Kindness and Goodness (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Simple acts of kindness can be a powerful way to point others to Jesus. But anyone can act nice—so what distinguishes Christian kindness? Learn how to discern supernatural goodness when you listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Simple. Simple acts of kindness can be a powerful way to point others to Jesus. |
| 0:29.5 | But anyone can act nice. |
| 0:31.2 | So what distinguishes Christian kindness from ordinary politeness? |
| 0:36.7 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how to discern whether our goodness is natural or supernatural. |
| 0:43.8 | Alastair Begg is teaching from Galatians chapter 5. |
| 0:52.0 | It is vitally important that we realize that this kindness and goodness is grounded in the character of God. |
| 1:02.6 | In fact, when you read in the New Testament, we jump forward to the New Testament, and Jesus is speaking, encouraging his followers to declare themselves to be truly his followers |
| 1:12.8 | by the way in which they deal with individuals who are not like them at all. |
| 1:17.7 | And he says in Luke chapter 6 and verse 35, that God is kind to the ungrateful and the evil. |
| 1:25.9 | What is God like? He's kind to the ungrateful and the evil. What is God like? He's kind to the ungrateful and the evil. In fact, in our studies |
| 1:32.8 | in Ephesians, we saw, and I hope some of us even remember in Ephesians chapter 2, that God in His grace |
| 1:41.4 | has not only raised us up with Him, that is Jesus, and seated us with him in the |
| 1:46.1 | heavenly places, but He has done so, verse 7, so that in the coming ages, he might do what? |
| 1:54.6 | He might show the immeasurable riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. So in other words, in the age to come, |
| 2:06.4 | in the new heaven and in the new earth, the Father will still be magnifying the wonder of |
| 2:12.9 | his loving kindness towards us, expressed to us in Jesus, so that we will find ourselves actually saying to |
| 2:18.8 | one another in whatever context, isn't it amazing that God was so kind to us? Isn't it amazing |
| 2:25.2 | that God was so good to us? What an amazing thing, that God would love those who didn't love |
| 2:32.2 | him, that God would seek those who were running from him, that God would seek those who were running from him, |
| 2:35.7 | that God would show his kindness in order to soften our hearts and open our eyes and make us |
| 2:42.6 | realize that if we got what we deserved, it would be dreadful and he gives to us something that |
| 2:48.4 | we're entirely undeserving of. It's amazing. |
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