Telling the Truth (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 25 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Attempting to deceive by hedging the truth, redefining the language, or being evasive is just as dishonest as telling a blatant lie. Jesus called His followers to be truth tellers. Find out what He meant when you listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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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 telling the truth is about a lot more than not telling a lie. Some people will |
| 0:32.0 | attempt to deceive others by hedging the truth or |
| 0:34.8 | redefining language or being evasive and that's just as dishonest as telling a |
| 0:40.3 | blatant lie. Today on Truth for Life will find out what Jesus meant |
| 0:44.7 | when he called his followers to be truth tellers. |
| 0:47.8 | Alistairbegg starts today in Matthew chapter 5, |
| 0:50.9 | but the focus of our study will be in the book of James in Chapter 5. |
| 0:55.0 | Father, we thank you for the words of the song which we want to be the prayer of our hearts |
| 1:08.6 | that you will open to us, the bread of life, that we might meet with Christ who is the very word of truth and that our |
| 1:18.5 | lives may be changed as a result of our encounter with you by the Holy Spirit through your |
| 1:26.5 | word the Bible and we pray in Jesus name, amen. I invite you to turn with me to Matthew's Gospel chapter 5 and verse 33. |
| 1:41.8 | Jesus is addressing the people that he is called to him in what we refer to routinely as the |
| 1:45.8 | sermon on the mound. |
| 1:49.2 | Again you have heard that it was said to the people long ago do not break your oath but keep the oaths you |
| 1:55.7 | have made to the Lord but I tell you do not swear at all either by heaven for it is |
| 2:01.9 | God's throne or by the earth for it is his footstool |
| 2:05.6 | or by Jerusalem for it is the city of the great king and do not swear by your head |
| 2:12.1 | for you cannot make even one hair white or black. |
| 2:16.3 | Simply let your yes be yes and your no no. |
| 2:21.1 | Everything beyond this comes from the evil one. And then to James and to |
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