“Here Is My Servant!” (Part 4 of 4)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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At Christmas, it’s important to remember that the baby in the manger is the Servant with a mission that the prophet Isaiah sang about. Find out why He didn’t come just to help “nice people” do a little better. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:02.0 | I'm going to Welcome to Truth for Life with Alistair Begg. |
| 0:40.4 | Thanks for joining us here on Christmas Day. |
| 0:42.7 | As we celebrate this holiday together, |
| 0:44.8 | it's important to remember that the baby in the manger is also the servant with a mission that the prophet Isaiah sang about. |
| 0:52.7 | We'll find out today why he didn't just come |
| 0:54.8 | to help nice people in this world do a little better. |
| 0:58.7 | Let's open our Bibles to Isaiah chapter 42. |
| 1:01.7 | We're focusing on verses 1 through 9. |
| 1:16.5 | Hear all these years before the servant arise. What is he going to be doing? Number one, |
| 1:21.6 | opening the eyes that are blind. Well, of course, he gave a wonderful illustration of this by actually granting physical healing while he was in his earthly ministry. The great issue, of course, was not physical blindness. |
| 1:30.6 | Otherwise, everybody who was blind would have been made to see |
| 1:33.3 | because he's so compassionate and kind. |
| 1:36.0 | If that was the issue, let's take care of it all. |
| 1:38.7 | But it wasn't, and it isn't. |
| 1:41.8 | He was opening men and women's eyes. |
| 1:47.4 | Those who were blind to the truth of God. |
| 1:55.4 | That's everybody. We're born blind to the truth of God. He was opening the eyes of those who were blind to the reality of reality, who were trying to make sense of their human existence, but somehow or another |
| 2:03.9 | couldn't put it all together. He opens their eyes to reality. He opens their eyes to their |
| 2:09.3 | own blindness, to those who were blind to their blindness. That's the starting point, actually. Some of you might have come here and |
| 2:19.4 | wondered at the lines in the hymn that we sing from time to time, once I was blind but believed |
| 2:25.3 | I knew everything. Once I was blind, but believed I knew everything. That's really the testimony |
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