Hidden in Christ

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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

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🗓️ 31 July 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Even after being spiritually united to Jesus, Christians face many struggles in this life. Today, Sinclair Ferguson reminds us that all the riches of the gospel are already ours in Christ. This reality shapes how we live in a fallen world.

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Meet Today’s Teacher:

Sinclair Ferguson is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow, vice-chairman of Ligonier Ministries, and Chancellor’s Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary.

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	Growing in God's Word is a new curriculum from Ligeneer Ministries to help you guide children through an
0:05.9	overview of the Bible in 52 lessons. Learn more and pre-order yours today at growing in God's word.org.
0:14.7	We need to set our minds on the things that are above, not on the things that are on earth.
0:21.3	We don't naturally think that way, because we bring into the Christian life the old mindset often,
0:28.6	don't we, the old instinct.
0:30.8	And we need the word of God to grind away at our thinking so that we understand who we really are.
0:43.3	That is why we call this daily teaching outreach renewing your mind, that day by day,
0:50.3	under God's blessing, our minds would be renewed, that our thinking would conform
0:55.6	more and more to the truths contained in the Word of God. So welcome, once again, to renewing
1:01.9	your mind. I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and I'm so glad that you're joining us. If you're a Christian,
1:08.1	as you'll hear today, your life is hidden with Christ in God.
1:12.8	So this week's theme of union with Christ is so rich and is important to unpack if we're
1:18.2	to understand who we really are.
1:20.5	So here's Dr. Ferguson with a message titled Hidden in Christ.
1:33.1	Now we're turning again to our study together in the theme of union with Christ, and in some ways we're coming to the biggest passage of all. We're going to take the
1:39.2	panoramic view and turn to Colossians chapter 3 and the first 17 verses. And it will take us, I think,
1:48.6	a couple of sessions to get through the wonderfully rich material that Paul gives to us here in
1:54.8	this passage. It's helpful, I think, when we study Colossians to remember the background.
2:02.6	Reading any New Testament letter, as we sometimes say, is like listening to one end of a telephone
2:08.4	conversation. In a way, you've got to make up the other end to understand what's being said.
2:15.0	And the same is true of the background to Paul's letters.
2:19.0	We can't always be clear exactly what was going on. We pick up hints by the way he responds
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