Reading the Bible Existentially

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 7 September 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

To better understand how the Bible applies to us, we should consider how it applied to its first readers. Today, R.C. Sproul invites us to enter into the vibrant and dramatic context of God's Word.

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0:00.0	The biblical characters are not fictional.
0:03.1	They are not fairytale characters.
0:05.2	They are real people, real flesh, real blood,
0:08.3	and we need to be reminded of.
0:09.5	Even as the scriptures itself
0:11.3	remind us from time to time,
0:12.8	as St. James does in his epistles
0:14.5	when he exhorts the people of God to pray.
0:17.5	He reminds them of the effectiveness of the prayers
0:21.1	of Elijah, and he said, remember
0:23.1	that Elijah was a man like unto you.
0:26.7	His passions were just like your passions.
0:29.6	His heart aches were just like your heart.
0:31.9	But it's so easy for us to so romanticize
0:35.7	the heroes and the personages of scripture
0:38.6	that we forget that they were just as we are.
0:48.3	The Bible is not a dry book.
0:50.8	The Word of God is living and active
0:53.3	and the accounts that we read about
0:55.1	are of real men and real women,
0:57.4	just like us.
0:59.4	This is the Thursday edition of Renewing Remind
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