Alistair Begg Speaks at TMU on the Topic of Salvation

Alistair Begg, senior pastor of Cleveland’s Parkside Church and voice of the teaching ministry “Truth For Life,” spoke at The Master’s University’s annual Truth & Life Conference this semester. Begg detailed why his listeners should be encouraged by and not ashamed of the gospel, using Romans 1, 2 Timothy 1, and other passages of Scripture to give insight into the power of Christ’s work.

“One of the things that we have the privilege of doing — living as exiles, pilgrims, and strangers — is bringing to bear upon our culture this amazing story (the gospel),” Begg said.

“You see, we need the Bible to (make us) wise for salvation, and the Bible gives us the gospel, which Paul says is the power of God for salvation.”

Referencing Martin Luther, Begg began to explain how the German reformer echoed the Apostle Paul.

“Luther says, by and large, ‘My Christian life is outside of me.’ It’s outside of me. What does he mean by that?”

The answer, Begg said, lies in the most basic truths of the gospel.

“We’re not saved by what we do or as a result of what we’re able to do. We’re not even saved as a result of what God has done in us. We are saved as a result of what God has done for us.”

The sole possibility of men’s escape from eternal repayment is — as Paul, Luther, and Begg said — in the power of a perfect God incarnated as a man.

Begg summed up his message in this way: “Every person that God rescues, He will rescue through the gospel. No one anywhere, or at any time, has ever been brought into a relationship with God, having been rescued from their own sinful propensities, by any other way than by the gospel. All the Old Testament looks forward to when it would come, and we look back to what it is. That is the basis of salvation.”

Past chapel messages and future livestreams are available through TMU’s YouTube channel.