The Purposeful Word
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 12 February 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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It’s surprisingly easy to become lax about reading or teaching the Bible. Explore some important warnings and reminders from the apostle Paul, and learn how to get the most out of your time in God’s Word, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The It is surprisingly easy to become lax about reading or even teaching the Bible. |
| 0:31.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Beg explores some important warnings and |
| 0:35.5 | reminders from the Apostle Paul. He explains how to get the most out of our time in |
| 0:40.4 | God's word. We're looking at 2 Timothy chapter 3 focusing on verses 16 and 17. |
| 0:47.0 | Now from the very beginning of this letter Paul has been encouraging and exhorting |
| 0:58.1 | Timothy to be a faithful and useful minister of the gospel. In chapter two he says that some like |
| 1:08.4 | Hymenaeus and Philetes, they've actually swerved from the truth. In chapter 3 he identifies those who are men of |
| 1:16.4 | corrupt mind who are disqualified as far as the faith is concerned and the bad part |
| 1:22.4 | about it or the worst part about it is that |
| 1:24.4 | these individuals are leading other people astray. |
| 1:29.4 | He's going to reach, if you like, the high point of his letter in the beginning of chapter 4 and as Timothy |
| 1:35.5 | anticipates ministering in an environment where people are going to, says Paul, |
| 1:41.2 | turn away from the truth and wander into myths. |
| 1:46.5 | Timothy must be absolutely clear in his heart and mind that if he is going to navigate |
| 1:51.4 | these stormy waters and ensure that he doesn't run aground |
| 1:56.5 | as it were on the sandbars of confusion or wreck the vessel of his life and ministry on the rocks of compromise, |
| 2:08.0 | then he is going to have to pay very careful attention to the words that Paul has provided for him the commitments |
| 2:16.1 | that he is asking Timothy to make. Can I just remind you of them and I hope many of |
| 2:22.3 | you will say got it got it got it |
| 2:24.0 | some of you may have to look again to reinforce it for you but from the very |
| 2:29.2 | beginning he says to Timothy I want you to make sure that you fan into flame the gift of God that is in you through the |
| 2:35.7 | laying on of hands. In other words you have been called to this ministry you didn't |
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