The Authentic Jesus (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 12 June 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Some wrestle with the idea that Jesus is fully God and fully man, but this is a foundational truth of Christianity. Learn why a Jesus who’s only human or only divine would leave us with a powerless Gospel. Join us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Some people wrestle with the idea that Jesus is both fully God and fully man, but this is actually a foundational truth of Christianity. |
| 0:35.1 | And today on Truth for Life, we'll learn why a Jesus whose only human or only divine |
| 0:40.3 | would leave us with a powerless gospel. |
| 0:43.9 | Alistair Begg is teaching from Matthew chapter 16, beginning with verse 13. |
| 0:54.0 | How would you respond to this statement? |
| 0:56.7 | The New Testament nowhere states that Jesus is God. |
| 1:00.3 | We would first of all say, you know something, you're right to one degree. |
| 1:04.8 | You're right in this extent, that there's nowhere in the New Testament that you will find a statement made by Jesus with these three words, I am God. You're right. He never said it. But he said it in other ways. |
| 1:18.7 | And then we would turn to those portions of Scripture. And in doing this, we would drive |
| 1:23.6 | home to our hearers a number of facts to consider. Fact one, the Bible statement |
| 1:30.0 | concerning the virgin birth. Turn for a moment to Matthew chapter one, and let's just reinforce |
| 1:36.4 | this in our memories. Matthew chapter one and verse 18. This is how the birth of Jesus came about. |
| 1:46.3 | His mother, Mary, was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:56.3 | Luke's record of it. Dr. Luke, the response of Mary is intriguing, is it not? It's a far-out thought to her |
| 2:06.1 | that she is going to have a son who is the king of kings and lord of lords, but what is equally |
| 2:10.5 | far out is that she's going to have a son at all. Because she said, how will this be be since I am still a virgin? |
| 2:22.3 | Answer, the Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will |
| 2:27.9 | overshadow you. And then, as it were, the veil of mystery is pulled across this tremendous truth, with which scripture is perfectly |
| 2:39.0 | clear. And while we uphold this truth, we must at the same time learn to dethrone an untruth, |
| 2:48.0 | which is the holy unbiblical assertion of the immaculate conception of Mary. |
| 2:56.4 | To believe in the virgin birth is not synonymous with believing what has been taught |
| 3:03.6 | latterly in Catholicism. For God to produce a sinless son, he did not need a sinless mother. |
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