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you know, It's only natural to want to seek revenge or to vindicate ourselves when we feel we've been unfairly wronged.

But God's word teaches something completely different.

Today on Truth for Life we'll learn how it's possible and why it's necessary to rise

above our natural inclinations. Alistair Begg is teaching from Genesis chapter 40. He begins,

though, with the New Testament reference in the book of Hebrews.

Turn back a couple of pages to Hebrews chapter 11 and the great heroes of the faith,

the great picture gallery of those who are following Christ.

And as he goes through and identifies different portraits by name,

he eventually comes to a more generic statement regarding a great glut of people who had suffered unjustly for Christ. And he says in verse 36

of Hebrews 11, Some face jeers and flogging, while still others were chained and put in prison. They were stoned,

they were sawn in two, they were put to death by sword, they went about in sheepskins and

goatskins, destitute, persecuted and ill-treated. The world was not worthy of them. They wandered in

deserts and mountains and in caves and in holes in the

ground. Why? Because of their commitment to Jesus Christ. Not because they had done bad things,

but because they were committed to doing good things. Not because they

had brought down upon themselves rightful justice, but that they had brought down upon themselves

the bowls of human wrath. Where did we get the idea? Where did we get a Christianity where Jesus does all the dying? Where did we get a idea? Where did we get a Christianity where Jesus does all the dying?

Where did we get a Christianity where Jesus is the only one that bears a cross?

A Christianity where Jesus is the only one who wears a crown.

I'll tell you what, we didn't get it in the New Testament.

You say, well, I don't know what you're on about, frankly, because this is a very nice place,

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