Jesus and Division

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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

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🗓️ 30 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Since Jesus is the Prince of Peace, why did He say He came to bring division? From his sermon series in the gospel of Matthew, today R.C. Sproul calls us to stand firm for the gospel, the truth that unites all who receive it, yet draws hostility from those who prefer falsehood.

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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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0:00.0	There's some truths that are so foundational, so basic, that if you deny them, you deny Christ.
0:07.0	And that's what he's saying here.
0:08.5	Your commitment to me has to be such that you have to love me more than you love your mother and your father.
0:14.2	And he who receives you, receives me, and he receives me, receives the one who sent me.
0:20.5	And to receive Christ is to affirm the truth
0:25.3	of who he was and what he did. There are many hard sayings in the Bible, even from the lips of Jesus.
0:39.3	In fact, R.C. Sproill has several teaching series covering many of them.
0:43.3	And today, on this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, we come across one such saying.
0:49.3	He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.
0:53.3	He who finds his life will lose it,
0:56.0	and he who loses his life for my sake will find it. Today's passage for Matthew chapter
1:02.0	10 is the final installment in this short series for Matthew's Gospel. If you'd like to learn more
1:08.0	about this gospel, for the final time, you can request
1:11.3	R.C. Sproll's hardcover commentary when you give a gift of any amount at Renewing Your Mind.org.
1:18.1	Don't delay, as this offer won't be repeated next Sunday.
1:22.5	So why did Jesus say that He did not come to bring peace on earth, and that he who loves father or mother more
1:28.7	than him is not worthy of him. Here's Dr. Sprawl in Matthew 10, beginning at verse 34.
1:37.0	Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against
1:48.5	his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law,
1:54.0	and a man's enemies will be those of his own household. He who loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me.
2:03.9	He who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. And he who does not take his
2:10.0	cross and follow after me is not worthy of me. He who finds his life will lose it. And he who loses his life for my sake will find it.
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