The Otherness of God
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
One sleepless night in the dead of winter, R.C. Sproul encountered the holiness of God—and his life was never the same again. Today, he describes the transformative experience of knowing our Creator as He is revealed in His Word.
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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 media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts
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| 0:00.0 | I suddenly had a whole new understanding of the character of God, the Father. |
| 0:08.0 | Now, when I say a new understanding, I mean a different understanding. |
| 0:14.0 | No longer could I look at God as kind of a celestial Santa Claus, a cosmic bellhop who was on call to respond to |
| 0:26.4 | every one of my requests and my commands. No longer could I think of faith as being something |
| 0:35.0 | that began and ended in my experience. |
| 0:39.3 | Now my attention was not on the one who was saved, namely myself, |
| 0:47.3 | but on the one who had reached out from heaven to meet me, to redeem me, |
| 0:53.3 | to forgive me, and to claim my life for him. |
| 1:03.3 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 1:10.4 | Today's episode is significant, not only because it is from R.C. Sprawl's classic series |
| 1:16.4 | The Holiness of God, but also because the message you'll hear today was the first message |
| 1:22.4 | ever broadcast on renewing your mind more than three decades ago. |
| 1:27.2 | Since that first episode, by God's grace, |
| 1:30.2 | countless minds have been renewed and lives transform. And this program would not exist |
| 1:36.5 | without your support. So when you give a donation before midnight tonight at renewingermind.org |
| 1:42.9 | or by using the link in the podcast show notes, |
| 1:45.9 | we'll unlock digital access to the holiness of God, the Holiness of God extended edition, |
| 1:51.5 | the study guide, and will send you a special 40th anniversary edition of Dr. Sproul's book, |
| 1:57.7 | The Holiness of God. Thank you so much for your generosity. |
| 2:02.8 | Well, here's R. C. Sprawl on the otherness of God. |
| 2:09.8 | Sometimes I think it seems to us that nothing ever changes. |
| 2:15.3 | We feel like we're in a personal rut and that our lives just repeat a certain |
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