Have you found yourself wondering how Jesus divinity intersects with the world?

Did he intersect with his humanity?

Did he have some kind of special glow about him?

Was he truly like you and me?

The Apostle Paul taught that Jesus made himself nothing, but not by depleting himself.

Today on Truth For Life, Alistair Begg walks us through Jesus' incarnation.

Whether we acknowledge always and we always will, our total dependence upon you when

we come before your book.

That the Spirit of God might be our instructor and that nothing that is said by a mere man

may cloud the issue.

So help us to think as we listen and may our hearts be full with a genuine desire to

welcome this life-giving food which you've provided for us in your word.

We seek you in Christ's name, Amen.

Isaiah chapter 49 and verses 2 and 3. He made my mouth like a sharpened sword.

In the shadow of his hand, he hid me.

He made me into a polished arrow and concealed me in his quiver.

He said to me, you are my servant Israel, in whom I will display my splendor.

We were thinking this morning about what we refer to as the silent years of the life of

the Lord Jesus.

Namely, the largest part of his earthly existence concerning which we are provided with virtually

no information in the pages of Holy Scripture.

But when we go back into the Old Testament at certain prophetic passages such as the verses

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