The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you do When we look carefully at Isaiah's prophecy about the coming Messiah,

we realize the whole Bible is about Jesus.

Not only that, but as we'll see today on Truth for Life,

all of history is his story.

Alister Begg is teaching from the opening verses of Isaiah chapter 9.

I'm not actually a great fan of theativity scenes as it happens because they tend to trivialize the thing.

They tend to sentimentalize the thing. They tend to make it possible for people to look at,

look at that, look at that. But there's nothing that arrests you in it. There's

nothing that stands you up on your heels. There's nothing that says, listen. You would do whatever

you want with Nativity scenes. But the fact of the matter is that here, Jesus Christ

is revealed as taking on our flesh

so that he might take upon himself our sins. Remember how Mark begins his Gospel? The beginning of the

gospel? Jesus comes into Galilee, proclaiming the Gospel of God and saying, here we go again,

the time is fulfilled and the kingdom of God is at hand,

repent and believe the gospel.

And Luke, records Jesus' statement to his startled and frightened followers after the encounter on the road to Emmaeus.

And remember on that occasion Jesus reveals himself to them and they are quite amazed he said to them

you're kind of slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken. It was necessary that the

Christ, that's the Messiah, should suffer these things and enter his glory.

And he said, well why don't I just give you a little Bible study while you're here?

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