Lamentation on the Road to Calvary
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 20 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Women wept for Jesus as He carried His cross to Calvary. Why did He tell them to weep rather for themselves and for their children? Today, R.C. Sproul continues his exposition of the gospel of Luke to describe the grave judgment that awaited Israel for its rejection of the Messiah.
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| 0:00.0 | Behind the scenes, in the eternity of God's providence, in the secret hand of that mystery, |
| 0:08.4 | the primary cause of the selection of Simon of Cyrene, was the eternal, determinant |
| 0:15.4 | counsel of God himself. |
| 0:17.6 | It was God, not the soldier, who ultimately chose this man, Simon, to carry the cross of |
| 0:26.0 | Jesus. |
| 0:33.2 | On the road to the cross, Jesus wasn't alone. |
| 0:36.9 | Aside from the crowds who would have been there watching this spectacle, Jesus encounters |
| 0:41.3 | several individuals along the way. |
| 0:44.4 | This is the Sunday edition of Renewing Remind, as R.C. Sproul continues preaching his way |
| 0:48.9 | through Luke's Gospel. |
| 0:51.2 | One individual on the road to the cross was Simon of Cyrene, who had both the burden |
| 0:56.5 | and the privilege of carrying the cross of Christ. |
| 1:00.0 | Let's meet Simon, and a group of others who received a strong warning from the lips of |
| 1:04.3 | Jesus. |
| 1:05.3 | Here's Dr. Sproul. |
| 1:08.7 | This morning I'm going to continue our study of the Gospel according to Saint Luke. |
| 1:13.2 | I'm not going to read the lengthy passage that is in the bulletin because it's far too |
| 1:18.2 | long. |
| 1:19.2 | Last Sunday, and didn't get anywhere near through that particular portion, so I'm going |
| 1:25.0 | to begin at chapter 23, verse 26 of Luke's Gospel, and go to verse 36. |
| 1:35.8 | Now, ask the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God. |
| 1:42.0 | As they let him away, they seized one Simon of Cyrene who was coming in from the country |
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