Vessels of Wrath, Vessels of Mercy
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 29 October 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
We must not study predestination in the abstract but rather consider how this doctrine reveals the riches of God's glory. Preaching from Romans 9, today R.C. Sproul articulates how the doctrines of grace compel us to worship our sovereign God.
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| 0:00.0 | We may not like His wrath, we may choke on the very idea of His wrath, but if you |
| 0:07.0 | stop for a minute for five minutes, no more than five minutes should it take you to think |
| 0:13.0 | about the justice of a holy God displaying anger against sin. |
| 0:21.0 | We don't like to talk about God's wrath, we don't like to think about the wrath of God |
| 0:31.7 | coming upon sinners, but the Bible is clear about this sober reality, and it's this reality |
| 0:38.0 | that makes the good news so good. |
| 0:41.4 | This is the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and as we celebrate Reformation month |
| 0:46.4 | leading up to Reformation Day on Tuesday, we are featuring sermons from the book of Romans, |
| 0:52.3 | a book that changed the course of Martin Luther's life and has been used by the Lord so significantly |
| 0:58.2 | in the life of the church. |
| 1:00.4 | Today we are in Romans 9, and when the topic of God's sovereign grace comes up, there |
| 1:05.7 | are many questions that are raised, and one of them is found in today's text. |
| 1:10.8 | So here's Dr. Sproul to help us navigate these weighty words of the Apostle Paul. |
| 1:16.4 | Well, here we are coming to the end of the ninth chapter of Romans. |
| 1:25.4 | Some of you may be disappointed about that, while others are breathing a deep sigh of relief, |
| 1:33.4 | because Paul introduces the doctrine of predestination in chapter 8 of this epistle, and then |
| 1:41.4 | labors the issues that are closely connected to it throughout the rest of chapter 8 and |
| 1:49.6 | through chapter 9. |
| 1:52.8 | And we have spent no small bit of time looking carefully at some of the difficult questions |
| 2:02.3 | in which this doctrine is enshrouded. |
| 2:07.3 | And so tonight we come near the end of chapter 9, I'm making no promises that we'll finish |
| 2:15.0 | the chapter tonight, but I want to pick it up, going back to repeat a little bit of what |
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