The Reality of Our Sin

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How serious is the problem of sin? Today, R.C. Sproul explains that sin isn't merely an external blemish—it goes to the very core of our being.

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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	The portrait that we get in the scriptures of man in his fallen condition is that sin penetrates
0:07.7	massively to the whole of the fallen person.
0:11.9	In other words, sin is not a simple external blemish, but it is something that goes to the very
0:19.3	core of our being.
0:25.6	We've said this week that the world, those in the world, are struggling with an identity crisis.
0:33.6	They don't know who they are.
0:35.6	An R.C. Sprol has spent time considering the reality
0:39.0	that each of us is made in the image of God. But there is another reality that we cannot
0:45.4	ignore, one that people seek to downplay, that we are also sinners. It's good to have you
0:53.4	with us today for this Thursday edition of renewing
0:56.1	your mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. Just as everyone has dignity because they're made
1:03.5	in the image of God. Outside of Christ, everyone is under the wrath of God because of sin.
1:11.4	So we cannot answer the question, who am I?
1:14.4	Who are we as humans without dealing with the topic of sin?
1:19.0	Well, here's Dr. Sprawl from his series A Shaded Image on the Reality of Our Sin. There's one word, I think, that crystallizes the essence of the Christian faith.
1:34.3	I'm going to begin this session by calling your attention to that word, and it is the word grace.
1:41.3	In fact, one of the great mottos of the Protestant Reformation with this Latin
1:48.1	phrase, Sola Grotia, by grace alone. Now this phrase wasn't invented by the 16th century
1:59.2	reformers, but has its roots in the theology of St. Augustine,
2:04.7	who incorporated this phrase to call attention to the central concept of the essence of Christianity,
2:13.8	that our redemption in the presence of God is by grace, sola, alone.
2:23.4	That the only possible way a human being can ever find themselves reconciled in the presence
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