Episode
Confess
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- Thought For Today
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- Jun 1, 2026
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- 204
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Summary
I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Monday morning, the 1st of June, 2026, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today. We start in the Book of Deuteronomy 9:26. This is Moses speaking: “ Therefore I prayed to the Lord, and said: ‘O Lord God, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance whom You have redeemed through Your greatness, whom You have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.” The Lord was so angry with the Children of Israel because they had made a moulded calf out of gold and started to worship it because Moses had taken so long to come down from the mountain. Then we go straight to the Book of Romans 6:23: ” For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Then the last scripture is Luke 23:34: “Then Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” He said that while He was hanging on the cross. You know sin is a terrible thing. It hurts so many people, especially our loved ones. I’m talking about that divorce, I’m talking about that period that you have spent in prison because you stole something, I’m talking about the lies that have got you into so much trouble. It actually damages our testimony. We have nothing to say after that. It breaks my heart when I hear of men and women of God who have done so much for the Lord and then they fall into sin and their whole testimony is wiped out in one night. I remember one man, we know him well, but I’m not going to name him, he was one of the top apologists in the world. He was a man who had the students literally eating out of his hand, and then he dropped the ball, as they say, and overnight his books, his material was taken off all the shelves of ev…