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. Do you ever find yourself frustrated when you're not able to convince others of Jesus' deity?

Or maybe you're the one always challenging others to convince you that Christ really is the

promised Messiah.

Well, today on Truth for Life we'll learn an important lesson from Jesus himself.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the closing verses of John Chapter 8.

Their question is, are you greater than our Father Abraham who died? Jesus does not address that. He picks up on what he's already said in verse 50. Remember

up there in verse 50, when they accuse him of having a demon and so on, he said

very straightforwardly, I don't seek my own glory.

There is one who seeks it, and he is the judge.

Now he comes back to it, now you see in verse 54, if I glorify myself, he says, that would mean nothing. But he says,

I am not without honor, and this glory is not self-given. I didn't come on my own accord,

but I was dispatched. I was sent here. Remember, that somehow

in the mystery of the purposes of God in eternity, the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit,

have set about, if you like, the business of salvation. And this is foundational, biblical doctrine, incidentally. This is not some strange esoteric

approach to understanding the doctrine of the Trinity. And so these individuals, these strict

monotheists, are up against this dilemma. How can it possibly be that you, we know where you came from. We knew that you worked with your

father, Joseph. We know about Bethlehem. We know about all these things. How can you possibly

say this? Now, the words of Jesus, of course, are the words that the Father has given Him.

That is also very important, and it doesn't come in this chapter, but it comes in John

Chapter 12.

Listen to what Jesus says, for I have not spoken on my own authority, but the Father

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