Days and Seasons
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 1 February 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Old Testament ceremonies and sacrifices pointed to Christ. To return to them now would be a denial of Jesus' finished work of redemption. From his sermon series in Galatians, today R.C. Sproul warns of the slavery that comes from taking our focus off of Christ.
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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
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| 0:00.0 | Paul is saying, the whole point of the Day of Atonement that was celebrated every year, |
| 0:04.9 | century after century after century after century after century, pointed ahead to the ultimate |
| 0:10.3 | sacrifice in the blood of the Messiah that would be offered once and for all, never again, |
| 0:18.3 | to be repeated. And after that finished work of Jesus was accomplished, you want to go back |
| 0:25.8 | to the shadows? You want to go back to those observations? You're not under that obligation now. |
| 0:49.4 | You know, it's easy for us in the 21st century to scoff at those early Jewish converts in the Galatian Church. |
| 0:54.6 | They were tempted to add to the gospel as they looked back to the Old Testament ceremonies, |
| 1:01.6 | but this stands as a reminder to all of us to examine if we've begun to add things to the gospel. |
| 1:06.7 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and this is the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 1:13.7 | If you live near Houston, Texas, I'd like to invite you to renewing your mind live on Tuesday, |
| 1:19.5 | March 17. Whether you're a long-time listener or you've only recently discovered this daily program, I want to connect with you and thank you for listening. You'll have an opportunity to meet |
| 1:24.5 | me and our guest teachers during a night filled with biblical teaching, fellowship and giveaways as we seek to have our minds renewed according |
| 1:33.5 | to the Word of God. You can learn more and register at renewingyourmind.org slash Houston. |
| 1:41.3 | Well, Arcey's role is making his way through Galatians Chapter 4 on Sundays, and I'm glad you're with us today. |
| 1:48.1 | But if you'd like to study all of Galatians with Dr. Sproal, I do encourage you to request his single-volume commentary |
| 1:54.7 | when you give a donation in support of the proclamation of the biblical gospel to the nations at Renewing Your Mind.org. |
| 2:02.6 | If you have your Bible with you, here's Dr. Sprawl in Galatians 4, beginning in verse 8. |
| 2:09.6 | Formerly, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those that by nature are not gods. |
| 2:21.2 | But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, |
| 2:28.1 | how can you turn your back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world |
| 2:33.8 | whose slaves you want to be once more. |
| 2:38.9 | You observe days and months and seasons and years. |
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