God’s Sovereignty and Our Sin
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When we sin, does God in His sovereignty bear any of the blame? Certainly not—but why not? Today, R.C. Sproul provides biblical answers to questions about humanity’s fall into sin, the origin of temptation, and the providence of God.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | We can be so puffed up with our own righteousness. |
| 0:03.6 | We have so deceived ourselves against the depth of corruption that still resides in our hearts |
| 0:10.4 | that we have not learned humility, we have not learned grace, we have not learned to depend |
| 0:15.4 | completely on the righteousness of Christ, we begin to take confidence in our own righteousness, which |
| 0:21.8 | is filthy rags. |
| 0:27.2 | When we think about the theological questions surrounding the sovereignty of God, |
| 0:34.6 | his providence and evil in the world, we typically think about Adam's sin and |
| 0:39.4 | the fall of mankind. But what about how God's providence relates to your sin and to temptation |
| 0:45.6 | in your life? This is the Thursday edition of renewing your mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:53.3 | The providence of God is a significant and important area of theology, |
| 0:58.0 | which is why we're spending this week considering it, and why the writers of the Westminster Confession |
| 1:02.9 | of Faith needed seven sections just to summarize it. So far we have considered the question of |
| 1:08.9 | where God is when tragedy strikes, God's use of means |
| 1:12.9 | in providence, how the providence of God relates to the origin of evil, and today Dr. Sprole |
| 1:19.0 | will consider God's providence, temptation, and our own sin. |
| 1:22.7 | Well, here he is in Section 5 of Chapter 5. |
| 1:32.5 | I'm going to continue now with our study of the Providence of God as it's found in the fifth chapter of the Westminster Confession in our last session. |
| 1:38.2 | We were looking at Section 4, and we didn't quite complete that entire section. |
| 1:44.1 | You will recall, I trust that in that, the very troublesome affirmation, that God's |
| 1:49.9 | providence extends even to the first fall of the human race and to the sins of people in this |
| 2:00.5 | world, and not simply by a bare passive permission |
| 2:05.5 | of God, but in a way that he orders and governs and so on. And now we come to another |
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