Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 1 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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There have been debates concerning the Sabbath ever since Jesus confronted the Pharisees. What’s permitted, and what isn’t? Is it on Saturday or Sunday? Is it in fact obsolete? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg helps us think through the answers biblically.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . There have been debates concerning the Sabbath ever since Jesus confronted the Pharisees. |
| 0:32.5 | What's permitted? What isn't? Is it on Saturday or Sunday? Is it in fact obsolete? Today on Truth for Life |
| 0:40.6 | Alastairbeg helps us think through those questions and offers biblical answers. |
| 0:50.7 | A pattern has been developing that some of us will already have picked up. |
| 0:55.9 | It is this confrontation between the reality and vitality and joy and freedom which Jesus as |
| 1:03.7 | the Savior comes to bring, in contrast to all of the dull orthodoxy and formality and legality which the religious leaders |
| 1:14.4 | have been propounding to their people for so long. Now, the nature of the conflict, as it is here |
| 1:21.7 | before us in these 11 verses, has to do with the Sabbath. And these two incidents both take place on the Sabbath. Now, I want you to |
| 1:30.3 | turn with me, if you would, in your Bibles into the Old Testament, and let's just be clear about the |
| 1:35.4 | background to what the reference is regarding these things in the Gospel of Luke chapter 6. |
| 1:41.9 | Genesis chapter 2 and verse 2 describing the completion of Luke chapter 6. Genesis chapter 2 and verse 2, describing the completion of the work |
| 1:48.6 | of creation. We read Genesis 2 2, 2 by the 7th day, God had finished the work he had been doing, |
| 1:57.7 | so on the 7th day, he rested from all his work. And God blessed the seventh day and made it |
| 2:05.8 | holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done. If you turn forward |
| 2:14.5 | one book to Exodus chapter 20, you discover that what God has |
| 2:20.3 | established in the Sabbath as a creation ordinance, he now, following the sin of man, lays |
| 2:29.3 | down as part of his moral law. Exodus chapter 20 and verse 8, remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. |
| 2:38.1 | Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. |
| 2:43.5 | On it you shall not do any work, neither you nor your son or daughter, nor your man-servant or |
| 2:48.8 | maid-servant, nor your animals, nor the alien within your |
| 2:52.1 | gates. Why? For in six days, the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that |
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