Soli Deo Gloria

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Since God is the One who initiates and accomplishes the redemption of His people, all glory in our salvation belongs to Him alone. Today, R.C. Sproul explains the Reformation principle of "soli Deo gloria."

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0:00.0	So often, even the beginning of our salvation is seen as a joint venture between God and man.
0:12.0	And this we call a man-centered view where man gets at least some of the glory, which belongs to God alone.
0:22.0	In the work of redemption, all the credit, all of the honor, all of the glory belongs to God and to God alone.
0:38.0	The Scriptures tell us salvation is of the Lord, and God is glorified in His plan of redemption.
0:50.0	It is God who initiates salvation.
0:54.0	And when we talk about the different steps of salvation that are wrought in this plan, the very first step that takes place is regeneration.
1:06.0	Where God working through the immediate power of the Holy Spirit enters into the human soul, supernaturally, divinely changes the disposition of your soul,
1:28.0	changes you from spiritual death, raises you from spiritual death, changes the disposition of your heart.
1:36.0	Where formerly you were estranged from God, you didn't want God and you're thinking, now all of a sudden you have a desire for the things of God,
1:44.0	and before where you were not interested in Christ, now you embrace Christ, you come to Christ, and you receive Him in your heart.
1:52.0	Only after God initiates through His grace.
1:56.0	If Solegrati is true and Solefeede is true, then Soledea Gloria must also be true, because the glory for your salvation belongs to God.
2:08.0	What does Paul say? Let Him who boasts, boasts of the Lord.
2:14.0	But so often views of salvation are such that even the beginning of our salvation is seen, not as a monogistic work that God brings the past in our soul, but as a joint venture between God and man.
2:31.0	Where in the final analysis, the ultimate decisive input to our salvation rests with us.
2:41.0	And this we call an anthropocentric view of salvation or a man-centered view, where man gets at least some of the glory, which glory belongs to God and to God alone.
2:57.0	That's what the Reformers had in mind when they advanced this notion of Soledea Gloria that we can take no credit whatsoever for our salvation.
3:07.0	All of the honor, all of the praise, all of the glory goes to God and only to God.
3:18.0	Thanks for listening to Ultimately, with RC Sproul.
3:22.0	To hear more trusted teaching from Dr. Sproul and other gifted teachers, check out Renewing Your Mind, another podcast from Ligonier Ministries.
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