Joy and Peace

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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

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🗓️ 9 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Christians do not honor the Lord by wearing a superficial smile. Our true joy is anchored in the victory of Christ. Today, R.C. Sproul offers needed clarification about the fruit of joy in the Christian life.

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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	Jesus himself is called the Prince of Peace.
0:05.0	And yet this same Jesus says, what?
0:08.0	I come not to bring peace, but a sword.
0:12.0	To set brother against brother and father against son.
0:16.0	We discover how to reconcile those two ideas today on renewing your mind.
0:26.9	Following Christ is by its very nature counter-cultural.
0:31.3	Not only are we battling our own flesh, but the world's system is hostile to the things
0:36.3	of God. With all of this conflict, where is the peace?
0:40.6	Today's message is from R.C. Sproles' 12-part series Developing Christian Character.
0:46.6	This week, you can have lifetime digital access to this series and study guide, plus we'll send you Dr. Sproill's book Growing in Holiness.
0:55.5	Request this resource bundle with your donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org.
1:01.0	Well, here's R.C. Sprold to point us to the only source of true peace.
1:09.0	I've mentioned that the list of the fruit of the spirit that we find here in Galatians,
1:13.7	I don't think, is simply cataloged for us in an arbitrary way or set forth willy-nilly,
1:21.1	just a loose list or connection of various virtues. I think that there is a kind of order, a kind of interconnectedness
1:33.3	that we can perceive in this understanding of the fruit of the spirit. I don't want to be slavish about
1:41.1	that, but I do think that we see that love stands at the beginning of that list
1:45.6	for a reason, because out of love flows the other fruits of the spirit. And there seems to be
1:53.7	almost a kind of order or a kind of sequence, a kind of mutual interdependence among these
2:00.6	fruits.
2:01.9	And if you would take the time to compare Galatians 5 with 1st Corinthians 13,
2:09.0	even though the subject matter of 1st Corinthians 13 focuses on love,
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