Unprofitable Servants
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 12 March 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Even if we had kept all of God's commandments, we could do nothing of merit before Him. Today, R.C. Sproul continues his series in the gospel of Luke by examining a parable that helps us better understand our good works and our absolute need for the saving merit of Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes the preposition the New Testament uses is the preposition into, we believe, into Christ. |
| 0:10.0 | And this is the fundamental thing that happens to us when we're born again, when we're converted to Christ, |
| 0:17.0 | our faith unites us to Him, the Spirit unites us to Him. And in that way we are bound together. |
| 0:25.0 | And underneath all that is the fact that in everything Jesus did, He was representing us. |
| 0:31.0 | And because He was representing us, everything He has done is really ours. |
| 0:37.0 | None of these things are what we work up in ourselves. All of these things we draw down from our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. |
| 0:46.0 | He is everything and He fills our nothingness. |
| 0:50.0 | Union with Christ, a teaching series with Sinclair Ferguson. |
| 0:55.0 | Visit ligeneer.org slash teaching series to learn more. |
| 1:03.0 | Now there's nobody in this room this morning who at some time in his or her life has not suffered from spiritual leprosy. |
| 1:15.0 | We are by nature, lepers, and the God of all mercy and grace through His beloved Son has made us clean if it be that we are in Christ Jesus. |
| 1:30.0 | There's a prevailing idea out there and perhaps you've heard this yourself that a non-Christian thinks, yeah, perhaps I've sinned a little bit. |
| 1:44.0 | But at the end of the day, at the end of my life, I'll go to heaven. Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham. |
| 1:50.0 | And thanks for joining us today for this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind. |
| 1:54.0 | Jesus' story of the unprofitable servants really stops us in our tracks as we're reminded that when we obey God we're simply doing our duty. |
| 2:05.0 | So it leads us to ask the question, if our good works don't contribute to us getting to heaven, how will anyone get there? |
| 2:14.0 | Well today, our C. Sproul will turn to the Gospel of Luke and answer that very question. |
| 2:20.0 | Well, we're in the 17th chapter now of St. Luke as we're rushing through this Gospel. |
| 2:28.0 | And I'll be reading this morning versus one through ten. |
| 2:34.0 | And I'm going to ask the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God. |
| 2:42.0 | And then he said to his disciples, it is impossible that no offences should come, but woe to him through whom they do come. |
| 2:52.0 | It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were thrown into the sea. |
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