Law and Gospel (Part 1 of 2)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 30 September 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In Jesus’ day, religious leaders were about the only ones with full access to the Scriptures. So why did so many of them fail to recognize the Messiah? What blocked their view—and may be blocking yours? Hear the answer on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	Thank you. In Jesus Day, the only people who had access to the scriptures were the religious leaders.
0:31.7	It was their job to study the Bible and to teach it.
0:35.1	So how is it that so many of these Bible scholars failed to recognize Jesus
0:39.8	as the promised long-awaited Messiah? Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg helps us recognize
0:47.2	what it was that blocked their view and might be blocking our view as well.
1:01.5	Now we're going to read from the Bible this morning in the Gospel of Luke, Chapter 16.
1:06.1	We're going to read from verse 13 to verse 18.
1:10.6	No servant can serve two masters.
1:17.3	Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other.
1:20.9	You cannot serve both God and money.
1:26.6	The Pharisees who loved money heard all this and were sneering at Jesus. He said to them, you are the ones who
1:29.2	justify yourselves in the eyes of men, but God knows your hearts. What is highly valued among
1:35.5	men is detestable in God's sight. The law and the prophets were proclaimed until John.
1:42.8	Since that time, the good news of the kingdom of God is being
1:45.4	preached, and everyone is forcing his way into it. It is easier for heaven and earth to
1:51.6	disappear than for the least stroke of a pen to drop out of the law. Anyone who divorces his
1:58.3	wife and marries another woman commits adultery, and the man who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
2:06.9	Heavenly Father, we pray now that you will give to his minds that think clearly, hearts that are open and receptive to your truth, and wills that become obedient to your word.
2:24.6	Unless you come and breathe by your spirit and enable us, we can speak, listen, hear, understand, obey, apply, receive your word at all.
2:33.6	Therefore, the whole exercise is marked by
2:36.3	futility except for your divine intervention. We believe that when your word is truly preached,
2:44.4	that your voice is really heard. We want to hear your voice, Lord Jesus, and it's in your
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