The Nature of Christian Freedom (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Jesus’ life and finished work freed His followers from certain practices and restrictions. So why would we constrain ourselves? On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg explores the answer and considers two extremes to avoid as we exercise our freedom in Christ.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Because of what Jesus has done for us, as his followers, we've been given freedom from certain practices or restrictions. |
| 0:34.7 | So why would anyone choose to constrain himself? |
| 0:38.4 | We'll look for the answer today on Truth for Life |
| 0:40.8 | as we consider two common extremes to avoid |
| 0:43.8 | as we exercise our freedom in Christ. |
| 0:47.5 | Alistur Begg is teaching from 1st Corinthians chapter 8 |
| 0:50.4 | as we continue our Encore 2025 series. |
| 1:00.3 | Thank you. as we continue our encore 2025 series. It is love which has permanent effect. |
| 1:03.4 | It's hard for us to realize, isn't it? |
| 1:06.9 | And so Paul says, the man, verse three, the man who loves God, now if somebody covered that up for us and read to his verses one and two, and said, now finish the phrase, but the man who loves God, we would probably, I think, say, he's the one who really knows. |
| 1:29.0 | You know, the man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he knows, does not yet know as he ought to know, but the man |
| 1:33.9 | who loves God, he's the one who really knows. That's not what he says. But the man who loves |
| 1:38.3 | God, he's the one that God knows. So that the knowledge that is the real knowledge that produces love in life is the knowledge |
| 1:48.7 | which is interrelated with the fact that God knows me. |
| 1:52.5 | And what he's doing is he's underlining a truth which pervades all of Scripture, |
| 1:56.8 | namely this, the really important thing is not that we know all the right stuff, but that God knows us. |
| 2:06.9 | Because even when we know all that we could possibly know for all of our lives, that still is no great mystery. |
| 2:14.5 | The great mystery is that God knows us, that he would pick us out in a crowd, that he could |
| 2:23.2 | meet us at the Super Bowl and call us by name, that he could identify us. And so he says the person |
| 2:32.3 | who is understanding this kind of knowledge knows that this knowledge, |
| 2:36.6 | which produces itself in love, is founded in the fact that the Lord knows them that are |
| 2:42.7 | his. That's 2 Timothy 2.19. The knowledge that really counts is not mere knowledge, however |
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