When Bitter Becomes Sweet
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 10 January 2024
⏱️ 25 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.
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| 0:00.0 | His truth is always sweet. It is always glorious. It is always wonderful. And when we |
| 0:08.0 | recoil against it in a spirit of bitterness, it's because we haven't yet tasted to see that the Lord is good. |
| 0:17.0 | Have there been doctrines that you really wrestled with? |
| 0:25.0 | doctrines that you perhaps fought against until the spirit of God took what may have been a hard saying, a hard truth, and made it sweet. |
| 0:36.0 | Thanks for joining us for this Wednesday edition of Renewing Her Mind. |
| 0:39.6 | I'm glad you're with us. |
| 0:41.5 | All week we are considering some of the hard sayings found in the Bible. with us |
| 0:44.0 | found in the Bible. |
| 0:45.0 | And R.C. Sproll is helping us see the sweetness of these truths |
| 0:49.0 | that may at first appear difficult. |
| 0:51.0 | And all week we are offering Dr. Sproll's new book, Hard Sayings, |
| 0:55.5 | Understanding Difficult Passages of Scripture when you give a gift of any amount at |
| 1:00.4 | renewing your mind.org. Today Dr Sproll visits the Old Testament |
| 1:05.0 | and a hard saying that came to the Prophet Ezekiel |
| 1:09.0 | an unusual request with an unexpected outcome. |
| 1:12.0 | Here's Dr Sproll. request with an unexpected outcome. |
| 1:12.8 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:16.6 | Today we're going to start a series |
| 1:19.2 | on the hard sayings of the profits |
| 1:21.5 | from the Old Testament prophets. |
| 1:23.6 | What we're thinking about here are those statements |
| 1:26.8 | that we find in the scripture that are hard. |
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