The Nature of Christian Freedom (Part 2 of 3)

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 1 October 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Jesus’ sacrifice on the cross freed Christians from certain rites and restrictions. So why would we constrain ourselves? Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg examines the answer and considers two extremes to avoid when exercising Christian freedom.

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0:00.0	The You're going to do you.
0:13.0	Do you do you do you do you do
0:15.0	do you do Because of Jesus life and work his followers were given freedom from certain laws or practices or restrictions. So why would we ever choose to
0:36.5	constrain ourselves? We'll see the answer to that question today on Truth for Life as we
0:42.2	look at two common extremes to avoid as we exercise
0:46.4	our freedom in Christ.
0:48.4	Alistairbegg is teaching from First Corinthians Chapter 8. It is love which has permanent effect.
1:01.0	It is love which is permanent effect.
1:02.0	It's hard for us to realize, isn't it? And so Paul says, the man
1:07.1	verse, the man who loves God. Now if somebody covered that up for us and read to his verses one and two and
1:15.1	said now finish the phrase but the man who loves God we would probably I say, he's the one who really knows.
1:26.0	You know, the man who thinks he knows something does not yet know as he knows, does not yet know
1:30.7	as he ought to know, but the man who loves God, he's the one who really knows.
1:34.5	That's not what he says.
1:35.5	But the man who loves God, he's the one that God knows.
1:41.3	So that the knowledge that is the real knowledge that produces love in life
1:46.0	is the knowledge which is interrelated with the fact that God knows me.
1:51.0	And what he's doing is he's underlining a truth which pervades all of scripture, namely this,
1:55.6	the really important thing is not that we know all the right stuff, but that God knows us.
2:05.0	Because even when we know all that we could possibly know for all of our lives,
2:10.0	that still is no great mystery.
2:12.0	The great mystery is that God knows us,
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