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Renewing Your Mind

When Bitter Becomes Sweet

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever read a passage of Scripture that hits so close to home that it brings you discomfort? Today, R.C. Sproul explains that even the most piercing verses of the Bible have been given for our good.

Get R.C. Sproul’s book Hard Sayings, plus lifetime digital access to his four teaching series on the hard sayings of the Bible, the prophets, Jesus, and the Apostles, for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3648/hard-sayings
 
Meet Today’s Teacher:
 
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He 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 ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.

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

Hi, it's Nathan W. Bingham here, host of Renewing Your Mind. Before we get to today's episode,

0:06.4

I wanted to remind you that if you'd like to listen to today's message again or easily share it with a friend,

0:12.8

you can do so by visiting Renewing Your Mind.org or by following the podcast edition, wherever you listen to podcasts.

0:20.4

When you listen on Spotify or Apple

0:22.4

podcasts, there's often bonus content, whether an extended sermon, conference message, or interview.

0:29.3

So go deeper and listen longer when you subscribe to the free Renewing Your Mind podcast.

0:35.5

And while you're there, browse the growing podcast library from Ligeneer

0:39.2

Ministries, whether it's ultimately with R.C. Sproll, where we've found short moments of

0:44.7

insight, little nuggets of teaching from his years of ministry, and we release that three times a week.

0:50.8

Well, five minutes in church history with Stephen Nichols, where every week he introduces

0:55.3

you to a person, a place, or an object from church history, really introducing you to your family

1:01.3

history as a Christian. Things Unseen with Sinclair Ferguson, five days a week, this devotional

1:07.4

podcast, is encouraging you to pursue Christ in your daily walk.

1:12.2

Simply put, where every week we explain a theological idea or word.

1:17.3

And another podcast I host, Ask Ligonier, where every episode I put one of your biblical or

1:22.9

theological questions to a guest teacher to help you better know what you believe and why you believe it,

1:28.8

and many more. So I encourage you to search for Liginary Ministries wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Now on to today's episode.

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His truth is always sweet. It is always glorious. It is always wonderful. And when we recoil against it in a spirit of bitterness,

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it's because we haven't yet tasted to see that the Lord is good.

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Have there been doctrines that you really wrestled with? Doctrines that you perhaps fought against

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until the Spirit of God took what may have been a hard saying, a hard truth, and made it sweet?

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