The Words of Eternal Life
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 30 April 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Many people were willing to follow Jesus until the truth He spoke offended them. So it is in our day. Today, Derek Thomas explains why we need the life-giving words of Christ to reshape our thinking.
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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 are many things in scripture which would offend today's culture and today's culture |
| 0:05.7 | would want to cancel almost the entirety of the Bible. |
| 0:09.2 | Who speaks about hell the most in the Bible? |
| 0:11.8 | It's Jesus, gentle Jesus Jesus meek and mild. He is the one who talks about |
| 0:16.4 | the unquenchable fire and the weeping and gnashing of teeth. teaching that no one can come to him unless it's granted by the father or Jesus |
| 0:35.5 | claim that he is the exclusive way to God. There is much about Jesus life and |
| 0:40.8 | ministry and teaching that would get him canceled today. The truth often offends |
| 0:46.0 | people and that's okay. Welcome to the Tuesday edition of renewing her mind as we spend a week considering the life of the |
| 0:54.5 | Apostle Peter. As we said yesterday, Peter is very relatable. His faith wasn't |
| 1:01.5 | always strong. He sometimes put his foot in his mouth and we've often done that. |
| 1:07.0 | But today is an example of Peter speaking with profound clarity and God-given insight. |
| 1:12.0 | And what you'll hear today should encourage you to stand. clarity and God give an insight. |
| 1:12.8 | And what you'll hear today should encourage you to stand firm, |
| 1:16.1 | even as those around you may turn away from the truth, |
| 1:19.3 | or those around you pressure you to compromise. Here's Derek Thomas from his new series on the life of Peter. |
| 1:30.1 | This time we're in John chapter 6 and beginning at verse 60. |
| 1:36.0 | John chapter 6 and verse 60. |
| 1:39.0 | This is the story of Peter saying to whom shall we go you alone have the words of eternal life it's one of those |
| 1:49.6 | verses that I quote a lot when I'm preaching. I have maybe 50 or 60 verses in my head and when I'm |
| 1:58.2 | ad-living at the end of a sermon, this is certainly one of the things that I often repeat when especially in an |
| 2:06.5 | evangelistic setting. To whom else can we go? He alone has the words of eternal life. |
| 2:13.3 | Well, let's pick it up at verse 60. |
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