The Divine Fulcrum (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Scripture is clear that God is sovereign over everything. What role, if any, do we play in the events of our lives? We’ll think this through as we follow the unfolding saga between King David and his renegade son on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bible makes it clear God is sovereign over all things. |
| 0:28.3 | So what role, if any, do we play in the events of our own lives? |
| 0:32.6 | We'll think through this today with Alistair Begg on Truth for Life as we follow the unfolding saga |
| 0:38.3 | between King David and his renegade son Absalom. |
| 0:47.1 | Let me invite you to turn to 2nd Samuel and to Chapter 17 and to follow along as I read from here. |
| 1:00.6 | To Samuel 17 and verse 1. |
| 1:07.3 | Moreover, Hitha fell said to Absalom, Let me choose 12,000 men, and I will arise and pursue David |
| 1:16.1 | tonight. |
| 1:17.6 | I will come upon him while he's weary and discouraged and throw him into a panic, and all the people |
| 1:24.0 | who are with him will flee. |
| 1:26.0 | I will strike down only the king, and I will bring all the people who are with him will flee. I will strike down only the king, and I will |
| 1:30.0 | bring all the people back to you as a bride comes home to her husband. You seek the life of only |
| 1:36.7 | one man, and all the people will be at peace. And the advice seemed right in the eyes of Absalom and all the elders of Israel. |
| 1:47.5 | Then Absalom said, call Hushai the archite also, and let us hear what he has to say. |
| 1:54.6 | And when Hushai came to Absalom, Absalom said to him, thus has Ahithafel spoken, shall we do as he says? If not, you speak. |
| 2:06.8 | Then Hushai said to Absalom, this time the counsel that Ahithel has given is not good. |
| 2:13.4 | Hishai said, you know that your father and his men are mighty men, and that they are enraged like a bear robbed of her cubs in the field. |
| 2:23.5 | Besides, your father is expert in war. He will not spend the night with the people. |
| 2:29.7 | Behold, even now he has hidden himself in one of the pits or in some other place. |
| 2:35.6 | And as soon as some of the people fall at the first attack, whoever hears it will say, |
| 2:41.0 | there has been a slaughter among the people who follow Absalom. |
| 2:45.0 | Then even the valiant men, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, |
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