The Fatherhood of God

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 5 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For many in our day, it seems unremarkable to call God our Father. This is driven by false assumptions about what it means to be God’s children. Today, R.C. Sproul underscores the exclusive privilege of our adoption in Christ.

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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

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0:00.0	The fatherhood of God is extended to those who are adopted into his family by virtue of their union with Christ.
0:09.9	And so far from teaching the universal fatherhood of God, the Bible teaches the particular fatherhood of God,
0:17.4	the idea of the universal fatherhood of God is not a biblical concept.
0:27.2	You've heard it said, I'm sure, that we're all children of God, but is that true? Is God really the
0:33.7	father of everyone? This is the Wednesday edition of renewing your mind. Before moving on
0:40.0	to the next petition in the Lord's Prayer, today, R.C. Sprawl will bring additional clarity
0:45.3	when it comes to speaking of God as our Father. This week's messages are from Dr. Sprole's series,
0:52.3	The Lord's Prayer. Don't forget that you can own this entire
0:55.7	series, plus receive a copy of the Prayer of the Lord book from Dr. Sprawl when you give a donation
1:01.5	of any amount at renewingyourmind.org in support of renewing your mind. As always, we're
1:08.4	grateful for your support, as renewing your mind would not be possible without the
1:12.6	generosity of you, the listener. Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on the fatherhood of God.
1:21.1	Our Father who art in heaven, that's the opening address of the Lord's Prayer. We've already looked
1:31.6	briefly at the significance of this form of personal address that begins our Father. But I'm
1:40.5	not quite finished with this. I don't want to move on to the first petition until I spend a little bit more time on this
1:47.3	form of personal address.
1:50.4	In the 19th century, a new discipline was added to the curriculum of the study of religion,
1:58.8	called comparative religion. An attempt at understanding the great religions of the world,
2:06.8	not in isolation from each other, but as the term comparative religion suggests, in terms
2:15.7	the interconnectedness and comparisons of the various world religions.
2:21.6	This interest was brought about, in part, because of the shrinking of the globe.
2:29.5	In the past, because of difficulties of travel and immigration, we would seem to find clusters of religion
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