The Greatest Joy

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 14 November 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Sin entices us with the promise of pleasure, but ultimately sin only robs us of joy. Today, R.C. Sproul observes how people enter the fullness of joy and escape the grasp of guilt.

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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

Transcript

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0:00.0	Imagine having every sin that you've ever committed erased by God, to have every paralysis,
0:10.0	every guilt that you have committed and the feelings of that guilt being removed.
0:17.1	That's what Christ came to do, to give us the joy that comes from knowing that our names are written in heaven.
0:31.6	Hopefully you don't need to imagine that, and instead you already know the joy of salvation.
0:39.1	And it's that joy that Arcey Sprole will be teaching on today on renewing your mind. We can pursue many things to try
0:45.6	and find joy in this world, but everything will let you down aside from knowing God and
0:50.9	knowing the joy of the salvation that is in Christ alone.
0:54.7	So we need to remember, as Dr. Sprawl just said, that for the Christian, our names are
0:59.6	written in heaven.
1:01.6	Here's Dr. Sprawl with a gospel reminder of the greatest joy.
1:08.2	As we continue our study of the New Testament concept of joy, in this session, I want to turn
1:17.2	our attention to the gospel according to St. Luke, to the 10th chapter, where we have an interesting
1:25.4	narrative of an episode that takes place during the earthly ministry
1:30.4	of Jesus. Chapter 10 of Luke begins with these words, after these things, the Lord appointed 70
1:39.4	others also and sent them two by two before his face into every city and place where he himself was about to go.
1:50.1	And then he said to them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few.
1:57.1	Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest, and go your way,
2:04.7	for behold, I send you out as lambs among wolves.
2:10.7	Now this is a scary thing.
2:13.9	Jesus takes 70 of his disciples, and he commissions them to go all throughout the land
2:21.1	to each hamlet and village of Palestine, proclaiming the coming of the kingdom of God. But he
2:29.3	warns them in advance that they are not, in many cases, going to be warmly received.
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