Living on Dead–End Street (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 13 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Some people disregard God until they’re caught up in a crisis, then expect immediate answers to urgent prayers. But will God always answer? We’ll find out as we look at a desperate moment in King Saul’s life, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The There are many people who disregard God until they're facing a crisis and then all of a |
| 0:29.6 | sudden they expect an immediate answer to their urgent prayer. But does God always provide an answer? |
| 0:37.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg tells us about an urgent prayer, King Saul prayed at a desperate moment in his life and we'll see how God responded to him. |
| 0:47.0 | For Samuel and 28. In those days the Philistines gathered their forces for war |
| 0:59.6 | to fight against Israel and Akish said to David, |
| 1:04.6 | understand that you and your men are to go out with me in the army. |
| 1:09.5 | David said to Akish, very well, you shall know what your servant can do. |
| 1:15.0 | And Aikesh said to David, very well, I will make you my bodyguard for life. |
| 1:22.0 | Now Samuel had died and all Israel had mourned for him and buried |
| 1:26.7 | him in Rama, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers |
| 1:32.1 | out of the land. The Philistines assembled and came |
| 1:36.4 | and encamped at Shunum. And Saul gathered all Israel and they encamped at Gilboa. |
| 1:41.8 | When Saul saw the army of the Philistines he was afraid and his |
| 1:46.1 | heart trembled greatly. And when Saul inquired of the Lord, the Lord did not answer him, either by dreams or by Uren or by prophets. |
| 1:59.4 | Then Saul said to his servant, seek out for me a woman who is a medium that I may go to her and inquire of her. |
| 2:06.5 | And his servant said to him, behold there is a medium at Endor. |
| 2:11.3 | So Saul disguised himself and put on other garments and went, he and two men with him. |
| 2:18.3 | And they came to the woman by night and said, Divine for me by a spirit and bring up from me whomever I shall name to you. The woman said to him |
| 2:27.1 | surely you know what Saul has done, how he has cut off the mediums and the necromancers |
| 2:32.1 | from the land. Why then are you laying a trap for my life to bring about my death? |
| 2:39.8 | But Saul swore to her by the Lord. As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come upon you for this thing. |
| 2:47.1 | Then the woman said, whom shall I bring up for you? |
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