What Is Your Legacy? (Part 2 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 4 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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If you’re familiar with the Bible, you’ve likely heard about the apostle Paul. But Paul mentioned many other individuals whom you may not recall—some helpful to his ministry, others harmful. Review their legacies along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | It's a good. |
| 0:03.0 | The If you're even a little familiar with the New Testament, you've likely heard about the Apostle Paul and his gospel ministry. |
| 0:31.1 | In the closing verses of Paul's final letter, he mentions many other men and women whose names you might not recall, some |
| 0:39.1 | who were helpful to his ministry, others who were harmful, and today on Truth for Life |
| 0:44.0 | weekend, Alistair Begg explores their legacies. |
| 0:52.3 | Now, let's just look at those who left a harmful legacy here in Two Timothy. |
| 0:58.2 | I don't want to belabor the point. I just want to draw your attention to them, and you can follow this up with your own homework. |
| 1:03.8 | This is a sort of thumbnail sketch. It's not an in-depth study. |
| 1:07.9 | Verse 15 of chapter 1, we have these two characters, Fygelis and Hermogenes. |
| 1:15.9 | Imagine having only one mention in the whole of the Bible, and this is it. You only get one |
| 1:20.8 | line in the Bible, and you're in there as a deserter. That's your legacy. Hey, good news, Fijelis. |
| 1:26.7 | You're in Paul's second letter to Timothy. I am. Yes, bad news. You're in as a deserter. Whoa. See, because you can only write, if you're going to be true, what is true? And if Paul had written about Fy Jeis and Hermogenes and said, I'm so thankful for |
| 1:46.0 | our high jealous and homogenes, and he made up a bunch of bologna about them, the people who read the |
| 1:50.5 | letter said, that's bogus. Why would he even say that about these characters? These characters were |
| 1:55.1 | worthless. They bailed on Paul. Why would he do that? He couldn't do it. It was his legacy, |
| 2:02.8 | Fy jealous and Hermogenes. |
| 2:08.2 | They deserted me. They were one of a larger group, but maybe they were the ringleaders. |
| 2:14.3 | Go to the 17th verse of chapter 2, and you have Hymenaeus and Phyletus. |
| 2:19.7 | Not described in the most glowing terms, I think you will admit. Their teaching will spread like gangrene, like sepsis from a wound, ugly, disgusting thought, and among them are hymenius and |
| 2:27.7 | phyletus who have wandered away from the truth. When you're around these people, they give you blood |
| 2:32.5 | poisoning, he says. That's their legacy. |
| 2:36.3 | Anybody that comes in contact with them has to have pieces of themselves chopped off. |
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