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Renewing Your Mind

Jesus' Authority and the Parable of the Tenants

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2023

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

When the chief priests and Pharisees opposed Jesus and challenged His authority, Christ gave them a crushing parable. Today, R.C. Sproul continues his expositional series in the gospel of Luke, warning of the grave danger that comes with rejecting the Son of God.

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Surely there are people in this room who have rejected Christ.

0:05.0

Jesus said the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone,

0:09.0

and everyone who falls on that stone, who trips over that stone,

0:14.0

will be broken in pieces.

0:17.0

And if it falls on anyone, it will crush him.

0:22.0

You trip over Jesus, and he will crush you.

0:26.0

When the chief priests in the scribes asked Jesus,

0:34.0

by what authority he did things, and who gave him that authority,

0:39.0

Jesus didn't answer them directly.

0:41.0

Instead, he asked them a question and told the people a crushing parable.

0:45.0

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us for this Sunday edition of Renewing Remind.

0:51.0

Jesus said that the stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.

0:56.0

That this declaration comes at the culmination of an inditing parable.

1:00.0

As R.C.'s brawl continues, his sermon series through Luke's gospel,

1:04.0

we come to the parable of the tenants. Here's Dr. Sproul.

1:10.0

We're going to continue this morning with our study of the gospel according to St. Luke,

1:15.0

and we're going to begin a whole new chapter, chapter 20.

1:19.0

And I'll be reading, beginning at verse 1, and reading through verse 18.

1:24.0

What asks the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God.

1:29.0

One day, as Jesus was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel,

1:36.0

the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up,

1:40.0

and said to him, tell us by what authority you do these things,

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