Angels as Messengers
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
When angels appear in Scripture as messengers, they carry the delegated authority of God Himself. Today, R.C. Sproul examines biblical appearances of these messengers and the appropriate response to the announcements they declare.
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| 0:00.0 | What I want us to see here is not so much about Zacharias, but to see that the angel is a messenger, |
| 0:06.3 | yes, but more than a messenger. He is a spokesman carrying nothing less than the authority of God. |
| 0:14.0 | Although there is a general skepticism out there when it comes to the existence of angels, even by |
| 0:25.1 | some in the church, what many of us do know about angels has been informed more by Hollywood |
| 0:31.1 | and fantasy rather than the passages of scripture. |
| 0:35.0 | This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm your host, Nathan W Bingham. |
| 0:41.0 | As Arce Sprolls sought to help Christians know what they believe and why they believe it, |
| 0:46.0 | he opened God's word and taught and preached from it, for it is there where we find God's revealed word. |
| 0:52.0 | Yesterday we saw angels there where we find God's revealed word. |
| 0:53.3 | Yesterday we saw angels as ministers, |
| 0:56.5 | even seeing them in the Gospels ministering to Jesus. |
| 1:00.0 | Well today, we'll see that in addition to their role of service as ministers they also can function as messengers with the authority of God himself. |
| 1:10.0 | Here's Dr Sprawl. |
| 1:20.0 | We're going to continue now with our study of the biblical doctrine of angels. And as we continue this study, today we're going to be looking chiefly at their mission as messengers in |
| 1:28.5 | Redemptive History and if time allows, we'll look at their relationship between angels and Christ, as that is an important |
| 1:38.6 | issue that emerges in the pages of the New Testament. |
| 1:43.0 | But let's look back to the first chapter of Luke's Gospel, |
| 1:47.5 | where we have the most complete infancy narratives |
| 1:51.8 | that are found in the Gospels, and we'll begin in chapter 1, |
| 1:57.0 | first 5, where we read these words, |
| 2:02.0 | there was in the days of Herod the King of Judea a certain |
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