When? What? Why? (Part 3 of 3)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 27 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The wonder of God’s amazing grace doesn’t really grip us until we realize the depth of our sin. Study along with Truth For Life as Alistair Begg looks afresh at man’s desperate predicament and all that Jesus has accomplished for us—and why.
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| 0:00.0 | The The wonder of God's amazing grace doesn't really grip us until we realize the depth of our sin. |
| 0:30.7 | And today on Truth for Life weekend, we'll look afresh at our desperate predicament, |
| 0:35.8 | all that Jesus has accomplished for us, and why? |
| 0:39.8 | Alistairbegg is teaching from Galatians chapter 4, or focusing on verses 4 through 7. |
| 0:49.9 | Verse 5 here of chapter 4 needs to be read in light of what Paul has already said in chapter |
| 0:58.0 | three and verse 13. Actually, the whole paragraph that begins in chapter three and verse 10. Because his |
| 1:06.9 | argument there is fairly tight. He says that those who are relying on observing the law, |
| 1:12.6 | who are seeking by the law to be justified and accepted by God, are actually under a curse. |
| 1:21.2 | In verse 11, it is clear, he says, that no one is justified before God by the law, and the reason is that the just will live by |
| 1:31.3 | faith. And he then goes on to say in verse 13 that Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, |
| 1:40.3 | and he did so by becoming a curse for us. So the wonderful news in a sentence is this, |
| 1:48.1 | that Jesus has done for us on the cross what we could never do for ourselves. This is at the very |
| 1:57.1 | heart of the Christian story, that when we look upon the cross and we see Jesus hanging |
| 2:03.1 | there, he is doing something for us that is necessary and that is voluntary. And he takes his |
| 2:11.7 | place where we ought to be in order that we might enjoy the benefits that he in his curse-bearing provides. |
| 2:21.6 | Now, when he talks, Paul, that is, of being disobedient, he is referring not only to those who |
| 2:29.6 | were his initial readers, but he is referring to all of us, because all of us have not kept the law. |
| 2:38.8 | We have not done everything that the law requires. And there is a curse in 10b, which is |
| 2:47.8 | resting upon those who do not continue to do everything written in the book of the law. |
| 2:56.4 | Now, the question is, how then can the Lord Jesus liberate us from our predicament? |
| 3:03.5 | How then can the Lord Jesus alleviate the curse that is upon us because of our rebellion against him? |
| 3:12.6 | And the answer is given very clearly there in verse 13. How has God accomplished this? |
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