Light in the Darkness (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 15 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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The daily news is filled with stories of violence, hatred, and war in the world. And if that’s not bad enough, we often battle doubt, fear, and temptation within our own hearts. Is true peace possible? Hear the answer on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | The You're going to do you. |
| 0:13.0 | Do you do you do you do you do |
| 0:15.0 | do you do Every day the news is full of stories about violence and hatred and if that's not |
| 0:30.6 | bad enough we have to battle doubt and fear and temptation in our own hearts, |
| 0:35.3 | leaving us to wonder if true peace is possible in this world. |
| 0:40.5 | The Bible says it is and points us to the answer. |
| 0:44.0 | Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Beg takes us to Isaiah Chapter 9. |
| 0:48.0 | We're looking at verses 2 through five. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light. |
| 1:00.4 | Those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness on them a light are shone and you have multiplied the nation you have increased its joy. |
| 1:06.0 | They rejoice. That's celebration, isn't it? |
| 1:08.0 | What is he saying here? Well, he's saying that the tiny remnant of believing folks would scarcely imagine the way in |
| 1:15.0 | which God was going to fulfill his promises. Here they are as a little remnant of folks |
| 1:20.7 | in the midst of all of this darkness paying attention to the testimony |
| 1:25.1 | that God has given through the Prophet, not going away and inquiring of all these dark and |
| 1:30.1 | silly ideas. And yet they feel themselves to be so be so be |
| 1:34.0 | be so beleaguered, so impoverished, such a minority in the midst of it all and |
| 1:37.4 | Isaiah says listen you need to know this that the people who walked in darkness have |
| 1:41.5 | seen a great light and God has multiplied the joy of the nation. |
| 1:48.3 | The way in which we must surely understand this, again in light of reading the Bible backwards is in light of |
| 1:55.2 | Revelation 7 that the promise of God to Abraham was going to be fulfilled insofar as |
| 2:00.8 | through his seat all the nations of the earth would be blessed. |
| 2:04.0 | That there would be a company in Revelation 7 of people from every tribe and people in language and tongue |
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