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🗓️ 13 December 2024
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0:00.0 | Thank you. Do you ever feel like the tasks or responsibilities that fill your day, lack meaning or purpose? |
0:32.8 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out how even the boring routine activities of daily |
0:37.2 | life can have eternal significance and importance. on Truth for Life, we'll find out how even the boring routine activities of daily life |
0:37.5 | can have eternal significance and importance. Alistair Begg is teaching from Titus |
0:43.4 | Chapter 3. |
0:49.4 | Well, let's just think of this. You are not here by chance, but by God's choosing. You did not invent |
0:58.3 | yourself. You had no part in your creation. You were intricately wrought in your mother's womb. |
1:07.0 | The hand of God formed you to be the person that you are. He created you at the exact moment |
1:15.1 | that he desired, and he has placed you at this point in history, so that you, in Christ, |
1:23.2 | by grace, through faith, might do good deeds, good deeds which he has planned for you to do. |
1:33.4 | That may not be the first thought of the person when they consider the impact of God's transforming grace, |
1:41.6 | but it actually is virtually number one on the list of Paul. And when, in writing |
1:48.2 | to the Ephesian Christians, he reminds them of the great salvation that has been provided in Jesus, |
1:54.1 | that it is by grace they have been saved and through faith, and this not of themselves, not of works, |
1:59.2 | that anyone should boast, he then immediately goes on to say, and God has of themselves, not of works, that anyone should boast, he then immediately goes |
2:01.7 | on to say, and God has done this, you have been created in Christ Jesus to do good deeds, |
2:10.9 | which God foreordained for you to do. In other words, in Christ, all of our days and all of our deeds may be good for |
2:21.6 | someone and for something. And it is along these lines that we've been thinking as we have |
2:27.7 | looked together primarily at the third chapter of Titus. And as we've been studying this, |
2:33.9 | we have noticed that this is, if you like, |
2:36.6 | the recurring emphasis, the striking theme, the melody line that runs through all of the |
2:44.3 | contrapuntal motion that is represented in the surrounding information. In chapter three and in verse 8, I want you, he says to Titus, |
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