The Bible tells us that it's not natural to believe in Jesus.

That may sound like a surprising claim from Scripture,

but Alistur Begg explores that idea today on Truth for Life.

He's teaching from the opening verses in Luke

chapter 2. We know that Luke was a physician, and may I say it kindly, we know what physicians

are like, at least the good ones. They do these case studies when you go and

see them. They ask you all kinds of questions, don't they? Because what they're actually

going to do is finally put within the framework of all of that investigation their analysis of the

presenting facts. And then their deduction on the strength

of those facts, and then their diagnosis on the basis of that which they have gleaned.

Luke brings that kind of mentality to his writing of this gospel. That's what he's really doing.

And when you look at this, and we won't unpack it,

you will see that he says that he has compiled this narrative. He says, I have compiled this narrative,

not on the basis of my eyewitnesses, my ability to witness it with my own eyes, but on the basis

of my ability to interview those who were eyewitnesses of these things.

And what he discovered was that those who had become the preachers of this good news,

discovered that when they told the good news, people were changed by it,

and Luke determined that if he took that same good news and he wrote it down,

then when people read what was written down about what had been

preached back then, then other lives would be changed by it too. And that is exactly what happens.

That's why many of you are able to testify to the impact that the Bible has made in your life.

How strange is this? That this ancient book is a book that not only do we seek to understand,

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