The Source of Full Assurance

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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

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🗓️ 2 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

How do we know if we’re truly the children of God? Today, R.C. Sproul explains how the inner testimony of the Holy Spirit gives us assurance.

Get R.C. Sproul’s book Can I Be Sure I’m Saved?, his teaching series The Assurance of Salvation on DVD, and lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3610/assurance

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	Affection for Christ is a result of the Spirit's work because this is what the Spirit does in quickening.
0:08.0	This is what regeneration is about, is that God, the Holy Spirit, changes the disposition of your soul.
0:16.0	The love of God is kindled by the regenerating power of the Holy Spirit.
0:27.1	Our God is a God who saves, and I mean actually saves.
0:32.4	So if He has made you alive in Christ, if you have been born again, then you can have assurance of your salvation.
0:38.9	It's good to have you with us for this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:43.0	I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham.
0:45.7	So how do you know if you're born again?
0:48.4	That's what Ersi Sprawl will explore today on this Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:57.3	Gaining assurance is not only a command from the Apostle Peter, having assurance adds stability to our lives as Christians and aids us
1:03.0	in our fruitfulness. This is not a topic we should neglect. So if you'd like to review
1:07.9	R.C. Sprawl's entire series on Assurance, for the final day, we'll send you the DVD, give you digital access to the messages and study guide, and send you his short book, Can I Be Sure I'm Saved, when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org.
1:24.7	But this is the final day, and it won't be repeated next Saturday, so don't delay.
1:30.4	Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on the source of full assurance.
1:36.2	We come now to our final message in this series on the assurance of salvation,
1:41.6	and in our last lesson we saw how critical it is to have a sound theology of salvation. And in our last lesson, we saw how critical it is to have a sound
1:47.0	theology of salvation, a sound theology of election, upon which to base our assurance. And at the
1:54.2	end of that message, I mentioned that most critical to this whole question is the understanding of the spirit's work within us that we call regeneration or rebirth.
2:08.2	In the polls that are conducted frequently by Gallup and by George Barna and so on, it seems that over 60 million American people claim to be, quote, born again Christians.
2:22.1	Well, if you're one of those 60 million people, let me ask you the question.
2:26.3	What do you think it means to be born again?
2:31.2	If we ask that question to professing Christians, many will say, well, a born-again Christian
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