Is it possible to know God’s will for your life? Today, R.C. Sproul helps us understand the important distinction between the revealed will and hidden will of God. Receive R.C. Sproul’s book Everyone’s a Theologian, his 60-message teaching series Foundations: An Overview of Systematic Theology as a special-edition DVD collection, and lifetime digital access to the messages and study guide, all for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3887/donate 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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Have you ever wondered what God's will for your life is? The only way you're going to know the hidden will of God for you today is to wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow will make clear to you what the hidden will of God was for you today.
When we find ourselves in difficult situations, we sometimes cry out with a little bit of panic, what should I do now? And we wish that God would just answer us. But when we consider the will of God, we need to make a distinction between God's revealed will and His hidden will. These kind of distinctions are vital, and that's why this week's series can be so beneficial.
It's a 60-message overview of systematic theology to help you know what you believe, why you believe it, how to live it, and how to share it. Don't forget that you can own this series on a special DVD set and receive R.C. Sproul's book, Everyone's a Theologian. And you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org.
And I'll tell you more about this resource offer at the end of today's message. Well, here's Dr. Sproul on the will of God.
Several years ago, we had a radio program, a little five-minute vignette entitled Ask in which the whole format was of my answering questions that people wrote in or called in during the taping of this program. And we kept track of the questions that people asked, and the number one question that we heard more often than any other was the question, how can I know the will of God for my life?
So, obviously, people who are earnest in their Christian faith and who understand that God is sovereign and who want to live a life in obedience to Him want to know what it is that God wants them to do.
And when people ask me that question, I usually go into a lengthy discourse on the various meanings of the term will of God in Scripture, and they say, when you want to know what God's will is, I want to know what will are you talking about. But before I go into those things, let me turn your attention to a statement that we find in the book of Deuteronomy. the 29th chapter, verse 29.
And this is a text that I think we all need to be aware of, particularly when we're struggling over this question of the will of God for our lives. It reads as follows, "'The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but those things which are revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may do all of the words of this law. Now, where this is found in Scripture is very important.
The book of Deuteronomy is the second book of the law, as it were, and there has been now a recapitulation of the entire law that has been delivered by Moses from God to the people. And at the conclusion of this account of the giving of the law, we find this text that makes a distinction between the hidden will of God and the revealed will of God. And let's take a moment on those.
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