Stumbling Stones and Living Stones

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Why do some people rest their faith in Christ while others reject Him to their destruction? From his expositional series in 1 Peter, today R.C. Sproul considers how God sovereignly calls His elect out of darkness and sends them into the world with the light of the gospel.

Get R.C. Sproul’s commentary on 1–2 Peter for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3527/peter-commentary

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.

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	God chose sovereignly to bestow his saving grace on some, but to allow the others to do what they
0:11.2	pleased to do, and God simply passed them over so that nobody in this equation is subjected to divine injustice, but those who are redeemed
0:25.6	receive grace, those who are not received justice.
0:36.5	1st Peter 2 and verse 9 tells us that Christians are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation,
0:45.3	a people for God's own possession. This is wonderful, gracious, merciful, good news. But it does
0:52.8	raise the question, what about those who do not come to saving
0:56.6	faith? This is the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, where each Lord's Day we feature the
1:02.5	preaching ministry of R.C. Sprawl. And today, Dr. Sprawl will not only expound on this good news,
1:09.1	but will also discuss the destiny of those
1:12.1	who are not saved. Today's sermon from First Peter is the final sermon in this short series,
1:18.9	so it's also the final time that you can request R.C. Sprole's complete hardcover commentary
1:24.5	on First and Second Peter when you give a donation of any amount at
1:29.3	renewing your mind.org. But respond today as this offer will not be repeated next Sunday.
1:36.5	We'll turn your Bibles to First Peter chapter two because here's Dr. Spraw.
1:43.0	The last time we were together, we spent some time on the metaphor of the living stone
1:49.7	that is Jesus, who assembles to himself a people who also are living stones, and through
1:58.3	this group of living stones, he builds his church. But then Peter tells us that this
2:07.3	stone, who is the foundation of the church, the cornerstone of the church, is at the same time a stone
2:16.4	of stumbling by which many find their ruin.
2:23.3	And it is called a rock of offense, and that's where we left off in our last meeting.
2:31.3	And so we look at the end of that passage and said, they stumble being disobedient to the
2:38.5	word to which they also were appointed. Now, we notice that this stumbling, this tripping, is a tripping that is occasioned by the rock
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