The Fruit of Lovingkindness

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

It takes true strength of character to show kindness, and it requires genuine love to refuse the temptation to envy. Today, R.C. Sproul helps us cultivate a love that is defined by God's Word, not by the world.

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Meet Today's Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He 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 ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

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0:00.0	If you look at the scripture and the virtues and vices that are figuring prominently in the scriptures both old and new testament,
0:10.0	you will see that envy is a cardinal sin and that God regards envy and jealousy
0:18.0	and covetousness as extraordinarily destructive to human society and to human relationships.
0:27.0	The Apostle Paul memorably describes love for us in 1st Corinthians 13.
0:38.6	Love is patient and kind as we learned about yesterday. But Paul continues, love does not envy and
0:47.4	it's the destructive nature of envy that we'll be considering today. This is the Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:55.4	Thanks for joining us. Today's message is one of 20 in R.C. Sproll's series
1:01.8	keeping in step with the Spirit. And this entire series can be yours
1:06.4	when you give a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org. In addition to digital access to the series, we'll send you a newly released 90-day
1:16.7	devotional from Ligonier Ministries titled How Great Salvation.
1:21.6	Request both resources at renewing your mind. salvation. defined by the Bible and not by the world. Here's Dr Sproll.
1:34.1	As we continue with our study now of growing in the Christian life and
1:42.3	developing a Christian character. We're going to
1:46.2	continue our study of 1 Corinthians 13 where Paul gives us this marvelous
1:52.2	exposition of the character traits of godly love.
1:59.9	We've seen already that Paul puts a premium of importance on love teaching that if we have
2:07.0	all kinds of gifts and abilities and achievements but lack love we are without profit and we are nothing.
2:16.0	And in verse 4 of chapter 13 of 1st Corinthians he begins to describe for us what this love looks like and we've already looked at the
2:27.4	first part where he said that love suffers long and is kind. Now that's a strange conjunction. Again we notice that kindness
2:38.0	is also one of the fruits of the spirit that Paul lists in Galatians. But notice he couples long
2:46.0	suffering with kindness because they do belong together. It's one thing for us to suffer injury or the hostility of other people
3:00.3	for a long time, the very passive act of suffering it, and we can suffer it,
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