332. J.C. Ryle

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 21 September 2022

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Sometimes God can use a single verse from His Word to draw us to Himself. Today on our journey back through the archives, Dr. Stephen Nichols looks at a verse that transformed the life of the English bishop J.C. Ryle: Ephesians 2:8.

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0:00.0	Hi, it's Steve Nichols, host of Five Minutes in Church History.
0:03.6	We've paused releasing new episodes of the podcast, but I've picked out some of my favorite
0:08.1	episodes from over the years for you to listen to.
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0:18.2	I hope you enjoy this episode of Five Minutes in Church History.
0:23.2	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History.
0:25.8	Last week, we were looking at one of the five English martyrs in a book entitled Five English Reformers written by J.C. Ryle.
0:34.8	I thought on this week, let's take a look at the author of that book, J.C. Ryle.
0:40.8	Well, he was an Anglican bishop serving as the Bishop of Liverpool, but he wasn't always a bishop, of course.
0:47.8	He was born John Charles Ryle on May 10, 1816.
0:54.8	His father was a member of Parliament, and his father's family also owned a bank, and so these were very wealthy, old family of England.
1:04.8	Consequently, J.C. Ryle, as a young man, was sent off to England's finest schools.
1:10.8	He was sent first to Eaton, and there he excelled in rowing and cricket.
1:16.8	Eaton, of course, is seen from the windows of Windsor Castle and the rugby and football fields of Eaton.
1:23.8	From there, he went to Oxford, and he was an undergraduate student at Oxford from 1834 to 1838, and by his account, the most significant thing that happened while he was at Oxford was his conversion.
1:39.8	He was converted in 1837, and he was converted by hearing Ephesians chapter 2 verse 8.
1:47.8	In fact, he wrote a testimony to his children, a narrative of his testimony of coming to Christ for his family.
1:54.8	And in it, he says, nothing I can remember to this day appeared to me so clear and distinct as my own sinfulness, Christ's preciousness, the value of the Bible,
2:07.8	the absolute necessity of coming out of the world, the need of being born again, and the enormous folly of the whole doctrine of baptismal regeneration.
2:19.8	All these things seem to flash upon me like a sunbeam in the winter of 1837, and have stuck in my mind from that time down to this.
2:31.8	People may account for such a change as they like. My own belief is that it is what the Bible calls conversion, or what the Bible calls regeneration.
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