In Remembrance of His Mercy
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 14 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Lord never forgets His promises to His people and never fails to keep them. From his sermon in the gospel of Luke, today R.C. Sproul considers how God's faithfulness to His covenant brought about the incarnation of His Son.
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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 | And this little girl, Mary, she didn't understand all the depths of theology. |
| 0:07.0 | She couldn't fathom everything. |
| 0:08.5 | She was overwhelmed when Gabriel said she was going to conceive a child. |
| 0:12.8 | How can this be? |
| 0:13.8 | She said. |
| 0:14.8 | The answer of the angel was Mary, here's how it's going to be. |
| 0:19.8 | God, that's how it can be. The sovereign one. There is no other. |
| 0:31.5 | That is the God we love, serve and worship, the sovereign one, the one who is redeeming a people |
| 0:40.9 | for himself. Welcome to this Sunday edition of renewing your mind. I'm your host, Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 0:49.0 | We all sing at Christmas time. It's one of my favorite things to do. But singing doesn't only surround |
| 0:55.5 | today's celebration of Christmas. It also surrounded the incarnation of our Lord. We have already |
| 1:02.4 | started to look at Mary's song, The Magnificat, and we'll also consider two other songs in Luke's |
| 1:08.3 | gospel. But you can study the entirety of Luke when you |
| 1:11.9 | request R.C. Sproles' pastoral commentary at Renewing Your Mind.org. Simply make a year-end |
| 1:18.4 | donation in support of renewing your mind and Ligeneer Ministries, and we'll send this |
| 1:23.3 | hardcover volume to you as our way of saying thank you. |
| 1:33.0 | Well, as R.C. Sprole said earlier, Mary did not understand all the depths of theology, |
| 1:38.4 | but we do learn a great deal from her song. Here's Dr. Sprole. |
| 1:50.0 | I will read chapter one of Luke's gospel beginning at verse 46 and reading through verse 56. And Mary said, my soul magnifies the Lord and my spirit has rejoiced in God, my Savior. |
| 2:00.0 | For he has regarded the lowly state of his maid servant, |
| 2:03.6 | for behold henceforth all generations will call me blessed. |
| 2:10.6 | For he who is mighty has done great things for me, |
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