The Battle with the World

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

God commands His people not to be conformed to this fallen world, but that isn't a calling to isolate ourselves from secular society. Today, R.C. Sproul presents what it really means to be a Christian nonconformist.

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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.

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0:00.0	I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from evil.
0:07.6	That's a fine line to walk.
0:10.3	The world is a threatening place for someone to make a spiritual pilgrimage.
0:16.7	But it is the only place we can have a spiritual pilgrimage.
0:20.6	And it happens to be the arena of redemption.
0:32.4	John tells us, do not love the world or the things in the world. And Jesus prays that we wouldn't be
0:39.5	taken out of the world, but that we would be kept from evil, from the evil one. This is the Saturday
0:45.8	edition of Renewing Your Mind, as each week we are walking through R.C. Sprawl's series
0:51.0	on Pleasing God. You can own this series on DVD and have lifetime access to the
0:58.0	messages and the study guide in the free Ligeneer app when you give a gift of any amount at
1:03.8	renewingyourmind.org. So how are you and I to understand the world and our relationship to it?
1:15.6	Christians have answered these important questions incorrectly throughout church history. So here's Dr. Sprawl to bring clarity as he shares some of the ways not to tackle our battle with the world.
1:23.6	In this session we're going to consider the Christians struggle with what the New Testament
1:33.3	calls the world.
1:36.3	Now, obviously, the term world in the New Testament is used in more than one way.
1:43.3	And some cases, the term world simply refers to this
1:48.4	planet. There's nothing pejorative, nothing negative about the term when it's used in that way.
1:54.8	It's simply a geographical location. This place is distinguished from Mars or Jupiter or the heavens above. But also the term
2:06.3	world is used in the New Testament to refer to the fallen sphere of this planet to a kind of
2:16.7	standpoint or perspective that is anti-God, that is more man-centered
2:27.3	than God-centered.
2:28.3	Let me read a brief portion from the Gospel according to St. John to see how Jesus makes this kind of distinction
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