Planning Properly (Part 1 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 7 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
We make plans regularly, whether for big events or daily schedules. Plans generally help us stay organized and be properly prepared. But when does planning become presumptuous? Hear Scripture’s answer when you listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us make plans all the time. |
| 0:28.9 | Whether it's scheduling a business meeting or booking a vacation, organizing a |
| 0:33.3 | get-together with family or friends, plans help us be properly prepared. |
| 0:39.7 | But when does planning become presumption? |
| 0:43.2 | Alistair Begg takes us to the Book of James today on Truth for Life to find the answer. |
| 0:48.0 | He's titled this message Planning Properly. |
| 0:56.4 | We read from verse 13, James chapter 4. |
| 1:02.1 | Now listen you who say today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city. |
| 1:07.0 | Spend a year there carry on business and make money. |
| 1:11.1 | Why? |
| 1:12.1 | You do not even know what will happen tomorrow. |
| 1:15.5 | What is your life? |
| 1:16.5 | You're a miss that appears for a little while and then vanishes. |
| 1:21.0 | You are to say if it is the Lord's will we will live and do this or that. |
| 1:27.3 | As it is you boast and brag all such boasting is evil. |
| 1:33.2 | Anyone then who knows the good he ought to do and doesn't do it sins. |
| 1:40.1 | Now a prayer together before we look at this. |
| 1:44.8 | We pray, O God, that you will now speak through your word the Bible and in such a way that |
| 1:50.4 | we lose sight of the human communicator and find that we're hearing from you the living |
| 1:55.9 | God. |
| 1:58.7 | This is our humble earnest expectation and we pray in Jesus' name, Amen. |
| 2:09.1 | While our studies so far in James have I think proved beyond reasonable doubt that the |
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