Living on Dead–End Street (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Salvation appeals to most, but some find the commitment to follow Jesus too restrictive. They prefer to live life on their own terms now and consider faith closer to life’s end. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg warns about the danger of this presumption.
-----------------------------------------
• Click here and look for "FROM THE SERMON" to stream or read the full message.
• This program is part of the series ‘A Study in 1 & 2 Samuel, Volume 4’
• Learn more about our current resource, request your copy with a donation of any amount.
• If you listened to Truth For Life on Google Podcast, you can now listen to the daily program on YouTube Music.
Helpful Resources
- Learn about God's salvation plan
- Read our most recent articles
- Subscribe to our daily devotional
Follow Us
YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | Twitter
This listener-funded program features the clear, relevant Bible teaching of Alistair Begg. Today’s program and nearly 3,000 messages can be streamed and shared for free at tfl.org thanks to the generous giving from monthly donors called Truthpartners. Learn more about this Gospel-sharing team or become one today. Thanks for listening to Truth For Life!
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do Maybe you know someone who's not hostile to the idea of religion, but they find the idea of |
| 0:32.0 | following Jesus to be restrictive at this point in their life. |
| 0:36.1 | They want to live life on their own terms, and they'll give faith more serious thought later. |
| 0:43.2 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out how dangerous that kind of presumption can be. |
| 0:48.3 | Alistairbegg is teaching from First Samuel Chapter 28, |
| 0:52.0 | where in verses 3 through 25. |
| 0:55.0 | And so he and two of his bodies, two men, verse 8, came to the woman by night. |
| 1:07.0 | Of course they did. Of course it was night. |
| 1:10.0 | His request is very clear. |
| 1:13.0 | Divine for me by a spirit, he said, and bring up for me whomever I shall name to you. Now what a response on the part of the woman. How ironic is |
| 1:28.9 | this? The woman said to him, surely you know what Saul has done, that he has cut off all the mediums |
| 1:36.5 | in the necromancers. He says, you know, we're not supposed to be doing this here. The King, he had an edict on this. No salsa, don't even worry about that. |
| 1:48.0 | Oh, as the Lord lives, he swore to her by the Lord. As the Lord lives, no punishment shall come to you for this thing. |
| 1:56.8 | He has got no basis upon which to make the promise. |
| 1:59.6 | He is no basis by which he can make that kind of pronouncement. It is incongruous at the slightest. |
| 2:08.3 | The shameful incongruity of that reply, as the Lord lives, no punishment shall come to you for this. |
| 2:15.0 | In other words, including the Lord in his lies. |
| 2:19.0 | The Midrash in the Jewish writings they capture this incongruity when they write |
| 2:26.7 | whom did Saul resemble at this moment a woman who is with her lover and swears by the life of her husband. |
| 2:37.0 | That is the level of the incongruity. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Alistair Begg, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Alistair Begg and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.