Beware of the Leaven of the Pharisees
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Although the Pharisees devoted themselves to studying Scripture and making outward displays of piety, their understanding of righteousness was lacking. Today, R.C. Sproul challenges Christians to pursue true righteousness before God.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He 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 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.
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| 0:00.0 | In our sanctification, the person who was declared to be just by faith, if that faith is in fact genuine, and not just a claim to faith or a charade here, but that it's authentic faith, then Christ will truly begin to be formed in that person's life, and that person will begin to show forth |
| 0:22.9 | the fruit of righteousness. |
| 0:30.2 | The Christian life is one of growth. Theologians call that sanctification, but are we as Christians as concerned about pursuing |
| 0:39.4 | righteousness as we ought to be? Do we take seriously Jesus' warning that unless |
| 0:45.2 | your righteousness succeeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not enter the kingdom |
| 0:50.7 | of heaven? You're listening to Renewing Your Mind, |
| 0:56.8 | and I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:59.3 | The question is not only, |
| 1:01.5 | do we take Jesus' warning seriously? |
| 1:03.3 | The question is also, |
| 1:05.0 | how do we understand his warning in light of the truth |
| 1:06.4 | that we're justified not by our works, |
| 1:09.5 | but by faith alone? |
| 1:15.6 | Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on the Christian's pursuit of righteousness. One of the questions that I hear frequently from people who are earnestly seeking to do the will of God |
| 1:25.6 | is the question, what is the most important thing that God |
| 1:30.6 | wants for me in the Christian life? It's like the businessman who's always asking the question, |
| 1:36.5 | what's the bottom line? Let's cut through all of the details and the myriad possibilities |
| 1:41.8 | and the 1001 commandments. the 1,000 commandments, |
| 1:44.5 | what is it that God really cares about in terms of the chief focus, |
| 1:49.2 | the chief goal, the chief end of the Christian life? |
| 1:53.2 | And what I'd like to do in this session is to focus on what I think the Bible says |
| 1:58.8 | is the answer to that question. |
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