Be Patient, the Lord Is Coming (Part 4 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When persecution scattered the early church, James assured them that Christ’s return was certain, even though the timing was unknown. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg teaches four facts about the second coming to help you persevere as you wait.
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| 0:00.0 | The When When believers in the early church were scattered as a result of persecution, James wrote to assure them that the Lord's return was certain even though the timing remained a mystery. |
| 0:35.2 | Today on Truth for Life we'll learn four facts about the day of Christ's return |
| 0:39.8 | to encourage patient perseverance while we wait. |
| 0:43.8 | Alistairbegg is teaching from James Chapter 5. |
| 0:46.9 | We're looking at verses 7 through 11. From the |
| 0:55.0 | Temptations to be avoided then to the examples to be followed. |
| 1:00.0 | Three examples there there in the text. |
| 1:02.0 | Number one the farmer. |
| 1:04.0 | And then secondly, the prophets, the prophets, verse 10. |
| 1:08.0 | Brothers as an example of patients, particularly in the face of suffering, take the prophets. What did they do? We're told, |
| 1:16.4 | who spoke in the name of the Lord. There were of course false prophets who did not |
| 1:22.0 | speak in the name of the Lord. |
| 1:23.4 | They healed the people's sins lightly, or at least they tried to. |
| 1:27.2 | People like them, they would ask them to come and speak and sing to them and so on. |
| 1:31.6 | Tell us more of this material. |
| 1:34.0 | But the prophets, the true prophets of God |
| 1:36.2 | who spoke in the name of the Lord, |
| 1:38.3 | they were not popular. |
| 1:41.1 | They were not popular. They were not raising the huge crowds. |
| 1:45.0 | They were saying what God told them to say. |
| 1:49.0 | And as a result of that, they are a classic example of the suffering which comes from such |
| 1:56.3 | obedience and of the patience that James calls for in their experience. |
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