The Chain of Salvation (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When given the choice, many prefer to hear good news before bad to soften the blow. When it comes to faith, though, we’re unlikely to understand how good the good news is until we grasp the bad news. Find out why on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. When you give most people a choice, would they rather hear the good news first or the bad news first? |
| 0:31.1 | A lot of people pick the good news to maybe soften the blow that's coming. |
| 0:35.3 | But when it comes to our faith, we're unlikely to understand just how good the good news is |
| 0:40.1 | until we first grasp how bad the bad news is. |
| 0:44.2 | We'll find out why today on Truth for Life as Alistair Begg continues our study in Romans |
| 0:49.4 | Chapter 8. |
| 1:03.4 | Well, let's look at verse 29. God is at work in all of these things in the lives of those who love him. They love him because they've been called according to his purpose. |
| 1:08.4 | God foreknew them. He foreknew them. The foreknow |
| 1:13.5 | of God, you should understand in terms of the foreordination of God. Why do I say that? |
| 1:20.7 | Because this doesn't simply mean, as some suggest, that God foreknew those who would believe. That when it says that God foreknew, for those God |
| 1:33.4 | foreknew, in other words, he looked down and he saw those who would believe. And since they were |
| 1:38.2 | going to believe, anyway, he would give him a little help. No. God obviously foreknew who would believe. God knows everything. Therefore, that wouldn't really be saying very much, would it? |
| 1:53.2 | Those whom God foreknew. God foreknew everything that would take place. We've said that this morning in the creed. |
| 1:59.4 | We've explained it in our |
| 2:00.9 | songs. It's certainly true that God foresees everything that comes to pass. But is that what Paul |
| 2:07.3 | is saying? Is that all he's saying? Clearly not. Because the knowledge that is referenced here |
| 2:13.3 | is not the knowledge, if you like, of conjecture, or the knowledge of something which is external to |
| 2:21.3 | or merely factual. It is the relational knowledge. It is the same knowledge of God for his people |
| 2:28.5 | described, for example, in Amos chapter 3, where the prophet speaks from God, and he says to his people, you only have I known |
| 2:37.2 | of all the peoples of the earth. What does he mean? I only knew you, and I didn't know anybody else. |
| 2:45.0 | No, he knows everybody. He created everybody. He knows all the peoples of the earth. He knows everything. A God who does not know the future is not God, said Augustine. So what is being conveyed here is the fact of God's foreordination. In fact, the NIV translates Amos 3, you only have I chosen of all the peoples of the earth. And what is contained in |
| 3:11.7 | the foreknowledge of God is once again the notion that is present in the hymn that I just quoted to |
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