Jesus at Nazareth

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

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🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Why did the people of Jesus’ hometown reject Him? From his sermon series in the gospel of Mark, today R.C. Sproul warns against the astonishing hardness of heart exhibited in Nazareth, summoning us to consider our own hearts before the Lord.

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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 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	I don't know how many times I've heard people say to me, hey, preacher, I don't need Jesus.
0:05.5	I can't think of any more foolish statement a human being could ever make than to assess their circumstances to that degree and say,
0:13.4	I need this, I need that, I need this, I want this, I want that.
0:17.2	But one thing I don't need is Jesus.
0:31.0	To reject Jesus is not only foolish, it's fatal, eternally so.
0:33.8	And sadly, it's also nothing new.
0:37.2	This is the Sunday edition of renewing your mind, and although we have seen the power of
0:39.3	Jesus on display in Mark's record of the ministry of Jesus, we find him facing rejection as he
0:45.6	returns to Nazareth. Today's sermon brings this short sermon series in Mark's gospel to a close,
0:52.5	so before you hear today's message, I wanted to remind
0:55.4	you that today is the final time that you can request R.C. Sprole's line-by-line walkthrough
1:00.8	of this fast-paced gospel when you give a donation of any amount at renewingyourmind.org.
1:08.0	Well, here's Dr. Sprawl on Jesus at Nazareth.
1:13.3	So far, all this time that we've been spending, observing the public ministry of Jesus,
1:19.6	it has been, for the most part, on or around the immediate region of the Sea of Galilee and Copernium.
1:30.9	Now the location for his ministry shifts as Jesus moves away from Copernium and from Galilee
1:40.4	and goes home.
1:43.6	He comes back to Nazareth, which is about 25 miles southwest of the Sea of
1:51.2	Galilee and of Copernium. He comes not to the city of his birth, but to the village where he grew up,
2:03.5	which was an obscure village.
2:13.3	Excavations have gone down to the base rock of Nazareth and discovered that there were many caves in those rocks and that the people of Nazareth built their village out of a rocky hillside
2:21.6	and in an area that covered 60 acres. The whole town was 60 acres. Less than 500 people lived there.
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