The Otherness of God

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Thirty years ago today, Renewing Your Mind aired for the first time. Listen to that original message from 1994 as R.C. Sproul describes his life-changing encounter with the holiness of God and explains the importance of knowing our Creator as He is revealed in His Word.

This week, we’re celebrating 30 years of Renewing Your Mind. With your donation of any amount, you can receive R.C. Sproul’s book Everyone’s a Theologian, plus lifetime digital access to 5 complete teaching series and digital study guides from Dr. Sproul: Chosen by God, Dust to Glory, The Holiness of God (original and expanded editions), Knowing Scripture, and What Is Reformed Theology?: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3619/resource-collection

Never contacted Ligonier before? Request your free copy of R.C. Sproul’s booklet introducing the Bible’s message of salvation, The Great Rescue: https://renewingyourmind.org/rescue

Meet Today’s Teacher:

R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He 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, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	I suddenly had a whole new understanding of the character of God, the Father.
0:06.9	Now, when I say a new understanding, I mean a different understanding.
0:13.3	No longer could I look at God as kind of a celestial Santa Claus, a cosmic bellhop who was on call to respond to every one of my requests and my commands.
0:28.6	No longer could I think of faith as being something that began and ended in my experience.
0:38.8	Now my attention was not on the one who was saved,
0:44.5	namely myself,
0:46.1	but on the one who had reached out from heaven
0:49.2	to meet me, to redeem me, to forgive me,
0:53.9	and to claim my life for him.
1:02.2	On October 3, 1994, Renewing Your Mind was officially launched by R.C. Sprawl and Ligonier Ministries.
1:10.3	For three decades, Truth has been broadcast
1:12.6	on stations and signals around the world, and today also downloaded millions and millions
1:19.0	of times every year. Over those 30 years, this daily outreach has only been possible thanks to you,
1:26.6	how generous and faithful listeners.
1:29.3	So as we thank God for 30 years of broadcasting truth, we also give thanks to God for you.
1:36.3	Today on the episode that officially marks 30 years of renewing your mind, you'll be hearing
1:41.3	the message that was first broadcast over the airwaves in 1994,
1:46.8	and the dramatic events that changed the course of R.C. Sproles' life and ministry.
1:51.7	Here's Dr. Sprawl on the otherness of God.
1:57.5	Sometimes I think it seems to us that nothing ever changes.
2:02.6	We feel like we're in a personal rut and that our lives just repeat a certain sameness over and over again.
2:12.6	But that is not reality.
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