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Truth For Life Daily Program

Preaching the Gospel from Ecclesiastes

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

Religion & Spirituality, Alister, Truth, Bible, Parkside, Allister, Begg, Truthforlife, Teaching, Alistair, Christianity, For, Life

4.84.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Some questions about our existence have plagued men and women since time began. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg explores those questions and teaches us how we can find the hope of the Gospel in the Old Testament book of Ecclesiastes.

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0:00.0

The You're going to do you.

0:13.0

Do you do you do you do you do

0:15.0

do you do Questions about our existence have plagued men and women since the beginning of time.

0:31.3

And today on Truth for Life Weekend,

0:32.7

Alister Beg explores these questions and their answers,

0:36.4

demonstrating how we can find the hope of the Gospel

0:39.6

in the Old Testament Book of Ecclesiasties.

0:42.8

Alister is looking today at chapter 12.

0:47.0

Where did we come from? Who are we? Where are we going?

0:57.0

Questions that are in the minds of men and women with relative frequency when they either lie in

1:07.5

their beds or fly in turbulence on a plane or view the arrival of tiny children or watch the encroachments of Alzheimer's take a loved

1:22.3

one into that strange place.

1:26.4

My brief in these three mornings

1:28.0

is to think about preaching the gospel,

1:30.6

but the challenge of preaching the gospel always is the challenge of bringing the divine

1:35.2

content of the message into the human context in which that message is to be delivered. We have God's word to us by way of

1:46.9

revelation. We have the immediate environment and world in which we live and then we have the challenge, the privilege, the opportunity, the responsibility

1:56.5

to try somehow or another to bridge those two islands and to make contact with those who are our listeners.

2:06.8

And we might use three questions

2:09.7

as a means of unpacking what is essentially the message of the preacher or the professor

2:17.8

here in the book of Ecclesiastus.

2:20.8

So first of all, we think in terms of the very question of origins, the question of origins,

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