About Twelve “Almost” Christians (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Being involved in Christian activities and knowing Christian terminology doesn’t make a person a follower of Jesus! Hear about twelve “almost” Christians Paul encountered and the discerning questions he asked. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome. Welcome to Truth for Life, where we're beginning a series titled For the Sake of the Gospel. |
| 0:30.3 | Over the next few weeks, Alistair Begg will be exploring the trials the Apostle Paul endured on his final missionary journey to share the good news of |
| 0:39.4 | salvation. We begin today in Acts chapter 19 where we're considering 12 almost Christians |
| 0:46.7 | the Apostle Paul encountered in the early church. |
| 0:57.5 | Now we'll pray together before we study the Bible. |
| 1:02.0 | We just use our favorite new ancient prayer. |
| 1:19.9 | Lord, what we know not, teach us, what we have not, grant us, what we are not, make us. For Jesus' sake, amen. We've read from Acts chapter 19 this morning because I have decided now that instead of continuing to |
| 1:29.2 | bounce around in the Acts of the Apostles, and instead of going back to chapter 1 and verse |
| 1:35.4 | 1 and trying to make our way through the whole 28 chapters, we are going to pick up the story |
| 1:42.0 | from the commencement of Paul's third missionary journey, |
| 1:45.5 | which is essentially what we have here back into 18 a little bit, but 19 is fine, and we're |
| 1:51.3 | going to follow Paul all the way to the end of the journey. Our purpose in this is clear. |
| 1:57.6 | It is in order that some may come to hear the good news and believe and become followers |
| 2:04.0 | of Jesus, and so that others who actually believe might be better equipped to share the good |
| 2:10.2 | news with those who as yet do not believe in Jesus. I came across a phrase in a paraphrase this |
| 2:17.0 | week. There was a paraphrase of Paul's words to Timothy |
| 2:19.6 | in his final letter to Timothy that we have in the New Testament, where he says to him, through me, |
| 2:26.6 | the message might be fully proclaimed and all the Gentiles might hear it. He's explaining his |
| 2:31.7 | mission and what God has chosen to do with him. And the paraphrase |
| 2:35.9 | contained the phraseology, spreading the message loud and clear to those who've never heard. |
| 2:43.4 | Spreading the message loud and clear to those who've never heard. That is essentially our |
| 2:49.7 | raison d'être. Those are our marching orders from our |
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