Knowing God (Part 1 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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The best way to identify false gods is by getting to know the one true God and His Word. While many people believe you can get to heaven through different paths, the Bible categorically refutes this claim. Find out why on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Truth for Life where today we begin a series titled Here Is Your God.
0:29.0	We'll learn how to identify false gods by getting to know the one true God.
0:34.5	Alisturbeg opens our study by pointing out that while many people believe you can get to
0:39.2	heaven through different paths, the Bible
0:41.4	categorically denies
0:43.2	that claim, and we're about to
0:45.2	learn why.
0:51.2	I invite you to take your
0:53.0	Bibles and turn to Isaiah chapter 45. We're going to read from the 18th verse of Isaiah 45.
1:03.7	For this is what the Lord says, he who created the heavens, he is God, he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it. He did not create
1:14.5	it to be empty, but formed it to be inhabited. He says, I am the Lord, and there is no other.
1:22.8	I have not spoken in secret from somewhere in a land of darkness. I have not said to Jacob's descendants,
1:30.1	seek me in vain. I, the Lord, speak the truth. I declare what is right. Gather together and
1:39.2	come, assemble, you fugitives from the nations. Ignorant are those who carry about idols of wood,
1:46.8	who pray to gods that cannot save. Declar what is to be, presented. Let them take counsel together.
1:55.7	Who foretold this long ago? Who declared it from the distant past? Was it not I, the Lord? And there is no God
2:04.3	apart from me, a righteous God and a Savior. There is none but me. Turn to me and be saved,
2:13.4	all you ends of the earth, for I am God and there is no other. By myself, I have sworn, my mouth has uttered in all integrity a word that will not be revoked.
2:24.6	Before me, every knee will bow. By me, every tongue will swear. They will save me. In the Lord alone are righteousness and strength. All who have raged against
2:37.3	him will come to him and be put to shame. But in the Lord, all the descendants of Israel
2:43.5	will be found righteous and will exult. Amen. Father, we pray that as we turn to the Bible now, that you will help us,
2:54.6	that the Holy Spirit will come and enable both the one who speaks and each of us as we listen
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