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Truth For Life Daily Program

Energetic in Goodness (Part 2 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

Religion & Spirituality, Alister, Truth, Bible, Parkside, Allister, Begg, Truthforlife, Teaching, Alistair, Christianity, For, Life

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🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Some Christians blend with the culture and treat faith as a private matter. Paul, however, instructed believers to live in a way that’s distinct from the world. Learn how to make faith visible through radical goodness, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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You ever.

0:03.0

You ever. Have you ever noticed there are Christians who think of their faith as a personal thing?

0:29.2

They like to blend in with the surrounding culture and treat their faith as a private matter between themselves and God.

0:35.8

The Apostle Paul stands in contrast to that. He instructed

0:39.6

believers to live it a way that makes

0:41.4

us distinct from the unbelievers around

0:43.6

us. And today on Truth for Life,

0:45.7

Alisturbegg challenges us

0:47.3

to make our faith visible through radical

0:49.6

goodness. We're studying the opening verses in

0:53.3

Titus chapter 3.

0:59.0

In the public square, the Christian is supposed to stand out in contrast to the general populace.

1:07.0

The Cretans were notoriously troublesome. They were known to be agitators. They were known

1:15.6

to be insurrectionists. So in the context of agitation, insurrection, and downright troublesomeness,

1:25.7

the application of Romans 12 too is pretty clear, namely, don't allow the world

1:32.8

around you to squeeze you into its own mold. Instead, says Paul to Titus, you better remind

1:41.7

the people that the public duty of the Christian is to be marked by these things.

1:47.4

Now, I've sought to summarize them, and in doing so I may have missed something, in which case I trust your judgment to fill in the gaps,

1:54.1

but I have chosen to try and summarize verses one and two under four words. They're fairly straightforward, and I think that there is

2:02.5

basis for using them as I do. Remind the people to be subject to rulers and authorities to be

2:09.6

obedient. Number one, the Christian citizen is to be marked by loyalty, by loyalty. Not a loyalty that shifts in relationship to whoever the prevailing

2:24.1

political party is, but loyalty that recognizes that one of the marks of Christian civic deportment

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