Troubled That You May Not Be

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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

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🗓️ 2 December 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Where do you turn when your heart is troubled? Today, Sinclair Ferguson explains that because Jesus bore the burden of our sin, our souls can remain calm in any circumstance.

Get Sinclair Ferguson’s book Love Came Down at Christmas, plus lifetime digital access to his Lessons from the Upper Room teaching series and digital study guide, for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3740/give-today

Meet Today’s Teacher:

Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is featured teacher for several Ligonier teaching series, including Union with Christ. He is author of many books, including The Whole Christ, Maturity, and Devoted to God’s Church. Dr. Ferguson is also host of the podcast Things Unseen.

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	It is precisely because Jesus was troubled in spirit, and all that that meant for him to bear the burden of our sin, the burden of our shame, the burden of our guilt, the burden of our death, because he was troubled in spirit, it is possible for Christian disciples to live without being troubled in spirit.
0:29.8	Is your heart troubled?
0:32.0	Are the storms of life hitting you hard in this season?
0:35.3	Perhaps you look at the world and the news of tragedy upon tragedy
0:39.1	coming in, not just locally but globally, and it causes you anxiety. Or your own sin feels
0:45.4	particularly weighty. You feel acutely aware of your own weakness and frailty. If that's you, then I'm
0:52.4	glad you're with us today for renewing your mind,
0:55.0	as Sinclair Ferguson examines Jesus' counsel for the troubled heart. God is not silent. He didn't
1:02.2	leave us without his word to guide us as we live the Christian life as pilgrims. And there is so much
1:08.2	for the believer to glean from Jesus' words in what is often referred to as his farewell discourse or upper room discourse.
1:16.8	Dr. Ferguson will guide us through much of this discourse this week,
1:20.7	but you can study the entirety of John 13 through 17
1:24.4	when you request this series and study guide
1:27.4	with your year-end donation of any amount
1:30.0	at renewing your mind.org. To thank you, we'll also send you Dr. Ferguson's Advent Devotional
1:36.3	in which he reminds you daily that love came down at Christmas in the person of Jesus Christ.
1:43.2	Sinclair Ferguson is the vice chairman of Ligna
1:45.3	Ministries, a Ligna Ministries Teaching Fellow, and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic
1:50.6	Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He'll be with us all week, and today, here he is
1:56.6	in John Chapter 14. I think we've probably come to the best known verse in John chapter 14.
2:05.4	I think we've probably come to the best known verse in John's Gospel.
2:09.8	Some people might say, well, isn't the best known verse, John 316?
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