The Profitable Word
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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What is the Bible to you? Is it a historical record, a book of wisdom, a guide for moral living—or more? Study along with Truth For Life as we begin a series called ‘The Work of the Word,’ where Alistair Begg explores Scripture’s authority and usefulness.
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| 0:00.0 | The What's the Bible to you? Is it an historical record, a book of wisdom, a guide for moral and ethical living, or is it something more? Today on Truth for Life |
| 0:36.4 | we're beginning a series called The Work of the Word and we'll explore |
| 0:40.4 | scripture's authority and usefulness. |
| 0:43.8 | Alistairbegg is teaching from 2 Timothy chapter 3. |
| 0:47.1 | We're looking at verses 16 and 17. Paul is preparing Timothy his young son in the faith for the day when he will |
| 1:00.3 | no longer be there and if he is going to discharge all the duties of his ministry, |
| 1:06.2 | to quote verse 5 of chapter 4, at least to quote it in the NIV and the ESV, which many of you will have in front of you. It simply reads, |
| 1:15.0 | fulfill your ministry. If Timothy is going to be able to fulfill the ministry as God intends, |
| 1:21.0 | then it is, as Paul has pointed out in these verses, crucially |
| 1:26.1 | important that he continues in what he has learned and in what he has become convinced of. |
| 1:35.7 | Earlier he says to him, |
| 1:37.2 | I want you to follow the pattern of sound words |
| 1:41.2 | that I gave to you. And then following that picture he says and I want you to guard the good |
| 1:46.8 | deposit that was entrusted to you. You see, by the time you get to your 30s and some of you are in your 30s, young folks in your 30s or maybe in your 20s, younger even than that. |
| 1:59.0 | And you say, well I was here in the early days, I went to the Sunday school program and so on and |
| 2:05.3 | I came to believe in Jesus let me just ask you how are you doing in your mid 30s? |
| 2:10.9 | You've prepared to acknowledge that there are temptations all around you to |
| 2:15.9 | devalue the Bible because of the influence of a world that is syncretistic and pluralistic, |
| 2:21.6 | that it is a challenge to hold the line, that there are temptations and dangers |
| 2:27.2 | that beset you not only from outside of you, but inside of you, that it is imperative that you, if you are a faithful follower of Jesus, that |
| 2:36.0 | we together then make sure that we hold to the pattern of sound words that we guard this |
| 2:41.6 | good deposit that has been entrusted into our care. |
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