Persecutions

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 16 March 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Avoiding persecution is simple. All you have to do is compromise the gospel. From his sermon series in Matthew, today R.C. Sproul examines Jesus’ warning that the call to Christian faithfulness is a call to endure opposition.

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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	The gospel's not gospel to people today, because they're not looking for good news.
0:05.5	They're looking for good advice.
0:07.2	But if God is holy, and He is, and if God has wrath and He does, and if God is concerned
0:15.3	about righteousness and justice, and He is, then we need the cross.
0:27.9	Why isn't the church in the West as persecuted as the church is in other parts of the world?
0:33.9	Is it the favor of God?
0:35.8	Or has our message, our preaching changed from that of the early church?
0:40.4	That's a question R.C. Sprold punders today on this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:46.6	Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and we're currently in a short series from Matthew's Gospel,
0:52.0	sermons preached by Dr. Sprole at St. Andrew's Chapel in Sanford,
0:56.2	Florida. If you'd like Dr. Sproll to guide you through all of Matthew, you can request his
1:01.6	hardcover commentary when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org before midnight
1:08.3	tonight. Well, here's Dr. Spraw on the persecution that Jesus promised the apostles
1:14.0	would follow their faithful preaching ministry.
1:19.3	We're going to continue to study now the Gospel of Matthew,
1:23.9	and we're in chapter 10, and this morning I will be reading verses 16 through 23
1:31.3	behold I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves therefore be wise as serpents and harmless as
1:43.0	doves but beware of men for they will deliver you up to
1:47.7	councils and scourge you in their synagogues. You will be brought before governors and kings
1:54.5	for my sake as a testimony to them and to the Gentiles. But when they deliver you up, do not worry about how or what you should speak.
2:06.4	For it will be given to you in that hour what you should speak.
2:11.0	For it is not you who speak, but the spirit of your father who speaks in you.
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