Apostolic Authority
Ultimately with R.C. Sproul
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 26 December 2022
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
It's impossible to set the words of Jesus in opposition to the writings of Paul. Today, R.C. Sproul reminds us that the Apostles taught by Christ's authority.
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| 0:00.0 | We must remember that we have no writings that have been passed down to us in the Christian |
| 0:07.6 | community today that come directly from the pen of Jesus. |
| 0:17.2 | The inscripture rating of the teaching of our Lord was entrusted to the apostles. |
| 0:28.6 | And so when we want to place Jesus against Paul or Paul against Jesus, what we're really |
| 0:37.5 | doing in essence is trying to pit Paul against Luke or Paul against Mark or Paul against |
| 0:47.9 | Matthew because all that we know of the teaching of Jesus comes to us through the gospel |
| 0:55.3 | writers. |
| 0:56.9 | And it's because of their delegated authority that we trust that we have knowledge of the |
| 1:04.2 | actual teaching of Jesus Christ. |
| 1:07.7 | And I remind you that in our day it has become a very serious matter where we have seen |
| 1:14.0 | a wholesale pervasive disintegration of confidence in the church itself over apostolic authority. |
| 1:24.1 | And Christianity from its very foundation, beloved, is apostolic. |
| 1:31.4 | And it still holds true today that if we reject the authority of the apostles, we reject |
| 1:38.3 | the authority of Christ. |
| 1:40.2 | And if we reject the authority of Christ, we reject the authority of God Himself. |
| 1:49.5 | We have been listening to ultimately with RC Sproul, a podcast from Ligonier Ministries. |
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| 2:01.0 | For more information, visit ultimatelypodcast.com. |
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