Saying No to the Old Life (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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What does it mean to be a Christian? Are you merely a cleaned-up version of your old self? Learn what God is doing with those He’s redeemed, and discover how you can tell if He’s at work in you. That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, you're going to do you do. |
| 0:13.0 | Oh, do you do. What does it mean to be a Christian? Are you simply a cleaned up version of your old self? Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg begins a study in the book of Ephesians where we'll learn what |
| 0:37.2 | God does with those he's redeemed and how we can tell if he's truly at work in our lives. |
| 0:44.0 | I invite you to turn with me to Ephesians and to chapter 4 and we'll read from the 17th verse. |
| 1:01.0 | Ephesians 417. Now this I say and testify in the Lord that you must no longer walk as the |
| 1:10.1 | Gentiles do in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their |
| 1:16.3 | understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in |
| 1:21.6 | them due to their hardness of heart. |
| 1:26.3 | They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, |
| 1:32.0 | greedy to practice every kind of impurity. But that is not the way you learn |
| 1:38.0 | Christ, assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, |
| 1:44.8 | to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life, |
| 1:50.1 | and is corrupt through deceitful desires, |
| 1:53.5 | and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds |
| 1:57.5 | and to put on the new self |
| 1:59.5 | created after the likeness of God |
| 2:02.3 | in true righteousness and holiness. |
| 2:07.0 | Amen. |
| 2:08.0 | A brief prayer. |
| 2:19.6 | Now Spirit of God descend upon our hearts, wean them from earth, and through all their pulses move and speak to our weakness, mighty as thou art. |
| 2:27.9 | And help us love thee as we ought to love. For Jesus sake. Amen. Well those of you who are visiting with us will |
| 2:38.5 | discover that we are here in Ephesians in our studies and it is important that as we keep coming back to the book |
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