Self-Control (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 19 February 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
It might feel better to blame our sin on someone else or on something like past experiences, current circumstances, the company we keep, or even the devil. On Truth For Life, however, Alistair Begg explains why every sin is an inside job!
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| 0:00.0 | When When we commit a sin, it's often tempting for us to want to assign blame to someone or something else. |
| 0:31.0 | It might feel better to attribute our actions to our past experiences or our current circumstances, |
| 0:36.9 | the company we keep, or even to blame the devil. |
| 0:40.2 | But today on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg explains why ultimately every sin is an inside job. |
| 0:53.2 | Calatians chapter 5 and we read from verse 1. |
| 0:59.2 | For freedom, Christ has set us free. |
| 1:03.4 | Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. |
| 1:08.2 | Look, I Paul say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage |
| 1:15.3 | to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep |
| 1:22.0 | the whole law. You are severed from Christ. You, who would be justified by the law, you have fallen away from |
| 1:31.8 | grace. For through the spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. |
| 1:40.1 | For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith |
| 1:47.0 | working through love. You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? |
| 1:54.8 | This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. |
| 2:02.9 | I have confidence in the Lord that you will take no other view, and the one who is troubling you will bear the penalty, whoever he is. |
| 2:09.5 | But if I, brothers, still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case, |
| 2:16.6 | the offence of the cross has been removed. |
| 2:20.1 | I wish those who unsettled you would emasculate themselves. That's pretty strong language, |
| 2:26.2 | isn't it? So something was going on here of significance. It wasn't that he just had a hang-up. |
| 2:32.8 | It was that the very essence of the gospel was being challenged and set aside by these legalists who said, you have to do this or you don't truly belong to Christ. And Paul is sorting that out. Verse 13, for you were called to freedom, brothers. |
| 2:56.0 | Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love, serve one another. |
| 3:00.5 | For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, you shall love your neighbor as yourself. |
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