Running to Win (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 8 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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You wouldn’t prepare for Olympic competition by simply studying rule books or watching YouTube videos of your sport. You’d train diligently! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explains why similar self-discipline is required to live out a life of faith.
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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 If you wanted to compete in the Olympics you wouldn't prepare by studying the rulebook or watching |
| 0:32.4 | YouTube videos of your favorite sport, |
| 0:34.4 | you would have to train rigorously. |
| 0:36.5 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistairbegg explores a similar illustration from the |
| 0:41.3 | Apostle Paul to find out why such self-discipline |
| 0:44.8 | is required in living a life of faith. |
| 0:49.4 | I invite you to take your Bibles and we'll turn again to 1 Corinthians 9. |
| 1:00.0 | When you have your Bible open then before we turn to the word of the Lord we'll turn in a |
| 1:04.1 | moment of prayer to the Lord of the word. Father thank you for the wonderful |
| 1:10.8 | picture of Jesus the shepherd leading his sheep into the pastures necessary for them. |
| 1:18.7 | May that be our experience now, that the word of truth may be the very food that we need for the journey we're |
| 1:28.0 | about to take. May the Spirit of God be our teacher save us from distractions, from indolence, from faint-heartedness. |
| 1:42.4 | For Jesus sake, we ask it. Amen. |
| 1:49.0 | The focus of our study this morning is, as we read earlier, the final section of Chapter 9 of 1st Corinthians, |
| 1:58.8 | from verse 24 to 27. Sermons without illustrations are essentially akin to houses without windows. It often takes a good illustration to crystallize in our minds the instruction that we have heard. |
| 2:18.0 | A number of people throughout the week have said, that was a great story about that man in San Francisco |
| 2:24.4 | with a fellow who sat down beside him. And it was obvious that the illustration |
| 2:29.4 | registered the point that we were seeking to make in terms of a lesson in adaptability. |
| 2:35.4 | Jesus constantly illustrated the truth that he was teaching and the apostles apparently |
| 2:41.5 | followed his example. When we read the Pauline Epistles, |
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