The Call to Take Up the Cross
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We're quick to scoff at Peter for rebuking the Lord Jesus, yet the same self-serving tendency lies in our own hearts. Today, Derek Thomas examines this encounter to emphasize that the call to discipleship is a call to self-denial.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
Derek Thomas is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and Chancellor's Professor of Systematic and Pastoral Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary. He is featured teacher for the Ligonier teaching series The Life of Peter and author of many books, including Heaven on Earth, Strength for the Weary, and Let Us Worship God.
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 | There's a way of thinking, a way of making decisions, but it's completely governed by this worldly thinking. |
| 0:07.0 | And Jesus is saying you have to think on another level. You have to think from the perspective of God. If I don't do this Peter, there is no |
| 0:15.8 | salvation for you. Unless I offer myself as a sacrifice in your room instead, there is no salvation. There is no forgiveness. |
| 0:25.0 | It is jolting, |
| 0:30.0 | it is jolting, |
| 0:32.0 | jarring, when we read Jesus Declaration to Peter, Get Behind Me, Satan. |
| 0:38.0 | Words, I would never want direct it to me. |
| 0:41.0 | But as Derek Thomas just said, there is a way of thinking that is worldly, that goes against |
| 0:46.2 | the wisdom of God, thinking that can echo the plans and schemes of the devil, thinking that needs a rebuke. |
| 0:54.0 | Hi, I'm Nathan W Bingham, and I'm glad you're with us for today's edition of Renewing |
| 0:59.1 | your mind. |
| 1:01.1 | As Christians, we are not to be conformed to this world. Our thinking needs to be changed, |
| 1:06.7 | our minds renewed according to Romans 12-2. That's actually where we get the name of this |
| 1:11.7 | daily podcast. |
| 1:13.0 | And today's glimpse into the life of Peter |
| 1:16.0 | is an example of thinking that may on the surface seem nice, |
| 1:20.0 | even understandable, but thinking that goes against the eternal plan of God to save sinners. |
| 1:26.8 | And it's a reminder for each of us to ensure that our minds are being renewed according to |
| 1:31.6 | God's word and not according to the world. |
| 1:35.1 | Here's Derek Thomas from his new series on The Life of Peter. |
| 1:41.6 | Last time we began to look at Matthew 16, beginning at verse 13 at |
| 1:49.8 | Caesaria Philippi monumental passage of great significance where Jesus showed himself to be |
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