The Royal Family

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 23 February 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Christians must never forget that we are royalty, adopted by grace into the family of the King. Today, Sinclair Ferguson explains how this identity informs our calling to reflect God's majesty and glory in the world.

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0:00.0	It's not just the attribute of wisdom that God puts on display in the church.
0:04.8	It's every single one of his attributes so that the church is a reflection of his holiness,
0:11.0	the church is a reflection of his love, the church is a reflection of his love, the church is a reflection of his goodness,
0:15.7	the church is a reflection of his faithfulness.
0:18.8	I think this may be one of the reasons why when there is a real living church it's kind of
0:25.6	incomprehensible to unbelievers.
0:29.8	My name is not Prince Nathan. I was not born into a royal family, but in a real sense, as we'll hear today, as a Christian, I am part of a royal priesthood and you are too if you're in Christ
0:46.6	and we have a clear mission given to us according to the Apostle Peter.
0:50.6	This is the Friday edition of renewing your mind as we conclude a week with Sinclair Ferguson as he has taken us through First Peter chapter one and into chapter two.
1:01.0	Today is your final opportunity to request the complete 12-part
1:05.1	series if you'd like Dr. Ferguson to walk you all the way through to the end of
1:09.8	this book. Learn how to request this brand new teaching series at renewing your mind.org.
1:16.6	So what is our mission as the people of God according to 1st Peter 29 that we are to proclaim
1:22.2	the excellencies of God, the one who called us out of darkness, into
1:26.3	his marvelous light.
1:28.1	Here's Dr Ferguson to explain. Now we've come together to what I think is our fifth study in the first letter of
1:37.1	the Apostle Peter. We are fairly early on in chapter two still and we're going to look in this study at verses 4 through 12.
1:46.1	Remember when we left off last time we were focusing on this marvelous idea that the
1:52.0	churches the new community in which the command of Jesus you
1:55.7	remember in the Farewell discourse a new commandment I give you that you love one
2:00.7	another that commandment is beginning to be fulfilled among God's people.
2:06.0	And in the first century, this was a source of astonishment to the world.
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