“And for Their Sake…”
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Sometimes, it’s easy to take a spouse or best friend for granted; it’s good to regularly recall why you love them. It’s also possible to take Jesus’ love for granted—so on Truth For Life, Alistair Begg is pausing to ensure we don’t do so!
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes. Sometimes it's easy to take a long-standing relationship, like a spouse or a best friend for granted. |
| 0:30.4 | It's good to pause and recall what it is you love about the other person. |
| 0:35.6 | Similarly, it's possible to take the gospel for granted. |
| 0:39.2 | So today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:40.8 | Alistair Begg helps us pause to reflect on the extent of Jesus' love, |
| 0:45.9 | so we don't take that for granted. |
| 0:48.5 | Let's open our Bibles to John Chapter 17. |
| 0:56.7 | Well, the 19th verse it is there, and for their sake, says Jesus, that is for the sake of |
| 1:03.6 | his disciples, expressly those who are in earshot of him, and all who will believe on the word that they proclaim, which becomes |
| 1:13.6 | an expensive number, he says, and for their sake, I consecrate myself that they also may be |
| 1:20.6 | sanctified in the truth. |
| 1:23.6 | Jesus, in his love for his disciples, is revealing his love in so many different ways, but |
| 1:31.6 | he is revealing his love for them in preparing them for what lies ahead. |
| 1:37.2 | And just the little phrase with which 19 begins, that's 1719, points us in this direction, |
| 1:44.0 | doesn't it? And for their sake. And for their sake. |
| 1:49.5 | In other words, Jesus, in light of all that awaits him, is thinking more about them than he's |
| 1:56.0 | thinking about himself. And I want simply to do this. First of all, to encourage you, along with me, |
| 2:06.0 | to consider the love of Jesus for his own. Just listen to me as I try as best I can to remind us |
| 2:15.8 | all of the extent of how much Jesus actually loves us. That's point one, |
| 2:24.7 | that we might consider the love of Jesus for his own. Now, in 13.1, where it says that he loved his |
| 2:32.8 | own, you know the gospel, and you know that his own is |
| 2:37.4 | already mentioned in the opening narrative, in the opening statement, the prologue, where |
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