Elijah

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

In a time of rampant wickedness, Elijah called the nation of Israel to turn from their idols and worship the one true God. Today, R.C. Sproul examines the remarkable life of this prophet.

With your donation of any amount, request R.C. Sproul’s 57-message teaching series Dust to Glory as a special-edition DVD collection. You’ll also receive lifetime digital access to all the messages and the study guide: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3982/donate

Live outside the U.S. and Canada? You can still get today’s resource offer for a donation of any amount: https://www.renewingyourmind.org/global

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

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The prophets were lonely, despised, brutalized, persecuted, in many cases, murdered individuals
0:11.0	who were uniquely called of God and gifted of God for the specific task of being the conscience
0:19.0	of God's people.
0:32.6	Being a prophet wasn't all glitz and glamour, yet their role was significant in biblical history. Welcome to the Saturday edition of renewing your mind, and over the next several weeks,
0:38.0	we'll see why and how the Lord use those prophets.
0:41.7	The messages that you'll hear are from a larger series that we call Dust to Glory,
0:47.1	and it's one of the most important teaching series that R.C. Sprold recorded at Ligernier Ministries,
0:51.9	and the goal of the series is to provide a panorama
0:55.6	of biblical truth from start to finish, from Genesis to Revelation, to help you read,
1:02.2	understand and apply scripture. We're making the entire series available 57 lessons on a special
1:09.5	edition DVD and will send it to you and unlock digital access to the messages and study guide until midnight tonight when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org.
1:21.6	And don't forget, wherever you are in the world, if you'd like digital access to this series and study guide,
1:28.3	you can also respond at Renewing Your Mind.org slash global.
1:34.2	To get us started, here's Dr. Spraw on the prophet Elijah.
1:41.3	We turn our attention now to the emergence of the important Old Testament prophets.
1:49.1	Now, in order to do that, I want to leap forward just for a few minutes over the centuries
1:53.9	and go to the very end to the last prophecy that is recorded in the Old Testament. It is found in the last book of the Old
2:03.6	Testament, the book of Malachi, in the last chapter of the last book of Malachi, which is chapter
2:10.4	four. We read in verse four of chapter four, these words, behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming
2:21.8	of the great and dreadful day of the Lord, and he will turn the hearts of the fathers to the
2:28.0	children and the hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the earth
2:33.7	with a curse.
	...

Transcript will be available on the free plan in 11 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ligonier Ministries, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ligonier Ministries and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.