Here Is Your God!

Truth For Life Daily Program

Alistair Begg

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🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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When life turns upside down, it’s easy to question, “Where is God in this? Does He care about me?” Learn to find assurance in His Word as we examine the prophecy of Isaiah that encouraged God’s exiled people. Listen to Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.

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0:00.0	Thank you. When life gets turned upside down, it's easy to question, where is God in all of this?
0:30.9	Does he really care about me? Today on Truth for Life, we learn how to find assurance in God's
0:36.3	word. Alistair Begg is examining the
0:38.8	prophecy of Isaiah that encouraged God's people while in exile. Let's open our Bibles to Isaiah
0:45.4	chapter 40. We'll begin today with verse 9. Well, I downloaded to my iPod handles Messiah.
1:00.4	I don't expect you to be impressed by that, but I want to tell you that I did it and why I did it.
1:05.5	The reason I did this was to set myself another marker that might help me to focus on the person and work of
1:15.0	Jesus during these final weeks of Advent, that I might be able to play it pretty routinely now
1:22.5	throughout the days of these coming weeks, and in doing so, be turned again and again to Jesus Christ, the Messiah.
1:31.0	To be reminded of what I seek to remind you, routinely and myself in the process, of the fact
1:38.8	that the Bible is ultimately a book about Jesus, and that when, particularly in reading the Old Testament, we may be tempted
1:47.4	to be bewildered by its sheer size and variety, we can navigate our way around by keeping
1:54.7	our eyes on Jesus. And just as a compass points to the north, so the Bible ultimately points to Jesus.
2:03.4	And indeed, in large measure, the story of the Old Testament is the story of a people
2:08.9	who are looking for, waiting for, God's promise of a Messiah to be fulfilled. And in chapter 40, by the time that Isaiah
2:23.4	is writing as he does, the people of God are in exile. They have been taken away into foreign
2:30.4	territory. And it is while they are in that state of exile, that the word of God comes
2:37.6	to his people through the prophet Isaiah, and you will notice in Isaiah 40 in verse 1, it is, first of
2:43.7	all, a word of comfort, a word of comfort. And again, you will remember in the Messiah,
2:50.1	that great and striking beginning,
2:52.0	comfort ye, comfort ye, and coming here from this opening verse of Isaiah 40. The comfort,
2:59.5	of course, is to be found in the fact that God is fulfilling his promise. And in verse five,
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