Beginning of Jesus’ Public Ministry
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 7 January 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Whenever Jesus called people to Himself, He called them to repentance. From his exposition of the gospel of Mark, today R.C. Sproul observes what Christ required of His first disciples and every disciple since.
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| 0:00.0 | You cannot enter the kingdom of God without repentance, without flaying from your sin and putting |
| 0:07.1 | your trust in Christ and in Christ alone. |
| 0:10.3 | This is how our Lord himself did evangelism. |
| 0:14.0 | He announced the gospel, and then he said, |
| 0:17.0 | your response must be repent and believe. The beginning of Jesus' public ministry began with a call to repent and believe, something that is sadly missing from much of modern day |
| 0:36.0 | evangelism and preaching. But as you heard R.C. Sprawl just say, you can't enter the kingdom |
| 0:41.7 | of God without repentance. This is the Sunday edition of |
| 0:45.6 | renewing her mind as we feature preaching from the sermon library of Dr Sproll. |
| 0:51.5 | Today you'll hear a sermon from Mark's Gospel |
| 0:54.5 | as we begin a series in Mark on the public ministry of Jesus. |
| 0:59.2 | These sermons were preached at St Andrews Chapel |
| 1:01.9 | in Sanford Florida and launched the development of his |
| 1:05.2 | expositional commentary on Mark. You can request the Hardcover Edition, today only |
| 1:11.6 | with a donation of any amount at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:16.0 | Well here's R.C. sprawl in Mark chapter one. |
| 1:20.0 | This morning instead of reading from chapter 1, 14 through 28 of Mark's Gospel, I'll only read |
| 1:29.3 | verses 14 through 20. |
| 1:33.0 | And so I'll ask the congregation to stand for the reading of the word of God. |
| 1:38.0 | Now after John was put in prison, Jesus came to Galilee, preaching the Gospel of the kingdom of God, and saying the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand. |
| 2:00.0 | Repent and believe in the gospel. |
| 2:06.5 | And as he walked by the sea of Galilee, |
| 2:09.0 | he saw Simon and Andrew, his brother |
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