The Source of Joy
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Happiness is often fleeting. Yet true joy endures. Today, R.C. Sproul shows us the source of deep, full, and lasting joy: living in communion with Jesus Christ.
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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 | We don't want just a little bit of joy. |
| 0:02.0 | We want all of the joy that the Father has stored up for his people. |
| 0:07.0 | And the fullness of joy that we have comes from Christ. |
| 0:17.0 | The world promises joy in the wrong places. Pursue possessions, wealth, even sin, and you'll |
| 0:25.7 | be satisfied. But that's not the truth. There's only one source of true and lasting joy. And |
| 0:32.4 | it's the source of our joy that is our topic today. So I'm glad you're with us for this Thursday |
| 0:37.1 | edition of |
| 0:38.3 | renewing your mind. The word joy appears over and over again in scripture, but do you know |
| 0:45.0 | this joy? If you're unsure or if you struggle with joy, take the time to study the biblical |
| 0:51.1 | topic of joy when you request R.C. Sproul's complete series on joy |
| 0:56.0 | and his book, Can I Have Joy in My Life? Today is the final day of this offer, so be sure |
| 1:01.0 | to respond with a donation at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight tonight. |
| 1:07.0 | Well, here's Dr. Sprl on the source of our joy. |
| 1:21.2 | One of the chief characteristics of the Gospel of John that has been a delight for Christians of all ages is John's list of the famous I-Ams of Jesus. For example, Jesus says, I am the door through which men |
| 1:33.1 | must enter. I am the good shepherd. I am the light of the world and so on before Abraham was. |
| 1:40.9 | I am. And in each of these affirmations of Jesus, where Jesus says, I am, the Greek has a |
| 1:50.6 | strange form to it. The Greek goes like this, ego, e me. These are two forms of the verb to be in Greek. Both of them mean I am, and it's almost as if |
| 2:05.7 | Jesus is stuttering when he says, I am, I am, or really he's saying, I, I am. What's so fascinating |
| 2:15.4 | about this is that this particular form of the Greek, Egoemi, |
| 2:22.3 | is the way the Septuagint, which was the Greek translation of the Old Testament, |
| 2:27.5 | would translate the tetragrammaton of the Old Testament, the great I.M, which was the name Yahweh, the name for God. The way |
| 2:37.8 | Yahweh would be interpreted was through the Greek Ego Emi. And so many believe that when Jesus |
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