No Ordinary Child (Part 1 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
People will often comment on an infant or offer new parents unsolicited advice. Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg explores an extraordinary response that Mary and Joseph heard after one man’s life-changing encounter with their infant son, Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | The Oh, you know, and you're going to do you know, |
| 0:24.0 | do you know, |
| 0:25.0 | and do you know, |
| 0:27.0 | and do you know, |
| 0:28.0 | and do you bring a newborn baby into almost any room and watch how that child immediately becomes the center of attention and how new parents |
| 0:45.5 | are given unsolicited advice. |
| 0:48.8 | Today on the Christmas Day edition of Truth for Life, Alistair Beg explores an extraordinary response that |
| 0:54.8 | Mary and Joseph heard after one man's life-changing encounter with their |
| 0:59.2 | infant son, Jesus. |
| 1:06.0 | Luke chapter 2 beginning at verse 25 and reading to verse 35. Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was |
| 1:19.0 | righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel and the Holy Spirit was upon |
| 1:27.2 | him. It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die |
| 1:32.3 | before he had seen the Lord's Christ. |
| 1:36.4 | Moved by the Spirit, he went into the Temple courts. |
| 1:40.8 | When the parents brought in the child Jesus to do for him what the custom of the law required, |
| 1:46.0 | Simeon took him in his arms and praised God, saying, |
| 1:50.0 | Sovereign Lord, as you have promised, you now dismiss your servant in peace. |
| 1:56.2 | For my eyes have seen your salvation which you have prepared in the sight of all people, |
| 2:02.2 | a light for revelation to the Gentiles and for glory to your people Israel. |
| 2:10.0 | The child's father and mother marvel that what was said about him. |
| 2:14.0 | Then Simeon blessed them and said to marry his mother. |
| 2:18.4 | This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign that will be spoken |
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