Gospel Foundations

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

The gospel is a message. But what—or who—is this message about? Today, W. Robert Godfrey shows how the gospel of Mark reveals Jesus to be the Son of God who ushers in God’s kingdom and brings forgiveness to all who repent and believe.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California.

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

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0:00.0	Repentance is essential in the Christian life.
0:04.0	We have to recognize we're sinners, we have to regret we're sinners, and we have to turn from our sin.
0:10.0	But repentance is not strictly part of the gospel.
0:14.0	If we're going to be clear about the goodness of the good message, it's that we do have to repent,
0:20.0	and then we have to, having looked at ourselves and seeing
0:23.5	our need and wanting to be different, we have to look away from ourselves to Jesus.
0:29.6	That's the good news.
0:36.3	We don't want to get the good news wrong.
0:39.4	As W. Robert Godfrey just reminded us, we don't want to confuse repentance with the announcement
0:44.9	of what Christ has accomplished for his people, and Mark is very careful in his gospel.
0:51.0	This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and this week you're hearing a new series from Dr. Godfrey in the gospel. This is the Tuesday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and this week you're hearing a new series
0:56.6	from Dr. Godfrey in the Gospel of Mark, following Jesus, and how this gospel vividly reveals
1:03.6	who Jesus is and encourages us to joyfully proclaim all that he has accomplished for us, his people.
1:12.0	So be encouraged by the good news of the gospel today, as Dr. Godfrey begins at the beginning.
1:20.9	Let's plunge in to the gospel itself and into this first section of nine that we're
1:26.2	going to look at, a section I'm calling
1:28.7	Jesus and Foundations. And we may linger in this section a little longer because it is foundational.
1:37.0	It is very important to seeing the way in which the rest of the gospel develops. And I think Mark is sparing no effort to lay a foundation
1:49.1	in which we can understand the gospel, the good news as it is in Jesus Christ. And as we said last
1:56.9	time, the gospel begins somewhat abruptly, the beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ,
2:03.5	the son of God. Why does he say the beginning? Well, that's the kind of question only a
2:13.1	professor could ask. Isn't it obvious? It's the beginning because it's the beginning.
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