Alistair Begg :: Personal Life of the Preacher / Discussion Panel

Preach the Word, Session 5. Order the entire conference on DVD at www.preachtheword.org.

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[MultiHannah1995]

Excellent preacher/teacher. God certainly uses this man...He has given Alistair quite a gift.

[Azishome]

@MultiHannah1995 Come on, Brother. I am a Pre-Trib, Premillinneal Dispensationalist. And I am an Alistair Begg student of the Gospel.

I will listen to his Eschatology, and he is so right on so many points.

But when we disagree, I thank God that the Gospel is being preached.

I hope you are being humorous and not contentious.

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffisbored13 And the first thing he brought up was all of the sickening displays of bragging and chest-thumping going on in the music department. And he pointed out that if a person truly IS a good musician, he or she won't have to brag about it. His or her music will speak for itself. (THAT shut a lot of us up, I think, because it's true!) (Cont'd)

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 said Christian won't have to brag to anyone about it; the Holy Spirit will make it readily apparent by causing the believer to produce good fruits. (Luke 6:43) Instead, if we must boast about something, let us boast in our God and in the Lord Jesus Christ! (Romans 5:2,11)

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 If there is anything good coming from one who is in Christ, it is only because God the Father, Jesus Christ the Son and the Holy Spirit are working within and through that individual. And, again, if that IS happening, (Cont'd)

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 Similarly, if a person truly is a Christian, they will not have to brag about their Christianity. Instead, you will recognize them by the fruits they produce. (Galatians 5:19-26) And, in truth, a Christian SHOULD recognize that there is NOTHING, in and of themselves, over which they can brag. We are all sinners and there is NOTHING good about us!  (Matthew 19:17a, Mark 10:18, Romans 3:9-18) (Cont'd)

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 So, during one of the weekly meetings of the Music Students' Association, one of our professors--Tim Danielson, a meek, seemingly timid man who, it seemed to me, hardly ever said two words to any of us unless he had to--got up in front of everyone and announced that he had something to say about some goings-on in the music department that were bothering him. (Cont'd)

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 When I was in music school in Texas, something happened that parallels what you were talking about when you said "[they] make their Christianity so obvious." There were a lot of good musicians in my school who'd had various accomplishments and successes under their belts and it seemed that, at one point, there was a lot of bragging and chest-thumping going around in the music department, which is a bad thing because it breeds resentment, LOTS of resentment. (Cont'd)

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 But keep in mind that your perception of some of these people may only be just that: your perception. And sometimes perceptions can be a bit flawed or skewed, depending on a lot of factors. So don't be too quick to judge. Ask God for discernment (James 1:4) and then only judge between right and wrong. And pray for those people, too, because if they are erring, they need all the prayers they can get.

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 As far as other Christians who, as you say, try to make their Christianity so obvious...man looks on the outward appearance, but God looks on the heart. (1st Samuel 16:7) And Jesus talks about those kinds of people in Matthew 6:1-5 and He says that those people have their reward in full, right now, because all they were after anyways was the praise of men and not the approval of God. Well, they got the praise of men, so they had all the reward they would ever get.

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 and ask ourselves, "What if God were to deal with ME for MY sin in that way?" In other words, what if God were to deal with ME for MY sins against Him and others in the manner in which I have dealt with others for their sins against me? It's a sobering thought.

[rickyfan3956]

@jeffsbored13 You're right, though; we are not to judge people to condemn them. We are only to judge between right and wrong and to speak the truth in love, not condemnation. When we are tempted to condemn other people for their sins--past or present, repented of or unrepented of--or when we are tempted to respond in kind when someone mistreats us, we need to do as I heard Pastor Begg say on the radio the other day (Cont'd)