Truth For Life - Volume 2 Quotes

“According to Old Testament practices, every high priest was appointed to offer both gifts and sacrifices on behalf of the people. However, when Jesus came to fulfill the role of our Great High Priest, He ushered in the new and perfect covenant by offering Himself as the final sacrifice. By His death and resurrection, Jesus secured a covenant that cannot be broken—a covenant that these words had looked forward to when the prophet Jeremiah first spoke them (Jeremiah 31:31-32); a covenant that transforms the hearts of those with whom it is made.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“Most of the commands of God don’t involve any impressive deeds or great drama. Many of us will not understand the significance of our obedience. Often we will obey not because we can see what God is doing but simply because we have committed ourselves to obeying Him. We may live our lives never knowing what a particular act of obedience has meant in His plans. Be careful, then, to faithfully obey even the seemingly inconsequential instructions of God, for obedience to His command is always right, and you never know beforehand how He will use it.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“Their Author formed the heavens with His fingers (Psalm 8:3). He breathed the Scriptures out Himself (2 Timothy 3:16). Their contents are more valuable than the finest gold (Psalm 19:10), and their truth will endure forever (1 Peter 1:24). In the Bible, we find all that we need for life and godliness—and nothing we don’t. Every paragraph is unique in its addition to the whole, and yet every part contributes to the one grand story. Most of all, it is the means by which the Spirit brings us into a deeper “knowledge of” God—which we could translate “relationship with,” since the Greek word Peter uses, epignosis, carries the sense of a relational knowing, not a merely intellectual one. It is through the word that we come to know more intimately our Maker, whom we were created to glorify and enjoy forever.[”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“We should remind ourselves daily that we are always visible. There is never a moment when any word, deed, thought, or motive is not seen by God.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“Notions of obedience, fear, and trembling are unwelcome to humanity, but those who want to be identified with Christ are still called to pick up their own crosses and follow Him on the path of humility and obedience. This is not an optional extra in the Christian life; it is intrinsic to it.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“Both understood that the providence and sovereignty of God do not relieve believers of their responsibility to do what is right and use whatever influence they have on behalf of His people.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“What about us? Do we live with an evident newness of life? Do we expect to be different from the world around us in how we think and what we say and the way we live, or are we busy trying to fit in with our neighbors? Are our churches copying the cultural customs, expectations, and behaviors of those around us, or are they filled with a marked vibrancy that only comes as a result of the Holy Spirit’s work and inspiration?”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“We could never hope to understand God—or His word, for that matter—on our own terms. Man does not know God by investigation but by revelation, by God’s self-disclosure, by His very words.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“Fear had silenced Joseph of Arimathea up to this point. Jesus’ life and teaching had attracted him and brought him to saving faith, but his faith remained clandestine. He went about his spiritual business in a secretive way—that is, until the cross brought him out into the open. And so, after too long hanging back in the shadows, Joseph “went to Pilate and asked for the body of Jesus.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“The curtain of the temple was torn in two,” Luke tells us. This was the very curtain that hung in the temple to symbolically bar the way into God’s presence. It was the great sign that imperfect people could not be in the same space as the holy God. All through the Old Testament, anyone who had presumed to come into God’s presence without observing the ceremonial cleansing rituals and making the necessary sacrifices had died (for instance, Numbers 3:2-4). But now, suddenly, as Jesus was on the very verge of death, this symbol of restrictive exclusivity was destroyed. By destroying it, God declared that the old priestly ritual for entrance into His presence had been abolished and the barrier of sin dividing humanity from their Maker had been obliterated.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“In all of this, we lie because in those moments we love ourselves more than we love God and our neighbors.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions

“we acknowledge that while God does not permit us to know all we might want to know, He has given us all we need. Genuine humility admits, and even embraces, this limitation.”
― Alistair Begg, Truth For Life - Volume 2: 365 Daily Devotions