Dispute and Denial (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 15 March 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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If you’ve ever tried to determine your significance by comparing yourself to others, you’re in good company! In Luke’s Gospel, we find Jesus’ own disciples bickering about which one of them was greatest. Hear how Jesus addressed their prideful inclinations, on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm I'm If you've ever tried to determine your significance by comparing yourself to others, |
| 0:31.4 | I'll join the club. In Luke's Gospel, we find Jesus' parian apostles bickering over which one of them |
| 0:37.2 | was the greatest. |
| 0:38.8 | And today on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg looks at how Jesus addressed their prideful inclinations. |
| 0:50.2 | Our God and our Father, we look to you now as with our Bibles open on our laps that the |
| 0:55.4 | Spirit of God may be our teacher. |
| 0:58.7 | We're so desperately in need of your help to save us from simply listening to the voice |
| 1:04.2 | of a man. |
| 1:06.3 | And so we ask that you will come and speak into our lives, speak to us by name, O Master, let us know |
| 1:12.4 | it is to us, and then grant us grace to follow hard and fast after Christ, in whose name we pray. |
| 1:20.9 | Amen. |
| 1:21.9 | Last week we said that there were a number of words that we were going to gather our |
| 1:27.4 | thoughts around, and we only managed to were a number of words that we were going to gather our thoughts |
| 1:27.8 | around, and we only managed to deal with one of those words. |
| 1:31.4 | The word was betrayal, and we spent most of the time thinking about the theological concept |
| 1:37.1 | of foreordination. |
| 1:39.6 | And we leave that behind for the time being, and move on to our second word, which emerges |
| 1:46.6 | from verse 24 and following. |
| 1:49.8 | The first word was betrayal, and the second word is dispute. |
| 1:54.5 | Dispute. |
| 1:56.7 | If it is stunning to think of the betrayer emerging from the inner circle of Christ's |
| 2:03.6 | followers, it is hardly less dramatic to think of the disciples engaging in this conversation |
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