Thankfulness: A Mark of Grace (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 26 November 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Headlines often captivate with promises to help change your health, wealth, or appearance. In contrast, the apostle Paul challenged Christians to become what they are. Find out what he meant and how it’s achieved, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:03.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm going to be. |
| 0:08.0 | I'm going to be. Social media posts and online ads are famous for their clickbait headlines that promise to help you change your appearance, give you health or wealth, so on. |
| 0:36.4 | In sharp contrast, the Apostle Paul challenge Christians to become what you are. |
| 0:42.0 | Now, that may sound like a riddle, but today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:44.8 | Alastair Begg explains just what Paul meant and how it's accomplished. |
| 1:12.3 | October 3, 1863, it is the duty of nations as well as of men to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God, to confess their sins and transgressions in humble sorrow, yet with assured hope that genuine repentance will lead to mercy and pardon, and to recognize the sublime truth announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by |
| 1:18.3 | all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord. We know that by His divine law, |
| 1:26.2 | nations like individuals are subject to punishments and chastisements in this world. |
| 1:33.2 | May we not justly fear that the awful calamity of civil war which now desolates the land |
| 1:39.0 | may be a punishment inflicted upon us for our presumptuous sins to the needful end of our national |
| 1:45.9 | reformation as a whole people. What a what a what a what a conception of who God is and his |
| 1:52.4 | plan for the world. He says the civil war may be nothing more than the judgment of God. |
| 1:58.1 | You would be hard pressed to find anyone in the administration suggesting that the |
| 2:02.8 | chaos that is before us today may be an indication of the punishment and wrath of God inflicted upon us |
| 2:10.4 | in order that we might experience the kind of national reformation necessary. Says Lincoln, |
| 2:16.6 | we've been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. |
| 2:19.6 | We've been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We've grown in numbers, wealth, |
| 2:25.2 | and power as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the |
| 2:31.8 | gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, |
| 2:36.9 | and we have vainly imagined in the deceitfulness of our hearts that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. |
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