Saying No to Slander (Part 2 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 5 September 2023

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Gossip is destructive on many levels; it harms the person being slandered, certainly, but it also damages the gossiper and the listener. Learn to identify subtle forms of slander—and resist its lure—when you study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.

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0:00.0	Gossip is destructive on so many levels, certainly harms the person being
0:29.9	slandered, but it also damages the Gossiper and the listener. Today on Truth for
0:36.0	Life, we'll learn how to identify the subtler forms of slander and how to
0:40.9	resist its lure.
0:42.9	Alistair Begg is teaching from James chapter 4. We're looking today at verse 11.
0:48.7	Something has gone badly wrong in the nuclear family when those from the same
1:00.7	bloodline slander one another and something has gone badly wrong in the
1:06.6	spiritual family when the same takes place. That's why from the very beginning of
1:11.2	the Bible God is concerned about these things. In Leviticus, he urges upon his
1:15.9	people, you shall not go up and down as a tail bearer among your people. Do not
1:22.1	go up and down as a tail bearer among your people. Tittle tackle, the tackler, the
1:30.9	little juicy pieces of information. Why not? It's in Congress and it's wrong. We
1:40.9	should never report what may hurt another person unless to conceal it with hurt
1:51.9	worse. We should never report what will hurt another person unless our
1:56.9	concealing of the fact would cause greater havoc. Somebody said when we are
2:03.0	tempted to engage in slander, we should breathe through our noses. You can
2:08.7	drive that on your own while you're driving home. We should keep in mind when we
2:14.9	are interested in receiving the information because remember a slanderous tongue
2:20.6	needs two years that love that information to really do its work. If you've
2:27.6	got some information and you can't tell anybody yet, it's really frustrating,
2:31.9	especially if it's bad and bad news travels fast. Did you hear about so and so?
2:36.2	Don't want to hear. Don't want to hear. Oh, someone else. Someone else. No, it takes
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