Telling the Truth (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Little white lies are often considered harmless and acceptable—but are they? Hear how the Bible addresses this practice, why Jesus calls His followers to a higher standard, and out how it’s possible. That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The We are. We often think of little white lies as harmless and socially acceptable, but are they? |
| 0:31.6 | Today on truth for life we'll find out how the Bible addresses this common practice and learn why Jesus calls his followers to a high standard of truthfulness. |
| 0:42.0 | Alistairbegg is teaching from the book of James. |
| 0:44.6 | We're looking at verse 12 in chapter 5. What James is calling his readers to is three things I think or two things with a third by way of emphasis. |
| 1:04.0 | First of all to say no to duplicity and secondly to say yes to integrity. |
| 1:09.0 | Verbal integrity is what's involved here. |
| 1:12.0 | Truth-telling from the very core of our being. Remember in |
| 1:16.2 | Sam 15, the Samassas, Lord who may dwell in your sanctuary and who may live on your |
| 1:21.5 | holy hill. Answer, he whose walk is blameless and who does what is righteous, |
| 1:27.0 | who speaks the truth from his heart, epicenter truthfulness, core truthfulness. In contrast to the description again in the |
| 1:38.3 | Psalms, Sam 55, the Samm says my companion attacks his friends he violates his covenant listen to this his speech is |
| 1:46.7 | smooth as butter yet war is in his heart. |
| 1:57.0 | His words are more soothing than oil, yet they are drawn swords. |
| 2:02.0 | Okay? So the divorce is between the words that are spoken and the heart |
| 2:09.2 | from which those words proceed. And the call is a call to unconditional truthfulness. |
| 2:17.0 | Christian believers, by God's enabling, in obedience to God's word, are to distance themselves from all |
| 2:29.2 | duplicitous deceitful use of language. The use of language classically characterized during the |
| 2:41.1 | discussions that surrounded the Monica Lewinsky hearings |
| 2:50.0 | vis-à-vis the issues of the White House. And at that point in our culture, we suddenly |
| 2:58.7 | realized that the notions of truth and truth telling were moving significantly from that |
| 3:09.8 | which was based upon an use of objective truth. |
| 3:15.0 | And the inference was that nothing actually in the use of language |
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