A Sacred Responsibility
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Most people choose a profession, then seek the necessary training to do that job. Being a pastor is different, though. Find out why training alone can’t prepare you to be an effective preacher of God’s Word. Study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | The Most. Most people when they're thinking about what they want to do with their life choose a profession and then get the necessary education or training to do the work. But preaching the gospel is different than |
| 0:35.1 | other jobs. Today on Truth for Life will find out why simply getting the right training cannot |
| 0:40.9 | prepare you to be an effective preacher of God's word. |
| 0:45.4 | Alistair Begg is looking at what the Apostle Paul has to say on this subject. 1st Corinthians chapter 9. There's hardly a day goes by without somebody somewhere |
| 1:02.1 | doesn't mention rights. |
| 1:04.8 | Rights. It's not uncommon in conversation for somebody to say you have no right to |
| 1:09.7 | say that or to affirm I have my rights you know or to have the face of some enterprising lawyer |
| 1:17.7 | on our screen saying words like if you have reason to believe that your rights have been violated, call this number now. |
| 1:26.4 | And it is a great appeal to the rights of individuals. |
| 1:30.8 | We have civil rights, human rights, gay rights, women's rights, animal rights. |
| 1:37.0 | We could say that it really just isn't right how much emphasis there is upon rights. And yet, despite the fact that we in this |
| 1:46.9 | advanced state of civilization pride ourselves on being so different from our |
| 1:51.4 | forebears, Cleveland is not too far removed from Corinth. |
| 1:56.7 | Because when you turn to 1st Corinthians chapter 9, you discover that there is one word which is the |
| 2:01.3 | predominating word and it is the word right or rights. |
| 2:06.8 | In fact in the first 14 verses when we studied them we saw that Paul provides five reasons as to why it is right that he would be able to have these rights. |
| 2:16.6 | Now just when we might expect him to be taking off his sandal and banging it on the table as it were and saying therefore in light of all this |
| 2:25.5 | give me my due he changes gears and adopts what was and is an unusual perspective. |
| 2:36.0 | He adopts an unusual perspective on three things. |
| 2:39.2 | First of all, on rights. |
| 2:41.8 | On rights. He has just laid down and very clearly so the legitimacy of him |
| 2:48.1 | being able to gain and use his rights, But he has chosen not to. In verse 12 he says if others have |
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