The Apostle Paul wrote his letter to the Romans to help establish Christians in their understanding of the gospel. From his sermon series in Romans, today R.C. Sproul underlines our need to know the gospel and to remind ourselves regularly of its truth. Get R.C. Sproul’s new devotional, The Power of the Gospel: A Year in Romans, for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3664/the-power-of-the-gospel 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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If you give your testimony to your neighbor and say, you know, I became a Christian last year, you're bearing witness about Jesus, but you're not telling them the gospel, because the gospel is not about you. The gospel is about Jesus.
Getting the gospel right is essential. R.C. Sproul said it many times, when the gospel is at stake, everything is at stake. And this is why the Reformation of the 16th century was so important, as it marked light shining into the darkness, a rediscovery of the gospel. Welcome to Reformation Week on Renewing Your Mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham.
The book of Romans is a significant book in the history of the Reformation. It was as Martin Luther read Romans that a light bulb, as it were, went on. Or as Luther himself described it, the doors of paradise swung open and he walked through. All week, you'll hear sermons from R.C. Sproul in Romans, and you'll have the opportunity to be one of the first to receive a new resource from R.C. Sproul.
It's called The Power of the Gospel. It's a daily devotional that lets you spend a year in Romans with Dr. Sproul as your guide and with special applications from each reading. Secure your copy today when you give a gift of any amount at renewingyourmind.org and we'll send you this new hardcover devotional when it begins to ship in just a few weeks. Well, here's R.C.
Sproul on the gospel and the verse that changed everything for Martin Luther.
Paul is continuing his greetings and his opening comments to the church at Rome before he plunges into the content of the theological understanding of the gospel that he sets forth throughout this entire epistle. And so he begins by saying, first of all, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all. The apostle had a heart that was constantly filled with thanksgiving.
The word that he used here in the epistle was the word eucharisto, from which the church derives the term eucharist, which was a word used to describe the celebration of the Lord's Supper in the primitive Christian church, because at the heart of the celebration of the Lord's Supper was a profound spirit of thanksgiving for what God had wrought for us in the work of Jesus Christ.
And so, Paul mentions his spirit of thankfulness for these Roman Christians, and he says, because your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world. When first century people spoke of the world, they were speaking of the known world. They were speaking of basically the Mediterranean world. That was in their purview.
And when Paul says, I'm rejoicing that your faith is known throughout the world, he's talking in the way people talked at that time, and he's saying that I'm glad that throughout the our known world, throughout the Mediterranean world, people everywhere are talking about your faith, which has made an impact. He's so eager that the people who receive this epistle understand
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