No Ordinary Child (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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If someone was trapped in a burning building, it’s hard to imagine they’d refuse a firefighter’s help and opt to find their own way out! So why do people reject Jesus’ even greater offer of salvation? Hear the answer on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg!
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| 0:00.0 | The If you were trapped in a burning building, it's hard to imagine you would refuse the help of a firefighter and choose to stay and find your own way out. So why is it people reject Jesus even greater |
| 0:36.1 | offer of eternal salvation? Alistair Begg explores that answer today on |
| 0:41.7 | Truth for Life. |
| 0:43.2 | He's teaching from Luke Chapter 2 verses 25 through 35. |
| 0:47.0 | Here then is Simeon, a man who has reached this very significant point in his life, |
| 0:59.0 | he is clearly not self-absorbed, he is not rag with self-and-pity, he actually is able to say my life |
| 1:07.0 | makes perfect sense and I am now ready to die. How unlike contemporary men and women. And he, in taking this child |
| 1:20.9 | in his arms and making the statements he makes presents us with a Jesus |
| 1:29.6 | vastly different from the one who is easily accommodated or cursorily dismissed by a polite |
| 1:38.5 | or an impolite Western culture. This Jesus is unavoidable and I want to show you why. In four words, |
| 1:50.1 | the first word is the word light, light. The first word is the word light. The second word is stone. Stone. Now you'll look in |
| 1:58.5 | vain for it because the word stone is not there, but the reference to a stone is there. You'll have to trust me on this and then look it up later. |
| 2:07.2 | This child, verse 34, he said to Mary, is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel and to be a sign |
| 2:17.3 | that will be spoken against. Now remember what Luke is doing. Look is not hanging |
| 2:22.2 | out somewhere at the beginning of |
| 2:23.8 | everything and the beginning of this story, hauling off from nowhere all kinds of |
| 2:28.3 | bright ideas. No, he is searching diligently, he is putting the pieces together, |
| 2:34.3 | and he is now making it clear as he brings the story of the Old Testament prophets |
| 2:39.6 | into line with the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Aha, that is now beginning to make sense |
| 2:45.1 | of the reference in Isaiah 8 concerning this stone that causes people to stumble. |
| 2:51.6 | There is nowhere, actually in the New Testament Testament where this is picked up and used to greater effect |
| 2:57.0 | than actually in 1st Peter. When Peter, writing to the scattered believers of his day refers to them in these building terms |
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