The Spirit of Sonship (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Scripture assures us that God’s Spirit indwells believers. With His provision, we’re to “become what we are”—children of God. On Truth For Life, Alistair Begg examines this teaching and explains how Christianity is radically different from formalized religion.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bible tells us that those who are in Christ are indwelt by the Spirit of God, |
| 0:29.4 | and we're to become what we are, children of God, using the resources God provides. |
| 0:36.2 | Today on Truth for Life, Alastair Begg walks us through the challenging teaching found in Romans chapter 8 |
| 0:41.7 | to point out what makes genuine Christianity radically different from formalized religion. |
| 0:53.2 | Our sinful inclinations in Christ have been dethroned, but they haven't been destroyed. |
| 1:03.8 | They've been dethroned, but they haven't been destroyed. |
| 1:07.1 | Therefore, we have to learn to deal with them. |
| 1:09.7 | We have to learn to deal with sin immediately, decisively, radically, consistently. |
| 1:17.6 | When I was preparing this address, I was reading the telegraph in England, and it carried |
| 1:24.1 | the story of, I think it was a lord. |
| 1:28.5 | Certainly his wife was a lady, so he must have been a lord. |
| 1:31.3 | But anyway, he was a man of 62, and it was actually a posthumous account of his life. |
| 1:39.2 | And it told the story of him being diagnosed with an elevated PSA. |
| 1:45.0 | He decided that it wasn't really something to be unduly concerned about. |
| 1:50.0 | His physician said, you know, we can just monitor this, |
| 1:52.0 | you don't really need to be unduly concerned. |
| 1:55.0 | The next time he went back, it was too late |
| 1:57.0 | because it was already in his spine, |
| 1:59.0 | and he died within a matter of months. It was |
| 2:02.4 | really too bad. It was very sad because it should have been dealt with immediately, decisively, |
| 2:09.9 | and radically. Oh, I was only just thinking about this. I wasn't planning on doing |
| 2:16.6 | anything. It was only something going on in my mind. It doesn't really matter. I wasn't planning on doing anything. It was only something going on in my mind. |
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