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Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

The Gift of Faith

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Saving faith is not the result of a human decision but of a divine gift. In this episode, R.C. Sproul beckons us to admire the miraculous mercy exhibited in every Christian's conversion.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

If you have faith in Jesus Christ, you didn't conjure it up.

0:07.0

That faith did not come forth or emerge from your state of spiritual death.

0:19.0

For the first time, maybe that you really heard the gospel and responded favorably to it and embraced it.

0:27.0

Maybe you thought, well, I finally decided to believe in Jesus.

0:32.0

No such thing.

0:36.0

Saving faith is not the result of a human decision.

0:41.0

It is the result of a divine gift.

0:47.0

Let me remind you how Paul expressed that in his letter to the Ephesians.

0:54.0

And you, he made a life who were dead in trespasses and sins,

1:05.0

in which he once walked according to the course of this world,

1:09.0

according to the Prince of the Power of the Air,

1:13.0

according to the Spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience,

1:17.0

among whom we all once conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh,

1:24.0

fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind,

1:28.0

and we're by nature children of wrath just as the others.

1:33.0

Do you hear what Paul is saying here?

1:37.0

That God has made you alive. He's quickened you.

1:42.0

That's the biblical language for regeneration.

1:45.0

It is God who has made you born again.

1:50.0

When after you left the pigsty of the prodigal son and came home,

1:56.0

no, while you were dead, instant in trespasses,

2:01.0

while you were still following the course of this world,

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