Brought Near by the Blood of Christ

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 4.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

For many long ages, the nations lived apart from God's covenant promises and the hope of salvation. But that changed with the coming of Christ. From his sermon series in Ephesians, today R.C. Sproul marvels at God's grace to unite believing Jews and gentiles in the church.

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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.

Renewing Your Mind is a donor-supported outreach of Ligonier Ministries. Explore all of our podcasts: https://www.ligonier.org/podcasts

Transcript

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0:00.0	For the Apostle Paul to describe people's condition as being in a state of separation from Christ
0:08.2	is one of the most grim diagnoses that he could make about any human's condition.
0:17.0	There are millions and millions of people in our country today, both Jew and Gentile,
0:24.6	who remain separated from Christ.
0:28.6	And that's a dreadful thing.
0:35.6	It is a dreadful thing.
0:38.5	What's amazing about the good news of the gospel is that by faith alone, we can be united
0:44.4	to Christ, and to use the words of Ephesians 2.13, be brought near by the blood of Christ.
0:51.8	This is the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, as each week we feature the
0:56.0	preaching and teaching ministry of R.C. Sprole. And today we start a new series in Ephesians,
1:02.5	and we'll discover how, because of Christ, there can be peace between our holy God and sinful
1:09.6	man, and how there can be unity horizontally between
1:13.5	Jew and Gentile, how we can be one in Christ.
1:18.1	We'll be spending a few weeks in Ephesians, but all of Dr. Sproul's teaching on Ephesians
1:23.2	was brought together and formed his expositional commentary.
1:27.1	We'll gladly send you a copy today as our way of saying thank you for your donation in support
1:32.3	of this daily program at Renewing Your Mind.org.
1:36.5	Make your donation today before this offer ends at midnight.
1:41.3	We'll turn your Bible to Ephesians 2 because here's Dr. Spurall.
1:47.6	We're going to continue our study of Paul's letter to the Ephesians chapter 2.
1:53.8	And I will be reading beginning at verse 11 through the end of the chapter.
2:00.0	Therefore remember that at one time you Gentiles in the flesh
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