Pressing into the Kingdom
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 26 February 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The kingdom of God demands more than a casual, half-hearted pursuit. Today, R.C. Sproul continues his exposition of the gospel of Luke, calling on us to devote ourselves earnestly to the Word and the work of the Lord.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up next on the Lord's Day edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:04.0 | Do you have fire in your belly for the kingdom of God? |
| 0:08.3 | How much pressure do you have in your life of seeking the deepest things of God that you can find? |
| 0:16.5 | In Luke chapter 16, the Pharisees were pressing Jesus and ridiculing Him, |
| 0:27.1 | but Jesus pushed back, and that challenge echoes through the eons to us. |
| 0:32.2 | How much are we pressing into the kingdom of God? |
| 0:35.4 | Thank you for joining us for the Sunday edition of renewing your mind, I'm Lee Webb. |
| 0:39.7 | R.C. Sproul returns to his series in the Gospel of Luke. |
| 0:43.4 | He's in chapter 16, beginning with verse 14. |
| 0:47.5 | This morning we're going to continue with our study of the Gospel according to St. Luke, |
| 0:56.4 | and we're in the 16th chapter. |
| 0:59.4 | Today we'll be looking at verse 14 through 18. |
| 1:05.1 | It would ask the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God. |
| 1:11.1 | Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him. |
| 1:21.5 | And He said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. |
| 1:30.2 | For what is highly esteemed among men is an abomination in the sight of God. |
| 1:37.2 | The law in the prophets were until John, and since that time the kingdom of God has been preached, |
| 1:44.3 | and everyone is pressing into it, and is easier for heaven and earth to pass away, |
| 1:50.6 | than for one title of the law to fail. |
| 1:54.2 | Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, |
| 1:58.3 | and whoever marries her who is divorced from her husband commits adultery. |
| 2:04.8 | This is the Word of God that you've just heard. |
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