What Is the Gospel?
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 28 October 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
How can sinful people--people like us--be righteous in the sight of a holy and perfect God? Today, R.C. Sproul shows that this question is at the heart of the gospel, and it was the cardinal issue of the Reformation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on renewing your mind. |
| 0:02.0 | And at the very heart of the dispute in the 16th century was this question, |
| 0:08.0 | what is the instrumental cause of our justification? |
| 0:14.0 | What is the means by which our salvation and our justification takes place? |
| 0:21.0 | October 31st marks the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95thesies to the castle church door in Vittenburg, Germany. |
| 0:35.0 | That challenge to the Roman Catholic Church created shockwaves that are felt today. |
| 0:40.0 | This week we have featured messages from a Reformation Day event that Ligonier hosted in 2017. |
| 0:47.0 | And today we tie a bow on that event with RC Sproul's message. |
| 0:52.0 | We didn't know it then, but this would be one of the last messages RC would give. |
| 0:57.0 | He went home to be with the Lord just a couple of months later. |
| 1:00.0 | How fitting then that he addressed the question that was front and center his entire ministry. |
| 1:07.0 | What is the gospel? What is this gospel that was so important, so vital and so controversial in the 16th century? |
| 1:22.0 | Let me begin by saying what the gospel is not. |
| 1:27.0 | The gospel is not our personal testimonies. |
| 1:32.0 | Our personal testimonies may be of interest to people and may be used of God to introduce a conversation about the gospel. |
| 1:41.0 | We may have methods of evangelism that we've learned such as the evangelism explosion, diagnostic questions. |
| 1:50.0 | Have you come to the place and you're thinking where you know for sure that when you die you're going to go to heaven and then it's followed by. |
| 1:58.0 | If you were to die and stood before God tonight and God said to you, why should I let you enter my heaven? |
| 2:05.0 | What would you say? Those questions aren't the gospel. |
| 2:09.0 | There are wonderful introduction to discussions and conversations about the gospel. |
| 2:15.0 | Or you may have heard the idea that God loved you and has a wonderful plan for your life that may or may not be true in the final analysis. |
| 2:26.0 | The reprobate won't find the plan so great, but in any case, that also is not the gospel. |
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