Elijah
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Elijah stood as a solitary voice for truth. He refused to shrink back from confronting corrupt kings and false prophets. Today, R.C. Sproul considers the calling to take up the mantle and speak God's Word with courage.
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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.
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| 0:00.0 | He picks up that manel and he becomes a steward of the Word of God. |
| 0:05.5 | We need a new Elisha who will pick up that manel and live and die for the purity of the visible church. |
| 0:13.7 | And sometimes it seems as though today that mantle is lying in the dust and is being trampled underfoot. |
| 0:25.6 | Music is lying in the dust and is being trampled underfoot. The Bible is the account of God's work to redeem a people for himself. |
| 0:31.1 | But as we read about the lives of the men and women used by the Lord, |
| 0:35.4 | not only do these stories teach us about who God is, they can |
| 0:39.5 | instruct us in who we are, and how we are called to live faithfully for Christ. Welcome to the |
| 0:46.9 | Monday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and this week you'll hear messages from a series that |
| 0:52.2 | hasn't been featured on renewing your mind for many years. |
| 0:56.1 | It's called Great Men to Live by, and it's a series that greatly helped me as R.C. Sproles |
| 1:02.3 | surveyed the lives of the Old Testament prophets. You can listen to the entire 13-part series |
| 1:08.7 | and add it to your library when you donate this week at |
| 1:12.4 | renewingyourmind.org or when you call us at 800, 435-4343. There's more in this resource package, |
| 1:21.3 | but I'll tell you about that at the end of today's message. To start this series off, first |
| 1:27.4 | recorded in 1979, here's R.C. Sprawl on the |
| 1:31.9 | prophet Elijah. In this session, I'd like to introduce the prophets themselves by looking at the man |
| 1:41.6 | who stands at the head of the historical line of the prophets. |
| 1:47.1 | You know, when we look at the Old Testament so often, |
| 1:49.5 | we'll divide the Old Testament into the law and the prophets. |
| 1:55.1 | And when we think of the giving of the law, we think immediately of home, |
| 1:58.9 | of Moses, who was the mediator of the old covenant. But when we think of the |
| 2:04.0 | prophets, I think immediately of that one who really began the prophetic tradition in Israel and his name |
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