One Faith (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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To grow plants, you don’t just toss seeds in dirt and hope they take root; you nurture them and monitor for signs of growth. Faith is similar. What’s the evidence that it’s taken root? How can we help it grow? Find out on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | When you |
| 0:07.0 | When you plant a seed, you don't just toss it into the dirt and hope it takes root, you nurture it with adequate water and sunlight. You monitor it for signs of growth. Faith is similar. What is the evidence that faith has taken root and what can we do |
| 0:41.4 | to help our faith grow? That's what we'll hear about today on Truth for Life as Alistair |
| 0:46.6 | Begg continues. Our study in the book of Ephesians, we're in chapter four, and we're focusing |
| 0:51.5 | today on verse 5. |
| 1:00.9 | I'm going to ask you about your faith. |
| 1:04.4 | Are you a person of faith? |
| 1:05.4 | Say, oh yes. |
| 1:08.0 | They say, well, what is your thing? |
| 1:11.4 | Are you telling me? Say, well, I can, I'm not going to sing it to you, but I can give it to you in a song. |
| 1:16.8 | Okay, go ahead. |
| 1:18.3 | So you'll tell him, you say, my faith has found a resting place, not in device or creed. |
| 1:25.2 | I trust the ever-living one, His wounds for me shall plead." |
| 1:30.3 | They're going to go, what? You're going to say, then you'll tell him, the whole story |
| 1:37.3 | of the Bible is about sacrifice, about substitution. You can work your way through all the stories |
| 1:43.8 | that you learned at Sunday |
| 1:44.8 | school, pointing to the one who was to come, who would take the place of sinners. And then |
| 1:50.4 | you can tell them. My faith is resting in the Word, the living Word of God. On what basis |
| 1:57.8 | are you being saved? On the basis of what Jesus has done. |
| 2:02.6 | Not the basis in what we're doing, and certainly not on the basis of how we're doing. |
| 2:07.9 | The answer to the question, how am I acceptable before God, is the same all day every day, |
| 2:13.0 | on the strength of what another has done. |
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