The Faithful Preacher
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
4.8 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
From the outset of His public ministry, it was clear that Jesus was no ordinary teacher. Today, W. Robert Godfrey examines the central characteristic of Christ’s ministry: proclaiming the gospel with divine power and authority.
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Meet Today’s Teacher:
W. Robert Godfrey is a Ligonier Ministries teaching fellow and chairman of Ligonier Ministries. He is president emeritus and professor emeritus of church history at Westminster Seminary California.
Meet the Host:
Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, and host of the Ask Ligonier podcast.
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 | Jesus doesn't say to them, I'll make you princes of men. The apostles, at least some of them, |
| 0:06.9 | want glory sooner rather than later. And this is a bit of a universal human temptation, isn't it, |
| 0:13.4 | to want glory sooner rather than later? And Jesus is, I think, warning them right at the beginning, |
| 0:19.6 | making clear to them right at the beginning, following me, you're still going to just be fishers of men in this world. |
| 0:32.0 | What does it mean to follow Christ? |
| 0:34.8 | Is it the promise of health and wealth, as some preachers on our TV screens tell us? Are we called to follow Christ? Is it the promise of health and wealth, as some preachers on our TV screens tell us? |
| 0:39.9 | Are we called to follow him? Not for glory, but for service. I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and this is |
| 0:46.8 | the Wednesday edition of Renewing Your Mind. All week, you're hearing messages from W. Robert |
| 0:53.4 | Godfrey's new series following Jesus. |
| 0:56.9 | It's his 26 message study in the Gospel of Mark, and you can unlock lifetime access to this series |
| 1:03.9 | and the companion study guide when you donate today at Renewing Your Mind.org or when you call us at 800-435-4343. |
| 1:14.3 | To help you get the most out of this study and to facilitate all your note-taking, |
| 1:19.2 | we'll also send you a special Renewing Your Mind notebook developed in honor of 30 years of listeners like you, |
| 1:26.1 | enabling this program to broadcast truth seven days a week, |
| 1:30.3 | 365 days a year. So let's continue our time with the chairman of Ligeneer Ministries. Here's Dr. |
| 1:38.2 | Godfrey. In our last session, we were looking together at the first chasm in Mark's Gospel, the first |
| 1:46.8 | section, and I called that the foundations, Jesus and the foundations, and we talked about various |
| 1:53.9 | aspects of that. |
| 1:54.9 | I now have the second section, the second chasm up here, but we're not quite done with |
| 1:59.6 | the first one yet. |
| 2:00.4 | I want us to |
| 2:01.7 | just think a little bit about Mark's very brief recounting of the temptation of Jesus in the |
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