The Best Is Yet to Be (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 25 July 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Sometimes it seems like evil is winning the cosmic battle against good. The Bible, however, assures us otherwise. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg looks at how God uses His church in the battle and why this causes angels to rejoice and demons to shudder.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes when you hear the news, you hear all that's going on in our world, it can |
| 0:28.6 | seem like evil is winning the cosmic battle against good. But the Bible tells us |
| 0:33.7 | otherwise, and today on Truth for Life we'll learn how God is using His church |
| 0:39.2 | in the midst of the battle and why this causes angels to rejoice and demons to |
| 0:45.0 | shutter. Alistair Begg is continuing our study in Ephesians with a message he's |
| 0:50.2 | titled, The Best Is Yet To Be. |
| 0:54.2 | Well I invite you to turn to Ephesians chapter 3 where our focus this morning is on verse |
| 1:06.2 | 11 and 12 and 13. This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ |
| 1:14.6 | Jesus our Lord in whom we have boldness and access with confidence through our faith |
| 1:21.1 | in Him. So I ask you not to lose heart over what I am suffering for you which is your glory. |
| 1:29.0 | Father we pray that with our Bibles open before us that the Spirit of God will |
| 1:35.4 | quicken us, illumine our minds, teach us, change us, accomplish the purposes that you have |
| 1:46.4 | appointed for your Word even in these moments. Now we pray in Christ's name. Amen. |
| 1:55.4 | Some of you will immediately recognize these words as I was walking down the street one |
| 2:01.4 | day. A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was on my watch. And I said, |
| 2:11.4 | does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care? And if so I can't imagine |
| 2:20.3 | why. Depending on your age you're saying I never heard that in my life or you're saying I can't |
| 2:27.7 | believe that was 1969 at Robert Lann with Chicago. It was representative of the view of the world, |
| 2:35.8 | the view of the world that was not locked in the late 60s. It remains today. James Taylor in a |
| 2:41.8 | recent album tracks down the same line in a song called The Secret of Life. Part of the lyric is |
| 2:47.8 | as follows, the secret of life is enjoying the passage of time. Any fool can do it. There ain't |
| 2:54.7 | nothing to it. Now the thing about time is that time isn't really real. It's just your point of |
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