Parallelisms
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Bible contains many different forms of writing. Knowing which form we’re reading can help us interpret the text properly. Today, R.C. Sproul introduces a literary form in Scripture that unlocks some of its difficult sayings.
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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 | How should we interpret wisdom literature in the Bible? |
| 0:03.6 | Look at it for what it is. |
| 0:05.1 | Practical wisdom. |
| 0:06.3 | Principles that conserve you in your everyday struggles with life. |
| 0:10.5 | But don't confuse the Proverbs with moral absolutes. |
| 0:14.2 | They were never intended to be read that way. |
| 0:17.0 | They were never set forth for us as the Ten Commandments were. |
| 0:27.1 | The Bible contains many different forms of writing, historical narrative, poetry, |
| 0:33.0 | didactic teaching just to name a few. And as we turn to a book in the Bible, |
| 0:39.1 | it's important to know what category it falls under to understand it and apply its meaning. Today on renewing your mind, |
| 0:45.7 | R.C. Sprawl will help us with a unique form of Hebrew literature that was common in ancient |
| 0:50.9 | Israel. But before we hear from him, don't forget to request this 12 message series |
| 0:55.9 | when you give a donation of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org as this offer ends today. |
| 1:02.5 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:06.0 | I remember reading a chapter in a volume in theology written by my mentor, Dr. G. C. Berkauer, |
| 1:13.7 | and the title of the chapter was the biblical operari uri ori. |
| 1:20.0 | Well, an operandi is a principle that is so basic and so foundational that it ought never to be violated. And the point of Burkauer's chapter |
| 1:30.8 | was this, that the one basic axiom of scripture is that we ought never, never, never, never |
| 1:36.7 | to attribute in any way possible the doing of evil to God. And that it is a principle of Christianity that God is never |
| 1:48.1 | the author of evil, that he's utterly incapable of doing evil. |
| 1:56.5 | If you turn in your Bible, if you have the King James version of the Bible, we turn it open |
| 2:02.9 | to the 45th chapter of the book of the prophet Isaiah to verse 7, where God is speaking. |
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