The Widow’s Son

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 5.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Jesus sees His people when they are beset by grief. More than that, He ministers to their pain and restores their hope. From his expositional series in the gospel of Luke, today R.C. Sproul reflects on the compassion and healing power of the Son of God.

Get R.C. Sproul's commentary on the gospel of Luke for your donation of any amount: https://gift.renewingyourmind.org/3600/luke-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

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	If this were the only passage that survived from the life of Jesus, there's enough in it to reveal
0:07.8	to us his sweetness, his excellency, his person, his power, and his saviorhood. We can live the rest of our lives, trusting just this much information about the Lord Jesus Christ.
0:29.5	It's an incredible episode and one that we need to hear closely.
0:37.4	So what passage of scripture was R.C. Sprole referring to?
0:40.9	Stay with us to find out.
0:48.1	Welcome to the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind.
0:51.6	I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and today we begin a new sermon series in Luke's
0:56.1	Gospel, considering some of the miracles of Jesus. As this is a new sermon series, we have a new resource offer for you as well. You can own the hardcover edition of R.C. Sproles' expositional expositional commentary on Luke's Gospel when you give a donation of any amount at
1:13.2	renewingyourmind.C. Sprole's expositional commentary on Luke's Gospel when you give a donation of any amount
1:12.9	at Renewing Your Mind.org, or when you click the convenient link in the podcast show notes.
1:19.3	Here's Dr. Sprole preaching on a profound account recorded for us in Luke, Chapter 7.
1:27.4	In all of the writers of Gospels in the New Testament had to be selective.
1:35.3	They had to choose from a large list of episodes from the life of Jesus.
1:43.9	John told us that if all of the life of Jesus.
1:44.8	John told us that if all of the things that Jesus had been reported in the apostolic works,
1:52.6	there would not be a book big enough to contain them all.
1:58.7	And so sometimes we wonder, well, why did Luke or Mark or Matthew or John select this
2:06.2	episode or that episode? But when we come to the text in front of us this morning, we don't have to
2:15.5	think very long of why this episode in the ministry of Jesus is
2:22.1	included in sacred writ. You know, if this were the only passage that survived from the life of
2:33.0	Jesus, there's enough in it to reveal to us
2:38.4	his sweetness, his excellency, his person, his power, and his savior, and His Saviorhood.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Ligonier Ministries, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Ligonier Ministries and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.