Understanding the Promise (Part 2 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
The North Star helps orient travelers at sea or in the wild. They’ll likely get lost, however, if they identify the wrong star! Discover where David’s thinking went off course as he sought to “help” the Lord. Listen to 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. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm going to People have often relied on the North Star to orient them as they travel on the sea or in the wild. |
| 0:31.4 | They're likely to get lost, however, if they are looking at the wrong star. |
| 0:36.7 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll discover where King David's thinking went off course |
| 0:41.2 | as he sought to help the Lord. |
| 0:45.0 | Alistur Begg is teaching from 2 Samuel Chapter 7, but he's taking us through rules for interpreting |
| 0:50.9 | Scripture. |
| 0:52.1 | He's already showed us that scripture can be interpreted only by the Holy Spirit, |
| 0:57.0 | and scripture must always be interpreted by Scripture. |
| 1:07.0 | And then thirdly, we interpret what is earlier in light of what comes later or in light of what is fuller. |
| 1:18.6 | That, of course, I think, makes perfect sense. This is why we say to one another that there is a value in reading the Bible backwards. |
| 1:26.6 | Because the way in which God has made |
| 1:29.5 | known his word, the mystery that he has made known. This comes again and again in various places |
| 1:36.7 | in Hebrews and in Chapter 12. And I go here because one of the great questions that is before us in dealing with Second |
| 1:47.3 | Samuel 7 has to do with the city, it has to do with Zion, it has to do with Jerusalem, |
| 1:55.6 | it has to do with a place, and so on. And I can guarantee you that if I were to conduct a survey throughout the listening |
| 2:06.0 | congregation right now, there would be a significant divergence on views in relationship to how |
| 2:13.8 | all of this is fulfilled or will be fulfilled. And many will be saying, that is why we must |
| 2:21.1 | always be looking to what's going on in Jerusalem, that is why we must always be looking |
| 2:26.1 | to what's happening in the Middle East, because it is all about what is there in the Bible. |
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