Ground Rules for Christian Freedom (Part 3 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 21 October 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Freedom is important! Yet when early believers became preoccupied with asserting their rights, the apostle Paul shifted their focus. Learn how exercising Christian freedom with the correct focus can be life-changing on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The Free. Freedom is important. Very few people would argue that point and yet when the |
| 0:29.9 | Corinthian believers became preoccupied with asserting their rights. |
| 0:34.6 | The apostle Paul had to shift their focus. |
| 0:37.8 | And today on Truth for Life, we'll learn how exercising Christian freedom properly can be life-changing, but if we use our freedom |
| 0:46.2 | wrongly, that can be a challenge. |
| 0:48.8 | Alistairbegg is continuing our study in 1st Corinthians, we're looking at the closing verses of chapter 10. |
| 0:57.0 | There was Jesus who said, and you'll find this in John Chapter 8 if you're looking for it |
| 1:04.5 | verse 32 and you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. The issue of freedom at any level is directly related to truth. And the claim of scripture and indeed the words of Christ make it clear that there is no experience of |
| 1:30.7 | genuine freedom ultimately outside of Jesus Christ. Now that is a |
| 1:37.8 | revolutionary thought in a culture that is increasingly pluralistic and |
| 1:42.2 | syncretistic. |
| 1:44.8 | For we live in a culture that has allowed tolerance to sit upon the throne |
| 1:52.0 | and has devalued truth. So having now worshipped at the shrine if we |
| 1:58.6 | might mix the metaphors of tolerance and having set aside the notion of truth in any absolute form, then it's hardly |
| 2:08.0 | surprising that our culture should be so confused as to the nature of freedom as it clearly is. And all the |
| 2:18.1 | scrambling of our day in relationship to human sexuality and in the realm of education and in the concerns of family life |
| 2:28.3 | display a manifold absence of any grasp at all of the nature of genuine freedom. Indeed, most of what is |
| 2:38.0 | held out to people as freedom is in actual fact some form of bondage. The question of freedom is a relevant question |
| 2:46.8 | because so many people are concerned about it. Some are spending all their days |
| 2:50.1 | at the moment in the quest for financial freedom. If only I could be free of these |
| 2:54.7 | debts or these restrictions and I get this kind of freedom then I'll be really |
| 2:59.0 | free. But in actual fact you can be introduced to people who are free of all those limitations financially and they are not free. |
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