Walking Worthy of Our Calling
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 5 July 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Jesus calls people out of their old life of rebellion into a new way of faith and obedience. From his sermon series in the book of Ephesians, today R.C. Sproul underscores how important it is to bear the spiritual fruit of our new life in Christ.
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R.C. Sproul (1939–2017) 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.
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| 0:00.0 | The only way you're converted is by the regenerating power of God, the Holy Spirit. |
| 0:06.4 | And whoever is regenerated by God, the Holy Spirit, is a changed person. |
| 0:14.3 | And that person will begin immediately to manifest fruit. |
| 0:26.3 | If there's no fruit, that means no regeneration. If there's no regeneration, there's no faith. If there's no faith, there's no justification. |
| 0:37.3 | Hello and welcome to renewing your mind. |
| 0:40.5 | Today, Dr. R.C. Sprole brings us to a major turning point in the Apostle Paul's letter to the Ephesians. |
| 0:47.0 | After laying out the riches of God's grace in the first half of the letter, Paul now turns to the Christian life and what it means to walk in a manner |
| 0:55.5 | worthy of our calling. |
| 0:57.5 | Here's Dr. Sproll in Ephesians Chapter 4. |
| 1:03.1 | It's been said, of course, that the book of Romans is Paul's magnum opus, his systematic |
| 1:09.8 | theology, as it were, and that the epistle to the Ephesians is considered |
| 1:17.3 | a mini-Romans, because so many of the same doctrines that Paul expounds in the book of Romans, |
| 1:27.4 | he reiterates as well here in Ephesians. |
| 1:32.3 | And if I can just direct your attention for a brief moment, back to Romans, to the 12th chapter. |
| 1:41.3 | We see here in Romans 12 a point of transition from doctrine to duty, |
| 1:50.4 | from saving grace to living faith. |
| 1:55.5 | And that's what Paul does then throughout chapter 12 and forward. |
| 2:04.6 | And he does the same thing now in chapter four of Ephesians. And he begins chapter four with these words. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord. |
| 2:27.0 | That's fascinating here that he's writing from captivity in an imprisonment, and yet he considers himself not so much a prisoner of his captives, presumably Romans, but ultimately he is held not by pagans in this world, |
| 2:40.4 | but he's been captured by the Lord himself. And he defines himself here as a prisoner |
| 2:49.0 | of the Lord. Now, of course, that's a blessed captivity. To be a |
| 2:59.0 | prisoner of Christ is to be in the ultimate state of felicity. There is no better prison in which to be held than that which is in |
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