Do Not Give the Devil a Foothold (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The apostle Paul often reminded his readers that their behavior needed to be consistent with their new identity in Christ. Find out how it’s possible to reflect your faith by your lifestyle—and to do so joyfully. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You possibly The Apostle Paul often reminded his readers that their behavior as |
| 0:27.8 | believers needed to be consistent with their new identity as children of |
| 0:32.1 | God. |
| 0:33.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistairbegg teaches us how it's possible to reflect our faith through |
| 0:38.4 | our lifestyle and to do it joyfully. Ephesians 4 and verse 25. |
| 0:50.0 | Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, |
| 1:00.8 | for we are members one of another. |
| 1:03.0 | Be angry and do not sin. |
| 1:06.0 | Do not let the sun go down on your anger and give no opportunity to the devil. |
| 1:11.0 | Let the thief steal no longer, but rather let him labor doing honest work with |
| 1:18.0 | his own hands so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. Let no corrupting talk come out of |
| 1:25.0 | your mouth but only such as is good for building up as fits the occasion that it may |
| 1:30.6 | give grace to those who hear. |
| 1:33.0 | And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God |
| 1:35.0 | by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption. |
| 1:38.0 | Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor |
| 1:41.0 | and slander be put away from you along with all malice. Be kind to one another, |
| 1:46.8 | tender-hearted, forgiving one another as God in Christ forgave you. |
| 1:51.9 | Amen. |
| 1:54.0 | I want us today to study these concluding verses of the chapter under two headings. |
| 2:01.0 | First of all this morning coming from verse 27 do not give the |
| 2:06.7 | devil a foothold as it is in the NIV do not give the devil of foothold and then in the evening in verse 30 do not |
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