Planning Properly (Part 2 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 8 September 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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It’s natural, but not biblical, to want to know what the future holds. Find out why we should actually be rejoicing in our ignorance concerning what tomorrow may bring. Join Alistair Begg as he continues a study in the book of James, on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us are predisposed to wishing we knew what the future holds, but that's not |
| 0:29.8 | a biblical way to think. Today on Truth for Life we'll find out why we should |
| 0:34.5 | actually be rejoicing in our ignorance about what tomorrow may bring. |
| 0:41.0 | Alistair Begg is teaching from chapter 4 in the book of James, we're studying |
| 0:45.0 | verses 13 through 17. |
| 0:53.6 | Will it be sunny tomorrow? Rainy. Will thunder clouds come in? Will your flight be |
| 1:01.7 | on time? Will there be sufficient milk in the refrigerator so as you can put it |
| 1:07.2 | on your cereal or will your kids have taken it all before you manage to get to it? |
| 1:13.2 | Now the fight that we do not know the future, which is what he's pointing out here, you |
| 1:16.8 | do not know what will happen tomorrow. That ought to do two things at least for his number |
| 1:21.4 | one, it should humble us. It should humble us. Now if you think about this, you listen |
| 1:27.1 | to the rage of somebody in the airport when the flight is canceled or delayed. And they |
| 1:34.0 | storm around with those big binders and they go to the desk and tell the lady that if |
| 1:41.1 | she was worth anything at all, she would have had this fixed, like she's in charge of |
| 1:45.7 | thunderstorms in Atlanta, you know, that somehow or another, she and her airline and everybody |
| 1:51.7 | associated with the entire United States of America, everything that has to do. And you |
| 1:56.4 | just listen to this, you say, what's up with this guy? I'll tell you what's up with him. |
| 2:00.9 | He's arrogant. He's proud. And he is so consumed with everything that he put in that book |
| 2:10.6 | about who he is, where he's going, what he's going to do, how successful he's going |
| 2:15.9 | to be. And when he's coming back, that the slightest interruption or interference with |
| 2:21.7 | his plans reveals their nature of his heart. And every time impatience and disappointment |
| 2:31.5 | with things, rears his ugly head, it speaks to the self-same thing. One clap of thunder, |
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