Gideon: Seeing God’s Strength (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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In the book of Judges, the Israelites ignored God’s instruction, and as a result, they fell into their enemies’ hands. Learn how God was as much in control of His people’s capture as He was of their deliverance. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to In the book of judges, we see the Israelites ignoring God's instruction over and over, |
| 0:30.1 | and as a result, they fill into the hands of their enemies. |
| 0:34.1 | On Truth for Life weekend, Alastur Begg explains how God was as much in control of his people's capture as he was of their deliverance through an unlikely man named Gideon. |
| 0:45.4 | We're picking up the story in Judges, Chapter 6. |
| 0:53.1 | As a culture gets increasingly crazy, common sense is at a premium. |
| 0:59.4 | And as the people of God get increasingly confused, common sense in spiritual, theological, |
| 1:08.4 | biblical terms, is increasingly at a premium. There is in our generation |
| 1:13.3 | an increasing lack of spiritual discernment. As I move around, I find people wandering around |
| 1:20.3 | gone, does anybody here know what's going on? What in the world is going on? God says, |
| 1:27.2 | I'll tell you what's going on. |
| 1:28.1 | You're not listening to me. |
| 1:30.3 | That's the issue in Hebrews. |
| 1:31.8 | That's why you have all these warning passages in Hebrews, is it not? |
| 1:35.0 | What's the great warning in Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 1? |
| 1:39.2 | We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away. |
| 1:51.8 | We've got to pay attention to what we've heard so that we don't drift away. |
| 1:55.6 | And what was the problem with the folks in Chapter 4? |
| 1:58.3 | It was that the message that they heard that they had preached to them |
| 2:01.1 | was of absolutely no value to them because although they heard it, they did not combine it with faith. |
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