Good News in a Bad News World (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 25 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Naaman had wealth, power, and prestige. Yet all his success was overshadowed by leprosy and the inability to cure himself. Hear Naaman’s story, and discover how each of us faces a similar dilemma. That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're There's a man in the Old Testament, a man named Naman, who had wealth and power and prestige, |
| 0:30.7 | and yet in spite of all of this his success was overshadowed by his leprosy which left |
| 0:36.2 | him helpless to remedy his own situation. |
| 0:39.5 | We'll hear today about Naaman's story on Truth for Life weekend and find out how each of us faces a similar |
| 0:46.4 | dilemma. |
| 0:47.4 | Alistir Beg is teaching a message he's titled Good News in a bad news world. |
| 0:55.0 | 2 Kings 5 and verse 1. |
| 1:00.0 | Now Naman was commander of the Army of the King of Adam. He was a great man in the sight of his master and highly regarded. |
| 1:12.0 | Because through him the Lord had given victory to |
| 1:14.8 | Adam. He was a valiant soldier, but he had leprosy. Now bands from |
| 1:21.5 | Aram had gone out and taken captive a young girl from Israel, and she served |
| 1:26.6 | Neyman's wife. She said to her mistress, if only my master would see the Prophet who is in Sumeria, he would cure him of his leprosy. |
| 1:36.0 | Naman went to his master and told him what the girl from Israel had said. |
| 1:41.0 | By all means go, the king of Arram replied, I will send a letter to the King of Israel. |
| 1:47.0 | So Naman left, taking with him ten talents of silver, six thousand sheckels of gold, and 10 sets of clothing. The letter that he took to the King of Israel read, |
| 1:57.0 | with this letter I am sending my servant Naeman to you, so that you may cure him of his leprosy. As soon as the King of Israel read the letter, |
| 2:06.7 | he tore his robes and said, Am I God? Can I kill and bring back to life? Why does this fellow send someone to me to be cured of his leprosy? |
| 2:17.0 | See how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me? |
| 2:21.0 | When Elisha, the man of God, heard that the King of Israel had torn his robes, he sent |
| 2:25.8 | him this message. |
| 2:26.8 | Why have you torn your robes? |
| 2:29.5 | Make the man come to me and he will know that there is a prophet in Israel. So Naman went with his |
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