According to Plan
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Does it surprise you to realize that the Lord Almighty can use you in His plans and purposes? Learn how God often fulfills His plan in unexpected ways, using some of the most unexpected people. Study along with us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ever surprised that the Almighty God can actually use you, yes, you, in his plans and purposes? |
| 0:34.3 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how God often fulfills his plan in unexpected ways and how he uses some of the most unexpected people in the process. |
| 0:43.8 | Alistair Begg is teaching from 2 Samuel chapter 17. |
| 0:52.9 | Well, we ended by noticing where we began actually this morning in the second half of verse 14, |
| 1:00.6 | that the Lord had ordained to defeat the good counsel of a Hithet fell so that the Lord might bring harm upon Absalom. |
| 1:08.9 | And we said this morning that those 14 words in Hebrew were the key words |
| 1:14.7 | more significant than the 42 words of Ahithafel's Council or the 129 words of the Council of Hushai. |
| 1:25.2 | And it is in light of that pivotal statement in the heart of the chapter that we |
| 1:31.6 | then continue to follow the storyline. We follow it in the awareness that all that is unfolding |
| 1:39.7 | is unfolding according to God's plan, according to God's plan, because it is God's plan that matters, |
| 1:48.5 | and it is God's plan that is the only plan that actually matters. Now, we're not in any doubt about |
| 1:55.0 | what God's plan is in this context. It is to establish David's kingdom. And because he is determined that he will |
| 2:02.6 | establish his kingdom, no one that stands against that kingdom will be able to prosper. |
| 2:08.9 | In much the same way that when we come finally to King David's greater son, namely to Jesus, |
| 2:15.4 | the gates of hell will not be able to prevail against God's plan in God's |
| 2:21.3 | Son. |
| 2:22.3 | Now, we know that, but we've been led into a secret because we're reading the story. |
| 2:28.3 | And what we need to understand is that we know what the actors in the story themselves don't know. Hushai doesn't actually know what's going |
| 2:38.1 | on beyond the parts that he knows about what's going on. So he's actually unaware of the way in which |
| 2:45.6 | the matter is going to be resolved. At this point in the record, he doesn't even know whether Absalom is going to go with |
| 2:55.9 | the Ahithafel plan or whether he is going to go with his plan. |
| 3:02.0 | And it's important to keep that in mind, and the way in which the narrative is provided |
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