Next Stop, Jerusalem (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Prompted by the Spirit to return to Jerusalem, Paul wouldn’t be dissuaded—despite threats of imprisonment. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg traces Paul’s return trip and teaches the importance of Christian fellowship, guidance, and discipleship.
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| 0:00.0 | When the Holy Spirit prompted the Apostle Paul to return to Jerusalem, he couldn't be talked out of it, even though there were threats of imprisonment looming. |
| 0:33.1 | As we follow Paul's return trip today on Truth for Life, we'll learn the importance of Christian fellowship, guidance, and discipleship. |
| 0:42.9 | Alistair Begg is teaching from the opening verses in Acts chapter 21. |
| 0:52.5 | Now, in all of these expressions of hospitality, Luke is making a point. |
| 0:58.0 | He doesn't make it didactically. He doesn't say, now, here is a point about hospitality. |
| 1:04.0 | Here is a point about the nature of fellowship, the importance of relationships. |
| 1:07.0 | It just comes out. You just read it and you say, hey, Paul was really, |
| 1:11.2 | he was really into this stuff. Staying here, going there in this person's house, in that person's |
| 1:16.5 | house. If you think about it, it's true for all of us. If we're serious about Christian |
| 1:23.5 | fellowship, if we find Christian fellowship to be vital to us because of what God has done for us in Jesus. Incidentally, Christian fellowshiphip, if we find Christian Fellowship to be vital to us because of what God |
| 1:28.5 | has done for us in Jesus. |
| 1:30.2 | Incidentally, Christian Fellowship is something far different from like going to a building, |
| 1:36.0 | attending church, getting your ticket stamped. |
| 1:41.3 | It's not about rules. |
| 1:42.3 | It's not about regulations. |
| 1:43.7 | It's not about man's expectations. It's not about structure. It's not about regulations. It's not about man's expectations. |
| 1:45.5 | It's not about structure. |
| 1:46.8 | It's about none of that. |
| 1:48.1 | It's about the importance that we attach to being put together in the company of God's people, |
| 1:54.2 | recognizing that when I have sent myself from that company, |
| 1:58.0 | not only do I deprive myself, but I deprive those whom God intends for me to touch |
| 2:04.5 | by my life, by my love, by my questions, by my prayers. That's the nature of Christian fellowship. |
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