Salvation
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 July 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
In many ways, Christianity and Liberalism is a defense of the gospel against a light view of sin and a rejection of God's wrath. Today, Stephen Nichols explores J. Gresham Machen's presentation of the true message of salvation.
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| 0:00.0 | So on New Year's Day, 1937, Machen dies. |
| 0:03.4 | Before he dies, he sends the telegraph, |
| 0:07.0 | and he says, so thankful for the active obedience of Christ, |
| 0:11.5 | no hope without it. |
| 0:13.8 | This is how a Theologian dies, thinking about doctrine, |
| 0:18.5 | thinking about the life-giving, the marrow of doctrine, |
| 0:23.0 | and this doctrine of the obedience of Christ. |
| 0:25.5 | Before I had ever read Christianity and liberalism, |
| 0:34.5 | I was aware of that quote that Stephen Nichols just read from H. |
| 0:37.5 | So thankful for the active obedience of Christ, |
| 0:40.5 | no hope without it. |
| 0:42.5 | Welcome to the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:44.5 | I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:47.5 | So why is that a popular quote? |
| 0:49.5 | Why does a line like that circulate around the Internet often? |
| 0:52.5 | Because as Christians, we rejoice to think about what Christ has accomplished for his people. |
| 0:57.5 | But liberalism, on the other hand, rejects the work of Christ. |
| 1:01.5 | For the final day this week, as we've been working through |
| 1:04.5 | J. Gresham Machen's classic book, Christianity and Liberalism, |
| 1:07.5 | Our Teacher, Stephen Nichols, comes to Machen's final chapter on salvation. |
| 1:12.5 | Today you'll hear the good news of the gospel, |
| 1:15.5 | the good news that you and I must defend, |
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