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"I'm going to continue tonight in our study that I've entitled, The Evangelism Revolution. If you have your Bibles, you can turn to the book of Acts. Just briefly, I'll just summarize where we're at so far. From last week, we just began a brief introduction, but as you go through the book of Acts and I guess you could call it, called The Gospel in Acts, I believe it's going to be on our website and it might be in the Yahoo groups as well. It is on the website. You can get that. I'll be referring to that in the next week or two, but it just kind of gives you some of the results of the survey of going through almost every place in the book of Acts where the Gospel is being presented. Sometimes it's only summarized, sometimes it's given explicitly, and it shows what aspects of the Gospel were presented in each presentation. Some were emphasized, the response, the audience, and it gives just an overall view of how the Gospel was advanced throughout the book of Acts. And I think it's beneficial. It's certainly been really what has caused me to see some of these things that I have been sharing with you throughout this series. Last week, though, we began with the subject of baptism, and we saw that baptism was an integral part of evangelism in the first century. When they heard the Gospel and when they received the Gospel, they didn't say a prayer to receive the Gospel. Instead, throughout these examples, they were baptized, having given evidence of believing in the Gospel. That baptism really became the profession or the confession of their faith, so that they believed, and then the text says they were baptized. That's very important, as I hope by the end you will agree with me, that baptism in the book of Acts is primarily, if not exclusively, portrayed as a confession of faith, a profession of acceptance of faith, a believing. Implicit, I think, throughout the book of Acts is that belief was necessary for baptism. They wouldn't just baptize anybody. You'll see that there is this implicit undercurrent throughout the book that belief in the Lord Jesus Christ was necessary for baptism. And this comes out very strongly in a couple of places. I would invite you, first of all, to turn to Acts chapter 8. In Acts chapter 8, it is the story of the Ethiopian who is reading through the prophet Isaiah, Isaiah 53 to be exact, and Philip comes along and Gospels him, tells him the good news about Jesus, it says in verse 35, he opened his mouth and he began from the Scripture, he preached Jesus. What's interesting is I'd like to read verses 36 through verse 38, and as they went along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, Look, water, what prevents me from being baptized? And Philip said, If you believe with all your heart, you may. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God. And he ordered the chariot to stop, and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him. Clearly this particular passage of Scripture shows that belief in the Lord Jesus Christ was for necessary baptism. I'll share with you just a bit of... I want to be honest with you, verse 37 there is in my Greek Bible, it's not even there. It goes from verse 36 and it goes straight to verse 38, because verse 37 isn't in most of the earliest manuscripts, Greek manuscripts we have of the New Testament. They appear much later in some of the older, newer versions or newer copies of the New Testament. That's why my New American Standard Bible has it in brackets. How do we answer that? Well, I think the answer that I heard Alistair Begg share was probably one of the most helpful analogies for me. If verse 37 isn't there, clearly we still see that baptism is a very significant part evangelism of the that's going on here. Verse 36 is in all the earliest manuscripts and, look, water, what prevents me from being baptized? Verse 38, and he ordered the chariot to stop and they both went down into the water, Philip as well as the eunuch, and he baptized him. Whether that verse 37 is in the earliest or the original manuscript, I'm not sure, but I think one thing it shows is that even the copyist, even the scribes at a very early year in the development of the church understood that this would be an important aspect and very likely could have made a comment on the side of a text or whatever, but it represents a very early belief in the church that, as a matter of fact, belief was required for baptism. Now, where there might be a textual variant here that may cast some shadow on it, if you turn over just a few chapters to Acts chapter 10, there is no textual variant here and it is a very clear, implicit reference that belief was necessary for baptism. Peter is speaking to the house of Cornelius and it says, verse 46, For they were hearing them speaking with tongues and exalting God. Then Peter answered, verse 47, Surely no one can refuse the water for these to be baptized who have received the Holy Spirit just as we did. And he ordered them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to stay on for a few days. Peter raises a question, I mean, who could prevent us from baptizing? These people have obviously displayed that they are born again, that they believe. How could we withhold baptism from that? I mean, the other side of the coin would be, well, if they weren't sincere believers or they didn't believe, then we could prevent them from being baptized, but who could prevent us now? Now these people obviously believe the Holy Spirit, we've seen this gift of tongues upon them and so he had them ordered to be baptized. As we look at baptism in the book of Acts, I really do believe that it is a radical, if not revolutionary discovery of not only the gospel, but baptism itself. Jesus ended His earthly ministry commanding His disciples, go and make disciples, baptizing them. And the way that's set up in Matthew 28 is the command is make disciples and baptizing them is telling you how to do it. It's a participle that comes underneath there, go make disciples by baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son. So we have that command in Jesus. The book of Acts follows it in many ways, I think it tells us how then we baptize. So I do believe that what we find in the book of Acts is authoritative. And what we find in the book of Acts is that when the gospel is preached, it's not received by saying a prayer. In the book of Acts, it is believed and then it is professed by baptism. And that is radical, that is revolutionary today. We had an elder meeting a week or so ago, and as the elders were talking, there was the confession, the admission, that as we look at what the gospel is, as we look at the contents, as we look at how the gospel is preached and how it is received and how baptism plays all this, it was said in our meeting, this is challenging us, that we're having to work through a bunch of things. What is this going to mean in the life of our church? What does it mean in our theology? It's challenging us in the traditions that many of us, most of us, have inherited from our evangelical heritage. Well, I've marked three areas in particular that this model that we get from the book of Acts really challenges us. Two of them challenges us as a church very directly. So let me just begin with the first area where I think this teaching on baptism really challenges our church. Very clearly in the book of Acts, number one, we see that there is an emphasis on baptism that is not present today in the church. In the first century, there was a very strong emphasis on baptism. It was commanded by Jesus all throughout the book of Acts, time and time again. Again, they believed and they were baptized. Mass baptisms, 3 ,000 were baptized, then 2 ,000 were baptized. It was repeated time and again. It would be a complete anomaly, a total departure of the norm to have a person in the first century profess to be a Christian and not get baptized. That would have been unheard of, impossible. I don't know if I'm quoting anyone, I've read so much on this, or I've just formatted this opinion. I put it in quotation marks, but I don't know who to credit it to, so here it goes, but I believe there are more unbaptized, professing Christians in the church today than any other time in history. Many people professing, oh yeah, I got saved at Billy Graham Crusader, I walked the aisle, never been baptized. Today, even in Baptist churches, there's no emphasis upon baptism. John MacArthur and I alluded to it last week, and I think we have a few handouts there in the back, preached a sermon in 1998. I think we put that on our website today. I just want to quote a paragraph from his observation, baptism is not a particularly popular subject today, it's not of great interest in the evangelical community. It's been years since I've seen any new book written on baptism or any book emphasizing baptism or any series of messages or any preacher or any teacher emphasizing baptism. I never hear about it on the radio, I never hear about it on Christian radio, I never see a baptism on Christian television programs. Though you have a lot of services, you rarely, if ever, see a baptismal service. The interest in baptism has sort of gone away, sad to say in many cases. 1998, six years ago, John MacArthur had already said, there's a problem in the church today. There's no identity with baptism. It's been relegated to something that we may do or may not do, and it's kind of in the back. Totally opposite of the first century. In the first century, Christianity was all about baptism. That's how you made your profession of faith. What has happened today? In the last fifty to a hundred years, we have substituted the prayer for baptism. That's what has happened in the church today. The prayer has taken the place of baptism. You know, the messages that I've been preaching, particularly on the gospel, if I were to preach those in a majority of churches today, I'd be ran out on my ear. They wouldn't want to hear that. If I said the things that I've been saying about the sinner's prayer, not saving anyone, and it not being the gospel, you would see people's blood pressure rise. You would see them get flushed in the face. You wouldn't be invited back. This would be a very controversial topic in the church today, in Baptist churches today, in Bible -believing, preaching churches today. It would be extremely controversial. And yet, in most of those churches, rarely do they ever do baptisms, and rarely is anything ever said about baptism. We have lost the connection between a profession of faith in Christ, and following Christ, and baptism. We've lost that. There's no longer that link there. Jesus Christ said, unless you take up your cross and follow Me, you cannot be My disciples. And yet, how many professing Christians haven't even taken the first order of obedience and I had a relative once who professed to be a Christian, but she didn't want to get baptized because she didn't want to get her hair wet in front of everyone. Can a person's heart be born again and raptured with the Lord Jesus Christ and say, I don't want to get baptized because I don't want to get my hair wet? There's something wrong there. In the nine years of ministry that I've been involved with, and I've seen the Lord work in people's lives, and I've seen them, it seems, to start responding to the gospel, and I get excited, and I can think of at least, on the top of my head, three or four, that as we begin to move towards baptism and press baptism and encourage them to baptism, they either drastically fell away before they could ever get baptized, or Satan dropped some of the most oppressive burdens on them or trials on them and they just walked away. I've seen that happen and I know Dad has said he's seen it happen in his own ministry. There is something about baptism being associated with one's salvation, and anybody can make a profession of faith, but I have seen it time and again where when that person that's made a profession of faith tries to make the commitment, says, oh yeah, I want to get baptized, things happen and they fall, they leave, they don't get baptized. It's happened on a number of occasions.
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"Even that God has decided just to use that moment. But your initial question was, do you remember that sermon and the answer is no, I don't. But it's got a little bit carried Sith. Steve Lawson's fault. All right. No. Francis shafer in his book, the guy who was there in 1968. Is this your question? Yeah, I mailed it to you. Okay. He said, the Christian should be about whatever the world and the devil are attacking at that moment in history. And in quotes, if I remember right, it's Luther that basically said, you're not much of a Christian if you're not going after what the enemy is trying to work on in that time where you live. How do we preach expository in light of that admonition? Okay. Yeah. Luther's quote, which you gave us here. Thank you. I was coming to this. I had it here, but where the battle rages there, the loyalty of the soldier is proved and to be steady on the battlefield besides, is mere flight and disgrace if he flinches at this point. But your question is, if he's right on that and Luther's right on that, how would you handle that expository? Well, I can tell you the way I've tried to handle it and the most recent time. And that is that because the battle is raging in the realm of human sexuality, where the doctrine of scripture is challenged at that point, probably more than at any other point, at least in my lifetime. I mean, the challenges in the 60s were all science disproved the Bible or the battle for the Bible with how in cell and on all that stuff that was done. But the real battle for the Bible right now has been fought in the realm of human sexuality about gender about the nature of family and everything else. Well, I could have decided step into that that I would try and deal with it topically that I would announce we're going to talk about such and such. But I didn't want to do that. And so I decided that what I want to do is I'm going to turn with the concurrence of my elders. I'm going to preach through the second half of Roma's chapter one. And in Romans chapter one, it gave me the opportunity to expand the scriptures and address the issue. I went from Roma's chapter one then to some a 139. Because I wanted again to address the issue of abortion and euthanasia and the loss of life. But I did it in the text from the text. And I think it is possible to do it that way. And I think it is equally right that we bring the scriptures to bear upon the issues of life and where there is an obvious crisis in a culture or it's the topic of conversation, are people have a legitimate right to say pastor, how does the Bible teach us about this? Or where do we go in the Bible in order to handle this?
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"Was published in Nancy Guthrie's Jesus keep me near the cross and it's a sermon titled Jesus our substitute. It was Luke 22 in Christ in guest. And I've went back to it probably quarterly over the last decade. And what I want to ask you is, do you remember preaching that sermon in particular that was published? Christ, it was in your Luke series, but there's so many sermons, but Christ in his passion. In his substitution, bearing our sin. What I want to ask you is, would you say of your own preaching in those moments where the Holy Spirit is allowing you to preach with power that you've approximated to truly preaching and would you say that you know the difference in the moment that you feel that unction and that power explain to us if there's a distinction between an ordinary time and a sweet time? Of preaching and what that's like or if it's just or if it's just faithfully proclaiming over time the word and. While. John McCarthy thinks that statement by Lloyd Jones is nuts. I know that because he told me he said he said that Lloyd John should not say that. I mean, he shouldn't have said that. I don't know if I've ever really preached. Now that's only John's view. I think he thinks that because we all who heard Lloyd John's preach, as far as we are concerned, if he's never really preached, I don't know what it was we were listening to. I would say that the routine Sunday by Sunday week by week preaching of the word, if I tried to analyze whether it was good, bad, ugly, moved powerful, unpowered, whatever I'd be in an asylum. So I, when I was much younger, I used to agonize over that. And then I suddenly realized it's the word of God that does the work of God by the spirit of God, that basically all you are is a farmer you so seed. That's what you do. Now, and I had a big discussion with Steve Lawson about this about passion because Lawson is all about. And I lost Steven, he and I are friends, and I've been in my golf quite a few times. But. He did this big thing. And we were at a seminary together and someone asked a question about passion. And of course, he knows Steve, Steve is like, passion. It's about passion and the passion if there's no passion, the best, and I'm like, wow. Son of God. Which is like piper as well. He's the same. You know, John's like, wow. This is like, oh, what happened? You know, and I was at John's house one time with David wells, and I asked his son, one of his sons. I said, what age are you? I'm 16. I said, did you get your driver's license? And he said, no. And I pressed him a little bit. I said, well, you're 16. You got your driver's license. I mean, that's a real rate of persons. And John's on the table and he goes, listen. Do you think in light of the cause of the gospel? It matters whether he has his driver's rights. I'm like, so wow.
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"Alison, thank you for your ministry. You've made a really big impact on me and a lot of my friends. I've been reading John 17 in contemplating on it quite a bit. And Jesus prayer for unity for his disciples and for the church of the future, us. In my experience, I've seen that the church does not experience that kind of unity, either in that communal sense or individual sense. And I was wondering if you agreed with that why you would say that was. Well, the unity that exists in the body of Christ, Allergan 17 is a real unity. It's not an ecumenical unity, it's a familial unity. That our union with Christ unites us with all who are in Christ. The privilege then of bearing testimony to that has to be worked out, first of all, in individual local fellowships. So that a local fellowship will have the opportunity to learn to bear one another's burdens to put up with one another to tolerate one another. In the same way that children in a nuclear family have to do the same thing. And the mystery of it is that, for example, there are people here now, as I said earlier, from Kazakhstan from Egypt from Brazil from Scotland from England from Ireland from all over the place, we don't know one another, and yet we are united in the gospel. We don't have to we don't have to give up anything to express our partnership and so on. But if your question is, why can't it be far more like that before the watching world, then sure? Yeah, we should be making more endeavors in order to make clear that things that may distinguish as of a secondary importance should be sublimated under our unity in the gospel. That kind of unity that whitfield made much of as he came through the states because the people that were back in England were criticizing him for some of the places that he was preaching. He was stepping beyond the boundaries. And dallam were in his two volumes on what field makes the point that what was happening there was that whitfield was establishing without really understanding it, the essence of evangelical unity, that it is a unity that actually exists. Should we do better at showing it to the world definitely? But all of the ecumenical attempts at unity are just flim flying because without the essential union with Christ, all the other things that you can do, really don't account for anything at all. You don't have anybody to help the middle here, camera, no. You just stand there, you should maybe ask your question, listen. So. Many years ago, you did a lecture on doctor Martin Lloyd Jones. And you said that Martin Lloyd Jones didn't know if he had ever truly preached. One of
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"But over time, our minds and hearts and attitudes have melded together so that she knows where we're going with the text. She's reading that as the week goes on. The closer I get as I'm going, I'm making notes. I'm writing down hymns or songs that are in mind. And then by the time we get close to the end of the week, I have passed them onto her. She's come back to me with the thoughts that she's had. But all of these songs and everything that's being done now is all being done by the team. I only asked for two songs out of all of them. But I trust them entirely. But that's the process. It's a very simple process. Yeah. I was hoping somebody else would get up here in the middle section, so I wouldn't have to ask this question. What would be your response? And you can pass this off to Herschel if you want. Could be a big one coming up. When your church leadership deeply wounds your wife and feels entirely above responsibility. How do you respond? Well, first of all, I've never lived that experience for which I'm thankful. I think the initial response of a spouse to the wounding of one's spouse with her husband or wife by anybody is to jump immediately to their defense. And I think that that is both probably a legitimate immediately action. And certainly understandable. The real issue in a circumstance like that is beyond the ability to really answer your question in this context. Because what is the nature of the offense? What has happened? Why has it been done and what's going on? For me, just to take the sort of conceptually the idea of it and say something worthwhile, I don't know whether to call in or whether you would say something in particular by way of response to that.
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"How bad it looked, but whatever happened when the rest of the people exited the shop and I was left with a lady. And when the lady handed the suites to me over the counter, she said to me, son, flattery is like perfume, sniff it. Don't swallow it. And I've never ever forgotten that. I've never forgotten that. And so in pastoral ministry, and this is, again, the value of your own congregation of a period of time. However long or short that it is. That you can discount all the highs and discount all the lows. And you can look for somewhere just in the middle range where you know that people are not blowing smoke. Nor are they looking for particular waste just to devalue you and make you feel feel horrible. Good children as well. Children will help you. There's somebody asked me today what would you say is the best book you've done? I said, I haven't done that. None. None. Congratulations, come on. I said, no, no, no, I said my son said to me no long ago. Hey, dad. Why don't you write a book that somebody wants to read? When they give me they give me a doctorate, I wish my mother was alive because I told her he don't need to study. They give you this stuff. But.
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"Someone says, because of that, therefore, we can't sing that. I would say, because of that, we are cautious, but we're still going to sing it. Yeah. Okay. Where are we? Yep. Alistair, I understand that pastoral ministry, as a senior pastor, it just intertwines all your whole life. Every aspect of your life. I don't want this question to be trivial to you. But I read a book by bob Russell. It said after 50 years of ministry, 7 things that I would change if I had to do it all over again. Tell me one thing about your ministry, knowing that it encompasses every part of your life that you would change. I would pray more in private. You just wanted one thing. Similar to that. Sorry,
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"I got a television and could tune into your services, I found you weren't wearing one either. I also heard you say that when you were ordained, you were wearing a collar, so you've changed your retire at one point. Last year I declared a summer of no tie in our church and my congregation was delighted. And so could you just speak briefly to the subject of informal attire versus conveying the weight and the seriousness of our message? Good. Good, good, good. The person you really are to ask that too is Lawson, right? Because Lawson has a tie in his pajamas for sure. And.
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"Well, I actually, if I had my druthers, we wouldn't do this because but no, expressly, this evening because I felt like I would like to just go out and walk once entirely around the building to assimilate God's word to us. And I would, I would find this a really disappointing thing if in the brief time that we have now anything that would be said or volunteered by myself or anybody else that would detract from the benefit and blessing that we have received from our colleagues here from Colin and from him today. Now I don't say that for the calling and the other guy. And.
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"I'm bob lepine from truth for life. I know many of you are familiar with the annual basics conference that is hosted by parkside church every spring. In fact, some of you have been able to be with us for basics. In 2023, our featured speakers were Herschel York, Colin Smith, and of course Alistair begg, and as part of the conference, I had the opportunity to sit down with all three men and talk about some of the themes from the conference, but also how God is at work in our world today. I know that some who are listening to this have been with us at the basics conference, although there will be many who haven't been able to be at basics. And so let me just briefly introduce Herschel York who's with us who is the chair of the dean of the school of theology at the Southern Baptist Southern Baptist. Physiological symmetry. Louisville, Kentucky. And it's also the pastor at buck run church in Lexington, Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Kentucky. We also have a Colin Smith joining us who is the pastor of the multi site church, the Orchard in suburban Chicago, and a fellow Scotsman, right? Indeed. So where were you born? In Edinburgh, Scotland. All right. So you were born, is that the north? Is Edinburgh the north? Well, what about equal with Glasgow? I think 14 miles apart at the same latitude. Is there a rivalry between? Of course. Of course, Alistair beggars here. You were born. Glasgow, Glasgow. So the rivalry is established, right? Yeah, surprising that we're only 45 miles apart from one another, and yet we can find things to fight about. I want to start reading something Alistair you said in your message on Jude here at basics and I want the two of you to comment on this. I wrote it. I went back and double checked this.
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"Sometimes our desire to do the right thing is in direct conflict with popular opinion. That was pilots dilemma when Jesus was brought before him. On truth for life weekend, Alistair begg explains why remaining neutral is not an option when it comes to Jesus. Not for pilot, not for us. I'll let steak our bibles and turn again to John 19, shall we? And before we turn to the word of the lord, we turn to the lord of the word. Father as we study material that is familiar to many. New to some vital for all, we crave the enabling of the Holy Spirit. We pray or spirit of God that you will descend upon our hearts. And you will win them from earth and through all their impulses move.
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"Journey to the cross, Jesus was brutally beaten. He was bounced from ruler to ruler to be interrogated. But who was really being examined? Today on truth for life weekend, we'll take a closer look at pilots interrogation of Jesus. Alistair begg is teaching from the gospel of John, we're starting with the closing verses of chapter 18. By the time we get to the verses that we read together, it is actually the morning of good Friday. If we have thought in terms of the time process here as being protracted in some way, then we have thought inaccurately. And the pale gray light has passed into the dawn of another morning. And from the slope on the other side of the Temple Mount where you find or would have found in those days the temple of caiaphas, these individuals, this melancholy procession has made its way through the narrow streets and to the upper city of Jerusalem. And has now approached the palace of the Roman governor. That's what John tells us, the Jews then led Jesus from the palace that was that of caiaphas to the place of the dwelling of the Roman governor. Prior to this, in the scenes that had taken place there in the jurisdiction of caiaphas, Jesus had been abused and maligned greatly. Indeed, we are told in one of the other gospels that they spat in his face, they struck him with their fists, they slapped him and they said, prophesied to as Christ who hit you. Now, these same people who were involved in this are those who are then described here as being so concerned in verse 28 to avoid the ceremonial uncleanness, which would be theirs as a result of entering the palace. What strange perversity it is. That men can be guilty of such dreadful abuse, and yet at the same time determine that they can't go over the thoroughfares of the palace because they may find themselves ceremonially unclean. Because of this and in order to facilitate their expectations, we are told in verse 29 that pilot comes out to them. If they're not going to come in, he will come out. We're not going to take time to sketch in the background of this man. Our knowledge of him is that he was proud and cruel and shrewd and self seeking and superstitious and paid a lot of attention to what his wife had to say. At least in that last respect, he should be an example to us all. But it is that we find in this opening scene that in the precincts of the palace far enough on the outside so that the Jews will not be ceremonially unclean. He engages in a discussion with them. And he begins, of course, by asking straightforwardly what are the charges that you're bringing against this man, a perfectly reasonable request on his part because if he was going to pronounce in any legal fashion, then it was legitimate for him to know exactly what the charge was that was being brought against the man. Their reply, of course, is as vague as his question was clear.
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"When we read the book of Esther, are we to think of mordecai and Esther as heroes? God used them to save his people, but what are we to make of some of their moral decisions? They've got to prove of their behavior. We'll hear the answers today. I'm truth for life, Alistair begg is teaching from the book of Esther. We're in chapter two.
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"One way we can feel secure about what God will do is by remembering what God has done. You're listening to Alistair begg, untruth for life, Alistair will be back in just a moment to close today's program. Speaking of Providence, it's been a remarkable season of growth here at truth for life over the past couple of years. We have seen more people in all parts of the world accessing Alistair's teaching through our mobile app, online, through many other ways that the program can be heard, we are so grateful for how God is using this ministry to proclaim the truth of the Bible to a growing worldwide audience. And we could not be doing this without the financial support that comes from truth partners, listeners who pray for us monthly and who give to this ministry. As we press on, we pray God will continue to use truth for life in an even broader way, and an ever growing truth partner team will help make that possible. If you're not yet part of this vital group, we would love it if you'd sign up to become a true partner today when you do you select the amount you'd like to give each month and as a way of saying thanks. You can request the books we feature each month, enrolling just takes a few minutes online at truth for life dot org slash truth partner, or you can call our customer service reps at 8 8 8 5 8 8 7 8 8 four. When you get in touch with us, be sure to request today's recommended book. It's titled 12 things God can't do. It's our way of saying thanks for your support. Sometimes we try to relate to God as if he were like us, but his attributes are not like ours. In fact, there are some human experiences that God is totally incapable of. For example, God can't lie. Truthfulness is a mark of his character. Knowing that his promises are trustworthy, will help us feel secure, even in troubled times. You'll find comfort and peace as you learn about the things that are impossible for God. Request your copy of the book 12 things God can't do today when you sign up to become a truth partner, you can also request the book when you give a one time donation at truth for life dot org slash donate. Now here's Alistair with the closing thought. In the 17th century, Samuel Rutherford was a godly minister. He died by the time he was 61. And one of his great legacies were letters that he wrote to members of his congregation, many of whom were members of the aristocracy. And he had a particularly long dialog with a lady called lady Ken Muir who, whose marriage was a disaster who had lived with great bouts of depression and sadness. And in one of his letters to it, he says, madam, when you are come to the other side of the water, and have sat down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity. And look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey. And so see in that clear glass of endless glory nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom. Then you will be forced to say, if God had done otherwise with me, then he had done. I would never have come. To the enjoying of this crown of glory. Gracious God, I pray that you will help us to take Jesus at his word when he says to his disciples, your heavenly father knows that you need these things. Help us to turn to you in genuine repentance to repent of our arrogance and our pride. To repent of how we choose to worship our own little substitute gods. Rather than to bow before you. And grand to his childlike faith. And the joy of discovering what it is to be able to name you as our father in heaven, not simply as a result of creation. But as a result of your redeeming love, the redemption in our ethical question that is found through the substitutionary atonement provided by Jesus on the cross. And then let us go out into the week that lies ahead, resting, and trusting. Avowedly, in the fight the father knows best. Before we pray in Christ's name, amen. And bob lupine, thanks for listening today. There's a lot of behind the scenes work in every successful movie or play. And in our lives, that's true as well. Join us tomorrow when we'll take a behind the scenes look at Esther's story. The Bible teaching of Aleister beg is furnished by truth for life. Where the learning is for living.
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"alistair begg" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"Made an impulsive reckless harmful decision, something that couldn't be undone? No matter how much we regretted it, what does God do with our messes? Well, today on truth for life, Alistair begg looks at how a king's foolish decision left him without his beautiful queen, and yet God still used the king's error to further his own plans. There are 7 of Esther 7 and the king arose in his wrath from the wine drinking. He arose in his wrath from the wine drinking. In other words, the writer wants us to understand that there is a correlation here between his intake and his output. What he's taken into himself is in some way influencing what is coming out of him. It's not our purpose to stop here and give a dissertation on the uses and abuses of alcohol in the way in which his addressed in the Bible. But let me just say a couple of things in passing. Number one, wine is the principal drink that is mentioned in the Bible. So when you read the Old Testament, an evidence of God's blessing is found in the production of grain of wine and of oil. At the same time, the Bible warns that when taken to excess, it can lead men and women astray from their chapter 20 and verse one. And when you move from the Old Testament into the new, you find that, for example, the apostle Paul, while he encourages Timothy to drink wine for his stomach, say, warns the ephesians again becoming debauched as a result of their imbibing of too much wine. Do not be drunk with wine ephesians 5 18, wherein is excess. Which leads to debauchery, but instead be filled with all these spirit. There is no legitimacy in the scriptures given to us to be out of control. The only out of control that it envisages is being so filled with a spirit of God that we're out of control as it were with love and affection for God and with the good news that is then conveyed. His condition, the wine had gone to his head.
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"alistair begg" Discussed on Truth For Life Daily Program
"When we read the description of Jesus on the cross and the journey that leads up to it, it's brutal and heart wrenching. So why does the apostle John describe this scene as the ultimate display of love? Today on truth for life, Alistair begg walks us through the amazing mercy and compassion depicted in the events surrounding Jesus crucifixion. First John chapter four and verse ten in this is love, not that we have loved God, but that he loved us
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The Lord's Supper: An Outward Sign of an Inward Reality
"You may regularly take part in communion in your local church. What does this expression of faith really mean? Are we eating and drinking Christ's physical body and blood? Today on truth for life, Alistair begg, takes a closer look at the lord's supper. Baptism and the lord's supper are communion, whatever other important ends may be intended for both of them. They were appointed as a mode for publicly professing our faith in the gospel. That by means of our celebration of the lord's supper by means of our participation in the opportunity of baptism, both contexts are an opportunity for the public profession of our faith. If people will come around and say, why do you celebrate this meal as you do, the answer is because of who Jesus is and because of what he has done, why are you going through water in this way? Why are you undergoing this ceremony or this right, the answer would be the same thing because of who Jesus is because of what he has done and because of what he has asked me to do. Both of the ordinances of the church do this for us. Augustine defined them as outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace. In each case, the sign is a visible display that points to a reality different from and more significant than itself. For example, you may know that there is a sign somewhere up on the freeway at that points to Chicago. You may know the sign you may actually have part your car underneath the sign, you may have actually pointed the sign out to other people. And you could be very familiar with this sign without ever having visited the place to which it points. There is a Chicago, you know, because there is a sign. Apparently, there are people there, but you do not know because you've never been. So the potential for being familiar with the sign without having ever embraced the reality to which the same points is clear in these trivial illustrations, but it is equally so when it comes to the matter of communion and the lord's supper. Since it is possible to participate in what is merely an outward display without knowing the inward reality to which the display points, it is therefore very, very important for us as individuals and as a church to pay the most important attention to these matters. What we have in the New Testament in these ordinances are there not as a result of men getting together and thinking up a ceremony or an institution, but they are thereby divine appointment. If you turn to Luke chapter 22, which I suggested, you might have your finger in. You find there that Jesus in verse 19 takes bread on the occasion of the last supper, he gives thanks and breaks it and gives it to his disciples saying this is my body given for you and then notice do this in remembrance of me. Why then do we have baptism on the lord's supper because they were instituted ordained, if you like, by Christ, who is the head of the church? Now, a number of you that are here this morning will, of course, have come out of a background in which you have been led to believe that there are really 7 sacraments or 7 ordinances. And if you have been catechized in your own tradition properly as many of you, I'm sure have, then you will have been believing always that you must add to baptism and to communion or the eucharist, penance, confirmation, marriage, ordination, and final unction. To you, I say this. Take all of your 7 sacraments or ordinances, and then take your Bible and look for all 7. Retain all that you find and discard all that you do not discover. When you have completed the exercise, you will discover that as an ordinance or as a sacrament, if we choose to use that word, there are only two given by Christ and underscored by scripture. Not that the issue of marriage or some of these other things is not addressed in the Bible, but simply that it is not given to us in the way that baptism and the lord's supper is given. These things emerged in the development of Christendom and largely in the Middle Ages. By the time of the reformation, the confusion concerning sacraments was far more about the nature of the sacrament itself than it was about how many sacraments there were supposed to be. The issue was, what is happening in the lord's supper? The issue was, what is baptism really mean and who should it be that is participating in it? And I think this morning in a congregation like this, if we're honest, the real discussions that we ever find ourselves having do not really an ultimately relate to the numbers involved, but relate to the very issue of what is involved. Because as time went by, baptism and the lord's supper came to be regarded not simply as signs of grace. As Augustine pointed them out, outward and visible signs of an inward and spiritual grace, Augustine's statement was representative of a fourth century understanding of things once you had had the development of the apostolic church under the neronian persecution. But once you go forward from there, you discover that the signs of grace are now actually being thought of as containing grace and conveying grace. You understand the difference. So there's not simply that the sign says there is Chicago. Suddenly the sign is Chicago. It is not that the bread and the blood are representative of a sacrifice in the first century on a Roman hill, but it is now that the bread and the blood are the actual body and blood of the lord Jesus Christ. The symbol has become the reality. And as a result of that, we are then told it conveys the very grace that the penitent require. Now these notions are firmly embedded in the minds of not a few within our parkside congregation. And when they are embedded in the mind, then it's very difficult to them. And why would I even try to? Certainly, it would be far more sensible for me and a far easier journey for me, simply to leave it alone. But I can't leave it alone. Because if, for example, original sin is not removed as a result of the baptism
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"2000. This musical closed after 7485 performances. It was the longest running show on Broadway until it was surpassed by Phantom of the Opera. Two years later. What show am I talking about? So the most famous longest running is cats? I was thinking cats, too, that will humming Brooke. Oh, noise She's making, approving and disapproving nice. She's running a loophole. I mean, I also winking at me a lot, guys winking a lot of wings. It's Morse Code tax is a popular one. Greece has been around for a while. I think I'm gonna go with cats, all right? Question. Two in 1993. This TV series starring David Duke Avni debuted on Fox and developed a huge cult following what show is Miles. That's so easy. Wow! Oh, what that really Okay, David. The company was amazing. I don't even know who David Duke company is. He was the guy in X files. Really? Answer. Okay, We're on the question Three. I'm about to start question. This is nice, though, isn't quite I know No one yelled at me in a whole minute. It's been wonderful. Question. Three in 1984, this host debuted on a popular TV game show. Who am I? Thinking of book has been unbanked. I'm going to say those first two questions Boring. You guys That was really boring. This is why we have all right. Okay, Wait, What year? Wasting what? We had 1984 c. I think that it's will. Fortune. What's his name? Pat Sajak. Oh, because I think that Bob Barker would have been pre 84. What about the Jeopardy guy? Alistair Begg? No, He is even longer than that. I think it was in the seventies. I think, Pat Sajak. I like that. Answer, Brick. Thank you for chiming in, bro. Yeah. Finally in 16. Oh, eight, this person became president of the Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in North America. And he survived capture by the natives through the efforts of Pocahontas. Which person am I talking about, James? Uh, well, if you if you go off of the movie, John Smith, I'm making a joke, bro. Can you broke again? Yeah, Job didn't get there. I mean, you don't get all any of the job. It's not that I didn't get it. I just wasn't funny. Did you want me to laugh? So we're going John Smith, and we're going to go John Smith. So my final answers Cats the musical to the X Files three. Pat Sajak for John Smith. Are you sure you don't want to live? James Rocco. Les Miserables is good. I didn't think of that. All right. I give you four trivia bit about things that happened on September 10th. And you need to get them. All right, mostly without Brooks helped to avoid being shocked. You're confident the first one. The musical that closed on this day more than 20 years ago. You said cats. I'm worried. It's Les Miserables. And it was cats. Oh, something Brooke had to stay quiet. Shut up Electric. Honestly, if you would have said that, I probably would have guessed that broke, so I'm glad she wasn't saying anything. Let's get more answers The 1993. Show starring David Duke of me I was looking for you said the X Files and it was the X Files. I love that the person who became president of the Jamestown colony in 16 Oh, eight. You, said John Smith. His name was John Smith Debate here. You wasn't picking between Pat Sajak and Bob Barker for the host to debut the popular TV game show on September 10th 1984 you said Pat Sajak, he debuted. In 1981. I was looking for the goat, Jeffrey said it in the room That's been on since the seventies to for some reason, I think jeopardy's been around since the seven Oh, that's what it is. Yeah, 1972. All right, nice. So close guys. Brooke led you down the wrong path. And so we're going to get shocks and somebody wanted to hear you say bad habits said Hey, all right, Jose Whenever you're ready. Go ahead. My bad habits lead to late nights and then alone. Conversations with the stranger her barely know how bad habits that's exactly what I expected. Catching. So I Yeah. What's on the That's where he's a vampire in the video. That's your shot caller. Question of the day moving 92.5. Seattle's number one hit music station. It's another $1000 back to class. Apt Cache code winner Rachel. Congratulations. You just won $1000 where they're back to class at cash code. Any idea what What you gonna do with the money? Who knows?.
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"alistair begg" Discussed on ESPN Chicago 1000 - WMVP
"You don't tell my generation? No, You don't tell me we can't because that means we can and everyone in Alabama. Listen right now we're in Mississippi and all you Atlanta Braves fans, this baseball fans that was for you. That was for you. America. We got it done. You were gonna be tells me we can. This is America. I'm like, Oh, my gosh. Next thing you know, we had a little surprise lined up for Massa. Tommy. Hmm. Joining us right now is an old friend of years. Sparky sale. Oh, Sparky Anderson. What Sparkles on Tommy. You did it. You did it, Tommy. You have beat those coming. Yes. Oh, beeves, And he didn't say s O B is right. And all of a sudden was sort of like Sparky man. Our merry way. You're right. And then all of a sudden they're going back and forth and itwas The best. Listen on baseball and life. I turned my microphone off and I just listened for 10 12 15 minutes. He's too War dogs just talking about what happened to get there. And this move that Tommy made. You know, a spark is like you try to pull that crap on me. And then I am And I mean it was It was amazing, and that's how big Tommy Lasorda was. That's how great he was on. He was not not just Amazing for baseball. He loved every ounce of just living and he loved this country. He loved pasta. He loved being him and He will be missed, Tommy. You did it, partner and a nobody told you know, because I only meant you can. Wow. I'm getting chills thing about the whole Sparky Anderson story and those two wars and we could find But combining together could find audio of that was back in the real the real days. You know, I mean, right, then you can forget it. Yeah, but I find it just gonna dinosaur. Yeah, give better luck trying to find this going to dinosaur when it comes to something like that. My last was in another great who had his final performance tonight. And as Alex Trebek. It was his final episode of Jeopardy Tonight. He had taped the episodes before he passed away. Unfortunately, about a couple of months ago. And just seeing it and realizing how much pain he was in But he was not going to let people down that cared about jeopardy. It's really, really weird when icons and no longer part of our lives physically but always gonna be part of our lives mentally and spiritually when it comes to time of disorder, or also Alex Trebek. Is going to be really weird knowing that jeopardy is going to happen on Monday, and when they say Ladies and gentlemen, this is jeopardy from Johnny Gill with the announcer and Alice Trebek is not going to be the guy walking out there. That's going to be really strange, but that can never take away what he will always mean the fans of jeopardy like me and so many people showing that appreciation, especially pain. He was in trying to make sure and ensuring that the show was going to go on. They would definitely bigger than life when it comes to type of disorder, and Alistair Begg, They may be gone from this earth physically, but they're never ever going to be gone. And there's not a better tree than that. What comes into icons like that? And Alice Trebek in entertainment.