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After Jesus “set his face to go to Jerusalem” (Luke 9:51) and began to count the days to His arrest and crucifixion, the Gospel of Luke tells us of three men that He and His disciples encountered “as they were going along the road” (9:57). We don’t know who these men were, nor do we know what their history with Jesus was. But we know that they were at a moment of decision: Would they follow Jesus, or would they go home again?

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In 1 Corinthians 13:12, referencing what awaits us in eternity, the apostle Paul wrote that “now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.” What would it be like to speak face-to-face with Jesus? The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had just such an encounter as Christ stood on trial before him—an encounter that, as Alistair Begg explains in his sermon “‘What Shall I Do with Jesus?,’” revealed the Son of Man’s majesty even as it brought Pilate to a crucial crossroads:

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No matter where you are in the world, you can now access clear, trustworthy Bible teaching right at your fingertips through the new Truth For Life channel on WhatsApp.

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“Christian, anticipate heaven …. Within a very little time you will be rid of all your trials and your troubles.”
—C.H. Spurgeon

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Imagine the hands of thirteen men at the Last Supper—twenty-six hands passing the bread, passing the cup, running fingers through hair, wiping crumbs from beards, one moment on the lap, the next on the table.

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All ye that pass by, to Jesus draw nigh;
To you is it nothing that Jesus should die?
Your ransom and peace, your surety He is;
Come, see if there ever was sorrow like His.

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The book of Acts is set within the larger story of the outworking of God’s plan to save for Himself a people from every nation––the story that runs from Genesis to Revelation. In Saved: Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Acts, author Nancy Guthrie provides an easy-to-read, theologically insightful guide to this important book in Scripture.

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“Wait for the LORD;
  be strong, and let your heart take courage;
  wait for the LORD!”
Psalm 27:14

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Scripture calls us to a measure of confidence. But what happens when that confidence is misplaced or misdirected? In the garden of Gethsemane, Peter’s self-assurance led him to foolishly attack one of the men who came to arrest Jesus—but later that night, he thrice denied even knowing his Lord and Master. In his sermon “A Question for Peter,” Alistair Begg helps us see the danger that can come on the heels of overconfidence:

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