This week only you can save 15% on your registration for Ligonier's 2024 National Conference,

The Way, the Truth, and the Life.

Hi, I'm Nathan W Bingham, host of Renewing Your Mind, and I hope you'll join us along with thousands

of other Christians in Orlando this May.

Over three days, we'll consider the person and work of Jesus Christ.

Register by Saturday to secure this discounted rate when you

visit Ligonier.org slash 2024.

God who created heaven and earth has made Christ the Lord of the universe.

He rules. He doesn't wait for you to invite him.

One of the most divisive controversies of the last 25 years has been called the Lordship

Salvation Controversy. You've heard it popularized by the idea of the carnal Christian.

I talked to a young man a couple of years ago, and he had professed Christ, said he was a Christian, he was not

only using drugs illicitly, but he was selling them, was living with a girl that was not his wife and was involved in a completely

hedonistic lifestyle with no manifestation whatsoever of anything of Godliness.

I asked him about this and he said don't worry.

It's okay.

I'm a carnal Christian.

That is, I've received Jesus as my Savior,

but I'm going to wait a while before I submit to him as my lord.

You see that disjunction that is of recent origin

between Christ's savior and Christ's lord

is as foreign and antithetical to the New Testament as anything

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