For the Puritan, the Bible is the most valuable thing that this world affords.

Puritanism was about reforming all of life under the supreme authority of the Bible.

And that was something that would put the fear of God into the authorities.

Music fear of God into the authorities. The highest authority in the Christian life is God's Word, the Bible, because as Paul

teaches, it is God breathed.

It's useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting, and training in righteousness.

And we see a zeal for the Word of God in the life of the Puritans. I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today

for this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. Over the past number of weekends, Michael Reeves

has been helping us see the hand of God in England

in the 16th century, and he has spent most of his time focusing on kings and queens. But today,

he will shine a spotlight on a group of people who, despite the image you might have of them,

had a zeal, a passion to obey God. and for many of them had a way of communicating the gospel

that could not be sweeter. As this is the last Saturday that will be in Michael Reeves' series,

the English Reformation and the Puritans, it is also the last time you can request the series

on DVD, along with Lif streaming access, when you donate

in support of Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight tonight. This offer will not be repeated

next Saturday. Well, for the final time, here's Dr. Reeves. In this lecture, what we're going to do is we're going to press in a little bit to see who were these Puritans?

Who were they?

Now, Puritan, the word has always been more of a weapon than a real description.

For the very small minority today, Puritan is used as a description

of a united golden team with impeccable spiritual theological credentials, something that's

not strictly true, as we'll see. For the vast majority, though, the word Puritan is verbal mud.

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