A Call to the Potential Drifter

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 7 October 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In a world full of wonderful distractions and exciting opportunities, how can we stay focused on God’s plan and purpose? For the answer, Alistair Begg explores the apostle Paul’s illustration of an athlete in training. Study along with us on Truth For Life.

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0:00.0	How can we stay focused on God's purpose for our lives and
0:29.8	world full of so many enticing distractions? Today on Truth for Life weekend,
0:34.5	Alistair Begg explores an illustration used by the Apostle Paul that helps us find the answer.
0:46.0	First Corinthians chapter 9 and verse 24, do you not know that in a race all the runners run but
0:52.6	only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize. Everyone who competes in the
0:59.4	games goes into strict training, they do it to get a crown of laurel that will not last. We do it to
1:06.1	get a crown that will last forever. Therefore I do not run like a man running aimlessly. I do not
1:13.4	fight like a man shadow boxing. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have
1:20.3	preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.
1:26.0	Surmons without illustrations are like houses without windows. They let no light in a tall.
1:32.6	However, the use of illustrative material has to be kept under careful guard because all of us,
1:39.4	I'm sure, can remember messages on the basis of illustrations, although we haven't got a clue
1:45.2	what the message was actually about and whether it came from a passage of scripture seems almost
1:50.2	irrelevant because the illustration looms so large in our minds. Now the apostles never would have
1:56.8	fallen foul of that and Jesus himself certainly never did because they were masterful in the way in
2:02.2	which they employed illustrative material to crystallize important truth in the minds of their
2:08.2	listeners or their readers. Paul has a number of favorites. He loves to talk about soldiers. He
2:15.0	often refers to farmers and he certainly makes much of athletes. This morning in the time that I
2:21.8	have, I want you to look with me at this sporting illustration. In Greece, children from the age of
2:29.1	seven were put through their athletic paces every day and what they were endeavoring to do in
2:35.6	Greek culture was to combine this athletic prowess with a simple manner of life so as to produce and
2:44.0	I quote, noble souls with beautiful bodies because the exercises were by nature often competitive
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