From an early age, all of us bulked at being told what to do.

We don't have to teach two-year-olds how to dig in their heels and say no.

That's why a false teacher's promise of freedom from rules can be so effective.

And today on Truth For Life, we'll learn why these promises of freedom ultimately leave

to enslavement.

Alistair Begg is teaching from 2 Peter chapter 2, we're looking at verses 10 through 22.

The mindset in which all of us move from day to day is so coerced by the world view of

our contemporary culture.

But we have now come to the conclusion that no one is justified in speaking like this

about anyone.

Nobody is allowed to say such things.

And anyone who would pronounce such judgment on any group of people or on any circumstances

must themselves somehow or another be disengaged from their senses, or at least they are disengaged

from contemporary thought forms and more is.

And this I think is one of the great challenges that we're now going to face in the 21st century.

If we're going to hold true for what the Bible says, if we're going to stand for righteousness

and for truth, then we are increasingly going to be on the receiving end of that kind of

response.

You people are bigoted, you people are this, you people are that.

You know, do you want people to like you in the immediacy and essentially despise you

in eternity?

Or would your other have them despise you now for your straight forwardness and rejoice

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