Gideon: God’s Choice (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 23 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When teaming up to face a daunting challenge, it’s only natural to want a fearless leader and strong, talented teammates. Alistair Begg points out that the seemingly obvious choices aren’t always God’s choice. Find out why when you listen to Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a good. |
| 0:03.0 | You know, If you're putting together a team that's going to face a significant challenge, |
| 0:28.1 | it's only natural to want a wise and fearless leader and the strongest and most talented teammates. |
| 0:34.7 | On Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg takes us to the story of Gideon |
| 0:38.5 | to point out that the seemingly obvious choices aren't always God's choices. Today, we'll |
| 0:45.4 | find out why. Can I invite you to turn to judges? |
| 1:01.4 | And our focus this morning is to be in Judges Chapter 7. |
| 1:12.4 | If the preoccupation in Judges Chapter 6 is with the fleece, then the preoccupation of most people in Judges Chapter 7 is about the way the people drank the water. And if we are guilty of ignoring the context in Chapter 6 and squeezing |
| 1:19.7 | the fleece, then many of us have also preached somewhat dreadful sermons on why it was that |
| 1:25.7 | people lapped rather than knelt down to drink. And I don't want |
| 1:31.7 | to fall foul of that this morning, and I don't want any of you who were preparing a message on |
| 1:35.6 | Judges 7 to go back and change it for Sunday, especially if it was about the way that people |
| 1:40.0 | were drinking the water. But it's really possible for us, as we said yesterday, that in coming to |
| 1:45.8 | passages of scripture with which we are familiar, our very familiarity with the text prevents us |
| 1:52.0 | from doing justice to the text. And one of the things that I'm trying to teach myself the longer I go |
| 1:57.8 | in pastoral ministry, and with the privilege of week by week preaching is the |
| 2:02.9 | necessity of coming to the text with a spirit of agnosticism. That is, not with a spirit of unbelief, |
| 2:11.0 | but with the spirit of, I don't know what this means. When we always come to the text, believing we |
| 2:16.5 | know what it means, we tend then not to look at it |
| 2:20.3 | with the eyes of faith, nor to look at it with the eyes of expectancy, but simply to look for the |
| 2:27.3 | usual familiar themes, which many of us have known from our infancy. And as a result, what we do is reiterate again the same kind of emphasis |
| 2:37.1 | that we've heard before. Now, where those emphasis are right, then of course it is good for them to be |
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