An Unashamed Worker
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Once ingested, even a little poison is difficult to control and can cause significant damage. False teaching is like spiritual poison. Discover the damage it can do when it spreads throughout a congregation. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Little poison can go a long way. |
| 0:28.8 | Once we've ingested it, it's difficult to control, and it can cause significant damage, often leading to death. |
| 0:36.0 | False teaching is like spiritual poison. |
| 0:39.3 | And today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:40.9 | Alistur Begg explores the damage it can do when it spreads throughout a congregation. |
| 0:50.7 | We're going to turn again to 2 Timothy to chapter 2 to verse 14, and we'll read there from 14 through to verse 19. |
| 1:01.6 | Remind them of these things and charge them before God not to quarrel about words, which does no good, but only ruins the hearers. |
| 1:13.5 | Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. But avoid irreverent |
| 1:21.2 | babble, for it will lead people into more and more ungodliness, and their talk will spread like |
| 1:27.1 | gangrene. Among them are Hymenaeus and |
| 1:30.1 | phyletus, who have swore from the truth, saying that the resurrection has already happened. |
| 1:36.4 | They are upsetting the faith of some. But God's firm foundation stands bearing this seal. |
| 1:49.5 | The Lord knows those who are His, and let everyone who names the name of the Lord depart from iniquity. |
| 1:53.2 | Amen. |
| 1:54.8 | Father, we pray that as we turn again to the Bible, that the Spirit of God will be our |
| 1:59.5 | teacher, that you'll grant to us the ability |
| 2:02.2 | to think properly and to have hearts that are open to welcome your truth in a way that shapes |
| 2:10.7 | our lives in conformity to the image of Jesus in whose name we pray. Amen. Well, those of you who were present this morning |
| 2:20.1 | were realized that we've decided to follow on from where we were then. I felt that it would be |
| 2:24.9 | helpful. The way in which the whole paragraph holds together is such that we might have |
| 2:30.4 | done better if we had gone further and longer, but here we are. |
| 2:36.2 | And having thought this morning, under the heading the pastor and people, we look at the balance |
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