben Franklin and some of the sayings that have endured even down
2:09.8	to this day, the homespun wisdom that's encapsulated in these short, pithy, terse, little statements that we call proverbs.
2:20.8	You've heard many of them like a stitch in time saves nine.
2:27.3	A penny saved is a penny earned.
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