You probably

You probably You've probably heard the saying, seeing is believing.

It suggests that the only way to be truly convinced of something is to see concrete evidence.

Well, today on Truth for Life, we'll find out why when it comes to spiritual matters, believing is

seeing. Alistair Begg is teaching from Luke chapter 18. We're focusing on verse 31.

It is as the time draws very close for for him to arrive in Jerusalem, that Jesus does

hear, Luke tells us, as he's done on a number of occasions before, take his disciples,

as it were, offline and privately give to them a word of explanation concerning what is

going to take place when he goes up to Jerusalem.

And that's why Luke records his words, we're going up to Jerusalem, verse 31. Of course,

they knew that. They were making their way. The Passover was drawing near. The crowds were

beginning to gather. And when we go up there, he said everything

that is written by the prophets about the son of man will be fulfilled.

Now, to Isaiah 53, I need hardly turn to it for many of you, but simply for those, for whom

this is new material, to give a start here in understanding what

Luke is making reference to. He was despised, verse three, and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and

familiar with suffering, like one from whom men hide their faces. He was despised and we esteemed him not. Verse five,

he was pierced for our transgressions. You remember they came and they broke the legs of the

thief on either side of Christ, but when they came to Christ, they merely pierced his side with a spear.

He was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed. So Jesus, speaking to these men

whom he loves and with whom he is spending all of this time, says, I want you to understand

that the cruel scenes that we're about to undergo, when I am mocked and when I'm insulted,

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