The Great Commandment (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 10 August 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Jesus died on the cross to bear the penalty for sin. So what motivates His followers to obey God’s commandments? Are there additional punishments to be avoided or rewards to be gained? Find out when you study along with Alistair Begg on Truth For Life.
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| 0:00.0 | Since the penalty for our sin was paid for completely when Jesus died on the cross, |
| 0:29.9 | what motivates us as believers to obey God's commandments? Are we trying to avoid some additional |
| 0:37.4 | punishment? Are there rewards to be gained? We'll find out today on Truth for Life. We're studying |
| 0:44.0 | Matthew chapter 22. Alistair Begg is teaching from verses 34 to 40. |
| 0:50.2 | If you take the earlier catechisms, the vast majority, at least a third of the catechism, |
| 1:01.9 | were directly questions and answers relating to the law of God, asking what is God required, |
| 1:09.7 | what is it that God expects to be for our rule of life? And if you pardon me, just another quote |
| 1:18.3 | from John Murray in relationship to this, he says that when we affirm the fact that the rule of |
| 1:24.5 | our life is in the law of God, quotes, the statement of such a position is exceedingly distasteful |
| 1:32.5 | to many phases of modern thought, both within and without the evangelical family. It is |
| 1:39.6 | agreed that the conception of an externally revealed and imposed code of duty, norm of right feeling, |
| 1:47.4 | thought and conduct, is entirely out of accord with the liberty and spontaneity of the Christian |
| 1:54.1 | life. We are told that conformity to the will of God must come from within, and therefore any |
| 2:01.5 | stipulation or prescription from without in the form of well-defined precepts is wholly alien |
| 2:08.0 | to the spirit of the gospel. It is inconsistent, they say, with the spirit or principle of love. |
| 2:15.7 | Don't speak of law, nor of moral precepts, nor of a code of morals speak of the law of love. |
| 2:26.0 | If we use our tummy as the deciding factor on what adventures are good for us and what adventures |
| 2:35.3 | are allowable and what adventures are not allowable, how in the world is love to be constrained, |
| 2:41.7 | how then is our own response to God's compassionate grace towards us? How does it find its framework? |
| 2:48.9 | How does it work? Well, you see, this is what happens. We look for a God that we can use |
| 2:57.0 | rather than a God we obey, a God who will fulfill our needs, meet our longings, |
| 3:02.8 | than a God before whom we need to surrender all the rights to ourselves. |
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