This Generation Will Not Pass Away
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 9 July 2023
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Skeptics claim that some of Jesus' predictions in the Olivet Discourse failed to come true. Continuing his expositional series in the gospel of Luke, today R.C. Sproul shows that these words of Christ actually prove the absolute reliability of Scripture.
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| 0:00.0 | Rather than joining the swarms of skeptics that gather around this text, let's |
| 0:07.8 | throw our corporate hats into the air, rejoicing in the full certainty that we |
| 0:16.3 | know of the words of Jesus that can never fail. |
| 0:23.5 | Skeptics are unrelenting in their attacks on the trustworthiness of the Bible. |
| 0:31.9 | Before I was a Christian, I ignorantly believed that they had all but disproven the Bible, |
| 0:36.5 | and today's text in Luke's Gospel is one place that skeptics point. |
| 0:40.9 | Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham. It's the Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind, and I'm glad |
| 0:45.2 | you're with us. |
| 0:46.6 | In Luke 21, Jesus says that the Son of Man will be seen coming in a cloud with power and |
| 0:52.5 | a great glory, and that this generation will not pass away until all has taken place. |
| 0:58.1 | So, did this happen as Jesus said, how should you respond to the skeptic? |
| 1:02.4 | Well, our C-sprole will walk us through this text, and he'll help us understand what |
| 1:06.4 | Jesus was actually describing. |
| 1:08.6 | Here's Dr. Sproul. |
| 1:12.8 | This morning we're going to continue with our study of the Gospel according to Saint |
| 1:16.4 | Luke. |
| 1:17.4 | I'll be reading in chapter 21, and I will be reading verses 25 through 38. |
| 1:25.2 | When I ask the congregation, please stand for the reading of the Word of God. |
| 1:30.4 | There will be signs in sun and moon and stars, and on the earth, distress of nations in |
| 1:38.1 | perplexity because of the roaring of the sea and the waves, people feigning with fear and |
| 1:45.9 | with foreboding of what is coming on the world. |
| 1:50.0 | For the powers of heaven will be shaken, and then they will see the Son of Man coming in |
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