The Delight of the Sabbath (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 5 May 2026
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Do you delight in the Sabbath? Learn why believers should as we investigate the biblical themes that shape its observance. Can the Lord’s Day provide the antidote for the exhausting demands of busy schedules? Find out on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm |
| 0:02.0 | . Do you delight in the Sabbath? |
| 0:29.3 | Today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why every believer should. |
| 0:33.2 | Alistair Begg investigates the doctrinal and biblical issues that shape the way we observe the Sabbath |
| 0:39.4 | and how that changes our everyday lives. |
| 0:48.2 | Make the book live to me, O Lord. |
| 0:52.9 | Show me yourself within your word. Show me myself and show me my Savior. |
| 1:03.0 | And make the book live to me. Amen. Please be seated. Can I invite you to take your Bibles and turn to the sixth chapter |
| 1:13.7 | of the Gospel of Luke, because we are essentially continuing our studies in Luke's Gospel. |
| 1:19.5 | And as you will recall last Sunday morning, we found ourselves in the opening 11 verses confronted |
| 1:25.9 | by these two Sabbath-day incidents in which Jesus both |
| 1:30.8 | declared and demonstrated that he was none other than the Lord of the Sabbath, that he who |
| 1:38.3 | had been present in creation when, along with the Father and the Spirit, the triune God had rested from the work of creation. |
| 1:47.6 | Now in his incarnation, he declares himself to be the very Lord of the Sabbath. |
| 1:53.6 | And in those incidents, we noted, not that Jesus was canceling the use of the Sabbath |
| 1:59.3 | by this declaration, but rather that he was correcting |
| 2:03.3 | the abuse of the Sabbath, which was represented in the perspective of the Pharisees. |
| 2:12.0 | Now, as a result of delving into that passage, we opened up the larger and wider question, namely, how does |
| 2:21.3 | the Christian comply with the Fourth Commandment? And having raised it, we need now to tackle |
| 2:28.7 | it. This, incidentally, is a matter of perennial interest and perennial concern. And it has, in many cases, been a matter |
| 2:38.8 | of bitter wrangling. A Dutch theologian of an earlier era by the name of A. Van Selms |
| 2:47.3 | reckoned that on average, in the Netherlands alone, there were 10,000 families consistently |
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