Angels as Messengers
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 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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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) 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 media for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | What I want us to see here is not so much about Zacharias, |
| 0:03.0 | but to see that the angel is a messenger, yes, but more than a messenger. |
| 0:09.0 | He is a spokesman carrying nothing less than the authority of God. |
| 0:20.0 | Although there is a general skepticism out there when it comes to the existence of angels, |
| 0:26.3 | even by some in the church, what many of us do know about angels has often been informed |
| 0:31.8 | more by Hollywood and fantasy rather than the pages of scripture. |
| 0:36.7 | This is the Saturday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 0:40.2 | I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. As R.C. Sprawl sought to help Christians know what they |
| 0:46.3 | believe and why they believe it, he opened God's word and taught and preached from it, for it's |
| 0:52.3 | there that we find God's revealed word. |
| 0:55.6 | So if you'd like to better understand angels and demons, |
| 0:59.5 | request Dr. Sproles' eight-part study when you give a donation in support of renewing your mind |
| 1:04.6 | at Renewing Your Mind.org before midnight tonight. |
| 1:08.5 | But be quick as this offer won't be repeated next Saturday. |
| 1:13.2 | Last Saturday, we saw angels as ministers, |
| 1:16.9 | even seeing them in the Gospels ministering to Jesus. |
| 1:20.2 | Well, today, we'll see that in addition to their role of service as ministers, |
| 1:25.3 | they also can function as messengers with the authority of God |
| 1:29.9 | himself. Here's Dr. Sprawl. |
| 1:33.4 | Let's look back to the first chapter of Luke's Gospel, where we have the most complete |
| 1:41.9 | infancy narratives that are found in the Gospels. And we'll begin in |
| 1:47.5 | chapter 1, verse 5, where we read these words, there was in the days of Herod, the king of |
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