The First Promise of Grace
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
By their disobedience, Adam and Eve cast the whole human race into sin and misery. Yet even after their fall, God gave them a promise of future redemption. Today, R.C. Sproul considers God's grace in the garden of Eden.
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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 | It's a malediction when God condemns people to be separated from him, sent into the outer darkness, |
| 0:09.6 | to experience the complete loss of the benefits of his nearness. |
| 0:15.0 | This is a powerful term, this curse, that has radical consequences. |
| 0:20.0 | And we see after the initial fall that God pronounces |
| 0:23.5 | his curse upon the man, upon the woman, and upon the serpent. |
| 0:35.8 | What happened when Adam sinned? |
| 0:38.1 | What was the curse that R.C. Sprol just mentioned? |
| 0:41.5 | His curse upon Adam, Eve, and the serpent. |
| 0:45.9 | This is the Friday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and I'm glad you're joining us today. |
| 0:52.7 | No one likes hearing bad news. But when we understand the bad news, the curse of God, |
| 0:58.8 | the good news shines as the amazing grace that it truly is. |
| 1:04.1 | Today's message is the final one you'll hear from Dr. Sproles' series, The Promise Keeper. |
| 1:09.3 | To be sure to request access to all 14 messages and a copy of the companion book when you donate |
| 1:16.3 | before midnight tonight at Renewing Your Mind.org. |
| 1:20.7 | Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on the serpent's temptation and the curse of God. We have been looking at the covenant of creation, |
| 1:31.3 | or sometimes called the Adamic covenant, |
| 1:34.3 | or else why we refer to it as the covenant of works, |
| 1:38.3 | wherein Adam and Eve were placed on probation in the Garden of Eden, |
| 1:43.3 | and in our last session we were going through some of |
| 1:46.5 | the critical elements that make up the narrative of the Adamic covenant. We looked at the tree of |
| 1:54.8 | life as the principle of the highest potency of life, and we looked at the principle of probation in the tree of the |
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