Faithfulness (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Believers are called to be faithful, but even our best efforts fall short of God’s standard. Learn how true faithfulness is cultivated and how to put it into practice. Join Alistair Begg on Truth For Life as he continues a study on the fruit of the Spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Truth for Life where we're studying the fruit of the spirit, and today, Alistair Begg is focusing on faithfulness. |
| 0:32.6 | God calls us as believers to be faithful, but even our best efforts fall short of his holy standard. We'll |
| 0:41.1 | learn today how true faithfulness is cultivated and how we can put it into practice. We're in |
| 0:47.8 | Galatians chapter 5. Stephen Curtis Chapman in his day wrote a little song that went, |
| 0:58.4 | My Redeemer is faithful and true. |
| 1:02.1 | Everything he has said he will do. |
| 1:04.9 | And every morning his mercies are new. |
| 1:07.3 | My Redeemer is faithful and true. |
| 1:14.0 | Why is it that you believe that you will continue to the end? You've professed faith in Jesus Christ. You come through wanderings. You realize |
| 1:18.5 | yourself to be a sinful soul. And what is it that gives you confidence that you will finally |
| 1:23.5 | breast the tape, that you will finish the race, that you will complete the fight. |
| 1:28.0 | What is it? |
| 1:29.7 | The faithfulness of Christ, his faithfulness, because he has promised to bring to completion |
| 1:36.6 | the good work that he has begun within us. |
| 1:39.3 | In fact, when you read of the majesty of it in Romans chapter 8, when Paul writes, he actually uses glorified |
| 1:46.3 | in the past tense. But glorification is still ahead of us. No, he says, those whom he justified, |
| 1:54.2 | those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified, he also glorified. |
| 1:59.7 | But wait a minute, I'm not glorified. |
| 2:02.1 | No, but it's in the past tense. |
| 2:03.5 | Why? |
| 2:04.3 | Because it's absolutely certain on account of his faithfulness. |
| 2:10.4 | What are you going to do in the face of temptation? |
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