There are plenty of people today who think each of us should be free to behave however we choose, to believe whatever we want.

As long as we're not harming anyone in the process, it's all okay.

Well, today on Truth for Life, we'll learn why this train

of thought is an illusion that leads to chaos. Alistair Begg explains where true freedom is

actually found. Our study is focused in Matthew Chapter 11, looking today at verse 29.

I want to make just two observations. And the challenge in tackling things like this, at least it's a challenge for me, is that you never really know which direction to go.

And so you have to choose one. So here, the first observation I want to make

on the strength of what we've just been considering is to recognize that what our contemporary

world regards as freedom is an illusion. And then secondly, to recognize that the biblical understanding of freedom

is paradoxical. So, on the one hand, this is an illusion, and in our understanding of the scriptures

itself, it is a paradox. Let's begin with a speech delivered by the late Arthur Leff of Yale Law School.

Unless there is a God who is himself goodness and justice, there can be no ultimate basis

for law. For if there is no God, nothing can take his place.

No human standard, no person, no group of people, no document is then immune to challenge. And if you think about the ensuing, well, 45 years or 46 years or so,

you realize just how prescient his words were. Our views of issues like marriage, abortion,

euthanasia, gender, are tied directly to an understanding of

and a conviction about the moral law, which is an expression of the moral nature of God.

Now, I start there, because that has been pushed back against all the way along the line, certainly, over the last 50 years.

And the Bible is making the clear that the law is transcendent, that the law is universal,

because every person is created by God, every person is dependent upon God,

and every person is responsible to God. However, behind a facade of wisdom, to quote our studies in Romans

chapter one, behind a facade of wisdom, the Bible tells us that we, because of who and what

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