The If you were dangling over a cliff and your grip was slipping in that moment you don't need

someone to tell you an inspiring story or to entertain you you need someone to tell you an inspiring story or to entertain you. You need someone to rescue you.

Today on Truth for Life we'll learn how the gospel is God's Rescue Mission.

Alistair Begg is teaching from the first chapter of Romans.

We're looking at verses 16 and 17.

The cultural pressure faced in Rome is a cultural pressure faced in Cleveland and the

cultural pressure is really strong.

The prevailing wind is blowing not at our backs as we affirm the basis of Christianity, but it is blowing actually in our faces.

And the message seems weak, it seems almost pathetic.

And that's why when Paul writes of it in his letter to the

Corinthians he reminds his readers that the weakness of God the apparent weakness of

God is stronger than men. I find that people say to me, well, you,

Alistair, you deal in the realm of faith, we deal in the realm of facts. You deal

in the realm of values, we deal in the realm of facts. You deal in the realm of values, we deal in the realm of

verities. We deal in the realm of science, you deal in the realm of

fiction and mythology. Well no actually we don't. When the facts of the gospel are

disintegrated there is no gospel left. The fact of the resurrection, the dramatic fact of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus,

and so on. This is why he says, I am not ashamed of the gospel. I am not ashamed of the gospel.

For it is the power of God for salvation.

There's no reason to be ashamed of this, he says.

This is the way that God accomplishes his purposes.

God does not save through the sacraments. If you have been brought up to believe

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