When? What? Why? (Part 2 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 20 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Many suggest that all religions are basically the same; they just have different names for God. Find out why it’s impossible for true Christians to accept this point of view. We’re exploring Jesus’ incarnation on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. Many people think all religions are basically the same. |
| 0:33.7 | They just have different names for God. |
| 0:36.1 | Today on Truth for Life weekend, we'll find out why |
| 0:38.5 | it's impossible for a true Christian to accept that point of view. Alistair Begg is exploring |
| 0:44.5 | the Apostle Paul's teaching concerning the crucial questions surrounding the incarnation of Jesus. |
| 0:56.5 | So our subject this morning is when what, why, as it relates to Galatians 4 verses 4 and 5. |
| 1:05.1 | When did this happen? |
| 1:06.8 | When the fullness of time had come, what happened? |
| 1:09.9 | Well, he tells us in a phrase, God send his son. God send his son. Now, Paul is not here giving us a detail outworking of the doctrine of the incarnation, but in the phraseology that he uses, in the Greek verb exapestylen, he is giving to us word, which means sending out from a previous state. |
| 1:30.9 | He was sent out from a previous state. |
| 1:35.3 | And what Paul is doing here, in a very unworked out way, |
| 1:43.3 | is making sure that those who read his letter understand that the life of Jesus |
| 1:52.8 | did not begin in Bethlehem, that Jesus did not all of a sudden come into existence |
| 2:00.8 | when he was born as a baby, |
| 2:04.4 | thereby making him different from anyone else. |
| 2:07.9 | When our children ask us, where was I before I was born? |
| 2:12.1 | The answer is you did not exist before you were born. |
| 2:16.6 | But for someone to ask that question of Jesus would demand a |
| 2:20.6 | different answer, wouldn't it? You have that, actually, when Jesus is being interrogated |
| 2:24.0 | by Pilate in John chapter 19. And Pilate says to him, where did you come from? You remember that? |
| 2:32.7 | And it says, John says, and Jesus gave him no answer. Pilot could |
| 2:38.0 | never have got his head around it. He could never have understood it. He would never have |
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