The Nature of Sin
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 4 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When God created the world, He called it good. But when we look around today, it's clear that something has gone terribly wrong in creation. What happened? Today, R.C. Sproul identifies sin as the source of the pain suffering in the world.
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| 0:00.0 | You can't really understand what Godlessness is or ungodliness is unless you first have an |
| 0:06.8 | understanding of godliness. You can't understand unrighteousness unless you first have a clear |
| 0:12.6 | understanding of the norm of righteousness. |
| 0:15.0 | If you were to ask someone on the street, are you a good person, they're most likely going |
| 0:25.4 | to say yes, maybe they'll admit to some mistakes or failings, but they would probably say that |
| 0:32.0 | they're good, outweighs they're bad and they never would say that they're a sinner. |
| 0:36.2 | Hi, I'm Nathan Dobby Bingham and thank you for joining us today on renewing your mind. |
| 0:42.0 | The Apostle Paul in Romans 3, 23, says, for all have sinned and full short of the glory |
| 0:48.4 | of God. So why is it with this universal condition of sin that there is so much confusion and |
| 0:53.7 | even a denial that we are by nature sinners? Well, this is such an important topic for us to |
| 1:00.0 | understand because as we're going to hear today from Dr. Sproul, if we get sin wrong, then we're |
| 1:05.9 | going to get the gospel wrong. So here's Dr. Sproul as he begins a study on the doctrine of sin. |
| 1:12.2 | When we looked at the doctrine of divine creation, we noticed that when God made the world and everything |
| 1:23.6 | in it, when he was finished with each stage of the work of creation, as a painter would step back |
| 1:29.8 | to admire his work. So God gazed upon the work of his hands and pronounced his benediction saying, |
| 1:37.1 | and it is good. But when we look at nature today from our perspective, we don't see the same |
| 1:50.1 | goodness spreading throughout the universe as God beheld after the immediate work of creation |
| 1:58.4 | because the world that we observe today is a fallen world. And indeed, we observe it through the |
| 2:06.8 | eyes of people who are also fallen. And we know that there are things that are desperately wrong |
| 2:15.2 | with the world in which we live. And I remember many, many years ago when Billy Graham was at the height |
| 2:22.8 | of his public ministry, he frequently made reference to sin. And he would say again and again in his |
| 2:30.7 | sermons, the problem that we face in life is sin, S-I-N, and then he would say, and it comes from |
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