A Prayer and a Promise (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 26 March 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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How can two people listen to the same message at the same time yet have totally different reactions? Join us as we explore the contrasting responses of the two criminals on either side of Jesus’ cross. That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The How is it possible that two people can hear the exact same message at the exact same time |
| 0:28.9 | and yet react in two totally different ways. |
| 0:33.0 | Today on Truth for Life will take a closer look at the contrasting responses of the two criminals hanging on either side of Jesus' cross. |
| 0:42.0 | Alistairbegg is teaching from chapter 22 of Luke's Gospel, |
| 0:46.0 | we're focusing on verses 32 through 43. Our focus this morning is on the two words that Luke records for us here as spoken |
| 1:01.2 | by Jesus from the cross. One is a prayer in verse 34 and the other is a |
| 1:08.9 | promise and that comes in verse 43. |
| 1:14.0 | First of all in verse 34 Jesus said, |
| 1:17.0 | Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing. |
| 1:24.8 | Now presumably that had dawned somehow or another on one of these two criminals. |
| 1:30.8 | The one to whom in verse 43 the promise is given in verse 43 in response to his request in verse 42 will come to that |
| 1:40.0 | let's just focus on this gentleman for a moment if we may. This chap had seen and heard |
| 1:47.1 | enough of Jesus in the past few hours, apparently, to conclude that he was innocent of any crime. |
| 1:52.5 | Hence his rebuke to the other criminal in verse 40. |
| 1:56.5 | Don't you fear God? |
| 1:57.5 | He said to him, shouting as it were through Jesus or over Jesus |
| 2:01.2 | or behind the head of Jesus. |
| 2:02.8 | Don't you fear God since you're under the same sentence? |
| 2:07.2 | We are punished justly. |
| 2:08.4 | We're getting what our deeds deserve, |
| 2:10.2 | but this man has done nothing wrong. |
| 2:13.0 | Now how did this come about? |
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