“Do Not Weep for Me” (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 20 March 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Was it necessary for Jesus to die on the cross? Could salvation have been won through less brutal, less humiliating means? Find out why a crossless Christianity is not only futile; it’s dangerous! That’s our focus on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The Have you ever wondered if it was really necessary that Jesus die on a cross? |
| 0:29.0 | Was it essential? |
| 0:31.0 | The day on Truth for Life, Alistair Begg explains why a crossless Christianity is not just |
| 0:37.2 | futile, it's dangerous. Our reading this morning is from the Gospel of Luke and from verse 26 of the |
| 0:50.3 | 23rd chapter, Luke chapter 23 and verse 26. |
| 0:57.6 | As they led him away, they seized Simon from Cyrene |
| 1:02.0 | who was on his way in from the country and put the cross on him and made |
| 1:07.0 | him carry it behind Jesus. A large number of people followed him, including women who mourned and wailed for him. |
| 1:16.6 | Jesus turned and said to them, Dutters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, weep for yourselves and |
| 1:22.3 | for your children. For the time will come when you will say |
| 1:25.7 | Blessed are the Baron woman, the womes that never bore and the breasts that never nursed. |
| 1:32.1 | Then they will say to the mountains fall on us and to the hills cover us. |
| 1:38.3 | For if men do these things when the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry? |
| 1:47.3 | God, as we study the Bible, |
| 1:49.5 | we ask for your help in speaking and in listening and hearing and understanding. |
| 1:56.8 | We look alone to you and we pray in Jesus' name. |
| 2:00.4 | Amen. |
| 2:01.2 | While we're dealing with Luke's record of Jesus' final steps towards the cross. |
| 2:09.8 | He has been |
| 2:15.0 | walking in darkness, walking lives. The people who had been walking in darkness |
| 2:19.0 | have seen a great light. |
| 2:21.0 | He has declared himself to be the light of the world. Some people have |
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