Judas: An Enigma (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Appearances can deceive, even within the church. Consider Judas Iscariot, a disciple who personally witnessed Jesus’ teaching and miracles—yet betrayed Him! On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg examines how this still happens amongst professing believers.
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| 0:00.0 | A |
| 0:07.0 | A lot of Appearances can be deceiving, even in the church. |
| 0:28.9 | Today on Truth for Life weekend, Alistair Begg continues our study in Luke's Gospel, |
| 0:33.7 | chapter 22, by considering Judas Ascariot, a man who professed faith in Jesus, |
| 0:39.3 | witnessed his teaching and his miracles and yet betrayed him. |
| 0:44.3 | How can this happen? Well it does even in our day. Let's find out more. |
| 0:49.3 | Money, sex, influence. The three things that sell the magazines in the racks, the three |
| 1:05.0 | great dangers for everyone in a close position of leadership with Jesus. |
| 1:13.6 | I don't think there has been someone fall out of the ranks of evangelical usefulness, but that |
| 1:21.6 | it may be traced to either money, sex, or power. Does this touch you at all? Sure. Touched me this week when I went to Dallas. |
| 1:37.6 | A huge crowd gathered, 2000 plus. Earlier in the day, they had me go to a bookstore I was to sign books it always |
| 1:46.3 | makes me smile doing that I can tell you all the reasons why but I always feel |
| 1:50.3 | very diffident in doing it sitting behind a table and having old ladies come and tell |
| 1:55.3 | me that they like me and they never buy books they just come and tell me they like me. |
| 2:06.3 | Having people come and give me their cell phone and ask me to speak to the person who's on the other end of the line. |
| 2:14.7 | Surrounded by great mountains of books that nobody's buying. |
| 2:20.9 | And as it wends his way to the end of the two-hour saga, |
| 2:24.1 | recognizing that this poor bookstore owner has got 220 books and me, |
| 2:31.0 | and no prospect of much. |
| 2:35.6 | So I said to him, |
| 2:36.7 | why don't you get all of these books |
| 2:38.2 | and bring them to the church? |
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