The Great Separation

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The day of judgment will bring a great separation: the sheep from the goats, the wheat from the tares. Today, R.C. Sproul speaks on the ultimate crisis moment in history, when everyone must give an account to God.

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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 ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Think of the worst crisis you've ever had to go through and compare that with the idea
0:07.0	of appearing in a heavenly courtroom and standing before a perfectly holy judge.
0:18.0	Some seek to downplay hell as mere separation from God.
0:24.7	Hell is something that we choose.
0:26.5	God doesn't send us there, and God isn't there.
0:29.6	But that's not what the Bible teaches,
0:31.8	and the separation that Scripture teaches is definite and eternal.
0:36.7	Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham and welcome to the Tuesday edition
0:39.8	of Renewing Your Mind. As a young Christian, I was taught those false views of hell, and when we
0:46.9	distort hell, it twists, distorts, and eclipses elements of the good news, and even attributes of God
0:53.2	himself, so we need to rightly divide the
0:56.0	word of God, even if in our finiteness, our fallenness, we don't like the subject. A separation
1:02.5	is coming, but it's not us from God. It's a division between one another, sheep and goats, wheat
1:09.3	and tears. Here's Dr. Sprawl. As we continue now with our study
1:16.2	of the biblical concept of hell, we return our attention once again to Matthew's Gospel
1:23.3	Chapter 25, where we read that Jesus says, beginning at verse 31, these words,
1:31.2	when the son of man comes in his glory and all the holy angels with him, then he will sit
1:38.8	on the throne of his glory, and all the nations will be gathered before him, and he will separate them one from another
1:47.9	as the shepherd divides his sheep from the goats. And he will set the sheep on his right hand,
1:54.9	but the goats on the left. And then the king will say to those on his right hand,
2:03.1	come, you blessed of my father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
2:07.6	For I was hungry and you gave me food.
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