Christ: The Only Way

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Reformed, Study, Jesus, Preaching, Christianity, Scripture, Spirit, Bible, Holy, Theology, Christian, God, Teaching

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🗓️ 10 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Is it an arrogant claim that Jesus is the only way to heaven? Not if it's the truth. Today, R.C. Sproul teaches on the exclusivity of Christ for salvation, looking at Jesus’ own words.

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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 ministry engagement 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	If you want to talk about arrogance and narrow-mindedness, let's lay the blame and the guilt
0:06.6	where it belongs.
0:07.8	Belongs on Jesus.
0:09.2	It's Jesus who makes the claim.
0:11.6	It's the New Testament that says there is no other name under heaven through which men
0:18.2	may be saved.
0:19.5	Music through which men may be saved.
0:30.6	It's hard to imagine that there would be anything more offensive in a culture that places a premium on inclusiveness than telling someone about the exclusivity of God's kingdom that
0:36.6	Christ is the only way. Welcome to renewing
0:40.9	your mind on this Tuesday. I'm Nathan W. Bingham. Objections to the Christian faith abound
0:47.1	in society, and this is one that can make us the object of ridicule and scorn. But as Dr. Sprold
0:53.4	just mentioned, we're not relying on our opinion
0:56.4	when we share the truth. Here he is to explain more fully. One of the forms of amusement that we
1:05.0	sometimes do when social gatherings is ask people to relate their most embarrassing moment. I really couldn't say what my
1:15.7	most embarrassing moment was in my life, but certainly one of the most embarrassing moments I ever had
1:22.2	took place the first year I was a Christian. I was a freshman in college, and I was so filled with
1:32.1	enthusiasm about my newfound faith that I was a real zealot. I told anybody who would listen
1:38.2	to me about the riches of Christ. And I even had the opportunity at college to speak one morning in an all-college
1:48.1	chapel. And I gave my testimony. So everybody on the campus who knew me knew that I had
1:53.6	embraced Christianity. And we had a professor, a woman professor, who was overtly hostile towards Christianity,
2:06.6	and she taught a course in English, and I happened to be in her class.
2:11.6	And she seemed to take delight in taking shots at Christianity during her lectures. And so I learned very early to keep my
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