Be Careful How You Live (1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 2 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When you listen to a sermon, do you apply the teaching to yourself first, or do you find yourself thinking about other people who need to hear the message? Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg considers an important warning from Jesus about hypocrisy.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. When you listen to sermons, do you apply the teaching to yourself first, or do you find yourself sometimes thinking about other people you know who really ought to hear this message? |
| 0:36.5 | Today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:37.6 | Alistair Begg considers an important warning from Jesus about hypocrisy. |
| 0:49.3 | Now I invite you to turn with me to Luke chapter 17 as we continue our studies in Luke's gospel. |
| 0:55.7 | We read from the first verse. Jesus said to his disciples, things that cause people to sin are |
| 1:02.2 | bound to come, but woe to that person through whom they come. It would be better for him to be |
| 1:08.6 | thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around his neck |
| 1:11.9 | than for him to cause one of these little ones to sin. So watch yourselves. If your brother's |
| 1:19.0 | sins rebuke him and if he repents, forgive him. If he sins against you seven times in a day |
| 1:25.9 | and seven times comes back to you and says, I repent, forgive him. |
| 1:31.2 | The apostle said to the Lord, increase our faith. He replied, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, |
| 1:39.1 | you can say to this mulberry tree, be uprooted and planted in the sea, and it will obey you. Suppose one of you |
| 1:47.6 | had a servant ploughing or looking after the sheep. Would he say to the servant, when he comes in from the |
| 1:52.9 | field, come along now and sit down to eat? Would he not rather say, prepare my supper, get yourself |
| 1:59.0 | ready and wait on me while I eat and drink. After that, |
| 2:02.3 | you may eat and drink. Would he thank the servant because he did what he was told to do? |
| 2:10.1 | So you also, when you've done everything you were told to do, should say, we are unworthy servants. |
| 2:25.6 | We have only done our duty. Amen. At the beginning of chapter 12, as Jesus began to speak to his disciples in front of a great crowd of people that had become |
| 2:33.0 | as large as thousands, enough for them to be |
| 2:36.1 | trampling on one another. He had issued a warning for them to be on their guard against what |
| 2:42.2 | he referred to as the yeast of the Pharisees. This, he said, was actually hypocrisy. By the time |
| 2:50.0 | you get to the 20th chapter, he is pointing out again that these Pharisees |
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