The Explicit and the Implicit
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
What should we do when we have difficulty understanding a Bible verse? Today, R.C. Sproul explains how to interpret these passages in light of others that are clearer.
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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.
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 | When we read the Bible, sometimes the teaching is clear, but when it's not, we can get ourselves |
| 0:05.9 | into trouble. The problem comes when we deduce certain things from the Bible, from one |
| 0:13.0 | passage of Scripture, that then brings us into direct conflict with something that the Scripture |
| 0:19.1 | teaches elsewhere very clearly and very plainly. |
| 0:23.6 | That's what we're trying to avoid, being careful with how we deal with implications. |
| 0:33.6 | So how do we do that? How do we avoid the era of drawing from Scripture something that's simply |
| 0:40.7 | not there? Welcome to the Wednesday edition of renewing your mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:48.4 | This week, you're hearing messages from R.C. Sproles series Knowing Scripture. Across 12 messages, he provides time-tested principles |
| 0:56.7 | to help enrich your study of the Bible and to help you to not draw conclusions that are simply |
| 1:02.0 | not in the text. If you'd like to hear all 12 messages and use the study guide to go even deeper |
| 1:08.0 | in your study, you can request this series on DVD, along with |
| 1:12.1 | Lifetime Digital Access, when you give a donation of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org. |
| 1:18.4 | But respond today as this offer ends tomorrow. |
| 1:22.6 | Today we learn the difference between the explicit and the implicit. |
| 1:27.1 | Here's Dr. Sprawl. What I want to do in this |
| 1:31.7 | session is to spell out a few more practical principles that we need to master if we're going |
| 1:39.0 | to be able to understand the scriptures in a coherent way. You'll recall that in the last |
| 1:43.6 | session, I mentioned the importance |
| 1:45.6 | of how we relate the historical narrative on the one hand with the didactic literature on the other, |
| 1:53.2 | the gospel, and the epistle, and so on. And I mentioned at that time that we had to be careful |
| 1:58.6 | about drawing inferences from historical narratives that would |
| 2:03.2 | be in conflict to the clear teaching that we find in other parts of the Bible. Now, that really |
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