The You're going to Do you ever wish you could take a peek inside the notes of the pages in Alister Begg's Bible?

Well today we're in for a treat on Truth for Life weekend.

Alister is sharing some personal and practical lessons he's gleaned

for many decades spent pouring over God's word.

Today's message is titled,

Notes from the flyleaf of my Bible.

The things that I want to share with you are things that are pressingly important to me.

They are personal things, they are biblical truths, they are

necessary matters.

I have always appreciated the individual who can turn a phrase

and indeed apt phrases have registered with me throughout all of my life.

I like for example the review in the played, he wrote these words he played the king as if he knew that someone was

waiting in the wings to play the ace. In other words he didn't do much of a job of it at all. Now on account of that, I want to give to you one or two of the

statements that have become and remain for me foundational in my life. Let me turn in somewhat random

order then to the flyleaf of my Bible and begin with this statement. It's from CT Stud who was a missionary. If Jesus Christ

be God and died for me, then no sacrifice that I could ever make for him could ever be too great.

In the words of Paul and Philippians 3 he writes but whatever was to my prophet I now

consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more I consider everything a loss compared to the

surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus, my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish that I may gain Christ

and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law,

but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith. I want to know Christ and the power of

his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so somehow to attain to the

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