The Call of the Disciples
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 2 March 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When Jesus called twelve men from among His disciples, what was He calling them to? From his sermon series in the gospel of Matthew, today R.C. Sproul considers the authority Christ delegated to His Apostles and the writings they produced by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | You'll notice in this list of apostles that are given to us here that about half of them you know |
| 0:06.1 | a lot about because they appear frequently in the record of the New Testament, but the other half |
| 0:12.2 | you hardly recognize their activities as apostles in the early church remain for the most part |
| 0:19.1 | obscure. And yet these 12 men, to whom the Lord Jesus |
| 0:24.1 | delegates this authority, turn the world upside down. I think that we could extract from |
| 0:32.0 | Winston Churchill, an evaluation of the importance of these 12 men that never have so many owed so much to so few. |
| 0:50.2 | All believers are called by God, but the calling of the disciples and the commissioning of the |
| 0:56.6 | 12 apostles was unique, and it came with authority that resulted in, as you just heard |
| 1:01.8 | R.C. Sprole say, the world being turned upside down. Welcome to the Sunday edition of Renewing |
| 1:08.4 | Your Mind, where each week we feature the preaching |
| 1:11.1 | ministry of R.C. Sprawl. Today marks the beginning of a new series in the Gospel of Matthew. |
| 1:18.2 | We'll be in this gospel for several weeks, but if you'd like to study it in greater detail, |
| 1:23.7 | you can request Dr. Sproill's commentary on Matthew when you give a donation of any amount |
| 1:28.5 | at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight tonight. |
| 1:32.7 | So what can we learn from the calling of the apostles, and what authority did they have? |
| 1:38.3 | Here's Dr. Sprawl in Matthew chapter 10. |
| 1:43.9 | And when he had called his 12 disciples to him, he gave them power over unclean spirits |
| 1:52.2 | to cast them out and to heal all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease. |
| 2:00.4 | Now the names of the 12 apostles are these. First, Simon, |
| 2:06.0 | who is called Peter and Andrew his brother, James the son of Zebedee and John, his brother, |
| 2:13.1 | Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector, James the son of Alpheus and |
| 2:20.3 | Leibius, whose surname was Thaddeus, Simon the Canaanite, and Judas Ascariat, who also |
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