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Truth For Life Daily Program

“So Do Not Fear…” (Part 2 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Sometimes, despite fervent prayers, God doesn’t change our difficult circumstances. Does that mean He’s ignoring our prayers? How should we respond? Learn the biblical antidote to fear and anxiety when you study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.

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The Some Sometimes in spite of verveant prayers God does not change our difficult

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circumstances. So does that mean he's ignoring our prayers? How should we respond?

0:36.0

Alistairbegg provides answers for us today on Truth for Life as he teaches from the book of Isaiah he's titled today's

0:44.4

message so do not fear.

0:59.8

Look at the final verses of chapter 41. I look but there is no one. No one among them to give counsel. No one to give an answer when I ask them. See they are all false.

1:07.5

Their deeds amount to nothing. Their images are but wind and confusion. What a sorry picture of the pitiable plight of our culture. He says they need a voice from outside but the voice that I have

1:28.2

sent from outside they will not listen to. They need a power beyond themselves but the power that I have

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provided. They will not acknowledge their need of. I am amazed at the privilege of having my eyes open to the truth of God's word.

1:51.0

This is no time for those who have begun to understand the Bible and God's grace in all of its wonder and of its truth to be silent.

1:59.5

It is a day of good news and we dare not hold our peace because our friends and our neighbors around

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us are living in this chaos. They are without God and without hope in the world.

2:15.0

And some of you may be here this morning,

2:17.0

and you're saying,

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what right is he to say that of me?

2:20.0

My dear friend, it is the Bible that describes you and your experience confirms it.

2:28.0

Unless there has come to your life this great distinction that is there in verse 8 whereby we are described as the children of

2:36.5

Abraham.

2:37.5

Oh he says Israel my servant Jacob whom I have chosen you descendants of Abraham my friend. I want to tell my Jewish

2:46.0

friends that. I want the opportunity to tell them, listen, I'm one of Abraham's boys. They say no you can't possibly be.

2:55.0

Yes I say I have it on the strongest authority.

2:58.0

Yes I am. I am a child of Abraham. I want you to know that. Galatians chapter 3, consider Abraham. He believed God, verse 6. It was credited to him as righteousness. Okay.

3:10.0

verse 7. Understand then that those who believe are children of Abraham.

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