The Source of Full Assurance
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 29 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
It is possible to know that we truly belong to God as His children. Today, R.C. Sproul explains how the inner testimony of the Holy Spirit gives us assurance.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | Affection for Christ is a result of the Spirit's work because this is what the Spirit does in quickening. |
| 0:08.6 | This is what regeneration is about, is that God, the Holy Spirit, changes the disposition of your soul. |
| 0:16.5 | The love of God is kindled by the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:28.5 | Our God is a God who saves. |
| 0:31.4 | So if he's made you alive in Christ, if you've been born again, you can have assurance of your salvation. |
| 0:38.2 | It's good to have you with us for this Friday edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:42.4 | So how do you know if you have been born again, if you're actually saved? |
| 0:47.2 | To answer that question, let's join Dr. Sprole now. |
| 0:53.0 | We come now to our final message in this series on the assurance of salvation. And in our last |
| 1:00.3 | lesson, we saw how critical it is to have a sound theology of salvation, a sound theology of election, |
| 1:09.4 | upon which to base our assurance. And at the end of that message, |
| 1:14.0 | I mentioned that most critical to this whole question is the understanding of the spirit's work |
| 1:22.3 | within us that we call regeneration or rebirth. |
| 1:28.3 | In the polls that are conducted frequently by Gallup and by George Barna and so on, |
| 1:34.3 | it seems that over 60 million American people claim to be, quote, |
| 1:40.3 | born again Christians. |
| 1:43.3 | Well, if you're one of those 60 million people, let me ask you the question. |
| 1:48.8 | What do you think it means to be born again? If we ask that question to professing Christians, |
| 1:57.4 | many will say, well, a born-again Christian is somebody who made a decision |
| 2:00.9 | at an evangelistic meeting. Or the born-again person is a person who said the sinner's prayer. |
| 2:06.8 | No, it's possible to make a profession of faith without being born again. This is what we learned |
| 2:14.7 | early on in this study that Jesus said. Many people will claim to be his, to claim to know him. |
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