Rescued from the Body of Death
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 9 November 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Will we ever escape the misery we face in our continuing failure and sin? Today, R.C. Sproul encourages weary Christians with invigorating words of hope from the book of Romans.
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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 media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The problem we face in the church today is self-denial of the radical character of sin. |
| 0:07.0 | We don't hate sin the way we should hate it. |
| 0:09.0 | We don't abhor the disobedience that we manifest in our lives. |
| 0:15.0 | Paul looked at himself. |
| 0:17.0 | Oh, what a wretch I am when I look at my sin. |
| 0:21.6 | The Apostle Paul did hate the remaining sin that he could see in his life, abhorring any disobedience. |
| 0:35.6 | So what was his response? What hope is there for a Christian |
| 0:40.0 | battling the flesh? Welcome to this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, where each week we feature |
| 0:46.9 | the preaching ministry of R.C. Sprawl. Over the past few weeks, you have heard Dr. Sprole |
| 0:53.2 | preached through Romans 7, and today he'll |
| 0:55.9 | conclude that chapter and bring us the wonderful news of the opening words of Chapter 8. |
| 1:02.2 | Today's sermon will also conclude our time in Romans, so that means that today is the final |
| 1:07.9 | day to request R.C. Sprole's entire commentary on Romans when you give a donation |
| 1:13.0 | at Renewing Your Mind.org. Make your gift before midnight tonight, and we'll send you this popular |
| 1:19.4 | hardcover volume. But be quick, as this offer won't be repeated next Sunday. So who will |
| 1:26.6 | deliver Paul? Who will deliver us from our bodies of death? |
| 1:31.3 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:35.3 | For the good I will to do, I do not do. But the evil I will not to do that I practice. |
| 1:49.2 | Now, if I do what I will not to do, it is no longer I who do it, |
| 1:52.4 | but sin that dwells in me. |
| 2:00.2 | I find then a law that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good, for I delight in the law of God according to |
| 2:03.8 | the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, |
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