The Drama of Redemption
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
All of us have a debt of sin before God before God that is beyond our ability to pay. Today, R.C. Sproul describes how Jesus has freed His people from this immeasurable debt through His work of atonement.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | The fact that my debt is paid and my crime is punished by a substitute shows that in the cross we see perfect justice with perfect mercy. |
| 0:14.5 | Take away the substitution. You take away the grace of God. Take away the very heartbeat of what the Christian faith is all about. |
| 0:28.6 | As a teenager, newly exploring the Christian faith, |
| 0:33.6 | I remember asking a Christian why Jesus had to die. Wasn't there a less brutal way, |
| 0:40.2 | a less severe way to save sinners? After spending their life in church, do you know what their answer |
| 0:46.4 | was? Simply, I don't know. How would you answer that question? Well, that is what Ersie Sprole |
| 0:53.0 | will examine today on renewing your mind, |
| 0:55.9 | helping each of us to give a full and faithful answer to that question. Dr. Sprole reminded us |
| 1:03.0 | yesterday that the Atonement of Christ was absolutely essential. And as we approach Good Friday, |
| 1:09.5 | and spend time reflecting on the cross and perhaps providentially, |
| 1:13.6 | having the opportunity to speak with unbelievers about Christ and his saving work for sinners, |
| 1:18.6 | it's important that we consider the cross of Christ rightly. |
| 1:22.6 | And that's why we're featuring this important series this week. |
| 1:25.6 | Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on the drama of redemption |
| 1:29.1 | and the absolute necessity of the atonement. In our first session, we looked briefly at the dimensions |
| 1:40.2 | of man's sin against God in terms of why an atonement is necessary. |
| 1:46.0 | And if you recall, I put three things on the board that make it necessary for an |
| 1:53.0 | atonement to take place. |
| 1:55.0 | And I wasn't trying to be cute with a three-point sermon or anything like that, but was |
| 2:00.0 | trying to focus attention on this |
| 2:02.0 | three-fold need that we have so that we can develop it in some kind of symmetrical pattern. |
| 2:08.6 | And so I'm going to put a chart on the board now where we consider the three actors in the |
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