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Renewing Your Mind

The True and Living God

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In a world characterized by unbelief, Christians must recover a confident understanding of who God is and how He makes Himself known. Continuing his new teaching series today, Sinclair Ferguson discusses how we know God through His general and special revelation.

Be among the first to access Sinclair Ferguson's new 36-message video teaching series, Theology for All. Donate to receive the digital series and study guide, and we'll also send you an exclusive Renewing Your Mind journal: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/

Live outside the U.S. and Canada? Get Sinclair Ferguson's new digital teaching series and study guide with your donation: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/global

Do you live near Houston, TX? Gather with us on March 17 for a night of Bible teaching and fellowship: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/houston

Meet Today's Teacher:
 
Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.
 
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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Although people repress, deny, refuse the revelation of God, there will be those moments

0:07.7

because they cannot finally keep it down because they're made as the image of God,

0:14.0

when the only response they can make is to become angry and to silence your testimony to it. And they may do that in very sophisticated ways, or as in some cultures, they may do it in very violent ways. But there is no final escape from God's general revelation.

0:43.3

Have you encountered that? Someone's snapping, getting aggressive when they learn that you're a Christian.

0:47.3

What is it that we know about unbelievers that even they try to deny?

0:52.3

Welcome to the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind on Nathan W. Bingham.

0:57.7

This week, you're hearing messages from a brand new series with Sinclair Ferguson.

1:02.4

It's an overview of Christian doctrine called Theology for All.

1:07.0

If you have family or friends who profess Christ,

1:10.3

but they push back on the idea of studying theology,

1:13.4

perhaps share this week's messages with them.

1:15.7

It's easy to share a message from your favorite podcast app or from the official Renewing Your Mind YouTube channel.

1:22.4

Well, here's Dr. Ferguson on the God who reveals himself.

1:28.3

We are trying to explore what it means for us together as ordinary Christians really

1:33.3

to explore Christian doctrine and to understand the different ways in which the doctrines

1:39.3

of the Bible, theology, makes a difference to the way we live the Christian life. And last time we were

1:46.0

thinking about the significance, the importance of this whole exploration of Christian doctrine,

1:52.0

how it's intended to not just help us intellectually, but actually to build in Christian character

1:59.7

and to transform our lives.

2:03.0

And now I want to begin to focus for a number of sessions on God himself, God, the true and living God.

2:13.7

Many philosophers, I think perhaps the first to express it this way was the philosopher Leibniz in the 17th century,

2:22.8

but many philosophers have said that perhaps the most fundamental philosophical question of all

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