Covenant with Abraham
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The supreme test came upon Abraham when he made that dreadful journey to Mount Moriah, which tradition says is located on the exact spot that later in history is called Mount Calvary, where God took his son, his only son, the son whom he loved, Jesus, and went through with the sacrifice.
Thirty years ago this week, RSC Sprawl launched this daily outreach, Renewing Your Mind. And for three decades, by God's grace, the truth of who God is and what happened on Calvary has been proclaimed to millions of people around the world. Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and I'm thankful that you're joining us for a special week of episodes as we give thanks to God for how He has used Renewing Your Mind in countless lives over these past 30 years. You'll hear classic messages from R.C. Sproul's series and bonus material as we feature clips from old interviews with Dr. Sproul, as well as new interviews with Mrs. Vesta Sproul and even me. And you'll have the opportunity to own six teaching series, five study guides, and a copy of Dr. Sproul's book, Everyone's a Theologian. Simply visit renewingyourmind.org to give a donation in support of the next 30 years of Renewing Your Mind. And this resource bundle will be yours as our way of saying thank you for helping this listener-supported outreach.
And if you've never contacted Renewing Your Mind or Ligonier Ministries before, I'll let you know about a free gift we have for you after today's message. Well, here's Dr. Sproul from his series, Dust to Glory, on God's covenant with Abraham.
I think we're living in a very interesting time. It's a time of crisis. We're in a period of history that is somewhat unusual, where we're in that time where we're making a transition not only from year to year or even in terms of the turn of a century but rather the time of the turn of a millennium. And of course, any time you have that transition from millennium to millennium, all of the historians and the sociologists and the prognosticators of the future talk about the significance of this moment in history. Now, the historians of our day have described our time as the post-Christian era. a time where the teaching of Christianity has been deemed increasingly irrelevant, a time when the church is seen as a museum, outdated, outmoded. It's been reduced in certain places of Europe to the role of the mausoleum, indeed the gravesite for those who have declared the death of God.
And yet, there remains in this world today a pulsating group of believing Christian people who still live at this point in time trusting in promises that were made 2,000 years ago. Two thousand years is a long time, and there's some irony in this, in that we're at that point now where just about two thousand years have elapsed since the birth of Jesus. But on the occasion of the birth of Jesus, you recall the angel Gabriel came to this young girl and announced that she would give birth to a baby whose name would be Immanuel. And this young maiden, under the influence of the Holy Spirit, 2,000 years ago sang a song. And we all know the song. We love the song. It's called the Magnificat. in which Mary, under the power of the Spirit, sang out, My soul doth magnify the Lord, and my spirit doth rejoice in God my Savior. And if we look through the text of the Magnificat and come to the very end of that song, here are the words that came from Mary. She said, He has helped His servant Israel as he spoke to our fathers, to Abraham and to his seed forever."
Now shortly after this song of praise inspired by the Holy Spirit from the lips of Mary, another song appears in Scripture, and this is the song that is sung by the father of John the Baptist, Zacharias. And in the midst of his song, he said this, that we would be saved from our enemies and from the hand of all who hate us, to perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember His holy covenant, the oath which He swore to our father Abraham." Now here's the irony. We're standing on the threshold of a change of a millennium. We're standing in that point in history being 2,000 years distantly removed from the promises of Christ.
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