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Renewing Your Mind

Why Didn’t Jesus Know?

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 4 May 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Jesus said that no man knows when He will return--including Himself. Since Jesus is God incarnate, how could He not know? Today, R.C. Sproul helps us answer this puzzling question.

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0:00.0

How is it possible that Jesus could not know the day and the hour of his own return?

0:08.9

Word of put it in the simplest terms possible.

0:11.4

How could Jesus be God incarnate and have this gap in his knowledge?

0:24.1

The Internet has provided us access to more information than any prior generation,

0:29.7

yet we still don't know everything, and that's okay because we're only human.

0:34.4

But how would you respond if Jesus told you there was something that he didn't know?

0:38.9

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for renewing your mind.

0:43.4

As R. C. Sproul continues his hard-saying series,

0:46.9

today he considers the gospel's account of Jesus when he states that he does not know the day

0:52.0

all the hour of his return.

0:54.2

Now, unlike us, Jesus is not only human.

0:57.1

He is God incarnate.

0:58.6

He's the God man, truly God, and truly man.

1:02.2

So how are we to understand this?

1:04.2

Well, here's Dr. Sproul to help us with this hard saying.

1:10.1

As we continue our study now of the hard sayings of the Bible,

1:14.2

we are focusing our attention now on a selection of some of the hard sayings that come to us

1:20.9

from the lips of Jesus.

1:23.7

And you remember that what we call hard sayings can be hard in more than one way.

1:29.3

They can be hard because they seem to us harsh or severe,

1:33.6

or they could be called hard because they're difficult for us to grasp.

1:38.8

Now, the one that we want to look at today is not one that is a hard saying

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