The Incarnation, Explained by Jesus
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
4.8 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2024
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Christmas celebrates Christ’s incarnation. Where did Jesus come from, and why did He come? Does His story have significance beyond promoting a season of goodwill? Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg walks us through Jesus’ own remarkable explanation.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you. At Christmas, we celebrate the incarnation of Christ. Most of us have probably wondered at some point |
| 0:33.0 | where exactly did Jesus come from, And why exactly did he come? |
| 0:42.5 | Does his story have significance beyond promoting a season of giving and goodwill? |
| 0:47.5 | Well, actually, Jesus himself answered those questions, and today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:51.0 | Alastor Begg points us to those answers. |
| 1:01.0 | John chapter 6 and verse 35. |
| 1:06.1 | Here in this little section that begins at 35 and goes to 40, |
| 1:10.4 | we have a wonderful summary statement that Jesus provides. And in verse 38 here, Jesus gives us a summary |
| 1:14.6 | statement, for I have come down from heaven, he says, not to do my will, but to do the will of him who sent me. |
| 1:23.1 | And this is the will of him who sent me that I shall lose none of all that he has given me, |
| 1:29.3 | but raise them up at the last day. |
| 1:34.0 | The temptation this morning is that, and it's a temptation primarily for myself, |
| 1:39.5 | but it is that I take as light a pass as I possibly can over the material of the birth of the Lord |
| 1:47.3 | Jesus Christ. Reasoning something like this, well, these are dear people and they came to church, |
| 1:53.3 | therefore reward them by saying hardly anything and make it as easy as possible for them to listen |
| 1:57.9 | and get on with their lives. I hope that the youngest child that is here |
| 2:02.3 | will be able to walk away and say, yes, I remember the questions and I remember the answers. |
| 2:07.7 | And I hope the person who is thinking deeply about the issue of the incarnation will also have |
| 2:13.5 | enough to chew on when they go away. And to that end, here are the questions. We're going to |
| 2:20.4 | ask the question, where did Jesus come from? Why did Jesus come? And what, if anything, does it |
| 2:30.6 | mean to me? Now, the words of Jesus here in this section are set within a context, |
| 2:36.6 | and it is a long chapter, chapter six, begins with the feeding of the 5,000, is followed by Jesus |
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