Remorse or Repentance (Part 3 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 February 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When you’re given something for free, is your first reaction distrust and suspicion? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg examines this fearful reaction to undeserved generosity and considers why it’s often the initial response to God’s gift of salvation.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. I'm going to be. I'm going to be. I'm When someone offers you something for free, do you become suspicious? Do you think there must be a catch? |
| 0:32.7 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Be, examines this fearful response to undeserved generosity |
| 0:38.5 | and considers why it's often the initial response to God's gift of salvation. |
| 0:44.2 | We're looking at the closing verses found in Genesis chapter 42. |
| 0:54.1 | We said that Joseph, by the way in which he ordered the circumstances of his brothers, vis-a-vis the placing of one of them in jail, the sending of the others back with the news of his desire to see Benjamin and so on, had put his brothers in dire |
| 1:13.4 | straits. |
| 1:15.3 | And one of his concerns was to determine whether they were genuinely repentant for what had |
| 1:23.8 | happened previously in their lives, or whether what had taken place in their |
| 1:28.6 | experience of these recent days was simply a momentary emotional surge which would be passed |
| 1:36.6 | over as soon as the dramatic circumstances had gone. |
| 1:41.7 | And we ought not to be too quick to condemn that because as we notice this morning, |
| 1:45.8 | repentance is not simply something that begins our Christian experience, but genuine biblical |
| 1:51.6 | repentance is to be the hallmark of all that Christian living really means. Insofar as, as is pictured |
| 1:59.3 | in baptism here this evening, there is that putting off of the old |
| 2:03.6 | and there is that putting on of the new. There is the dying to our old way of life, and there |
| 2:09.5 | is rising to new life in Christ. Well, clearly that is pictured here in this baptismal pool, |
| 2:16.3 | but it is not performed in the baptismal pool. And if it were, |
| 2:20.4 | then simply as a result of having this done to us, these people would now be ushered into a whole |
| 2:25.9 | new realm of living, whereby they would be free from the inclinations to sin, and all would be |
| 2:32.1 | well en route to heaven. They're going to find out very quickly that their |
| 2:36.9 | desire to be obedient to the Lord Jesus may actually introduce them to more rigorous battles than any |
| 2:42.2 | that they've experienced to this point, and they will become even more aware of the need to engage |
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