When we're

When we read Psalm 1, it tells us the righteous will prosper, but the wicked will perish.

And yet in the book of Romans, we're told that none of us is righteous.

So what does this mean?

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg digs into Psalm 1 to find the only way sinners can be declared righteous.

Saturdays in Scotland for me as a boy, along with my sisters, were always marred by rain.

When it rained, they were always marred. Let me put it that way. It didn't rain every Saturday.

But the way to deal with that for me was to take my pocket money and to buy for myself an air-fix kit.

And this was a little piece of plastic that you assembled into a Second World War plane of some kind.

And I got more glue on my mother's dining room table than I ever got on the plane, and it's memorable

for that. But also because while I was doing this, my younger sisters had those big books

that you bought in the news agents, and one of their favorites was simply join the dots.

And I used to interfere with this. You'd be be no surprise in that. In that I would tell

them, oh, I see what it is. I can see it, even before you join it. And they were so, well, don't interfere

with us. We'd like to join them for ourselves, and we want to see the picture form up.

I mentioned that because one of the great concerns in reading the Bible is that we learn how to

join the dots, that we learn how the dots, when they are joined, particularly in the Old Testament,

form up in a picture of the Lord Jesus. And so it ought to be that we don't have to scramble

around for this, but it becomes apparent.

The disciples were the beneficiaries of essentially a join-the-dots lesson that is recorded in Luke

chapter 24. And what a Bible study that must have been when Jesus takes these fellows who were so

disconsolate and broken-hearted,

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