Jeremiah’s Temple Speech
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 10 October 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Just because someone is a dedicated member of a church does not necessarily mean he is truly a Christian. Today, R.C. Sproul cautions against the dangers of faithless religion.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God’s Word. He 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 ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | God is saying centuries before Jesus cleansed the temple that the people had already defiled the temple. |
| 0:07.9 | They're going through the ritual on the Sabbath day. |
| 0:11.3 | They're going through all of the machinations of religion. |
| 0:16.2 | But their lives are pagan during the rest of the week. |
| 0:20.5 | They are religious, but they are not faithful. |
| 0:23.9 | Their religion is phony. |
| 0:32.1 | In response to the hypocrisy and unfaithfulness of the people of God, the Lord used the prophet |
| 0:38.3 | Jeremiah to deliver a warning and a message that R.C. Sprawl called the hardest message |
| 0:44.3 | a prophet ever had to give. And it's that message that we'll consider today on renewing your mind. |
| 0:51.3 | R.C. Sprawl recorded four teaching series surveying many hard sayings that we find in the |
| 0:57.5 | Bible. The message you'll hear today is from his hard sayings of the Prophet series. And until |
| 1:03.6 | tomorrow, you can request access to all four of those series, plus Dr. Sprole's hardcover book |
| 1:09.9 | simply titled Hard Sayings, |
| 1:12.0 | when you give a gift of any amount at renewing your mind.org. |
| 1:16.0 | So what was this hard saying from the prophet Jeremiah, |
| 1:19.9 | and how can his strong message serve as a warning even for people today? |
| 1:24.7 | Here's Dr. Sprole. |
| 1:26.6 | As we continue now with our study of the even for people today. Here's Dr. Sprole. |
| 1:34.4 | As we continue now with our study of the hard sayings of the prophets, |
| 1:39.5 | those sayings that when we read them or hear them strike us as either being extraordinarily harsh or unusually difficult to understand. |
| 1:50.7 | We now turn our attention to one of the most famous speeches that was ever given by a prophet |
| 1:58.3 | in the Old Testament. And I'm thinking of the famous so-called temple speech of the prophet Jeremiah. |
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